The best part is that fully half of these are addressed to my mom…
And the worst part? They’re allowed to ignore the national do not call registry.
Being an already decided voter in a swing state is swell
Submitted 3 weeks ago by crdevries2@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Etterra@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Mango@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh neat, it’s just like how I can ignore the “don’t do violent shit” laws!
YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
I’m in Missouri and I got one from some ghoul of a Republican today. It was very off putting. I fucking hate those fascist fucks.
Concave1142@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As annoying as it is, I reply STOP to each one and then block the number. Sometimes I get lucky and get an unsubscribe confirmation.
I hardly get spam texts because I refuse to give my number out for anything. Jenny is my go to phone number when I need to give out a burner number.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I like giving them the number 719-266-2837
I encourage folks to give it a try
officermike@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Anytime I want to use public WiFi that’s behind a captive portal that requires an email, I give them “bezos@amazon.com”
Kcap@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Finally, a chance to tell Mom, Andrew, Jeremy, and Doug, that they’re only important enough for a stranger on the internet to want to decipher their semi-crossed out names and nothing more!
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I see ‘Audrey’.
samus12345@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Same, the v that’s visible is definitely not a w.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
The town name and state is also very easy to figure out, and you can easily verify it by checking where Musk will be holding a town hall today. For each of the most violently crossed-out words, D███ and C███████, there is just one first name matching whatever is visible. Yes, I copied and pasted letters from elsewhere and the width is correct.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Protip: don’t scribble shit out in screenshots. Too easy for people to figure out what’s underneath. Put filled in rectangles over whatever you don’t want people to see so there’s nothing that shows through. Most built in photo editors on phones have this functionality.
TotalFat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Filled in rectangles are so cold and impersonal. The scribbles are organic and remind me I need to brush my hair. Who cares if someone reverse engineers OP’s mom’s name?
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I recognize those area codes! And I also get like 6 of those every day.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
FYI, it may actually be illegal to even accept that million dollars. I am not a lawyer, and my understanding is it’s kinda untested legal grounds, but there is an argument for it.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fair enough, but I think that’s a risk I’d be willing to take.
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I was pleasantly surprised to see Google Messages automatically blocks most political spam now. I’ve only gotten a few that slipped through in the past few months.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
If my grandmother makes it to the next election I might move her to an android phone for this reason alone. Her iPhone doesn’t block the spam at all, and even appears to not have a way to delete the messages
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Jackthelad@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m so glad we don’t get campaign spam like this in the UK.
Albbi@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Oh man I know, right‽ In Canada the run up to the election can be between 37 and 51 days. The US election cycle is for fucking ever and then restarts 2 years after the election, and that’s not counting mid terms. Just exhausting. Campaign advertising must just be a huge industry because they’re never turned off.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The 2024 election cycle will cost America $15 billion.
smokebuddy@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
from what I understand in the US when you get elected to the House or Senate, you have your regular work schedule, then the party forces you into a boiler room call centre across the street for a few hours to work the phones and hustle more cash. It really does never end.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
This is why I’ve started blasting the fuck out of every one of them. You do enough cursing and insulting, they tend to actually stop texting and calling. I got sick of having to tell them to fucking stop the spam, which didn’t work. But, amazingly, after a few days of going batshit on every one of them, they’ve stopped almost entirely. No texts at all in three days for me, though my wife and dad still get them.
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Vote for me op
Nelots@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I’m a single-issue voter. What is your plan for the psychopaths running loose and destroying our country by putting anchovies on perfectly good pizzas? This is very important.
WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wait until you hear about pineapple on pizza. Pineapple!
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
“I’m just gonna vote for the last person that texted me” : the demo these assholes are targeting.
xorollo@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
I took will vote for this dudes mom.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Ithorian@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You guys need regulation about that, thank God we have some in EU
PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes it seems like that should be the duty of a functional government… Oh wait…
AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Holy shit I didn’t know I had a spam filter on my texts. Mine looks much the same.
bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Even though I’m an anarchist from not california, i somehow ended up in Gavin Newsom’s discord server where people regularly organize to text voters like this.
I am so fucking glad i take great care to keep my names and numbers off of these lists, and even more glad to live in a solid colored state with no hope of flipping meaning the election ads are minimal.
My poor Californian friends receive so many goddamn text messages it’s insane, and my friends from Pennsylvania and Georgia have it worse.
electric@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Gavin Newsom’s discord server
What is this timeline.
bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I have no clue. But our timeline certainly isn’t the best one.
I genuinely have no idea why i’m still in it, but I do know i was drunk as a skunk when I joined. It’s on his website iirc, but I do know I was invited by someone on discord. L
Sometimes I join weird servers and end up staying for the memes. I’m on a tankie discord server, and while i have it muted and generally ignore it, time to time i take a peek and find some godly ultra high effort shitposts mixed in with the muck. I’m on a server for radio hacking although wireless shit is magical to me. But the memes are great even if they sometimes look like they are hieroglyphics.
But that gavin newsom discord doesn’t have good memes. Now, many of the memes are just various “Vote!” images and bottom of the barrel facebook memes.
Another remarkable thing about it is how many old people there are on that server who have their first and last name and their state as their username, and sometimes they even have a selfie as a profile pic.
It’s so weird to have some servers with genuine security culture like your average anarchist or queer server, and then also have Gavin Newsom’s server with “Jane Doe [WI]” sending a facebook post she made that is just a link to a youtube vid on project 2025 followed by her saying “Shameful!!”
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
California has no chance of flipping. Wonder why they have it worse than you.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’m so glad California lets me register as “no party preference” but I’m still allowed to participate in the primaries. It really cuts down on the spam.
officermike@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
I’m not in a swing state but I still get a decent amount of political spam. It’s mostly random PACs sending clickbait texts asking me to donate. Every so often I get a text from a candidate running in a completely different state and wonder where they got their lists.
Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
STOP
Hackworth@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m getting this shit from everywhere I’ve ever lived. I can normally ignore my phone for the most part, but I’m actually waiting on updates about the health of a relative. And this shit needs to stop. No one’s changing their mind cause of a text, guys. No one’s like, “Oh yeah, is it time to vote?” Please, just stop.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 3 weeks ago
I got one that threatened me saying they will know if I voted or not.
It was also sent to the wrong address and someone else had to give it to me asking if I was ok when they saw the hand written threat.
It’s fucking insane.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve been getting political spam for Florida for years every election cycle. Almost always for Republicans, but I did get one Harris message the other day. The catch? I’ve never lived in Florida and haven’t even been there in over 15 years.
iamjackflack@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
You need to use VeroSMS or something to block all the political bs. Best thing I ever did
crdevries2@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This looks promising. If it works as advertised you have done me a great service! Thanks for the info.
iamjackflack@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
There are a couple like this and I use them. They work great. The only thing you need to be careful is sometimes they stop sms mfa codes, but it’s gotten so good that doesn’t seem to happen anymore. It’s easy to toggle on and off, and you can whitelist by different criteria if it happens to grab things it shouldn’t.
angelmountain@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
“American democracy”
Zess@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I wish this was what I got. At least I could reply to these with a “fuck off” even if no one reads it. I hate the flyers I get in the mail all the time. Wasteful as fuck and no way to stop it. I’ve thought about collecting them all and dumping them on the doorstep of my county’s Republican party office though.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I ALREADY SENT MY BALLOT! YOU KNOW THIS! LEAVE ME ALONE!
StrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Thankfully, almost all of those go straight to spam for me.
Tacos_y_margaritas@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
I recently moved from Texas to New Mexico, so now I get them for both states. Thankfully, my spam filter works pretty well.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
i can still see the middle name, mabye increase the brush size next time?
hddsx@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I just delete and report junk
potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 3 weeks ago
I’ve got a new mexico number and havent got more requests from random organizations for donations. Starting to think i’ve inherited this number from someone.
tburkhol@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I get political spam addressed to three different people who used to have my number. Real estate spam for one of them. Temp job offers for another. It’s annoying af going on four years.
riodoro1@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Life in the US must suck so fucking bad.
ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
You know, I have to say you’re right.
At this point, unless you have been living under a giant rock, there are simple, hard facts you can’t possibly not know about Donald Trump that should be unacceptable to anyone regardless of political leanings. It’s simply impossible to ignore them.
Therefore logic dictates that whoever votes for Trump today must agree with the Nazi stuff, the Trump Purge, shooting protesters in the legs, hanging vice-presidents or locking up former speakers of the house. I mean LITERALLY agree - because he LITERALLY said those things. Even MAGA people shouldn’t agree with those things: making America great again implies not destroying America!
Meaning roughly half of this country agrees with those things. If that’s not fucked up to the n-th degree, I don’t know what is.
Visstix@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
far right parties are the biggest in most european countries and it still doesn’t come anywhere close to how much it must suck to live in america. Who you vote for is nobody’s business, and this kind of spam is insane.
djsoren19@yiffit.net 3 weeks ago
Nah it’s fine, see I don’t live in a swing-state, so nobody cares about my vote at all!
PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I find it kind of reassuring that at least our votes actually mean something to someone and the entire process isn’t completely rigged, otherwise no one would fucking bother.
ahal@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
That’s a very low bar ><
Also because of first past the post, most people’s votes don’t in fact matter. So personally I like to aim a bit higher.