Bingbong
16d ago
Plus the filter of the ones that manage to have children of a given cohort of the light-moderate autistic are likely going to err towards the shallower end of the spectrum and then it's a whole new roll of the dice with their kids.
Bingbong
16d ago
Or the whole Apu thing when I'd argue the Simpsons targeted the Scottish (Willie) and generic Germanic central European (Uter) more directly with lazy negative stereotyping
Bingbong
16d ago
SBF is a child of 2 law professors at Stanford with no indications of social-dysfunction in how they present themselves.
'Two accomplished professionals with a touch of the 'Tism that's sufficient to give them professional success but not go overboard produce children a bit further out on the spectrum' is superduper common. My mom spent 20 years teaching at a school for essentially bottom-tier autistic Children and other learning difficulty havers, and the rate at which the parents would be dual high-flyer doctors, surgeons, academics, engineers or whatever and then the child just gets too much of the secret sauce... It happens. Without even going into the whole 'the parents were born into more typical households in a better socialized environment whilst the children got born into the internet era with permissive enlightened avant garde parents' aspect.
Bingbong
16d ago
It's additionally confused when the immigrant/native thing gets treated as the only marker of class and/or is seized upon by first/2nd gens as a tool of giving them greater privilege. The amount of times I've had interactions with people talking about bias and classism in the West when they're top 5% in their country of origin and have been the beneficiary and performer of 1000-fold the oppressive activity on their own Untermensch.
Bingbong
17d ago
I've got friends who were very early FTX employees. SBF probably cranked his performative autism dial to 11 at certain points, but based on their testimony it always lingered around a 9 even when he was totally in his element.
Bingbong
17d ago
I get why there'd be a workaround for professionals but the idea they've just got a pile of stripper signup forms and then she actually went up and danced instead of being 'observing Stripper intern' for the day
Bingbong
17d ago
The woman being unable to enter the club legally under the age of 21 and therefore quickly signing up as a stripper in order to get in is a pretty insane sequence of events, I've got to say.
Bingbong
17d ago
Doctor scuttlebutt is that the patient wasn't psychiatric - pure personality.
How do you define this though? Not to cast aspersions on the doctors but the inherent nature of mental health diagnosis means that declaring somebody absolutely sane isn't the same as saying 'they don't currently have a broken leg'. The whole system is clearly creaking under an unwillingness/inability to actually handle whatever small % of genuine social defectors which then produces people rushing to palm them off on some other subsystem in order for them to no longer be their problem.
Bingbong
17d ago
You see this in stalking and DV cases - threats and implications are often not enough to do anything useful and things end up being too late.
True but you think those'd have more inherent grey areas than the litany of 'moderately violent homeless person is brought in 50 times until finally actually murdering somebody' if it's a defective relationship between two societally-functional people versus a person who is clearly just not beneficial whatsoever.
Bingbong
17d ago
Exactly. The Modern West just struggles to deal with people who defect from polite society. Most of the punishments that can still be levied are more 'this derails you from polite society so don't do it' effects. Thus for committed defectors it quickly becomes a case of the latest fine simply adding to the pile.
Bingbong
18d ago
they’ll keep filling those spots but the next 10 guys might start to think twice about being as oppositional. It’s definitely not a silver bullet, but I don’t think that means it is useless.
Or eventually you find one of those top 10 guys that you have a special relationship with and/or identify as a relative moderate, at which point you can then ensure the space above him is kept conveniently open and facilitate a regime change in which somebody you can actually negotiate with gets put into the top job.
Bingbong
18d ago
'Callousness' in medicine is unavoidable. End of the day most serious medical engagements are the worst thing to happen to the patient this year, decade or lifetime and it's Tuesday for the person treating them.
Bingbong
19d ago
A plethora of these people have gone through the Immigration court system and have simply disappeared into the wilderness after being told to vacate the country. Short of stationing ICE at every hearing and directly taking anybody who fails to secure further time in the country immediately to the border (and that still produces 'heartbreaking FASCISM photo of mean ICE wrestling deportee against their wishes') it's not going to be solved by simply upping the amount of judges if the people involved are inherently noncompliant.
Bingbong
19d ago
I don't know how long they've been together so this might predate the current moment in dating, but showing conservative politics/any sort of a job like policing on a dating app is incredibly poisonous to your rate of matching.
Also having personally gotten out of the Dating App Mines a few years ago with a WMAF pairing, simply holding the following standards
- Has a job/actual careerpath
- Not obese
- Doesn't immediately shut down at any sort of conservative politics
- Non-trashy tattoos/obvious promiscuity
- Some sort of family values/interest in having kids
Meant that my dating menu was like 85% Asian in a country that's like 10% Asian on the top level. That's gonna encourage guys of his profile to end up with Asian women.
Bingbong
19d ago
Honestly I feel like the calculus for Democrats is pretty good for drawing this out in the court of law. Keeps it in the media cycle longer and from the Rittenhouse thing the guy actually being cleared probably wouldn't actually change most people on the 'murder' side of the affair's opinions
Bingbong
19d ago
But virtually no one seems to be actually continuing that thought and saying that he should be charged anyways. We have rules. ICE has rules. That's the point of having rules, to use them! If Good had survived and Ross died then I would be saying that Good should be charged too.
Yeah but he's clearly enough on the right side of the rules that nobody with any real power on the Democrat side of the aisle wants to force this to a court case since they'd lose embarrassingly.
Bingbong
19d ago
The White elite is slowly losing its power, since the demographics are not in its favor. The way I see this is that by using authoritarian tactics, the elite tries to keep its power even when becoming an even bigger minority. Since the democratic system guarantees the loss of power.
Isn't this demographic pivot broadly due to the elite inviting large amounts of foreigners into the country in service of capital? It's not like some random pillaging horde of steppe people has come in without invitation.
Bingbong
19d ago
He was moving around the car in a circle, taking video of the scene. Are you even interested at all in truth, did you read any of last week's discussion?? Did you watch the video?
I genuinely hate this argument since the whole point of the 'don't stand in front of the car' is to minimize risk to the operative not to somehow absolve people for trying to drive into them. I don't care if the entire ICE platoon was doing jumping jacks in front of her dashboard against policy, the second she starts driving into them she is clearly generating a threat.
Bingbong
19d ago
You fundamentally don't understand this issue. The shooter had a reasonable belief in his life being in danger from her action. I agree that she was probably trying to just escape after mild civil disobedience and likely wasn't committing to actual attempted murder, but the legal legitimacy is purely down to whether the shooter felt he was at risk. You've additionally conflated the 'officers are taught never to approach a vehicle from the front' idiom with 'it's okay to drive hazardously if one happens to be in front of the vehicle'.
It's a sad incident, but a tactic of constantly throwing mild inconveniences at the bear is going to occasionally lead to somebody being sideswiped. In fact it's somewhat amazing that ICE has yet to throw a properly, truly against-the-rules murder up considering they're fairly underskilled and being treated with incredible levels of hostility for trying to action the mandate of the people.
Bingbong
20d ago
I'm also an expat in Malaysia (which is notably less of an ethnostate than Japan and has its own vigorous fun Idpol stuff going on). There's a lot of illegal immigration here, and I'll probably get stopped at a roadblock every second month by happenstance for an immigration check. Generally it's a somewhat-amusing interaction since they're ostensibly looking for people from neighboring poorer Asian countries (Indonesia, Bangladesh, Myanmar etcetera) and I'm clearly not a member of one of Malaysia's main 'native' ethnicities so that the police feel it necessary to pull me over even if they're generally a lot more polite and circumspect with me than they would be with their actual targets.
I don't begrudge them their occasional checks. I do think the idea of Malaysian identity is quite messy, arguably moreso than even most Colonial Western nations, but I'm also not gonna start protesting the local police force for occasionally pulling me over. They're doing their jobs, Allah bless them.
Bingbong
20d ago
Don't they also have staggeringly high rates of domestic abuse? Though it wouldn't shock me if that were just an artifact of women being more likely to report domestic abuse and thereby the two-women relationship being more likely to report it.
Bingbong
20d ago
Also I've been to plenty of 95%-local ethnostates in the world where they're totally covered on all the latest global food trends. Tier 1s in China don't have a hell of a lot of foreigners but they've got a staggering array of European, Asian and American cuisines available for cheap and high quality. The whole 'but the food' argument is pretty absurd in the days of Youtube.
Bingbong
20d ago
Should have really died instantly from the first clip where the wife was standing outside of the car filming it which isn't standard practice for a 3-point turn.
Bingbong
20d ago
The leftist harassing ICE is stochastic hoping for a viral moment.
Exactly, especially considering one lapse in the rules of engagement for ICE can be blasted into the media forever (even this one probably was a legal shoot but had poor vibes) whilst anything that's palatable will fall off the radar immediately.
Couldn't this potentially align with the immense Somali autism rate in Minnesota and struggling children of certain diaspora being more likely to be diagnosed with medical issues to explain their academic issues?
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