Mildly Infuriating

Life in the US must suck so fucking bad.

Did your mom also install a random sketchy app from the app store and click "Allow" when it asked to access her contacts?

Because my mom did, and I get all kinds of spam. 😠

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.

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.

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

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'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.

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.

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!

"I'm just gonna vote for the last person that texted me" : the demo these assholes are targeting.

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.

i can still see the middle name, mabye increase the brush size next time?

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.

I recently moved from Texas to New Mexico, so now I get them for both states. Thankfully, my spam filter works pretty well.

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.

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! 😂

Fortunately Google messages filters all of it to spam and makes it very easy to toss whatever doesn't get filtered into spam. Here's mine from Wisconsin!

You guys need regulation about that, thank God we have some in EU

Vote for me op

I'm so glad we don't get campaign spam like this in the UK.

mine in PA. most of them are sent to a name I don't know anyone by...

STOP

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.

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.