volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@acwhite that comes across as a nutty conspiracy theory like the faking of the moon landing.

Oh those conservatives, they're all in on it. All of them know that they're all telling this lie, and yet weirdly even though so many of them are so utterly stupid, it's weird how the conspiracy theory hasn't been revealed by any of the millions of conservatives who all buy into the proposal.

No, that's just silly. Millions of conservatives expressing the same viewpoint, and yet none of them have slipped up and told us about the organized effort to hide their thinking?

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sometimes there is no conspiracy theory. Sometimes a political orientation is just being honest about what they believe, about their thinking.

Occam's razor would suggest that we maybe take them at their word especially when it just makes plenty of sense.

@persagen It's pretty funny, the idea that we should let Sanders, a consummate insider, choose who we can and can't hear from.

This is exactly why citizens united was the right decision.

@MugsysRapSheet That's absolutely not true though. Nobody gave anyone unchecked power.

In fact, it's the exact opposite, regardless of what the breathless special interests are trying to misinform the public with.

You're being lied to, and you need to stop trusting whoever you're hearing this from.

@IAmDannyBoling I don't think you're appreciating the way this is working out.

The Supreme Court merely said that presidents have to follow the law. Okay. It's not that crazy idea.

So this is Biden (he controls the military) making a claim that Congress doesn't require this cleanup.

That's not about the Supreme Court. That's about Biden making a choice, and he needs to be held accountable for it. And if he's right then your Congressional representatives need to be held accountable for not megan better laws.

You're focused on the wrong branch of government. It's the other two that are the problem here.

But we keep reelecting officials who let us down, so I guess we're okay with it. Yay democracy.

@WarnerCrocker

Saying things like that plays into his game.

What he means is that he and his supporters are confident that they have the backing of the public, and they're wrong, they're out of touch, disconnected from reality.

The way to oppose Trump is to point out that he's a loser who lost and lost over and over because he doesn't know what he's talking about.

The strategy of promoting conspiracy theories is the kind of thing that turns up the heat for his supporters and he can work with that.

The sort of reaction that you had here? Yeah, that's how we got Trump the first time, and that's how he landed within striking distance of a second term.

@rbreich has this completely backwards, as usual

Employees having the freedom to sign non-compete clauses lets them have more opportunities for jobs and negotiate for higher wages. Biden's administration sought to take this freedom away.

The court's ruling gives workers back their power to negotiate their labor as they see fit.

Even if Reich would rather impose his personal preferences on workers to not let them have that option.

@acwhite Republicans don't hate the idea of Americans voting. Quite the opposite.

They think they are protecting the system of Americans voting.

If you don't understand the enemy and how they think you can't properly counter them.

@TallVenti

In general the BBC doesn't really seem to understand US politics or the US system of government because the British system of government is so fundamentally different.

I listen to BBC World Service all the time in part to get a sense of how international audiences are perceiving US events not because they're right, they so often are completely wrong, but to see how their perspectives color what they think is happening.

It's pretty interesting sometime. Completely wrong, but pretty interesting.

@realcaseyrollins
... I mean they have?

@hoare_spitall I mean, personal motivation is the name of the game, and for good reason.

We WANT personal investment by our politicians, as that keeps them engaged and incentivized to satisfy their constituents as they set about governing.

@NewsDesk

@samohTmaS they wouldn't be off the court, though. That's not the rules of how the US government functions.

And for good reason, this is part of having an independent judiciary.

We require impeachment to take someone off the court because we don't want presidents to be able to threaten justices to get their way. That's part of protecting against a president going way overboard and threatening the country.

It requires impeachment to take a Justice off the court. It requires that our elected representatives agree that the justice should no longer serve.

We don't leave that decision up to a president to dictate.

@libramoon

@dougiec3 As usual, Vox is telling a story but offering slanted takeaways.

Very often Vox has this habit of mixing opinion and reporting that is altogether a bit misleading.

Same here: according to the story, no, SCOTUS isn't being asked to disenfranchise voters as the headline and some lines in the story say. That's not how the system works.

Rather, the state law didn't offer franchise in the first place, so it's up to the state, not the Court.

@samohTmaS

It wouldn't change anything, though. Short of impeachment and removal of those justices the Court would remain the same.

@libramoon

@mekkaokereke

I'd say GT shouldn't be attempting to protect students from content in the first place. It should empower those adults to control their own lives and experiences as they engage with the real world.

Give them tools to shape their experiences of the world and then stand aside.

But sure, in reality there are legal issues that might block that approach.

In that case GT should not start an instance for its students.

It should simply say, We're sorry, but there's no good way to provide social media infrastructure for you, students, so we won't be going that direction.

@TCatInReality

IF we elect good reps they will impeach presidents who botch the DOJ. That's part of being a good rep.

It's a single layer.

Alternatively we have an independent law enforcement organization untethered from that oversight system, cops unsupervised, which is pretty dangerous.

But we get the government we vote for, largely by electing good reps and declining to reempower bad ones.

@BostonGlobe

@kallekn GDPR doesn't allow users such choice.

They choose for you.

@muiiio

@adrianmorales problem is, Meta is likely over here on Fediverse vacuuming up content all they want.

Over here they don't have to ask for consent in the first place. We're broadcasting content for any to use.

@CynicusRex no, why deprive others of value?

It would be a net loss for society.

@GrahamDowns this is the right approach, empowering users to craft their own experiences by using tools like blocking and muting.

I wish that was more of a focus of development around here.