Cause otherwise midterms discussion will be scattered around a bunch of separate Culture War thread posts. And it's nice to have more off-the-cuff rapid reactions in a dedicated megathread.
The first thing I've noticed so far: if the exit polls are correct, Americans are very pessimistic about AI.
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The Gateway Pundit is reporting that there is a legibly fraudulent pattern of statistical anomalies in this election’s results. They posted the math for anyone to see. The original reporting comes from TruthIsFreedom on X.
Like any good epistemologist, they basically call it predictive: pick a county, apply their formula, and see that the result matches.
Although I’m a minarchist libertarian Republican, I’m probably one of the few remaining advocates for Trump on The Motte, from what I see in these threads. I’m not here to argue that point, FYI. I’m here to ask people not to simply disregard it out of hand because Trump reposted it or because it has LLM speech hallmarks. The allegation is so monstrous that, for the sake of the perceived legitimacy of our democratic republic, the mechanism needs to be explained by literally anything besides malfeasance.
Excerpts posted here from GWP so you don’t have to give them ad revenue if you don’t want:
So, what’s the benign mechanism that explains this?
Man, it must feel great never having to self-reflect.
If the people vote for you, then that is only good and right. However, if the voters from Maine to Mississippi completely reject what you're selling, then it must've been rigged.
And what self-reflection exactly should happen if you can take the vote counts from a previous election for every county in states from Maine to Mississippi, subtract 15%, and accurately predict this year’s vote results?
It seems to me that putting last election’s results into Excel and applying a formula should never predict election results this accurately.
What's more likely, that thousands of different precincts across America, many of them in deep red rural counties, conspired to elect Democrats, or that an LLM-slop article from the Gateway Pundit is bullshit?
But it's clear that Democrats should just treat post-election conspiracy theories as background noise. The right have apparently decided they're incapable of losing elections, even with sky high consumer prices and disastrous foreign wars.
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