Be nice if I could get some healthcare with that, abortion rights, maybe a living wage…
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Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Your reward for voting regularly and donating to candidates you support is a bunch of unwanted texts and phone calls.
Gates9@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Million dollar idea (that probably violates campaign finance laws): Come up with a service that allows you to donate to any candidate, and will not sell or share your information, and will never contact you. The fee is $1 regardless of the donation amount. There has to be 1m people who would find this worth the added fee.
Gates9@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Sounds like a protection racket
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 month ago
If someone’s willing to break the kneecaps of spammers I don’t fucking care how much fentanyl they sell.
Gates9@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The kneecap but they protec
Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I actually kind of hollered at the ACLU. I did a one time, small donation a few months ago. I am poor folk.
They have been blowing me up since. I ended up picking up the line on a sunday (I’m sorry, I’m not religious, but don’t business call me on a fucking sunday). It might have been Saturday, statement stands either way.
But I was about to have a panic attack. This woman on the other line let me know she was wofh the ACLU and looking for donations or whatever, but I gave her the news. I’m poor, you are blowing up my phone, I gave a one time donation to do my part and now I feel attacked. You want more and more and more, and I can’t. I said, this behavior from y’all makes me regret donating. She tired to say something, I just repeated, I can’t do this, please don’t call me, and hung up.
These politicians in their photos wear suits that probably cost as much as my entire wardrobe, it’s rude to beg money like this. I hate it.
reddig33@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I get a fundraising text every day. I text back stop. I marked as junk. It makes no difference. I got another one the next day.
Do they not realize pissing off their base with this spam means we’re not going to donate?
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Berate them with “foul language”. Depending on the country, they will mark your number as hostile, and it will be removed from their contact list. Since they share lists, this will propagate to other lists, as well.
FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I did that around the 2020 election and got a very sad text back that a real human sends those texts and didn’t deserve the “abuse”
So if anyone is wondering, 'fuck off" worked great in rural America years ago. Maybe it still does, because I didn’t get any local calls last year asking for my money and vote
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Yes, I’m aware they’re real humans, but blasting someone, who specifically requests not to be blasted, with 10 texts a day, is emotional and mental abuse, and the human doing this is not a person a would ever respect (while I wish them no harm). I see these organizations only a couple notches above those asshole scammers. And it’s because they’re real humans that the berating actually works.
Also, I should clarify what I mean as ‘berating’ in this context: a simple “fuck off” or “who the fuck are you and why the fuck are you texting me?!”. I do not mean that you should go calling them slurs or the like. Don’t insult the person, only be extremely hostile in your response.
Gates9@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Just add “kindly”
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Funnily enough, I got mad at CVS being far too persistent on my meds when I kept texting no that I finally said “fuck off” and then it finally stopped pestering me. I didn’t expect it to do anything. I was just mad.
Gates9@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Just one?
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Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I imagine it’s like advertising: for everyone who finds it annoying there’s a dozen people it works on