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@DonnaBlack To Torba Christianity is just a way of making a living. Christian Nationalism is astroturf he was commanded to signal boost.
But these kind of pivots take skill to pull off, and he just doesn't have what it takes.
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@judgedread Totally. He had to grow up suddenly after that and the cogdis made him religious. Some say he was religious prior to then, but all I remember is him joking about how a muslim, hindu and christian got together, lol, to form gab and only becoming seriously Christian-identity post-Bowers.
A couple of times I figured they'd gotten to him. As I say, everyone has a price. But in 2023 something definite happened and I was out for good.
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@DonnaBlack The inflection point was Bowers. Before that he was flailing around in his incompetent way using his SV conventional wisdom to fix the site. He really thought becoming Reddit and ditching his Twitter clone fan base would stop the bleeding. But finally he settled on grift, which allowed us to stay. Then Bowers hit and he had to get his mind right ASAP, which meant deleting the hardest jew namers who had the audacity to remain active in the wake of Bowers and becoming a fed confidential informant. Think Big Pussy or Adriana on The Sopranos.
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@judgedread Being there from (almost) the start I can hazard a guess that he's been gotten to. He has caved so many times; the worst was when he had a breakdown after the onedingo incident and dumped gab for a week, then returned as the digital messiah.
Everyone has a price and I don't think he's genuinely moral enough to turn it down.
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The most interesting question about the decline and fall of Gab is the motive. Did the powers specifically order Torba to ban pic posting except for doxxable paypigs?
If Twitter follows suit I'll consider that absolute proof.