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
Yes, I always go directly to the opinions themselves.
I find that reporting on the Supreme Court and its opinions are so often completely, factually wrong that really a person needs to go directly to the Court to see what the Court said.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-476_c185.pdf
@BrynnTannehill74
The key is that so many people simply don't have the same values that you do, don't care about the land being grabbed.
They're happy to repeat the history because they get a new shiny toy out of it that they'll get bored of after giving the company a bit of profit.
You're seeing a bug that so many see as a feature.
But SCOTUS didn't outlaw race as an admission criterion. The legislators that we elected did that.
It's crucial to make this point because we can change things if we want. We need to stop electing and reelecting the legislators who wrote these laws if we want the laws to change.
We should not let those legislators point fingers at the Supreme Court for the laws they themselves are responsible for. We can change things as long as we hold them accountable.
Wow, this article really misunderstands the ruling. It's going way sensational, I guess to get clicks, but no, the Supreme Court rulings don't at all go where this article goes.
It's funny because the article even acknowledges that other people point out the narrowness of the ruling. It just says nuh and runs right past that point to paint its dystopian picture.
New Republic is not a reliable outfit, and this article is a good reason that it is not reputable. This article is fear-mongering not based in reality.
It's not the SCOTUS decision that brought it, though. It's the law that the decisions were recognizing.
We keep electing and reelecting representatives who promote these laws in the US. If we want change then we need to stop reelecting those people.
It's vital to point this out because otherwise we let representatives escape accountability as they point fingers at the other branch of government instead of doing the work to reform our laws, instead of doing their jobs.
If we want different laws we need to stop electing the same lawmakers.
Do keep in mind that as ActivityPub is designed, any content you post here is broadcast in such a way that any greedy corporatist gets it dropped into their lap.
It's really striking to me how stories and posts like this are completely missing in any logical analysis of the rulings.
They attack people personally, and often they even promote conspiracy theories, but with that dramatic and personal attack, they don't actually consider that maybe court opinions are simply correct.
That's a nice conspiracy theory you've got there.
Well there are two prongs that go against that.
On one hand, if the justices deliver ridiculous conclusions lower courts will ignore them because they are logically incoherent. The lower courts can only implement logical precedents.
And secondly, If members of the Supreme Court issue rulings that are opposed to the wishes of the legislative branch than the legislative branch will impeach them, which they have not, so apparently the rollings are solid.
@Mjo321@mstdn.social
I am absolutely positive that you will continue to believe in these conspiracy theories about The Federalist Society.
I am personally absolutely positive that it is futile to try to talk about what is actually happening in the world, to actually talk about how these conspiracy theories are nonsense.
So yeah, I will have a nice life, and you have a nice life too. As best as you can. Well you believe this nonsense about the vast right wing conspiracies that circle around the echo chambers that it sounds like you are involved in.
You do you.
No, turns out the justices on the Supreme Court have been behaving well enough that they have not been singled out for impeachment.
So there you go.
@Mjo321@mstdn.social
Congress is free to impeach any Supreme Court Justice who is misbehaving in office.
The idea of the legislative branch imposing on the judicial branch through a legal code of ethics violates the separation of government, and the independence of the judicial branch, for no good reason really.
If a Justice is misbehaving in office then impeach them. There's no reason to start interfering with the Supreme Court like this.
@Mjo321@mstdn.social
Honestly when people start posting in multi-part threading instead of just a single post to say whatever they want to say I kind of zone out.
Like really, if whatever you are typing is worthwhile, then make a single post about it. All of this 14/20 stuff is just annoying and hard to follow.
If what you have to say is worthwhile why in the world are you butchering it into threading like that? Make a composition, man! Make your best case! Don't let your perspective be kneecapped by arbitrary character limits!
@Bart@eu.mastodon.green
How does that square with the blue sky promise of the exact opposite?
You do realize that the Federalist Society doesn't appoint judges, right?
I mean you are really sort of begging the question here, buying into this conspiracy to ask what liberal/progressive judges the society has appointed when they don't appoint judges in the first place.
Oftentimes I point out when people are looking at the wrong branch of government, but in this case you are pretty much even looking at the wrong branch of society.
And that's not even getting into the tricky issue of, well maybe progressives are just plain wrong about the law. Which I would generally say is true, but a side issue.
If you want progressive policies implemented, well then work for the election of progressive congresspeople. It's counterproductive to point fingers at some ill-advised right-wing conspiracy involving the courts when really this is an issue of the legislative branch.
Yeah, power to the people.
If users want to block threads, more power to them!
But it's pretty disappointing to see so many demanding instance level blocks taking that power away from the users.
That's not at all what he said.
The Supreme Court does not and can not speak to what should be. It speaks to what our democratic process has settled on.
We absolutely should stop electing and reelecting congresspeople who make bad choices, who do not write good laws, who do not do what we want them to do.
But it's not for the Supreme Court to overrule the decisions that our elected representatives make.
All too often these days we have lawmakers trying to escape accountability by pointing fingers at the court for the laws they themselves have the power to fix, and they get away with it.
We keep reelecting the people who have failed us, and we really should stop.
If you actually sit down and listen to Federalist Society output, they don't have random lefty guests, they have full-throated criticisms of right-wing positions from serious people making serious points.
Again, this really comes across as gaslighting.
Obviously my years of hearing the Federalist Society giving megaphones to those who disassemble stupid right-wing positions, yeah I was mistaken the whole time.
It's more important to promote the conspiracy theory than to appreciate the organization that spends so much time countering right-wing nonsense.
It's funny because just today there is a post going around pointing out that, really, hardly anyone actually wants a town square.
Town square includes all of the hecklers and buskers and people yelling around about what they are selling and assholes and everything else. Town squares are kind of awful because of all the other people in the town.
In general, as the post points out, what people really want is a coffee shop with other folks that are behaving and maybe chatting a bit. Not a Town square with all the nonsense that that involves.
volkris
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Well no that's not right. That's not how the US system works.
The majority of Supreme Court influence comes from the recognition of lower courts, since it is a court of appeals. It's when lower courts abide by Supreme Court precedent that most of their influence impacts the world.
And thank goodness that's the case! Because the general public has no idea what the Supreme Court actually says or does or rules. There is so much misinformation out there.
So long as the lower courts are paying attention and well informed and actually abiding by the Supreme Court rulings the system will keep working, regardless of the nonsense going around social media and network television.
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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