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Chicago Transit Authority deactivates X social media accounts (pdx.social)
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https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-transit-authority-deactivates-social-media-accounts-formerly-known-twitter-agency-confirms/15748349/

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[–] fubo@lemmy.world 80 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If it's unified under the federal government, then an asshole president can mess with it.

If it's distributed, with states and major cities having their own instances, then it's more asshole-resistant.

[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why would we ever elect an asshole president though?

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

America elected Andrew Jackson and we learned our lesson. /s

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People voted for him because he was a war hero and said fuck the banks. As a result, when he was elected he paid off the national debt. I don't mean he didn't run a deficit, he paid off the entire balance.

If you think Trump is comparable, just look at the deficit he left us

[–] bassomitron@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, he also held degenerate parties at the WH (actually pretty cool) and committed horrible wholesale atrocities against native Americans (very not cool).

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And yet, rated as an above average president by historians. Trump is somewhere at the bottom of the pile

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

Not native historians lol

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

The city government spinning up its own instance makes sense. You could then have accounts for the various departments, transit, road and highway, parks and rec, the library, the mayor’s office…

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

"Asshole resistant" sounds like marketing terms used to advertise a dildo to a community that enjoys consentual non-consent.

Like they want a dildo that doesn't go into assholes easily.