@theblessedsalt@TheCatholicEngr Presumably, if they are turned off by what they see when they look at the account, then they block the man π€·ββοΈ
@theblessedsalt@TheCatholicEngr As I understand it, women look at the profile picture. If they click on it, it means they want to know more, which means they find the man attractive and he passed the vibe check, and the woman is therefore intetested.
@BlakersAdam@owenbroadcast@QuetzalPhoenix As the parent of a toddler, zoo and aquarium gift shops do make me nervous.
Rush through them as fast as we can before the kid can latch onto a very overpriced plushy.
@MichaelRStrain And of course the people who say billionaires are a threat to democracy also oppose the Citizens United decision, which secured the right of the masses to fund political campaigns at the same level as billionaires.
@tjoarep@thatsKAIZEN Yep, it is incredibly easy fraud to commit, and how would you ever be found out? To investigate voter harvesting fraud would be to undermine the entire system.
@CuriousReader44@thatsKAIZEN While I basically agree with Kaizen (Pratt was never going to win; the will just isn't there yet) you have people going around saying "Where is the proof!?"
There will never be proof, because that would require a serious attempt by LA to uncover it, which obviously they won't do.
@presidentholt@JonahDispatch@roddreher There will never be proof because that would require a formal investigation, and LA, like other single-party cities of the past, is not the type of place to investigate voter fraud, even when tens of thousands of harvested votes come in with a suspiciously high slant.
@presidentholt@JonahDispatch@roddreher Look, I'm from Boston. If you commit a bit of voter fraud, you go to jail, but if you commit enough voter fraud, they name a bridge after you.
It's fully plausible it wasn't rigged for Ramen, and it's just a coincidence. But it seems naive to dismiss the posibility it was.
@dancingwithcats@JonahDispatch@roddreher See, that's what I'm saying. Sure, Bass goes from 95+% to 60%, but Ramen goes from 0% to 40%, so it is to Ramen's benefit.
And Pratt's only platforms now are ones where people have to seek him out, which importantly is a significantly smaller portion of LA.
@presidentholt@JonahDispatch@roddreher Not my circus, not my monkeys.
I never bought into these crazy stolen election conspiracies.
But it is the height of naivete to believe there is no voter fraud going on.
Always has been always will be.
@dancingwithcats@JonahDispatch@roddreher And this doesn't need to be huge fraud. Ramen could have already been winning the majority of the new votes and the fraud just made it more stark.
@dancingwithcats@JonahDispatch@roddreher Historically, being under spotlight has not been a fullproof way of preventing illegal activity, and if they did commit fraud how would they be caught?
Comes back to the incentives. Maybe shutting down Pratt is not worth it, but maybe it was. I could go either way, is all.
@rolandwkfinley2@JonahDispatch@roddreher I agree in the abstract, and I will concede ignorance, but I don't see that much difference between Ramen and Bass.
But the point is just that there is a clear incentive to shutdown wrong think, which removing Pratt does far more than losing Ramen.