Common Wisdom Skeptic

"Everyone has the right to choose their own opinions, but not their own facts."
-Senator Moynihan/Secretary Schlesinger/Bernard Baruch

[Common Wisdom Skeptic @nocapsherlock18]

Everyone jumps to the Spider-Man pointing meme, Simpsons Krusty meme, Futurama candidates meme, The Office same picture meme, but there is yet another perfectly fitting pop culture reference https://t.co/gw1MAzv8yG

[VoteHub @VoteHub]

NEWS — Former Anchorage Mayor Dan A. Sullivan has endorsed Alaska Sen. Dan S. Sullivan for re-election this fall over teacher Dan J. Sullivan and former Rep. Mary Peltola, according to a post on his Facebook page.

[Common Wisdom Skeptic @nocapsherlock18]

@VoteHub https://t.co/gw1MAzv8yG

[Common Wisdom Skeptic @nocapsherlock18]

@DemsForMike Just read the framing of this:
"right to worship in peace"
"religious identity and faith practice"
It's yet another example of DSA-style anti-Zionist rejection of Jews as a people. It reduces Am Yisrael to Judaism as a religion and suggests Judenhass is a religious dispute

[Common Wisdom Skeptic @nocapsherlock18]

@Darjarri @magi_jay There would not be any privately, non worker owned businesses under socialism. There would be no entrepreneurialism, no reward for taking risks or investing resources accruing to any owners. This would weaken market incentives

Yes, money, currency to exchange value, would exist

[Common Wisdom Skeptic @nocapsherlock18]

@Darjarri @magi_jay Socialism is when business owners don't earn profits, yeah! They wouldn't exist in socialism. By definition, all means of production and gains are controlled by workers or a state on behalf of labor at large, not capital owners. That's kinda the entire point!

[Common Wisdom Skeptic @nocapsherlock18]

@BowTiedMew2 @cremieuxrecueil History and proximity. Palm Beach/Boca Raton had computing and networking operations for decades and decades. Networking infrastructure grew around DC and NoVa connecting military and intelligence sites. Commercial Internet rollout built on existing network geography

[Common Wisdom Skeptic @nocapsherlock18]

@Joe92188806 @cremieuxrecueil @BowTiedMew2 Networking wise, yes. IBM Boca Raton, where the PC was developed, was a hub for commercial connectivity and TCP/IP testing + research. FAU was connected to NSFNET via SURAnet, BITNET, and intl nodes like Costa Rica. ARPANET had a management site 2 hrs north at Patrick AFB RML

[Common Wisdom Skeptic @nocapsherlock18]

@scorps_art @CentristMadness That was also, notably, not a instance where "Jewish settlers literally [moved] into [someone's home] and then [killed] them when they [protested] it"

The guy shot randomly into a crowd

It's horrifying anyway, but it's not related to the claim in question

[Common Wisdom Skeptic @nocapsherlock18]

@scorps_art @CentristMadness a) Yes, the general public followed middle east news pre-10/7. Maybe you didn't
b) The Q was inside Israel, not the West Bank
c) The settler responsible has been indicted for homicide, awaiting trial
d) I already condemned and rejected WB settler violence
https://t.co/YqKNDikKZy

[Common Wisdom Skeptic @nocapsherlock18]

@scorps_art @CentristMadness That's easy. West Bank settlers who initiate violence (not self defense) should be arrested and prosecuted. Ben Gvir and Smotrich are indefensible and nobody should want to

Hamas does exist in the West Bank, as do other violent groups. When the IDF targets them, it's legitimate

[Common Wisdom Skeptic @nocapsherlock18]

@magi_jay She's literally one of those people! She calls herself a socialist by being a DSA member then *also* says she's a capitalist who just wants more regulation and thinks making money is fine. She's one of the ones blurring the lines and encouraging the confusion!

[Common Wisdom Skeptic @nocapsherlock18]

@magi_jay I actually do blame her. She chose to join DSA. She helps associate pragmatic progressive, capitalist, social democratic policy with an organization of avowed socialists. She should resign from DSA, admit she didn't realize what they're about, and distance herself from that brand

[Common Wisdom Skeptic @nocapsherlock18]

@scorps_art @CentristMadness I asked about inside the green line. You literally said "Forgetting the West Bank" so I did. Why are you linking to an article about settlements in the West Bank if we're discussing events inside Israel?

[Common Wisdom Skeptic @nocapsherlock18]

@scorps_art @CentristMadness Also also, nobody claims that 70,000 civilians died in Gaza. Hamas openly admits to tens of thousands of combatant deaths. The total death toll is around 70k. It wasn't 100% civilian casualties. I'm not sure where you heard that lie but reconsider your news sources

[Common Wisdom Skeptic @nocapsherlock18]

@scorps_art @CentristMadness OK but like name one. Name just one story of it happening. You said that it happens with some frequency inside Israel. Surely you can cite a single instance

Also, people have been paying extremely close attention to Israel, WB, and Gaza for 80+ years, a century, millennia really

[Common Wisdom Skeptic @nocapsherlock18]

@scorps_art @CentristMadness a) Not inside the green line
b) Not Arab Israelis
c) The people living there never owned it
d) Courts offered to let them stay if they paid a token minimal rent. They rejected it. They refused to accept Israeli ownership
e) Those Palestinians *still live there* post 2021 to today

[Common Wisdom Skeptic @nocapsherlock18]

@AstroNat90 @phillyprosper @DropSiteNews @keithedwards @DemSocialists No, actually. Ending capitalism and instituting socialism with worker control of means of production is the core of DSA's platform. They're very clear about this. The platform says it. The leaders go on TV and repeat it in no uncertain terms. That's what the S in DSA means

[Common Wisdom Skeptic @nocapsherlock18]

@JasonBeeferman @madfernandez616 @PeterforNY19 Y'know what? He said he debated posting it. He didn't say he's proud of it, like Kelly Neumann in Michigan. It was 11 years ago. It was Veteran's Day. He's not defending it. He isn't blaming those who noticed

I'd never vote for this guy anyway, but he seems sufficiently contrite

[Common Wisdom Skeptic @nocapsherlock18]

@scorps_art @CentristMadness Do you have any evidence of this happening inside Israel? I've never heard of someone straight up murdering someone for a house inside of Israel or stealing a home by force. If that happened, it would be horrible. I'd expect it to be international news. Weird that it wasn't

[Common Wisdom Skeptic @nocapsherlock18]

@scorps_art @CentristMadness Name one Arab Israeli recently evicted from their longstanding pre-1948 home (not an unrecognized village or illegal recent construction) inside the green line. Just one instance of this "constant" problem. I've never heard of it. I'm curious

[Common Wisdom Skeptic @nocapsherlock18]

@scorps_art @CentristMadness Israel has occupied Gaza since the war. Residents of occupied territories don't gain the rights of the occupier's citizens. Post WWII Germans & Japanese living under US occupation couldn't vote in the 1948 US election

Unless you're saying Gaza is in Israel, it's not apartheid