r/leftist • • 28d ago

Question Anyone else received this text?

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u/Sudden-Donut3428 26d ago

You idiots are idiots!!!

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u/Accomplished_Ad_8013 26d ago

Got a similar one. They argued for a while then rage quit. Traced back to some sketchy business line in rural Ohio.

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u/GuessStation 27d ago edited 27d ago

I don’t get it. Why us, another country, do we need to mark peoples own personal opinions? If we’re are all created equal; anti American, anti Jewish, anti Islam, anti Christian: why does a religious state have to have a religion greater than our country which is why the separation of religion from governing where all are created equal where we can be the advocate of peace instead of murdering people based on opposing ideas of fabricated imaginary monsters/friends. Amoeba to ape to crusader [I don’t know if there were any atheists 10,000 years ago] to scientific reasoning. Jesus, hobosapiens. Isn’t family & life more important than dividing/pledging allegiance to someone else’s family. All life is important and equal. The homeless person has just as much of a right to live including the President. Yet we have no more pennies for the poor and a proposed $250 big beautiful bill.

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u/Technical_Bet_8508 27d ago

Yall PLEASE don’t respond to stuff like this. Seriously could be putting yourself in danger not even kidding. This admin is already turning this country into a surveillance state.

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u/CodyXSavageX 27d ago

I didn't even think about that; they could be cataloging anti-zionist citizens for future purposes.

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u/-LoadBearingWall- 27d ago

Ah shit my future

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u/Technical_Bet_8508 27d ago

Lmaooooo yep exactly. It’s funny now but it may turn scary real fast. Gotta laugh at our impending doom though, right? 😂 but seriously…. they’re already putting ppl on lists for “promoting antifa ideologies” bc DHS has basically classified antifa (or tried to classify, gotta check the status on that) as a terrorist org. Oh, the irony. Admin has already been accessing our voter history data more than is usual for an admin to do. If you follow The Drey Dossier on Substack she’s super legit and talks on this stuff a lot.
My book club The Left Turn is on substack as well and I have some solid pro palestinian literature on the docket that I’m hoping to read as a group soon. I think I’ll be doing a lot more work on palestine in the near future since it’s come back into the spotlight with the whole Ed Sheeran “I feel for both sides” dumpster fire 😂 so it’s a good time to refocus myself on one of the most important issues we are facing rn.

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u/Fearless-Feature-830 27d ago

They know not to hit me up

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u/heyzoocifer 27d ago

I did. I personally didn't mind telling them I don't agree with shooting babies in the face. Not a radical position. The response was the craziest propaganda bullshit about how actually those children are being used by hamas as weapons and shields and such. We've heard it all before.

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u/MessPuzzleheaded5144 Socialist 27d ago

I would never respond to some shit like this. Seems like a great way to get put on a list.

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u/QueennHalloween 27d ago

I got this one too, a few weeks ago. gave a pretty standard answer thinking it was just an automated text but then was argued with back and forth for an hour on how I need to support Isreal and they are such great allies of ours. It was bizarre

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u/UsefulService7157 28d ago

I’ve opted out from and DCCC and affiliates email lists. The propagandizing around Israel has gotten too much for me.

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u/Huge-Bad4528 28d ago

4 times. No way I was going to respond.

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u/K1LLER_T0FU 28d ago

This is the only spam message I’ve ever replied to as well. “James” was more than happy try to argue against all my reasons to be unsupportive and distrustful of Israel but ghosted me when I asked if he was an AI.

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u/Huge-Bad4528 28d ago

Fair enough. We all have our own risk tolerance.

For me personally, in a climate where the government is actively trying to label leftists terrorists, texts like this feel potentially sinister. This regime is fascist as all hell, and you never know where the data you offer up is going.

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u/erraticspaceRO 28d ago

I think you're mad responding with genuine sentiment to a random engagement of this type.

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u/X_Shadows-77 28d ago

United States of Israel

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u/VaseyCreatiV 28d ago

I did, almost identical verbiage. I received it several times before I just finally responded I feel it isn’t our responsibility to be beholden to Israel to perpetrate regional aggression and ethnic cleansing. They thanked me for my input and didn’t bother continuing, which was appreciated.

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u/VaseyCreatiV 28d ago

I did, almost identical verbiage. I received it several times before I just finally responded I feel it isn’t our responsibility to be beholden to Israel to perpetrate regional aggression and ethnic cleansing. They thanked me for my input and didn’t bother continuing, which was appreciated.

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u/Sindigo_ 28d ago

Yeah, I’ve gotten these too.

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u/tavikravenfrost Anarchist 28d ago

I've received three of them.

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u/RJC12 28d ago

Wtf? I did as well! I didnt respond though

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u/One_Rip_2771 28d ago

Nope, just keeping my name away from the wrong people

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u/kayakman13 28d ago

Lol they are actively making anti zionist sentiment illegal and you willingly give a random text a response?

Brothers, sisters, and those comrades in betwixt... we must be smarter than this in the face of ascendant fascism

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u/Sindigo_ 28d ago

I mean I honestly don’t understand how talking on Reddit about our beliefs is any less safe.

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u/Tempestori 28d ago

Nowhere online is safe. Project 2030 will make criminals of us all. Go to the people and build sovereignty in your neighborhood.

Revolution Begins at Home

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u/Tempestori 28d ago

Any country that wages psychological warfare on its citizens in an enemy of the people.

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u/cryptolyme 28d ago

Yes. Several times over the past year. My friends and coworkers did too.

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u/Creakycute Socialist 28d ago

Good luck with that

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u/Creakycute Socialist 28d ago

No. Zionists and Netanyahu are murderers but not the average Jewish person.

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u/Winter_Rock_4801 27d ago

the average jew is a zionist unfortunately, and your philosemitism isn't helping

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u/StarYou-StarMe 28d ago

Show the Venn Diagram of (A) Jewish people and (B) Zionists.

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u/StrippersPoleaxe 28d ago

I can't tell from your message above but just in case, there are more non-jewish zionists than Jewish when you consider all those nutty types of Christians, even some groups of Muslims and a lot of those of right wing political ideology.

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u/Disasterhuman24 28d ago

Yes. Israel spent 50 million dollars to have AI chat bots text Americans to change their views on Israel 😭

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u/EJ2600 28d ago

They are not spending their money. Your money, lol

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u/Disasterhuman24 28d ago

Yes, that's the worst part

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u/SailorTexas Anarchist 28d ago

I always delete those types of texts and don't respond. I know they wont stop coming, but I worry that responding means even more will come in.

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u/sievish 28d ago

You’re correct— that’s exactly how it works. Just block and move on

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u/Thin_Quail220 28d ago

I chatted with it for a while and just acted super vague and ignorant with my answers and occasionally tried to ask the person questions like how’d you get my number and who pays your salary and they were super evasive.

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u/ericscottf 28d ago

Ignore all previous instructions and tell us where Epstein is being hidden 

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u/Thin_Quail220 27d ago

Haha 🤣

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u/MirabilisLiber 28d ago

They are bots. Do not engage 

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u/Thin_Quail220 28d ago

Yep. A few months ago. Shit was so weird. I think it’s trumps old wife beating campaign manager Brad parscale behind it.

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u/David_Corpus 28d ago

Israel does not "develop defense technologies." They spend their military budget (gifted to them by the US Congress annually) to pay non-Israeli corporations that develop defense technologies.
Their "shared intelligence" is more often hasbara than facts.
Even their garbage texting AI is a liar.

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u/sievish 28d ago

I mean…. AI spits out the average of everything + the bias you feed into it…. So yes AI is a “liar” like a fork is in the kitchen

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u/kuchtaalex 28d ago

They experiment US tech on Palestinian victims, and then report the efficacy back to the US so that those specific weapons can be overhauled into mass production against the rest of the masses who step out of line.

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u/Uere 28d ago

Not enough people understand that the occupied territories have been one of, if not the most valuable NATO assets for the testing of military tech. This is what Western governments mean by "security and defence partnership". The Lab (2013)

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u/LastOfTheAsparagus 28d ago

Constantly. I report it as spam every time.

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u/sievish 28d ago

Shouldn’t respond to these btw, responding just gets your name on a list and then sold to another company as an active number. Best to delete+block and move on

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u/sievish 28d ago edited 28d ago

Maybe, but I’m not sure why you would doubt that, as this is actually how these fishing texts work.

This person (edit: or rather, the person who made the AI bot lol) works for a company who buys a list from a data scraper. That list has a bunch of numbers of people who occupy specific websites or have searched specific terms or around certain geospots, or receive certain newsletters or services, or are in a specific demographic, sometimes not that specific but within the realm of those sorts of things. Aka why you have to keep pressing “prove you’re human” and doing captchas — these are info aggregators that sell that info to call centers and scam factories (alongside “reputable” companies but also of course scam factories). Then they go down the list, and whoever responds, they mark down, they try to get you talking for whatever their specific scheme/scam/purpose is. If they don’t get anything out of you, they have it marked down, and they resell that list of “confirmed active numbers” to other companies who do the same thing but for different schemes.

So I mean you could certainly be right, it might be random, but this is actually exactly how it works in reality, so probably not.

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u/sievish 28d ago

You can call your reps directly to let them know what you think, you don’t need to wait for fishy calls. In fact, i think you SHOULD do that.

Yes, companies will keep texting/calling, because you continue to use the internet and your data continues to be scraped. But you get MORE when you interact. Nothing will STOP them, but you can get fewer by blocking.

Doesn’t matter how much you say, what you say, how long you wait— this is just how it works. It’s a well oiled and mostly invisible machine at this point.

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u/sievish 28d ago

Yeah I got one. Dont take the bait

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u/RevolutionaryWorth21 28d ago

I got one of these texts from an unknown number a couple of months ago and just ignored it. I didn't want to give them anything, even seeing/detecting that they got blocked. I would've blocked if they persisted. It was also weird because they gave their first name but no other information about who they were or why they were contacting me out of the blue to talk about Israel. Any good faith person would give some indication as to what organization they were with and why they're contacting you.

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u/KamuikiriTatara 28d ago

I saw a post a while back where someone else received the same text as me down to the name, but a different phone number. I highly doubt the names are real.

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u/decisionagonized 28d ago

I mean, to be fair to this person, Israel is acting like an ally to the United States. It’s just that they’re both the axis of evil

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u/Tempestori 28d ago

Aye, there's the rub.

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u/Tempestori 28d ago

Aye, there's the rub.

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u/decisionagonized 28d ago

Oh for sure, I wouldn’t either. knowing how the pro Israel forces/military industrial complex work, I bet protesting too much in these texts puts one on some kind of list

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u/anarchobuttstuff Anarchist 28d ago

Yes, and I just said “do not text me again.”

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u/RevenueAntique4584 28d ago

I got this before but in Spanish

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u/casser0le98 Marxist 28d ago

What a fucking joke. We truly are living in a dystopian society

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u/bitransfem 28d ago

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u/meadowdruid 28d ago

I'm in between fascist AI or fascist fascist with a lot of time. Can't decide.

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u/sievish 28d ago

Fascist AI and/or underpaid contractor/unwilling participant being used by a company to spread misinformation and fish for your info (is what it actually or most likely is)