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Culture War Roundup for the week of February 14, 2024

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I think what makes the issue compelling to me is the same reason lockdowns, the origin of COVID, became controversial or to some extent the vaccines. The big thing driving interest in these things was the absolute insistence by every mainstream source out there that there was “nothing to see here” and refusing to entertain the idea that it was worth looking at.

That’s one thing that keeps me interested in the idea. I don’t think it likely that the election was stolen in the ballot stuffing, vote switching sense; it seems that instead the media and government and social media conglomerates worked tough to prevent negative press from being spread about Biden. But if you want a claim of fraud to go away, I think it needs a fair, open and honest investigation. There are statistical methods that can be used to look for fraud, forensic accountants use them quite often. There are historical sources that can tell us a fair bit about how a given precinct votes, an$ you can compare the trend lines to what happened in 2020. Hell, look for mail in ballots from the recently deceased. Compare the results to polling trends that every polling company had, including the internal polls used by the parties. None of these are foolproof, obviously, but I can’t exactly blame people for being suspicious when the government and media both are sticking their fingers in their ears and yelling “nothing to see here.”

Also, I think it’s interesting just for the mathematical evidence that might be gathered or used. Trying to sus out whether an odd result is just a fluke as compared to evidence of an intentional attempt to change the results is just interesting.