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
Well yeah, that's how you deal with trolls. Don't feed them.
Gingrich is right, the #Greenland push IS just a bunch of noise, and the best way to sideline #Trump is to point out what a stupid and empty effort it is. He's trying to make waves, get a reaction with the noise, and if you react, THAT is what will have impact.
Unfortunately so far we have pushed the ball by reacting to his noise. It plays into his pattern.
Trump's an idiot who spouts noise. How we react to that noise is up to us. The more we call that out the last impact he will have on the world.
This really isn't hard: someone in #Greenland just needs to scribble on a napkin in crayon that #Trump's in charge now, congratulations big guy, you got it, have a little award show I guess, and then get back to normal business.
All of these meetings and diplomacy are lost on him. You just have to indulge him for a second and he'll wander off.
The nice thing about the US system is that we hold individuals accountable for their own actions. I think this is an advantage over parliamentary systems for example.
So not all in Congress are spineless? Well okay, but we can judge each one to see whether we should reelect them based on their performance. How does your particular representative act?
So I really don't care how they posture, I want to see whether they are voting to make Congress work. Democrats could have taken over the speakership already, they have the votes with just a couple of Republicans from the slim majority.
But they tend to be pretty spineless since they haven't.
@PaulDitz based on what do you say they know they are losing?
@johnlogic The problem is that it's up to the people that we elected to Congress, and we elected ed and reelected really crappy congresspeople.
We should stop reelecting these same people as they fail us over and over again.
So long as we elect these people we are getting the government that we voted for.
@ike problem is a lot of these representatives basically sanction the activity through their ineffectiveness, and we reelected them.
There's not much point riding to them, it doesn't really make a difference.
We need to stop reelecting these folks.
But have you seen your Democrat options? A lot of them have been completely ineffective, basically giving a rubber stamp to what's been going on.
volkris
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#ClayAndBuck: these gender communists are using jargon against us #USPolitics #SCOTUS
@ChrisMayLA6 He doesn't mean anything because his brain is spaghetti, so he just just vomits out words because he gets him attention.
And hey it worked with you!
Trump doesn't mean anything. He doesn't know anything he just gets on TV cameras. And then his own base can't agree on what any of it means, and that is the most important clue of all that he doesn't mean anything.
@solarbird You're giving Trump too much credit.
You say they know that of course, but honestly I don't think they do. They just don't know anything.
They're morons that don't know what they're doing. They're just following the idiots who are saying nonsense on talk radio.
Trump only controls one of three branches of one government among so many in the USA.
It's really important not to feed into Trump's megalomania.
No, not really for Trump. He's just following the winds of mainstream conservative media like always.
Remember, anything Trump says follows stuff going around mainstream conservative media about a week prior.
This is significant because it identifies the problem as being in the general population, not Trump himself. He's just the symptom.
@tsyum gotta stop reelecting the same congresspeople who fail us.
Meh. The US is mainly governed by laws passed by Congress, and we keep overlooking the shitty congresspeople that we elect by focusing our attention on the presidency.
We need to stop reelecting those shitty congresspeople.
@Trying2KnowMyself I do imagine that a lot.
Kind of like imagining that when I flick this light switch it's going to turn on the light instead of triggering a revolution in some South American country.
The whole point of science, of the scientific method, is to keep stuff like politics out of the process.
So yeah I think about it a lot, and I imagine it a lot, because it's true.
Science and politics are not the same.
Why do you say Republicans want this?
Well it's allowed because voters can vote for whoever they want to.
I sure hope voters don't elect a jerk like this, but that's their right.
The biggest problem with democracy is the people.
volkris
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#ClayAndBuck: I don't know how there could be a hundred or a thousand protesters against #Trump. Obviously it must be a conspiracy. Obviously somebody is paying these people to oppose him. What other explanation could there be? #USPolitics
Yeah, and even conservatives can't quite express what the guy did wrong. It's all innuendo.
If you squint your eyes hard enough you can read some secret messages into his speech, so it's not what he did, it's what we imagine he did that we are attacking him for.
Jerks.
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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