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I posted this last week and stand by it... A small counter suggestion. I know we all tend to be introverted but...go visit your reps. Visit them in DC, visit t

by avs733 9y ago

I posted this last week and stand by it... A small counter suggestion. I know we all tend to be introverted but...go visit your reps. Visit them in DC, visit them in their offices in your area. Most will be home this week for thanksgiving and almost all will be home over the holiday break. Email them to schedule a meeting or call. Make them explain this to your face. I tried this and after five emails have meetings with my rep and both my senators scheduled less than a week out.

chronic824 9y ago
> I tried this and after five emails have meetings with my rep and both my senators scheduled less than a week out. Good for you. I'm going to go back to eating my leftover turkey and continue black friday/cyber Monday shopping. Maybe I'll check my Tesla Model 3 preorder status.
- derwiki 9y ago
  You created a new account to demoralize the GP?
  - eropple 9y ago
    He created a new account to troll. It's an ugly trend; while it's minor, HN has a bit of a problem with this sort of thing. I assume that 'dang and 'sctb are on the case when this arises (and I flagged the post because of it), but it's probably a hard one to solve.
    - krapp 9y ago
      The solution is already in place - don't engage with them, just flag their comments and leave them alone. The mods are alerted whenever a comment is flagged so they can get around to banning those accounts eventually.
      - eropple 9y ago
        It's more that their actual accounts should probably be shown the door for that behavior. Nobody's tripping onto HN, seeing that post, and signing up to shitpost.