Eiren (she/her)

Not quite. They’ll no longer be external when entire companies are held accountable for hundreds of thousands of counts of property damage, endangerment, poisoning, manslaughter, etc.

Until then, we’re still on their neolib bullshit.

I could be badly wrong, but I imagine if the Ukraine’s resources are significant, China might discuss things with Russia behind the scenes and push for the offensive to continue. Both China and Russia need to start cutting at U.S. access to resources if they want an advantageous position in the next 10-20 years.

This depends on the extent of the actual resources and Russia’s current military-industrial capacity, manpower, and morale, though; but keep in mind that, from the Russian perspective, Zelenskyy has just sold off Russian natural resources to the Americans. There’s a lot of reason to not allow it.

Nietzsche wasn’t a nihilist, though. Nor was Heidegger.

And Heidegger diving into the reactionary deep end is incompatible with Nietzsche, whose actual argument re: nihilism was that things like history, tradition, and Heidegger’s “authentic Volk” are without value.

Britain’s answer to the Nazis was Winston Churchill, who was literally as bad as Hitler (except he genocided Asians instead of Europeans so white people don’t care).

You should not expect better from this shithole.

It’d be slightly nicer if it were just a step backward in time, but I’m afraid these ghouls and their ideology never actually left. Not in England, anyway.

I understand there’s some merit in the point you’re making, of course, but it’s not necessarily accurate either.

Autism is assessed by two symptom scales, which I will broadly call social and repetitive scales (just to simplify a bit). They don’t correlate too strongly with each other in people with a diagnosis, nor in the general population. This means, basically, people with autism all have different presentations, and people without can be fairly high in traits from either scale without actually being autistic. So, the boundaries are very fluid, even scientifically speaking.

In addition, autism is what’s called a behavioural phenotype, or in other words, defined by a collection of behaviours. Researchers studying brain scans (such as by fMRI) have found, even in people with autism diagnoses, there are several different broad types of “autistic brain,” and some of the groups they found even had brains that looked and appeared to function like allistic brains, and yet the autistic people with those brains still had autism. (In fact, surprisingly, those with the more “allistic-appearing” brains also had even more additional diagnoses such as ADHD or OCD.)

So, the boundary of what is autistic and what is not is not something strictly categorical.

…Of course, this doesn’t imply it’s okay to downplay the relevance of autistic traits and how they impact the life experiences of people, which is often what ends up happening, whether deliberately or not.

All humans are basically pure evil.

You’ve never been fucked in your life. You can complain about being fucked when you live in Gaza or Syria or something. Until then, stop pretending you’re some kind of victim because you blow money on expensive tech shit and partying.

Let me be more blunt about this.

You’re going to die. No matter how much money you make, no matter whether you own your own house or not, no matter whether you can buy whatever food you fancy, you are going to die.

If you’re spending your life just thinking about how to make more money, your life is pointless. Do something better with it.

If your goals in life start and end with personal wealth, you should expect stones thrown at you. Not sure what else you’re expecting with that level of egotism.

If you want a better future, elect people

You had me in the first half.

There’s absolutely no other plausible explanation for this shit.

Declare an attack on everyone, see who is coward enough to bend the knee, “reward” your loyal subjects by hitting them less hard and then “make an example” of anyone who stands defiant.

There’s pump and dump going on, but this is also basic psychological abuse strategy. That’s another reason for it.