This one's downright aggressive, even for them...

This one's downright aggressive, even for them...

Everyone, stop everything you're doing. RIGHT NOW!!!

This is a critical update, you see, so you'd better not check your texts before you finish reading this: Some bullshit neoliberal PAC you've probably never heard of needs money before midnight, so get to it!

...What especially annoys me is the "weareprogressives" domain name. This is how they marginalize us. By calling themselves progressives instead of neoliberals, which is what they really are, they deprive us of our political identity, usurping it as their own.

Having a domain name that literally says "we are progressives" is a rather direct example of this.

u/KrisCraig — 4 days ago

A "personalized link". Either the DCCC thinks insulting our intelligence is a good way to make money, or these emails are targeted at the elderly and people with dementia.

I mean, in this day and age, who else would look at that link and not immediately know that it's bullshit? They do this all the fucking time, too, though the "?=" part is new. I guess they wanted to make it look more convincing. Perhaps even people with dementia were starting to call them out...

u/KrisCraig — 1 month ago

These new AI admin bots are getting ridiculous. I just got a "Your account has been given a warning" email over a comment I made that was literally just a quote from a UK Government report.

The comment was a single markdown-quoted paragraph from the UK Government's "Rape Gang Inquiry Report". I was quoting a paragraph in the introduction that I felt was a bit disturbing so I quoted it in a comment on a post that linked to that report.

Apparently, your AI agreed. It just doesn't seem to understand that all I'm doing is quoting a paragraph of text from a government document.

Below the quote, all I said was, "Uhh..." and absolutely nothing else.

It's obvious that this was an automated thing since the email came to me just moments after I posted the comment. Personally, this feels more than a little overzealous on the part of Reddit's admins, and it lends to a certain "police state" vibe that I never used to feel on this site.

If the bot you're using doesn't even understand that most basic context, then I suspect it's probably spitting out a LOT of false positives like this. Just so you know, this is a perfect way to alienate your loyal user base. It certainly put me in a bad mood.

Admins, if you're reading this, please rein in whatever automated script you're using for this because it's beyond annoying. Thank you.

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u/KrisCraig — 4 months ago

Just when I thought these fundraising emails couldn't get any more tone-deaf...

I'm assuming this is different from the "unfinished business" they've been conducting in Gaza.

u/KrisCraig — 5 months ago

Just got this fundraising email from the DCCC: "Democratic heroes like Nancy Pelosi are calling on us to step up"

Man it really makes me cringe when these fascist assholes refer to themselves as "democratic heroes".

u/KrisCraig — 5 months ago

A fundraising email I received today from Chuck Schumer...

I like how he thinks we can all afford to relax with a newspaper and a cup of coffee every morning. I guess that's what he's been doing as he sends bombs to be used against children in Gaza.

Here's a little thought experiment for ya, Chuck:

It's right now. You rub the sleep out of your eyes. Brew some-- Wait, where the fuck did your kitchen go?! Why is it just a pile of rubble?

You go outside to check out the neighborhood. Or, at least, what's left of it. But all you find are dead bodies and crying children amid the smoldering ruins.

This is what your morning would be like if you lived in Gaza. That's what you've been inflicting on those children by deliberately arming their exterminators. And if I were to give you $7 of my hard-earned money, you'd use it to keep yourself and your genocidal cohorts in power so you can murder more innocent children with our tax dollars.

So kindly take your cup of coffee and shove it up your child-murdering ass, Chuck. We're done here.

u/KrisCraig — 5 months ago

[2026] Hillary Clinton supporter repeats the disproven claim that the primaries a decade ago weren't rigged in her favor and that Bernie lost because he's too old. This is my response.

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u/KrisCraig — 5 months ago

I called out one of the trolls for hiding their post/comment history and this was their excuse: "I like people to engage with me, not my post history"

"You wanna know why I won't show you my license, officer? It's because I like people to engage with me, not my driving history."

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u/KrisCraig — 5 months ago

The Democrats just sent me an email explaining how they plan to lose the next Presidential election...

Millions of years from now, a group of alien archeologists will release a groundbreaking paper detailing how a mysterious human named "Someone Else" was our civilization's most beloved political leader.

u/KrisCraig — 5 months ago

And what of the nearly $30 billion of our tax dollars you've spend on sending munitions to Israel, Mr. Smith?

No clear objectives. No exit strategy. No honest accounting. Sound familiar?

https://quincyinst.org/research/u-s-military-aid-and-arms-transfers-to-israel-october-2023-september-2025/#h-current-policy-debates

Estimates say we've spent at least $21 billion on Israel's genocide in Gaza since 2023, and that's in addition to the $3+ billion in military aid we send them every year.

That means we've spent more funding the genocide in Gaza than we have on the Iran War. I guess the Demorats forgot to work that into their fundraising emails. Oops.

u/KrisCraig — 5 months ago

I got this email from Uber today, thanking me for contacting support and offering me a discount code for groceries (which I've never used Uber for). This seemed especially strange to me, seeing as how I've never contacted Uber support for anything.

So I clicked the email link, logged in via Google, and it took me to the screenshot you're seeing here. Pay special attention to the "No response needed" at the bottom and the lack of any "reply" option, which you would definitely see if this were an actual customer service support thread.

There's only one reasonable conclusion to be drawn from this: Uber is sending these emails to random users, pretending to be a response to a customer service inquiry in order to bypass spam filters and lure the user into reading the ad.

These kinds of deceptive, predatory business practices should be illegal. Uber owes its customers an apology for engaging in such sleazy spam tactics.

u/KrisCraig — 6 months ago