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 ;)
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#BrianKilmeade, on #Trump killing alleged drug boaters: If he went to Congress for permission they'd ask for proof that these guys were guilty, and OF COURSE he can't prove it! What proof could there be? So silly! US intel told Trump they were guilty, and that's all we need to know! #USPolitics
Did you just misquote the report by dropping the word "potentially"?
That makes a HUGE difference!
“President Trump is a *potentially* dangerous dictator whose power should be limited before he destroys American democracy”
I think this misses how Trump thinks.
So little regard for how it would feel to his countrymen? He seems to think his countrymen love this! He has a ton of regard for how his countrymen would feel; the problem is that he's surrounded by people who shield him from knowing.
#Trump operates in a very shielded and coddled world, and that's key to so much of what he does.
So often his actions are a reflection of his being intentionally shielded from facts.
That description is completely, factually wrong about how the process works, even about what *air* is.
Sotomayor seems too busy writing a little dramatized fiction into the record of the Court than actually considering the law before her.
@ike I think it's more that he wants his ass kissed by people he thinks have more power and prestige.
He just likes being sucked up too by what he considers to be a fancy CEO instead of someone he's told is an unpopular politician.
Folks trying to find some kind of long-term plan in all of this seem to be giving the guy far too much credit.
@realcaseyrollins part of it could be mutual animosity with them misunderstanding us and a lot of us emphatically not wanting them around.
But I think a lot of it is also them not particularly caring about this platform in the first place.
So both fire and ice
Yeah, that has been consistently the only solid thing Trump has had to say about the war.
Everything else was just talk, whatever words he could try to string together in the moment between the personal insults.
#BrianKilmeade guest, accidentally admitting something:Trump's policy on the #Ukraine war has been consistent: the war wouldn't have started under...
@broVbro bad news: the president is in charge of enforcing Historic Building protections.
@zeph not normalized--denied.
Genocide in Gaza is so strongly rejected that folks went out of their way to deny that it was happening.
@vivtek well, if anything they're the legal teams that developed the legal record, and the ones bringing the case before the Court, that bear that responsibility.
Courts are to rule based on the information set before them in the case, and it looks like lengthy detentions weren't part of the record.
@docdieterlen more to the point, maybe voters will remember that they elect congresspeople, and they need to stop electing and reelecting congresspeople who are so ineffective.
We voted for this crap. So many just don't know.
@bespacific more like thank Hamilton and Madison, and the congresspeople we've elected that appropriate this funding in the first place.
Roberts has nothing to do with it.
@b7bird.bsky.social No, Trump doesn't extort doj. They work for him now.
He hasn't have to extort them.
The American public murdered him in, for some reason.
@shoq because it's dumb and people don't care.
In general at least.
Yeah it's being ignored because it is internal to the echo chamber, and they have other things to report about.
@indivisibleteam No, Senate Republicans are not holding show votes. That is factually inaccurate.
Senate Republicans are holding votes trying to move funding legislation forward. If Democrats didn't block the progress then the legislation would move forward to passage and government would be reopened.
That's not a show vote. That is a functional vote, and Democrats are blocking the function.
@walterolson.bsky.social I think you're missing that a significant swath of the American people approve of this sort of thing, and so he's doing right by the folks that elected him.
@kingrat The congresspeople we elect even appropriate money for them to furnish the house.
My point is, we can stop electing the people that do this stuff if we want to. But we keep reelecting the people that give it the stamp of approval.
@kingrat Right.
For better or worse, we provide this housing and leave it up to presidents. He's just doing what we have for some reason decided to allow, so meh.
We don't have to provide presidents with housing. We don't have to give them this authority over the housing. But we do, so that they take advantage of what we allow, really on us.
Kind of a devil you know versus the devil you don't situation.
Yeah, Windows sucks. Not going to get an argument from me over that! I don't use it. Yeah, all of this stuff they're doing these days seems really gross.
However, "well that's how it's supposed to work" is a lot better than having to admit that they were running on a platform that was exfiltrating sensitive information not to the normal and generally accepted spying eyes, but to some hacker in a basement.
Is it right? I don't think so. But that's the reality of the industry and society these days.
Yeah, but the thing is, there's a good chance Trump doesn't know because the people who manage him don't seem to tell him the truth.
Every once in awhile he has a event where he sort of admits confusion about the facts, saying flat out that something can't be right because the people around him told him otherwise.
This really is a case where people around the official are manipulating him for their own ends.
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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