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 I hesitate to reply “stop” because I don’t want them to know this is a live number (is my instinct here outdated/inapplicable?)
    • Korne127@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      What the fuck… how can people in the US live with something like that? And how does this not massively hurt her chances?!

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        how can people in the US live with something like that?

        We’ve had a number of deeply corrupt individuals in charge of our federal department meant to police this sort of thing.

        And how does this not massively hurt her chances?!

        Even odds are that it’s meant to.

  • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.world
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    For sure don’t in any way respond, just report spam and block the number. Lots of these things are phishing attempts, trying to get you to give personal information (or even money), and aren’t connected to the things they mention.

    • lars@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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      There’s no “Report Junk” on iOS Messages unless it’s an email address texting you.

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        Every message I have received on my iPhone from someone not in my contacts has this after that latest message:

      • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Not true—I just successfully reported this text as junk. It tries to auto-detect spam, and coming from an email address is one of the signs of that, but not the only one.

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      It’s a pretty relevant distinction within American life. I’m no strategist, but it doesn’t seem unreasonable.

      • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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        The only people who think race don’t matter is people who exclusively interact within the same race.

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          It’s a social construct that didn’t exist until the 1600s, but it’s a real social construct.

          Outside America and other former plantation economies it can be a bit different, and less in-your-face, but it’s almost always still there.

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            It’s not purely a social construct, I hate this stupid idea. It’s a phenotype. Babies do not have a randomized skin color at birth, it depends on their ancestry. Calling that a “social construct” is arguably racist in itself.

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              Skin colour is a complete continuum, and one which doesn’t very in any uniform way based on geography, aside from the darkest people coming recently from Africa.

              By this logic, ear size is a race.

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                Yes! You’re getting it. Ear size is an aspect of race. As is hair texture and height and all the other inheritable phenotypes. Skin color is just the most visibly obvious one.

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                  Well, words can mean whatever you want, but usually race refers to the discrete-ish social categories that have been constructed based roughly on specific phenotypes. For example Black people were a discrete legal category for most of America’s history, and were nominally 3/5 of a person and treated as much less. Now, they have equal legal rights on paper, but the category remains informally.

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    Hey there we’re the krazy kaucasians for Kamala…

    Wait a second, let’s just go with White dudes for Harris

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    I have a Pixel. I did not realize how bad this gets until work made me take an iPhone as my work phone. Holy hell. No amount of “Delete and report as junk” helps.

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      Your country is crazy.

      I get maybe 3-4 spam messages a year and those are all scams, not ads, much less political ads (which I don’t think would even be legal)

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        I have never once received one of these messages. Doesn’t happen to everyone.