Matitya Loran

I just published Milestone: A Twitter User Has Blocked Me For the First Time medium.com/p/milestone-a-…

@maamikron42 @kathy29983 @rich_toronto "you put up hamas as the hydra monster that threatens to gobble up Israel and the jewish people." Read their charters. "hamas is a pity terrorist organisation that has no such power." The 1200 people they murdered on October 7th would beg to differ

@MatityaLoran @kathy29983 @rich_toronto yes, you put up hamas as the hydra monster that threatens to gobble up Israel and the jewish people. hamas is a pity terrorist organisation that has no such power. you build this golem only so you do not need to look at the wrongs Israel does.

Have you ever been to Israel? Do you know anything about it? As you attempt to delegitimize it and call for its destruction, are you speaking from personal learned experience, or from what you’ve seen on social media? I was there once. Just over 20 years ago. I visited Tel Aviv and Haifa and Jerusalem and other places I don’t remember. I celebrated Rosh Hashana in the home of friends of the friend I was travelling with. They invited a complete stranger into their home to celebrate the new year with them. I saw the road signs there, in Hebrew and Arabic and English. Not just in neighbourhoods with a large Arab population. Everywhere. I saw soldiers walking around with machine guns. My bags were searched when I entered malls. The trunk of my car was opened when I drove into a parking lot. And I felt safe. I met Jews. And Muslims. And Christians. I visited old Jerusalem, and saw the four quarters, where Jews, Muslims, Christians and Armenians coexist side by side. I visited the Bahai gardens, a beautiful site built and maintained by another religion, existing peacefully in Israel. And as I was there, I realized I was in one of the few places in the world, that everyone agrees has existed for thousands of years. I was standing in a land that had meaning for billions of people of many religions. And I realized something else. The Jews were the caretakers of this wonderful place. The historical monuments and places that meant so much to other religions were protected. They were preserved. They were taken care of. They were respected. They were treated with the same reverence regardless of which religion they had meaning for. Where else in the Middle East do you see this? Where else in the world? There’s a lot of talk about what Israel is like and what it’s all about. Israel isn’t perfect. No nation is. Mistakes are made, governments make bad decisions, politicians say awful things. It happens everywhere. But Israel is unique. There’s no other place like it in the world. Just ask anyone who’s been there.

@TheOmniLiberal If we want to go down that road then Al Gore would have been president in 2000. Assuming he'd have been re-elected (in 2004), John McCain would have likely won the 2008 election in which case Hilary Clinton would not have been in a good position to run in 2016

Probably not, because he would have gotten discouraged and quit after losing the first election by 3,000,000 votes to Hillary Clinton. :)

I just published a podcast version of my musing Defining Socialism on SoundCloud. (The text version is linked below) medium.com/p/what-is-soci…

I was recently blocked on Twitter. (Courtesy of @TheMissingCake). It's (to my knowledge) the first time someone on Twitter blocked me. That's quite a milestone.

@SymplyTonbra Zuko has the greatest redemptive arc in all of fiction. Does that work?

Tell me you watch ATLA without saying you watch ATLA

@TheMissingCake @TheOmniLiberal @GavinNewsom @charliekirk11 @parkergetajob @BernieSanders @itsdeaann @AnaKasparian And that is the story of how I was blocked on Twitter for the first time (that I know about.)

@TheMissingCake @TheOmniLiberal @GavinNewsom @charliekirk11 @parkergetajob @BernieSanders @itsdeaann @AnaKasparian It's @TheMissingCake's right to do so (as it should be) though it is somewhat hypocritical that the person tweeted something at me (in response to something I said) and then blocked me so that I couldn't reply to this

@TheMissingCake has blocked me so that I couldn't respond to @TheMissingCake saying "I dont care about what you do. It’s not about you or me. It’s about the Democratic Party vs Republican Party."

@maamikron42 @kathy29983 @rich_toronto "you make them into more than they are with your vicious lies." Everything I said about them is entirely true. "you cannot free yourself from the golem anymore that you concocted" The Golem? Seriously. That's your potshot.

@MatityaLoran @kathy29983 @rich_toronto you are the person carrying water for hamas. you make them into more than they are with your vicious lies. and then you cannot free yourself from the golem anymore that you concocted … (if you want to win a poetry competition, you need to get up a bit earlier.)

@mjarbo I can't blame Mauler for that considering that I wrote rebuttals to the Thanos did nothing wrong people in 2024

It's been over a year and a half since the Marvels came out, none of the main characters are involved in Avengers Doomsday, but hey...keep beating that dead horse.

@EddieJamesTips @peterboghossian "You’d be amazed at how many say, “none” to 5" I'd need a concrete example of that happening before I could consider this evidence of epistemological stubborness

@peterboghossian You’d be amazed at how many say, “none” to 5. I mean, in the real world: not on a podcast, not in a mediated debate situation. When they say “none” or “nothing”, it’s an admission of ignorance of course.

Five Socratic-based questions to improve your thinking. 1/2 5. What would it take to change your mind? Be specific. 4. If your best reason for believing that was false, would you still believe? (That's called a "real reason check".)

@peterboghossian "If your best reason for believing that was false, would you still believe?" It's possible to have multiple good reasons for believing something

@peterboghossian "What would it take to change your mind?" About what. I can't answer in the specific to a question this abstract.

@WSJ You mean collaborate with a strip search which found his body didn't match his accusers' descriptions?

The "Michael" biopic needs you to forget what Michael Jackson did. Let me remind you. on.wsj.com/4w1qIeN

@cenkuygur Obama talked about what "Palestine" needed quite frequently. Clinton hosted Arafat more often than any other foreign guest. Your claims are demonstrably untrue

My whole life I have heard politicians and media figures talk about what Israel needs endlessly. Why do we give a fuck? I’ve never heard of anyone talking about what Papa New Guinea needs, a country the same size as Israel. Yet, everyone in power is obsessed with serving Israel.