Post AvbV2G5cKLC7A8gOjA by scm@sfba.social
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(DIR) Post #AvbNfsq1ObKF00luaW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-06-28T21:42:00Z
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We got one crop of political junk mail last week but these THIRTY glossy fliers all came since the election was over! I even got the one where they made the beard “more muslim” what a waste of paper! One of the Cuomo fliers didn’t have a union bug (offensive)
(DIR) Post #AvbOfgMPt2YGFsONSS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-06-28T21:53:13Z
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This is the biggest downside to always voting in every election including primaries. I'm kind of proud of my solid voting record however the spam...? good lord. Interestingly almost none of the candidates who spammed me by mail reached me with a single radio, TV or other advertisement at all. Because like most people my age I don't use any of that media and have 999 million ad-blockers.Maybe they should do a minecraft PVP let's play livestream? That's might work.I'd TOTALLY watch that.
(DIR) Post #AvbOuvqYalACd0lI8W by jf_718@mas.to
2025-06-28T21:55:56Z
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@futurebird The only flyers we got here were the ones attacking Mamdani by that massive Cuomo super-pac - and we got a lot of them, all arriving in the last two weeks before the primary.
(DIR) Post #AvbPHyLRTCMT2KC7X6 by AMS@infosec.exchange
2025-06-28T22:00:03Z
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@futurebird The Union Bug thing seems like such a massive vulnerability. As an opponent send out a flyer lacking a bug in support of a top D candidate to their supporters that would care most about it. Hurts them, cheap for the opposition.
(DIR) Post #AvbPKAcqmV5xhhNwY4 by Jirikiha@mastodon.cloud
2025-06-28T22:00:31Z
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I wish the Democratic party would send flyers out X* months before an election to encourage people - not to vote, but to RUN for office!Too many times I've not been able to vote for the democrat for a position because nobody was running against the republican.* I don't know how long it takes to get on the ballot. They'd need to:1 Take stock of which positions are open2 Send mailers out in enough time for the recipients to respond.3 Vet the responders for ability, passion, background check.
(DIR) Post #AvbPO6k3ABpoogd8e8 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-06-28T22:01:14Z
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@AMS This is one of those cases where I think that was somehow far down on the list of reasons people were mad at him. But I still found it obnoxious.
(DIR) Post #AvbPZsOKLMDBmi568W by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-06-28T22:03:24Z
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@futurebird "Cuomo is endorsed by hotel and gaming trades council"huh. I guess they wanted everyone who wasn't rich to vote for Mamdani.
(DIR) Post #AvbPsMKjl4GzrRDPe4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-06-28T22:06:36Z
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Is it odd that I would be more likely to read a simple letter in an envelope?My eyes glaze over when I see these things. It is work to look at them at all and I mostly don't. Couldn't they send just one clear letter instead of 20 of these huge fliers?Also the texture of the printing is gross. They are unpleasant to touch.
(DIR) Post #AvbQyDzzl609hfsGX2 by gbargoud@masto.nyc
2025-06-28T22:18:55Z
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@futurebird They don't even make good fire starters which is rude as grilling season begins.
(DIR) Post #AvbRY40sMYyn9rNLOa by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-06-28T22:25:28Z
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@gbargoud They smell bad and are slightly sticky in the most offputting way. I assume if burned the fumes would kill.
(DIR) Post #AvbUZ9c9K5iYgL1OL2 by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-06-28T22:59:15Z
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@futurebird way back in the 1990s I had a post office job in which I had to load about 150,000 letters a day into a sorting machine. And sometimes huge metal crates full of super glossy icky feeling advertisements like these would come through.
(DIR) Post #AvbUjGiBn26LadfZIm by ericgallagher@zirk.us
2025-06-28T23:01:02Z
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@futurebird Although I probably wouldn't watch I might listen to a Minecraft PVP livestream and it would be great to know a candidate bothered.
(DIR) Post #AvbV2G5cKLC7A8gOjA by scm@sfba.social
2025-06-28T23:04:30Z
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@futurebird I put them straight in the recycle bin and generally try not to look at them at all, as I guess a quiet protest
(DIR) Post #AvbVC78EUFKeHBbc8G by scm@sfba.social
2025-06-28T23:06:15Z
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@futurebird @gbargoud I think they’re coated in thin layer of plastic
(DIR) Post #AvbW7NNujPDvBqFGRE by ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us
2025-06-28T23:16:37Z
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@futurebird A flyer in favor of a (kind of) D candidate missing a bug?Cuomo fell so far so fast...
(DIR) Post #AvbcEZzMrqPi26a8p6 by Kathmandu@stranger.social
2025-06-29T00:24:58Z
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@futurebird We who read willingly and easily are a minority in the general population. A lot of people will glance at junk mail and then drop it in the trash. So flyers are designed like billboards: one big slogan you can read at a glance, and an evocative picture, and you see all of that without opening anything.If you actually read anything beyond the headline, that's a bonus after they got their main point across. Works the same whether commercial or political.
(DIR) Post #AvbdFBJQCRTdkAoSOm by tasket@mas.to
2025-06-29T00:36:29Z
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@futurebird And when this causes the Republican to win, none of the Blue-MAGA pundits will be blaming centrists or conservatives for fielding a 3rd Party spoiler!#cuomo #spoiler
(DIR) Post #AvcJEWyiMAiqj0V2Aa by Landa@graz.social
2025-06-29T08:26:55Z
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@futurebird oh that’s a great idea. May I suggest a small change?Group the candidates in teams and have them build something specific. Maybe a small village with food supply, transport, work, and resources for the villagers and other players. At least I would be interested in seeing whether they manage to self organize and create something and how individual candidates apply themselves.
(DIR) Post #AvcVw9MuhHCPgzNsTA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-06-29T10:49:21Z
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@Landa There should also be some regular people involved. A few kids who know a lot about the game, a cranky old person, an actual engineer who'd be aghast at the nonsense physics of the game...
(DIR) Post #AvcWEyr40jjAaRSvz6 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-06-29T10:52:45Z
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@Landa Alternately it could be a D&D game, but I think the constraints of a literal game like minecraft would make it more material... playing an RP game would be too vulnerable to BS. Did you get the diamonds or nah?Is your automatic farm working?Why not?etc.
(DIR) Post #AvcWJytFJ7fa8ys3QO by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-06-29T10:53:33Z
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@Anke It's addressed to me, and to my husband, and they are not smart enough to realize that if we have the same address and last name we're married and don't need TWO copies of everything.
(DIR) Post #AvcWSiNQ4aG5XE9I48 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-06-29T10:55:09Z
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@Anke They seem to know I'm a teacher based on some of the fliers, but that's about it. To their credit they do send us fliers in English, while my next door neighbor who mostly speaks Spanish gets them in Spanish... however she says the translations were very clunky and hard to read.
(DIR) Post #AvcWZyaQCi2bprh1o8 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-06-29T10:56:32Z
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@Anke Some of my friends who are married don't get two fliers and I wonder if it might be because my husband and I aren't the same race, which is the other data they seem to have?They also struggle to get that right for same sex couples. hm.
(DIR) Post #AvcWkoOGS9bhOlAo9g by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-06-29T10:58:30Z
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@Anke They didn't send the one where they made his beard darker to me... but they sent that one to my husband who's white. CHARMING MR.CUOMO just what I want in a NYC mayor. OMG go jump in a lake.
(DIR) Post #AvcYHOjcxayvL8Gfa4 by gbargoud@masto.nyc
2025-06-29T11:15:17Z
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@futurebird @Anke I noticed that the darkened beard ones are specifically paid for by doordash, if you ever talk to someone and they mention using doordash, make sure to mention that. It would be great to see them feel consequences for that.
(DIR) Post #AvcYlMxM8ZxEVkyrw0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-06-29T11:21:00Z
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It's good for politicians to target mailers and advertising, but this should always be done with the assumption that voters talk to each other.For example if I find out that a politician sent a teacher a message about unions and improving education that seems sensible and like they are interested in who the voters are.But if you try to talk behind people's backs? Try to be a progressive to some voters but regressive to others?hooo boy. That makes you seem creepy and untrustworthy.
(DIR) Post #AvcYxcrynXETLAJJ4K by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-06-29T11:23:13Z
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Ultimately it's the sense that they think they can "triangulate" me (say one thing to me and another to less left leaning democrats) that has me very sour on most of the party moderates. It's just dishonest. And it's condescending. But I find that moderate Democrats who found success doing this kind of trick with Bubba and Obama still think it will work and it's just doesn't.
(DIR) Post #AvcZ6dMQLF8fTAqUzY by Landa@graz.social
2025-06-29T11:24:49Z
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@futurebird yea, also how did the candidate treat teammembers and those from other teams.How did they cope with having to do something in a situation where they don’t know all the rules and have to manipulate a complex system.
(DIR) Post #Avcfuh6bIB37HuhMMC by Ehay2k@mastodon.social
2025-06-29T12:41:05Z
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@futurebird @anke Do you happen to have a picture(s) comparing the two? #cuomo is not out of the race yet, so this BS needs to be called out.
(DIR) Post #Avd2GUfQPrTK4cmrgW by LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social
2025-06-29T16:51:32Z
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@futurebird I still can't believe there were people who thought Obama wasn't a centrist. That's who he told us he was every time.
(DIR) Post #Avd2cTSnZWF6iAMWjg by VCP@mastodon.social
2025-06-29T16:55:31Z
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@futurebird i am a brown lady and got a shitton of those cuomo flyers addressed to me, sometimes three in one day. My partner, who is white, got zero. We are still trying to figure it out, but my best guess right now is that i’m on our city council person’s mailing list & she’s a white eldergay whose newsletters often have her posing with nypd from the 112th precinct.
(DIR) Post #Avdib4xBPTQiTqak7M by jmax@mastodon.social
2025-06-30T00:45:52Z
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@futurebird @anke I'll pay that price if he stays under.
(DIR) Post #Avekj6xMF1sI4iai6y by psentee@stolat.town
2025-06-30T12:44:26Z
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@futurebird i’d love to see a law like „your campaign website must publish all mailers, flyers, ads and robocalls in one place, easy to browse, bulk download, and archive. Including context (date, time, place, medium, how it was targeted, etc)”. These comms should be public.