volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@evoterra wrong branch of government.

This was a law passed by Congress, by the congresspeople we elected. We should stop reelecting them.

@MikeDunnAuthor It's not a right-wing SCOTUS but rather one that respects the laws passed by Congress regardless of political leanings.

So we elected congresspeople that passed certain legislation that might not have been for the best. Fine, let's dump them and elect better representatives who won't do that, who will fix the laws.

But that's not up to the court. That's up to us.

@sfbaykeeper No that gets it backwards.

They didn't weaken the act, they strengthened it by emphasizing what it actually says.

If Congress wants to change the act then they absolutely can. And under this philosophy the changes will be buttressed by court rulings.

The act just didn't say what some people thought it should say.

@breedlov Well, if people are willing to pay it...

Kind of dumb to pay that much to dine with the jerk, but apparently some are into it.

@watch4thedrop it just goes to show this story about majorities is just not real.

That's just not how the court works, it never has been.

@aselrod.bsky.social

But the thing is, how exactly is he going to do it?

He can talk all he wants about wanting to flap his arms and fly around the room, but unless there's an actual mechanism for doing it on the table it's just talk, no matter how much talk it is.

We should talk about the actual mechanism, not the blather that he spews out.

@breedlov Oh no, not at all. You're giving Trump too much credit.

Trump isn't far right. He's old, his mind is gone, and as he circles the drain he's especially short on self-control.

@yukiame notice, if you will, how JD Vance tends to use very simple words even when talking about big picture issues.

He gets it.

@breedlov Trump's awful, but let's not confuse inflation for what it's not.

Inflation is a problem with the money supply, not with policy choices. Prices go up and down based on dumb political choices, but that isn't necessarily inflation, and to confuse the two can even let politicians escape accountability.

@stevevladeck.bsky.social Well right, because that's just how the system is set up.

@CharlieMcHenry No, that's not what they ruled at all.

I don't know who is telling you this, but if you read the actual opinion, that's not what they said. Somebody is lying to you and you should stop believing them.

@zombywoof a lot of people aren't in it for the money. They just want to be part of something, part of a team.

@Nonilex it's not that SCOTUS sided with Trump, but that it takes more than a few hours to sort out what's going on.

Really, this isn't about Trump at all, but about whether the lower court acted properly. THAT's who the appeals court is going to be judging, not Trump.

@vaurora The money comes from somewhere, though. The ones giving 100 mil no longer have that 100 mil to chip in for the next 200 million ask.

Meanwhile, workers are paid, infrastructure invested in, and lunches purchased from shops in the course of the frittering.

Sure, it would be best if money is spent ideally, but at the least there's this bright side.

@lolscotus Well please share

@Nonilex Well exactly.

It went as one would expect.

Which is to say, this is how government works. Anybody upset by this or surprised by this doesn't understand how government works.

It's not that the court sided with Trump, it's that this is how the government works and has always worked. It has nothing to do with Trump.

Welcome to a government with democratic representation and a rule of law that supports it.

Anybody hoping to get resources outside of that process, well, the US is more democratic than that.

@salixsericea Well quickly, I suspect this is one of those cases where The Guardian won't really understand American culture enough to really report comprehensively on the issue.

In particular they might not be aware of the supposed rules that tips included should amount to minimum wage, or the common under reporting of cash tips to tax authorities. It's a mess.

But yes, not only does the world know how ridiculous the tipping thing is, a whole lot of the US knows as well. Unfortunately it's one of those things like daylight savings time where the institutional inertia and complex interests at play prevent us from really changing course.

Personally I think the no tax on tips proposal is a terrible, terrible idea, only serving to further ingrain tipping when we need to be moving away from it for the good of workers, and that's not even getting into corruption, the way it would encourage more and more pay to be moved over into tipping dishonestly.

But, the people pushing for that idea aren't the brightest. So, there we go.

@highduc honestly, I don't know what y'all are talking about, but I think there can be actual value in replying to something with that phrase.

I think there's a general understanding about what it means, so to lay that on the table can be an effective way of criticizing a stance.

Depending on the context it's not trolling at all.

@anon