volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@bigheadtales the constitution says nothing about who can run though.

The 14th, for example does not say who can and can't run. It says who cannot serve. That is a completely different question from who can run.

And of course it's interference to manipulate the voting system like that. You can say it's not all you want, and I can say water doesn't run downhill all I want, but that doesn't make it true.

Of course It is interference even if you think it's entirely right to interfere.

To own it if that's the way you want to go.

Otherwise you just come off as kind of dishonest.

@Joe_Hill Oh yeah, that podcast is really great. It has so much very important information about how the US legal system works, how the US government is structured, etc.

I can't recommend it enough for anybody willing to put in the effort to learn deeply about how the US system works.

That being said, I am very frustrated because in episode after episode on this topic Amar rests on exactly the sort of consequentialism that he calls out on others.

He proclaims that a consequence is absurd, which is to say he doesn't personally like it, and therefore the reasoning leading to the result that he doesn't like must be invalid.

I am at this point BEGGING him to take a step back and provide the basis for his opinions other than he just doesn't like it or he just doesn't personally understand it.

It's still a great podcast to take in, it is still extremely informative, even if it presents a perspective that sometimes, as in this case, I don't find compelling.

@bigheadtales

@ShingoMouse to replace one group of corrupt people with another group of corrupt people just makes the game go through another round.

@BetaCuck4Lyfe

@bigheadtales interference in the voting system is literally the only practical thing that is happening here.

There's no reason to deny that.

Maybe you want the voting system interfered with.
Maybe you think it's for the best that it's interfered with.
Maybe you think Trump is such a threat to whatever you think is going on that you would say that we need to interfere with the voting system.

Great!

So own it. It just emphasizes how critical that is to you. It's a way for you to say it is just that important that we fight against Trump.

But don't deny what's going on. Denying that fact just makes a person look foolish or untrustworthy.

Yes, this is about interfering with voting, whether or not that interference is justified.

@scientist The majority of people just aren't that interested in that cause, though, so yeah they are just going to carry on doing exactly the same.

@statisticsworld@mastodon.world and this is why the Palestinian Authority is such a laughing stock.

This kind of nonsense is why people have serious questions about whether they can be a legitimate governing force.

@realTuckFrumper not rewrite. Investigate.

Psaki here is insisting that the rush to judgment of the moment be maintained even as we've learned more since then that call to question a lot of the narratives that were streamed out in the heat of the moment.

Narratives that are convenient for her side, so it's obvious why she wants to maintain them.

But that's exactly why we should be looking to see whether the evidence that has come out since actually supports or refutes those stories.

@lauren indeed.

But just in case one might get the impression, I just felt the need to get ahead of it.

@BetaCuck4Lyfe Hi welcome to social media. We're all full of shit here.

But that doesn't mean we can't call out others that are also full of shit, from Trump to CREW.

@ShingoMouse

@lauren That's not what Nikki Haley claimed.

@bigheadtales SCOTUS doesn't have the ability to unilaterally strike down an act of Congress.

That's just not how the US system of government works.

@BetaCuck4Lyfe quite the opposite. I think a lot of these efforts are making him closer to election which is a large part of why I'm speaking out against them!

For goodness sake, stop playing his game. Making him a martyr is pretty much the only reason he is currently even possibly going to be elected.

The guy is a loser. All of this nonsense distracts from the line we should be emphasizing, that he is a loser.

That's really the only sort of language that would break Trump from his base. If they realized what a literal loser the guy was then he would be deflated and he would go away.

Everything else only makes Trump supporters feel vindicated in their stupid opinions.

@ShingoMouse

@ShingoMouse we really need to be very clear that this is a scam, they are just trying to take your money

@bigheadtales It can't.

It doesn't have that authority.

It's like, you might as well be talking about me personally inserting myself into the legislative process.

No, that's not how the US government works.

@daveystew@mstdn.social my bet is that he'd simply say the state didn't follow a legal procedure for excluding and/or that Trump isn't constitutionally prohibited.

There wouldn't be any contradiction there.

Yes, the state can exclude candidates. But it has to follow the rules. And these states didn't follow their rules in excluding candidates.

@bigheadtales SCOTUS doesn't implement law.

Wrong branch of government.

@lauren agreed, especially as that helps further processing handle the content as the particular end viewer wants it handled.

Black pillars let the end device know that there's no content there, so if a wrongheaded ( ;) ) viewer wants the display to zoom or stretch or whatever, it knows how to do it.

Blurred versions make the display think there might be content there so it can't help the end viewer reach the experience they want.

@bigheadtales I didn't say any votes were being blocked. The voting process is certainly being interfered with, though.

And that's independent of whether you've bought into the claims about constitutional ineligibility.

@downey well, there is the detail that other instances subscribe in the course of federation.

So the push is really fulfilling a request on the part of the original server.

@FinchHaven @ericfreyss