volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@chiraag yes, I support unions, though not the legal framework the US has developed to regulate them.
@Weedkiller

@mral oh, it stinks for many reasons ranging from defunding of other government programs that relied on payments as part of their funding source through actually directly contributing to the root cause that you cite.

And so folks ranging from workers paying income taxes through unemployed people counting on government services through prospective students watching education prices rise in response all end up paying the price for benefits that already went to the relatively well-off folks getting out of their financial commitments.

We've thought about this before. And when we thought about the downsides we decided not to support the idea.
@charlesgaba

@JorisBohnsonPM I mean, the comment sets a low bar.

Better than Sunak/Biden doesn't say much.

@fonecokid presidential immunity doesn't extend to actions not allowed by the office.

@augieray yes, it's OK.

@mark_ohe that's just not factually true, though.

It's getting the accounting backwards to act as if failure to take is deprivation, like saying I lost money because I didn't mug that guy on my way into the building this morning.

No, failure to tax doesn't distort. It's a lack of distortion, it's complaining about something that didn't happen.

@mral no, that's not what the SCOTUS said.

Yes, special interest groups have made that claim, but they're lying to you.

SCOTUS in fact goes out of its way to try to counter such nonsensical claims, but unfortunately these myths persist.

@mark_ohe

@mral what?

Just because a plan is being blocked doesn't mean it's a good or workable plan.

Sometimes a plan is being blocked because it honestly stinks.
@charlesgaba

@JessTheUnstill I mainly blame the state of journalism in the country, where so many people noticed that they were being offered reporting that just didn't make sense, that came across as gaslighting, that they lost faith in the institution.

At that point, without trustworthy sources of information it's completely unsurprising that people weren't willing to believe that the new injections were safe.

@rickf it strikes me that that sort of reply is exactly why the nah rate was 40%.

So much false information circulated that people didn't have faith in it.
@JessTheUnstill @kittywifclaws

@nicholas_saunders yeah, and that's a huge part of the criticism of Chevron deference, that it gives the judiciary (along with the executive) too much involvement in questions that should be the realm of the Congress.

Under Chevron the executive and judicial branches get together to decide things that the legislative branch needs to be deciding. Rolling back Chevron is about getting both out of the way.

@hkrn

@chiraag I love that you emphasized the conspiracy in your reply.

@Weedkiller

@chiraag that's not what's happening.

@Weedkiller

@nicholas_saunders exactly, and philosophically that is the enormous reason that the court should roll back Chevron.

Well I say philosophically, but it's also extremely practically. This is the delegation issue. The people that we elect should not be allowed to escape their responsibility for sorting this stuff out.

@hkrn

@chiraag No you're getting that backwards.

You're saying the only way this is a conspiracy theory is if you ignore the conspiracy, but no, that's exactly why this is a conspiracy theory.

And it's it's bad for workers to promote it.

That's the whole problem.

@Weedkiller

@Snowshadow@mastodon.social what hook?

@Snowshadow@mastodon.social Yeah but those satellites make life better for a ton of people.

So you seem to be celebrating a detriment to the whole for the sake of a few.

@nicholas_saunders they weren't. That's the whole point.

@hkrn