I recommended mewe.com to conservative friends as an alternative to Facebook but some of them wouldn't have anything to do with saying parler.com was the only alternative according to their talking heads and I gave up. I actually quit bothering answering those friends texts after I told them they were just being conservative sycophants. They weren't happy with that but they needed to hear it from someone. Trump really has brainwashed a large swathe of people to his erratic braindead life path.
Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Facebook and Twitter
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#722In mid October I deleted almost all my tweets and likes (but Twitter being so shit they are still showing my likes except it’s not liked anymore lol) and have not been tweeting anything anymore. I found Twitter too toxic, it made me angry with people for no reason, so I deleted all my tweets and the app. No more notifications, no more “just checking Twitter quickly”. I now go to Twitter like once a day just to have a…
I did that years ago. Twitter is an even bigger cesspool than youtube comments and facebook. I use facebook but only for the messenger.
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#723When "free speech" is the primary selling point of a social media website, it tends to only attract people who feel slighted by the platform they're migrating from. Unfortunately this has the opposite effect of Parler's stated goal of being "the world's town square" since it simply isn't attractive to people with opposing views of those who did move. I think free speech is important and I think that social media plat…
> It should be a feature of your platform, not the only thing going for it.
edit: oops pasted wrong thing!
Totally agree with this. It should be baked in, not the defining feature.
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I think it’s down to who you follow. First, never ever read “trends” or random tweets. Never trust Twitters official app to show you anything useful. Using third party apps also saves you from ads. Second and most importantly, follow a set of users that are interesting, friendly, and who don’t engage publicly with trolls. It’s a magnificent tool for staying up to date with a narrow topic like a niche technology. Just…
The trick is not to read the tweets of the people you follow, and not to follow the people you read, necessarily: https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/
Huh I might sign up and give this a try again.
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#725Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've aggressively sanitized my Twitter and Instagram to make sure it's little more than an easy way to see posts about computing, video games, vinyl records, or whatever nerdity I'm into at the moment. The moment one of those accounts posts something related to the outrage du jour, it's an almost immediate unfollow. It doesn't matter whether I agree with the content of the post or not . I'm sure I miss a few from tim…
That's the frustrating thing. I was convinced to try using a twitter account by a friend who talked about how great it is to follow interesting tech people. For some cases, I guess it could be. But the problem is, everyone seems to also tweet about current political stuff, and I have no interest in seeing that at every turn. I know "stop talking about politics everywhere" is trite, but stop talking about politics eve…
It shouldn’t be seen as trite to want rest and reprieve from the psychologically exhaustive nature of “always on” political engagement[1]-especially in times such as these, but I completely understand what you’re getting at, and to my own individual extents: I agree with you.
[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/10/reading-t...
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#726Now we just need a conservatie NPR alternative. Could this article be written in a more biased way?
npr has never been unbiased, but it's fallen heavily into partisanship in recent years. that's problematic even for folks who agree on a lot of their positions, as unsavory methods overwhelm credibility.
we don't need a conservative npr (there are alternatives for that), we need an independent and diverse npr, which is something we're truly lacking in the media landscape.
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#727No one wants to spend time on the Internet listening to a bunch of randos talking about how the Jews are secretly lizard people manipulating the elections except other such crackpots. These platforms are lightning rods. Let these people go there and convince each other of their fringe conspiracy theories. Freedom of association and all that. If they will stop polluting normal places with their crackpottery we're all…
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I'm mostly a classic liberal person, think founding fathers, enlightenment era.
And to be honest, I'm curious about what your definition of conservative is?
To me, there's only two way to define it. Either the old way, where conservative means you are a feudalist, monarchist, theocrat, oligarch, autocrat, statist, fascist, etc. Basically you want to go back to a pre-liberal establishment style of society, and are opposed to a liberal democracy.
In this definition, as you see, all these today are generally known as morally bad. Jew hating tin foil crackpot would fall under here, or any other form of A hates on B, since all prior forms of government are about having a ruling individual or class over others, thus a way for A to rule over B.
So in that definition, being conservative means being against liberal democracy, thus against democracy, reason, liberty and equality.
Or the new way, where conservative means liberal but not progressive. In this sense, you believe and value liberal democracy, thus democracy, reason, liberty and equality, but you are content with the implementation of government that we currently have to drive and uphold those liberal values. Therefore you oppose yourself to progressives who think that we're not doing a good enough job at implementing liberal values, in that you believe it is either too risky to change the current implementation or that the proposed changes would result in a worst realization of liberalism.
As you see, in the second categorization, you're still a liberal, so it doesn't make sense to speak about conservative vs liberal in that second one. And because in the US I see people put liberal and conservative at opposite ends, I tend to assume the first categorization. Which would imply that conservatives, to me, are a huge treat to democracy, reason, liberty and equality.
So I'm genuinely looking for clarity. Is there some miscommunication here? How do you categorize "conservative".
I ask because it is very confusing to me. You speak of nuance, and I want to understand that nuance, so would love an explanation.
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#728"Where did Parler come from?"
https://mobile.twitter.com/davetroy/status/13272539919364546...
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> I was banned from r/conservative in a discussion about trump handling the coronavirus seriously. I posted a timeline of quotes from him "only 15 cases soon to be none etc" indicating he had not taken it seriously early. This should be all anyone needs to know about how seriously these groups takes freeze peaches. Look at their actions, not their words.
Um... you don't normally get an objective account of why someone was banned from the banned person in question. Don't just take a claim like this as the whole story, they are generally in "tidied up" form. You'd want the text of the post, the person's posting history on the forum in question, a list of warnings etc and a copy of the forum rules to even approach a reasonable judgement.
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He had many billionaire donors and its well documented that GOP voters are wealthier on average, this is a list of just the well-known billionaires that backed his 2016 run: https://fortune.com/2016/08/03/trump-billionaire-backers-lis...
> it's well documented that GOP voters are wealthier on average Is it? I could not find a proper reference documenting both the average and median wealth of voters of both parties.
This is based on exit polls and there are better studies out there. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016...