volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@mike805

Oh no, I would emphasize that it is fundamental to our system of checks and balances that we absolutely do blame public officials for their behavior in office.

Whether one thinks it is excusable or even appropriate is a different question, but we absolutely can and should blame him for it.

@louis

@veedems It's important to keep in mind that Biden was in charge of the branch of government that prosecuted and then gained the conviction for his own son.

And then he said he would absolutely not pardon his son.

We can't excuse what a mess, what an utter mess, Biden was. If he had done a better job as president there's no way Trump would have been reelected.

You say it makes sense. No. No it doesn't. And if the Biden administration had made more sense we wouldn't be in this mess.

Let's call that out. Let's remember this guy as a disaster that he was.

@NewsDesk @AssociatedPress

@louis anyone who thinks it will piss off Republicans doesn't understand them. They are going to be absolutely delighted tomorrow because it will have proven them correct, and they will get to jump with glee feeling like Biden corruption is absolutely proven.

They're going to be very happy about this.

I was so hoping Biden wasn't going to prove them right.

@freeschool You're still thinking in terms of structures that are not sustainable in terms of equilibriums.

A slightly different way of putting that is, you might be thinking in terms of conspiracy theories that are kind of out there.

You mention the state and its roots, but really that's just what people are putting up with, and they're not putting their shoulders behind supporting such a mechanism, supporting such an effort to organize society, because it doesn't work and they see it.

It takes effort on the part of society to organize such a thing, and there just isn't the motivation to incentivize all of these people to put their lives aside and get behind that effort. This is the real world with people who want to see their kids, go to bars, look at art, go bowling, whatever else people want to do. They aren't going to put their effort into propping up that kind of system.

So it doesn't work.

All the talk about finance misses that concrete reality.

@freeschool What in the world? That argument is extremely weak, hand waving its way to run counter to the normal paths of entropy, as disorganization doesn't give strong centers handles through which to implement fascism.

If we fail the future is anarchy, not fascism.

@lawprofblawg why?

@david_megginson that has not been my experience.

@johncormier

@evan The thing about decentralization is that we don't have to settle on a single governance model. That's one of the most important parts.

There's no one size fits all that's right. And with decentralization there doesn't have to be.

@europesays Well that's pretty nonsensical.

Democrats absolutely built an ecosystem of influencers, just look at the influencers that Harris's campaign is citing for evidence that she was out and about visiting in response to criticism that she didn't do enough interviews.

The problem was not that there wasn't an ecosystem of influencers. The problem was that she was just a shit candidate, so the general public saw her and the ecosystem and rejected her.

I'm sorry they chose her. When they chose her I was yelling that it was an awful choice, and it turned out yes, she was an awful choice.

The Democrats absolutely have the ecosystem of influencers. It does no good to pretend otherwise. The problem is the powerful in the party lacked understanding of the population.

@europesays That's the problem, The US hasn't had a really good option in a while.

It doesn't do any good to pretend otherwise. Instead we need to be holding accountable the ones that chose to present crappy options.

It didn't have to be that way. But it was.

@davidbisset It's an enormous problem that this is a non-technical person talking about technical things and getting them wrong.

Most importantly, when I see the section header that everything is public on BlueSky it raises the issue that effectively everything is public here in Fediverse accept that people don't realize it if they're not technical, which is one of my axes to grind: people here have a false sense of security, which is even worse!

I think it's a major problem that people here are submitting content without realizing they're making it public.

But right, unfortunately that's a non-technical person commenting on technical things and getting them wrong.

@eilah_tan but "offloading" implies that it was appropriate in the first place.

Id go the other way.

@pop_stefanija

@3dcandy competitive in terms of what it can do, separately from user count

@chiefgyk3d

@3dcandy competitive in terms of what it can do, separately from user count

@chiefgyk3d

@tdverstynen so much of that simply isn't consistent with the opinions the Court handed down.

Yes, it's the story told by so many special interest groups and click-bait news outlets, but it's debunked when you read the actual rulings and understand how the US system actually works.

A lot of people simply aren't taken in by the misinformation.

@Nonilex he didn't try to ban Mifipristone nationwide.

He tried to have the FDA follow the law in its drug approvals, or at least call them out for breaking health safety rules.

That story of bureaucratic process just isn't as sexy, though, so reporters found a different angle.

@charvaka

Keep in mind that Elon isn't really doing half the things breathless reporting is claiming. He doesn't have the authority to do much at all.

Everything he's doing is legal because he's just not doing much.

This is all trolling from him and a PR stunt from the administration. We need to emphasize that to avoid actually giving him more of the influence that you're worried about him having.

It's a Streisand Effect sort of thing.

@kbeninato

@DrALJONES

Terrorize their citizens by... asking them to pay normal tax rates?

@profcarroll

That's not what this dismissal means. It's basically saying that the SCOTUS is taking no stance, not agreeing with either side.

But really, this is all based in the misunderstanding--widely distributed in the press--over what happened back in CA.

In reality, CA didn't steal user data. Users handed it to them. I was there, and back in those days users were happily handing over information to these third parties.

But that doesn't make for such a sensational story, so as usual, the drive for click-bait lead the investigation.

This is still cleaning up that mess.