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

https://lemmy.world/post/5934813

“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 threadInvertedParallaxSep 29, 2023
2024 is going to be a bad, bad year.
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 threadpossibly a catSep 30, 2023

Pessimism literally helps nobody

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

Show threadRedAggroBest
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.
Sep 30, 2023 at 4:16pmWeb
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.