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
@vivekgramaswamy that's not how it works though.
That's not how any of this works
@meowski I would like to get to what's actually going on in the world.
I don't give a fuck if you take a jab or not. What you put into your body is none of my business.
@Greengordon I don't know how to be more clear: it takes money from people as it sells to them.
@havvyhh2 nah. Democracy works fine with ignorant population. The people vote for stupid things and they get stupid things. That's democracy.
The point is that just because democracy arrives at a harmful outcome doesn't mean democracy is broken. The people are broken, education is broken, journalism is broken. But democracy might be working fine, garbage in garbage out, reflecting the ideas of the ignorant public.
The point is to put the finger on the actual problem to solve, not getting distracted by blaming the part that's actually working right.
@havvyhh2 I mean, if millions of Americans misunderstood their government then that really says something about the state of education and journalism, which aren't within the Court's jurisdiction.
I'm sorry people misunderstood the world. We should address that. But it's not the role of the Supreme Court to bow to ignorance like that.
@Greengordon funnel money to rich people? The arrangement described TAKES money from those who bought the info, perhaps to fund government services.
@MichaelTBacon have you listened to the oral arguments? Because the three people you list as competent liberals have a pattern of misquoting cases, missing key arguments before them, and generally being unprepared to act as Supreme Court justices.
Their incompetence is on display at just about every argument.
@Wolven
@Wolven or the neighbor is lying.
Sounds like you're just choosing to believe the side that matches your biases.
@Captain_Jack_Sparrow and those exact words debunk the claim about what he said.
When you yourself point out that he said something different from what you claim he said, you sink your own case.
@meowski cherrypicking quotes that happen to match your beliefs doesn't get us anywhere.
@meowski I can answer that: because statistics.
It's like saying, how could anyone playing the lottery have won when playing the lottery means you increased your chances of having a lighter wallet?
That's just how averaging works.
You're asking how there could be outliers, and well, that's how the calculation works.
@snrub just because one doesn't like Trump doesn't mean one shouldn't point out that Biden is also corrupt.
Republicans couldn't bring themselves to nominate someone other than the sleezebag. Democrats still have time to put forward someone better than Biden.
If they want.
@deborahh Well, I'd say symptom of the underlying problem.
Distraction makes it sound more planned than it likely is. I figure this is a fairly organic outcome, a political system responding to unhappy voters, or a response where it's seeking to fill a vacuum, whichever way you want to put it.
Personally, I grind the ax about the institutional failures of journalism that, had it not lost the faith of so many news consumers, could have addressed voters' concerns.
@thisismissem this is key.
#Trump never has been a leader, and he was never the cause of the shifts in the political landscape that we've seen. People blame Trump for so much that he's simply not even capable of being the cause of.
Trump's a loser and needs to be approached as such.
What you're noticing is what his supporters trained him into doing. Long ago he would occasionally take an actual stance, get it wrong, and have to be corrected. He learned not to, since his crowd would project what they want to hear onto his rhetorical vomit. So much easier.
And it captures that far from being a leader, he's a puppet for his crowd. THEY are the problem.
Practically, we need to identify his crowd as the problem and work on resolving that. Trump is the distraction.
This is so important in understanding #USPolitics
@breedlov the key to always keep in mind is that a third of US voters are operating based on a completely different set of facts.
So very often, their actions and voting patterns make complete sense in the context of the worldview they're working with.
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@realcaseyrollins AND it also explains why so many Republicans are die hard Trump supporters even though his performance in office was exactly the opposite of what they claim they wanted.
Had Democrats actually criticized Trump on his actual record he might have lost the support of those diehards.
Instead, they criticized the guy based on things he didn't do, that Republicans wish he did do, and so they were his best campaigners.
It's such a stupid, stupid political environment we live in.
@Captain_Jack_Sparrow @cjd
Notice that there's an enormous difference between Is there a way we could inject something like a disinfectant? vs People should inject themselves with bleach!
So yes, you made it up, ascribing to Trump a quote that was so completely different from what he actually said.
It reminds me that occasionally press reporters would do things like leave out the word "not" in a statement he made, turning the statement into the exact opposite, and people would just go with it.
@Fu but... why's all the rum gone?
It would help us deal with this world!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JImcvtJzIK8
@realcaseyrollins @Captain_Jack_Sparrow @cjd
@cjd that's honestly not the worst take.
So many people really don't fault for abusing power, as they want to see it abused in a different way.
I suppose making things up is one way around that.
@Captain_Jack_Sparrow @realcaseyrollins
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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