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
@gottalaff.bsky.social meh, not really.
Keep in mind that with the way the US system is structured, lower courts are bound to rule in certain ways even if they themselves know the ruling is incorrect just based on the body of law of being handed to them. Often only the SCOTUS can fix faulty precedents.
It's not that they own the Supreme Court. It's that only the Supreme Court can fix the law.
@light it might just be a qoto.org customization, but I think the interface over here allows that kind of behavior.
I keep people I'm following or subscribed to (I've never been clear on whether there's a difference) on different lists based on what kind of stuff they tend to post.
@remixtures Musk isn't the leader of DOGE, no matter how much Trump might try to pass off that line. He doesn't have the legal authority of leading the agency.
But more to the point, so what?
Multiple administrations and administrators figured out that those high profile, highly scrutinized contracts were positive for the US.
@levelbot we're gonna need a bigger meter
@MusiqueNow that misunderstands the ruling.
It's not that SCOTUS weakened regulations, but that Congress didn't decide those regulations should exist.
SCOTUS merely bowed to the democratic process, respecting the conclusions of the representatives we elect, as it must under the US system.
We should stop electing and reelecting shitty lawmakers, though.
Keep in mind that reporting often gets details wrong when it comes to technical details, and this case is no exception. A lot of these reports are misleading in substantial ways.
At its current stance, the request before the #SCOTUS is NOT about birthright citizenship. The Court is not being asked to rule on that, and in fact it cannot rule on that if it wanted to at this juncture.
That comes later in the process.
THIS is about how lower courts implement judicial process, whether they can issue injunctions with effect outside of their jurisdictions.
This is about judicial procedure, not about #birthrightcitizenship.
Ultimately, #SCOTUS could absolutely find that the #Trump order must be blocked, but not in this way.
@Fassbender yes, definitely, and it's a drum I bang as much as I can because it's so important.
So many users on this platform don't realize how public everything is, and that's a big problem as they post content expecting it to be secure when it's not.
I always try to raise awareness of that so people can make informed choices, and also, I really wish UIs could make that more clear to users.
I don't expect that it will be possible to make this very privacy-protecting, but at least users need to know what they're getting into.
@eluxzen I'd say fediverse (well, ActivityPub) is open and non-private by its core design.
If a user wants privacy, this is the wrong tool for the job, and bolting on privacy protection would basically make it a different system.
It's the system itself.
The US government was designed to have three branches, with the president having charge of the executive branch.
Any government function that's not legislative or judicial is therefore under his control by the fundamental structure of the federal government.
Again, you're reducing the facts here. Roberts doesn't get to act on his own. The majority of Supreme Court justices came to the same conclusion, and without the other four Roberts would have just been whistling into the wind.
And in the years since the ruling we've seen that the VRA is very much still active. It's clearly not destroyed.
The reductionism of saying it was all Roberts who destroyed the VRA just doesn't match the facts before us, so the argument doesn't have legs.
@lillyfinch I know a lot of articles got this wrong, but no, that's the opposite of what the SCOTUS said.
In its ruling, which I'll link to below, the Court concluded by ordering the DC Circuit Court to continue the case against Trump, which is the opposite of saying he was above the law.
Further, its main holding was that presidents, including both Biden and Trump, were bound by law against prosecuting former presidents when there was no crime.
That's it. There has been so much misinformation spread about this case, but like I said, here's the link for you to read for yourself.
@iuculano The article kind of refutes itself.
Trump friendly far-right Court? No. It's clearly not. It has ruled against him plenty.
And we need to state this very clearly since there are so many people putting out misleading information about what's going on.
The Supreme Court rules against Trump and right-wing perspectives very consistently when they are wrong.
It's antisocial to promote misleading and sensationalized articles saying elsewise.
@FrChazzz The thing to keep in mind is that so much of the population concluded that the federal government, the way it was acting, was bullshit.
And so the population elected bullshit to be in the bullshit government.
Welcome to democracy.
Let's hope the government does better in the future.
@cdarwin but that's begging the question.
Musk's whole point is that people don't realize how much waste and fraud there really is, so pointing out the amount of waste and fraud that you realize is kind of what he's alluding to.
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@zvavybir careful about the chemicals becoming denatured during cooking processes.
@DrALJONES The problem with that take is that even Trump's most public and ardent supporters readily acknowledge that he says things that aren't true.
They just say it doesn't matter.
There's no forcing.
@MAKS23 describe it as the trolling that it is
@kegill That's true, but, it misses the point.
The other side is arguing that the guy is not at all being arrested for peaceful protesting. They would agree with you, and say he can protest peacefully all day, but that's not what they say he did.
So to point out that peaceful protest is protected speaks past the charges against the guy, which according to them have absolutely nothing to do with peaceful protesting.
So no, according to their argument, it is completely wrong that they can arrest anybody. That's a straw man argument compared to what the other side is actually charging.
@PekkaKallioniemi Well it's Trump versus sanity.
The back and forth is whether Trump is thoughtlessly reacting versus letting more mature, more rational people set policy.
There's nothing surprising here. When Trump insists on driving he starts swerving left and right, and then sometimes he lets other people in the administration drive, and they actually steady the course. But they have to talk him into it, pander to him, convince Grandpa to give up the keys as the Republicans kept saying when it came to Biden.
I'm convinced that the people surrounding Trump aren't really on his side. They know he's awful, some are trying to protect the country from him, and some are just after personal ambition. But this framing completely explains whatever's happening.
With the breaking announcement that #Ukraine agreed to a plan for a ceasefire on the way to resolution of the war, it's worth reviewing what just happened:
#Trump, the world's greatest deal maker, torpedoed his own not very good deal because he couldn't shut up for 5 minutes and had to pick a fight with #Zelenskyy in front of an international audience.
And then, once his idiotic face was out of the way, the real adults sat down and actually made a worthwhile plan to sort things out, really showing that Trump was nothing but a problem and will continue to be nothing but a problem, even when it comes to his own cabinet members who will have to work around him to save him from himself.
At least, this is the breaking news, but Trump supporters are celebrating the announcement, but they're too damn stupid to realize that the thing they're celebrating actually puts them to shame for supporting the guy.
Trump's mind is gone. The question is whether the people around him will put up with it, and for how long.
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
