I think a big part of the problem is that we’ve made a place that isn’t worth saving long before Trump came along to loot its corpse.

Let’s go back to normal so the normal politicians can tell us the economy is great as we live in subsistence with no time or wage to live lives, where we’re murdered for private profit with government’s blessing, where millions of Americans die of homelessness as other Americans condemn their very existence for lowering property values. Trump is dandy with all that, but that’s been the US under both parties my entire life.

We haven’t lived in a society for as long as most everyone here has been alive, just a rigged competition against one another to the death for capitalist scraps.

Then you tell us the Fascists are here and we should… Risk our lives to… save that cesspool of avarice and casual sociopathy? Because people other than the poors are in the shit now?

This is the consequence of the hyperindividualist and avarice stoking values of the US, values our people are still miles away from abandoning no matter how much they get hurt by it, because they want to be a big winnah one day. We made a place where it was everyone out for themselves. Those values poisoned any sense of nobility towards this cesspool.

Here’s a dark reality, not individually but as a nation, given our actions and practiced values? Donald Trump, who I voted against out of harm reduction for the record, is the PERFECT representative of the United States. It’s like the US took human form. He’s an accurate caricature of all we are, all we value, and all we idolize in practice.

…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.

🎻🎻🎻

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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Which is exactly what China said when they stopped at 125% and said they’re done playing stupid chicken and we can knock ourselves out raising them to eleventy bazillion percent.

The Chinese government has their own sins, behaving like petulant children isn’t one of them.

What we’re willing to inflict on our children, from this to demanding their future be as a cog in the capitalist machine is a big part of why extinction by climate change is starting to look like an alluring mercy long term.

Will people including children suffer? Absolutely. Are most people and children suffering now with no end to that suffering if the capitalists get their way? Absolutely.

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.

Trump is the result of what the capitalists have done to the population since Reagan.

If you’re a billionaire who profited off gutting taxes, the commons, schools, etc while propping up for profit media pushing pro business lies like climate change is a hoax to line your own pockets, this is your fault.

As much bloody murder as Kenny here is crying, he isn’t suffering a tiny fraction enough. He should be in a secured mental health facility to treat his antisocial hoarding disorder for both his and our safety.

“Why the fuck are you stupid leopards eating my face?!I bribed good money to have them eat the poories while I laughed!”

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He’s a narcissist. A true, clinical narcissist with NPD, not just a selfish fuck with narcissistic tendancies as most Americans have been indoctrinated/propagandized/miseducated/deluded to be so as to be optimal consumers.

As such, he truly believes the world, all of humanity, and the entirety of all existence only ever mattered as a function of bringing him, Donald Trump, into being and facilitating his divine grandeur, and can’t ever matter again once he’s gone.

The Reagan Revolution