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.
Gotta apply the school drills to real life situations, otherwise what’s the point of practicing?
Threatening politicians is so wholesome. I wish more of the working class did it. 🥰
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
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
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.
How does that matter literally at all? It’s still something that pisses off their base. The whole point is democrats don’t give a fuck about their base and just expect us to vote for them.
The way you phrased it sounded like the usual "blame everything bad on the Dems" bs that's on every place.
If they’re not willing to fight for my vote then yeah they’re as bad as republicans who also don’t fight for my vote. They expect to get my vote just because they are slightly less bad, but that’s not enough in my opinion.
But then you're willing to die on this one hill at the expense of everything else?
While each party isn't perfect, you should still look at the whole and judge based on that whole. No party can be 100% of everything you want as no one will want 100% of everything you want too. If they tried to be everything you want, then they would lose against so many others. And from what I'm seeing, this seems to be mostly complained about from the under 18 year old crowd that couldn't vote anyways, meaning it's most likely been considered of the for and against and the vote age (and their block) are for it.
At the expense of everything else? What, like doing nothing to preserve Roe v. Wade, continuing evil border practices, and supporting a genocide?
Them working to ban TikTok is at the literal bottom of the list.
How is it that libs wander in here and pretend every issue is in a vacuum and that everything the Dems do is fine otherwise? Not 100% perfect? They're not even 10% perfect. The only thing they have going for them is that they're not the Republicans, and that hasn't been enough for a long, long time.
it's incredibly condescending to assume that you are seeing the whole picture and that anyone complaining is not
and then to double down by claiming that the people who are against this aren't even worth it anyway cos they're too young to vote right this second
and libs wonder why they keep shooting themselves in the foot
While each party isn't perfect, you should still look at the whole and judge based on that whole.
oh, we are.
I don’t need them to be 100% aligned with my views, but it’s okay for me and anyone else to recognize that they’re not even trying to get my vote. Most of what I want is very popular among the masses of the country but democrats couldn’t care less. Fuck em. If they don’t want to represent even 1% of my views, why should they get 100% of my vote?
While each party isn't perfect, you should still look at the whole and judge based on that whole
The Democrats are actively aiding and abetting a genocide in Palestine. My judgement based on the whole is that the entire party should be tried and hanged for war crimes.
this one hill
This one hill has a hill on it called "no one can afford a house anymore" and that has a hill called "you're bankrupted for life if you go to the ER" and that has a hill called "we keep giving more money to cops" and that has a hill called "doing the republicans border policy" and that has a hill called "being obviously senile" and that has a hill called "getting worse day by day" and that has a hill called "threw abortion rights under the bus to use it as an incentive to get votes" and that has a hill called "Ukraine" and that has a hill called "being a rapist" and that has a bill called "hey didn't he do the Crime Bill?" and that has a bill called "why did he do all that fracking if he said he was gonna solve the climate crisis?" and that has a hill called "student debt" and that has a hill called "being a corrupt piece of shit" and that has a hill called "holding a eulogy for Strom Thurmond" and that has a hill called "mishandling COVID worse than trump" and that has a hill called "owing me money" and that has a hill called "needlessly escalating tensions with China" and that has a hill called "funding a genocide" and that has a hill called "commiting a genocide".
But yeah the GOP is also bad, so I guess I gotta vote for him. It is the most important election of our lifetime, just like the last one and the one before that and the one before that and that and that and that and that and that. We just gotta swallow our pride and accept that the nominee is less than perfect and then next election we can focus on getting some good done, but right now we need to avoid the dang Cheeto! And we can push Biden left anyway, of course we shouldn't actually try to push him left because that might mean the Cheeto gets elected, but we could in theory try to push Biden left.
The way being a politician works is that you appeal to your base in order to win votes. You're not owed those votes, they're not a right. If you can't appeal to your voters, you don't get elected. Going "I'm not as bad as the other guy" isn't really a good strategy, it only works if you're the only other choice and the other guy is absolutely horrendous. If you're just as or almost just as shitty as the other guy, then it most certainly don't work.
shut the fuck up you stupid debate pervert
Death to America
Hey real quick who's the president right now and is his party supporting this bill?
And if I hate the republicans, why would like the democrats for working with the republicans?
Why do you all always say that like it's a good thing?
You all call conservatives 'Nazis' (deservedly so), but then talk about things being 'bipartisan' as though it's suddenly a good thing to be in agreement with Nazis.
The only true bipartisan things I recall are things like the Iraq/Afghanistan war, the Patriot act, and so many other horrid things.
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
unless their rival is a Clinton then they suicide with two shots to the back of the head. incredibly odd phenomenon!
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 shootersXi 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!
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
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.
“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
“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.
