When I left a nice, corporate career in 2017, I did so knowing I wouldn’t make nearly as much money. We have ads on the site that help, but since the site’s inception this has been a labor of love that otherwise doesn’t bring in the level of revenue necessary to justify it. Paying the bills has never been my forte, but we’ve survived. My skills are squarely rooted on the journalistic side of running a news outlet. We could use some help keeping this site afloat.Ĭolleagues have called me the worst fundraiser ever. Should we abandon the platforms that hate us like Twitter? That’s up to you.ĬOVID-19 lockdowns are taking down an independent news outlet Nobody said running a media site would be easy. Should we go to Parler or other platforms? Yes. What we’re facing as a movement is nothing short of a direct attack against our ideology. The inherent desire for some to provoke and insult can manifest in much uglier actions if they’re not allowed to feel like they’re doing psychological harm to others. Better me than someone who can be hurt by them. I’ve known many personally and as odd as it may sound, I appreciate that they can take out their frustrations on me by lobbing insults my way. It has always given me some solace being the target of trolls. Even as many are abandoning the platform for freer-speech pastures, I intend to keep using the platform (with ads turned off, of course, since I’m unwilling to support them financially) for as long as I can.īesides, the trolls that I adore would miss me. I refuse to go quietly or even with a bang. People don’t like living in fear of having their efforts to spread the message completely wiped out, but that’s the society we live in. I’m still not leaving with my personal account. You can find me on Parler, where we respect free speech. The greatest threats to liberty are the destructive tech tyrants who have acted as publishers in their ongoing wars on conservatives & free speech. This will be my final post on this anti-American platform.
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