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[–] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I can't tell if California has this mastermind ballot writer that makes these things impossible to know which way to vote yes or no on, Or California has the lowest adult literacy rate?

The measures I'm hearing about are really fucking bonkers. Maybe I should ask the state of California if I can have 10 million dollars to research if video games make me violent.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 child)

    It's not a California thing. I live on the other coast and I swear to god every ballot measure I read is worded in the most ambiguous or vague way possible. By that I mean the way it's written on the ballot, not on the full text of the measure.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago

    It's purposeful (which I'm sure you already know). There's a fella whose name I can't recall right now that is responsible for an incredibly large amount of these ballot measures (I want to say in the realm of 700-900? Or maybe ~150-200, not sure, but still a lot of them) and has a success rate of something like 95% with them. My state's bullshit was so contorted that I made sure to read the positions of several advocacy groups to figure out which ones I was going to vote yes/no on.

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  • [–] 1 point 17 hours ago

    The ballot very clearly says 'half goes here, half goes there'.

    The people I discussed this with stated that we should vote yes (I voted no) because cancer and immunology research has been gutted at the federal level, and at the very least this is something. I also tried to point out that (if my memory serves) a singular university qualifies for the other half, but that didn't seem to register.

    These are all people who are well educated and certainly don't have issues with literacy. Classic case of bleeding hearts bleeding all over the place.

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