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The guy in the fur hat was arrested and had a Parler.

This isn't hard. The majority of people arrested had Parler accounts -- it's everywhere.

Hard to confirm at the moment with Parler gone, but all the stories I've found seem to indicate he was mostly active on Twitter.

I think a more interesting (and neutral) approach for Greenwald to take would be to show that all of these prominent figures were most likely active on ALL social media platforms, yet only Parler has been singled out.

> The guy in the fur hat was arrested and had a Parler.

I can't find evidence of this. Could you share your evidence?

Greenwald did significant research here and said he found no active users from those arrested:

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1348619731734028293

Glenn is either terrible at research or lying. https://twitter.com/azforeman/status/1348648808390008832?s=2...

Google “baked alaska parler”. It’s literally on the first page of results.

Thanks for the image. Do you know if the account was active or unused? I guess that's why Glenn said "were active users" and not "were users".

Hard to tell now that it’s down. But I find it pretty hard to trust him on this. One, it’s been fairly well documented that people were organizing the attack on Parler [1]. And two, as I mentioned elsewhere in the thread, there’s the obvious loophole that many who participated in the attack simply haven’t been arrested at all.

[1] https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/01/08/far-right-ins...

Also, here are some screen grabs of Kevin Greeson, who likely would have been arrested, but had a heart attack from what I have heard termed "insurrectionary excitement"

Also what does it matter if Jan 6 was not planned on parler? Jan 17th and inauguration shenanigans were being planned there until the site got yanked.

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/man-who-died-capitol-riot-par...

Glenn is hiding behind the "were arrested" phrasing, so despite the fact that baked alaska has a parler account and was literally livestreaming from the capital he doesn't count in Glenn's opinion as he hasn't been arrested yet.

What Glenn is saying is technically true, but also complete garbage. It's meant to fool people who can't do the minimum levels of research.

https://www.insider.com/washington-dc-protest-livestream-bak...

Ah yes, good point. I mentioned that elsewhere in the thread… but I guess I forgot when I started doing my own research, because the notion that you could livestream your participation in a terrorist attack at the Capitol and not get arrested immediately is absolutely bananas.

I hope Baked Alaska is arrested.

I bet they also have Facebook accounts though. I bet they even have Gmail. They might even have Amazon and Ebay accounts.

>> The majority of people arrested had Parler accounts -- it's everywhere.

Do you want to bet on what percentage of them own Smart Phones? I would wager 100%.

How many protesters arrested in the 2020 Summer protests had a twitter account?

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