Time to put the reverse Cramer strategy to the test

Apropos of nothing, I assure you.

Not even sure how much of it is tankies and how much of it is cointelpro trying to sow dissent within anti-auth spaces. There usually seems to be some astro-turfing being used to keep auth-left voices above the fold at first, slowly morphing into "ban anyone who promotes voting or tries to discuss nuanced politics."

Benny figured out how tariffs work. And then the lions ate his face. Edited for typos. And that should be leopards. I just got off work. Yeah. Oops

Apparently some people dogpiled her on bluesky about the recent protests and accused her of takes she didnt' actually have so she deleted her account because of the harassment, hope she's doing okay.

Finally! It's time to break out the supersoakers full of piss!

Robert should sue

In the fake autism cures episode, Robert said it's unknown why people with ASD have inflammation in their brains, but as an autistic person, I can confirm that the reason why is because the world gives us headaches. The society we've built is already overstimulating enough, and having to deal with people who don't believe in autism, or want to "cure" it is enough for our brains to swell with rage.

This is 100% more scientific than anything the autism grifters are trying to pull. You can quote me on that, I'm totally qualified.

The guy who led the Nazi party in Britain should have had his ability to reproduce removed. Instead, this little piece of shit is running around Europe heading a CIA backed surveillance company. Yuck

I am a community organizer. I've been to Havana. I know plenty of folks who grew up in authoritarian regimes. Anytime I comment on a post about how "China is great" with even the slightest expression of "this is propaganda" I get a lecture from a tankie about how I need to actually do something and get out of my basement. I teach poor families how to grow food and its just fucking so annoying to be told I shouldn't be doing that, I should be defending Kim Jong Un and Xi. These people think they're the vagaurd of revolutionary thought and want to lecture me that even under revolution socialism some folks in Cuba should be able to import Teslas. I makes me want to slam my head into a wall. All my lived experiences tossed aside for some dipshit unironically stanning Kim Jong Un.

Edit: all you tankies who keep leaving comments where you clearly missed the first literal two sentences of my post - keep leaving comments then immediately blocking me, its way faster than me doing it myself

I don't know who he is, but the vibes match.

My son was fairly nonverbal, would be come violent, or inconsolable for his first 3 years of life.

Autism was something we thought was possible for him, but for the most case we were able to keep him ok and he frequently seen docs due to having asthma early on.

One day, well over the course of a few days I really took notice how'd he bury his head in the couch cushion and become inconsolable. It made me think he was possibly having severe headaches.

Long story short, we took him in the his Pediatrician, they tested for staphylococcus. When it came back negative they sent us to neurosurgery...

Turns out he was suffering from Idiopathic Intercranial Hypertension. They did many spinal taps to try to mitigate his cerebral fluid pressure, all while ℞'ing proper medications.

Up until he hit adult dosages to maintain. One NS's solution was to continue spiral taps in perpetuity (weekly) . (His ventricles were too small to put in a VP shunt, or a lumbar shunt)

This was a non starter for us, as he was only 3 and already had like 6.

Ultimately we found someone who could do the surgery via robotics at Nationwide Children's, 5 states from where we lived.

Most wildest shit was about all this, literally 3 days after his surgery, he was very verbal, spoke full sentences. It was one of them "HOLY FUCKING SHIT, DO MIRACLES EXIST!?!" moments.

7 years later, lol dude is a great student, has several friends and is not violent at all.

Sorry, just triggered a memory when Robert mentioned the high cranial pressure and lumbar punctures/spinal taps...

Posting here because of the latest episodes.

So, I am ADHD, and display significant autism symptoms. There's no secret that autism and ADHD are very co-morbid.

I have been diagnosed by two different psychologists as autistic (if we want to use Nazi-friendly terminology, I have Asperger's), and I went to another psychologist who did a even more in-depth diagnosis and she said I don't have it, as I don't have ritualistic tendencies.

She mentioned that girls/women don't tend to have rituals, but as it's officially apart of the diagnostic criteria and it must be met to be diagnosed, I cannot have autism.

So the time when I was 6yo and at a class party where we were given the instruction to "only take one or a small handful" of food (one in reference to a piece of cake) meant that I took one chip, one lolly etc and then I sat down by myself and ate it meant nothing. The time when I was about 16 I got marks deducted because even though I did all the work required on a group project, I did it away from the group also meant nothing. The fact that I never had a lot of friends and would float between friend groups, and when I was there, I'd always sit on the periferies meant nothing. The fact that I have special interests meant nothing. The fact that I get really upset at injustices meant nothing. The fact that a kid with autism was introduced to the class and they explained what it was and I thought that sounded like things I would do meant nothing. The fact that my best friend of almost 20 years (and a primary school teacher) has thought I had autism almost as soon as we met meant nothing. The fact that I have difficulty looking at people in the face meant nothing. The fact that multiple people who have experience with autism has picked up that I display autistic traits meant nothing. I can point to multiple examples throughout my life that screams autism and I can place that in front of the DSM-V and they will mean nothing because I don't do fucking rituals.

All of that shit means nothing because I don't display a predominantly male autistic trait.

I'm so fucking angry, because that means women are still consistently under diagnosed as autistic because of medical fucking misogyny.

I have autism. There's no way I don't. Fuck the DSM-V. Fuck medical misogyny. It took me 26 years to get an ADHD diagnosis because ADHD didn't exist in girls when I was growing up. Now I'm officially lying when I claim I have autism because of this arbitrary male-centred criteria exists on the diagnostic check list. Fuck the rest of my autistic tendencies amirite?

I will defend the psychologist, though, because I think she agreed with me that I had autism, but she's bound by her job requirements to say I don't. She literally opened up her diagnosis explanation with "you don't have autism because you don't have this one diagnostic criteria which is mainly displayed in men."

Anyway, I'm just confused and upset. I feel like a fraud for identifying as autistic, because the DSM-V says I'm not, even though I absolutely am. Because THAT'S not an autistic trait at all, with the strong adherence to truth.

I mean who doesn’t need a mock Playmobil trench knife?

I initially posted this in another sub but I felt like the message would be well-received here too. made a few minor edits since the OP was geared toward a female audience.

hello dears, lots of things around the world are complete shit and I'm not here to be a doomer and remind you of why that is. nor am I here to spread toxic positivity pseudo-inspiration slop because who needs that.

many of us hail from marginalized communities or love someone who does; many of us are queer, neurodivergent, trans, POC, disabled, poor, immigrant, chronically ill, and vulnerable. I don't need to convince you of your inherent human value and inalienable right to live in the world any more than I need to prove that water is wet, but we all know why that is even a point of discussion.

we need to survive. we must. and dammit, we will. if not individually, then collectively. we can't control luck or what has already passed, and, infuriatingly, we can't control things that should damn well be within our autonomy. but we CAN grip our oppression by its ugly nutsack with all the bruising force we can muster and never. let. go.

you don't have to personally reverse the tides of history from crashing down on our shores, nor should you feel guilty for not having the godlike level of power that would require. but you HAVE power, damn you. it wouldn't be worthwhile to subjugate us if we didn't.

if you aren't able to protest or organize or boycott, you still have power. be a sounding board to a struggling friend, grow plants, support a local creator, download archives of research articles, cast a spell, familiarize yourself with resources in your area, write a poem, renew your prescriptions, stare (defiantly!) at the wall, do absolutely anything but roll over and accept defeat. if you can't do the "right" thing consistently, do it inconsistently and own it.

remember that you are dynamic and ever-changing. what challenges you now may not necessarily challenge you always. you will learn and grow ever stronger than you can possibly foresee.

so fuck the odds and especially fuck those betting on our collapse. what collapses, we'll prop back up with sticks and mud and guard dearly until it heals again. what were the odds of this batshit timeline coming to fruition, yet here we are? the odds are a prediction sketched in dotted lines, not a prophecy.

keep marching, my friends. it's not over and never let anyone convince you otherwise. ✊

Let them make their own excuses for long enough. The more you try to point out how wrong they are the more they will dig in. They're trolls. Stop feeding them

Things like “short term pain for long term benefit”, “equalizing trade”(???), and “let’s see how it pans out” are all general sentiments being expressed. No idea how folks can justify this but alright.

It seems all the right has to do to win is mention jobs, blame higher gas prices on environmentalists, and say that immigrants are bad and they’d get elected.

Heck the higher energy prices caused by the Russian Invasion of Ukraine was propagandized as being because of the carbon tax in Canada because of a Canadian sponsored by big oil.

All you got to do is mention “the jerbs” and “the economy”

Not helped by even the most peaceful and modest protests getting framed as dangerous thugs.