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 ;)
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@evoterra It's not so much complacency as realism.
These events do nothing to actually change anything. So why bother? We keep reelecting the same representatives that sanction what's happening, so these events aren't going to turn the tide.
It's just people preaching to the choir and maybe having a tailgate party at the same time.
I'm more disappointed than the people that wasted their time attending these events even as they keep voting for the same representatives that screw things up.
I've said #NoKings is terrible branding because the other side gets to just say, well right, we don't have a king. It's so easy to brush off.
So what are alternatives?
Well I think I would start with No Felons off the top of my head...
@sjb honestly, the demonstrations don't really matter. They aren't going to change anything.
What matters is that we keep reelecting the same ineffective representatives to Congress.
We can demonstrate all we want, and it ends up just being a tailgate party if we're going to turn around and re-elect the same representatives that sanction all of this.
So I guess go to whatever demonstration you want to.
This is why I've been saying #NoKings suffers from terrible branding.
The branding makes it incredibly easy for folks outside of the choir to brush it off.
#ClayAndBuck: This weekend there were more No Kings protests, and they were wildly successful, as we don't have a king in the US.#USPolitics
You're overthinking it.
So many promoting the policies of keeping trans people out of sports really don't care about facts or history or examples. They just operate on vibes, as we say today.
You can't really throw facts at them because they don't care about the facts.
The high profile conservatives setting policy for the US right now are just this stupid.
He really didn't realize that an island has set coordinates, that #Iran doesn't have to go to the Russians to figure out what the coordinates are.
#BrianKilmeade: #Russia gave #Iran the coordinates of our base on Diego Garcia, you see.#USPolitics
I'm not.
@volkris If you're on the side of the majority of the Supreme Court, I have nothing more to say to you. Bye.
US conservatives are convinced that protests against #Trump are staged by people being paid to protest, but pro-government demonstrations in #Iran represent the legitimate feelings of the country.
(nevermind the dissonance of then expecting the country to pivot after regime change)
The conservative movement is being run by some of the dumbest people these days.
And that's how we get folks cheering on the idiocy that Trump engages in.
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Honestly, pretty much any other branding might have been better...
"No Kings" only appeals to the already converted.
Here in the US I like to focus on how his actions are US crimes.
Trump's supporters say we shouldn't be recognizing international law in the first place. Fine. We can focus on the US laws that the convicted felon is violating.
@jonchevreau.bsky.social probably.
It's foolish to look for any logic, consistency, or strategy in Trump's pronouncements.
You have it backwards.
It wouldn't mean anything for Native Americans. It would mean treating NON-Native Americans as if they were Native Americans.
It was a case where the lower court clearly erred, as the record was stark. There wasn't anything else to ask.
So this wasn't a problem, it was a solution. No sense wasting time when there was nothing to argue and nothing to discover.
Yes, I did read all of Justice Sotomayor's dissent.
The problem is, she didn't actually describe what was in the majority opinion, so that's why I wonder if SHE read the opinion of the Court!
What she described was not what was in the majority opinion.
@cdonat what money? I don't see what you're responding to.
The financing of US weapons to Ukraine is something a whole lot of people don't understand.
The problem is, Trump is surrounded by people who won't tell him that he's losing. It's not clear that he knows.
I suspect he thought he already won, and he wants to win again, he's just frustrated that it's taking so long for the troops to get there or for Iran to cave to give him that next win.
He's an impatient little brat, but I don't think he's engaged with reality enough to know he's losing, just like in elections and court cases where he lost.
Well to seriously answer your question (because understanding the situation is important to addressing it) the two statements can be seen as true because one context is more quantitative and rules-defined than the other.
Bathroom activities are largely defined by social norms. Olympic activites are defined by rules of games.
I'd say a difference is that ActivityPub encompass quite a lot of the stack and centralizes a lot of functionality to instances while SMTP simply (ha) focuses on transport.
That difference is not trivial!
From questions of efficiency through user responsiveness and application flexibility, it pushes towards one-size-fits-all centralization.
Really, it might be the difference between http and the old platforms like AOL.
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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