Is it normal for Americans to constantly receive spam sms?
this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2026
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Yes, for political spam because they exempted themselves from the law. They want participating in democracy to be as painful as possible, so they punish you for registering to vote like this.
Thankfully in my state you can at least register as “independent of party” and still participate in primary elections. That cuts down on the spam significantly.
Not as much as phone calls
I wouldn't be surprised if using "fuck" as your first word automatically unsubscribed you. It might have nothing to do with a person reading the response.
Probably one of the most common responses to these messages is "fuck off".
It’s always better to say stop or end or unsubscribe or something. Then they legally have to unsubscribe you, but they don’t if you send the message in the OP.
Politicians exempted themselves from the anti spam laws. Funny how that works.
“Legally”?
Has there been a single recorded case where somebody tried to unsubscribe from text spam like this, kept receiving it, and successfully had the sender prosecuted?
Yes. Its rare-ish, but very lucrative as the spammers are violating the "TCPA" act, which has high penalties. Fines are around $500- $1500/text.
This legal site has some examples:
For anyone wondering, he won the primary yesterday easily. His runner up was a much more progressive community organizer, and got about 30% of the vote, compared to Morelle's 64%.
I'm so pissed about it, but I'm only one vote...
At least NYC got some more progressive candidates in.
His commercials have been running non-stop since early voting started. They claim "he gets things done" but there are never any specifics. Because what he's done is support the Trump agenda.