volkris @volkris@qoto.org
I think the most pressing and fundamental problem of the day is that people lack a practically effective means of sorting out questions of fact in the larger world. We can hardly begin to discuss ways of addressing reality if we can't agree what reality even is, after all.
The institutions that have served this role in the past have dropped the ball, so the next best solution is talking to each other, particularly to those who disagree, to sort out conflicting claims.
Unfortunately, far too many actively oppose this, leaving all opposing claims untested. It's very regressive.
So that's my hobby, striving to understanding the arguments of all sides at least because it's interesting to see how mythologies are formed but also because maybe through that process we can all have our beliefs tested.
But if nothing else, social media platforms like this are chances to vent frustrations that on so many issues both sides are obviously wrong ;)
Joined Dec 2022
@kevbob No, this was hilarious!
@GhostOnTheHalfShell But there's the fundamental problem that the doctors whose hands provide the healthcare are private.
There's just really no way around that.
@s1m0n4 bad news, boss, it's the America you love that voted him in.
Maybe the America you loved was always a bit of a mirage? You always loved a sentimental lie?
@gottalaff.bsky.social for their roles it's more important that they are pro-law than pro-life.
They didn't have the authority to intervene legally.
Even better, just look at how quickly Trump spoiled his own deal with Ukraine over minerals when he couldn't shut up for twenty minutes in the Oval Office.
@jwcph follow the money, though:
Often enough those businesses are just proxies for the people. We actually LIKE some of this stuff, and businesses are just happy to sell us what we want.
Trump often neither knows nor cares about stuff like this.
We've seen the leaks and events coming out of the administration showing that the folks around him call most of the shots, and organize stuff like this, while Trump is only interested in the flashy, headline stuff that gets him personal attention.
It's a false dichotomy, though:
It's not merely a choice between putting all the eggs in one convenient basket, with its own problems, vs a slow trudge toward resolution through splintered courts.
The third option is better: reforming the judicial system so that it's better able to resolve those disputes quickly without so much wheel reinvention.
And so that seems healthier for the system anyway.
@Nonilex according to people involved, no, the connection to Hale-Cusanelli wasn't particularly key.
Much more important were things like his refusal to fully cooperate with the Senate process.
He stick his thumb in the eyes of those he needed to support him, so they dumped him.
Idiot Republicans: #China was limiting the import of metals and magnets to the US, and that was ruinous to the country. Therefore #Trump must... limit the import of metals and magnets.
Today's mainstream conservatives are dumber than I ever remember them being, as if after COVID they rejected any deep thought or professional analysis as elitist.
@bettycjung.bsky.social because the protections were a bit sensationalistic, and unscientific, and generally not in keeping with good practices.
The regulations didn't actually increase protections very much, but they did make it harder to provide good drinking water to people.
@crk5 or like telling people to look both ways before they cross the street so they don't get hit by a car.
It doesn't mean it's not practical advice.
@mstarace What? The tax cuts they are talking about renewing are not for the wealthy, and way back then Republicans were criticized over how these tax cuts for the non-wealthy had an expiration date.
There's a lot of historical revisionism in this reporting.
Yes, Republicans have a problem, but it's not that as the prior reporting showed.
@Klaxun That's not how the legislation would work, though, so they aren't fighting for your right to healthcare.
Mother Jones is misleading as usual.
@ronsparks.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy No, that's not what the Supreme Court granted. In fact they emphatically denied Trump's request for that kind of immunity.
Stories like this get the ruling exactly backwards.
The Supreme Court not only denied Trump's request for near total immunity, but it sent the case back for more processing so that he could be found guilty.
We really need to counter misinformation about this case.
@vij when there's a vacancy and a sense that the senators we've elected would approve the nomination.
@Nonilex kind of a destroy it to save it approach?
It explicitly turned the question political as a warning to all who have tried to turn it political?
@GetMisch people saying we're in a constitutional crisis tend not to actually understand how the constitutional system works.
This is not a crisis, it's how the system was set up. The constitutional role here goes to the congresspeople we elect, not the courts, to follow up on these issues.
This is how it's supposed to work, and it's up to us now to hold our congresspeople accountable for acting as we want them to.
@janhoglund except no, the Court refused to grant Trump the immunity he sought, and it sent his case back to the lower court for further processing.
That story gets the ruling exactly backwards.
I think the most pressing and fundamental problem of the day is that people lack a practically effective means of sorting out questions of fact in the larger world. We can hardly begin to discuss ways of addressing reality if we can't agree what reality even is, after all.
The institutions that have served this role in the past have dropped the ball, so the next best solution is talking to each other, particularly to those who disagree, to sort out conflicting claims.
Unfortunately, far too many actively oppose this, leaving all opposing claims untested. It's very regressive.
So that's my hobby, striving to understanding the arguments of all sides at least because it's interesting to see how mythologies are formed but also because maybe through that process we can all have our beliefs tested.
But if nothing else, social media platforms like this are chances to vent frustrations that on so many issues both sides are obviously wrong ;)
Joined Dec 2022
