volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@PaulWermer election misdeeds can't be categorized as official acts as they wouldn't be authorized by law.

This was core to the Supreme Court ruling that so many miss.

@TCatInReality oh no, seems to me they're rejecting the magical sources, perhaps by recognizing the realities of real people responding to tax policies.

Magically the money will keep pouring in? No, in reality once you tap it out, there won't be more.

You can't slaughter the golden goose and expect to keep getting eggs.

@camwilson I think you can but maybe there's some confusion with regards to the different types of servers in their system.

@yogthos sure, except for all the stuff he said against Nazis in the KKK. Other than all that, though, yeah he's totally a sympathizer.

sigh...

@realTuckFrumper wow, it's authoritarian NOT to exercise authority to harm the population?

Maddow is really jumping the shark on this one.

@adwright I mean I'm sure he will troll again. He does it to get a reaction, you give him a reaction, so he's rewarded, and your reaction is encouraging him to do it again.

He's laughing at you.

@adwright It's the simpler explanation.

All these people saying Elon is not trolling end up rolling out these bizarre conspiracy theories... when It's so much simpler just to say maybe the troll is trolling?

@ricardoharvin I mean the entire US government was set up to be full of obstacles to any president enacting or enabling anything they choose.

This is at the core of the US government. And no, we don't give presidents an option to switch those protections off.

Trump got reelected because the Democratic party officials settled on obviously horrible candidates that handed the election over to him, as was entirely foreseen.

So we saw that the sky didn't fall when Trump was President before. It's not going to fall this time either. Why would it?

The entire system was constructed specifically to keep presidents hindered.

@maleve It's all about trade-offs.

For a lot of us the benefits of a gas range outweighs the decrease in air quality that it produces.

Life's all about weighing pros and cons of different options.

@DavidBHimself I'd even take this a step farther and say that such tagging is really required around here because it's the primary way this platform empowers users to craft their own experiences, whether for understandable reasons related to mental health or simply everyday usage of a platform that we're all trying to get more value out of.

It's just a good habit because it empowers each other, whether a topic might be fraught or not.

Folks, use those hashtags. Especially when the topic might be triggering, but also just in general, because every user of this platform gains from it.

@atomicpoet when you ask about potential it doesn't make sense to look at where it is today, though. Potential is pretty specifically about what could be, not what is.

I think the design of the AT protocol has a lot more flexibility and so a lot more potential. Development has been surprisingly slow, though, and a lot of people really don't understand it enough to think about developing it farther.

But that doesn't speak to the potential.

@scott for things like these I always emphasize moving the user experience logic to the user interface, including things like controlling which messages the user sees.

Don't control membership to the forum. Let anybody post whatever they want, but just don't show unwanted posts to the person following the forum, based on their own preferences for what they want to see.

Only want regulars or certain registered members contributions to show? Sure! But handle it in the UI so we don't have to go down the road of centralizing content controls.

@igb please no

@londubh so far we see people continuing to refuse to obey illegal commands, so the protections are still in place.

Most recently there was the refusal to recognize the ERA In official government documents. So long as the civil Service in particular is doing its job the protections are there.

@dianathy What? That wasn't a part of this case.

@miriambo.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy a problem is that other Jewish people have clearly said they want the video out there to raise awareness of exactly what happened.

Turns out Jewish people do have different opinions.

@mhjohnson The problem is those claims about the Chinese government control have been disputed in court.

It begs the question to assume that it's correct.

@dianathy No I'm going to say the DOJ didn't charge Biden because in the US system it works for Biden, so it would have caused a conflict of interest, effectively Biden charging himself. That's why DOJ does not prosecute sitting presidents.

Trump's side admitted that the evidence was not fabricated. Trump's team allowed the evidence into the record as genuine.