Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@silbasa
Silbasa making up shit without any evidence as always
Europe style car attacks are by islamists, not protestors

Whenever I debate right wingers it’s like I’m entering a totally different reality

@silbasa

Are you implying that he’s a part of BLM just because he’s black?

@silbasa
Really cool how you pull the Waukesha killer as clearly being BLM despite there being no info on the culprit straight out of your ass, while “excusing” Rittenhouse for explicitly stating he’s pro-BLM.

And by cool I mean pretty pathetic.

@Background Pony #15B5
Now we’ll see if they have the basic human decency to stay silent and reflect on their actions, or if they’ll start gloating about it left wing twitter is doing. I hope we’re pleasantly surprised.

@silbasa

@Background Pony #73BF
Purge any and all violent extremists.

Interviewer: “Notch, can you at least say that Nazis are bad?”

Notch: “Communists and Nazis are both bad.”

The appeal to common sense, therefore, is usually nothing more than an appeal to thinking that just feels right. But what feels right to one person may not feel right to another.

When we say to each other “that sounds right”, or “I like the sound of that”, we are generally not testing someone’s argument for validity and soundness as much as seeing if we simply like their conclusion.

Whether it feels right is usually a reflection of the world view and ideologies we have internalised, and that frame how we interact with new ideas. When new ideas are in accord with what we already believe, they are more readily accepted. When they are not, they, and the arguments that lead to them, are more readily rejected.

We too often mistake this automatic compatibility testing of new ideas with existing beliefs as an application of common sense. But, in reality, it is more about judging than thinking.

As the psychologist and Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman notes in his book Thinking Fast and Slow, when we arrive at conclusions in this way, the outcomes also feel true, regardless of whether they are. We are not psychologically well equipped to judge our own thinking.

We are also highly susceptible to a range of cognitive biases, such as the availability heuristic that preference the first things that come to mind when making decisions or giving weight to evidence.

One way we can check our internal biases and inconsistencies is through the social verification of knowledge, in which we test our ideas in a rigorous and systematic way to see if they make sense not just to us, but to other people. The outstanding example of this socially shared cognition is science.