it’s a problem on .world, too, including their matrix instance.

terrorism is a crime. you use police to deal with crimes. investigate, get a warrant, and bring them to a judge.

First-past-the-post voting systems inevitably trend to two-party systems over time. We see it play out in election models and we see it play out in real life.

this claim is not falsifiable. it’s a tautology with no genuine predictive power. it’s not science, it is storytelling.

everything you said after this was also wrong

threads doesn’t accept federated posts, it only pushes them.

i love the thumbnail

it’s in the article. more than 5000 messages to gmail users per day without dkim

I don’t believe flyingsquid has an appropriate temperament to moderate a current events community

I wasnt going to vote for either of them anyway…

Donald Trump ran operation warp speed, and I frankly hadn’t been following rfk at all

we have two antivaxxers running for president.

we do? i don’t think so… who?

he could introduce a constitutional amendment. he could pack the court. he could do something.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_Procedures_Reform_Bill_of_1937

fdr at least tried.

imagine the immense opportunity. I don’t know how they wouldn’t all think about the power being given to them. the pool of candidates. the legacy. but Biden won’t even nominate 2 more because he doesn’t actually care.

of 100 candidates having to go through all the consent hearings, I think they would come to an agreement about a few

they don’t need to approve 100 but letting 6 or 7 through is possible

you don’t know that

he can nominate 100 people today and make the Senate turn down every one

he could have started nominating to expand the court

whatever you say about discord, all i can hear is “you don’t own the data, you don’t control the servers, and the terms of service are subject to the whims of a for-profit corporation”

no feature set, and no “community” built on such a platform can convince me it’s worth my time to use it for anything more than bare utility. for instance, sometimes my pokemon tournaments require i join a discord. i install the app for the course of the tournament.