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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

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

“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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2024 is going to be a bad, bad year.
- As will be every year after that. It's all downhill from here folks.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  You got through to me and changed my perspective. Ty
  
  Pessimism is so addictive. I've struggled with it a ton throughout my life.
  
  Like most bad habits, it's the easier option
  
  I'm glad you have some optimism left in you. I don't.
  Trump or that clown Sunak winning your election will have catastrophic effects for my country who's been in full scale war for almost 2 years. All the while the "allies" drag this war out by giving bullshit reasons to not send long range missiles and aircraft (uwu 5-8 months basic proficiency for fighter pilots proficient on a different platform , also known as "if they started even last year, f16s would be flying at least SEAD by now and not relying on a jank adaptor to launch HARM"), and decide that sending 31 Abrams tanks is good enough for a 1200km long frontline.
  I had some optimism in March 2022, despite how bad everything looked at the time, it slowly diminished to what it is now by Spring of 2023 when it became clear that goal #1 for our "allies" is NOT to end this war, as quickly as possible, but to bleed russia out, death by a thousand cuts, all with our lives.
  
  rant (cont.)
  I can even understand unwillingness to give ATACMS, you don't have a lot of them and need them all to fight Mexican drug cartels or whatever you would use ballistic missiles for in 2023.
  You don't even use f16 anymore, and just sold some to Vietnam recently.
  There's at least few hundreds Abrams tanks sitting in the desert in dry storage. But no, 31 is all we get.
  And the total clownery of political debate where at least two candidates build their platform on being friends with russia and china and stopping all support to Ukraine.
  And the total clownery of passing a lend lease act in 2022 and then not using it - trusting Ukraine to win so as to not burden us with returning leased hardware, but not trusting enough to give enough to win.
  
  but there well be a brief period where we can swim in late autumn and early spring. so won't that be nice.
- No, I'm banking on the younger generations coming out of the woodwork. They've dealt with so much and really hoping they realize their vote could really send these dinosaurs into extinction.
  
  Taylor Swift seems to be doing a good job with that.
  Didn't she get like 150k people to register in a day with an Instagram story or something
  
  The fact that Republicans are already going after her about it shows how scared they are of the impact Gen Z is going to have in 2024
  
  Register where? What's the story?
  
  Register to vote. Americans have to register or they cannot vote.
  
  Ah ok. Didn't know she did that. Kudos to her.
  
  I agree, I have some hope as common folk get more and more tuned in, especially as obscure runs like the Wisconsin Supreme Court judgeship and votes against the Ohio constitutional amendment process change result in overwhelming positive outcomes.

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