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Is this just how it’s gonna be till Election Day?

  1. never signed up for anything like this,
  2. never donated to or signed up for emails from the DNC, et al.,
  3. political texts like this come all the time, and
  4. I hesitate to reply “stop” because I don’t want them to know this is a live number (is my instinct here outdated/inapplicable?)
dohpaz42 ,
@dohpaz42@lemmy.world avatar

Good thing my browser doesn’t keep cookies, or that might’ve leaked my Google info. But here’s what the link goes to:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/44f93d1b-ff0d-4ab4-a77e-3e7bfa3e2ae3.jpeg

QuantumSparkles ,

I just have so many thoughts

PrincessLeiasCat ,

My first thought was ‘Russian troll farm’ and I never got to the second thought.

thepreciousboar ,

Why is it so obsessed with “white dudes”? Even if you are soecifically tagreting them, it seems odd to keep repeating it, especially since people who are goinf to vote a black woman of asian origins as preaident should tend not to be white supremacists

AceFuzzLord ,

I consider myself lucky because I can’t recall ever getting any messages like that from either side. Closest I’ve come is mail for local candidates for non-presidential office.

Today ,

There really is a white dudes for Harris group that’s doing an event this week. A friend (who’s crazy smart and i would trust him above most) share info about it. I was initially skeptical because of the name but looked into it because it came from him. I thought they had an interesting writeup about changing the white dude image.

can ,

Still not a good idea to cold text people about it.

JackiesFridge ,
@JackiesFridge@lemmy.world avatar

Respond to nothing. Block everything.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Sounds legit.

/s

BearOfaTime ,

Filters are your friend. If this is a text message, there are SMS apps which can filter messages by content.

I block all unknown numbers.

rhythmisaprancer ,
@rhythmisaprancer@moist.catsweat.com avatar

I have definitely seen an uptick in these over the last two weeks. Multiple times a day, some calls, too. I was involved in some activism 10-15 years ago so I accept it (still baloney tho). It has started on my work phone as well...

JackGreenEarth ,

That looks like a desktop app. You can send SMS from your non mobile computer?

Wispy2891 ,

It seems to be the SMS integration that MacOS can have when you also own an iPhone.

You can do the same on Android on any other operating system

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