okay, so ... there are certainly many ways to look at this situation. And for those who are very much in favor of participating in the legislator calling efforts, I don't dispute the value of participation in the political process, and in fact (at a local level) I encourage it.
this sudden rush to promote the Act reminds me of the push to protect Net Neutrality (remember when wikipedia & google & all the rest tried to convince us that net-neutrality was great, the first time) or the BLM movement when we were all supposed to put a black square up on our instagram.
To me, it smells.. and right after the convention, too
Nobody is saying "go read this and see if you support it", or even "ask the AI to summarize the points of the bill, and think about whether you support it".
Instead, it's just "GO DO THIS THING IT IS SO IMPORTANT AND YOU MUST ACT NOW TO PROTEC". This is not thoughtful, or encouraging.
it seems to me that unless and until the US goes back to small, comprehensible bills, there's no way that this Act gets addressed individually. Which means that this bill gets tossed into the mess with the current Big Beautiful Spending Cap Removal, or the next Bigger Beautifuller Political Pile of Compromise.
Seemingly out of nowhere, the podcast side of the industry is pushing hard. And they're all just telling me to call my senator. Everybody is suggesting (indirectly) that the best course of action is for me to follow their recommendations.
That's not the right to behave for me. And I think we would be better served if more people thought adversarially.
as an aside, I've never seen so many "Outlawed" spambot comments on a post. this to me is further indication that there's something hairy about the discussion:
here's the text of the bill: https://emmer.house.gov/_cache/files/3/9/391fb470-d4a5-4eef-aedd-df1626dfb21a/BDDB1A4E71AE7CE1CBFABC4AB43BFCB2B087D8654CEACBCF0BC3EF5792D67A7A.brca-119.pdf
here's the website everybody is using to promote it: https://saveourwallets.org
Here's a few screen caps of my discussion with an LLM:
hatelike it because is another way to make another commercial offer (going to jail) when one isn't ready to decline, or does not know how. Use words properly and you'll be fine.