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Okay yeah let me see if I can dig up my old notes. No promises

And I think it's less about autistic people are being told that they're queer and instead that they're just more likely to be introspective about their own identity and less likely to care about social norms (i.e. I am born with penis/vagina, so I must be man/woman) (https://www.charliehealth.com/mental-health/neurodivergence/autism-and-gender-dysphoria).

That sort of introspection is actually likely the cause of them feeling no sense of identity and being sold a solution. Oddly enough studies do show that deep introspection is more likely to result in a less stable sense of identity, higher rates of depression and people not knowing themselves as well.

I had a deep deep depression until I started reading psychological studies on rumination, introspection etc.

Studies find that those who are less likely to utilize introspection have a stronger sense of identity and actually know themselves better than those who think deeply about themselves.

This caused me to develop various systems because I couldn't cut off thinking so I had to replace introspection with other tools.

This again came from studies, psychological studies. Our thoughts are essentially a series of questions we continually ask ourselves. If the questions tend to be "why" questions in tends to result in depression and other forms of mental illness. I trained myself to switch any why question to a "what" question. It's tough but it stops introspection in its tract.

For example instead of "why does nobody love me" I would force myself to turn it to a what like "what am I feeling here" or "what's causing this thought"

I might answer by going "I feel lonely right now because it is a holiday and nobody called" then it might print me to ask "what should I do" and then I would call relatives.

The introspective stuff really does seem like a good thing and it was hard for me personally to let go until I realized that I was introspective because I was seeking certainty about my identity and to know myself better. However the studies showed that introspection accomplished the opposite of what I wanted so. I had to escape

I also fear and I don't know if it's true in your case that people, particularly autistic people do not have a strong sense of identity (something I struggle with as well) and that they are being told it's because they were born wrong or in the wrong body. And that they are being sold a solution to that problem. Similar to how the self help industry profits off of people who don't feel good enough as they are.

I suspect this is also why we see less tom boys. Girls that are masculine but straight are being told they are wrong and need to mutilate themselves.

Don't get me wrong. I feel that people technically should have the right to do these things if they are adults. However think a good level of social aversion to it would discourage it in people who are worse off as a result of these alterations, which I think is most people who transition.

I guess prove it. You always seemed right wing to me.

Yes for the entire time you have known me I have been various forms of right wing.

Its like euthanasia. I was a big supporter of it. I thought people should have the right to die, however by seeing it in action it changed my mind. It seems promoted to certain groups of people and it's beingade available in Canada for a lot of people who openly admit they are doing it due to depression not chronic pain.

As for trans rights. We can get into the details but I supported them. Do what you want with your own body, however seeing this stuff applied to children who are unsure of their identity and seeing it promoted as opposed to merely accepted has been harmful to society.

Becoming a conservative really is just living long enough to see the consequences of the policies I supported blow up and achieve some nonsense I never fathomed.

Now we argue over whether the 2020 election was stolen, whether it is acceptable for a president of the United States to be shitposting at 2am on social media, or whether a Fox News weekend host is a good choice to be Secretary of Defense.

If TDS made discussiona stupider just don't engage in it

Having extremely high tax rates to subsidize the poor, banning cigarettes, trans rights, euthanasia and legalizing all forms of drugs and treating addiction as a medical condition

thats not a good thing to say just because someone disagrees with you.

Karl Marx is a genius and I disagree with him. Op is an idiot

ALso DDO was better in 2014 and the fact the left felt like they had to move so far in one direction problem created more clear political lines which in fact makes things more boring. It's better when everyone was temporary allies or enemies depending on the topic. Also people on average on the site are lower IQ with dumber takes

You are literally an idiot. I was a leftist and changed my mind on things and I have seen several people also do the same. In fact most of the MAGA Republicans or those who lead the movement are former lefties as is Ronald Reagan, Candace Owens and Shacquille Oneal

It shows Epstein in heaven and also Charlie Kirk in heaven. That's where both are going

My dicks rules of conduct will be posted

undocumented" according to whom?

The fact this joke flew over your head proves you are retarded tbh

This is not an illegal war. It is just an undocumented war

We opposed DOGE because we didn’t like the idea of a bunch of drugged out teenagers like “Big Balls” walking into government agencies and firing people en masse without even knowing what it is that they do, like guarding our nuclear weapons for example.

It's always better to cut too deep when removing waste as you can immediately hire back. And "big balls" is literally a genius who decoded an ancient text with his self made AI program that you could never accomplish in two lifetimes.

Trump’s position on abortion certainly changed. But he’s always been a fascist, so there’s that.

He's never deviated from his pro choice stance

Democrats opposed DOGE because it was cutting things like trans drag shows in Peru

Trump has a plan to cut military spending by 15% over the next 5 years.

It's actually odd also that you are trying to group the 90s Democrats like me and Trump who took over the party with the Republicans we opposed in the 90s without changing any of our policy positions.

It might be worth it for you to read Davide Hume's treatise on philosophy because it goes deep into these topics you are touching on and you can escape this area where you develop extremely shallow knowledge of a wide variety of topics

Truth is more of a philosophical term. The way I would define it is as useful information that can be confirmed by others. So if you see a cow and point at it and another person sees it and can do something with that information, it counts as true. If it's an entity only you can see and interact with it's untrue.

So the definition is more about the usefulness of knowledge. This definition avoids arguments from solipsism that would destroy the definition and is useful

Women like masculine men who are providers. Sometimes they settle for just providers but they like masculine men and they aren't going to stop fucking us, even if they are liberal and even if they pretend like they won't because of politics. Once they get in a relationship and see how miserable their cat lady single wine mom friends are, they just naturally drift right. It compounds when they have a family and are able to think about what's best for society when voting as opposed to what gives them the most freedom to be whores.

You aren't going to see a liberal girl who is remotely fuckable sit there and have a biker or trucker or finance bro hitting on her on one side and some effinate borderline faggot hitting on her from the other side and see her go home with the soy boy. She might agree with his politics but he just isn't going to make her pussy wet

And there is no judge, just sloppily tthrown together 1 paragraph defenses of each side

It's not a fair trial anyway. The jury should be forced to read opening and closing arguments from each side

Why do you insist on ripping Christianity apart when it improves the world while Islam actively makes it worse. Isn't your energy best spent elsewhere?

Ethereum answers the crypto problem of using too much power TBH . It's why I think ethereum will surpass Bitcoin once crypto is easier to use

Your right Americans should adopt the policies of the left and be like Venezuela or worse, California

In essence of something doesn't work on the macro we shouldn't test it on the micro or visa versa

Why are we tweaking stuff when we see it doesn't work?

We can always iterate on things but with government you just want to avoid anything unproven or disproven in different contexts because unlike development where you can iterate or roll back releases, once something happens it is extremely hard to undo. Look at how long it took to reverse prohibition and that took massive effort

The criticism I've seen is that it's hard to understand, but in my system it's the legislature doing it not the public.

Who did I debate on this where I literally showed it increased how much time it took to count votes, how it increased inaccurate results being displayed and in a few instances lead to the wrong person being in office who later had to be replaced by the real winner when the vote counts were corrected?

Every time RCV is tried in the real world it has more unfair practices than other forms of voting that preceded it. Terrible ideal.

When looking at what to do policy wise it shouldn't be based on what sounds good but what has worked in the past since everything has essentially been tried we do have records of outcomes for everything

Income inequality is a retarded thing to even measure. What's important is quality of life not that your neighbor makes an unequal amount of money to you.

Why do you defend Epstein?

What did Epstein do wrong? He was basically convicted of ending in voluntary sex with 17 year old girls. He even paid them for it so they left the interaction better than he did tbh