Apparently this works

It costs all telephony users money to receive texts. Even texts they don’t want they are still on the hook for. It’s not much, only about 6/10’s of a cent, but still. Every reply you send results in them being billed.

Make a script to bombard them with spam before they manage to block you
- Bee movie script, one letter at a time

I got spammed with an invitation to a local university where a politician would be speaking. I replied with “[name] is a loser” and got the same result!

Problem is, responding just confirms the number, so now they can sell a list of confirmed numbers and make money. Just delete or block... Never respond.

Yeah, can confirm, this does work.

Sure does, lmao.

Schwarzenegger proving that he is, indeed, a Republican.

The sad part is that he is right. The law preventing gerrymandering is a good law. Its just that places like Texas don't have the same law and therefore they can just unilaterally gerrymander the shit out of their districts to virtually obliterate liberal voting blocks.

A lot of automated phone trees detect cursing or anger in the voice, I'm not surprised they do the same over text since it is simpler to do.

Got a text from these fucks this morning. Replied back "fuck off, traitor", "stop", then blocked them.

https://cadem.org/yes-on-proposition-50-faq/

Proposition 50 is a direct response to a Republican power grab orchestrated by President Trump and state leaders in Texas, who redrew Congressional district lines to gain five more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Proposition 50 proposes new lines for many of California’s 52 congressional districts, which would negate the five Republican seats drawn by Texas. Under the proposed lines, Democrats could gain up to 5 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

I'm pretty sure we're talking about gerrymandering, but beyond that this is completely confusing. How do states make more seats? Why will the new seats be Democrats? (As in, like, who decided that and how?) Will this just make it go back and forth all the time depending on who's in power at the moment, or is it actually fair? Is the independent districting commission corrupt?

They mean it would (statistically) flip five seats to Dems. Which is actually gaining ten seats effectively in a hyper partisan environment by taking away five of theirs but whatever.

Kind of a lose-lose situation tbh

I understand how it can be a lesser evil when the other (less democratic) party is doing it, but "safe" seats are also terrible for the in-party competition. Yay to more status quo candidates from the dems.

I wish this worked with my local far-right party as well