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
@QasimRashid it sounds like you're missing that this is being enabled by Congress.
You should protest your congresspeople. They're really the ones supporting this, so that's the weak point.
Protesting ICE like this just plays their game. They know how to win this game.
People need to go after Congress instead.
@everton137 I can help explain it if you don't get it that's where the readers are.
It's really that simple.
They're on X because they want to connect to the people on X.
@NewsDesk That's a sensationalized take on this.
He already hired the guy a long time ago. This isn't cozying up to 2025, it's meeting with his employee.
@fkamiah17 But this is missing the context that Trump has a mind that has gone to mush, his speech was incredibly rambly and showed that his brain just does not work anymore, and he displayed that directly to a bunch of brass who will know not give him much benefit of the doubt if his orders are off the rails.
It doesn't really mean much to pick lines out of a crazy person mumbling to himself.
But yeah, now that Trump has directly demonstrated to military leadership that he's insane, now that they have seen it with their own eyes, they're not going to respect out of line orders from him. They won't be legally valid orders.
A couple things, this helps moderators figure out what people want them to remove in the first place it helps them learn the communities.
But more importantly, it helps us not rely on moderators so much in the first place.
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#Hannity, on a roll listing out his standard series of grievances, referring to "unvetted known terrorists" in the US illegally, without realizing the contradiction. #USPolitics
@steter the Supreme Court said no such thing.
@vicnews MAGA legislators voted to keep government open.
It's not their shutdown.
@pattykimura no, Trump doesn't control all three branches of government, neither in theory nor practice.
He's the president. The other two branches are insulated from the president by design.
And the other two branches regularly refuse to do what he wants.
For example, they refused to fund his branch of government and give him the resources to carry out his programs.
@realcaseyrollins reporting says Hegseth is the one who called for the presentation, and he did a great job presenting it.
But then #Trump insisted on stealing the spotlight, and he looked awful. He didn't follow military protocol and gave a presentation that was so discombobulated that he looked insane.
The contrast only magnified that.
So good job, Trump, you just let all of your top military brass know that their commander isn't all there mentally. They're far less likely to give benefit of the doubt for questionable orders now.
The SCOTUS was intentionally designed not to be a bastion of democracy. That's why it was given no enforcement power--it could only issue opinions.
From its small, nonrepresentative membership through lifetime appointments, SCOTUS is not and never has been the bastion of democracy.
That role really goes to the people we elect to Congress.
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@steter what exactly makes you think Trump understands anything these days?
In every appearance he makes it sounds like his mind is just gone.
@Guillotine_Jones I love that it brought military brass from around the world into one event where they could see with their own eyes that the president has lost his mind.
Honestly, I see it as a good thing, they are not as likely to give him the benefit of the doubt after seeing what an utter mess he is.
#Trump's brain is pudding, and after seeing it for themselves these military leaders aren't going to have nearly as much respect for his orders.
Correct. A century of segregation doesn't count because in modern times that has been relegated to the dust heap of history.
That's how constitutional interpretation works.
If there is general consensus today, then there is a lack of controversy today, and that counts for a whole lot in the way these questions are addressed.
This is nothing new, this has been the norm for a long time.
@msm well that's not going to work.
Particularly when it comes to people engaging in violence, they aren't necessarily going to fit into any normal, mainstream notions of liberal vs conservative.
They will naturally have some... transcendent ideas.
No, this is how law is supposed to work. This is longstanding practice, with legal procedures built around it.
The idea is that employees don't own their jobs, so they're not entitled to their jobs back. That's not something judges can give back to them since they were never theirs.
They can get back pay that they were entitled to, and there can be negative repercussions for a President, but this is otherwise how law is supposed to work.
In this context? Same as ever: decide whether to appropriate and give permission to spend. But the spending itself is an executive branch function.
The function of Congress it to authorize. The function of the President is to decide whether to act on the authorization.
This is critical to separation of powers in the design of the US government. It's important, as it avoids conflicts of interests should Congress be able to demand executive function.
And if funding runs out this week, that function of Congress will be front and center.
SCOTUS is ALWAYS considering tearing up legal precedents. That's absolutely nothing new. Precedents rise and fall all the time.
And it's right for that to happen as errors of the past are fixed.
In this case, Humphrey’s Executor has been chipped away at for years. These stories about it being so old miss that it's been flailing and revised over that time. It's not the solid foundation that some are portraying it as.
No, in the US system the SCOTUS only issues opinions. By design it can't actually stop anyone. Such powers were granted to the other branches, to limit the power of the Court.
It's really the folks that we elect to Congress that have primary power to stop a president who's misbehaving.
So we need to stop reelecting crappy congresspeople, particularly the ones that point fingers at others instead of doing their own jobs.
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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