I really really really want to delete my facebook.
But it's the only way I have to log in to Love Nikki. I HAVE SPENT REAL MONEY ON THIS GAME SHUT UP. oh my god, life is so hard
I have gotten four texts just today about voting, who to vote for, etc, and gotten them steadily for a couple weeks now. And all of them are address to the WRONG PERSON. I've started getting vulgar in my responses.
@macha I haven't gotten texts, just calls and people showing up at my door. Thankfully I mailed in my vote earlier so the conversation usually goes like so: Hi, are you voting? Yes I am and i have already mailed in my ballot. Okay have a good day sir!
I, personally, try to make them laugh.
"Hi, it's Jenessa with PA Dems. Do you have a plan for voting tomorrow?"
"Don't you worry, Jenessa. The only thing that could keep me from my polling place tomorrow is if it's LITERALLY on fire."
"That's great! And don't forget to encourage your friends and family to vote. They can find their polling place at <link>, and every vote counts!"
"Yeah, I know. And my parents are crazy old racists, so I think I'm just going to not mention it and see if they can figure it out themselves. Y'know, like their new Comcast remote."
Same conversation five times so far today, with Melissa, Mitchell, Meek, and an unnamed text bot.
@aria I did that for like the first week or so. I've done multiple political surveys in the last month, too. Because I'm not a total bitch. But.. christ on a cracker with cheddar cheese, check your rolls before you call/text!
Weird. In our area at this point we're using votebuilder to target our calls/texts specifically to people who have not returned ballots. (we are a 100 percent mail-in state) It really helps with preventing volunteer burnout.
Weird. We don't need to be reminded to vote, because we have to else we get fined.
Weird. In our area at this point we're using votebuilder to target our calls/texts specifically to people who have not returned ballots. (we are a 100 percent mail-in state) It really helps with preventing volunteer burnout.
My state doesn't have any sort of early voting because my state government is largely made of garbage piles and human feces.
By which I mean I live in Pennsylvania, the most gerrymandered state in the country. Like, I literally have to fill in all nine numbers of my ZIP code on 'contact your House Representative!' forms because my neighborhood is divided block by fucking block. Our state legislature maintains their stranglehold on Harrisburg by cherry-picking their voters.
Y'know, if they can't just keep them from voting at all.
I was skeptical of all mail in voting, but now (especially after 2 years of being a certified elections observer and literally having an open door to all parts of the process including the commissioners meetings) I am a believer in it. But its not cheap. King County WA has well over a million registered voters and a budget to match that scale. I think most elections municipalities dont.
@mietze Maybe that's the sort of benefit that the Federal government should mandate?
But then again, I hate States.(Sometimes)
I have a waggish sense of humor.
@misadventure elections are in the hands of of the states. For good or ill. RIght now that's probably marginally a good thing, at least for my state.
@misadventure said in RL Anger:
Maybe that's the sort of benefit that the Federal government should mandate?
The feds have better things to mandate, like proportional representation.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
@ganymede Something, something, electoral college...
He/Him
I am sick. Still. Again and still.
Bodies are the literal worst.
I am sick. Still. Again and still.
Bodies are the literal worst.
Have you tried KALE?
I am so glad I love the hell out of spinach, so I can more or less dodge kale. 
Oh fucking well.
I like vegetables. It doesn't stop my lungs from being garbage.
@surreality said in RL Anger:
I am so glad I love the hell out of spinach, so I can more or less dodge kale.
I love spinach. And was also the weird kid that actually liked broccoli when I was little, and thought the cheese sauce was gross.
But, man. Fuck kale. If all of the world's kale caught fire tomorrow, I'd be fine with that.
@macha I haven't gotten texts, just calls and people showing up at my door. Thankfully I mailed in my vote earlier so the conversation usually goes like so: Hi, are you voting? Yes I am and i have already mailed in my ballot. Okay have a good day sir!
