One of the most important pieces of Trump’s 2024 election was getting the Hispanic vote. Sure, he spent years before, during, and after his first term talking about cracking down on immigration on the southern border, talking about how all of the people coming from Mexico or further south were a bunch of criminals and drug dealers. BUT he courted the Cuban population in southern Florida - mostly the descendants of people who were wealthy enough to have their wealth redistributed by Castro. By calling Harris a communist he was able to get their votes, win Florida, and that would have made the difference in the election.

The very concept of who counts as “white” changes depending on what the racists of the time want. In the not-too-distant past, Irish and Italian people were not considered white. I still don’t know if Bernie Sanders or other Jews are considered white or not.

Even for data like this… Is it really a black women vs white women issue, or is it a rich person vs poor person issue? And yes, those economic division have deep roots in the history of racism, but that doesn’t explain the whole picture.

Look at the people around Trump. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is one of those Cuban south Floridians. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer is a Hispanic woman. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is part Samoan, born in Somoa. FBI Director Kash Patel is Indian - his family fled persecution in Uganada.

And then there’s foreign policy. Trump seems to largely be pushing the USA away from predominantly white European countries that have historically been allies. Trying to break up NATO and undermine the EU, making threats against Canada and Greenland. Cozying up to Muhammed Bin Salman.

The people in power love when the masses fight amongst themselves.

It’s a good start, but I think the reality is that it’s a bunch of spectrums grouped together into one. I would point to all of the tests on embrace-autism’s website and how many of them are measuring different things. On some of the tests I score on the autistic side of the results, on others I don’t.

One area is social cues. The strengths of autism include things like having heightened sense, good memory, systemizing, attention to detail, and pattern recognition. For me I find that all of these things lead to me generally being BETTER than most people at recognizing social cues, and from previous discussions here there seems to be a population of people with a similar experience. But it seems that the majority of the autistic community finds that they are often oblivious to social cues.

I think that in the future, autism will be broken out into multiple sub-categories. Right now it’s just too broad.

I make the occasional connection with others who have similar profile of autistic traits to me, but there’s a lot of autistic people out there who are wildly different from me and I don’t feel that same connection.

Whatever is the most appropriate for the task at hand. Sometimes it makes sense to make your own.

I honestly am starting to think the anti-vaxx crowd has been astroturfed by pharmaceutical corporations in order to convince the general public that anyone who questions Big Pharma is some loomy who thinks vaccines cause autism wants to drink raw milk.

That’s why in rooting for a small mom and pop competitor to the space, like checks notes … Intel.

We’re fucked aren’t we?

Woah what a productive and useful take to have. Thank you!

Sorry but “slop” has been reserved for AI-relater insults only and I will not accept any dilution of that.

I remember when I was a child and I first got experience with computers. I saw how file systems worked and thought to myself “wow I should structure my own mind this way so I can try to think as well as a computer can!”. I may have autism.

AI is the exact opposite. Taking something beautiful, clear, clean, organized, efficient, definitive. And inserting all the messy, sloppy, uncertain, unreproducible aspect of our bloody electric meat brains. It’s a move in the opposite direction of where I think humanity should be going.

What about 1870 then?