So let's talk about Parler. Where did it come from? (Hint: Roo Sha)

[JHB]

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On edit: If you're here to make a quip about how it's pronounced or to scold that talking about it just promotes it, save it. This is about who started it and what their connections are, and those tend to lead in familiar Trumpy directions.

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So let’s talk about Parler. Where did it come from? Founder John Matze met his now wife, Alina Mukhutdinova, in May 15, 2016 in Las Vegas. Alina is from Kazan, Russia. She was on a two week road trip “vacation” across the USA with a friend.

(This sounds a lot like this USA road trip taken by Anna Bogacheva and Aleksandra Krylova in 2014.) washingtonpost.com/world/europe/r…

John was involved in a couple of unremarkable tech companies with college friend Jared Thomson. After a short stint working at Amazon in Seattle, and being unhappy there, he and Alina return to Vegas and decide to marry. They traveled to Russia in November 2017.

John and Alina were married December 2, 2017 in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia. They were married in a government facility overseen by Alina’s mother, Gulnara Mukhutdinova, a longtime government functionary. Gulnara’s mother was an “Honored Builder of Russia” in Soviet times.

John and Alina traveled in Russia and in Europe extensively between December and July 2018. They returned to Vegas and launched Parler with Jared Thomson in August 2018. Almost no one joined between August and December 2018; it was in early alpha stages.

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Also, a preliminary analysis of the first several thousand accounts on Parler shows that it is the usual Russia aligned operatives that we in this space have tracked for years. This is a large scale op aligned with Russian interests.

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More at the link

[NightWatcher]

1. Would've been funny if they called it Mein Space

Seen here earlier

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

2. It will give the FBI something to do

You just know there will be all kinds of craziness and insanity shared there. Known for conspiracy theories and anti-antisemitism. What could a flood of brand new Trump supporters do for a site like that? Your guess is as good as mine.

[soothsayer]

3. Fun fact: it's pronounced (probably by no one) "parlay"

And they probably used it for pirates talking to other pirates or something.

[cwydro]

4. It's the French verb "to speak."

[soothsayer]

6. Yeah but the origin for this crowd has something to do with Pirates of the Caribbean ha

[cwydro]

8. Oh wow.

No clue on that.

[ChazII]

9. My guess is it is from the first movie

where Jack is drunk and is not pronouncing the word correctly.

[jimfields33]

5. Who cares!

The more exposure we give platforms like this, newsmax and OAN the more interest it gives. Let the conservatives go to a bubble.

[LakeArenal]

7. Yeah. Why is this coming up so often?

[JHB]

11. Did you miss the "Russian op" part?

[Kingofalldems]

12. I certainly care that Russia is trying to destory our country.

How about you?

[Qutzupalotl]

10. I came on to post "It comes from the French 'to speak,'" like a smartass,

but a) someone already posted that, and b) HOLY FUCKING SHIT IT’S ANOTHER RUSSIAN OP.