…Oh say can you see, pew pa pew pew pew pew pew… 🔥🇺🇸🔥

As bad as things are, it’s cathartic to watch the old guard, bourbon sipping Republican party that originally weaponized misinformation to further the agenda of big corpo (faux news since they existed: “Herp derp climate change is a hoax for scientists to sell books”) realize that though their long in motion coup worked, they lost control of it in 2015 when King confidence scheme scam artist stole their grift out from under them by saying the dogwhistles they used to string their racist base along out loud with a dumb little dance.

Its not helpful, but knowing Mitch McConnell and John Roberts know they sold out their entire society’s future not even for their benefit or the benefit of the right small room of classy old money bigots, but for some crass asshole that’s as belligerent and willfully ignorant as their sucker voting base to take the reigns of post democracy machiavelian power they so carefully curated since the 70s as they watch powerlessly, and IN FEAR no less?

Poetry.

🎻🎻🎻

I wasn’t implying the empathy deficit was from those with autism, but from most of the US population, and by design.

I think we’re mostly on the same page.

I’d just add as someone who was a practicing psychologist that it has been conclusively proven that empathy is learned, it usually needs to be learned young if it is to be learned at all, it is easily tought, and our culture chooses to teach the opposite in glorifying/inflating individual potential with disdain for considering the needs of others.

Which had led us to this collapse as the rugged individual peasants tear eachother down instead of bringing power back down to earth.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/introduction-2/

If it were up go me, this experiment would be required curriculum for all young children, but modern American parents would burn schools down if a teacher DARED to tell half a class that kids with other color eyes were better than them for a single day (and then doing the opposite the next day) to safely instill what it feels like to be deemed less important by others. That’s how anti-empathy, and thus I’d argue antihumanist, Americans are TRAINED to be.

After all, when my kid grows up he needs to COMPETE AGAINST and BEAT your kid so he has MOAR than them. 🇺🇸

They should be identified by the rest of society and treated differently.

PREFERENTIALLY every time all day every day. Trying to indicate they are no different goes in the wrong direction on that. Like so many things in this county, the problem is a culture that fails to, from childhood, educate people, in this case educating to seeing a disadvantaged person and going “how can I make their day easier” and not “eww gross and weird.” Same thing we fail to educate Americans on with regards to poverty and homelessness.

I don’t think it’s healthy for them to not consider themselves different fron the mean, as is often pushed. They are different from the mean. Self-delusion is a blight, choosing ignorance is always wrong. It hurts them when reality comes calling, and only those of means can make it from cradle to grave avoiding facing reality.

I subscribe to the school of George Carlin on this.

It helps no one, including the afflicted, to dress up a disability.

It doesn’t help a single disabled person walk to be called “handicapable,” and it’s both society’s failing and pointless to, for example, rebrand a term like crippled which had no shame attached to it for a long time to handicapped, etc as if that society has malice in its heart it will shift its anymous to whatever term you want.

A disabled or amputated leg isn’t just different, it’s an extra difficulty for that person outside the norm that their society should pick up the slack for them on through assistance and accommodation.

A brain that can’t orally communicate, can’t self-regulate emotion, can’t grasp simple but important social constructs as those with severe autism can’t, isn’t simply different or beautiful. It often appears like hell to live as even with infinite financial resources and therapies, and that kind of talk diminishes the severity of their disadvantage, which just as the slow march from battle fatigue to post traumatic stress disorder, has a negative effect of minimizing the help that disadvantaged person needs.

As Carlin said, changing the name of the condition doesn’t change the condition. This is, to be clear, an argument FOR society moving heaven and earth to make life as bearable for their struggles as can be done, precisely because they have a profound disadvantage and a society should care for its members in order of most disadvantaged.

The neoliberal “solution” to real problems is relabeling it with detached and/or optimistic language and walking away. It solves precisely nothing, but it doesn’t cost their robber baron bribers a cent so there you go.

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Ok BB Hitler.

Only one party is actively funded by our enemies

Incorrect, both parties take money from Wall Street. Only a tiny, tiny minority of the Democrats don’t, and those spoiler Democrats are hated by the DNC far more than the DNC opposes their esteemed Republican opposition.

If you refuse to see the capitalist oligarchs are the enemy that created the conditions for Trump, then nevermind and carry on, as there’s nothing that ever could convince you.

The “problem” conservatives are looking for is just wider awareness of the diagnosis’ existence.

Innumerable people just dropped dead because of diabetes and cancer before we knew about diabetes and cancer, and more still until testing became accessible to most.

Conservative’s solution to anything though is “lalala not listening so shut up!” just like Reagan with aids or conservatives calling Covid Masks tyranny.

No, sadly. Soulless cash grab.

The Trump base will blame Obama/Biden/Clinton, I guarantee it.

It must be so freeing to live a life more divorced from logic or reality than an indoor dog.

Maybe eliminating natural selection was a mistake.

The Reagan Revolution

This country was irrevocably destroyed and dead as of November… 1979.

Honestly it’s kind of refreshing that meaningful numbers of people are finally acknowledging that this is just the vultures picking on the long dead corpse of the US instead of continuing to buy stupid shit, medicating, and otherwise playing pretend we were still a nation of laws and democratic representation.

Can we finally, finally destroy the capital markets that turned us into an oligarch exploitation camp for half a century and make something new with an avarice punishing framework in its place now? Or do we need to wait for the new low the capitalists bring us to next week, and the one after that, and the one after that…

But let me guess, this is fine too? 🔥🐶☕🔥

Why would Trump care if he wins?

As he has for most of his bankruptcy laden past, he’s largely playing with other people’s lives. He’ll be fine, and he enjoys inflicting cruelty on others for its own sake when he “loses.”

It’s a shame we don’t have a competent left in the US. This is an opportunity.

As Republican voters have been turned into easily deluded suckers unable to think critically or act in their own interests, now would be the perfect time to capitalize on that and turn them against the core rot of our society: unrestrained capitalism. That’s why we have Trump to begin with.

“Look, the capital markets are anti MAGA! The capital markets must be destroyed, if you disagree you have Trump derangement syndrome! Capitalism is revealed as a woke leftist plot to discredit GodEmperorDaddyTrump!”

The capitalists defunded education for decades to cut their own taxes despite profiting from a literate workforce pool, and pushed profit friendly lies through for profit media and captured government pulpits. The capitalists made this drooling army of rage zombies that is the Republican base. They don’t know which way is up. They might not be doing it for the right reasons, but this is a magic moment where the monsters could be given a nudge to turn on their oligarch creators.

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I, for one, support Musk and Trump using their respective cudgels of capital and government to beat one another bloody.

If we’re going to burn, and it looks like we absolutely will, why not have a little entertainment?

We never left might makes right, we just dressed it up all pretty. I was referring the the equality of extinction.

Lol, in the end capitalism will bring social equality 💀

Guess the capitalists were filthy commies all along.