> Resistbot is the smartest technology to emerge from the disaster that was the 2016 election
Your preferred candidate losing is a "disaster"?
Resistbot: Contact your officials by sending a text
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#12> Resistbot is the smartest technology to emerge from the disaster that was the 2016 election Your preferred candidate losing is a "disaster"?
Makes me wonder if this can be trusted to actually work to amplify all sides of the political compass. GoFundMe's recent example comes to mind as techs untrustworthiness to not meddle with things in the direction of the CEOs preferred political stance.
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#13How much impact do these services actually have on elected officials? They know how little effort constituents put into having a text sent on their behalf so they're probably going to put very little weight on them. Go through the effort of handwriting a letter is going to add quite a bit of weight to your message. If you are unwilling to invest a small bit of time and the cost of a stamp to send a message, why would…
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Re: Resistbot: Contact your officials by sending a text
#14How much impact do these services actually have on elected officials? They know how little effort constituents put into having a text sent on their behalf so they're probably going to put very little weight on them. Go through the effort of handwriting a letter is going to add quite a bit of weight to your message. If you are unwilling to invest a small bit of time and the cost of a stamp to send a message, why would…
I know if I received tens of thousands of duplicate texts or emails I'd divide the count by 10^n to estimate the real will for change. Or ignore them entirely. This is slacktivism.
Re: Resistbot: Contact your officials by sending a text
#15How much impact do these services actually have on elected officials? They know how little effort constituents put into having a text sent on their behalf so they're probably going to put very little weight on them. Go through the effort of handwriting a letter is going to add quite a bit of weight to your message. If you are unwilling to invest a small bit of time and the cost of a stamp to send a message, why would…
Depends on the congress critter probably. Just guessing that as younger individuals are elected to office, responses to digital might become more accepted. Also, take into consideration that the elected person's office is typcially staffed by younger people that are going to be much more inclined to reading a digital message vs and envelope that may or may not include more than just a harshly worded letter.
Re: Resistbot: Contact your officials by sending a text
#16How much impact do these services actually have on elected officials? They know how little effort constituents put into having a text sent on their behalf so they're probably going to put very little weight on them. Go through the effort of handwriting a letter is going to add quite a bit of weight to your message. If you are unwilling to invest a small bit of time and the cost of a stamp to send a message, why would…
I know at the federal level, pretty much all the reps/senators see compiled reports of all constituent comms, broken down by (issue / stance / method / volume). Either way your message is "just" making it up to the member as a spreadsheet column, but text vs email vs letter might not actually make the difference you think. Some members might see letters as more serious, others might take texts as "oh my younger and m…
Hmmm honestly this sounds interesting. I assumed senators and such just played it by ear.
Do you have personal experience with how these are calculated or used? Good to know that some reps are actually using data haha.
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#17> Resistbot is the smartest technology to emerge from the disaster that was the 2016 election Your preferred candidate losing is a "disaster"?
Given that candidate lost the popular vote by the greatest margin in history yet still "won" the election, ended his presidency with the lowest popularity rating in history, was the least emotionally and intellectually capable president we've probably ever had, systematically destroyed everything he could touch in the federal government (including a public health surveillance and assistance system that could have helped detect covid far earlier), literally withheld supplies from states he lost in the prior election, spent more time on vacation than any of his modern predecessors, and responded to losing the election by encouraging violent public insurrection and engaging in numerous conspiracies to subvert the election certification process by fraud...yes?
That said, I don't see how this text widget is going to do anything.
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#18I am not familiar with US politics, but genuine question here. How effective is this? Does the respective representative have incentive to follow through or disincentive to not follow through?
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#19> Resistbot is the smartest technology to emerge from the disaster that was the 2016 election Your preferred candidate losing is a "disaster"?
Given that candidate lost the popular vote by the greatest margin in history yet still "won" the election, ended his presidency with the lowest popularity rating in history, was the least emotionally and intellectually capable president we've probably ever had, systematically destroyed everything he could touch in the federal government (including a public health surveillance and assistance system that could have hel…
The two most hated candidates in history. The Republican Party fought tooth and nail to prevent Trump from being their candidate, but had accidentally reformed their primary process in negotiations with the Tea Party so much that their voters actually had the final say (the same thing happened under Milliband in the UK which later resulted in Corbyn winning Labour leadership.) The Democratic Party, by contrast, fought tooth and nail to attack every candidate except Clinton, despite how hated she was.
2016 was an own goal.
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#20I am not familiar with US politics, but genuine question here. How effective is this? Does the respective representative have incentive to follow through or disincentive to not follow through?
The only incentive to follow through is to appeal to your voters to get them to vote for you in the next election. But since most election districts are rigged via gerrymandering, representatives need only to appeal to a certain region's demographics.