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When I contact my senators and representative about literally anything and give them my email for a reply, they end up spamming me constantly with their newslet
by MandieD 5y ago
When I contact my senators and representative about literally anything and give them my email for a reply, they end up spamming me constantly with their newsletters bragging about how they're keeping Obama, and now Biden, from being able to get anything done, or how they would like to make the lives of immigrants and young women harder.
Howdy, Spam folder. GMail learns a bit more about how much I don't want to hear about the above.
(My senators are Cornyn and Cruz, representative is Carter.)
Other example: innocuous-looking, apolitical site with a few nice knitting patterns, and the promise of more if you register an account. I used a custom email address just for them in a domain I own.
Two weeks later: Newsmax and other far-right stuff to said email address that had never been used for anything else. No, I'm not worried about men calling themselves women and assaulting my unsuspecting daughter in a bathroom.
More education of the Spam filter.
- chki 5y agoSometimes I'm annoyed at the GDPR, especially when implementing it. But this thing just won't happen in Europe anymore, at least from my experience. Especially when writing to your local representative it's unbelievable that they are allowed to start messaging you regularly with their advertisements.
- Kye 5y agoNew laws against stuff like this in the US generally have exceptions for politicians, so it wouldn't help.
- IceMetalPunk 5y agoWhich I'm sure has nothing to do with the fact that politicians are the ones making the laws............................................ (I wasn't sure how many ellipses would convey my exhaustion accurately, so I used them all.)
- Kye 5y ago>> "they would like to make the lives of immigrants and young women harder" Attacking us queerfolk seems to have come back into fashion, too. And, bizarrely, furries. I wish the "Beto is a furry" campaign had been a fluke. Wishing it would go away is the one thing furries across the political spectrum agree on. At this rate, Nancy Pelosi will buy a knockoff fursuit off AliExpress in solidarity.
- MandieD 5y agoOh, yes. Sorry for forgetting about y'all - I translated "traditional family values" a bit too narrowly and self-focused. (Paid parental leave is apparently an attack on the "traditional family".)
- IceMetalPunk 5y ago"(Paid parental leave is apparently an attack on the 'traditional family'.)" Well, duh. Everyone knows that being barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen is a woman's natural place, so she should stay home taking care of the kids with no pay while her husband brings home the bacon to buy her pretty things, so he doesn't need parental leave either. Traditions must be right and unchallenged, otherwise why would they be traditional all those years? Obviously. (This is the second or third time today I feel the need to write this disclaimer, but: everything above is, hopefully clearly, sarcastic as fuck. Please read into the irony the exact opposite of what the words say.)