Cole Slow
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Cole Slow
@slow_cole
Twitter is my emotional toilet. I dump all my shitty feelings here.




I just got this letter from my lawyer. Austria wants a fine of €1,650 or three days of prison because at a conference in 2024 I was wearing an Overwatch logo. The Austrian state claims that the Overwatch logo is so similar to the identitarian Lambda that it is also forbidden to wear it. I will take legal action and, if necessary, go to prison with my beloved Overwatch shirt.




Five years ago today, the logo of the Identitarian Movement in Austria was banned. They had tried to ban the movement previously, in 2018. However, Austria's highest court ruled that we are a perfectly legal, peaceful, and patriotic NGO. So, the Conservatives and the Greens spitefully decided to ban our logo instead. The crazy thing is, they did this as a direct reaction to an Islamic terrorist attack in Vienna. Following the attack, the Conservatives wanted to shut down a few radical mosques and ban certain Islamic organizations along with their logos. But the Green Party would only agree to this if a right-wing logo was banned as well. Ultimately, the Austrian government's response to an Islamic terrorist attack was to ban the logo of the very patriotic NGO that had actually warned against Islamic terrorism.






Domestic Japan vs overseas: just one professional cameraman apart.






























