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GrannysKnitting's avatar

i'd like to point out that if you've met one person with autism... you've met one person with autism. They are not all genius's with social awkwardness. They, like not autistic people, vary in intelligence, struggle with different aspects of life, and do well in different areas. The whole 'paint with a wide brush' bullshit really irks me. People are people, we're all different. Stop trying to make yourself look better by claiming to be part of a group of people who are wonderful, sometimes struggle with some things, and don't have the luxury of checking out of those struggles when it suits them.

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BOSCOE TWO ELECTRIC BOOGALOO's avatar

No thanks. High-T just makes dudes stupid and aggressive. Their ability to determine "what is true" is addled by their need for information that feeds into their rage addiction. I prefer leaders who value consensus, as ones who think "they alone can fix it" tend to be ego-flogging narcissists on the low end of the Dunning-Kruger scale.

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Laura's avatar

I thought 4chan WAS a consensus filter.

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Ward From Cali's avatar

Robyn didn't mention that all those incel-ish NSFW Red boards are basically a hive-mind where any post that does not flatter their ridiculous misogynistic theories gets downvoted into oblivion. High-T Status boy is just repeating the same fucking thing the rest of them have been squawking at each other for years. Very think for self, much brave and independent.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

Bruce lee was like 5 foot tall and could kick all these guys in the ass at the same time.

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Ed's avatar

Is it any wonder that he & Trump get along so well? I think both of these boys got their wealth from their father.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Anyone for the President declaring National Security and stop letting Elon play with Starlink.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Robyn. Muskrat has insanity to spare.

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Opalescent Riddles's avatar

<<People who can't defend themselves physically (women and low T men) parse information through a consensus filter as a safety mechanism. They literally do not ask "is this true", they ask "will others be OK with me thinking this is true". This makes them very malleable to brute force manufactured consensus; if every screen they look at says the same thing they will adopt that position because their brain interprets it as everyone in the tribe believing it.>>

Are you sure about that, sport? Are your fellow “high status, alpha males” OK with you thinking that's true?

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Why do women and low T men have to parse information through a consensus filter as a safety mechanism? I thought we had guns.

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mykidsaremeantome's avatar

I, an Autist, know this isn’t true but also really care what everyone thinks of me. So take that, incels!

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Colbert Thorenson's avatar

I don't know what to call the law, but it is a law of social media that all unmoderated forums ultimately descend into 4Chan-esque right-wing circle jerks.

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Re-Engineer's avatar

Some kind of forum entropy.

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Beetletheknee's avatar

I scrolled as much as I could but didn’t see if anyone already posted my favorite nerd joke. Sadly, it’s an image I don’t have the spoons to post through notes, so imagine:

Venn diagram with three overlapping circles: “incel” “Excel” “me eating a fig”

Center convergence: incorrectly assuming something is a date

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Jessica's avatar

Maybe he'll buy 4chan and destroy it, too. We can hope

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SurlyAF's avatar

A dog could take a shit in front of him and he'd say, "Interesting....."

The dude seems to be more concerned with latching on to the latest garbage floating around rather than taking a second to actually think about what it really means.

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Earlene Millier's avatar

One of hunfreds of things to admire about Robert Reich is that he referred to Trump's character as "moral squalor." So apt! In fact, let's use that term to rename Trump's bug-infested Florida golf motel. It's no longer Mar-a-Lago, it's Moral Squalor. Hee hee!

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

In a novel set in Palm Beach, Carl Hiassen renamed it Casa Bellicosa.

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Kathleen Stranahan's avatar

Robert Reich is a National treasure!

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Alternative Dog's avatar

"Elon Musk Dazzled By Sublime Wisdom Of 4Chan Post About How Women Are Stupid

Wait til he sees the entire rest of that site."

I'm fairly certain that Musk has been intimately familiar with 4Chan for 20 years.

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