Can someone invent a contraption so that once you have voted, you don't need to hear or see any more campaign ads?
In Georgia, early voting started this morning. I’m probably going to vote tomorrow afternoon.
Wouldn’t it be nice if, once you had voted, you were in some way immune from hearing campaign ads on radio and TV?
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Yes please! I’m already trying to put my head in the sand and listening to much less politics again.
…and have the campaign workers take down their candidate’s signs ffs! Do the job after as well as before.
@smudges 100% agree – the streets are plastered with campaign signs that never get removed.
Thank goodness my neighbors don’t put up political signs or flags. They do around the corner from me, but not my street. Not yet anyway. With each new house sale you never know what might happen.
I’m so tired of the same old same old attack ads on TV for the same candidates. It’s really tiring and redundant.
I gave this a GQ because it’s a great thought.
I wish! I voted already too and I donated all I plan to donate and every day I get about 20 badgering fundraising texts. it’s driving me crazy. And the TV ads are so nasty.
Around here (Georgia being a swing state), I am getting 9–10 text messages per day which I route to Spam. 80% of them are from the Trumpies or the Republican party, the remaining are from local Dems.
In 2016 someone put a trump sign in my yard without my permission.
I spray painted a red circle on both sides with a red line through the circle!
@Dutchess_III
Good move!
I take it there was no room for SUX on the sign? ;-)
My absentee ballot has already been received. I can do without the hateful ads about migrants and transgender people.
I NEVER vote! Why can’t I turn the crap off?
20 more days of ignoring them. They will just be replaced by something else I won’t want to listen to anyway.
Just use your brain and use the mute button. If you are listening to radio you’ll just have to lower the volume. Someone did invent a TV that would skip advertisements. I don’t remember how that invention died.
^There used to be a TV, that would make sure commercials wouldn’t be extra loud. I think, it was in the 90’s?...
I remember thinking, what a great idea.
Now. It clearly doesn’t matter what type of device you watch stuff on. For me, YouTube is the worst, because sometimes I’m trying to listen carefully to a video with poor sound quality (lots of older Carl Sagan type stuff is especially bad,) and I have my volume on maximum, then a commercial comes on out of nowhere blaring and pissing me off.
It seemed like telemarketing got better for a minute, then got worse now than ever. My parents have a landline, and OMFG, their phone rings (at least) 11 times a day (from 8am-9pm,) with fake names that are ALL scammers or salespeople.
I occasionally get such calls on my cell. Which is a great way, to make me feel regret for shopping somewhere.
I got a text message that woke me up, the other day. It was an ammunition distributor advertising 9mm bulk sales.
I couldn’t believe it. “Gun people,” know better, than to invade people’s privacy.
After some work, I found out how to stop them, but I was livid.
I bought a single box of .410 birdshot (for snakes,) and that makes me someone who would get a text about buying 1,000 rounds of pistol ammo?
Deep sigh. Makes me not want to buy ANYTHING, from ANYONE.
Follow up – went Saturday morning 10:10 am. No wait. In and out in 5 minutes.
Friday after lunch, in and out in 25 minutes.
Wow. Just took one day later. Never go the first day in the morning.
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