volkris @volkris@qoto.org
I think the most pressing and fundamental problem of the day is that people lack a practically effective means of sorting out questions of fact in the larger world. We can hardly begin to discuss ways of addressing reality if we can't agree what reality even is, after all.
The institutions that have served this role in the past have dropped the ball, so the next best solution is talking to each other, particularly to those who disagree, to sort out conflicting claims.
Unfortunately, far too many actively oppose this, leaving all opposing claims untested. It's very regressive.
So that's my hobby, striving to understanding the arguments of all sides at least because it's interesting to see how mythologies are formed but also because maybe through that process we can all have our beliefs tested.
But if nothing else, social media platforms like this are chances to vent frustrations that on so many issues both sides are obviously wrong ;)
Joined Dec 2022
#ClayAndBuck: We were really hoping the administration would announce some sort of plan for what comes next for #Iran, but I guess there just isn'...
Well, there's a fundamental argument about whether the Federal Reserve Board IS such an independent agency in the first place, or if it's something different.
SCOTUS has hinted that there might be a distinction with a difference.
@ike unfortunately the people that we elected to Congress, those Democrats, have proven to be completely ineffective.
And yet we will re-elect them anyway.
@cazabon or we could just stop reelecting the same politicians who let us down.
We like these people. We make that decision.
Keep in mind that this administration follows the orders of Fox News type commentators. They'll say things and then a couple days later the administration will echo what they said.
So Trump decided to start the war because Fox News commentators said it would be pretty awesome in their hyperpatriotic us versus them, good guy versus bad guy, let's have footage of fighter jets mentality.
And that's as far as they think.
@albnelson sure
That's the nice thing about being Trump, at any point he will arbitrarily declare success and say he's awesome.
@nixCraft Well we mainly just need to stop voting for the lawmakers that make these laws.
We actively reelect them. We should probably stop doing that.
@jazzilla Well more fundamentally, it's an educational failure.
It's a population of people that have been misled and misinformed. They have come to believe a bunch of falsehoods.
The moral and spiritual aspects are built on top of factual beliefs. If the factual beliefs are wrong, well then moral and spiritual can't really save the day.
@wjmaggos It's not about capitalism. This is government, the exact opposite.
If anything it would be more accurate to say we must collectively reconsider how democracy works.
Yeah, people are voting to kill lots of foreigners. Yay democracy.
It doesn't sound like the vehicles are unusable. They're just different from what they used before because they're marked.
Sounds like the article is trying too hard to make a flashy story.
@jwcph your mistake is talking as if this is about Trump himself. It never was. He's just the symbol of his constituents. He's just a piece of trash riding the waves in a puddle, dumb and without any particular direction of his own.
Well, I guess in human terms, he's senile.
But yeah it's about the coalition that elected him. It might be that world events have finally started to break the coalition. We will see.
@jwcph Well, what action would you like spurred?
Exactly, but the problem is Trump is too old and senile to understand that, and so much of his support base is just too idiotic and out of touch to understand that, even if they should know better.
This is just what we are working with.
Unfortunately, we elected the wrong people to Congress, and we reelected them even after they failed us. The people we elect to Congress are supposed to be the ones guarding against this malfunctioning executive branch, but we decided to elect these worthless congresspeople.
That bears so much emphasis because they get forgotten in these discussions so often as they try to shift blame to the other branches.
It's worse: forget those who decided not to vote, these people in Congress were actively voted in.
And so many of my anti-Trump friends voted for these congresspeople who aren't really interested in actually opposing this. And reelected them too.
We voted for this when we elected these awful congresspeople.
It seems like you're leaning really hard into the idea that the legislation has such power over the third branch.
A statute authorizing SCOTUS to have jurisdiction? They can't act without permission of the legislature? No, that doesn't make sense for an independent judiciary impaneled by the Constitution itself.
Yeah, I believe in Dobbs Thomas wrote a concurrence in which he mentioned revisiting rulings based on substantial due process, and so many people--some honest, some sensationalizing--really misrepresented that sentence.
This sort of thing lays bare just how misleading those many, many stories were.
We don't have to wait. We can just stop reelecting them.
WE voted in these representatives and we voted for them again even after they failed us.
It's not about SCOTUS norms and rules. It's primarily about the folks we elect to congress since in the end they're the once with ultimate power over impeachment.
So many of the problems people see in the executive and judicial branches actually come down to us having elected ineffective or corrupt people to Congress.
We elected these people, and we keep reelecting the same ones.
First, it wasn't a supreme court ruling. They refused to get involved to make a ruling.
But to the point, copyright is for society, not for humans.
Copyright is a convenience of law created by legislators because it's seen as a social good to sort out ownership and grant privileges that encourage compositions to be released to the world.
That's why it's limited. If it was for humans it would be tied to humans, but it's not. It's simply a system based on whatever lawmakers see best.
Currently, lawmakers are requiring a human to be involved, but there's no reason they couldn't change that should it be seen as better for society.
I think the most pressing and fundamental problem of the day is that people lack a practically effective means of sorting out questions of fact in the larger world. We can hardly begin to discuss ways of addressing reality if we can't agree what reality even is, after all.
The institutions that have served this role in the past have dropped the ball, so the next best solution is talking to each other, particularly to those who disagree, to sort out conflicting claims.
Unfortunately, far too many actively oppose this, leaving all opposing claims untested. It's very regressive.
So that's my hobby, striving to understanding the arguments of all sides at least because it's interesting to see how mythologies are formed but also because maybe through that process we can all have our beliefs tested.
But if nothing else, social media platforms like this are chances to vent frustrations that on so many issues both sides are obviously wrong ;)
Joined Dec 2022
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