when you call your reps to ask them to pretty please stop taking away your rights, remember:
In deep red areas you’re a republican who is thinking of voting for someone else if they don’t vote what you want on this specific bill because it impacts your republican ideals so very much
In swing states you’re an undecided voter who’s gonna go blue if they don’t vote how you like
remember to call because that way their phone is going off and their peers can hear it because their offices are close together (emails and letters don’t work like that), so it can rattle them if they get high volumes. remember that you gotta make them feel like they’re losing something.
Talking points I’ve been using in my blood red state:
“I’m a small business owner and [example: anti-drag bill] is making me lose money!” OR “[Anti-drag bill] is going to cost us millions in taxable sales” - If you talk about how it’s making you personally lose money and absolutely need to bullshit, you run a bar or do freelance photography. The intern they have on the other line does not have the resources or the know-how to check that.
“I’m concerned that [anti abortion bill] is the government infringing on my personal rights.” - Self explanatory.
“[Anti-gay bill] goes against family values in my church.” - They aren’t going to call your local Pentecostal chapter to fact check this. You don’t even need to be Pentecost, you just need to assert that you’re part of a community and a major voting bloc.
Remember: In smaller towns, literally every vote counts. And voters generally don’t call in, so your call can carry quite the advantage.
aaron paul has done more for the lgbts by playing jesse pinkman and doing his weird little photoshoots with bryan cranston than harry styles and taylor swift combined
I have been saving this since last year. Happy Earth Day everyone.
literally has been in my queue for an entire year. you just can’t miss reblogging.
gotta queue this for next year too
Hey not to be a debbie downer but I’m tryna raise some awareness — you may have heard about this open letter to pause large scale AI training / improvements for sixth months. I encourage you to do your own research about it but the letter makes compelling arguments about our (collectively as a human race) ability to not even understand the AI we are creating let alone control it. There are some pretty serious safety concerns now and in the near future that could be blown past and become unfixable after they happen. It’s a very serious topic and while there is some controversy surrounding it, I think it’s something more people should be aware of and try to help bring it to governments’ attentions.
Just a warning it really opens up the existential dread rabbit hole so perhaps just ignore me if you know it’s going to be a huge problem for you. But if you think you can handle it and you are also unaware of the topic of safety in AGIs then you may wish to become more informed.
