It’s kinda hard for me to say, tbh.

I don’t really know if a lot of my issues are comorbidities with the heaps of other health issues I have, but I feel like autism has definitely prevented me from doing a lot of things I want to do. For instance, from what I read, there’s been a lot of talk about “autistic burnout” and I think, if it really what I’m suffering from, then it will cause me so many problems (it’s already causing me a lot of problems, but I dread the future.)

I also have a lot of serious mental health issues, and I think a lot of it can be attributed due to the fact that trying to interact with “regular” society has netted me a lot of pain, suffering, and trauma. I also have extreme confidence issues resulting from so much allistic reprimand, where I have a compulsion to believe everything that I say or do is wrong / incorrect, and it’s a living nightmare where I second guess myself all the time and react negatively to criticism.

Overall, my autism has (and probably will) cause me so much trouble and suffering both now and in the future. If I had the chance, would I reject it? Not really, even though I have never beared it’s supposed fruits (people have told me that autism can “help” but I have many doubts) and have only experienced a constant stream of anxiety and pain, but I don’t think it’s inherently negative. Like @SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net and @lilypad@hexbear.net said in this thread, it’s really an impediment brought about by material conditions rather than any hypothetical inherent badness of autism.

I don’t want to vent too much, but yeah, I do consider it to be a disability, and it will probably bar me from many tasks - both necessary (jobs) and recreational (art).

Yes, thank you for reminding me.

Has the ADL ever done anything useful?

The only “experience” I had with the ADL somewhat personally was a milquetoast anti-bullying campaign (that didn’t even work, btw) and that was about it. It just seems like their actions range from “Ineffectual Faux Progressism” to “Liberal Hyper-Zionism” and they do literally nothing else. Fuck 'em straight to hell either way though.

It better be some joke that I’m not aware of, but this just seems pretty shit if they really ARE donating the proceeds to his funeral and talking about not “politicizing” it.

Nurgle is most pleased that John Fetterman waters his grand garden.

Let me guess, it’s gonna be a “No! I’m more racist than you!” competition? Are they gonna try to compete on how many slurs they can throw out? Are they gonna try to maximize their HPPM (Hitler Particles Per Minute)?

Fuckin’ Nazis. What is there to legitimately discuss? The fact that they’re horrible people? Not in a trillion years with them.

Probably just a run-of-the-mill fascist spouting their bullshit, nothing special to my knowledge.

Sorry, but this was just a shitpost.

Well, in any case, comrade, I award you with the Order of Blocky Lenin.

Nice. How did On a Rail turn out for you? And what about the expansion packs?

I’m severely confused. Does this mean, like, did you get all the advancements, or does it mean that you completed every Microsoft-affilated bedrock marketplace pack, or??? (disclaimer, I only played Minecraft on mobile, with some experience in both pocket and bedrock, and mostly java in my life)

I dress up as Stalin for Halloween.

I go to the various houses (petite bourgeoisie kulak liberals) and knock on their door.

I make my demand simple. “Trick or treat, lib.”

They say they’ll give me candy, but only a bagful

This is where it gets interesting.

I pull out a comically large burlap sack (each thread was handwoven by a random seamstress in Dudinka) and take all of the candy.

I then denounce them for their reactionary offerings (licorice is rooted in Anglo-Saxon imperialism, don’t @ me) and then give them a single slap across the face.

They then cry.

I am directly responsible for multiple anti-communist laws in my area.

“Good afternoon, 47. Your destination is Utah Valley University, where your target is located, a 32-year old man named Charlie Kirk. An infamous political pundent known for going to various colleges and universities to debate and attempt to convince various youths of the merits of right-wing ideology. Other than that, he’s quite the unremarkable man. Our intel leads us to believe he hasn’t hired any armed guards or, for that matter, any dedicated security. He’ll be seated inside of a stand, surrounded by a crowd of hundreds - both sympathizers and opponents, nearly all ineffectual and unarmed. We’ve left a vintage .30-06 hunting rifle near a rooftop for you to utilize, with specially engraved bullets as ordered by the client. It’s a rather simple job, which we wouldn’t normally give to you, but our client has specifically requested your services, for whatever reason. Consider this… a good opportunity to stretch your legs.”

Am I a man to the bone?

No.

Am I a woman to the bone?

No.

I’m bad to the bone.

Fixed it.

Can’t be hotter than the fire ol’ Charlie’s being bathed in right now, in Hell.

The children yearn to huff the fuel. :saw-gerrera:

I thought it was more an issue with the concept of the dunk tank (racist carnival attraction) than just the word dunking.

I can’t remember what other video it was, but I think it was a video with a thumbnail containing Stalin, Hitler, Gaddafi, and Pol Pot, and it had the same “Something Good About Someone Bad” kinda deal. Stalin and Gaddafi on the same tier as those genocidal fuckers?

They’re pretty much low-tier fascists who only like leftist leaders because they’re being constantly touted as “red fascists” rather than the revolutionaries they are. Consequences of capitalist propaganda I suppose, literally any way you slice it, if you eat that propaganda, you will come out having a fascist opinion.

Edit: Kinda makes me think a lot of those MAGA white-supremacist “communists” actually kinda follow this logic.

I feel like sometimes, people forget capitalism, at a certain point, is all about creating problems and then “solving” them. I mean, we already mostly figured out the solutions to things like food and water scarcity, entertainment, child care, and at minimum 60% of problems human face. With the new era, we aren’t trying to solve problems, not really. We’re trying to solve problems under capitalism, which is a, and forgive my slightly ableist language, a “fool’s errand” - a task that will never be completed so long as the thousands of artificial obstacles exist.

People talking about medications in the comments, and sure, medicines are good, but they could easily be produced in higher qualities, in larger pallets, in whatver-metrics-you-need-to-measure, because you no longer have Eli and Lilly trying to tell the doctors that they need to do this or that to ensure Goldman Sachs gets their money.

I would like to believe this post isn’t a critique of solving problems, it’s a critique of the capitalist methodology of forcing artificial scarcity (reducing your mental health when you are continuously deprived of your basic survival needs) and trying to “solve” that artificial scarcity within the framework of the capitalist system. Even if you create super-psychiatry, even if you create super-mega-perfect-psychiatry, you will never create a good psychiatry, and you ask why?

It’s because of capitalism. The problem is not that many problems exist, because the reason many problems exist is because somebody is forcing them to exist. And it’s capitalism. Maybe I’m mixing up the primary and secondary contradictions a little bit here, but if you remove the systems empowering, upholding, and catering the whims of all these awful, selfish, racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic, ableist, specialist, any other bigotries I haven’t named, then how can they continue to exist?

If, in the new socialist society, the bourgeoisie and their reactionary squires don’t have a leg to stand on, then they fall. So, to the hypothetical medicine lover here, it’s not that medicine sucks, it’s that medicine is constrained and beholden to the whims of capitalism. I’d like to think this is a pretty moderate (moderate in terms of socialist / communist ideology) take, but if it isn’t moderate, then please tell me why it isn’t.