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
@HopelessDemigod No, that's backwards.
Congress has no authority over the executive branch to create such protections in the first place. It would be in violation of separation of powers among co-equal branches. It would put Congress above the other branch.
So no, it's not about destroying the structure of government and taking away power, it's about recognizing the structure of government and the limits of power.
Sotomayor really doesn't understand the structure of the federal government, and that's a shame.
@RememberUsAlways I mean the headline is simply false.
No, The court doesn't get to remake government. Wrong branch.
@steter The key is to emphasize that this is yet another broken promise from Trump.
That's his whole schtick, the whole reason people vote for him, because he supposedly keeps his promises. But he doesn't. So let's emphasize that this is yet another broken promise from the guy.
@mikec415 no.
Better to build up than be a dick even if the cause is righteous.
#Trump is spending millions of dollars and wasting the time of special forces teams to sink motorboats and murdering their drivers who are just trying to get drugs to Americans who need cheaper drugs.
We really need to emphasize how absurd that is.
Want to lower drug prices? Stop killing the people trying to bring drugs to the US!
That's really a foolish take. It's conspiratorial thinking.
No, this is just dumb politics. There's no big move here to reorient away from Europe and toward Russia. That's just sensationalism.
We elected some dumb people who are doing dumb things. There's no need for anything other than that.
@fkamiah17 this is conspiracy theory stuff.
Yes, we do have lots of choices. We can see the lots of choices before us. Oh, all of the choices are provided by a few smelly actors? Oh we are supposed to focus on that? Don't let your eyes deceive you, you don't have lots of choices because of these smelly actors?
No that's stupid.
We do have lots of choices. We can see them for ourselves. That some people want us to join their crusades against the providers doesn't change the facts that we have lots of choices.
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To be clear, it's not so much that SCOTUS put the House maps back into effect as it stayed a likely defective process of the lower court.
At this stage in the process SCOTUS was focusing on the lower court, not on Texas.
The Supreme Court pointed out that the lower court seems to have made substantial errors in its process, so it stayed the likely erroneous ruling.
The question before the Court at this juncture isn't actually about Texas or voting at all, but about Constitutional process.
You're missing the real issue, though. Gerrymandering is absolutely allowed and even encouraged in the US system. That the map is gerrymandered is not relevant to this question.
The question in the case is whether the METHOD of gerrymandering was legal. And the specific question before the Supreme Court here is whether the lower court followed proper procedure.
SCOTUS found that the lower court didn't follow legal procedure, so it stayed the lower court decision.
@light It's funny that without phonebooks anymore we no longer have that convenient analogy.
Well I guess we still have different sorts of address books we could point to.
Well, Trump is being told by his handlers that the economy is awesome now and the working class has been taken care of, so there is no more affordability issue.
Therefore it must be a hoax.
It highlights that Trump and so many of his supporters are being fed misinformation, that they're acting on.
That description doesn't accurately capture what's going on in this case.
Federal law prevented Monsanto from including the warning on its label, but a state tried to preempt DC by requiring it, and that despite scientific consensus.
This isn't so much about shielding Monsanto from liability as it is about keeping states from undermining the EPA.
"Of two competing theories, the simpler explanation of an entity is to be preferred."
Trump's self-defeating incompetency, that we can observe every day, is the controlling element here, and core to the situation.
Sure, he can be both an idiot and corrupt and smelly, but because of the idiocy it doesn't even matter.
But if you go after an assumed conspiracy that doesn't exist, that's going to distract from actually addressing the problem.
@LevZadov I don't know how you go from me saying it might be bad to thinking I'm defending it.
I'm just asking you if you have evidence to support your own claims.
I didn't defend anything.
I asked if you had proof that the people who claim to be elected weren't actually elected.
Whether that's good or bad is a different matter.
Yes! It's the simpler explanation, and Occam's Razor would have us assume it.
Yes, Kooky Grandpa is the explanation that simply explains all of that PLUS all of the stuff that Trump has been botching. If there really was this whole conspiracy that you're describing, chances are he wouldn't be messing up so much other stuff.
If Trump wasn't Kooky Grandpa then would would have to start assuming he's just really good at putting on this idiot act even though it makes his own life harder because he really is a super duper genius playing eight-dimensional chess against the rest of the world with some grand goal that we can't even imagine.
Or maybe he really is just an idiot. That's the much simpler explanation.
Y'all are giving this administration too much credit.
TOFU: Trump Only Fucks Up, which you can see everywhere from botched prosecutions through botched international negotiations.
Corruption? Oil fields? No, the administration is just continuing to fuck up.
No need to look for anything more complicated than that.
The key is followthrough.
"We need to give people something to vote for" is a solid plan, but they need to then give people something to vote for.
From Harris to Behn they lost their elections because what they were offering just didn't give voters something to vote for.
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
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