I get ticked off when prominent people w/ money & influence cynically lie to the public about elections & voting tech. Elon Musk said a lot of bullshit last night. So I wrote an op-ed for MSNBC. Here are the facts. h/t @hayesbrown.bsky.socialwww.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Everything looks suspicious when you don’t know how anything works.
There are elections in Russia. Sure, everyone understands that Putin wins, no matter who gets the most votes. But they still get to vote! Isn’t that even more depressing? 😬
It was probably cursed
I like this part: “Cats are a bit harder to study, because they are much more ornery. Dogs are pretty happy to do the things humans ask of them, but cats only does what cats wants. And cats do not like laboratory settings.” I mean, maybe the cat really wasn’t into lab work, but pressured into it
Plus the price tag means that they would find a more cost effective “alternative” solution
Nah, he died when he got himself covid. It’s been a combination of actors and animatronics since then
That’s pretty cool!
It gets worse in your 40s
Seriously. I want to be able to believe in our society. It’s tough
The media is complicit, through malice or incompetence, in this trend where Trump’s freakish bigoted ignorance and volatility is treated as an accepted baseline.