Your mistake is taking a Crawford tweet as anything more then 3 in the morning random ranting.
In general Crawford seems to think about his tweets before sending them ALMOST as much as Donald Trump does.
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It doesn't even have to be conscious cheating.
The normal approximately gaussian distribution of values on a die help minimize the impact of less then perfect weight.
A spin down die is much more likely to roll unfairly,