r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Lock_Psychological • 20d ago

Unskippable ad I keep getting threatening texts

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I get these ALL the time. I’ve never donated to these “people.” Never supported them. Never voted for them. Nor has my wife. I received four of these today. All threats. Always a telling me it’s my last chance. These are some of the less malicious-sounding ones.

I’m not even sure they’re legitimately from those parties, though I wouldn’t put it past them.

So… report as spam. Report as spam. Report as spam.

It isn’t like it’s painful. Just pretty irritating.

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u/ThatEcologist 19d ago

My dad registered as a republican when he was 18 and never bothered to change it. He has not voted for them in over 20 years lol. But because he never changed it he still sometimes gets republicans shit in the mail. Did you maybe register as such as a kid?

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u/Lock_Psychological 19d ago

I originally registered as Republican when I was 18. Didn’t know any better. I changed it like a year later. So… maybe that marked me for life.

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u/RandomWordCombo9632 19d ago

So… maybe that marked me for life.

pretty much. They likely have a list of registered voters, you still have the same number right? So they just spam these texts out.

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u/ickypooh97217 19d ago

The cult never lets you leave

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u/Dirtysandddd 19d ago

lol same here, all it took was watching trump bs his way into the 2016 election and I was fully converted.

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u/dubyrunning 19d ago

I've gotten the same exact texts and have never registered or voted R, so it's not that.

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u/Original-Rush139 19d ago

Do you still have the same phone number? 

I would assume this is from something like when the RNC was hacked by Russia but they didn’t publicize it because it wouldn’t help Trump win. 

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u/Lock_Psychological 19d ago

Nope. That was like 1993. I got this number back in… 2001 or so.

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u/CraftyMoney6296 19d ago

In 1980 I registered as a Republican but didn’t vote that year. In 1988 I had moved to another state and registered as Democrat. Luckily the party didn’t follow me. The only time in recent years that I made a vague claim in being Republican was to get two tickets to a Trump rally so that there was two less seats available. I had read about that Tulsa event where 6200 people showed up to a 19K seat arena thanks to a TT viral campaign. Chefs kiss.

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u/PaxNova 19d ago

Yeah, I made a small donation to Elizabeth Warren once, and I still get "donate to Dems" junk no matter how often I tell them to stop. 

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u/robertjm123 19d ago

I could be wrong. But, I think politicians carved out an exemption for themselves when they created the Do Not Call or Text List. :-(

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u/Awkward_Pangolin3254 19d ago

I've never voted R. I've never registered R. Every week lately I'm dumping a fistful of conservative propaganda from my mailbox into the recycling. They don't care what you're registered as.

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u/twinoaksBandB 19d ago

I used to have to print that shit. It's insidious, I don't know for sure but I think they target specific neighborhoods and or demographics send their garbage to every address therein.

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u/Awkward_Pangolin3254 19d ago

When it says who it's from—which not all of them do—it's all One Nation PAC. And everything out of them is a bald-faced lie.

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u/twinoaksBandB 19d ago

Not surprising, it's all feelings and lies trying to influence the people who won't take a moment to fact check. The most infuriating thing for me is that pac is only one of many and I can't help but think of how many people those millions of dollars spent could lift out of poverty or how much broken infrastructure could be fixed....

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u/dubyrunning 19d ago

I've gotten the same threatening texts, and I've never registered or voted R. This is an attempt at vote manipulation and intimidation, not unlike the disgusting mass texts minorities got right after Trump was re-elected telling them to get into various colored vans to be taken to reeducation centers. Someone is out there mass spam texting people, and their intentions are not good.

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u/Constant_Fisherman25 19d ago

That is not a legitimate text from JD Vance my dude.

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u/Lock_Psychological 19d ago

But it may be a legit text from the GOP, my guy.

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u/rbartlejr 19d ago

LOL I get them in my gmail for some reason. There's a guy with a completely different name that I get mail for. No idea who this guy is. Evidently he's in NY, he like casinos and a registered Repug judging by the crap I get. His first name is Joe and I can't remember the last name - starts with a 'C' I think.

One of two things happened, glitch with Google or someone used by name to register the email for this guy. Maybe a revenge thing - I don't know. What I DO know is Google has been zero help getting rid of them. Tried twice and gave up after being ignored twice.

Sometimes I reply just to fuck with them.