volkris @volkris@qoto.org
I think the most pressing and fundamental problem of the day is that people lack a practically effective means of sorting out questions of fact in the larger world. We can hardly begin to discuss ways of addressing reality if we can't agree what reality even is, after all.
The institutions that have served this role in the past have dropped the ball, so the next best solution is talking to each other, particularly to those who disagree, to sort out conflicting claims.
Unfortunately, far too many actively oppose this, leaving all opposing claims untested. It's very regressive.
So that's my hobby, striving to understanding the arguments of all sides at least because it's interesting to see how mythologies are formed but also because maybe through that process we can all have our beliefs tested.
But if nothing else, social media platforms like this are chances to vent frustrations that on so many issues both sides are obviously wrong ;)
Joined Dec 2022
It's noteworthy that both parties claim there was significant election fraud in the '24 election stealing wins from them.
Same as 2020, a dispassionate review of the facts can settle a lot of this, but lord knows that's not going to be reported broadly.
Michigan Investigators Raise Alarm Over Suspicious Ballot Irregularities in Muskegon County’s ’24 Election https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/0...
@MattBinder on his radio show today Sean Hannity announced that he was going to buy some Teslas in support.
If Trump was copying Hannity here that really captures the current state of affairs where Trump is just doing whatever conservatives are talking about, just following them.
Just to emphasize it: not leading, following and taking advantage of whatever is being talked about by those morons.
@audiodude not in this political environment
@LevZadov kind of funny to say nothing like this in American history while pointing out that there was something like this in American history.
No we all need to emphasize that the solution is and has always been at the feet of Congress.
If Congress isn't doing its job, be very interested in what your particular congresspeople and probably stop reelecting them.
Going behind the satire, one thing I find fascinating is that the new crop of conservatives have been happy to dethrone Reagan. I've never seen mainstream conservatives so willing to call him out.
@walterolson.bsky.social Musk is trolling us. He's posting things to get attention.
There's an old internet adage, don't feed the trolls.
Even wondering about what he might post is playing into his game and encouraging it to happen.
A quick overview of the questions about whether #Ukraine actually has the mineral deposits that put dollar signs in Trump's eyes. I've heard this skepticism of the deposits before.
I have a suspicion that #Zelenskyy is not such a big fan of the minerals agreement with #Trump because he knows it's not really going to pan out, he's just going along with it to get to the next step that might actually be substantial.
Until Trump botched his own deal, of course.
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@robcinos taken?
No.
Accepted payment in return for providing services the government found really valuable and worth buying.
It's a pretty important part of the story.
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Teacher: William Shakespeare is credited with the invention of over 1,700 words. He was a linguistic genius.
Student: Can I make up words and use them in my papers?
Teacher: Absolutely fucking not.
@MikeDunnAuthor I think more importantly, as I recall he used the same sort of language that Biden used and that conservatives held against him.
So, it's the kind of thing where we should have been emphasizing to Trump supporters that their guy had done the things that they said they were against, had really betrayed them and failed them in the first term, so they should regard him as the loser that he was.
Unfortunately that's not the strategy people used so he got let off the hook.
@MikeDunnAuthor replace the services because the US government has on a remarkably bipartisan and democratic basis determined that these are services that make the country better.
Feel free to try to change minds about that, but for now the US government wants these services, and it will cost more to provide them without these companies.
@MikeDunnAuthor The problem is, replacing their services would be even more costly.
@MikeDunnAuthor it would be funny to respond to those conservatives by pointing out that if she was DEI hire then it would have been Trump promoting that DEI program
@SenatorMoobs Well that's not true.
If it was true that the court claims to be exclusive decider of constitutional meaning then we wouldn't see the court actively and explicitly citing the constitutional meanings decided by others, both other courts and even conclusions by non-governmental speakers.
No, the court said that it CAN issue opinions. But it can't exactly force anyone to care or abide by them.
@servelan being able to fire your own employees is hardly reaching to royalty.
@rolle honestly I think you are taking a step backwards by personalizing it like that.
That kind of personalizing of things often ends up driving the centralization that takes systems down.
Heck I think it means BlueSky is LESS susceptible to those issues that it's not tied to a particular identity like the way you describe.
@JohnBarentine Well no. These explosions happened with different ships, a different generation of design.
The company showed that it could launch the previous design, and this is a new design that has promise even though it is a stretch.
It's not a step backwards. Just to emphasize it again, this is a new design.
@realcaseyrollins or, he's just a moron who doesn't really have a plan, doesn't know what's going on in the world, and doesn't really care so long as people pay attention to him.
It's really the simpler explanation given what we see from him.
He could have already settled this stuff, but he botched it over and over again.
I think the most pressing and fundamental problem of the day is that people lack a practically effective means of sorting out questions of fact in the larger world. We can hardly begin to discuss ways of addressing reality if we can't agree what reality even is, after all.
The institutions that have served this role in the past have dropped the ball, so the next best solution is talking to each other, particularly to those who disagree, to sort out conflicting claims.
Unfortunately, far too many actively oppose this, leaving all opposing claims untested. It's very regressive.
So that's my hobby, striving to understanding the arguments of all sides at least because it's interesting to see how mythologies are formed but also because maybe through that process we can all have our beliefs tested.
But if nothing else, social media platforms like this are chances to vent frustrations that on so many issues both sides are obviously wrong ;)
Joined Dec 2022
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