political texts suck even worse when you don't have friends
I don't mean to be all "woe is me" but damn it really drives home the loneliness when literally the only texts I ever get are trying to get me to vote for some shit. or like, texts from my cell carrier trying to get me to upgrade my phone
and the only texts I ever send are just "STOP" lmao
lol I realized right after posting this that "political texts" could also mean theory. bit frankly I'm not reading any theory so I don't have that problem
Imagine if you were a suicidal person and the last thing you see before you blow your brains out is a fundraising text from Chuck Schumer
"Hoo boy that last poll was a hell of a doozy! PLEASE donate $5 IMMEDIATELY to the DEMOCRATIC ACTION FUND so my grandaughter doesn't have to go to BUSHWICK!!!!"
I grew up before poor people had cell phones and continue to see them as an enemy intrusion into my personal spacetime
harden your heart against the machines, notifications are but shadow puppets
sometimes I like to flirt with them (i recently got one from the hot guy who is running for city councilman asking for me to come canvass but I restrained myself from asking if he would be there.....)
I'm not getting blacklisted from the DSA as a sex-pest because I want to suck off the hot candidate who managed to get their endorsement....he is hot enough though that i was like "maybe I should just go canvass" () but he's MARRIED so he won't be seeing my twink ass running around for his campaign anytime soon.
The apocalypse happened when Europe conquered the world. Hundreds of millions dead, thousands of cultures wiped out of existence and forgotten. Human misery in magnitutes never before possible. They invented a hell and dragged the whole world into it.
The apocalypse already happened, we're just living in the aftermath.
It's always real people. The reason they are allowed to spam you is because it is considered the "freedom of speech" of the person sending the text. The opening text however is a prewritten form text that the person just spam clicked send on. Any additional back and forth will be with a person who will try to follow a script but sometimes will engage with you if your questions don't fit closely enough to their stock replies. If you come off too hostile or uninterested though they will just remove you from the list.
I don't have to deal with the democrats, but the republicans somehow became convinced that I'm my mom and texted me 9 times today from different numbers and I replied stop to each one and it does nothing. I got a call from someone phone banking the other day and told them they had the wrong person and begged them to take me off their list. I've tried sending them PPB but it's all automated so I can't even mess with them or anything. It just sucks.
If it helps any, you're not suffering alone. The only texts I get are directly from and for whatever job I happen to have, or an appointment I've made somewhere. I've tried starting and keeping some texting going with a couple of people I grew up with as close friends, it never lasts more than a few days, and then over a year passes in silence. It has happened several times already and I've given up on trying any more.