BashfulBob [none/use name]

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Cake day: August 9th, 2024

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  • This year it’s nothing. I say that I’m with the people of Palestine and it’s like I said the secret word. Immediately it’s “Ok, thank you.” and they hang up. What is up with this?

    They’re trying to hit a call-quota. The people on the other end of the line don’t actually care if you vote or who you vote for. They just want to make their 1000th call and go home. You’ll notice you still keep getting called so its not like anyone is registering what you’re saying.

    When I dabbled in electoralism I used to see this on the other end. There would just be a line of phone numbers getting dialed. 90% of them wouldn’t pick up. Anyone who answered the phone promoted you with a “R / D / Undecided / Other” option menu. If someone on the other end of the line is saying “I won’t vote for genocide!” what do I select? Undecided/Other. But that doesn’t take you off the phone list, it just spits you into the “Try again later” queue.

    The best way to get these calls to stop is to identify who is making them and say you’re staunchly supporting the other one. That still doesn’t work too well, because you’re getting called independently from Presidential, Senatorial, and House phone bankers who don’t bother to coordinate because that would mean functioning as a party rather than a random assortment of self-centered egomaniacs. But it does at least get the network you said “I’m voting for the other guy” on to flag you as “Opposition, do not call again”.





  • Why can’t these dumbfuck gamers just stop playing the game they hate

    Because they don’t hate the game. Its all performative. They love the attention that lashing out at Popular New Thing provokes. And they love riding the algorithm, wherein anyone talking about Popular New Thing frequently enough gets promoted to the top of the automated attention queue.

    This is all about generating influence through attention seeking behaviors. The game itself doesn’t matter, save that someone is spending a fortune to promote mentions of it and that offers these shits an elevated platform to say provocative shit.