volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@denisedwheeler.bsky.social That's not in the report you shared.

I mean even the report says that it can't corroborate its claims, but even then it doesn't even claim that Thomas was protecting the guy.

@faab64 I wouldn't look at the Israelis. I would look at conservatives here in the US.

Trump already said he would attack Iran if they killed people, and they killed people, so mainstream conservatives are saying he has to attack them now.

Trump generally follows whatever the mainstream conservatives are saying, so regardless of what the Israelis want, that's where I would focus.

@gottalaff.bsky.social

Well, what do you THINK he's hiding?

@Lionesslady @stevevladeck.bsky.social

I think in the past such screenshots would have been either attached or referenced by link out of fear that they'd break long-established systems that expect only text.

I figure even today that's a risk.

@freeschool @freemo

Howdy! My take is that, I came to QOTO in part because of the improvements they made to Mastodon when Mastodon devs were stomping their feet against improvements they didn't like.

I figure Freemo just has other things going on, but I do feel like some of the QOTO features have regressed over time. It's not critical for me, though.

Yeah, it's always been annoying that certain accounts can't be read from here due to blocking, but eh, again not critical for me personally.

I see the blocking as a sign that QOTO is doing something right, as their reasons for blocking are exactly where we'd part ways anyway.

My use case here is just to vent. If other people see what I write, great! If not, that's OK too.

@AGT ARE they worth a read?

It's like fact-checking a kindergartner saying dumb things about dinosaurs or something.

We all know Trump is full of it and can barely put a coherent sentence together, so why is it worth fact checking that? It's just nonsense.

@faab64 No need to go into that kind of conspiracy theory.

You can just watch the Fox News folks say things on the air and Trump follows them a couple days later.

There's no evil Christian Zionist nonsense here. Just a bunch of people who don't know what they're talking about, and Trump following along.

@faab64 You're giving Trump too much credit.

A lie implies that he knows what's true in the first place, and his brain is mush at this point, so that's pretty unlikely.

@denisedwheeler.bsky.social

Sure, because by applauding they soothe the idiot and he goes away.

Makes perfect sense.

@kingtor How, exactly?

What specifically are you referring to?

The courts have been hearing habeas corpus motions just fine.

@Dealiah

The Court has been clear that the difference is rooted in the history of the organizations.

We don't need to go searching for any nefarious or personal motive when their clear statements explain it.

@Nonilex

@janef0421 no, his policies are not coherent. If they were coherent he would have more success, but we have seen that his policies are incoherent.

Day after day he shifts policies to undermine the policy the day before.

And that's the key, from there you would realize that his whole presidency unwinds. He doesn't know what he's doing, he's just getting in headlines.

To find strategy in Trump's BS is to give him more credit than he deserves because, well, if nothing else remember he is a convicted felon because he could not put up a coherent defense in court.

@abesamma

To put it simply you should not be surprised because so many people just look for drama, they just look for things to rebel against, it counts to them as sticking it to the man somehow.

This childish attitude has been very very common on this platform for so long. It's rebelliousness without a cause.

You should not be surprised because this platform is just full of those people, and it always has been as long as I've been watching it.

@flancian

@miaura which is to say... They would be welcomed on fediverse.

That's just how fediverse works. Yeah, anybody can dislike and want to silence anyone else and promote divisions in the network based on their ideologies, and the different segments will all be different segments of fediverse.

What you're saying doesn't really make sense.

Yeah, a lot of servers might cause ideological parts from other servers based on this stuff, that doesn't mean ICE isn't welcome, it just means that fediverse is built around servers blocking content from other servers that way.

Really, there's no more "Welcome to fediverse" statement than having them dive right into the normal drama around here.

@light

Trump has a small but loud core base that are so deep in an echo chamber that they will sing his praises and vote for him no matter what. But it's relatively small.

Actual electoral success required a coalition that included a lot of people outside of that base, and a lot of people that were just giving the guy a chance. He could have brought them over to his side, but instead he alienated them. It was an unnecessary failure, just like his lost court cases.

Trump and his base cherry pick indicators just hand waving away all of the failures, but in the broader picture he's alienating more and more of the folks that he needed to actually hold on to power.

His activities of the last couple of weeks have only made him look even more unhinged in the eyes of those outside of the echo chamber who don't understand it at all.

@julian Fediverse has no meaning?

I see a whole lot of people that aren't admins, just run-of-the-mill users, who attach meaning to that term, using it easily.

@SouthBaySwingLeft More importantly, stop reelecting the same ineffective candidates that didn't reign in ICE when they could.