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
A difference is that oil is a naturally occurring resource while electricity is not. You have to drill the oil where it is, while electricity can be generated anywhere.
If you go back a step and look at the resources needed to make the electricity the US has those pretty untapped already.
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I often write about #USpol, but until today, I had never thought to browse the hashtag.
Friends, that is not a high-quality hashtag. Lots of nonsense, conspiracy theories, incoherent rambling, and misguided anger. I didn't encounter anything right-wing or conservative. I don't know if it's because those people avoid the Fediverse, eschew the hashtag, or are effectively blocked by my instance.
It's sad to find so many people on "my side" are not the brightest bulbs in life's marquee.
I think not relating to the search terms is part of the appeal :)
They say they're privacy focused? Well, they take privacy to the level that they don't consider search terms in what they show.
I think it's partly because Fediverse users have often actively and explicitly sought to reject folks of those different mindsets.
SO OFTEN I've seen talk about how this is supposed to be a safe space to get away from people with alternative perspectives.
And yes, there is also some blocking going on. Folks are proud of who they block to maintain their echo chamber here.
Without the pushback from different perspectives, the conspiracy theories and rambling are feel to thrive.
The problem is that the premise is completely wrong in the frist place. We've ALREADY taken that power away... the Supreme Court never had it to begin with, doesn't have it today, and cannot have it under the core design of the US government.
Yes, so much reporting keeps getting that factually wrong. We need better reporting, and we need to stop giving clicks to the outfits and politicians that promote that misinformation.
No, SCOTUS does not have power of the elected branches of government. That fact is core to so many of their rulings where they emphasize that they don't.
We need better civics understanding so folks don't fall for that sort of rhetoric.
What are GtS and Aktor?
I'm wondering what the context is in which you're working on that tradeoff.
What loophole? This is how the law is written and passed by the folks we elect and reelect. This is intentional, not some little detail discovered, some little crack in the system.
If you want to say colonizers write the laws, well ok then, but we need to be emphatic that these are the laws maintained by the folks we keep electing. If we want better laws we need to stop reelecting the same jerks that sanction what we have.
Well, they haven't been shy about rejecting Trump on major issues, so...
I don't think that framing of the argument captures it.
I hear Republicans constantly talking about ID other than passports. Heck, I get the impression Republicans are generally skeptical of passports themselves.
And everyone is similarly impacted? There's a common thread in Republican mindsets that similar impact is emphatically not important. They constantly talk about equality of opportunity above equality of outcome.
8-1, so it's not quite fair to say Thomas revives a lawsuit. The Court as a whole does.
That's not a fair reading of what happened or even how the SCOTUS works.
There are serious questions here involving doctrines of deference to states that have tendrils all over US law.
To frame it as people from different parties wanting to kill a person is just naive.
@BLTpizza such a requirement is not present in the statute...
This comes out of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act. The SCOTUS was bound by the law passed by our democratically elected representatives.
@bebadefabo I think it's more that they focused on the direct effects while leaving the indirect effects outside the scope of their goals.
They didn't walk away so much as they were never on board with going after the indirect effects in the first place.
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#BrianKilmeade ― Sure Trump's war against Iran might have been a mistake, and maybe mistakes were made when it comes to the Strait of Hormuz, but what matters is how you come back from mistakes! Now he just needs to bomb the hell out of Iran to keep them from declaring a victory! #USPolitics #Iran
But I'm not talking about passing new laws. I'm talking about the laws as they are today.
My point is that they followed the rules, the laws as they are. Might they change the laws for the worse in the future? Sure, but that's a different discussion.
That they followed the rules/laws is itself meaningful.
Perhaps that reflects more on the people you associate with?
The MAGA people I know are quite diverse, and few show that sort of trait. I guess I get out more?
*shrug* Lots of voters feel that way so he represents their perspectives as a representative figure.
Welcome to democracy.
You've never worked for a boss you disagree with? You might be a rare case of that! :)
But no, a ton of professionals will stick it out in part so they can do their best to minimize the harm to systems they care about until there's a new administration.
There's also the issue of, For so many in government there isn't exactly somewhere else to go. It's not like just flipping burgers at the next joint down the road; there's only one US government, and if you resign from it there isn't another program to switch in to.
So two reasons not to stage mass migrations: prevention of things getting worse and nowhere else to go anyway.
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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