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  • So youre saying the actual cops would have responded to Jane does gang rape instead of the “cops, but like we work for Cornell first and ignore a gang rape victim telling us she was gang raped when we write up the summation doc for the DA” cops? Ithaca cops that would have arrested the rapists, and then told the school, who could have then done their own academic action regardless of the frat or not? Sounds like a win to me.

    Frats being under a schools purview doesn’t matter at all, because all of their members are already under the schools authority. The school can sanction or discipline anyone it wants any time already, regardless of the offending action happened in a “official” frat or not.

    All that accepting frats does is make them part of the college institution, which gives them legitimatcy and protection from actual consequences, as institutions always defend themselves. Cornell is a perfect example. The Cornell cops, part of the institution that protects Cornell, mislead a vulnerable gang rape victim, to protect the Cornell frats and Cornell’s overall reputation. It worked, and those multiple rapists got away with their rape for years.

    Baning frats is the least Cornell can do. Disbanding its incompetent cops is 2nd on my list. Firing its worthless execs is 3rd.




  • Yeah ive been harping since he came out as a JD Vance dickrider, but they did a “meh to okay” face saving apology that worked.

    The recent shit show is a whole new dimension of abuse and brutality, mixed with “line must go up” silicon valley bullshit at a private non profit, all while being absolutely brainfucked on AI psychosis. Somehow, he also managed to shit on Protons software engineers in a way that was universally hated by his main customers, who are clearly also software engineers.

    Dude made himself an an instant nemisis to his most vocal supporters, and the PR two step ain’t doing it this time.





  • I should have been more specific. The barcodes are on the return envelopes, not the ballots. They allow a ballot to be tracked by the voter to make sure its proccessed or sorted out before its tallied in the cases that a voter reports an issue, but at no point is who the person voted for tracked or logged. The tally process involved immediately discarding the envelope and separating it from the ballot itself when the votes are tallied, fully preserving anonymity.

    The envelopes include voter signatures which are checked against voter registration, and the collection and processing follows a chain of custody. The tallying itself is monitored and transparent as well. The whole process is audited, because the paper ballots are retained and can be recounted if needed. You can view the process here:

    https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/voters/securing-your-vote

    Mail-in voting can be wholly secure, and should be the default because of its efficieny in widening engagement with democracy.


  • Lots of right wing talking points about edge cases that won’t affect 99.99999% of voters, but easy enough to address.

    Mail in ballots can be filled out anywhere. If a spouse is concerned about it, they can get the mail early and drop theirs off in any ballot drop box, which are normally next to government buildings like libraries and are designed to withstand semi-truck strikes. Washington also has a way to get a new ballot if for some reason here is an issue with yours.

    Voter coercion is a crime, and an approved case for replacement. Reporting it will resolve all sorts of issues. Ballots Return envelopes have unique codes so they can be sorted out if needed.

    As to your other right wing talking points introducing tons of overhead for voting like “must have an excuse, etc” these only serve to reduce turnout, reducing the scope and breadth of democracy. Means voting testing, which is what the above is, will always drive down participation for the poor and disenfranchised, i.e the people that the GOP dont want voting.

    How about you fuck off with your voter suppression plans and let states vote very successfully in the safe, efficent, and effective manner they already use?