The people who tell you to call your reps are clearly too fucking lazy to do it themselves. When I was younger I wrote my representatives about a dozen times. The only thing you get out of it is a form letter explaining that you're wrong and that the current policy will not be changed. These people only need to tell you to go fuck yourself so many times for you to take a hint.
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2026
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Call your reps? lmao. Gotta remind these people that representatives so very rarely vote along with the will of their constituents. They don't give a fuck what you think about any issue.
"Call your reps" is always a staple on Bluesky. Even as an effort to stop the gestapo. Me yesterday - https://hexbear.net/comment/7225637
I think telling people to call their reps is great. Either it works and hey that's great, or they end up feeling personally slighted by the non-representational nature of bourgeoisie democracy, and that's progress too.
or third option, they just annoyingly repeat the message without doing shit
i tried calling my reps but all it did was get me thrown out of the gym 
These people truly believe bourgeois politicans care what they think and want to help them
it's been a decade since i heard someone talk about it but they do (well, did?) actually care about calls and physical mail to some extent. email is cheap and worthless, each person taking the time to call statistically represents dozens or hundreds of other people who might be pissed off enough to not vote for you.
pound for pound calling your senator's office over a specific issue is probably more effective than an in-person nonviolent protest if there's actually lib organizing around it.
you won't build socialism with it but you can tiebreak on things the bourgeoise aren't unified on like the TPP or SOPA/PIPA
Faxing also works just about as well as physical mail does and there are free online fax services out there.
Oh sick
PPB’s on the horizon at Bernard’s office
i'd say what year is it but some of those guys probably think it's the 1980s
Nothing makes me feel more depressed then "Law will make it legal to hunt minority for sport. Call your representative!"
They do not live in reality.
I got my current job from cold calling the company like 3 weeks ago.
I still wouldn't cold call my rep as if they cared
I imagine calling ‘your senator’ is more soul crushing than sending shitting out your resume to random job boards. These people live for pain.
Thoughts and prayers for secular people
Calling your rep works, but only if you get a hold of their personal number first
Letters are good too if you can hand deliver them
I've heard op eds and letters to the editor in local papers are effective at sending messages to elected officials, but I've never tried so idk. You also need the paper to actually publish it.
I can't prove it but my past apartment managers started trying to do a lot more nice community things like bringing donuts to the community room after I wrote a letter to the editor about threatening them with rent strikes. Not them specifically, but in response to a peak COVID article from a landlord saying "we're struggling people who need to pay our mortgage too". Maybe it works on politicians too.
CaLL yOuR rEpS!
fuck off I have finite time on this earth and they do not give a shit