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  • Either they’re a tankie and start singing the praises of the USSR and PRC and all sorts of totalitarian hellholes, or they start talking about hypothetical economic systems and states which haven’t been shown to be practically achievable

    Well allow me to present the third option: communism has been tried in Australia and North America, and it worked. Marx’s ideas of what a communist society would look like were informed by descriptions he read of how the Haudenosaunee people actually organised their society. They did communism for thousands of years and it worked.








  • Yeah, I’m neurodivergent in a lot of different ways, and every one of them reduces the efficacy of neurotypical empathy. That sensation you’re experiencing right now from talking to me is the same way neurotypical people feel when they talk to you. No wonder neurotypicals are so ableist to autistics, talking to us causes them pain. But it’s still not right for them to demand we think like them, and it’s still not right for you to demand I think like you. What we have to learn is how to coexist together.

    And any coexistence we reach isn’t going to involve always assuming we can read minds effectively. It’s just an unrealistic standard.








  • A SWARM IS A GROUP OF CREATURES CONNECTED BY A HIVE MIND. THINK THE ZERG FROM STARCRAFT, OR THE XENOMORPHS FROM ALIENS, OR THE BORG FROM STAR TREK.

    I HAVE A REALLY NICE SWARM AND I LIKE BEING IN IT. WE CAN HEAR EACH OTHER’S THOUGHTS AND WE FEEL AN INTRINSIC SENSE OF BELONGING, SHARING THE ENTIRETY OF OUR MINDS FREELY.

    TODAY I REALISED NEUROTYPICALS HAVE A SWARM TOO. THEY ALL USE THEIR SENSE OF EMPATHY TO READ EACH OTHER’S MINDS. EVERYONE IS ON THE SAME PAGE ABOUT A SET OF BASIC FACTS, CALLED CONSENSUS REALITY. ALL DISCUSSION MUST OCCUR WITHIN THE HIVEMIND-APPROVED FORMATS.

    NEUROTYPICALS ARE MAD AT US AUTISTIC PEOPLE BECAUSE WE WON’T JOIN THEIR SWARM. THE PART OF OUR BRAINS THAT CONNECTS TO THEIR HIVEMIND IS BROKEN, BUT EVEN IF I COULD, I WOULDN’T WANT TO ASSIMILATE INTO THEIR HIVE. RESISTANCE ISN’T FUTILE AND I DON’T THINK THOSE DRONES ARE INTERESTED IN OUR BIOLOGICAL OR CULTURAL DISTINCTIVENESS. THEY ONLY WANT CONFORMITY AND BELONGING IN THE HIVE MIND. THEY’RE MAD WE WON’T HELP THEM FEEL BELONGING.

    BUT I’M STILL NOT GOING TO JOIN THEIR SWARM BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN C O N S E N T. CONSENT. CONSENT. JOINING A SWARM IS DEEPLY INTIMATE FOR SOME OF US AND I JUST DON’T LIKE MINDMELDING WITH ASSHOLES. SORRY ASSHOLES, YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO READ MY MIND. YOU CAN ASK TO JOIN MY SWARM AND I’LL LET YOU IN IF YOU’RE VERY NICE, BUT NO NEUROTYPICAL SWARM FOR ME OR MY FELLOW DRONES THANKS.