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ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Ross Douthat
2/ One has to accept as given that the Democrats can print as many votes as they want in corrupt urban cores, and just win DESPITE that. sigh On the one hand, I agree w Douthat that resigning onesself to losing is bad ... but on the other hand >>>https://twitter.com/DouthatNYT/status/1334218530015875080 …
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3/ let us posit that Dem voting stealing is real (I think "posit" is a nice fig leaf - we all know it's real)
@DouthatNYT tells us: * it's bad tactics to try to attack the fraud head on * given an infinite Dem ability to print votes, one should SIMPLY earn more votes than that3 replies 3 retweets 28 likesShow this thread -
4/ You've heard of the heckler's veto? This is the fraudster's veto. No matter what R's do, D inner city political machines get to veto any R victory.
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Replying to @MorlockP @DouthatNYT
If urban margins were the result of fraud, wouldn't you expect also to see downballot Democrats doing well? In other words, faking a ballot & getting it accepted is hard work; faking >1 votes on an already-faked ballot is trivial; so why fake only for the Presidential race?
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Replying to @rebelcinder @DouthatNYT
bc it is actually additional work, and the down ballots were far less important in terms of power but let me back WAYYY the heck up I have argued for DECADES that our voting system is garbage, and the mail in voting this time around was extra garbage get a fraud resistant >
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system in place, and I will happily eat ever L at the ballot box I'm a big fan of Kegan level 4 - follow the rules, and then take your lumps when you've got a crappy candidate, or a good candidate who ran a crappy camaign
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I'm not even a fan of democracy! I'm an anarchist! ...but I am open minded to the idea of democracy as a way to avoid extralegal violence (a component in the soverign "monopoly of violence") So those who actually LIKE democracy should be in favor of a well implemented election
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Replying to @MorlockP @DouthatNYT
Regarding our voting system, much of what you may see as a bug, I see as a feature, so I LOVED the mail-in ballots (higher turnout! greater convenience! lower COVID risk! good, low-fraud track record in states previously using them!)
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> low-fraud track record how do you have ANY idea if that's true ?
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Replying to @MorlockP @DouthatNYT
If it had a track record of high fraud, you'd be able to point me to sharply higher fraud in, say, Oregon (universal mail-in balloting) than Indiana (excuse required). Do you have such evidence?
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Replying to @rebelcinder @DouthatNYT
given that we effectively never measure fraud, but just chant "fraud is not a problem at all, showing ID is bad and racist", how would you expect anyone to have data? Imagine making it illegal to report rape, and then insisting that no rapes occur.
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