The best part is that fully half of these are addressed to my mom…

    • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      15·
      2 months 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.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 months 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.

        • Jay@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          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

          • Visstix@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            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.

  • Etterra@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    2 months ago

    And the worst part? They’re allowed to ignore the national do not call registry.

    • Mango@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Oh neat, it’s just like how I can ignore the “don’t do violent shit” laws!

  • Concave1142@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    2 months 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.

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 months ago

    I recognize those area codes! And I also get like 6 of those every day.

    Did you sign Elons petition? He only asks if you support the first two amendments, which, technically, I do. I was hoping to win the million and collect it wearing all blue! 😂

  • Kcap@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 months 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!

  • Zess@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 months 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.

  • iamjackflack@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    You need to use VeroSMS or something to block all the political bs. Best thing I ever did

    • crdevries2@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      This looks promising. If it works as advertised you have done me a great service! Thanks for the info.

      • iamjackflack@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        2 months 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. Here is what my block looks like: