L4sBotSep 29, 2023

“Yeah, they’re gone”: Musk confirms cuts to X’s election integrity team — “‘Election Integrity’ Team.. was undermining election integrity,” Musk writes

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“Yeah, they’re gone”: Musk confirms cuts to X’s election integrity team — “‘Election Integrity’ Team.. was undermining election integrity,” Musk writes - Lemmy.world

“Yeah, they’re gone”: Musk confirms cuts to X’s election integrity team — “‘Election Integrity’ Team… was undermining election integrity,” Musk writes::“‘Election Integrity’ Team… was undermining election integrity,” Musk writes.

Show threadInvertedParallax
2024 is going to be a bad, bad year.
Sep 29, 2023 at 2:02pmWeb
Show threadDeiskosSep 29, 2023
As will be every year after that. It’s all downhill from here folks.
Show threadclausetrophobicSep 30, 2023

Pessimism literally helps nobody, it just makes people more depressed and less likely to do anything about a bad situation. Don’t forget that last election had one of the highest young voter turnouts ever recorded, and was by far a huge swing to liberal. Since then the Republican party hasn’t even been close to as organised as they were during 2016 and 2020.

Change can and will happen. It already is, albeit slowly and with bumps along the road, just like any progression in society.

Show threadblazeknaveSep 30, 2023
You got through to me and changed my perspective. Ty
Show threadclausetrophobicSep 30, 2023
Pessimism is so addictive. I’ve struggled with it a ton throughout my life.
Show threadIHaveTwoCowsSep 30, 2023

Pessimism hapoens vecause the fucking liberals wont let us call Nazis what they are and keep insisting that they deserve more fucking free speech than progressives do.

Arm up, everyone, or get shoved into the boxcars.

Show threadclausetrophobicSep 30, 2023

I get your statement but it’s really overly violent, and honestly sounds kind of libertarian. More guns & more violence really will not solve anything. If you get violent all you do is justify violent means for your oppressors. In this day and age, there’s no winning a fight of violence against the government and groups you disagree with. There’s far better alternatives that we have. The benefit of capitalism is that it means the only fucking thing that works against the power structure is to scare them from losing control of their capital. I guarantee en-mass “voting with your wallet”, and literal voting, will have a much better effect than arming up.

Also, you’re free to call Nazis, Nazis. Nobody is stopping you.

Show threadIHaveTwoCowsSep 30, 2023

Capitalism has worked in the fascists’ favor, as capitalism is inherently fascist.

The rest is just platitudes that clearly haven’t worked, and the violence has already been committed by their side; mine is DEFENSIVE.

Sorry, but you do not understand who we are dealing with.

Show threadpossibly a catSep 30, 2023

Pessimism literally helps nobody

Yeah, toxic positivity will save the world! Critical thinking not allowed!

Show threadRedAggroBestSep 30, 2023
Straight into that false dichotomy. Pessimism isn’t a straight in to critical thinking. I’d say a pessimist is doing the exact opposite really. By not even wanting to try and think of a positive situation they’re going full head in the sand instead of working to fix problems.
Show threadpossibly a catSep 30, 2023

I’ll let climate change be the judge. Let’s see if we had enough pessimism or not looking back 10 years from now.

My bet is that we’ve let ourselves detach from reality and are living in denial of the Precautionary Principle… which seems like a pretty safe bet to me.

Show threadset_secretSep 30, 2023
but there well be a brief period where we can swim in late autumn and early spring. so won’t that be nice.