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MAGA is straight up losing it after Taylor Swift’s Harris endorsement
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Republicans: Cancel culture is ruining the country!
Also Republicans: You endorsed Harris? Kiss your Republican record sales goodbye!
The hypocrisy is a feature
... of non-autistic humans. Which is why I like systems not reliant on what somebody considers kind.
Wait what? I can't tell if you're serious, but if so, I'd love to see research on the first part of your comment. If you were joking please feel free to ignore me.
No, just experience.
"Normal" people lie and bend morals so naturally that they don't see it. The discourse in their social bubble is more important than reality for them. They can say and believe absolutely contradictory things, which just have to be accepted as true by their social environment.
How can there be any research on this? It's literally normal. It's how political agitation works.
About autistic people not doing this - autistic people take discourses even more radically, but that kinda helps, because you have to check yourself for your perceptions to work with the real world at all. Also due to the effort needed to switch between various discourses, which happens naturally for normals, autistic people notice the fact that they switch.
Normals don't need that and thus can live all their life in common dreams.
I think I could find something more scientific to read on these things, but why would I really, it's obvious.
One of my favorite pass times is asking ChatGPT my hypotheses with prompts to search the web for academic sources (the free version is limited, but it works for a good few prompts over a few hours and let's you know when the cool down period is over).
Any time we make claims, it's very likely at this stage of human technology that there's research on it you can access and hone ideas around. Anecdotes can be really powerful in driving our interests and pursuit of knowledge, but I think we should always check in and be aware we're biased, fallible, sometimes hypocritical creatures.
I'm not sure if you are reinforcing the request for a source or agreeing with me, ha-ha.
I'll try. But my own experience with using those chatbots to find sources is not satisfactory, but then I was trying to find sources on very specific things.
I was reinforcing the request. I did a couple general prompts with your claim and think there's some research to support it, though it's not much; and, as with anything, there's nuance.
WTF does autism have to do with anything?
Impaired social abilities mean smaller attack surface for propaganda and groupthink.
Seems obvious, that's the main thing autism is, that's why it's called a u t i s m .
No no no, you see, when the left does it, it's cancel culture and literally communism. When the right does it, it's voting with your dollar, literally capitalism. Not comparable at all!!
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Which is hilarious since the main source of income for musicians ever since streaming took off is live shows and merch.. albums are a vehicle to drive attendance at concerts, for which Swift is pretty good at packing stadiums full of people. Even if she loses 30% of her listeners, she'll still sell out concerts and total revenue would likely be about the same because those seats will be taken up by other fans who would have otherwise missed out on the sold-out show.