volkris @volkris@qoto.org
Since I guess everything is political these days, I'll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.
Mainly, there's so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I'd rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.
But... people are always going to be wrong on the internet, as the saying goes.
So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.
Just speaking into the void, since I figure it's an exercise in futility to conduct discussions on these platforms.
Joined Dec 2022
It would be like that except they don't run and control it. It is released into the wild.
@jan I mean, arguably the BlueSky protocol is much better, so want to go over there?
There is too much resistance, often based on personal grudges, to adopt the better one.
And so we are stuck with competing standards. Nothing new under the sun with that, though.
@breedlov No not at all.
It's a well-established idea, and a pretty intuitive one, that by maintaining some discretion you'll get more cooperation out of witnesses in the future, and that's a good thing.
Now if we want to talk about literal criminal activity, that's a job for the other branches of government. The executive branch is absolutely should investigate Gaetz. But that's not the responsibility of the legislative branch.
Wrong branch of government for that task.
@evan unfortunately, this platform effectively makes everything public.
It's one of the big problems with this platform.
@manton Well I think that's really the thing.
2024 was a story of everyone being burned, or everyone wanting to burn down the nonsense that we have been subjected to for a decade now.
What's the solution? Meh, there honestly is no solution on the horizon because people don't understand how to operate the system.
We're just stuck with this for the time being, so maintain context and keep in mind that the broken government is not our lives.
The government has been broken for a long time, and we need to just keep going.
@sabreW4K3 Well that's a pretty nonsensical take.
The use of some decentralization techniques? It is decentralized because it uses decentralization techniques, and that's all there is to it. It is far more decentralized than this platform because of the techniques it uses. It focuses on users instead of centralizing around instances.
From the point of view of power dynamics? GTFO with that BS.
No, BlueSky is decentralized. It is more decentralized than this platform. These people are trying really really hard to bend things and find problems that don't really match reality.
And they need to be called out over it.
I really wish this platform was more decentralized, but that's not how the engineers designed it, and we need to call them out over it.
@Linux The most important thing is that Harris wasn't offering anything. Her election melted down. We absolutely have to hold her accountable and hold accountable the Democratic party that nominated her without regard to how the public was feeling. Without a democratic process.
Yes, Americans wanted fundamental change, and for some crazy reason the party didn't figure that out, they didn't figure out how bad a candidate Harris would be, and we just need to keep yelling at them until they fix themselves.
@Athavariel but you really need to realize that this platform right here is absolutely open to using user data for AI.
There's no difference there.
@wjmaggos That's not quite accurate, though. That's not quite how Bluesky works.
@JdeBP meh, such amendments have always been proposed, and they have as little chance as getting anywhere now than they ever did.
@zombywoof No, probably not.
So if the guy has been committing these crimes, then it needs to be Biden's DOJ investigating him. If that really is what's going on then we need to hold Biden accountable for the failure, and I guess we have.
But really it looks like the GOP is just trying to get this guy out of Congress where he's doing harm.
It has nothing to do with the cover up though.
@Faelyn that would definitely be an interesting outcome, but I would be surprised if it happened because the guy is so roundly recognized as a problem by conservatives.
What the #SCOTUS ruled was that a state court could not make such rulings on federal law. It required some federal official to make the finding of federal law.
The state court's ruling was out of line. It was welcome to rule on state law, of course, but not on federal law.
So the CO court's finding was simply invalid and moot.
BUT, Congress is welcome to make that ruling, that that's a great place to adjudicate this, through the Electoral Count Act, as EC ballots are counted on Jan 6th.
Unfortunately, it's politically problematic for politicians to even recognize that possibility, so they won't talk about it.
@tawtovo What the SCOTUS ruled was that a state court could not make such rulings on federal law. It required some federal official to make the finding of federal law.
The state court's ruling was out of line. It was welcome to rule on state law, of course, but not on federal law.
So the CO court's finding was simply invalid and moot.
BUT, Congress is welcome to make that ruling, that that's a great place to adjudicate this, through the Electoral Count Act, as EC ballots are counted on Jan 6th.
Unfortunately, it's politically problematic for politicians to even recognize that possibility, so they won't talk about it.
It's a GREAT question, and the answer is, January 6th.
At that point Congress will convene to determine whether to accept EC ballots, including whether the votes are valid. THAT is the time to adjudicate this question, not in state courts.
Unfortunately, I fully expect that the people we elected to Congress will fail to do their jobs and will just rubber stamp the reported results.
No, that's not how it works.
A department that's not recognized by law is not a department, period. Any time a department wants to do something, it is asked, where does your department appear in law? And if they can't point to law, the department effectively doesn't exist.
This isn't about being above the law or below the law. The law just doesn't care about departments that aren't in it.
I believe even Trump's people themselves have recognized this and admitted that DOGE isn't a real department.
A president simply has no choice in this.
Always remember that senators can end a filibuster regardless of what the majority leader wants. At any point senators can go to the floor and get on with it.
McConnell might be known for filibuster, but that's key: his role was to be a scapegoat, to be known for the thing that the rest of the chamber set up.
A whole lot of powerful senators ducked accountability by blaming McConnell for their own choices, and we really need to call attention to that.
@darulharb in his posturing Vivek doesn't seem to note that Chevron cuts both ways, also preventing them from cutting legally promoted regulations.
(Honestly I can never tell if Vivek really is posturing or if he really doesn't know/doesn't care about how the US government actually works)
But then, this whole DOGE thing is a publicity stunt. It doesn't really matter.
#Gaetz suspiciously resigned from the House immediately, which was unusual, and faces an uphill climb to be approved by the Senate.
Honestly, this sounds like a negotiated way to get him to go away, since he was likely to continue screwing things up in the #House.
The idea is that instead of being drummed out in disgrace after the investigations show what a scumbag he is, officially, he'll be able to pretend to be a martyr after his nomination fails.
Since I guess everything is political these days, I'll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.
Mainly, there's so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I'd rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.
But... people are always going to be wrong on the internet, as the saying goes.
So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.
Just speaking into the void, since I figure it's an exercise in futility to conduct discussions on these platforms.
Joined Dec 2022
