The best part is that fully half of these are addressed to my mom…
I’m so glad we don’t get campaign spam like this in the UK.
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.
The 2024 election cycle will cost America $15 billion.
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.
Thankfully, almost all of those go straight to spam for me.
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.
Jenny?
867-5309
867-5309
lol, and here it thought it was just a clever name for some fake phone number generator.
🤦
Anytime I want to use public WiFi that’s behind a captive portal that requires an email, I give them “bezos@amazon.com”
I like giving them the number 719-266-2837
I encourage folks to give it a try
What is that from?
Somebody made it to demo Twilio and it’s been running for at least ten years.
Really handy for testing telephony connections.
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.
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.
Life in the US must suck so fucking bad.
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.
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.
Nah it’s fine, see I don’t live in a swing-state, so nobody cares about my vote at all!
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.
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.
I’m not sure how many OP gets in a week but I get so. many. of these stupid messages. It’s usually about 3-6 a week. It pisses me off every time I get them. Luckily I have a message filter set up with just bare bones rules to filter out anything that contains “Trump” and “President” and that’s been working great. But the fact that I even get those messages is absurd to me. I’ve blocked at the bare minimum, probably about 300 of those numbers so far. It only keeps rising every week when I decide to look through my junk SMS
That’s insane. The only message we get here is per mail, with information on where to vote and your voting card thingy. There might be some people near stores giving out flyers with information about their party, that’s about it.
I wish it were the case for us here too. I appear to be the main one in my family who gets it and sometimes it has a name attached that isn’t mine so it’s possible it’s from the previous owner of the phone number. But it’s still infuriating nevertheless that it exists in the first place. Just wish there was a “Don’t ever message me again under any other number” option.
I’ve lived in and was registered in 3 states in the past 4 years - currently in a swing state. Before I began blocking political texts and emails a month ago, I counted over 40 emails and over 15 texts per day, every day, plus phone calls every week.
You guys need regulation about that, thank God we have some in EU
Yes it seems like that should be the duty of a functional government… Oh wait…
Vote for me op
Gonna write you in!
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.
Wait until you hear about pineapple on pizza. Pineapple!
Hmmm. Do pineapple and anchovies go together?
Where’s my representation for square cut pizza?!
Poor Italians are turning in their graves.
STOP
Voting is important. There were a few local proposals regarding taxes for example. There were also a ton of different representatives and judges that had to be picked locally. And of course you get to participate in the national president lottery! You pick your option, and if the electoral college picks the same option, then you win! Otherwise, if the electoral college picks a different option, then you loose. Yey! Democracy! I wish the electoral college kept calling my phone every day to tell me how important my vote for president is! It would go like this: " he loo 😂😂😂😂 lol, hold on. Yeah go vote! LOL! It means something! LOL 😆😂😆. We’re picking Trump if you don’t vote! We’re picking Trump if you do vote! LOL your vote is very important to us, a representative will be voting with you shortly LOL!"
Better Trump than the illegal immigrant Kamala. So my vote goes to him.
User name checks out for such a confused statement.
She’s born in Oakland, CA. Where did she illegally migrate to?
I haven’t seen that birth certificate yet, have you?
Less than mid troll 🥱
I watched her crown out of her momma’s pussy flaps.
I havent seen trumps birth certificate either. Probably where his income tax papers he promised or maybe where his obamacare reform proposal is…
And the worst part? They’re allowed to ignore the national do not call registry.
Oh neat, it’s just like how I can ignore the “don’t do violent shit” laws!
I keep getting these too, but I’m in a solidly blue state
Yeah I’m in Texas and my spam filter looks just like OPs and others who have posted in this thread.
Im starting to think this is a general American issue and not a swing state-vs-solid state issue
I ALREADY SENT MY BALLOT! YOU KNOW THIS! LEAVE ME ALONE!
