zwitterion.bsky.social
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I remembered their names though didn’t follow them heavily. But they definitely had people who followed them, and I think it’s one reason a lot of people went off a cliff in 2016.
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Even if they’re irrelevant, they’re both warnings: figureheads the left cares about can and will be corrupted, and they will drag their followers with them unless people are vigilant.
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There’s one on Exile 2 out there. I was playing the remake and just marveling at how many hours the person making the website put in to detailing a game they didn’t make.
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Yeah, I feel like it was way easier to look up game stuff back then. These days you have to try to find a Youtube video.
I miss intricately detailed websites talking about the nuances of games.
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I learned touch typing because I didn’t want to die in a MUD.
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Please shut up. I have no desire to engage with a sad man right now. Pubmed is free; go look it up.
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Which were founded by a bunch of bigoted teens who didn’t know better and colonized by a bunch of stupid adult women desperate to believe the “community” they spent money trying to join is a utopia, and get assured that you definitely have it just as bad or worse than women.
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So spare me. You get - statistically - paid more than me, you are - statistically - more likely to marry someone who is willing to compensate for your flaws. You are going to get coddled and have your behavior dismissed as things you can’t help doing. And then you get to go into your ASD fora
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And of course they did: they were pathetic teenage losers who had never gotten laid. They shouldn’t have been expected to know otherwise, which is why they should never have been left to run free to form “self-advocacy” groups.
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and TikTok videos showing you how to spot high masking autism like you’re hunting for a wild bird.
Neither approach is helpful, but what I know is that, when I needed them, those men on the ASD fora told me that I should flash my tits at men to get them to do what I wanted.+
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So spare me. If you’re above 30 and can tie your shoes, you wouldn’t have benefited from early diagnosis, because the resources at the time were shit and the community was toxic. And now it’s turned into a cutsy diagnosis about people having songs stuck in their heads
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I told no one because I remembered that line.
And the “self-advocacy” groups at the time were shit. Everyone denies this now, but men with ASD (the diagnosis was prob 90% male at the time) populated the incel fora.+
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I am not exaggerating when I say that line defined - and still defines- huge amounts of my life. I didn’t understand epidemiology when I was 16, but when I was 27 with a postdoctoral fellowship & I spent nights & weekends reading about amyloid plaques & came up with a theory that seems to be true,+
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There’s a line from Lora Wing in one of the papers I looked up that had lived rent free in my head since then, where she didn’t think people with ASD were capable of actually having insights into their special interests, as she thought they just possessed superficial understandings of the subjects.+
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And I had my diagnosis - at 16 - shoved down my goddamn throat. I didn’t ask for it, and the literature at the time was a disaster. Everyone has erased the fact that Asperger was seen as overly *optimistic*.+
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Statistics show that men do better than women, even though women have less social impairment. And statistics also show that women face a double edged sword upon revealing a diagnosis- like an aging actress, people try to see blemishes rather than seeing appeal.
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And then the leftists start whinging.
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Muted. It’s clear you are offended by facts.
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Crickets on campus since the election. But sure, the issue was always Democrats.
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Again, crickets on my university’s campus. I’m speaking facts, but it seems like you don’t like them.
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Again, crickets the day after the election. Like none of them actually cared about the issue.
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I’m not blaming them for anything. I was honestly sympathetic. But it’s been crickets since the election. It’s very clear that they either didn’t care or were coordinated by someone who didn’t care.
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They’ve been absolutely silent since November, at least on my campus. I don’t think they were as committed as you want to think.
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Perhaps if we hated Russia more, we wouldn’t be here right now.
Both the right and left bought into Russian agitprop. And here we are.
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Cynicism gets you nowhere. The US’s word HAS been worth quite a bit. But sure, we’re just as bad as we’ve always been.
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Terrible music in the 1850s was good for stimulating conversation, apparently.
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They also had Napoleon during that time. The odds of a revolution producing a stable government on the first go are pretty low, and if the US hadn’t succeeded, few European countries would likely have tried it.
Lincoln’s Gettysburg address is all about that problem.
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So long as a cashier in WI doesn’t see consequences, it won’t matter. And even then, so long as it can be blamed on the people they don’t like, it won’t matter.
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The American public isn’t being shown anything. As They Thought They Were Free said of Nazi Germany, the negative consequences are - currently- being targeted at a pretty narrow range of people, all of whom can be ignored.+
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Did they defund their football program or are these students just going to be allowed to be highly literate rapists?
I understand that Stubeville is proud of themselves, but they shouldn’t ever get praise again.
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You’re asking them to reject the system they swore to protect. It’s like asking the Pope to embrace Protestantism.
It might be the right thing to do, but it’s a huge step & one that means the country is irreversibly broken.
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Oh, wait. You can’t, because they don’t have an idea what to do when they’re not protesting at the DNC. Never mind. Just join them and yell at your elected representatives or something.
Go firebomb Walmart. Maybe they’ll stop talking about Doordash long enough to join you.
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Democratic strategists shouldn’t be expected to do shit at this point. Ask the firebomb-Walmart-but-don’t-boycot-Target crowd what to do, because they got us here. Again.+
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There’s no “annoyance” about it. There should be fury. At the idiots who derail everything every goddamn time. Who drop the ball and get distracted by clear lies from the right. Who then scream about not having a plan when the plan was *November* and every single one of them blew it.+