AssortedBiscuits

There's nothing uniquely autistic about "having poor social skills" or "being socially ostracized" since plenty of NDs and plenty of NTs for that matter also have poor social skills and are also socially ostracized. Meanwhile, the vast vocabulary of stims or the hypersensitivities or the tendency to anthropomorphize and emotionally bond with inanimate objects or the fact that autism makes you 4x more likely to be trans or just being a furry in general are almost unique to the autistic experience. Ridiculous self-aggrandizing bullshit like "autists are paragons of morality because autists don't want to say that you look fat in that dress" needs to fucking go.

They're acting like weirdo R*ddit dweebs lol. Autism mostly makes me vocal stim at 3 in the morning and have expansive standard operating procedures on something as mundane as microwaving a burrito. My crappy social skills is more about me being the weird kid going through home and school trauma and poorly equipped with the means to navigate through social environments than anything about autism in general. I guess I have that thing where I hate eye contact, but that's honestly shitty Western social customs since plenty of cultures think Westerners staring at each other's eyes is creepy unhinged shit.

I always disliked having poor social skills or being socially ostracized to be centered within discussions about autism. Plenty of NTs have trash social skills, and plenty of NDs, even people with autism, have good social skills. I don't really see the difference between an NT with shitty social skills and an autist with shitty social skills. They'll both be unfunny, give creepy vibes, don't understand how to navigate their bodies in social spaces, not understand jokes, not know how to start or continue a conversation, and so on. Like, just because people were autism are incapable of having good social skills (I don't agree with this characterization, but for the sake of argument let's accept it) doesn't mean that NTs are somehow naturally born with good social skills. I'm sorry, but I don't have the ability to see someone with poor social skills and go, "You can tell that they don't have autism but is just an NT with poor social skills." Must be the autism in me.

And don't even get me started at, "Autism is like a truth serum man, so we can't lie unlike the duplicitous en-tee." Get the fuck over yourself. I can see that autism apparently doesn't stop them from entertaining self-delusions about the alleged moral superiority of autists over NTs (and the rest of NDs apparently). Autists are the master race, NTs are untermenschen, and allist NDs fit in some intermediate tier within this fucked up hierarchy where they are better than the NT cattle but nowhere near as good the autist ubermensch.

I'm glad we're moving past "autism is about having a persecution complex against shitty NT and NDs-who-don't-have-autism-that-we'll-pretend-are-NTs-to-push-a-narrative bullies" and towards "autism is about being a trans furry with cute plushies."

Neurotypical people are sincerely horrifying creatures. Their unconscious makes a decision to dislike someone and then their ego will defend that even if they contradict themselves doing so. Argue with a NT long enough and they'll change why they did/didn't do something without any reflection. Their selfhood is one big justification machine for their unconscious mind.

That's just people in general. Everyone's unconsciousness makes snap decisions. Autism doesn't make you not have an unconsciousness. Autism doesn't inherently make you self-reflective either.

"NTs and by NTs I actually mean people who don't have autism are only capable of lying unlike us honest autists" is certainly a take.

There's nothing about autism that would prevent someone with autism from lying by omission or lying through self-deception. Just because autism prevents someone from convincingly lying that you don't fat in that dress doesn't mean that people with autism are incapable of much more serious lies.

(capitalism's youth obsession is genuinely harmful, holy shit)

They start grooming kids to become consoomers knowing that they'll get their parents to buy them useless shit. When they age up, they're marketed relentlessly because they have disposable income. And when they get even older, they play up insecurities about how fucking old they are that can only be filled with more useless shit from their childhood.

Then Goblet of Fire came and the series started ~~taking itself too seriously.~~ to become tomes of middling quality.

If I had the talent, I would 100% go the Cameron route. Make slop with good craftmanship and just mid-brow enough that people argue whether it's slop or not while I blow the millions of dollars on projects I actually care about.

Most sinitic languages use the same basic script plus or minus some words for vocabulary differences because it's a logographic script.

That's what I originally thought, but technically every single major Chinese topalect has their own unique set of characters. I'm not sure if Taishanese has its own script, but I know Cantonese does, which isn't the same as the vast majority of Taishanese people would remind you. And in any case, written Cantonese is pretty different from written Mandarin even with simple sentences but it's not just the difference in characters but the fact that the characters that they do share with each other have diverged in meaning since Middle Chinese. 食 is a root that means "food" or used in words like "edible" (食用) in Mandarin, but just means "eat" in Cantonese. There are also grammatical differences that affect order of words. And this is all considering that he spoke Taishanese not Cantonese.

At best, he would've learned the Mandarin character set but written them out with Taishanese/Cantonese character order and substituted those Mandarin characters with a more appropriate Taishanese/Cantonese character when saying them out loud, meaning that he essentially would have spoken Taishanese but written with some bizarre Mandarin/Cantonese hybrid. So, writing "吃" like standard Mandarin but saying "食" since he doesn't know Mandarin.

I also should have elaborated that I'm extremely skeptical that a 6 year old member of the Taishanese diaspora living in the US during the 80s would've been exposed to the Taishanese/Cantonese character set. It's mostly based on my experience with Cantonese people. I largely associate people typing with Cantonese characters with young people. Most older people just write in that Mandarin/Cantonese hybrid. Maybe that's a misconception on my part.

"Professor" Jiang (he's not an actual professor) has fed connections if not a fed himself. There's a Twitter thread about Jiang's background: https://nitter.net/zhen_ming_/status/2035083436860612639

He immigrated to Canada when he was 6 and he only learned how to speak Mandarin at college. He spoke Taishanese at home, meaning he most likely didn't know how to read Chinese characters until college either. Basically, he's a lot more removed from mainstream Chinese society than what he lets on. I don't think he even lives in China. People are just listening to an anticommunist Chinese Canadian with a vague foreign accent and thinks that he must represent Chinese Mainlanders somehow.

Oh and he also thinks that "Israel's success is due to it becoming a world laboratory, creating goods and technologies exported to the rest of the world."

Balkanization has to happen first. There would have been no Chinese revolution without the overthrow of the Qing dynasty. The Qing dynasty had to be overthrown before ideological ground could be cleared for the May Fourth movement, which led to the formation of the CPC. Had the Qing still exist, Mao et al could have never succeeded in what they set out to do and virtually no peasants would've signed on to socialism. The US equivalent of the Qing dynasty is essentially the federal government or the US itself.

A balkanized US is a US ruled by various warlords, most likely coming from the ranks of the (ex) US military and the (ex) US security apparatus. Ideally, various Indigenous nations like the Navajo Nation would also become de facto independent with their own military to defend themselves from settler warlords. Within this context, asymmetric warfare is very much on the table. Socialist guerillas in what was once the state of Utah wage insurgency warfare against the Christofascist state of Deseret, which is fighting multiple fronts against the NCR and the Navajo Nation. One JDAM dropped on socialist guerillas by the Deseretian airforce is one less JDAM dropped on NCR aqueducts and Navajo infantry.

I think the way urban infrastructure is laid out is the missing piece to "why are leftist movements in the US dominated by labor aristocrat/petty bourgeois activists and college students?" Protests centered at colleges and universities make sense because you have young people with free time living together in an environment with some semblance of walkability. It has less to do with the inherent politics of college students themselves. When protests take place less than 10 minutes from a dorm, whether a student should attend the protest or not is just whether they want to spend 10 minutes walking to the protest. They don't have to spend hours getting stuck in traffic, and they don't have to pay for parking.

For people who aren't students, it's a very particular slice of society. Where I live, it makes little financial sense for normal people to drive to the nearest urban center, pay for exorbitant parking, and drive back after the protests end. The only people who would actually go are essentially petty bourgeois progressives, people who have the means and the politics to actually attend protests.

And since college students themselves exist within the context of petty bourgeois institutions and often come from labor aristocrat or petty bourgeois class backgrounds, it should be no surprise that protests in the US are very petty bourgeois in character. Average protestors are either college students being submerged in a petty bourgeois environment or petty bourgeois progressives. Frankly, they stick out like a sore thumb if you put proles next to them.

Have you seen how much gas costs now? You're better off just giving the money that you blew on gas and parking to Palestinian gofundmes. Protests are only good for networking and finding an org with a nearby branch that is close to where you live so you don't have to waste money on gas.

Forget about protests. Like, now is the time to talk to your neighbors and local orgs and prepare, ideally alongside your neighbors and local orgs, for what's to come. Preparation needs to be made, and it needs to be better than buying bulks of toilet paper from Cosco along with everyone else also buying bulks of toilet paper from Cosco. Summer's approaching, and given climate change and what's going on in WANA, I would not bet on amenities that people living in imperial core countries have taken for granted like AC and electricity.

"B-b-but you need to be in community." Randos who commute 2 hours in the opposite direction from your 2 hour commute to a protest aren't part of your community. Your neighbors are your community. Whatever local org that's nearby, be it a church or a group of volunteers with vaguely progressive politics, are your community. Those are people who you need to actually care about because when the shit hits the fan, who are you going to rely on for help? Who can you help?