These are not good people. They do not mean well. So much that. But it's the brazenness of it that's astounding, and the people who defend these not good people.

Neurodivergent For thinking that my love could hold you I'm neurodivergent for trying And neurodivergent for crying And I'm neurodivergent for loving you -Patsy Cline (updated)

I wonder what about her might account for the confusion? It may have less to do with physical reality then in the whole 1984 five fingers thing. In that context, their beard is a plus, not a minus.

Dr Cremin deserves to be greeted by a politely smoothened yawn. No, I don't think that would work (he'd just go further to make it all about him) but it is what he deserves.

I contend that it does not accurately describe the senior organizers, the funders, and the politicians and "human rights activist" who protect them. The people protecting them are worse, because they're the successful sociopaths, the ones who present as normal and have a long term plan. They'll stomp down on their stormtroopers when they are no longer useful, and have popular support to do so, when they're no longer useful. I doubt the protectors and funders will ever be brought to mortal justice.

created “dissonance for vulnerable and unformed thinkers" Literally any dissenting opinion. Next up, an accusation of being unmutual.

I once read a SF story where one of the background features was no fault crime, where the criminal and the victim were both held equally accountable. That was, of course, naive. The guilt will be assigned based on social justice points, where the victim who defends himself will be the most guilty of all since he is keeping the predators from what is rightfully theirs.

Thanks for posting the video. Merry Christmas!

Under a non-capitalistic society, nobody would do what they do. It wasn't real socialism; they had people regulating the bread line.

Don't the trees have enough problems without some yahoo coming along and burdening the trees with his own problems? Why is it the tree's role to listen to anyone whine?

How can we achieve justice for the victims of systemic discrimination as a class if you insisted on defending yourself as an individual rather than excepting your guilt as a member of a class? Real self defense occurs when victims of systemic racism take what is rightfully theirs. Check your privilege!

Then they came for the Bronies: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/06/my-little-pony-nazi-4chan-black-lives-matter/613348/ Because nothing can be free from censorship. I particularly liked how the author seems to find it problematic that Derpibooru forbid complaining about content and instead instruct visitors to use the site’s filtering tools to avoid images they don’t want to see. as though taking responsibility for your own viewing is beyond her.

From the original article: https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2020/theres-an-unconscious-bias-in-virtual-meetings-heres-how-you-can-avoid-it/ “[S]ome organizations are guiding participants to consider background choices to reflect the organization’s values, as opposed to personal choice”. Everything within the organization, nothing outside the organization, nothing against the organization minoritized people Minoritized? that's a new one on me.

even something as simple as an icebreaker asking people what the “most fun thing you’ve done with your family during quarantine” could be a microaggression. Why yes, anything can be a microaggression and that seems to be the point. Asking "How are you?" can be a microaggression, since that marginalizes people who aren't doing at all well, which is ableism.

How he manages to keep his sanity (or to project the image of such to us here) shall forever be a mystery. Cthulhu just called. He says you're freaking him out.

The vast majority of people worldwide, as well as millions in the UK, do not have their needs met Wow, what kind of third world pest-hole are you guys running if "millions in the UK do not have their needs met"? They must be starving in the streets and lining up to leave. Why, the flood of refugees from the UK must be overwhelming Europe. Oh, wait, none of that's happening and that claim about "millions in the UK" must be fresh off of the San Francisco sidewalk. This seems to be a combination of make believe solidarity with the less fortunate and a kind of fantasy distopia the writer dreams of. The question of what needs are not being met and how to meet them is neglected in favor of considering how to replace the writers fantasy distopia with a swinging, upbeat distopia with dancing.

until you become an insufferable, neurotic prodnose. "They say misery loves company We could start a company and make misery" - Soul Asylum got it slightly wrong. You need to a university to make large scale, life altering misery

Congratulations and I wish you luck and happiness in the years ahead.

“We don’t need the wealthy, just their wealth”. We don't need farmers, just the food they grow.

principles of non-hierarchical organisation This almost seems like a contradiction in terms. Some people are going to end up in charge no matter how "non-hierarchical" they claim to be. We’ll also have a kids workshop Do you think non-hierarchical Barbie will be involved? Remember to bring your instrument if you want to play during the acoustic open mic. Sounds like a show for the ages.

On being put on a diet by her parents: having my food consumption policed meant i developed creative and adaptive ways to continue being able to eat the foods my body wanted to be able to eat OK, being forced to go on a diet by her parents probably did suck and was foredoomed to failure, but I find the phrasing interesting here: "to eat the foods my body wanted to be able to eat". She was just following her body's orders, folks.

After the colony fails: "It wasn't real matriarchy."

Whether, in a matriarchal society without examples of male aggression, those boys would grow up to be the kind of man who grabs a peaceful protester by the back of her neck remains one of the great unknowns. Because boys growing up in homes without fathers always turn out to be so peaceful.

Wow, so your parents are morally incompetent so you have to supervise their voting. I love how this, which I've always heard is illegal in the USA, is only the first step and I doubt their could ever be a last step.

Was that powdered styrofome? I suppose she appeals to "adolescent males of every age and sex", as The Annals of Improbable Research used to put it.