Video dude. I don’t like the internet I just live here. Try guy. He/him.
Jan 18, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
This is Tim Gionet, aka Baked Alaska, a neo-Nazi, anti-semitic conspiracy theorist, and social media troll. Yesterday he was arrested by the FBI for his role in the insurrection at the capitol.
About 6 years ago, he was a co-worker.
We didn’t work directly together, but he sat right across from me. Our monitors touched.
At first he seemed like a nice guy and was eager to please. We ate lunch together.
This thread is in no way intended to redeem his character. Fuck him. He’s a fascist, and I was oblivious.
Jun 5, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
A reason why the "some good cops" argument doesn't matter.
A short thread on the dangers of authority, obedience, and how it leads "good people" to do horrible things.
In 1963 Stanley Milgram conducted a psychological study to understand just how far people go in obeying instructions to physically harm others.
His interest was birthed from WW2 and seeing how "normal people" in German society could be so easily influenced to commit... genocide.
