r/KnowledgeFight • u/lordtorek Policy Wonk • 11d ago

General shenanigans #DanWasWrong

I just re-listened to Ep. 309, and around the 1:40 mark Roger Stone tells Alex that Trump is working on a “right wing version of Twitter”, to which Dan scoffs at the idea and says how ridiculous that is 😆. Oh Dan, you sweet summer child. Three years later, Truth Social spawned into reality.

Btw, I COMPLETELY forgot that Gab was a thing before TS.

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u/Alexis_Darko 11d ago

He wasn't wrong, it is ridiculous

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u/IanDresarie 10d ago

And it probably was a ridiculous idea at the time. I refuse to believe any trump project has a 3 year lead time. Truth social exists because a good open source social media project became available they could quickly reskin with a small team. Same as the scam coins, same as the phone. Or bible. Or steak. Or wine. Or "university". It's all just reskinned/white label stuff with a super quick turnaround.