Aaaaannnnd... Parler's gone.
As of a little after 3 am (EST), apparently. It was hosted on Amazon (their cloud-based webservice AWS, most likely), and they suspended the service "after finding 98 posts that supported violence".
https://www.newsweek.com/parler-users-say-goodbyes-site-taken-down-1560428
We're living in crazy times.
Parler was already planning for that. Their CEO (I believe, don't have time to track down the article) talked about it early yesterday or late Saturday and said they were already planning an alternative.
I am now officially getting worried.
They keep saying 'build your own', then they flout the law to prevent it...
Add in the establishment, pushing the throttle to the floor to raise the tension...
But I hear all the current rhetoric of going after the NRA/2a, and all this censorship stuff - to me is strategically retarded. They would earn *nothing* in the system they pretend they want to overhaul but guaranteed insurgency going after those things when they could be locking up bigger things for themselves.
If the American elite had actual wisdom, they would try to defuse this any way they could, deescalate, and offer an olive branch; hell, they would never have overreached. Trump and his movement would have faded; scandals would have tarnished his image for a few decades (before getting reappraised as an ultimately decent president hamstrung by a scheming bureaucracy), and a lighter version of his brand could have been assimilated into the political class, by someone like President Tucker, or one of the smarter young Republicans. Instead, they just turned the heat to from "frog-boiling" to the max, because they are afraid, and drunk with visions of revenge. This is how weak, scared men consolidate their rule, and create a myriad grievances.
Back Trump and US conservatives into a corner; create a pressure cooker atmosphere, and tear down their illusions of being invested in the system and in control of their own destiny - where every bankrupted small businessman would still have a fanatical belief in the free market and the cops and the courts. Expose these guys to the previously fringe idea that the state is in the hands of aliens who want them gone, and "these people want you broke, dead, your kids raped and brainwashed, and they think it's funny".
I think they are trying to push for an 'event'. 2016 scared the ever-living fuck out of the uniparty establishment. Remember...
1. No matter what anyone says about 'proof' of election fraud, the statistical analysis is showing massive circumstantial evidence.
2. No one on Biden's side has questioned the validity of Trump's vote count.
The backlash against Obamacare/Bailouts with the Tea Party and others surprised them. Suppose they 'did' rig this election. They now have everything they want legally,
but they know the people are actually opposed to it.
Add in the fact that DJT (The super-waaaciissst) managed to get more minority support than any other Republican. If they can force something, while they have all the reins of power they think they can prevent a 2022 backlash.
Think of all the double-standards from the DOJ/Court system and the media. All the two-tier stuff is out in the open now. Just because a portion of the population believes that is ok because it suits their agenda, don't believe what the media says. There is a significant resistance to the whole establishment 'do what I say, not what I do' narrative.
Talk to somebody in a militia, if you know anyone. They will tell you that over the last ten years, the number of people talking on a personal level about armed opposition to the government has increased dramatically. There is also a significant rise in the distrust of law enforcement. For the last 4 years I have had friends from all over the political spectrum saying 'Man, you were right about the FBI'. That may anecdotal, but I will trust it because a number of those friends weren't Trump supporters and I have been saying it for 30+ years. When people I know change their outlook after 30 years, I am going to pay attention to why.
They also need to go now (while they have complete control) because of the firepower situation. Note that in the article that jhkim linked a while back, the FBI classifies anti-government groups, incels, and 'religious groups' as all being 'right-wing'. Then uses that as an excuse to claim that the 'right-wing' is the "Big Threat". They are doing that to prepare the public for them using the military for intervention. They have no choice, because even Federal law enforcement is extremely outgunned and they know it.
Note: Its not the conservatives/Republicans they have to worry about...