Monday, June 8, 2026

How Elections Work In This Dimension

NEWSFLASH: Elections aren't held on TikTok, Instagam, or X Twitter, sucker-ass chumps!

Red Mirage, Blue Shift, Online Cope

What Spencer Pratt’s viral campaign tells us about online hype, election fraud spin, and what we'll see in the 2026 midterms.

However, the season finale is upon us, and it’s taking the form of a proliferation of predictable conspiracy theories promoted by people who should know better.

The LA mayoral primary’s devolution into conspiracy tropes, Polymarket screenshots, and Grok fact-checks is useful because it shows a script we are going to see again in 2026: viral candidate overperforms in the feed, ordinary ballot-counting reveals a different reality, and the people who conflated engagement with votes decide that there’s something suspicious about the count.

"People who should know better". The problem is not that they should know better, it's that they don't care, & are hoping to lie themselves into power. You know, completely evil Republicans.

[Agents of Influence]

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