volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@fmneto

Hmmmmm I'd say the focus on revolutionary technologies like the Death Star, that change the equation so fundamentally between number of people needed to attack it versus number of people to be saved by destroying it do push Star Wars over the boundary and into science fiction.

It might not be hard science fiction, but it does explore issues of the future where such force multipliers are enabled by new technology.

But what is your definition to the extent that this fails to meet it?

@ChrisHolladay

I think you're projecting far too much into your experience at that point, though.

And I think it's key that what you don't hear is often based on your own choices for your own sources of information, so not only does it reflect reading something into what's not there, but also more fundamentally, choices that create that experiential void in the first place.

So it's kind of doubly reflecting your own situation rather than the world outside.

@ChrisHolladay

You haven't heard Republicans criticize Trump over Jan 6th?

I think that you aren't listening to a good cross section of Republicans, then, because I've been hearing pretty mainstream Republican voices criticizing the guy for a year over the way he handled it.

Heck, I remember conservatives criticizing him on that day, as it was unfolding, saying he was screwing up by not addressing the situation more quickly.

@TomShafShafer

He would shut up if people would stop paying attention to him.

Paying attention to him is, as we used to say on the internet, feeding the trolls.

@servelan

But the transcript showed that Joe Biden allowed himself to be used by his son to profit off of the promise of access to his office.

The transcript revisits this repeatedly, nailing it home.

So no, according to the transcript the calls to Dad we're not just about family and fishing.

@AnthonyFStevens

It's not so simple as they would lose their readership and reach and the functionality of the Twitter website.

@annhattan

But this is the huge difference between restricting versus declining to promote.

Just because starlink isn't supporting some operation doesn't mean it is restricting that operation, it's just not participating in it.

It's a critical factual difference.

@Zergling_man

But it's not a patch. It's an entire separate layer with separate value and separate use cases.

It's like, TCP is not a patch on IP. The two work together, and they both do different things, just as lightning works with Bitcoin and does different things.

@dsfgs

@DeborahForPlus

Feel free to block! That is, after all, how this platform works. If you are not interested in hearing voices outside of your echo chamber you are entirely empowered to block those voices. It's 100% up to you.

But when I go and look at the underlying direct evidence, it doesn't match what is being claimed here. And that is why this is not particularly compelling to me.

When the issue is what I can see with my own eyes versus what other people are grousing about, well I have to go with what I can see with my own eyes, and I would encourage everyone else to review with their own eyes as well.

@futurebird @InkySchwartz @cadenza

@DeborahForPlus

But that's election of electors, not election of the president, entirely different thing.

By law election of the president happens later on, and that is what this indictment both recognizes and misses, and the contradiction within the indictment is so key to why it is a sham.

@BobApril

But what does any of that have to do with any actionable offense?

@ubernostrum

@Okanogen

I'm on your side!

@mloxton @futurebird @InkySchwartz @cadenza

@Teri_Kanefield

But we see how from the way things played out that that absolutely didn't happen, so if it was the plan ever, it was never the plan in any substantial way.

So no.

@NewsDesk

No, it's the same old.
A weak indictment that half the country will respect and the other half won't and that a jury might or might not agree with base largely on political factors.

It's a damn shame we are at this point in the country.

@snrub

I think you're right. It will be interesting to see what primaries start to say when people start actually punching their ballots.

I'm pretty annoyed that I expect a bunch of people to vote for Trump not because of Trump himself but as a vote against these charges being brought against him.

@snrub

Well right.

And McDonald's is free to ignore customers and start offering hamburgers without hamburger. But they're not going to sell many of those.

And then it all comes down to what voters want, and if voters don't like what a party is offering they won't vote for them, it's all up to the voters.

@persagen

I just note how ad hominem this is.

No actual position or argument is cited or criticized or disputed. It's just plain throwing mud at individuals.

It's not very compelling, or at least, I hope it's not.

@snrub

I mean, the voters are doing the nomination!

@BobApril

I honestly have no idea what you're talking about.
It sounds like you're saying these other conspiracy theories weren't involved in whatever conspiracy theory you think this administration is using to charge Trump.

But I just honestly just don't understand your comment the way it was phrased.

It seems like you just brought up a bunch of irrelevant stuff to say it was irrelevant.

@ubernostrum