Look, if you want to just kumbaya with people who are all on the same side of virtually every issue, by all means go hang out all day on Parler.

I don't think I have the energy to cross post even 10% of what I do here, and I'm not leaving until they kick me out.

Because this: >

Notwithstanding Twitter's silo-building measures of the last few years, there is still at least a LITTLE creative and other kinds of tension on Twitter.

Guess what? Parler and all the other alternatives are never, ever going to be the Twitter you want. >

Twitter is a KILLER APP which, unfortunately, for some reason I find hard to square with commercial considerations its ownership is determined to ... kill.

It could be SO GOOD. But the SJW's who run it and most of corporate America can't have nice things, so neither can we. >

They're gouging their eyes out and so they're going to gouge everyone else's eyes out too.

But Parler will never ever be an exciting, challenging place to debate and learn about big issues in the company of the whole world the way Twitter STILL IS. >

(By the way, @clouthub is really building something quite different, not wannabe-Twitter. It is younger than Parler, which is on its third iteration, and you will just have to wait a bit more to find out what the deal is.

Not the topic of this thread.) >

Am I also frustrated at transferring to a brand new high school cafeteria and trying to get the cool kids to let me sit at their table all over again after reaching a decently respectful level of coolness at my old school?

Maybe a little, but not a lot. Really. >

Look, try it. I am there, and I will continue to play with Parler. We do need alternative places to connect, and to post and share what is banned by the frightened children that run this place, and to hatch our evil and hopeless plans for world domination. Right, right. >

But I only have so much bandwidth for this social enterprise, which despite all the fun we and others make of it is absolutely affecting the national debate, which none of the new Twitter Juniors ever will.

And THIS THREAD was the @clouthub promo video I didn't get to post tonight, minus that awesome glare off my old bald noggin that assures you that I am a genius.

Good night, my friends, and keep fighting at whatever post your orders send you to! <>

P.S. Parler also appears to just suck

PPS "Being banned from Twitter is worse" or "I am going there not to be banned" or "at least conservatives don't have to afraid on Parler" are different versions of one LOSER argument.

If you're exiled from where you want to be, ok, you have to live somewhere.

But... please!!