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				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Correct.


So what's the evidence for huge numbers of ballots being rubber-stamp cured?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Okay, so it sounds like you and your Republican friends don't vote by mail. Yet you are still suspicious that the people who vote by mail are not the same as those who vote in person?


I don't even disagree that there's a lot wrong with the system. I'd rather we tossed the ballots that arrive after election day (although these account for less than 1% of ballots). I'd rather we had some kind of voter ID in place. I'd rather we had the count by the morning after election day. But Pratt not getting elected is not evidence of fraud. The guy was a long shot in a city full of libs.




signature verification is a joke because nobody knows half the time what a signature is supposed to look like and when a ballot is rejected it can be “cured”;




The signature is available for comparison from voter registration. The rejection count I gave is ballots that were not cured.




chain of custody means that even after a ballot has been ripped apart so that the voter’s name isn’t attached to his vote, you can prove it started life as a legitimate ballot,




A unique identifier on the ballot compromises secrecy. I'm not aware of any state in the union which does this.




if it’s not done it makes a mockery of postmarking ballots, and it’s frequently never done;




The envelope has a unique identifier.




postmarking itself is not a sacred human institution, robots aren’t staffing the post office,




To be clear - you are claiming that the post office is falsifying postmarks?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


You count all the ballots because the law says to count all the ballots, not a convenience sample, even if they could be expected to look the same.




Oh, sure. But at least we can basically know the result from the first few ballots. Excepting fraud, of course.




There are plausible explanations for the later ballots leaning more Democratic than earlier ones. There are no plausible explanations for them to favor Raman more than the earlier ballots.




So, basically, later ballots might be more Democratic than earlier ones, and that's not prima face fraud. But unless they are in favor of the Democrat that was ahead to begin with, it's fraud. Am I understanding you correctly?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


There were two Democratic candidates.




There's more than that. Did you mean two in the top 3?




Why do the mail-ins support one particular Democratic candidate to a far greater extent than the in-person ballots?


It's fraud. It's obviously fraud.




I do believe I covered this.


.If later arriving ballots don't look like the first batch of ballots counted, it's FRAUD. If later ballots should look the same as earlier ones, why even bother counting them? Either they look the same as the earlier ones, and it's a pointless exercise, or it's fraud and they shouldn't be counted.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


This is not an explanation. Late-leaning ballots lean Democratic because Democrats vote late — therefore it can’t be because of fraud. But that’s indistinguishable from election fraud! That’s exactly what it would look like if it were fraud. Fraudsters would harvest late ballots that lean Democratic because that’s how they’re cheating.




Okay, but it's also indistinguishable from Democrats voting late.


Let me ask you a question. Do you live in a state with vote by mail? Do you vote by mail? Do your Republican friends?




Fraudsters would harvest late ballots that lean Democratic because that’s how they’re cheating.




"Harvesting" is a specific thing where people collect mail in ballots and turn them in. I don't like it, but it has to be done, or postmarked, by election day. You seem to be using "harvesting" in a different way that's unclear to me.




Is there any reason for California to accept ballots weeks after the election?




Well, no. Fortunately, they don't.




Millions of ballots get mailed out to voter rolls that are never purged




I agree this is bad.




Any returned and filled ballots are presumed to be legitimate a priori




Not really true, the signatures have to match.




The ballots are counted by unions run as one-party organizations




This appears to be made up.




Once counted it is impossible to disentangle chains of custody to even investigate whether any ballots were cast fraudulently




I'm not sure what this means.




They even have rules about “curing” ballots where you can chase down invalid ballots and have them fixed Ie the organization you would need to commit fraud already exists.




Curing doesn't allow changing the actual contents of the ballot. Fairly few ballots even go through curing at all. In 2024, 120k ballots were rejected.




It simply cannot be the case that when millions of ballots are floating around without any security at all that someone is stuffing a few ten thousand into mail boxes.




This would be pointless since ballots must be postmarked by election day. Or do you believe that USPS is in on this too?




Ballots break for Karen Bass, right up until the day after Election Day, when they start breaking for Raman.




This isn't really true. The proportion of votes in each batch going to Bass is pretty stable. Most batches after the first favor Raman more than Pratt, but not all the time.




That the results benefit one party the same way every time is a statistical artifact.




You mean, the Democrats? You think it's weird that Californians elect Democrats? Pal, have you been to California?


This is naked special pleading. You seem to be confused about several things about how elections work in California (what harvesting is, how late ballots can arrive, whether they can just be shoved into mailboxes days after election day) - which is understandable since, as far as I know, you don't live here. However, that doesn't prevent you from being sure that the guy you like ought to win the race, and if he doesn't, it's because of FRAUD. If later arriving ballots don't look like the first batch of ballots counted, it's FRAUD. If later ballots should look the same as earlier ones, why even bother counting them? Either they look the same as the earlier ones, and it's a pointless exercise, or it's fraud and they shouldn't be counted.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You've confused the number of ballots rejected during 2024 with the number of ballots that went through curing.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Why?




Perhaps because Republicans think that their votes won't count if they mail them in. Perhaps because Democrats put off voting more often in lots of different races.




In this case late-arriving ballots aren’t just favoring Democrats but Raman specifically, which is very convenient!




Do I really need to explain to you that LA is full of pinkos who want to elect a socialist? Do you think it's sus that Mamdani won in NYC? Where did the phantasm of the Based Angeleno come from? I can assure you that Angelenos are not Based.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don't know about LA county but only 0.7% of ballots counted so far are in the curing process in my county. What's your evidence for the "incredible amount" that go through curing?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


later-arriving votes always favor Democrats?




It's pretty unsurprising if mail voters vote Democrat.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It's got nothing, or at least little, to do with late arriving vote by mail ballots. My county has nearly 100k uncounted ballots that arrived by the second.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for June 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I was sweating bullets by the end of the Norf FC Identification Quiz.


I got 76% which is remarkable because I feel like I have mild face blindness and was practically guessing for two thirds of the time.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
How does the LA political machine place someone into Google, which has comparatively few positions in LA?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for June 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I wish that website allowed filtering by finalists/winners of past competitions.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for June 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Story 1




I don't have the time for this, but has anyone looked into the bugs introduced to see if they were bugs a human wouldn't have introduced or would have caught in code review? Or, failing that, if they should have been caught in testing? I wouldn't be surprised if the testing story on a project like this is not very good, and the fact that the author is flaunting his CS PhD makes me positively suspect it.




fortunately, top men are on the case to discredit such harebrained nonsense.




"Jews developed this so it's a honeypot" is indeed nonsense even if it really is a honeypot.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The vlogger linked in the OP is rather flat chested, and still sometimes wears very deep cut blouses anyway




You and I may have different standards for "very deep cut".




She does not enjoy watching more voluptuous women looking sexy.




I think this is basically what I said.




Men also complain about media that flaunts being for someone with opposing preferences when they didn't think it would be going in. She seems to feel that way about Euphoria.




I'm not sure what you mean by this (I don't know anything about Euphoria).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You're overthinking it.


Women want (hot) men to think they are hot. Unfortunately:


    

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    Women become less hot with age.
    

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    There's always a hotter woman.
    

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Women are aware of these facts, and these cause insecurity. Men who go to the movies to ogle Sydney Sweeney's huge rack trigger both older women and women who suspect Sweeney is hotter than them because it directly competes with them for sexual attention from those men (some of whom are hot). In contrast, I've never heard of a woman in a relationship with a man she finds attractive complaining about her man "objectifying" her. It really is that simple.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don't know what kind of Angeleno is unaware that the Palisades are burned to a crisp. The base rate of such fuckups (showing old imagery under a wrong date) is unclear to me.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for May 29, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think this is a Euro thing.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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When you buy a share in a company, you do so because you believe that it will provide value back to you over time. Most commonly, this is done as either a dividend (traditionally) or as a share buyback (more common these days).




Surely the most common way of providing value is by going up before I sell it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The fact that the guy's mouth was full of blood and his skin was of a cadaverish shade would be suggestive of injury in my view.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Nothing the cops said suggests they saw the wounds and then decided to ignore it,




What could they have said to suggest this? "okay m8, I see you're coughing up blood, but I'm going to ignore that, you haven't been stabbed, mmmkay?" Kind of an unreasonable expectation on your part. It's obvious that they wouldn't say they're ignoring the wounds if they're ignoring them.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Assuming the officers acted reasonably when arguing that they acted reasonably is questionable.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


His wounds were in such a way that they weren't easily visible so even when he's saying he got stabbed, they assume it's the insane mutterings of a druggie high off whatever.




How could a man with four stab wounds, one of which is 8cm deep, not have any visible injuries? What's the source for this claim?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think you mean a $96 purchase for the median American.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think the thing about crock pot cooking (or stews) that's different is that you eat the "meat water" (aka, in this case, broth). The idea of boiling a chunk of meat and then throwing out the water seems decidedly weirder.