As an autistic person with several autistic family members, friends, and associates, I’ve never met someone who used it or liked it

Perhaps it’s a US vs UK thing? I’ve only seen US and Canadian people use it, in the same way that I’ve only seen US people use the term “blacks“ when referring to black people

It has that connotation to me. And the fact that it’s the term of choice to use as an insult in places like 4chan and other edgelord spaces doesn’t help

Seems like it’s one of those things like “autistic person be ”person with autism“ where there’s no consensus within the community

Is It just be that loathes the word “autist”? Gives me real “Oriental” or “the blacks” vibes

The sun is blowing up

Iirc, he’s already said that criticism of him is treason. So…

Is it actually wiping jobs?

I hate that I like his suit

Where’s that cartoon about financial news stories making much more sense if you replace the words “the economy” with “rich people’s boat money”?

I once asked why anybody would want a smart fridge. Most people didn’t seem to know. The most common answer was that it could act as a focal point for a busy family for keeping track of things like appointments.

So, like a blackboard/whiteboard, cork board, or even a normal fridge, some paper, and magnets.

I’m no Luddite. I’ve got smart lamps so i can change the lighting in my living room & bedroom without getting up. And I’m looking into heating so i can have my heating come on when i leave work, rather than at a specific time. That saves effort and money.

But i just see no reason whatsoever for anybody to have a smart fridge.

More significantly, he’s one of the key instigators and powers behind the current us government. Explicitly wants to create a technocratic dictatorship.

Seriously, who had Taylor-Green & Boebert down as being the Republicans to do the right thing here?

All Americans, even those for whom immigrants are instinctively “other,” should be disgusted by these abominations, which make clear that there is no foolproof protection for anyone, Americans included, from ICE’s rabid tactics.

There is foolproof protection - be white.

This is one of those places where they mentally and sometimes physically abuse teenagers because they don’t live up to their parents idea of what they should be, right?

Is this some strawberries aren’t berries but cucumbers are stuff?

To be clear, this isn’t happening because now the royal family knows. It’s because it’s too public for them to pretend they don’t know.

I love how everybody is assuming that there will be a “next election”. I’m not sure that’s guaranteed. Except, maybe, in the way that Russia still has elections.

I mean, I know you can be too alarmist about things, but there’s a very clear and obvious direction of travel in the US right now.

Do you mean that when the concurrence for the overturning of Roe v Wade said that they should also have another look at marriage equality, that meant that this was on the roadmap? Huh. Who could have possibly seen this coming?

Sure, but the porn laws are specifically about targeting LGBTQ people.

It actually gets worse than I outlined above, because I was in a hurry when I wrote that.

So, you make porn illegal and you define “porn” as anything “pro-LGBTQ”. That’s all books which feature LGBTQ characters, all organisations which support LGBTQ people, all people who are openly LGBTQ themselves.

Now you’ve got a school librarian who purged the books she was told to purge but accidentally missed one. A student checks it out, his parents see it and recognise it, now that librarian is guilty of distributing pornography to a minor. If the book features an LGBTQ character who is a minor, then that librarian is guilty of distributing child pornography.

And that’s not even as worrying as it gets. Because everything above is in Project 2025, but that’s not the entire limit. Over the last couple of years Republican politicians have been floating (and even trying to introduce bills which would actualise) the idea of the punishment for sexual offenses involving minors to be the death penalty. They’re not there yet (and bills have thus far been defeated), but that’s the direction of travel. That’s the end goal. A pseudo-legal framework to justify executing people for being openly LGBTQ (held hands with your girlfriend in public? A 17 year old saw you holding hands. You are now guilty of a sexual offense involving a minor), or anything other than publicly anti-LGBTQ. Off to the camps with you!

So, yes you’re right that they’ll use whatever weapon they can against whichever group they can - historically, fascists often target LGBTQ people first, and at the moment it’s easier to start with trans people than explicitly going after gay people - yet.

But the anti-porn laws are explicitly about targetting LGBTQ people. And they’re only part of the way down the roadmap.

The trans bit is key here. First that, then anything “promoting homosexuality”. It’s in Project 2025 that the porn bans are about criminalising LGBTQ people and allies.

Also “LGB drop the T”. Once all the trans people are in camps, who do you think they’re coming for next, LGBs?

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