Security Advisory: Don't Worry About Election Fraud... SYFPH And GOTV!
Sun Oct 22, 2006 at 05:57:19 PM PDT
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Ok that should have headed the Panic Response off at the pass... So follow me below the fold...
There's an old saying... If you can do something about it, do it! If you can't then there's no point worrying about it!...
And on the Election Fraud issue; Whether you believe it's happening or not, it's all really very simple... You need to Shut Your Fucking Pie-Hole and Help Get Out The Vote!...
But! You may say... I'm concerned about Election Fraud, or I'm concerned about people discussing Election Fraud... Concern concern concern... Blah blah blah... yada yada yada... boring boring boring... useless useless useless...
Is there anything constructive you can do about what you're concerned about? If yes, then just do it. If no, then don't worry about it... Worrying won't help!... Doing something constructive will!...
And just arguing back and forth over it only creates a Reactive Conflict... k?
So... All of you... Shut Your Fucking Pie-Hole and Help Get Out The Vote!...
Now that we've gotten that out of the way, let's look at what you can do... (Remember... If you can do something about it, just do it... Otherwise don't worry about it... Worrying and Concern Does Not Help!)
You don't believe me when I tell you that you should just be Shutting Your Fucking Pie-Hole, stop whining about Election Fraud or whining about people discussing Election Fraud, and Help Get Out The Vote?...
Here's the Strategic Assessment of the Situation:
| * | |No Fraud | |Fraud Uncaught | |Fraud Caught |
| Vote Won | |Win | |Lose | |Win |
| Vote Lost | |Lose | |Lose | |Lose |
As you can see, one row has only Loss Conditions, while the other has two Win Conditions and one Loss Condition.
For those of you who are a bit slow... Let me explain that...
The row with only Loss Conditions is the row where The Vote is lost... WINNING THE VOTE IS ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL TO WINNING THE ELECTION! IF YOU DON'T WIN THE VOTE IT DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER ELECTION FRAUD IS GOING ON OR NOT BECAUSE YOU AUTOMATICALLY LOSE!
Are you following me here?
If you don't think Election Fraud is going on... Then good for you... Now Shut Your Fucking Pie-Hole and Please... Please!... GO HELP GET OUT THE VOTE!!!!
If you do think Election Fraud is going on, do you REALIZE? That you need to Win The Vote by The Largest Possible Margin as The Larger The Margin You Win The Vote By, The Greater The Probability of said fraud being exposed?
So what you need to do... is... Shut Your Fucking Pie-Hole and GO HELP GET OUT THE VOTE!!!!!!
Then after you've Won The Vote, then you can dedicate any and all resources at your disposal to exposing the fraud, discrediting the results and hopefully Win The Election...
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ALL OF YOU!...
ON BOTH SIDES OF "THE DEBATE"!...
SHUT YOUR FUCKING PIE-HOLES AND HELP GET OUT THE VOTE!!!
If you can do something about what you're worried about, THEN DO IT!... If there's nothing you can do... THEN THERE'S NO POINT WORRYING ABOUT IT!... IT WILL JUST MESS WITH YOUR HEAD... SO GO FIND SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE TO DO INSTEAD... LIKE... SAY... I DUNNO... HELP GETTING OUT THE VOTE?
Got that?
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NOW SHUT YOUR FUCKING PIE-HOLES AND HELP GET OUT THE VOTE!!!!
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What are you still doing here? GO HELP GET OUT THE VOTE!!!!
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Ok... So you're still here...
In that case I'm guessing you're absolutely determined to talk about Election Fraud...
In that case; As one member of the Reality Based Community to another here are The Ground Rules:
Understand That...
- Our Perceptions of Reality Are Subjective...
- There Are Limitations To Our Understanding of Reality...
- And, That There Are Limitations on What We Can Know...
So...
Where Possible Use E-Prime...
Understand The Basics of Forensic Investigation...
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That You Can Not Prove A Negative...
- That Absence of Evidence Is Not Evidence of Absence...
- And That, Absence of Evidence Can Be Evidence In, and of, Itself...
You are swimming in a sea of probabilities, constantly shifting. One new Data-Point can break entire Inference Chains and Webs in less time than it can take you to blink...
Understand that the only useful reason to discuss Election Fraud...
| * | |No Fraud | |Fraud Uncaught | |Fraud Caught |
| Vote Won | |Win | |Lose | |Win |
| Vote Lost | |Lose | |Lose | |Lose |
... is to attempt to catch it, and that at this juncture Getting Out The Vote is far more useful in achieving the Victory Conditions of Winning the Election...
You can't have the election stolen from you unless you win it in the first place...
And to be brutally honest, most of you simply don't have the skills to deal with the issue beyond Being Prepared, keeping your Eyes Open, and being skeptical of Both Positive and Negative Claims of Election Fraud
So just Shut Your Fucking Pie-hole, and GOTV... GOTV... GOTV!.. It is the most critical activity to achieving the Victory Conditions...
If you can do something about it, do it! If you can't then there's no point worrying about it!..
Understand that Astroturfing Exists and that Diebold has engaged the services of two, yes indeed two, PR firms... And understand the implications of that... Be wary of any and all Election Fraud Claims both ones that claim proof of fraud, and "debunkings" of said proof...
Astroturfers and shills will try and Muddy The Waters...
Be wary, and be a real skeptic not a "skeptic" whose "skepticism" and critical thinking skills fly out the fucking window the moment they see the word "debunk" ...
Work just as hard, if not harder for confirms, as you do for denies...
And when you don't have anything you can do on that issue... The issue should be... GET OUT THE VOTE!!... GET OUT THE FUCKING VOTE!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, and BTW... Santa Claus Does Not Exist, and Neither Does The Tooth Fairy...
GOOD LUCK!... AND GOOD NIGHT!...
Update [2006-10-22 21:49:59 by kraant]: I should make it clear... I'm not counting fraud being caught as actually being caught unless the people responsible end up jailed and/or the results are overturned over this... Thanks Kagro X... (As far as I'm concerned they've already been caught with their hands in the cookie jar a couple of times...) The point is if they try again to make it hurt... Bigtime...
