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autistic, neurodivergent people are actually MORE susceptible to propaganda than normal people. they are just not susceptible to mass propaganda. if you target an autists' tism they will instantly fall in line and instantly trust untrusted input
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most of them have no defense for things that break rules, if you break a rule that they expect in a rule-based system, they just believe what they see.
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@sun explains the linux zealotry tbh
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@lunarised there is a HUGE number of people, smart normies included, that are totally fooled by saying "here is the alternative to the BIGGEST MOST POPULAR THING" and they just immediately switch to and love Pepsi instead of Coke, which is just another multibillion dollar corporation that is completely dominant, but not literally number one coca cola.
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@sun @lunarised they're immune in the sense that propaganda is bulk designed for NTs yeah.
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@icedquinn @lunarised yeah autists don't respond to normal peer pressure marketing
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@sun @lunarised the NT game is basically just making them think that stabbing yourself with a mouldy knife is now the approved opinion, and they fear failing a compliance test, so they need to see enough approval that stabbing themselves is now the approved opinion and begin stabbing themselves to fit in.

idk with autism its kind of dependent. nerd sniping is kind of less reliable probably.
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@sun @lunarised That's basically one of the main reason why "democracy" and "political parties" exist.
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@CleverMoniker @lunarised thats just tribe shit but yeah there's an element of "if you don't like a blue ford car we have a red one"
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@sun @lunarised remember "alternative rock"? even as a 10-year-old, I thought that was a stupid name for music products that were being churned out by immoral megacorps.
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@icedquinn @sun @lunarised autists are probably more vulnerable to demoralizing
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What else am I supposed to use? Temple OS only has 16 colors. 😭
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@Humpleupagus @lunarised 16 colors is great, I'm currently working on a pixel art editor that limits you to 16 colors
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Like Moebius or durdraw?
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@Humpleupagus @lunarised I dunno, it's my own thing based more or less on how comic book art was done in the 90s
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@Humpleupagus @lunarised I'm keeping this one closed-source. browser-only tho.
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@sun @lunarised

I think about this sometimes and ask myself if I'm just pathologically contrarian.

Then I remember all the topics where my opinion actually aligns with mainstream normie views, so that can't be it.

Ironically this makes me a contrarian even among contrarians...

Wait, does that mean I *am* pathologically contrarian?
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@sun technologyconnections is how you run ads for autists btw
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@sun its actually a good way to know whos actually had any experience with real autism as well as whos actually autistic
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@taylan @sun @lunarised
you care way too much about logical consistency and definitions in arguments, to the same extent as TRAs for example, just in another direction. In the normie brain these categories relate to others that also add weight (in the trans stuff things like "don't be mean", "social peace", etc), so it's more interconnected, schizo so to speak (normies are in the center of the autism vs schozo dichotomy).
Also your relation to the dominant ideology of Liberalism is somewhat focused on what it says, not what it does, that's why you attribute it's mistakes (like economical ones) to "errors" instead of flawed aspects of the ideology itself
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@taylan @sun @lunarised yes, being contrarian works that way, you need to have a few points in which you agree with major institutions to get one over your contrarian peers
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@dagda @sun @lunarised

> care too much about logical consistency

So I care too much about being right? blobcat-smug

You can pry my autism out of my cold, dead hands.
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@sun
So uh, maybe I'm just a damn good engineer, but I saw that coming a mile away with Ekko.

I said "hold on, this is a company owned entirely by Tencent, and is therefore wholly owned by the CCP. How do I prevent someone from using Ekko to push updates to me?"

And a bunch of defensive solutions were used, including Trust On First Use for basically any aspect of his lore. This is why slopcane was entirely rejected by the security engine and immediately recognized as propaganda.

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Autists seeing a rule violation in a rule based system will sooner crash than allow RCE. Ask how I know.

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@Suiseiseki @sun II FUCKING HATE GNU
NONE OF MY SYSTEMS USE GNU
FUCK GNU
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@taylan @sun @lunarised
facts and trvth are not the same thing
trvth is always part of a narrative, it's just how the human mind works. You can be pedantic on the factual correctness of your argument but doing so is engaging in Reddit
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@lunarised @sun If a system has the kernel, Linux, GNU has at least touched it in some way (the only OS that utilizes the kernel, Linux without directly including GNU packages is Android - but that's not self hosting and it's developed and compiled on GNU/Linux).

Even microsoft and apple use GNU.
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@Suiseiseki @sun I built my linux from a raw kernel, using non GNU utils
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@sun but you cannot target an autist with adhd. the adhd immunizes against the tism weakness, and the tism immunizes against adhd weakness.
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@protos @taylan @sun @lunarised
so-called free thinkers when you hit them with the "I think the best political system is a liberal democracy with a mix of market and social economy like in Norway"
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@dagda @sun @protos @lunarised

It was my actual result BTW and made me LMAO, but in my defense, I responded "neutral or it depends" to almost every single question. So, basic demsoc values (as opposed to fash tradcon stuff) are the only ones that influenced the outcome. blobcat-shrug
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@dagda @lunarised @protos @sun

The only one that passed 80% by the way. *tips fedora* *unsheathes katana* *slays the theist argument clean in two*
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@taylan @dagda @sun @lunarised I slay the theist argument clean in two then argue for establishing a fascist theocracy
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@protos @taylan @sun @lunarised
"I don't believe in god I just like the vibes and optics of catholic integralism"
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