Mmmm…well I hadn’t thought of that. Maybe Cenk Uygur could down a few shots of whiskey before his show, rip off his shirt, and start screaming about the lizard people and anti-globalists on his shows from now on.
I may have been a little harsh to eschereal and I apologise for my tone, but not for the content.
I take name changes very seriously. Sometimes a person changes their name for work. Sometimes it’s in celebration (adoption, marriage). And sometimes it’s to leave an emotionally painful chapter of their life behind. Whatever reason, it’s usually done with sober consideration and worthy of our respect.
Would you disrespect a friend by capriciously using their old name? Would you continue to call a women who has gotten out of an abusive relationship by her married name? Would you deadname a transgendered person? Then why do it to someone in the public eye?
It is a fact that the man started his life with a different name and since he went on to public prominence that fact is deemed significant. But to actually call him by his old name (a name, I repeat, he never used himself) is nothing but disrespectful.
His name is Gerald Rudolph Ford.
It’s a very Republican thing to do. See: Barry Soetoro.
I call 'em the Q Klucks Klan
The right wingers are flocking to Parler because it claims to support free speech. But they’re banning liberals all over the place. They also demand personal information, such as phone numbers, photos of driver’s licenses, and SSNs.
What could possibly go wrong?
Oh, that should work out really well. 
I got here late…
Not to worry. They only demand your SSN if you join their ‘influencer network.’
Whatever the fuck that is.
My Australian right-wing friends are going to be soooo disappointed…
Doesn’t banning, well, anyone, put them on shaky legal ground? As I understand it, if you don’t moderate any content on your network, then you can call yourself a “common carrier”, and not be held liable for, oh, say, incitements to violence: You didn’t take them down because you don’t take anything down. But as soon as you moderate anything at all, you lose that status, and can be held legally liable for whatever you host.
What if you are a Sov Cit, and don’t believe in any of that Govt ID bull?
Makes it a bad platform from which to fling death threats around. There’s that.
(ETA: I wonder how many parlerers will actually be stupid enough to fling death threats from their new free speech haven?)
Its a way for people with a large social media presence to monetize their influence by selling endorsements.
So they might have a post about Evil Biden rays that turn your babies gay, along with the statement that only Reynolds brand aluminum foil can keep them out, along with a link that will give them credit for any sale of Reynold’s wrap purchased by one of their followers.
I wonder how many will be stupid enough to give their real phone numbers and SSNs?
Along with a template and instructions for making the foil into a hat.
I wonder if the Parler admins make any serious attempt to verify any of the sign-up information that people give.
(Someone, please try it so I don’t have to.)
Just so we’re clear, parler is composed people who are perfectly happy to give up their SS# and drivers license information to a perfect stranger, but object to the burden or including a special character in their passwords.
If I was an identity thief I know where I would start hunting.
I would assume that the illusion of free speech on Par-lay will mean people will share their plans for illegal activity…
…with “HeilAshley” and “Unicorn88” (those are FBI agents posing as coeds); and “RightIsMight” (she’s a DEA field supervisor).
WASHINGTON — In the final weeks of President Trump’s term, his administration intends to execute three inmates on federal death row, the last scheduled executions by the Justice Department before the inauguration of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., who has signaled he will end federal use of capital punishment.
Since July, when it resumed carrying out the death penalty after a 17-year hiatus, the Trump administration has executed seven federal inmates. Weeks before Mr. Biden is sworn in, the three inmates face the prospect of being the last federal prisoners to die by capital punishment for at least as long as he remains in office.
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Maybe Donnie plans to leave the bodies in the Oval Office as a welcome wagon gift?
Not intending to start a discussion of the death penalty. Just pointing out the in-your-face-ness of this gesture.
The other day the song Hey Man Nice Shot by Filter came on. It’s kind of an old song now, and if you don’t know it, the lyrics are about the very public suicide of Pennsylvania state treasurer R. Budd Dwyer in 1987.
Anyway, it brought up the morbid thought of Donald Trump sitting in the Oval Office on 19 January, making a speech to the nation and at the end of his rant, he’ll say “You will never get me out of this White House” and then he blows his brains all over the place.
We’d have to demolish the whole building, IMO.
Whoopsie!