Two reasons to believe it:

1. The evidence is strong. These patterns would be extremely unlikely in an untampered election

2. The Democrats would do this. This is the part that strains belief for some people, but it shouldn’t. If you look at their policies, rather than their rhetoric, you find a near 1:1 match to the class interests of their corporate donors.

https://pnhp.org/news/gilens-and-page-average-citizens-have-little-impact-on-public-policy/

Gilens and Page: Average citizens have little impact on public policy

Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens By Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page Perspectives on Politics, April 9, 2014, forthcoming Fall 2014

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Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.

Sanders was a milquetoast socdem by hexbear standards but he still presented a real threat to the donor class. A president can be contained, but a president who also promises to be the “organizer-in-chief,” leading grassroots working class campaigns from the Oval Office? That’s a loaded gun.

If they have the means and motive to ensure that doesn’t happen, they’re going to do it.

(This quote is from the same fawning Vogue article as OP's quote https://www.vogue.com/article/first-lady-jill-biden-august-2024-cover-interview)

336 million people ... just want their country to work. For themselves, for their families, for their communities. They want to be able to buy groceries and gas, send their kids to good, safe schools, obtain medical care when necessary, take a vacation now and then, drive on highway overpasses that aren’t crumbling and don’t have homeless encampments below, and wake up in the morning without a sense of dread that the climate is about to collapse. Is that too much to ask? And now they have to worry about democracy too?

You know who champions these issues? Joe fucking Biden, am I right folks?

Just watched the video, really good

a vision of calm amid utter cacophony

wow, what a leader, I wonder what her objectives and values are, those are probably also important

They still think the democrats mean well. Someone who means well wouldn't do this.

"Having the same age" is an equivalence relation between people.

• It is reflexive: Bob is always the same age as himself

• It is symmetric: if Bob is the same age as Sally, then Sally is the same age as Bob

• It is transitive: If Bob is the same age as Sally, and Sally is the same age as Fred, then Bob is the same age as Fred.

using symbols:

Bob ~ Bob

Bob ~ Sally ⇒ Sally ~ Bob

Bob ~ Sally and Sally ~ Fred ⇒ Bob ~ Fred 

"⇒" means "the statement on the left implies the statement on the right." When people in this thread write =>, <=, and <=> they mean ⇒, ⇐, and ⇔

An "equivalence class" is the set of all items that obey the equivalence relation with each other. So, "being 25 years old" is an equivalence class containing every person who is 25 years old. Those people might be different in every other way, but they are equivalent in that specific regard.

In their proof earlier, @[email protected] defined two equivalence classes. Instead of "people who are 25 years old," the classes were "infinite sequences that converge to 1" and "infinite sequences that converge to 0.999...." They showed that these are the same class.

if 0.333... = 1/3 then 0.999... = 3/3 = 1

I think it would be funny if a bunch of really great things happened totally for free, with no tradeoffs or monkey's paw-style unintended consequences whatsoever

Police previously received a complaint from the family that Booth had made an obscene gesture and told them to go back to where they came from and “speak English,” Crete Police Chief Gary Young said Saturday. The family did not press charges, he said. Investigators were trying to determine the motive and were not ruling out a racial motivation, he said.

What is there to investigate? How could he possibly make it any clearer?

Thankful for this guy's terrible aim. Glad he managed to hit himself in the end.

pretty good, I have to say, maybe even one of the best