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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What song are you listening to now? |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: "Civil War" 2024 movie |
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,791
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| the depiction of Texas and California teaming up totally ruins the whole premise for me. I have yet to see it. The scenarios of both The Day After[i]and [i]Threads leading up to nuclear war were plausible at the time. My first reaction to the illogical premise of The Civil War was like yours. Then ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism and Letting Go of Past Trauma |
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Posted: Yesterday, 2:44 pm
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Replies: 10
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| Pre diagnosis I was a typical guy of that era in the sense that I hid, denied, minimized my emotions. When I got diagnosed I went through the whole new explanation of my life experience described above. I understood that I needed to let my autistic brain do what it needed to do to process this new ... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Mideast War blowback |
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Posted: Yesterday, 11:14 am
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Replies: 312
Views: 25,848
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| Google employees arrested following protest over Israel ties at executive’s office Google employees were arrested on Tuesday after staging a more than eight hour sit-in at the California office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, in protest of the company's ties with Israel. Arrests were also made f... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Might autistic people be more likely to forget things... |
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Posted: Yesterday, 10:58 am
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| IMHO a combination of hyperfocusing on our interests and poor multitasking ability generally leads us to be atypically forgetful. In some cases not just things but basic needs like eating, sleeping, and relieving ourselves. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism and Letting Go of Past Trauma |
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Posted: Yesterday, 10:47 am
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Replies: 10
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| Pre diagnosis I was a typical guy of that era in the sense that I hid, denied, minimized my emotions. When I got diagnosed I went through the whole new explanation of my life experience described above. I understood that I needed to let my autistic brain do what it needed to do to process this new i... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Toxic Baby Food Autism Lawsuit |
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Posted: Yesterday, 10:01 am
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Replies: 8
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| Lawsuit Legal News As infants transition to solid foods, parents often turn to baby food as a primary source of essential vitamins and nutrients. However, recent revelations suggest that certain baby food manufacturers may have betrayed this trust by profiting from products contaminated with heavy ... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Mideast War blowback |
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Posted: 16 Apr 2024, 10:06 pm
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| House resolution condemning 'From the River to the Sea' chant as antisemitic passes with 44 opposed The House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning a pro-Palestinian activist chant as antisemitic on Tuesday – but 43 Democrats and one Republican voted against it. A House GOP-led resoluti... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Term "Antisemitism" |
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Posted: 16 Apr 2024, 9:13 pm
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Replies: 22
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| They are not specifically saying "Death to Israel" but "From River to Sea" which does mean Israel as a Jewish state needs to go. What the replacement for the Jewish State should be means anything from a multiethnic democratic state to the slaughter of the Jews. That means it is ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: False Dx: Up to 70% of dx'd may not actually be autistic? |
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Posted: 16 Apr 2024, 6:17 pm
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Replies: 81
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| ASPartOfMe has pointed out that there are reportedly quite a few people who want to jump on the bandwagon of being autistic / neurodiverse and that in some cases, that hurts the autistic population's credibility. I still don't think it's anywhere 70% like the OP suggests. I'd struggle to believe ev... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: ADL Says Palestinian Scarf Equals SWASTIKA |
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Posted: 16 Apr 2024, 5:46 pm
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Replies: 39
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| ^What you are describing is a perspective that exists but it is not "wokeism." (And incidentally I agree with that perspective. It's true that because racism is embedded in the structure of society no one is immune to it and it's difficult to avoid perpetuating it.) The meaning of the wor... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Mideast War blowback |
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Posted: 16 Apr 2024, 3:47 pm
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| Sen. Tom Cotton encourages drivers to drag Gaza cease-fire protesters from blocked roads Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., on Tuesday doubled down on earlier comments encouraging people stuck in traffic caused by cease-fire protests to “take matters into their own hands” and forcibly remove the demonstrator... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Trump indicted on four counts - attempt to overturn election |
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Posted: 16 Apr 2024, 11:54 am
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Replies: 44
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| Supreme Court appears divided over obstruction law used to prosecute Trump, Jan. 6 rioters The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared divided over whether to narrow the scope of a federal obstruction statute used to prosecute hundreds of people who breached the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in a legal battle... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Verified pro-Nazi X accounts flourish under Elon Musk |
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Posted: 16 Apr 2024, 11:44 am
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| An NBC News review identified 150 verified "Premium" accounts that have posted or amplified pro-Nazi content. Elon Musk’s X is a thriving hub for Nazi support and propaganda, with paid subscribers sharing speeches by Adolf Hitler or content praising his genocidal regime. NBC News found th... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Term "Antisemitism" |
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Posted: 16 Apr 2024, 8:07 am
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| I do agree that this has definitely become like 9/11 all over again. It should be noted that Islamaphobia has also increased in the post-10/7 period just as antisemitism increased in the post 9/11 period (Jews did 9/11 for world control). But Islamophobia was the primary bigotry inflamed by 9/11, a... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Term "Antisemitism" |
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Posted: 16 Apr 2024, 7:55 am
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| Zionists shouldn't be allowed to get away with tossing this word around anytime someone brings up the ethnic cleansing of the Palestenians. Yes! It's a serious problem that any criticism of Israel is labeled by some as antisemitism. There are valid reasons to criticize the state of Israel, particul... |
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