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
@ArneBab Well the US might operate differently from Germany.
No, that's not how it works in the US, that's just not how the US legal system operates.
@leswarden @jeffjarvis Well that's a dumb thing to say that's clearly not factually true.
If anything I really want to see the Democrats nominate somebody who can beat Trump. I'm not behind Biden because I don't want Trump to win. It's BECAUSE we're not behind Trump that were not behind #biden
The description of what happened is a lie. That's not what the Supreme Court decided.
So you're right, the Constitution didn't have a thing to do with it. What is written above is pure fiction, it doesn't have to do with the Constitution or the Supreme Court. It has to do with clickbait and misinformation coming out of special interest groups.
No, The Supreme Court did not give presidents such immunity. In fact the ruling spent pages outlining that presidents are subject to being prosecuted under the law, contrary to reporting.
But never mind what the court actually wrote, these outlets are spinning lies because they get clicks. And that's just really a shame.
@Downshift I mean, GOP officials have said project 2025 is nonsense, so I guess you're on their side?
@qkslvrwolf I feel so enlightened by your response.
@texafornia The thing is, even if your conspiracy theory is correct it doesn't really matter. We can see that Biden screwed this whole thing up, whether the conspiracy is true or not. And we can hold him accountable for that.
@thedansimonson contrary to so much reporting, that people really shouldn't be listening to, what the Supreme Court said was that the president can do legal things.
That's it.
If something is illegal, the president can't do it. That's what they said, and in their opinion they went on at length talking about how the president is absolutely subject to prosecution for doing illegal things.
There has been so much misreporting about what the Supreme Court ruled, but in the end it was purely a procedural ruling, saying that you can't charge someone for doing illegal things if the things aren't illegal. That's it.
Y'all need to stop listening to these sensationalized outlets.
@MisuseCase Well it's more that AOC is just as flawed a candidate as Biden and Harris.
All three of them are generally rejected by voters.
@mozz Well right, people who want to win want to get rid of both of these flawed candidates.
@leswarden No it's not too late to change. If the Democrats want to win they can choose almost anyone else, because Biden is one of the rare people that might actually lose to Trump.
So the question ends up being, what is the priority for Democrats? Do they want to win? Then they should choose somebody who will easily defeat Trump. If they stick with Biden they are rolling the dice and there is no reason they should be rolling the dice if they don't want to.
They can choose somebody else tomorrow If they want to. Well if they want to win. If that's not their goal, well okay.
@kyozou wow, no, she doesn't know what she's talking about.
Adult in the room? No she doesn't seem to have taken a civics course, she keeps saying things that don't really work with how the federal government is organized. She is an imbecile.
@qkslvrwolf Biden is a liar at best, just another politician making promises that he can't keep.
Or he doesn't know what he's doing at all, doesn't know how the US government works even though he's been employed there for decades. Either way.
Biden is the worst.
@LoriQuaid Well right, that's the key: we should always emphasize that without Senate approval any agreement is simply a handshake agreement from the president that has no binding for the next one.
It's weird how many countries don't seem to understand how that works. Or they pretend not to understand. Either way.
We should all emphasize to the world that without an actual treaty it's just what the current president personally thinks and the next one is free to do otherwise.
@walkman meh I guess I'm not assuming anything.
I'm saying they could have had a victory if they wanted to, but Western allies behaved in a way that they did not.
If you ask me, I guess I would assume that they would have wanted one, but regardless, whether they wanted a victory or not they didn't operate in a way that would get one.
@realcaseyrollins I'm under the impression that the US did enter an obligation to protect Ukraine in exchange for their giving up nukes.
But even that doesn't really matter.
The US decided to spend a lot of money and resources to defend Ukraine, but Biden wasted that, trickling it out and putting limits on its use. Had he simply provided it without limitation all at once it would be a very different story today.
I think the US was obligated, but regardless of whether it was or not, the US decided to engage, but it engaged in a strategically flawed way, and we really need to call the president out for that.
He botched it. He continued to botch it. We can't take back what has happened over the last 2 years, but we should recognize how badly it was botched.
@davidho It's a bit of a conspiracy theory.
If nothing else, to be clear, the president doesn't have the authority to just turn off the NOAA unilaterally.
And so all of these breathless headlines are just dumb. They're just sensationalized, and misreporting to their readers.
@realcaseyrollins with the help of Western allies they absolutely could have.
Unfortunately, the Western allies dropped the ball and screwed it up. We should hold them accountable for that.
Folks like Biden snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
@realcaseyrollins she filed her paperwork, and it's going to be ignored rightfully, like a cop filing paperwork for charging someone with speeding when they were actually going well below the speed limit @icedquinn
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@ArneBab Well my source tends to be linked below. I'm sorry AOC doesn't seem to have the vaguest idea of how the US government actually operates.
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript
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@ArneBab My point is that we should stop listening to sources that are wrong. There are so many sources out there that are telling us misinformation because it gets clicks, and we need to stop listening to them. We need to call them out for being sources of misinformation.
Elections are state matters, not Federal. The Supreme Court is not really involved. Anyone trying to tell a story about the Supreme Court getting involved here is misleading you Aunt we need to stop listening to these outfits that are selling stories that are just outright false.
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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