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My Letter to Schumer (r.50501.chat)

Originally Posted By u/Ambitious-Degree-161 At 2025-09-26 10:08:55 AM | Source


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[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Schumers inbox:

Schumers reply:

"Sure, I can create a neutral sounding letter for you to send to a constituent!

Hello (INSERT CONSTITUENTS NAME HERE),

I appreciate your support and hope to continue to see your donations to my future leadership! Your concerns about (INSERT CONCERN HERE) are noted, do not worry the (INSERT DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN) party is always on your side!

-(INSERT POLITICIANS NAME HERE)

Stopped thinking 32 seconds. ChatGPT4.69"

[-] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

And before chatgpt, it was staffers doing this. Still is, but now it's just one guy instead of an entire team.

[-] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

It was always one guy, who filled out a form letter.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Dear constituent,

I regret to inform you that you are not a Bailey and therefore I ask what are you going to do about it.

Sincerely, Chuck you Shumer

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 week ago

“For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia.”

- Chuck Schumer, 2016

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 21 points 1 week ago

Do not listen to the comments trying to discourage this. Enough letters, phone calls, faxes do get attention and the threat of losing any "campaign" dollars terrifies these people.

[-] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 18 points 1 week ago

That opening paragraph is such a murder by words that Republicans are already saying the author is trans.

[-] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 week ago

Savage. And perfect.

[-] chisel@piefed.social 10 points 1 week ago

Yes, the actual representative will never read this and as far as a response goes, you will get an insulting patronizing pre-written letter or just completely ignored. However, some intern or bot should categorize your letter and add it to a report shown to the representative.

By contacting your reps, at the very least, you can be sure that:

  1. You are doing something and exercising one of the tools you've been given to fight this hellscape, which is more than 99%+ of people do.
  2. Your rep will have to ignore even more signs about how much of a piece of shit they are.

I highly recommend contacting your reps as frequently as possible. Resistbot is a great tool that makes writing your reps as easy as sending a text message. There's no need to spend a ton of time writing these letters, they're being categorized, not read. So, you can literally write and send a letter to your reps in less than one minute. I think their Telegram bot costs them less than SMS, so I'd recommend using that.

[-] Hegar@fedia.io 9 points 1 week ago

That is a really good letter. Compelling opening, simple, clearly stated arguments.

There is only a very small chance that a staffer will read the whole thing. But it's worth sending even though there's no chance chuck will hear any details beyond maybe "Mamdani letters are up/down X from last week"

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 7 points 1 week ago

Always explicitly request a response.

[-] zd9@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

At least a phone call means that you have active confirmation that someone actually heard your voice. It doesn't necessarily mean the aide will pass it on, but at least another human got the message.

[-] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Mine would just be like, "Hey Chuck, KYS."

[-] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 2 points 1 week ago

It's a shame that computers can't handle formatted text documents. Poor SOBs like this have no choice but to take a photo of a printout. Maybe someday our technology will improve.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Could have been worse.

[-] emmanuel_car@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

Ah yes, fighting one very strong letter with another 🙄

[-] tomkatt@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Thanks for that, it’s very inspiring.

I donate to my local food bank because hungry people are angry people, but in theory, well fed people with less desperation who know their neighbors will look out for them can probably be reasoned with.

I also donate to informational sources I care about that combat misinformation, like PBS, Wikipedia, and NPR.

This person is doing something. If you feel it’s not enough, please let us know what you’ve been doing to help, and what we should be doing instead.

[-] zd9@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

lol as if he would ever see that. Ain't nobody even looking at that.

[-] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Sadly, I know exactly how much impact your letter will have.

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