volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@FantasticalEconomics that over simplifies what's going on.

The congresspeople are looking after their own individual political interests, horse trading among themselves, engaging in PR with the public, etc.

Musk is just riding that for his own benefit, and you're taking the bait.

If our elected representatives thought they'd score more political points passing legislation with the public, then they would, but currently that's just not how we, as a society, have set the table.

We reward them for gridlock, so gridlock is what we get. Has nothing to do with Musk.

@crcollins

I'd go a step farther than maybe people are more comfortable with the twitter clone and say maybe people simply prefer it.

A lot of it might come down to the user interface. BlueSky was surprisingly slow to roll out, but maybe they simply took more time to polish the UI and/or understood better what their future users would be wanting.

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@Hippasus500 there are no disenfranchised states. They're all represented in the EC.

@kegill

@JuanWild@newsie.social the EC doesn't disenfranchise any Americans, and it's really not helpful for politicians to trot such claims out.

We should be celebrating the EC as being extremely relevant even today, especially because through the EC we were able to tell Trump's people, in no uncertain terms, that he lost in 2020. We had every EC vote counted without question, so there was no room to argue with the result.

So no, the EC doesn't disenfranchise anyone, and it provides great value to this day.

@toadly1.bsky.social if you pull up the ruling, that's not what the Supreme Court ruling said.

@Nonilex well, the law provides for that...

@mhjohnson no, Democrats are still running the same playbook of pretending like they have no role in government, escaping accountability by pointing fingers at the other side and pretending to be powerless.

But... we let them get away with it.

@copiedcopies@octodon.social The protocol that mastodon is based on does not support DMs, so no.

And it's really important that people realize that in the federated world that kind of privacy kind of doesn't exist. People need to realize they don't really have privacy here.

@realTuckFrumper from this report it sounds like Cheney doesn't have the high ground here, deflecting from the allegations against her, and so herself being the one taking part in a "cowardly assault on the truth."

If she's in the right she could have just answered the allegations head on.

@mark I mean not really though.

That's how federation works, the different instances get to choose who they want to deal with. That is both a positive and a negative to the structure of federation.

Allowing instances to choose for their users who to federate with is not my flavor, but it is what it is.

@realcaseyrollins frankly, I don't think it's her ideology, I think it's her personality. It just really doesn't connect with people, it comes across as aloof and out of touch.

I think she lost largely because she seemed like a non-serious person, a joke.

And the position called for someone who would be taken more seriously.

@elbucho

@breedlov Trump may try to do a lot of things, but let's be clear, there's a whole lot of things he can't do, so he'll be as big a failure in trying to do them as he was the last time he tried to do them.

Also let's be clear that not many people fully like the USPS. It's a constant source of derision in this country.

But regardless, Trump can't privatize the USPS no matter what he or anyone else thinks of it. It's not going to happen. He doesn't have the authority to do it.

@kctipton pretty much anyone with the ability to engage with the public and stand on a coherent platform while calling Trump out could have run away with the election.

Harris has a long track record of failing to do exactly those basic things, and after she was nominated, she failed to do exactly those basic things.

If you name almost any high profile, successful Democrat, they probably would have won if not one by a landslide. The Harris loss was just so predictable though.

@AnneTheWriter1 @berniethewordsmith

@QasimRashid Trump was not convicted of rape, which is the entire point of the settlement.

We should be highlighting that this is not the cowardice of legacy media, but rather legacy media being called out for misleading the public.

Yeah, independent voices are more critical than ever, and ABC's misleading reporting here emphasizes that.

@Cotopaxi that argument is not new, though. It's the exact same argument that's been made for hundreds of years, and even as the buggy whip manufacturers laid off employees, people are still buying things.

So it's not a very realistic argument.

Ai isn't going to replace all the human workers, but it will lower the costs of production so that the huge swaths of remaining human workers will be able to afford more.

Just as always.

@tokensane as I recall, the jury specifically found that the charges of rape were not convincing.

So it's a little more than just a narrow definition. It's an active choice by the ones judging him.

@david_megginson

My memory of Bluesky is the opposite, but I'm not at a computer to double check that right now.

As I recall, ActivityPub is the hub and spoke with instances acting as hubs to the spokes of user interfaces while BlueSky allows users to engage through multiple repeaters (whatever they call them) avoiding that point of failure.

@cwebber

@joecardillo The excerpt that you posted talked about more speech, freer speech. They can say what they want as long as other people can say what they want.

Sounds like a fan of free speech.

@FreakyFwoof That's literally not an active choice though

@raintrees That's not the official story.