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.
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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.
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.
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.
