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
Right, wrong branch of government. It's really up to Congress and the people that we elect to Congress.
We have to stop reelecting the same ineffective people.
This is especially timely as Republican-aligned figures join in the debate over #ICE and DHS funding by explicitly rejecting due process for those accused of being illegal immigrants.
I cringe every time I hear them assert that, and it seems to be a major stickingpoint in Congress at the moment.
Absolutely there are still three functioning branches! The problem isn't in the functioning but in how we use them.
Congress is really the key, as we elect and reelect representatives to represent us, well, turns out we want gridlock, so it's giving us exactly the gridlock we voted for.
It's like a computer that's operating 100% correctly, but we keep putting garbage in and getting garbage out.
Idiots advising #Trump on US policy are at about this level, completely unaware that these terms and determinations have real, significant legal implications.
Kilmeade being so low key about giving up the imminent argument shows he has no idea how important that concept is in the US system of governance.
#BrianKilmeade: With all the controversy over whether the attack on #Iran was justified by it posing an imminent threat to the US, why can't we ju...
Meh, presidents still require statutory permission to act, even to engage in enforcement action against actual criminals.
It's part of the US design that it requires cooperation of all three branches for the federal government to act against its citizens.
From what I hear, many justices on the SCOTUS have consciously taken the position that it would be improper for them to engage like that.
They don't believe it would amount to politicization of the non-political branch to go on a campaign of persuasion outside of the opinions they hand down.
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#ClayAndBuck: You know things are going well in #Venezuela because there hasn't been any media coverage of it. The media would cover it if things were going badly. (So they say after I was hearing media coverage about how it was going badly) #USPolitics
@misskitty.art What specifically are you talking about?
@darulharb I mean I think most of us just say that the guy is a senile joke who doesn't know how anything in the world works.
That's probably the easiest thing to say.
Out of curiosity, because I haven't read it, what specifically might be unconstitutional about it?
Watching the screw-ups in the Comey prosecution right now I’m just thinking #TACO , #Trump Always Chickens Out, should be joined by #TOFU , Trump O...
Watching the screw-ups in the Comey prosecution right now I’m just thinking #TACO , #Trump Always Chickens Out, should be joined by #TOFU , Trump O...
@dnkboston sure, when the parties put up people worth voting for.
If we vote regardless of the quality of candidates then sanctions low quality candidates who do us disservice once they are in office. We need higher standards.
Otherwise we get ::gestures:: all of this
@sleepy62 those are humans spreading AI images.
Don't let the humans off the hook.
The biggest #Trump supporting influencers helping shape conservative thought and US policy, ladies and gentlemen. God they're morons.
Right now the US is caught between senile boomers and young people who are more interested in taking shots of Fireball at tailgate parties than knowing how the world works.
Pretty much explains the whole situation.
#ClayAndBuck: We did our research before the show, and we can tell you that Kharg Island is really important to #Iran because that's where they re...
I honestly don't understand what you mean with that.
What do you mean by fork the changes?
Understand that this administration, and much of the #GOP that's setting US policy, is driven by boomer nostalgia based on naive misundertandings of history.
From wanting to bring back battleships through wanting to return to good ol' days of white picket fences and family values, that's why they constantly refer in rosy terms to irrelevant scenes of times that never were.
And all of that while these authorities age into senility.
#AllenWest and #BrianKilmeade:The US could could enable shipping through the Strait of Hormuz by applying tactics used during the D-Day landings a...
Someone is misinforming you about what's going on here, as what you're saying is factually wrong.
NO the SCOTUS didn't refuse to hear a case based on the principle that copyright only applies to human expression. That's not even what the lower court said, so the Supreme Court wouldn't have refused based on that in the first place, even if they were going to give an explanation.
Copyright is not human expression. That's not what the courts say, and that's not what the law says.
This case is about regulatory process in context of statutory implementation of constitutional authority.
Here's what the Supreme Court actually said, directly from them. It's at the top of page 3. And it's nothing. They simply weren't interested in the case.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/030226zor_2d8f.pdf
#ClayAndBuck: We were really hoping the administration would announce some sort of plan for what comes next for #Iran, but I guess there just isn'...
Well, there's a fundamental argument about whether the Federal Reserve Board IS such an independent agency in the first place, or if it's something different.
SCOTUS has hinted that there might be a distinction with a difference.
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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