volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@faab64 keep in mind that Biden has been criticized for not seeming to care about American citizens taken as hostage.

So in this case, the administration really is equally disinterested in the lives of American citizens.

@palestine

@europesays I often listen to the BBC World Service just to marvel at how disconnected it is from what's actually happening in the US.

Yeah, maybe that is how the US looks to the rest of the world. Sure would be nice if the rest of the world was better informed, but whatever, as long as they stay out of US business they won't do much harm.

@kmetz It's like you haven't heard her talk.

She comes across as horribly weak, ignorant of basic concepts of US civics, doesn't seem to know which branch of government she is in now much less what branch of government she's applying for, she's very divisive, and really fearful of saying the wrong thing, so she ends up babbling at length.

No, there is no good option this election cycle. And we need to hold the Democratic party accountable for its failure to nominate someone worth voting for.

@jonny often enough when a story makes no sense is because you don't understand what's going on here, it's because you are putting it in the wrong context and just personally missing the bus.

No, losing privacy and stealing a sandwich are not the same thing. It's weird that you think they are.

This is apples and oranges. They are not a comparable thing. Letting knowledge go to more people is not the same as losing the ability to eat a sandwich.

This seems to make no sense to you because you just don't understand what you're talking about here, you are framing it incorrectly, you don't understand the mechanics of the situation.

So you just come across as sounding kind of ignorant, naive. Your argument doesn't really make sense.

@profdc9 unfortunately there is no option in this election that respects peoples' rights.

Unfortunately we're at a time in society where politics have become so utterly unhealthy that both parties ended up nominating really awful people.

But that's what happens when the federal government has let people down so badly.

@StillIRise1963

@ralfmaximus

The Supreme Court sitting as a court of appeals doesn't get to decide who does and does not go to jail in general. That's just not within its authority. So these stories just don't make sense to anyone familiar with basic US civics.

And yeah, it is a conspiracy theory to talk about people getting together to coordinate for some end goal like that.

The US government was specifically set up not to allow the sort of stories that this is promulgating.

@Nonilex

@Nonilex notably absent from that comment is any analysis as to whether the decision was actually correct or not. Which is really the only thing that matters.

And yet the only thing that matters is missing from the conspiracy theory.

@Nonilex No, that's not at all what happened. What you're saying here is contradicted by the public record, the publicly released ruling.

It's a rewriting of history, and it's not good for society to promote these myths.

The Supreme Court didn't step into the contested presidential race or hand the presidency to Bush. Instead it stepped into a contested lower court action, and it pointed out that the lower court was acting illegally, and it struck down the lower court ruling.

The rest was up to Florida.

It's critical to remind people that the Supreme Court generally acts as a court of appeals, as it was in this case. It did not and could not have handed the election to Bush given the way the US system works.

@Lyle That's the wrong direction to approach this problem, though.

Zoning really is between the city and residents, so this amounts to a proposal that the federal government should inject itself between local government and the people. It's just not an appropriate way to throw money around.

@chad I don't think you're understanding their argument.

Their argument is not that it would change the election but that it would uncover the correct result. It wasn't so much telling the guy to find the votes as much as it was telling him that he will find that the votes came out that way based on things like exit polling and statistical methods of confirming the election results.

If you don't understand their argument you can't really engage with them. And it sounds like you don't understand their argument.

@Pineywoozle but you see how that doesn't help, though?

If the person already thinks FEMA is falling down on the job, then presenting what FEMA is saying doesn't do much to counter that claim.

@adtothebone

@falken @bibliolater @QOTO

Yeah, here's hoping that it's one of those situations where the platform starts to support some of those features natively so they can start dropping the patches as they go.

But from what I've seen of mastodon development... That's probably wishful thinking 🙂

@falken @bibliolater @QOTO

The status pages from a few hours ago mentioned that they were debugging some of their customizations.

Sounds like the main system was able to come back up but they still had some tweaks to do.

@breedlov I don't think that was a mainstream reaction.

I was interested to see what Trump supporter said about the debate, and they pretty much celebrated what they saw as Vance coming out way ahead with the CBS misstep being just a side note, sort of saying it's what they expected from a biased media.

They certainly didn't erupt in fury over it. They were too busy celebrating.

@europesays thing is, if Biden responded well to the event he would score points over it.

@dcdeejay well, it's kind of a no harm, no foul position.

It's not f**k everybody else since anyone not willing to play the game would still be entitled to complain if they're defrauded.

The problem with their proposal is that it's reactive and not proactive. In theory it's not so bad, but in practice there are very good reasons that the state decided not to go that way.

@MaRY1Fem you're falling into the trap that so many fall into where you're getting the cause and effect backwards.

Trump doesn't cause these social issues. The social issues case Trump. They're the symptom, not the cause.

The best evidence of this is following mainstream conservative media where their ideas often predate Trump expressing them by days or weeks.

Trump didn't cause chaos. The chaos caused Trump.

@Nonilex that description is at odds with the Court's actual rulings, though.

Far from asserting dominance and making it harder for Congress to govern, the Court has ruled with restraint, citing its being bound by law, and reinforced Congress's role in passing laws.

Yes, it's the job of the SG to push for greater power for the president, but it's the job of the other two branches to check that power.

VF seems to not really understand fundamental matters of US civics here.

@QOTO I take it it succeeded?

@charvaka but that's not what happened. In fact, it kind of begs the question.

It wasn't an issue of throwing out legally cast ballots but rather determining what ballots were legally cast in the first place. It was disputed whether the ballots were legal.