volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@rob11563

Well no that's not right. That's not how the US system works.

The majority of Supreme Court influence comes from the recognition of lower courts, since it is a court of appeals. It's when lower courts abide by Supreme Court precedent that most of their influence impacts the world.

And thank goodness that's the case! Because the general public has no idea what the Supreme Court actually says or does or rules. There is so much misinformation out there.

So long as the lower courts are paying attention and well informed and actually abiding by the Supreme Court rulings the system will keep working, regardless of the nonsense going around social media and network television.

@HistoPol

It's just so funny to hear people talking about the right-wing conspiracy from the Federalist Society when I've spent years listening to their left-wing content.

The organization gives voice to so many speakers that are adamantly critical of the right wing. That's in fact why I listen to them, because they call out the right-wing for being really off the rails.

So it comes across as gaslighting to someone like me.

Or more importantly, it comes across as taking advantage of people's lack of familiarity to sell a sensationalized narrative while avoiding what's really going on in the world.

@persagen

@hannu_ikonen

The Supreme Court only applies the law as it must, though. It's not the ruling that deals that blow but rather the decisions of the representatives that we've elected (and reelected) that set the laws that came to play here.

The reason this is vital is because it focuses on the power voters have to actually demand change. We need to vote for better people.

By focusing on the Court, which isn't the real problem, we allow ourselves to be distracted from the power we actually have to kick out representatives who continue to fail us.

If we want race-based admission then great! Let's go elect the people who will put that in place and stop reelecting the ones who failed to address the problem.

@persagen

All of these groups promoting conspiracy theories about the Federalist Society, as opposed to simply going through the reasoning in the opinions themselves, are really misleading the public, coming across as if they've never actually listened to any FedSoc content.

In reality, the Federalist Society is one of the most evenhanded outfits I know of, presenting both sides of debates, *including pro-affirmative action speakers*.

Seriously, go pull up their content and give their debates a listen. They are nothing like the evil right-wing monster so many are trying to frame them as.

@steffo@uno.starshard.studio

Well, one issue is that that's not only about ActivityPub but also how individual interfaces display ActivityPub inputs.

After all, what appears on a home timeline--and even the concept of a home timeline itself--is part of the UI separate from ActivityPub itself.

@lauren

Meh, personally, I figure if someone is wearing a cape they're trying to compensate for not having much interesting to say :)

@rob11563

Well that's easy: the decisions made by this Court have validity because they follow the prescribed procedures and have constitutional sanction.

You may not like the decisions or the people personally involved, but they check their boxes, and so they are valid.

@inkican

Where in the world do you find 1 billion bots and Nazis?

@maegul

Well I'd say it IS a true federation, complete with that drawback :)

BECAUSE it's a federation and not a centralized system, that's how it works.

@ricardoharvin

I think so much comes down to us not holding the right people accountable.

We keep reelecting the exact politicians who do exactly the things we say we don't want.

I have so many friends who will actively campaign for the reelection of a politician who voted against the things they say are most important to them.

Often enough those friends simply don't know the voting records of the people they're promoting.

And so today we'll see a lot of legislators pointing fingers at the courts for acting on the laws that the legislators themselves could have been fixing.

It's no wonder we're in this situation.

@dahukanna

That's simply how the underlying ActivityPub system was designed. It was intentionally designed around instances, not users.

In ActivityPub the system is centralized around instances. They are the core unit.

So things like account transfers are sort of irrelevant to the core protocol. Why, the protocol would ask, would anyone want to do that?

We could do better. But the designers of the system decided to go a different direction.

This is one of the reasons some people are optimistic about Bluesky making better choices.

@dibi58

But this is like yelling across your fence to your neighbor that you don't consent to your neighbor hearing your yelling.

Through ActivityPub you broadcast your posts to listeners.
It's kind of silly to say you don't consent to the exact thing that you cause by posting.

@cmorris

Well right.

Such an international obligation only imposes on the US to the extent that it's codified into US law, which is what SCOTUS took into account as it made its judgement.

It would be and end run around US law for the court to have ignored US law to consider the convention directly.

What matters is what our elected representatives voted into force.

@USAJusticeWatch

It's funny because other posts on social media are chiding the decision for ending a policy that primarily benefits white women.

Get it together, Fediverse.

@catarinac

Do you have a link to his comments?

Really it sounds like an administrator more than a dictator. He would have been given a pot of money, and he'll spend his money the way he sees fit, more than dictating how others spend theirs.

@nrohluap

Well you quoted it.
You can see that military.com got it wrong seeing as the opinion didn't specifically exempt military academies but rather noted that they simply weren't relevant.

The two quotes you gave say different things, so the SCOTUS version of what SCOTUS said wins.
@KFuentesGeorge