Worried about violence during & after the election? One tech company that’s facilitating violent right-wing organizing: the walkie-talkie app @Zello, which enables armed, far-right militias to organize on their platform. Here’s a thread with action items for you to take. 1/
As @ozm reported, it’s easy to join the platform & find militia folks preparing for civil war. Here’s a screenshot of the far right militia groups I joined in 1 day this week, all of which proudly operate on @Zello. 2/ onezero.medium.com/banished-from-…
If you want to help, tag @Zello and pressure them to oust militia groups. A spokesperson says @Zello is working to “update their TOS,” but working to save the election means there’s no more time and we need to ramp up the pressure. 3/
Not to answer a sarcist tweet genuinely, but: Becuase they cloak themselves in the plausible deniability of their own absurdity, and it is self-conscious absurdity; they do it to make people pointing out how genuine the threat is seem ridiculous, and to amuse themselves
watching borat subsequent moviefilm and tbh have laughed aloud multiple times. i also like that his "kazakh" is just hebrew and i can understand it lol
sacha baron cohen's superpower of shamelessness is an inspiration tbh