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Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship
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this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2025
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Now bombard senators and reps about Palestine, the global South, Africa, Asia, and domestically, rent caps, grocery caps, single payer, comprehensive health, living wages, safe working and living conditions, fossil fuels, climate extinction, taxing TF out of the ultrawealthy and mega corps, chemicals out of food, water, air...
"What about" is a fantastic way to breed apathy when people are protesting something. You're doing nothing for any of those causes with this comment. You're making things worse for all of those causes, plus the one this post is about. And your comment only tangentially relates to the Community this post is in...
But how can I be expected to sign the SKG petition, while people in West Sahara live under Morocco’s unjust occupation?
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\sEveryone has their path into activism and politicization. Last time this happened was when wikileaks got blocked by visa/mastercard, next time, with this experience it may be one of those causes.
Yeah they're starting with something that hit close to home without feeling like they'll get disappeared or ignored.
There's always a gap between "Someone should do something about this" and "I should do something about this".
Once that line gets crossed, plans like OP's post start.
It's somebody else's problem.
honestly there needs to be a git project that I can clone that uses a local LLM to auto call all of the senators, congressmen, reps, whoever. Also call all of the visa/mastercard callcenters non stop. And I mean non stop. Bonus points to use public figure voices. As in use AI to do our bidding.
https://github.com/vndee/local-talking-llm
Seems like it would be a good place to start. You'd need to write the bit in order to send the output to a voip service and receive the input from the same service.
If you could get that going in a container you could spawn a bunch of them on VPSs (finding ones that have the hardware to run local AI would probably be expensive, probably better to use a hosting service if you're going to scale this).
I'm sure there are more conversation agent frameworks that people have built (it's a pretty simple loop to create), but if you wanted to get started this isn't bad.
World peace, end hunger are not entertaining as "How to get an A from your professor - sorority/fraternity party edition" (coming to iOS and Android).
You have underestimated the power of porn games.
That's also why in the middle of the previous century propaganda was mostly aimed at women. That's killing two birds with one stone.
Chemicals in food and water? You think you can live without chemicals?
Mate, some of my relatives are made of chemicals
Just some?
I can't say for sure.
After the first one, it has become much harder to get core samples.
Hell, internet chemist here, I can say with certainty that they is chemicals...
Unless you're a family with a free energy being background?
Given the reactions at Thanksgiving, I think some may be antimatter
I hate to break it to you, but antimatter is just extra spicy chemicals
Others too
PS also Epstein files
Definitely
What do those have to do with my video games?? I just wanna ~~grill~~ game!
The person who made the image had a cause they cared about and did something about it. If you care about those causes you should absolutely do the same.
Otherwise you just sound like you're lashing out at people who are doing something about something, while you are doing nothing about anything.
By the way, how many of those causes have you called your representative about?
I'm active in my community and I'm sure my congressional representatives wish I'd move, as the ones I had prior.
It's odd how so many are quick to add their personal interpretations.
Right, it's not like that's what you immediately did in your first comment.
You also didn't answer the question as to how many of those causes you called your representatives about.
I asked that people be as passionate for things I've mentioned. Any one will do.
Every. Single. Issue.
No, you didn't. You've bombarded them with a long list of "whatabouts" that is only going to exhaust them, not move them to action.