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
@deborahh Well, I'd say symptom of the underlying problem.
Distraction makes it sound more planned than it likely is. I figure this is a fairly organic outcome, a political system responding to unhappy voters, or a response where it's seeking to fill a vacuum, whichever way you want to put it.
Personally, I grind the ax about the institutional failures of journalism that, had it not lost the faith of so many news consumers, could have addressed voters' concerns.
@thisismissem this is key.
#Trump never has been a leader, and he was never the cause of the shifts in the political landscape that we've seen. People blame Trump for so much that he's simply not even capable of being the cause of.
Trump's a loser and needs to be approached as such.
What you're noticing is what his supporters trained him into doing. Long ago he would occasionally take an actual stance, get it wrong, and have to be corrected. He learned not to, since his crowd would project what they want to hear onto his rhetorical vomit. So much easier.
And it captures that far from being a leader, he's a puppet for his crowd. THEY are the problem.
Practically, we need to identify his crowd as the problem and work on resolving that. Trump is the distraction.
This is so important in understanding #USPolitics
@breedlov the key to always keep in mind is that a third of US voters are operating based on a completely different set of facts.
So very often, their actions and voting patterns make complete sense in the context of the worldview they're working with.
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@realcaseyrollins AND it also explains why so many Republicans are die hard Trump supporters even though his performance in office was exactly the opposite of what they claim they wanted.
Had Democrats actually criticized Trump on his actual record he might have lost the support of those diehards.
Instead, they criticized the guy based on things he didn't do, that Republicans wish he did do, and so they were his best campaigners.
It's such a stupid, stupid political environment we live in.
@Captain_Jack_Sparrow @cjd
Notice that there's an enormous difference between Is there a way we could inject something like a disinfectant? vs People should inject themselves with bleach!
So yes, you made it up, ascribing to Trump a quote that was so completely different from what he actually said.
It reminds me that occasionally press reporters would do things like leave out the word "not" in a statement he made, turning the statement into the exact opposite, and people would just go with it.
@Fu but... why's all the rum gone?
It would help us deal with this world!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JImcvtJzIK8
@realcaseyrollins @Captain_Jack_Sparrow @cjd
@cjd that's honestly not the worst take.
So many people really don't fault for abusing power, as they want to see it abused in a different way.
I suppose making things up is one way around that.
@Captain_Jack_Sparrow @realcaseyrollins
@mcpinson I mean, it's not supposed to.
Trump's threats and bluster are about promoting himself, not about anything else.
And raising money from people who don't have the background to know that he's lying to them.
@evan you have no trust and safety on the Fediverse, just by virtue of how the system was designed.
It's extra problematic that people don't realize that and take precautions.
@adhdeanasl because your description of an imperfect administration making progress doesn't match with the reality so many of us live every day, as we see Biden engaging legally dubious acts, spreading falsehoods, and even with all of that, largely failing to make substantial benefit for so many.
If he's going to act corrupt, one would at least hope he'd get some success from that. But no, he just seems both corrupt and incompetent, and I'm not willing to downplay that as doing his best.
We have two crooks headlining this election. Might as well be honest about it.
@cjd exactly.
So many Trump critics lash onto easily debunkable claims when there's plenty wrong that the guy DID do.
Why make things up?
@realcaseyrollins I'd go a different way with that.
Yes, standards were temporarily lowered, but that's because they were too high in the first place, and we need to reevaluate those standards, as Operation Warp Speed laid bare to see the costs of getting the balance between safety and progress wrong.
@Captain_Jack_Sparrow @cjd
@noplasticshower from their perspective it's the opposite: BECAUSE the flag deserves respect, that's why it's a protest against the state of affairs.
It's respectful recognition of the flag in the course of expressing what they consider to be important.
@moira news is reporting that Good backed a different GOP candidate for presidential nomination, and this is Trump's way of returning the favor.
@onehushhush funny thing is it depends on which side of the story you're on.
From the reporting I've been hearing, Biden's trying to take the other side, it's theirs if it works and Israel's if it doesn't.
The dark side of #fediverse
The sad thing is that I personally probably align well with that community, and the only reason I even learned about the block was that I tried to ...
@RunRichRun well, sadly it's not so much loyalty to Trump but rather loyalty to this alternative reality that conservative commentators spent months building up around the trial.
If you believed all of the false claims they've made about the trial then you'd say the same, that it's ridiculous to respect the outcome.
They're wrong, and that's a shame. But yet again, it's a call for us to find some way to restore faith in legit reporting instead of letting this nonsense fill the vacuum.
@iuculano the Supreme Court isn't a person. It doesn't have the capacity to be upset. And it does us no good to act like it is.
Different justices have very different personal opinions, different backgrounds, philosophies, approaches to life.
That diversity is a good thing. We should celebrate it and encourage it, not let it get lost in oversimplification.
@rameshgupta right, you keep getting lost in your abstractions, but they're not at all realistic.
Heck, just look at this comment. the reason for any court to exist is to administer justice? That's pretty weird considering the Supreme Court's lack of authority to administer, which is left to an entirely different branch of government.
Your theories here just don't match reality.
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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