volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@bicmay

The critical thing is that it says what it says regardless of what you do or don't want to find out about.

@sgt1372

@gkmizuno honestly I want a lot less.

KJ was going off the deep end, as she often does, and plenty of people are pointing out that she doesn't seem to know what's going on in the world. I would like a lot less of her blabber.

KJ has no doubt. Well maybe she should have some doubts because she doesn't know what she's talking about.

The other Supreme Court Justices constantly try to give her remedial courses on how the courts work. She really is an embarrassment.

@libramoon

Congress shall make no law? Well isn't about making law.

@sgt1372 @bicmay

@libramoon

The problem is that yes, it is very explicit, and no, What it explicitly says doesn't support that stance.

@sgt1372 @bicmay

@gkmizuno sure, none of those majority opinions back your claims.

Want to try again?

@gkmizuno What specifically are you talking about?

@kurtsh this post doesn't seem to understand the concept of co-equal branches of government. It is because of the rule of law that the executive branch can manage its own business.

@GeriAQuin there's nothing inconsistent about that.

One was about taking money from people and the other was about spending money. Yeah, Congress can dictate that students have to pay taxes, but on the other hand it can't dictate that the executive branch has to spend money.

If you understand how the US government works, this post is just spouting ignorance.

@lillyfinch No, that's the opposite of what's happening.

Whoever posted that is promoting a conspiracy theory that just doesn't match the historical record or how the US government actually works.

Please don't promote this kind of nonsense. It's antisocial.

@lillyfinch that makes for a nice conspiracy theory, but it doesn't match the record. And it doesn't even match how the US system of government works.

That's just wacko conspiracy theory stuff.

No, if you look at the legislative record that didn't happen. And why would it? We elect our own congresspeople, they get booted out of office if we don't like what they do.

This is just nonsense.

@sgt1372 maybe they started paying attention to the fact that it wasn't written into the Constitution?

@bicmay

@djghettoredneck you really don't understand what's going on.

You're really upset based on propaganda. They are manipulating you.

@timo21

That kind of conspiracy theory falls below the idea that maybe this is just how the executive branch is set up.

We don't have to reach for that kind of thing to explain this. This is just how separation of powers works.

@Nonilex

@twrling What in the world? Pulled the rug out from lower federal courts? No, that's not how the US system works at all.

The Supreme Court sets the rules. Lower courts are bound to follow those rules. There's no pulling the rug out, there's just the constitutional order, effectively a supervisor telling the underlying what to do.

If your boss tells you to go count the cans in the store room instead of sitting on your phone, that's not pulling the rug out, that's managing.

@bespacific I mean, it's legal. Where is Congress? Well the people that we elected to the legislature passed the laws that made this possible.

And governors that we elected approved of it.

We voted for this. If we want change we have to convince our fellow citizens to change their minds.

@Yehuda other people can certainly provide that access even better than fediverse would be able to respond to the same situation.

On this platform instances could block the state, but on BlueSky individuals could choose to posts into the state without relying on instances choosing to do so.

Bluesky is better in these sort of contacts than fediverse.

@jazzilla

I mean, it's because a lot of people understand how the process works, and how the justice department is withholding a lot of information that it can release at any moment without any permission from any judge, but instead the justice department is making a show of trying to release this other information that is under judicial seal.

It's a smoke screen.

The justice department can release its information on its own but it's trying to distract us with this other stuff.

@dever

@Yehuda I don't think that's quite right. I don't think bluesky is federated but rather decentralized beyond federation.

Basically, Bluesky has the decentralization that fediverse likes to claim that it has, but it really doesn't.

Fediverse is centralized among instances. That's what it refers to as federation. Bluesky, on the other hand, decentralizes down to users.

I think it's worth getting the terminology right because Bluesky ends up fulfilling the mission of decentralization better than a lot of the people who try to criticize it appreciate it.