volkris @volkris@social.cleverlibre.org
Since I guess everything is political these days, I'll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.
Mainly, there's so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I'd rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.
So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.
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@unruly maybe voters believe there's more to their world than Israel?
@mehdirhasan if that's what you mean by supporting Trump it misunderstands the message.
It's not supporting Trump but opposing leaders of the Democratic party. Big difference. And that party went on to utterly fail to provide an effective opposition party, further emphasizing that they deserve to be opposed.
"I have very serious reservations about Trump" isn't exactly support.
I don't have the faith you do in our fellow man.
After centuries of watching societies muck things up, why think that there's some awakening around the corner? Or, if it's just THAT slow, down the road?
And what of the suffering that happens while we slowly get to the fix that you see coming someday?
I'm advocating for avoiding rose colored glasses to recognize that the fix hasn't shown up in generations of waiting, and the democratic process today has provided us with a historically broken political situation.
With that reality in mind, handing even more to the democratic system doesn't make for a strong case.
That's fine, but the world is more complicated than a situation you can blame on dishonest book cookers.
Whether or not there are people cooking books the interactions between buyers and sellers will still apply. Price discovery, as the economists refer to it, will still take place even if everyone is 100% honest.
Yeah, there are dishonest people profiting off of dishonesty. But it does us no ignore the rest of the world to focus on that drama.
Stuff like this should get more attention.
Even diehard #Trump supporters publicly relate stories showing how senile he is, when he gets confused about who he invites to dinner.
These are Trump supporters giving stories that should discredit the guy even among his base, but folks are too busy being distracted by conspiracy theories about his "real" plan.
#KidRock talking to #BrianKilmeade ― #Trump invited me for dinner, and he said he didn't know others he'd invited until Melania told him. He didn'...
Again, though, that democratic process puts control of the essential service under the account of the voters who thought electing Trump would be a good idea.
The same voters who hold management of ICE accountable for being "too lenient" will next hold management of the essential service for doing what they want with that.
In short, what when the democratic process demands withholding of the essential service?
Well, it says more about the incentives that drive legislators and prosecutors that are all too rarely noticed in our day to day lives.
Legislators constantly introduce bills destined for the trash heap that signal that they think of the children, as the saying goes, that get them TV spots where they can pat themselves on the back regardless of effect or even legality.
Same with so many politically elected prosecutors around the country.
The more we recognize how cynical these folks are the more we can avoid falling for it.
Often the massive fines are found to be illegal, either as a matter of court process or simple incompatibility with the rest of the legal system.
There are safeguards in place to check the power of a state that's seeking political points over justice, and that power is checked whether it's aimed at individuals or corporations.
When this sort of thing comes up the question always is, Do you want Trump in charge of it?
Because when you put the state in charge of a service, there's a human behind it, and at some point that human is going to be someone like Trump.
Sometimes we're looking at a "the worse alternative except for all the rest" type situation.
Sotomayor answers the Wut?? in her statement, immediately before the part you quote.
"Few of these decisions likewis explain the source of any such police-power exception to the Takings Clause— whether the common law, the Constitution, or elsewhere."
So yep, the justices are complaining that even if there are five cases, they haven't managed to grapple with this core question of law.
Really, this is first a matter for legislative branches, not the judicial branch.
No, that's not the question before the Court.
The question before the Court is about how the US legal system is designed, specifically whether a state court can try a case on behalf of the entire country.
It really has nothing to do with climate change and only has to do with how the US system is designed.
This is shoddy, sensational reporting.
@LeslieBurns but then, the producers might be actively appealing to the audience who wants to see a 12yo trying to impress.
Unfortunately.
@DianeLevesque it's complicated by necessity because these are fundamentally human interactions, and humans are complicated, as they try to cooperatively create complicated modern goods and services.
The feedback process of higher spending contributing to price tags being up is just the quickest example to point to.
No cooking the books, just parties negotiating trade.
It's not so simple.
There are different measures of spending, and plenty of them do adjust for the higher price tags, for inflation and sectoral spending and such.
It's a necessarily complicated topic, though. For example, price tags can rise when people are able to spend more.
And the question of what a well-doing economy looks like is tricky in itself, with things like inequality and providing things we subjectively don't want in the first place.
Maybe a call out the game, not the player, kind of thing.
Oz had his hand stamped by conservatives as a good one by slickly telling what they wanted to hear during COVID.
He knows how to play the game, so he gets a pass on the rest.
More than reasonable.
If you negotiate a cease fire but don't involve one of the fighters then you have to go fight him to get the ceasefire through.
It's a reasonable request along the lines of reasonably putting two wings on an airplane.
The drama itself confirms my ~~bias~~ claim that we never should have normalized and even encouraged such patterns of downloading additional components at install- or run-time.
Kids today... there was a good reason we didn't do it like that before!
(there's a joke in there about not having the ubiquitous internet before)
It might be an issue that Reddit is much more built around offiical interfaces (apps and websites) where they can own the chain from UI through database, making sure replies go to the right place.
The more open nature of this platform means more room for that chain to malfunction, whether through bad UI or 3rd party developers botching the communication behind the scenes.
I've always promoted TOFU: Trump Always Fs Up.
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Since I guess everything is political these days, I'll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.
Mainly, there's so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I'd rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.
So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.
Joined Dec 2022
