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The Red Line Delivers Your Russian Language Message To Your GOP Senator

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Have you ever wanted to call your senator and leave a pointed message for them in coarse, computerized Russian? Well, thanks to The Red Line, you now can do exactly that. A new web based app from MSCHF Studios, the Red Line serves a very singular, politically charged, purpose.

The Red Line only targets Republican Senators, as those are generally the ones that support things like the border wall, harsh immigration laws, deregulation and allegedly, Russian collusion in American Elections. These are just some of the many things that have caused a rift in the populace — at least on Twitter and Facebook.

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It functions with calm simplicity. Simply choose your senator from a drop-down list, type your missive in the box and translate it and listen to the audio if you like, then click the "place call" button and you've done your civic duty apparently. The calls are placed through a Twilio cloud-based VOIP so they won't be traced back to you, in case you are a little paranoid bunny.

After years of writing politics, I have spent the last decade or so trying to do my best to avoid doing just that. So I won't be making any political statements here. I'm just writing about an app that exists for the lolz. Sure, it targets the GOP and is themed as if it is itself Russian propaganda, but I'll leave the political opinion statements to the team at MSCHF.

As the United States Government continues catering to foreign powers, it's important the American public is heard. Republicans won't listen to their constituents’ grievances, so try a complaint straight from the Kremlin. With The Red Line, you can let Mitch McConnell know you’d prefer healthcare to a border wall, or ask Leslie Graham what Trump knows that's got him so scared.

Sure, The Red Line is a bit of tech mixed with a bit of politics, but it's certainly aimed at a very particular audience and excluding another very vocal audience. The both sides argument can be put aside to simply giggle at the initiative here, but really there is only one side. The side that isn't crushing the American spirit through misguided policies disguised as some sort of nationalism. Regardless, look! An app that calls senators and leaves messages in Russian with throwbacks in design to Communism and red phones! Fun!

If you are left leaning and full of misplaced angst, anger and frustration at the current direction of this country, perhaps you'd like to type those thoughts into a box and click a button to leave them on the voicemail of your least favorite GOP stooge. Conversely, if you are right leaning and find this application to be an obscene expression of free speech, then leave a kind message for your favorite GOP senator and direct your hate mail somewhere else.

The Red Line exists in a political atmosphere that is charged, to say the least. While we are all out in the social media streets, tearing each other apart like stray dogs mauling each other for scraps, some app developers are just trying to keep everything a bit chill.

This is an app, while politically pointed, that exists as a humorous salve for the gaping political wounds that we are refusing to let heal, instead choosing to scrape and pull at each other until the breaking point of pus and viscera. So leave a message for a GOP senator, in Russian, good or bad, and just take a moment to revel in the fact that we still live in a mostly functioning democracy that hasn't yet collapsed upon itself, crushing us serfs underfoot like the twisted, confused vermin we are.


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