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[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 39 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Hi!👋 me again, don’t forget to:

Print photos of different couches or dolphins and mail them to any or all of these locations:

https://www.vance.senate.gov/office-locations/

Don’t forget to add little love notes. e.g., “Thinking of you 💋”

And, remember kids, drink your Ovaltine!

[–] elliot_crane@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Dude I’ll keep it a stack with you. When I first saw you I thought you were an amusing bot. However seeing your message evolve over time, and the consistency with which you keep it up, I’m only left with a profound respect for the sheer effort involved if nothing else.

[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

I'm a actually just tired of the spam, and a little disappointed that so many people respect this way of using Lemmy. If everyone treated Lemmy like this user does, the place would fail catastrophically.

This guy started by just spamming the same comment verbatim dozens of times to different threads. That's just being a spammer. The reason you thought it was a bot is because the content was low quality and low effort.

And mailing pictures of dolphins and couches to J.D. Vance is funny as a joke, but I can't see it accomplishing anything else but generating a bit of paper waste. It certainly won't win Harris any votes, or lose Trump any votes. It's just petty trolling.

In less than 4 months America decides whether or not we're diving head-first into Fascism. Surely there are better forms of activism than whatever petulant nonsense this is.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Ha! I’m not sure I’ve ever been accused of being a bot. But I do take advantage of copy and paste. 😊

Keep fighting the good fight!

[–] JWBananas@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The couches I understand, but what is the porpoise of the dolphins?