Hang in there, comrade. Possible uplifting story below, but tagging it as a spoiler in case you’re not in a place to read it rn.

The Chicago Black Panther Party was doing intersectionality with feminists, a group of Puerto Rican activists called the Young Lords and poor whites known as the the Young Patriots in the 60s.

There’s a decent documentary on it called The First Rainbow Coalition that was produced by the Zinn Project.

The funny thing is, what they call “gifted” is just someone with a really efficient data storage and recall system. I was a “gifted” kid, always 98/99th percentile on every standardized test I took, but when it comes to things like synthesis of knowledge and generating new ideas, the truly creative stuff, I’m average at best. The educational system needs a new definition of gifted, new ways to identify those people and new modes of engagement to help them develop their gifts. That new definition still wouldn’t include these guys, though, who believe they’re gifted because they see through (((the conspiracy))). Bro, you’ve got narcissistic personality disorder, sit down and shut up.

Killers picking victims cops don’t care about - they don’t get reported - no serial killer

That was definitely the case of Anthony Sowell, who killed 11 women between 2004-2009 in Cleveland. His victims were all Black women, so nobody cared enough to do anything.

I mean obviously gender identity and kinks don’t have anything to do with someone’s ability to do their job, but this person apparently likes to steal people’s personal property and that’s not ok.

Good thing we’ve got plenty of trans users here that can throw her in the :pit:

Very few. Both my grandfathers were WWII vets, and they’ve both been dead at least a decade now. My grandma built F-4s during the war, she’s still alive and she will be 101 in March.

lots of trans anarchists out there with zero theory, sadly

Isn’t there a big data center or something there? I remember driving through that area in 2020 and seeing a crazy looking sprawling complex that wasn’t expressly a military installation, but had far too much security and menacing architecture to be civilian.

Because social media is an insidious tool of the bourgeoisie which serves to create a feedback loop which confirms its users perceived intellectual and moral superiority?

Thanks. I don’t know any communists who would want that, though.

What is that thing on the far right?

In another timeline, perhaps.

Principled leftists don’t have podcasts, they’re working to grow labor unions and running mutual aid orgs.

You Yankee fucks missed again

Fidel Castro, probably

10k plus words to say, “people are alienated, society is crumbling, and the world has more mental health concerns than anyone realizes”.

No, even turbo-optimist Gene Roddenberry couldn’t imagine a future where the world’s trajectory in 1966 led to humanity adopting a collectivist perspective. There was a horrible war fought against genetically enhanced superhumans and then a full scale nuclear exchange between the east and west that resulted in 1/3 of the planet being wiped out before humans abandoned capitalism.

The data is still a bit unclear on that. The best study was done at MIT and actually showed that there was little difference in language mastery ability from childhood until the age of around 20. Also, the top quartile of learners over 20 did just as well as the younger cohort, which could suggest an epiphenomenal explanation for the disparity. It may turn out to be a myth and the brain’s ability to assimilate a new language may be pretty consistent throughout the lifespan.

So I do appreciate you all taking effort to think something in your native language, translate it in your head, then type it up in English.

This isn’t really how speaking multiple languages works. The human brain is remarkably bad at parallel processing complex tasks. If you want to be proficient in another language you really have to learn to think in that language. It’s definitely a skill that can be learned and there’s an added bonus of becoming a better listener.

I mean he’s nuts, but he’s not entirely wrong. Mendellian genetics is to actual phenotype as the Bohr model of the atom is to actual electron configuration. It’s way more complicated than gene X expresses trait Y and actual geneticists know this. Shit, they teach you that in freshman biology. Also, what the hell do :reddit-logo: and capeshit have to do with any of this?