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Hi, hello, hi.

Instructions unclear, reporting for duty rofl.

Oh I am still at the 2014 phase.

We... used to have a term for people that advanced further: sell-outs.

Though I do very much prefer the recently popularized Cyberpunk lingo:

Fucking Corpo Scum.

With nuclear weapons.

Mutually Assured Destruction.

EDIT: Wow, my internet dropped or something as I was posting this, duplicated a few times, and my clipboard has now just lost the text I tried to copy paste out of it... derp.

Without getting into a massive discussion about self-diagnosis and validity of various tests in which demographics and what not...

https://embrace-autism.com/raads-r/

If your total score is 65 or over on this, you may wanna look into a formal diagnosis.

... And I am saving this comment, as you have well voiced the madness of all of this experienced in particular by high-functioning / highly-intelligent Autistic children.

A short summary of how Ive felt much of my life would be: constantly being mocked and belittled by hypocritical idiots who are too stupid to realize they are hypocritical and have totally logically inconsistent worldviews, and inconsistent applications of them... as well as just that they are idiots in the sense of just being objectively wrong about most things.

...

Yeah, it is quite cathartic to realize that masses of the general public are themselves, and voted into power officials who... are just literally schoolyard bullies, absurd, malignant, anti-social narcissists who literally cannot concieve that they could ever have any flaws or ever be in error, who are actually incapable of empathy, of mirroring emotions of others experiencing or describing something that did not happen to them personally.

...

I no longer mask.

There is no point, and it is too exhausting to be expected to be some kind of mind reader.

If people can't actually succinctly verbalize their thoughts, or express them in writing, that's their problem, not mine.

Just say what you actually mean.

Use your words, and know what those words actually mean.

I am done learning how to be an interpreter for every different person I meet.

Its the age old problem of government:

Anyone who strongly desires to be in a position of power likely is not the kind of person you would want in a position of power.

I appreciate you saying that though. =D

Impostor syndrome is basically the inverse of the Dunning Kruger effect, as it is known in popular culture.

If you actually read the actual studies by Dunning and Kruger, and subsequent work based off of it:

Idiots consistently wildly overestimate their correctness.

... But people who actually are quite correct, quite competent... well they actually tend to self evaluate themselves as somewhat less competent than they actually are.

Because humility and a fundamental idea of 'i could be wrong' are foundational to a rigourous system of critical thinking that can actually allow for that true, detailed knowledge to be gained.

So, ironically, Dunning Kruger effect also describes more or less impostor syndrome, its just that that isn't the aspect of those kinds of studies that pop culture focuses on...

So we now have a situation where understanding of the 'Dunning Kruger effect' itself is subject to the 'Dunning Kruger effect.'

I occasionally watch both vaush and hasan segments on youtube, along with many other lefitst youtubers.

vaush doesn't do debates anymore, hasn't done one in... over a year at this point, almost two years?

I've heard him explain a few times now that debating anybody with hardcore right wing views is less than unproductive at this point, as none of those people are any kind of capable of arguing in good faith, thus all you're doing is platforming them.

also vaush is routinely quite critical of authoritarian regimes.

hasan, on the other hand, yeah, i agree, he has (at least initially? not sure if his stance has changed since) defended the russian occupation of crimea, he has platformed people that go waaay beyond being just anti-zionist and go all the way into general antisemitism, basically played defense for the Chinese government's actions against uyghurs...

he's much closer to a tankie, and tankies are what hexbear has a whole lot of, those are the rabid posters and mods you stereotypically get there.

So... I am confused as to how you would say hexbear loves both vaush and hasan, when ... rabid hexbears basically are tankies... and would generally agree with hasan (or think he doesn't go far enough), and despise vaush.

hexbearians generally hate vaush, in my experience

huh, I didn't know John Fetterman posted on 4chan