Thou shalt not create a machine to counterfeit a human mind.

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  • Believe it or not, I know a lot of autistic people who were and are conservative voters. They weren’t diagnosed, but this was a time before the diagnosis was widely recognized.

    I come from a family of electrical engineers. My parents. My uncle. My aunt went into psychology and if you could guess why the first two guesses don’t count. My mother clearly has it. Her brother and sister clearly have it. Her brother is a cough away from being MAGA.

    There’s a joke in my family. “Autism spectrum disorder? Back in my day we just called them engineers!”

    My grandmother, who I never knew, probably had it. My great uncles were electrical engineers, all definitely have it. They are also life long conservatives, that if they didn’t vote from Trump I’d be surprised.

    Of the clearly autistic individuals I’ve worked with, they were mostly conservative.

    The link? Religion. Religion gave them all the comfort of black & white thinking we naturally tend towards. Since they’re not diagnosed, they won’t see the problem. This plays exactly into the whole goal. They aren’t part of the in group, but they think they are. Pretty much all of MAGA isn’t part of the in-group, but they all think they are.






  • Which is pretty fun. In the unlikely scenario I ever get to meet these bastards I can comfortably and calmly call them both traitors and cowards.

    If they’re going to great lengths to redact the content, then they know what they did is illegal. If they like doing things illegally, then they are criminals. But right now, they’re in power. If they don’t want to get punished, then make what was illegal, legal.

    They won’t do that, because they’d either get burned at the stake, or it ruins the pleasure of it for them. I think it’s the latter. The rich want things to be inaccessible to the have nots.