volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@bigheadtales That's not the choice this year.

This year both parties put forward ridiculous candidates who are not worth voting for. And so these institutions are just pointing that out, refusing to endorse any candidate who is not worth endorsing.

If anything it makes them more trustworthy that they aren't bowing to either party.

The two parties, Democrats I'm looking at you, need to put forward candidates worth voting for. I'm sorry Harris is a steaming pile of crap. I'm sorry you nominated her without going through normal democratic processes.

The papers are merely responding to the bad decision that the party made. It's about holding them accountable.

Harris is an awful candidate. A good candidate would be running away with this election because Trump is also so bad. For some reason the Democratic party elite decided to put her in, and it is perfectly reasonable for papers to say they aren't going to rubber stamp that decision.

We need to call the Democratic Party out for screwing us over. This is part of that.

@ERBeckman not really.

It's just another conspiracy theory making its way through sensationalized media, the exact same kind of sensationalization that have pushed so many people away from trusting in the journalistic institutions.

No, it's not very interesting. It's just another bit of propaganda.

@Alarod@mstdn.social what?

@realTuckFrumper The reason this rhetoric isn't going to work is because Trump is on the record saying he was looking to debate Harris.

So anyone who has been following this knows this rhetoric isn't really going to go anywhere.

@dugglebutt I wonder if he thought it was a good movie.

I think I would have had trouble not telling him off for ruining Star Trek If I had seen him there.

@lisagetspolitik More importantly, if any president has the authority to go against the economy like that then we need to fix the laws.

And that's a matter for Congress.
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We should be challenging our Representatives to address these issues, they're not really about the president or Trump at all.

@ManyRoads I keep laughing about posts like this because saying Trump might not last makes it easier to vote for him.

The people who don't like him, well don't worry, he won't be president for long.

It minimizes the danger of voting for him.

@sfwrtr

Occam's razor would have us consider that maybe, just maybe, it's not actually a conspiracy here, but that they didn't endorse either candidate because they are both garbage.

Maybe they didn't endorse either candidate simply because neither candidate is worth endorsing.

That's certainly my feeling.

@NZedAUS @KamalaHarrisWin

@YadyO The problem is that Harris is openly promising to break the law and implement policies that go against women.

You say you're baffled, but it sounds like you don't understand because you're not informed.

@HamonWry What are you referring to?

@breedlov Well right. He was the employer, and any employer expects employees to be loyal.

There's no breaking news here. There is sensationalist media outlets trying to make hay over it, which is why so many people have given up on sensationalized outlets like this.

@breedlov Well right. He was the employer, and any employer expects employees to be loyal.

There's no breaking news here. There is sensationalist media outlets trying to make hay over it, which is why so many people have given up on sensationalized outlets like this.

@banty

Right. Which is why I would never make such of an equivalence. And it's weird that people try to excuse Harris by distracting with such falsehoods.

Unfortunately it happens all too often.

Harris needs to be a judged on how weirdly close she is to Trump. Not that she's equivalent, just to try to avoid the false equivalencers in the crowd, but all too comparable.

And the Democratic Party needs to be held accountable for nominating such a candidate despite democratic opinion.

@_dm

@LeftistLawyer My reaction is, I don't actually know what you're really proposing here.

I don't know what substantial steps you are calling for.

@MikeDunnAuthor who is doing that?

@mral except we don't.

Just to be real concrete, the two leading candidates for president, Trump and Harris, both of them have been promising to violate the rules. Both of them talk about doing illegal things. And yet they are the two leading candidates.

So no, it's not only a question of if they don't follow our rules we fire them, we go farther, we hire people to not follow our rules.

And in the end, that's okay because the government was specifically designed with full knowledge that the individuals that we hire will be jerks who don't want to follow the rules.

That's the entire point of checks and balances, and Hamilton laid that out for us.

@realTuckFrumper

@JeremyMallin anyone trying to use sedition laws against their political enemies like this... should be tried for sedition.

I'm sorry you don't like them. But that's democracy.

@mral No, that's not how the federal government functions.

It was specifically set up to not have to rely on a few loyal folks. In fact it was set up with the assumption that people would not be particularly loyal, the checks and balances and the different branches of governments were set up so that personal incentives would have people reject others when they started trying to take more power than they had.

No, it's not about loyalty and it's critical to understand that if you want to understand current events.

The US government was designed specifically to keep disloyal people in check, and we saw that play out.

@realTuckFrumper

@miriamrobern Yeah, it's just part of the design of ActivityPub: every single thing that anyone posts here is broadcast publicly to the entire network, without really any restriction, just suggestions as to whom it should be displayed to.

I'm always very critical of this because a lot of people here don't realize that they are publicly broadcasting content that they believe is private or at least controlled or restricted.

That's just the way the system was engineered. It's not how I would have done it, but people just need to realize it when they are putting content into it.