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person. getter of shit done.

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@CBSNews Is CBS News account being run by a Starbucks barista? Trying to write counterpoint on pure emotion with no critical examination or reasoning at all

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@mattyglesias When Reddit is your key human corpus, you get insanely leftwing AI. Souece: I built a Reddit search AI and marketer/bot detector

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@PlayStay_Sean @DanielPriestley This moron wants to eat the rich so he can play PlayStation all day. Who’s gonna do all the useful stuff for you?

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@WwWilberforce @Cernovich @grok Moron. SpaceX employees currently own over $300 billion in stock today. And most of them are now outside of CA

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@WwWilberforce @Cernovich Moron he is referring to employees cashing out their stock

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@jonesdel @magattew @ZohranKMamdani His parents came to the US to make college professor pay over $350k and his mom became a decamillionaire making documentaries here. Now he shits on the country that let his immigrant family become wealthy while he himself has never held a real job. Epitome of Marxist knobhead

[Seneca Scott @SenecaSpeaks21]

Stop letting rich trust fund kids cosplay as the oppressed working class.

Call that shit out.

[Steven Sinofsky @stevesi]

Just like that, no longer a billionaires tax.

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@pmarca The west got all the retarded communists. At least China is capitalist with authoritarian communist undertones. They would never cuck their own energy usage and infra

[Elizabeth Barcohana @E_Barcohana]

People not from California are understandably confused about how our City Council could put a ballot measure to amend LA’s charter to legally grant noncitizens the right to vote.

⚖️ Let me explain the law.

San Francisco did this for school board elections starting in 2018. But it was much more limited than LA’s sweeping proposal: only noncitizen parents or guardians of students in SF Unified could vote.

Still a bad policy, but stay with me.

A lawsuit was brought against the City for it in 2022, and the plaintiff ultimately lost on appeal, which opened the door for Oakland, San Jose, ans Santa Ana to put similar ballot measures to their voters. It passed in Oakland (again limited to parents/guardians with kids in their public schools), but it still has not been implemented there. It failed in the other cities.

Los Angeles is seeking to expand voting to all noncitizens (of course including illegal noncitizens, duh) in city council and ballot measure elections. This is well beyond what San Francisco did.

It’s not even in the same galaxy.

So, I take it back. There actually is no precedent in California for LA’s proposal.

[Mann Made Cinema @Hotshot_Movie]

Raman gets last place on mail-in votes. Raman gets last place on in-person votes. Then suddenly surges ahead *only* with mail-in ballots submitted AFTER the election.

LMAO.

[nic carter @nic_carter]

here are some facts about California. some of this is hard to believe.

first of all, it's important to understand the concept of "ballot harvesting," which is perfectly legal in CA. this refers to a situation where someone completely unaffiliated with the voter can collect and submit their ballot for them.

this flow is completely legal:

- a homeless person arrives in LA, where they are eligible for cash assistance, SSI, food stamps, healthcare through medical, and an array of other taxpayer-funded services
- they are registered to vote by an NGO (many such NGOs exist and explicitly do this).
- they do not have to provide a residential address or any proof of residency to vote. they only have to provide a mailing address, which can be anywhere (church, NGO HQ, homeless shelter). their home address can be "a park" or "an underpass".
- their ballot is mailed to the homeless shelter (or whatever address the NGO elects for them)
- the only verification done for the mail-in ballot is "signature verification" and uniqueness (only one vote per person is counted theoretically).
- the signature can be an X. if they register with an X, they can sign with an X. that is sufficient to pass verification. signature verification is also deliberately loose. the signature does not have to be a perfect match.

now consider the hypothetical scenario, which is fraudulent, but virtually impossible to detect:

- a homeless person cycles through the LA system. they get registered with their mailing address listed as the NGO HQ or homeless shelter
- they "sign" their registration with an X or nondescript, easily replicable signature
- they disappear. never seen again. or they exist, but it doesn't matter. they don't get purged from the voter rolls for 4-8 years typically.
- the address where they registered receives their ballot for several cycles
- operatives are aware that they have X amount of votes to make up. they fill in X many thousand mail-in ballots themselves. the ballots are manually postmarked (permitted). they forge the signature to match whatever signature (could be an X) was submitted upon registration
- ballots can be accepted even if they are postmarked at 11.59 pm. polls closed at 8 pm. (you would need an accomplice who is a USPS employee)
- the only fraud checks are de-duplication (if the homeless person through some miracle voted in person, only one of their ballots would be counted) and signature verification
- because very few of the homeless people in question would have voted in person, this gives NGO operatives tens of thousands of possible mail-in ballots to submit unilaterally.

the big problem is that there is NO way to detect this type of fraud. NGOs that register homeless people to vote exist. that isn't a secret. ballot harvesting is fully legal. voting by mail is encouraged. signature verification is as loose as possible. de-duplication doesn't solve anything, since few homeless people vote in person. and no one in power locally is going to spend political capital on rooting out such fraud, since they are all wholeheartedly committed to "voting rights".

in a situation where fraud is undetectable, the absence of hard proof of fraud is not evidence that no fraud exists.

Raman has gained around 20k votes since election night. She is around 3k votes ahead of Pratt now.

there are over 72 thousand homeless people in LA county.

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@KarenBassLA Insane that cleaning up the shithole you and your cronies created and actually enforcing the law is considered MAGA agenda. In what world are $600-800k per unit homeless housing justifiable while regular taxpayers get fucked paying $3000/month for the same size unit

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@nithyavraman Lost your own district then ‘won’ skid row via paid homeless voters. Zero shame. I feel bad for your dad, seems like a great guy but raised a true scam artist who sucked so bad she had to stop participating in debates. kamala 2.0

[Gina Milan @ginamilan_]

.@ABC7: “President Donald Trump, without evidence, is accusing Democrats of trying to "steal" the California gubernatorial and Los Angeles mayoral primaries.”

Also, @ABC7 👇

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@TomSteyer Half of the countries over 30 million population finish counting votes within 24 hours. California gives itself weeks to commit fraud and add as many ballots as needed until the vote goes blue in ways that are statistically impossible.

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@sesamestreet Promoting trans insanity to kids is ethically bankrupt. Permanent deformation and lifelong drugs and side effects to pander to mentally ill people’s perverse reality. (Ofc excluding the .0001% actually born with both gonads)

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@markpoloncarz They’d be glad we all didn’t become as weak sauce as you. Not enough fries in America for all the weak sauce you’re handing out

[Casey Handmer @CJHandmer]

I interview dozens/hundreds of new grads, nearly every day of the year. These are people with a well-formatted resume and a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from well-regarded US universities and a GPA above 3.6. The majority cannot engineer, cannot function independently, cannot answer basic technical questions. We have watered down standards and inflated grades to the point that a bright, enthusiastic student spending four years in school sends almost no signal at all.

What does? Hard evidence of actually building stuff. There is no substitute for actually doing the thing.

[Elizabeth Barcohana @E_Barcohana]

The hallmark of socialism, at its core, is a transfer of wealth

What happened in Los Angeles is the ruling political class exploited vulnerable populations (eg addicts) and enriched themselves with taxpayer money while pretending to help but really making it worse

Enough.