figmentPez
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I was informed by Kags (who I won't tag in a political thread) that there are two puppers, Champ and Major:
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Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats
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That doesn’t sound like any cat I’ve ever heard of
Actually your cat is amused by your disappointment.
I mean... Yes. The Republican party needs a chance to try to reset and bury a bunch of people from public perception.
I enjoyed the weekend outside my bubble I made, but I am going back under for the next week/months. On the one side it felt great seeing all the celebrations, but on the other hand watching so many people "certain" that fraud happened and bringing up like thirty different conspiracies (dead people, late night fake ballots, tossed ballots, double votes, kid votes, baby votes, sasquatch votes, etc etc etc.) is just making me annoyed. Many are even certain Trump will have proof of fraud at his next rally (oh did I mention he is going to keep having rallies all winter? FUN!) so this is going to be a total shit show till December when the election is fully verified, and honestly, likely a shitshow until he is thrown out in January.
This is why he needs to be indicted. I don't care how much this might cause unrest, the dude is going to create even more if we let him just hold supporter funded rallies for the next four years. The day his Twitter account get's banned is also going to be nice.
Have a good one yall.
This is why he needs to be indicted. I don't care how much this might cause unrest, the dude is going to create even more if we let him just hold supporter funded rallies for the next four years. The day his Twitter account get's banned is also going to be nice.
Have a good one yall.
GasBandit
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Apparently republicans are sick of twitter and facebook calling out their falsehoods, and have started their own social media replacement called Parler. From what I hear it's basically everything you'd expect it to be, if you expected it to be awful fascist conspiracy nonsense.
I mean, this is something like their third attempt this year at trying to make a new platform.
"We'll start our own echo chamber! With blackjack! And hookers!"
figmentPez
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I saw someone asking about it on Facebook just this morning. There were several people defending it in the comments, promoting it as free from censorship. Which made me laugh, because I'm going to bet it either has censorship, or it's going to go down in flames for hosting all sorts of illegal shit. And if it does censor the sensible stuff like illegal and grossly immoral stuff, then I'm willing to bet it also censors anti-Republican political views.
It's hilariously their exact version of free speech too. Say anything contrary to their bullshit nonsense and you're banned.
None of them are ever able to really gain traction for two main reasons:
- No one wants to advertise on a platform that doesn't just allow but is designed to facilitate what would be considered hate speech
- No one wants to be held accountable for that speech ether and the Feds DO troll those networks for intel.
As such, they generally can't find hosting in a way that would make such platforms sustaining, so they always crumble and fail. It's not like 8chan, which is basically run by hobbyists on their own dime; this platform needs to be able to generate enough revenue to be sustaining.
They feel entitled to do such because society at large (rightfully) censors them. But Leftists don't go into Conservative spaces unless they absolutely have to, so who cares?
Sounds like an effective honeypot.*
*Do honeypots actually exist? It feels like everyone wants to tell themselves all these fascist places are them, but they don't really seem to be.
GasBandit
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I bet some gun stores and maybe Chick-fil-A could be swayed.
Probably Goya beans and chick-fil-a
A french name... oh, my sides...
Is it at least pronounced French?
Parl-lay - I am terrible with phonetic spelling.
Oh no, I was pointing out that they are of course murdering its pronunciation like they found it in bed with the missus.
--Patrick
Understood.
Dinguses. It's not like all the Pirates of the Carribean movies haven't taught them how to say the damn word correctly for 17 years.
No, seems it is supposed to be french: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parler#History
Isn't it more like Par-leh ? Parl-lay is more how english people say it after hearing it instead of reading it.
Not a native speaker of French (so I'll defer to others about nuances of regional pronunciation) but "parler" as the infinitive form of the verb "to speak" would indeed be pronunced "par-LAY" in French. The pronunciation "par-leh" sounds more like what you could get with poetic/lyrical pronunciation of the first/second/third person present formation of the verb (parle/parles/parle) if used in a poem or song, though in normal speaking those would all be pronounced "parl."
ETA: unless the "leh" in your example is just a more nasal version of "lay," which could be appropriate; I had read it more as a "LUH" sound. /nerd
Yeah, i was reading "lay" the english way... since that's how they say it in pirate films.ETA: unless the "leh" in your example is just a more nasal version of "lay," which could be appropriate; I had read it more as a "LUH" sound. /nerd
But since english isn't my 1st language, and i've got a nice phonetic language here, i have no clue if i got it right.