volkris @volkris@qoto.org
Since I guess everything is political these days, I'll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.
Mainly, there's so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I'd rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.
But... people are always going to be wrong on the internet, as the saying goes.
So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.
Just speaking into the void, since I figure it's an exercise in futility to conduct discussions on these platforms.
Joined Dec 2022
@AnneTheWriter1 Well that's not true.
It's not that the left was divided but rather that the left came together around clearly flawed candidates.
IF ONLY the left was divided about Harris maybe we would have considered choosing someone who could actually win. And that's what I was yelling about at the time. But no, the left got in line behind this person with a terrible track record and terrible prospects for the election.
It was similar with Clinton.
It has nothing to do with MAGA or social media campaigns. There's no need to sink to those conspiracy theories.
The Democratic party simply insisted on a garbage candidate, so the party got the result it signed up for. We should hold the party accountable for that failure instead of excusing them by talking about these conspiracies.
@SapphireDragon Well that's not true.
Where do you think profits come from? Where do you think the revenues come from? In capitalism people voluntarily exchange money for their own benefit. Capitalism necessarily involves distribution of power out to the people engaging in those exchanges rather than concentration of power, or else there won't be any money to make profits.
Sounds like you just don't understand how economics work even though we see it for ourselves on a daily basis.
@WrenArcher when so many people voted for that party's candidates, does it make you stop to think just for a second that maybe you're simply wrong about what you believe?
It should be a cause to stop and reevaluate. Maybe listen to the other side a bit to double-check your beliefs.
Yeah it would be crazy to think that approximately 75 million people voted to give them the power to do that. So... maybe they didn't, and you've just been misinformed?
@Sable_Shade see you got nothing?
@Sable_Shade those don't sound like questions
@Sable_Shade okay, but like, what questions do you want me to answer?
@stillgray based on this I also suspect that the representative might not be bright enough to consider correlation apart from the causality she's heavily suggesting.
And so there's a lack of considering that maybe it's the message itself that's the problem, not simply how many ears they can get it into.
@Strandjunker there are lots of lessons, but people who understand neither insurance nor bankruptcy are going to miss them.
Take, just to name one lesson, the role that medical related bankruptcy plays in increasing the costs of healthcare as the costs are shifted onto others.
That's certainly not insignificant!
I'm not playing a game. I don't understand what you're asking, so I'm inviting you to clarify.
I don't know why instead of simply clarifying you'd start talking about the number of times you believe you've asked above.
I'm happy to answer your questions, but I don't know what they are.
@MugsysRapSheet Trump is not a convicted felon since the court process never concluded.
And when you say things like that it casts everything else you say even further into question.
@Sable_Shade Well I certainly haven't intended on being evasive.
Can you restate exactly what you want me to address, and I'll try again?
@Chesi What are you talking about? This has nothing to do with Trump.
This is about government budgeting. Like I've said over and over, I was against this, but the people we elected to Congress chose to use income from student loans to pay for government services. That happened a while ago.
It happened before Trump was on the scene.
I really don't know why you brought him up.
@Sable_Shade If you're honestly asking about the risk management they provide, then that tells me no, you don't understand the concept of insurance.
Because knowing the answer to that question is fundamental to the concept of insurance.
It's like saying, I know how airplanes fly, but what do the wings do?
@BeAware well, you can interact with the posting. That can be the point.
Just because you can't contact the author doesn't necessarily mean it's not worth talking about.
Well yes, that's exactly what happened.
The federal government financed loans as it considered it a financial investment. It financed the loans knowing that the interest upon repayment would pay for federal programs.
It's BECAUSE the federal government financed those loans through taxation with a plan to pay for other programs that the payments need to keep coming in.
Again, I was a critic of that financing plan, but here we are.
Keep in mind that a government-run universal healthcare system simply makes that government the insurer, moving that government into the position of absorbing health related losses.
As for what loss a corporation can take off the hands of anyone suffering, that's spelled out in the agreement made between the insurer and the insured, and it's up to the individual agreement.
I know insurance doesn't make sense to a lot of people. It's a shame we don't have more financial literacy in the country, but that comes down to failings in our education system and media that SHOULD be helping people understand how to make the most out of opportunities in front of them.
It was an election. If demonstrated the preferences of our population, not the nobility.
@codebyjeff well the key is to realize what the job of the Court actually IS.
The Supreme Court is not there to make scientific judgments. It rules on law, not scientific fact. It has neither the expertise nor the authority to wade into scientific questions.
This example really emphasizes exactly that.
So yeah, he's mixing up similar words, but it doesn't actually matter to their ruling. It's a matter beside the question actually before them.
In other words, because of how the Court actual functions, they don't address the underlying concept in the first place.
Far too many people don't understand matters of civics as in the role of their own Supreme Court.
@ginaintheburg forget Republicans, though: Democrats showed that they had a problem with traditional Democratic voters and independents.
When Democrats run left they lose votes from their own traditional constituencies.
Centrism serves Democrats!
@BohemianPeasant yeah, exactly.
So many of these Court reform proposals are so half-baked, failing to cover obvious circumstances like the one you bring up.
I can only assume the folks proposing these plans know they're not going anywhere, so they don't bother. They're just publicity stunts, not serious attempts at reforming the Court.
@DemocracyMattersALot
Since I guess everything is political these days, I'll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.
Mainly, there's so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I'd rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.
But... people are always going to be wrong on the internet, as the saying goes.
So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.
Just speaking into the void, since I figure it's an exercise in futility to conduct discussions on these platforms.
Joined Dec 2022
