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backwoods
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I wrote about the mounting pressures to avoid becoming a Type of Guy
depatterning.substack.com/p/…
I think subtweeting has solidified for me as a sure sign of a core indecency in a person. even if it's done neutrally
could you imagine someone loudly gossiping with their friends about someone else *in front of them* irl? loathsome behavior
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greenest flag in another person is a willingness to risk a bit of embarrassment and vulnerability to be kind or decent to others
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good reminder
When I had very low self-esteem, I was highly susceptible to what one would call "love bombing." I was so desperate for love that I felt it was normal for someone to be obsessed with me immediately and shower me with gifts and attention. If someone didn't do this, I didn't hold interest. This attraction to love-bombing ended up with me being in relationship dynamics with people high on the spectrum of unhealthy narcissism, and quickly, the love-bombing turned into the opposite. Once I did something they didn't like, I was subject to intense criticism.
Years of inner work later, if someone bombs me with attention right away or showers me with gifts and love upon our first meeting, I recognize this as a red flag. Someone with secure attachment and a healthy sense of self doesn't do this; they will take time to warm up to you. It takes us time to decide if we like someone, can trust someone, and want to let them into our inner life.
If someone is love-bombing you and they barely know you, they are likely falling in love with an imaginary version of you that they have in their head. It will be impossible for you to live up to this imaginary image, and when you don't, everything falls apart.
Intimacy is precious and can only take place between two individuals who really know each other, their flaws, their beauty, and their challenges. It builds over time. True love is like a slowly burning flame, not a forest fire.
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Narrative Break - Autism expert shuts down NPR host regurgitating mainstream propaganda
✅ The outrage over @SecKennedy's remarks was completely unfounded
"I think everybody in this field knew that those remarks didn't apply to the broad spectrum of autism. But they certainly do apply to a very significant subset of us... It's not like these comments were at all shocking to a very broad swath of the autism population"
"I think it's an excellent thing for the country .. we have to have a reckoning about the reality of the autism increase .. I don't think he should be criticized for this. He is doing the country a big favor. We have to have serious discussions about causation; we have to have serious discussions about revising policy to meet the needs."
✅ The epidemic is real, not just "better diagnosis"
"I think that Kennedy is asking the right big question, which is 'What is behind these regularly increasing rates of autism in our children?' And he also emphasized how true those rates are, that this is truly an epidemic .. which is the appropriate word to use"
"In the short term, year over year, you might see some effects of better screening, better diagnosis. But we are talking about an increase that has been occurring since the early 90s, with very significant increases of about 7% a year. And there is just nothing in the base of evidence that suggests that this sweeping increase is owing to these sort of diagnostic or sociological factors."
"We see increases in autism even when you limit it to the most profound forms of autism, even when you limit it to the most profound forms of autism, even when you limit it to autism with intellectual disability. So it's not just that we're capturing milder cases - that's not it at all."
✅ We cannot allow this to be normalized
"We should not be romanticizing autism. I mean, yes, of course, I love my children with autism to pieces .. But we have to be realistic about what's going on. Autism is by definition a serious neurodevelopmental disability, and there's no reason to be normalizing it when we still have so many unanswered questions about what might be causing it, and what we should be doing about it."
Full interview below -
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There has been an effort for many years to whitewash autism in order to stop momentum to investigate it's causes from ever building
They are only giving this up now that it's become completely untenable - cat's out of the bag
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Epstein binders thing does not add up to me
Two questions:
1. Why hype this up in the media if you know none of the info is new or significant? Both Pam Bondi and her surrogates all lead us to believe the info would be shocking and impactful.
2. They really didn't anticipate the influencers getting caught with the binders? At the White House with press crawling everywhere, with "JEFFREY EPSTEIN FILES" written in large print on the cover? If you don't want to get caught, why not use a blank, standard cover? Why not meet somewhere out of view of the press?
The more I think about it, the more deliberate this whole fiasco seems.
Why would they do it though?
My only thought - think about the time delay. There were a few hours where people might have thought there was real info in those binders. If you're Pam Bondi and your own agencies are lying to you, maybe the move you take is to bluff that you just released something damning to the public and see how certain people respond...
Senior CDC scientist Bill Thompson in 2014:
"I'm completely ashamed of what I did. The higher ups wanted to do certain things, and I went along with it ... I cannot believe we did what we did."
xitter.gq/ChildrensHD/status/189…
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telepathy tapes are going to blow a lot of people's worldviews wide open
but important to note - this is from 2014. how did this not break into the mainstream before now?
do you really think higher ups in gov't + world power weren't aware long before?
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social anxiety significantly better if I focus on widening my attention and taking in more. in the grocery store I realize i almost never even register the ceiling
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elon could have been upfront about the low passing threshold for the what-did-you-do emails and avoided all of this - why not put that in the email?
people are upset bc they feel like they have to justify their value to a skeptical/hostile audience or lose their livelihood
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James Ryan retweeted
The Obama administration finally comes to an end today. Since 2008 that cabal completely dominated cultural & political narratives. It hamstrung the entirety of Trump's first presidency, culminating in the totalitarian rot of the Biden (final Obama) years. Good riddance.
Jake Tapper in 2020: "President Trump is reportedly considering a wave of preemptive pardons... does this concern you?"
Biden: "You're not gonna see in our administration that kind of approach to pardons"
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