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
@KingConstantine@strangeobject.space
That's a misframing of what the SCOTUS said, though.
If you read the ruling directly it takes pains to say exactly the opposite of this misreporting.
Sadly, that never seems to stop reporters from getting the story wrong.
The problem is that so many of the claims against Thomas have been debunked, but those stories don't get into the news feeds of the groups that leveled the false accusations in the first place.
So we're in the unfortunate situation where a false narrative has become clear to folks in many echo chambers, which Thomas can really not control.
Fortunately, his fate rests in public trial in Congress, which will put the breaks on this railroading. Unfortunately, the debunking won't pierce those echo chambers that have become so prevalent in US culture lately.
This is really helpful! ... if it works
I've been really curious about how #lemmy integrates with the rest of ActivityPub but haven't had time to look deeply into it.
So far my instance doesn't have any posts from this particular lemmy... um... board? group? whatever it's called, but I'll have to try it out more in the future.
Wow, that's really tone deaf.
If we want more people to join #Fediverse then we're not doing ourselves any favors by yelling at the customer for having issues with our product.
It's embarrassing to see users not like what we're offering them? That should be only in the sense that we should be embarrassed for not changing our offering to provide people the experience that they actually want.
But then, #Mastodon seems to be learning this lesson and working for users instead of fussing at them.
This is false and we need to call it out.
The US government is split into exactly three branches, legislative, executive, and judicial. It's designed that way for both checks and balances and to make sure citizens can hold officials accountable for their actions.
Indictment is an activity of the executive branch, where the buck stops with the president. Biden, effectively, did conduct this indictment, it was done through his authority, and whether a person supports it or not, it's at Biden's hand.
We really must hold officials accountable for their actions, again, whether those actions are positive or not.
Pretty weird to bring up fascism in relation to a protest against police action.
The president absolutely CAN directly declassify any documents he wants. Classification is an executive branch issue, so as the official vested with the authority of the executive branch it's all up to the president.
A lot of people get that wrong because they're not up to speed on basic civics.
@Pwnallthethings
It's about premises. Mainstream republicans don't believe that espionage, sedition, and treason occurred in the first place.
But that's not what the majority says, so it sounds like you're setting up a strawman.
What of the majority's argument that Congress wrote §1344(g)(1) so as to clearly reflect "that certain adjacent wetlands are part of waters of the United States."?
US Supreme Court Rules Against Racial Gerrymandering
Keep in mind that the way the US government is designed, the Supreme Court doesn't get to pick and choose things to look into. It is only able to consider cases that other people submit to it.
So the Supreme Court doesn't get to go out looking for things to fix. Somebody would have to file a lawsuit that would go through lower courts and eventually be appealed up to the Supreme Court.
If we don't like the laws, then let's stop reelecting the same cruddy lawmakers to our legislatures.
There's no sense blaming the Court for the crappy laws passed by the people we keep actively going to the polls to empower.
Ah. Personally I am pretty annoyed by the direction they are going with packaging, but meh, not yet annoyed enough to give up on them.
Why not?
No, Reddit will not truly be abandoned, because so many of it's users really just don't have an interest in the recent events that are making some people so irate.
They're just not interested in that fight, so it doesn't really show up on their radar, so it won't influence their use of the platform.
Well from what I'm hearing that is the plan B.
A lot are hoping for a plan A where the prosecution's case just falls apart once they get to trial, if not before.
I think a lot of people who don't really understand the legal system are getting some high hopes, just as the people who didn't understand the election system got their hopes up in the aftermath of the 2020 election.
I've been really wondering about that but haven't had time to sit down and look into how Lemmy interfaces with the rest of the ActivityPub world.
My quick glance is at it looks like Lemmy is effectively a walled garden even though it uses standard protocols, which would be disappointing.
Well, or being better informed about how the US government functions.
Trump world simply replies that the information wasn't classified.
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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