volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@realTuckFrumper No, that's not with how presidential elections work.

Voters don't determine Trump's victory. Electors do.

@didgebaba but at this point this is filing a suit against something that doesn't exist. It's just as nonsensical as the DOGE itself.

It's one PR stunt building on another PR stunt, and we need to be clear about how silly this all is.

@eScienceCenter that seems pretty counterproductive.

If you're worried about increasing levels of misinformation on the platform, leaving it without better information just makes the problem worse.

@SueInRockville none of that matters though because it's the Electoral College that votes for the president.

So really, if you're pointing to some nonsense that Trump is spewing out, then you're missing the point. None of that matters. The EC voted him in.

@shacker a woman of incredible intelligence?

No, we rejected Harris because she was dumb as a rock.

She was so flawed as a candidate, so obviously flawed, that even a twice impeached convicted felon liar was a better option than the people that the Democrats put forward.

I BEGGED Democrats to put forward somebody worth voting for, someone who wouldn't flub this election. I begged for someone who would actually be a woman of incredible intelligence and qualification. But no, they settled on this moron that the country had already rejected in the past.

If Harris was actually intelligent and qualified she would be president today. But Democrats chose a terrible candidate, so they threw the election to Trump.

Democrats have no one to blame but themselves.

@SueInRockville

Here's a list of the Electoral College votes.

Exactly which ones do you think the national archive is lying about?

https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/2024

@dianathy that doesn't change that they got him.

And the people who sat through a week of evidence proving the case certainly didn't believe the charges were bogus. With the mountain of evidence presented to them they determined that the charges were entirely proven.

Why did they only prosecute when he was running for office? Because they wanted to. Doesn't change that he's guilty. It just shows that they got him, as you say.

@harvhat he can't.

Presidents don't have that authority.

@Nonilex Well right, because a lot of the population actually feels that way. They elected him because he was echoing what they were feeling.

And yes, the current government deserves to be disparaged because it's really screwed up. Not that Trump is going to do any better, but this is a reflection of how people actually feel about the government.

@dianathy they did get him already...

@harvhat they didn't though!

That's so notable, the efficiency Department was not actually made into a department. It has no power, it's just a PR stunt.

@conejoclint It's a shame he waited 4 years to do it then.

@Beachbum there's a difference between voting for a fascist and voting for fascism.

People could vote for Trump BECAUSE constitutional guardrails would protect us all from any president who might try to do fascist stuff. It's not in spite of the Constitution but because of the Constitution.

So the Democrats ran candidates that were so terrible that even this dumpster fire was determined to be the better option. Fine. Thank goodness we have the constitutional order to allow us to muddle through with this jerk, and hopefully the Democrats can run a solid candidate next time.

Yay democracy.

@EricLawton I think that you're missing that they only profit by serving the people.

If we didn't buy their stuff, they wouldn't have income, much less profit.

You say no oversight by the people, but that's outright backwards. Not only do they have oversight, but they rely on the people empowering them. Without our active participation this wouldn't happen.

So this is what we collectively choose when we accept whatever they are selling, as we each work to make our lives better.

We give them their money because we value what they sell.

@davesdogmaggie Well have you asked them?

@arrrg Well that's why the US government tries to hire professionals who can actually do the work of government.

@jef Well a suicide pact for the US government, definitely.

The US Constitution is basically the formal embodiment of the US government. The constitution... it constitutes the government.

So yeah, it absolutely is a suicide pact. Anything that nullifies the Constitution nullifies the US government.

It's a definitional issue. By definition, yep.

@Cyclist this talks as if the presidency is a dictatorial position. It is not.

The president unbound from needing to seek reelection? No that's not really how it works. The president constantly has to seek approval from the Congress. He can't do anything without Congressional authorization in one form or another, without our representatives constantly empowering him.

In effect, in the US system, the president is continually having to seek re-election, just in the form of legislative approval and empowerment.

This article is a fever dream. It's not realistic at all, it doesn't reflect how the US government is structured.

@TheBird I think you overstate the privacy features built into ActivityPub.

I get that you tried to frame it as relative to AT but really, in its own right, AP has very little privacy security, and unfortunately a lot of people don't realize this and they post content thinking that it's far more private than it really is.

I actually think AT is better on this count.