Right? The best plan.

because as far as you were concerned, everyone is in the same tribe as you

I definitely don’t think that way. I’m aware that I am different from other people.

Reposting from my other comment:

Well I had the luxury of dating a psychologist who specializes in diagnoses and her brother is autistic - so she is very aware of autism and how it works and what it looks like in different people.

She confirmed I’m not autistic and thought it was hilarious that anyone would assume that about me. She’s known me for years and she has experience in that field. She knows better than just randoms at a meet up group would.

Well I had the luxury of dating a psychologist who specializes in diagnoses and her brother is autistic - so she is very aware of autism and how it works and what it looks like in different people.

When I told her that random autistic girls from my comm were making this assumption she gave me the biggest eye roll and a laugh. Because duh, I’m not autistic.

Eraserhead.

what is ASAB in this context?

god that sucks to hear.

I’m alarmed at the amount of people I met, mostly women, who are like upset when I tell them I’m not autistic. It’s like they want me to be or something. They insisted I needed to get tested to be sure.

Like what is with these people wanting this to be common and wanting to get people join in like its a club? It’s a genetic trait. You either have it or you don’t I thought.

lol even mods don’t follow rules on reddit and there are private subs where people do whatever the hell they want.

and we all know what reddit mods do.

Of course I remember the “meme faith” thing that was happening in 2016 and it seemed like it really worked. All those alt right pepe memes infesting everything and they picked Trump as the focus

Oh I’m talking about waay waaaay before 2016. I’m talking 2008. They were looking for a new hitler.

What Trump did was unprecedented

I can’t agree because there is evidence of Trump talking about running for office since the 90’s. We should have seen this coming but any time it was talked about, it was laughed off and ignored.

I live in a liberal and wealthy area of a red state. I make good money, live comfortably, and have a diverse community of people available to me. All sorts of recreation, social events, etc.

I live in a liberal area of a blue state. I make okay money and live kind of comfortable but not really and I miss out on a lot of things due to racism and having to combat culture wars because of who I am as a person.

So I’m feeling the disintegration. I get the brunt of it dealt to me first hand. People fucking hate me because I am who I am.

That being said -

Economic reforms. Large investments in infrastructure. A real Green New Deal - trillions of dollars spent building all sorts of modern infrastructure would require lots of labor. Build high speed rail all over America. Start programs that give companies incentive to return manufacturing jobs to the US.

I agree with this. I agree with raising minimum wage and universal healthcare - I’m even for universal basic income. I agree with a lot of what you are saying and I think it would help a lot of people.

Seriously, it’s not a coincidence fascism came about right after the Great Depression

I get that too. It’s history and you can’t argue against it.

But I’m telling you about a current enemy and its one I know very well - in my early 20s you could easily have lumped me in with that same group of people. I’m not anymore but I definitely was.

And even when I was growing as a person and slowly removing those ideologies on my own from myself… I still interacted with people who are never going to stop being that way.

I don’t think its all insecurity. I think some of it is just as simple as pure hatred. I’m telling you. They get off it. I don’t know how anyone would change their mind when they totally want someone to go out of their way to try and change their mind. They want someone like you to try and get rid of their insecurity so they can laugh at the fact that you tried.

How do you change someone like that? How do you help someone like that?

The only reason I changed is cause I chose to do that on my own.

Yeah, I wasn’t taking issue. I was providing information.

The main thing I’m trying to say is these people historically were blue

How do you know that? What are you basing that off of?

I mean, I have an example of what you’re talking about but its the only thing I can think of where I’m like, yeah I know for sure that was the case. And only feel comfortable saying that because there is recorded evidence of someone stating that they use to be a democratic, and then switched to vote for Bush who ran as a republican.

And as for the alt right stuff - I only feel comfortable saying what I said about that because I spent several years of my early 20’s being really misguided and I was knee deep in that shit.

Trump talked about running for president since like the 90’s so that was already out there as information. The alt right groups were looking for a “new hitler” as they put it and eventually pushed for Trump. They did this through social engineering. Over the course of several years.

People laugh when I talk about this but it is a real thing that happened.

In your perspective, you’re witnessing the disintegration of America.

It’s been disintegrating for awhile now.

You can’t just chalk this all up to gullibility.

I’m not. Both things are at play here.

If people were having happy stable lives where their needs were being met financially and emotionally, they wouldn’t vote for these proto-fascists

Again. How do you meet the needs of people who are filled with hatred? I’m genuinely asking since you keep bringing this up.

Why do you think I’m arguing with you?

Yeah, you’re talking about the gullible general public who was influenced by the alt right.

It’s the people who initially voted for Trump

Yeah… Alt righters.

How do we fix the insecurities of alt right white supremacists who spend their free time getting off on antagonizing people for the sake of upsetting someone?

Some of them even want someone to try and fix them so they can use that for their own personal entertainment.

Something I learned about the Rwandan genocides in 1994 is that comparing humans to insects is one of the first steps of genocidal ideology.

I use a ceramic pan mostly and try to stay away from nonstick and teflon because that can scratch over time and get into food.

I also have an issue with rinsing out dishes. I’m worried there is still going to be soap so I just rinse things over and over.

Yeah, when I think of left wing politics, I think of like abortion rights, social issues… that sort of thing.

I think I finally realize why the news and politics communities are so popular here.

Yeah, I mean, I went to pride anyway and I’m bisexual so of course I support LGBTQ+ because I’m part of the group.

But I don’t get treated like I’m part of the group. I just had a trans girl the other day who felt the need to explain to me, what a bisexual is. Like she’s fucking explaining my identity to me and talking down to me and you’re right, they don’t see the hypocrisy because you know if someone explained her identity to her, she’d filp out and other people would be outraged. But being bisexual is seen as “whatever” so its okay to condescend to that group.

So I don’t think that’s really the same left-wing extremism that I was originally talking about. There are left-wing communities like Linux, Open Source Software, Unionization, and Communism. Whereas if you aren’t 100% you might as well be -100%. If you have a slight disagreement on how the system should be ideally then you are the absolute enemy. Zero middle ground

I don’t understand how that is left wing? Like what does Linux have to do with left wing politics?