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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::"'Election Integrity' Team... was undermining election integrity," Musk writes.

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[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aside from conservatives, what fascist dipshits still use Twitter? It's just a cesspool of disinformation and bigotry, so I just assume anyone who uses it is a lying bigot.

[–] loutr@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Most businesses and institutions still use twitter as their primary communication and support channels. My "wokest" friend still uses it every day, while constantly bitching about Elon. Convenience and habit are a hell of a drug...

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've heard about this bizarre behavior. I have decided to not cut slack to users.

It is inappropriate to conduct business with bigots and fascists. It is perfectly reasonable for me to label those who use fascist-owned platforms as fascists.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have decided to not cut slack to users.

It is inappropriate to conduct business with bigots and fascists.

Life is analog, not digital.

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And the "owned by a fascist" dial is all the way to 10.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is perfectly reasonable for me to label those who use fascist-owned platforms as fascists.

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Life is analog, not digital.

Hey, this is fun!

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

That much extremest hate will burn you up.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I walked past an ambulance the other day and noticed that my city's ambulances have the little bird logo along with the local EMS twitter handle (I live somewhere with publicly funded healthcare). I found myself wondering, "are they going to switch their fleet to use the X logo?" It's funny how much we allowed this private company's little bird logo to worm its way into every aspect of our world. People took for granted that it would always exist and always be something people had a positive association with.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

"Public Squares" should never be privately owned.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Convenience and habit are a hell of a drug…

Twitter, Reddit, World of Warcraft, etc., etc.

If people could just put in the minimal amount of effort to affect positive change, the World would be such a different place.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have a hunch that in the terrifyingly near future, we're going to see the internet absolutely dominated by enshitification.

Don't get me wrong, it's bad now ...because like the frogs in hot water, we collectively just tolerate changes for the worse. But it used to be small incremental changes over a long period.

Then this Musk asshole comes along, looks at the frogs ever so slowly cooking.... and cranks the stove to max, pisses in the frog-pot, supplements the heating element with a welding torch, and flips the frogs off as he pours gasoline all over the kitchen.

And the frogs JUST FUCKING TAKE IT.

What message does that send to the rest of the internet?

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What message does that send to the rest of the internet?

You know… it would be funny but also sad and believable if he’s doing all of this just to spite the internet because we wouldn’t let that one emo leather longcoat pic die.

Edit: the pic

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's like Trump running for president because Obama and Seth Meyers roasted him in front of the world... So much awful shit in our world is a direct result of rich, whiney narcissists making things worse for everyone as collateral damage in whatever petty feud they've mostly invented in their heads.

But for real, I am actually fully convinced that that was the inception point in Trump’s head for the idea of going for the presidency.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

2024 is going to be a bad, bad year.

[–] Deiskos@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As will be every year after that. It's all downhill from here folks.

[–] clausetrophobic@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Pessimism literally helps nobody, it just makes people more depressed and less likely to do anything about a bad situation.

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

Yep. Seriously, keep the faith. And fight the good fight.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 1 year ago

Fucking hate this man.