Autistic People need to choose their structure

I mean, broadly speaking, that’s not how structure works. You can, at best, get the illusion of choice between Structure Coke and Structure Pepsi. But the point of a structured system is that it remains uniform enough for easy access and integration. If it’s got a thousand little exceptions and carve-outs, it’s not a structured system at all.

“I should get to choose how I live” works right up until your lifestyle bumps up against someone else’s. And then you need to find common ground or compromise.

The problem autistic people face is the overwhelming structural bias that works against them. They’re largely excluded from the planning of physical and social systems that they need to take part in as a predicate for survival. But “I should just be allowed to opt-out” isn’t a real solution when it means demanding everyone you interface with opt-in to your bespoke set of rules.

This ends in segregation, not social choice.

Large pools of activists and advocates working together to fashion a society that is broadly accommodating to the population as a whole is the path forward. Individualism and atomization is just a social divide-and-conquer strategy that pits special interest groups against one another for common pools of resources.

Just because there are homes, doesn’t mean that the homes are in desirable locations.

They’re desirable enough for large financial firms to hold as investment properties.

He was wearing an officer’s uniform when he walked out of the jail. You don’t get more “On Duty” than that. Dude is probably still pulling a salary.

Grant Hardin, 56, escaped from the North Central Unit in Calico Rock, Arkansas, at 2:55 p.m. local time on May 25 wearing a “makeshift outfit designed to mimic law enforcement,” according to the Arkansas Department of Corrections. The former Gateway, Arkansas, police chief was imprisoned in 2017.

Crazy how a cop serving time got his hands on another cop’s outfit and then all the other cops looked the opposite way while he wandered out of his jail cell, through the gates, and back into the general public like that.

Oh well. I’m sure it doesn’t imply anything.

I think it might be “We decided to outsource our non-English marketing team to an AI”.

Is Trump currently going to hell?

Impossible. He’s part of the “Pro-Life” party. Sure, it looks like he’s participating in the genocide over the million-odd Palestinians in Gaza (average age 18) and rounding up every brown person with the wrong accent south of Canada for the concentration camps. Absolutely, he’s dismantling our modern health care system at the insistence of Silicon Valley Eugenicists. Clearly, he’s cementing our fossil fuel industry in place in order to broil the planet.

But have you considered the zillions of unborn he’s saved? That’s a ticket through the Pearly Gates for sure.

~ Mitch Hedberg

It’s funny, because I’ve heard anti-natalists use the same turn of phrase.

The problem with abortion/sterilization isn’t that we’re “killing babies”, it’s that a certain group of conservatives don’t get the opportunity to spike the football over a woman’s stomach when the killings happen.

Like, ask any of those Pro-Life Red State Republicans think of the genocide in Gaza and you’ll get a whole litany of “Fuck 'dem kids” and “Those were terrorist infants” and “It’s actually antisemitic to mention the leveling of Al-Shifa Hospital”. Ask them about the bombings in Libya or Iraq or Afghanistan and you’ll get a mixed bag of “We were greeted as liberators” and “That never happened but if it did it was good”. FFS, ask them about the kids in cages at the US/Mexico border and you’ll get the same response.

The very term “Anchor Baby” should be all you need to hear in order to understand what Americans think of infants.

They care quite a bit.

Bots and spammers make for miserable revenue generators. If you don’t distinguish your marks from your players, there’s no way to make money at the poker table.

I mean, it’s a bit of both.

They are the only game in town, particularly at the state and local level.

Republicans are in a suicide pact with their party. If you try to leave, your peers will kill you that much faster.

Stock Market is Up.

That’s all these people care about. The US can become a country that only knows how to make weird AI advertisements and MLM scams, and so long as GDP goes up these people will think everything is fine.

It always crazy to see people try so hard to blame it all on the Democratic party.

When there are two teams on the field and one of them sits down on defense, what else do you say?

you are just playing into the political blame game

I wish more people were into it. The theory that Democrats are legitimately impotent in power and impotent in opposition only ever benefits Republicans.

It’s always crazy to see Democrats walk into office, sit down, say “we literally can’t do anything because we don’t have permission”, watch a fascist win, passively hand power to the fascist, and then insist it is the six swing voters in Penstucky who are to blame for everything that happens next.

Meanwhile, all the war crimes presided over by Obama and Biden are just… ignored. The bailouts? Ignored. Inability to prosecute ousted corrupt politicians? Ignored. Jails full of migrant children? Ignored. Genocide by our allies that we gleefully fund and tacitly encourage? Ignored.

No no no. It was those handful of swing state voters who did this. They made Gavin Newsom start a podcast that pays Charlie Kirk to come on and say slurs. They made Ruth Bader Ginsberg get COVID at a wedding, 10 years after she should have retired and been replaced by another Democrat. They are singularly responsible for Gitmo, for the invasion of Ukraine, and for Chinese AI.

If they’d just given Biden one more term in office, and a House/Senate supermajority, and all the state governors and legislatures, and maybe a few friendly governments in Latin America and Europe…

Then maybe Biden would have permanently forgiven an extra $10k in student loan debt.

This is like going to a coal miner’s convention and telling them fossil fuels are going to be outlawed.

It’s going to a coal miner’s convention and saying “the days of cheap coal are over, now coal is $1000 lb”.

And when the coal miners ask “won’t that lead to more people going to alternatives” replying “we will make alternatives illegal”.

Like, it’s not a material change in policy. It’s a delusional assumption of what the US is capable of imposing on the rest of the world.

Handing over world leadership directly to China.

Americans have decided to abandon their role as World Police and embrace the role of World Privatized Security Service.

This isn’t handing leadership to China, it is extorting Chinese neighbors into paying for the privilege of American occupation.

Insider trading makes you a Based Chad. This only proves that the people running the country are incredibly smart and deserve the money they’ve racked in bilking and swindling their peers.

Now they can flaunt their wealth in order to prove their superiority, possibly by purchasing one of our many exploding trucks or crashing planes. Or perhaps by paying a team of streamers to power level a Diablo character on their account in order to look cool on Twitter.

Anyone who suggests this isn’t Sigma Male behavior is jealous and also probably a pedophile terrorist.

Americans have been poisoned with the idea that any kind of aid to poor people is the cause of poverty.

And now we’re going to get a hard dose of what its like to live in a country without social benefits.