The young voices in the messages left for North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis were laughing, but the words were ominous.
“OK, listen, if you ban TikTok I will find you and shoot you,” one said, giggling and talking over other young voices in the background. “I’ll shoot you and find you and cut you into pieces.” Another threatened to kill Tillis, and then take their own life.
Tillis’s office says it has received around 1,000 calls about TikTok since the House passed legislation this month that would ban the popular app if its China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake. TikTok has been urging its users — many of whom are young — to call their representatives, even providing an easy link to the phone numbers. “The government will take away the community that you and millions of other Americans love,” read one pop-up message from the company when users opened the app.
Cool zoomers to US congress and senate members :
TikTok has been urging its users — many of whom are young — to call their representatives, even providing an easy link to the phone numbers.
Lol the first time I contacted my representatives was because Failblog told me to in order to kill the Stop Online Piracy Act around 2009. Glad the tradition’s being kept alive.
TikTok has been urging its users — many of whom are young — to call their representatives, even providing an easy link to the phone numbers.
Isn’t this exactly what brunch liberals want us to do? Contact our elected representatives and voice our opinions?
Well contacting elected people isn’t necessarily Lib, especially if the contact comes along with a threat. I suppose the main issue is that communist orgs have no ability to grow a mass movement from any sort of extreme hatred towards our rulers.
Well contacting elected people isn’t necessarily Lib, especially if the contact comes along with a threat.
Do not ban TikTok. I am in your walls.
also, even the non-threatening calls freak politicians out. They are used to 1 of every 10 pissed off people sending an email, and 1 of every 100 pissed off people sending a letter or calling. Something like that. So if you blow up one of their intern’s phones for a few days and they are at all threatened in the primary or the general, they are gonna get alarmed.
The kids are alright
Gotta apply the school drills to real life situations, otherwise what’s the point of practicing?
that’s amazing, senators are getting death threats over banning tiktok, i love it, dumbest future
edit: commas for fediverse
Honestly I’m just very happy they’re getting thousands of death threats in close succession and I’m not going to look a gift horse in the mouth
🎶 Celebrate good times, come on! 🎶
Threatening politicians is so wholesome. I wish more of the working class did it. 🥰
My friend has a kid in highschool and he said they are all furious about this. It would maybe be the last straw for real.
The dem party immediately collapsing due to TikTok would be funny
like the collapse of the Whigs but over TikTok instead of slavery
Inshallah
I’m pretty sure we’re basically in the eye of the cool zone so yeah why not
I mean it’s absurd how stupid and shortsighted it is as a political move. Democrats could not pick things to piss off more of their base if they tried.
They are just indefensible. Even when I was a lib I never felt like I could really go to bat for them.
If you’ve spent your entire life practicing hiding under desks for when some incel tries to murder you and all your friends while the government refuses to do anything and then that same government takes away something you and all your friends like and tells you it’s to protect your safety, when it’s really obvious it’s just so American companies can ruin it and fuck you over, jihad seems like a pretty modest proposal.
College kids are just as mad lol they’re gonna lose so many votes, Trump is pretty much guaranteed atp
New TikTok trend of posting comedic death threats against senators
Assassinate Your Senator Challenge
They’re not gonna shoot themselves!
unless their rival is a Clinton then they suicide with two shots to the back of the head. incredibly odd phenomenon!
i wonder if that’s any better than falling out of windows
Calling my senator and leaving them a recording of the intro to M.E.T.H.O.D. Man
This is why a lot of pro trans stuff is getting shot down too. There was just a safe-haven bill that got killed in Maine due to death threats. The fact that they won’t listen to anything but death threats is bleak af.
I wonder if there is a lesson here…
For legal reasons this is a joke.
Here in the UK politicians are very concerned with “online bullying” of politicians.
What they actually mean is the threats that they receive.
There is a very real attempt being made to increase powers against it which suggests to me that they find it an effective political tool and they don’t like that.
I will finally download tiktok if it fills up with videos of kids doing the fortnite dance while yeeting their senator
Recreating the final boss fight from Metal Gear Rising with Mitch McConnel playing Armstrong.
crazy pans and zooms and bouncing off of buildings to grapple and shoot and explode some old guy who can barely stand up without assistance
What you should do when you see a slavemaster
Halo: CE M41 SSR MAV/AW (SPNKr) features TWO disposable rocket tubes
Marines when they have to fight teenagers
Things that Mitch McConnel & Diane Feinstein wouldn’t survive
My Personal Favorite: What you should do when you see a slavery defender (TikTok later axed the sound on this one so this is the backup on youtube)
Do it old man. Fuck around and find out. The children will Floss on your corpse
TikTok has shooters
Xi is activating his strongest sleeper agents in the US right now
TikTok has been urging its users — many of whom are young — to call their representatives, even providing an easy link to the phone numbers.
Egads! The horror of people being organised politically! How nefarious!
“Participate is the process!”
“No. Not like that!”
In Clown Country, is this is what it takes to get somebody "Shinzo Abe"d?
Someone’s gonna get the doohickey
this is amerikkka, we dont need the doohickey, we have ar15s and what not
The doohickey was cooler, it was A jury rigged handheld organ gun and unlike most ar15s it did some good
Ours will just be a AR platform with a bunch of doohickies attached to it.
An SMG with those Crocs embellishments crudely glued on.
we need someone to post-hoc justify all the “assault weapon” bans that include under-barrel grenade launchers
Underslung doohickey that simultaneously fires multiple large buckshot shotgun shells. It dislocates one or both of your shoulders when used, and turns whatever’s in front of you into pink mist.
A Desert Eagle duct taped under the barrel of an M4…
“I mean, it’s almost embarrassing,” says Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., a former tech executive who is also supporting the TikTok bill and has long tried to push his colleagues to regulate the industry. “I would hate for us to maintain our perfect zero batting average on tech legislation.”
this shit would put you in the fucking negatives my guy
unadulterated xenophobia
'Is this privacy legislation?'
“I mean, it’s almost embarrassing,” says Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va.
Huh, I wouldn’t have expected him to be an Overwatch player.
Rare treat defender W.