Only sticking point is the use of “demonic”.

It’s a silly term based on fairy tales and is needlessly dehumanizing rhetoric that not only makes the piece feel childish but also opens up the piece to criticisms that will distract the audience from the point that is trying to be made.

Why not just use “Imperialist Captors” and actually sell the anti-imperialism angle? That seems like it would be much more effective at getting the point across.

Can’t disagree, as someone who suffers in the US South.

Getting any sort of help is a pipedream. Once our support systems inevitably fail us, we are basically fucked.

Right back at you.

Sorry it seems you’re just getting a lot of generic advice and the usual “bootstraps” bullshit.

Unfortunately, the reality is that for most people with autism and support needs, unless you can find a unicorn position, you’re kinda just fucked and have to settle for something that you’re not a good fit for and will be detrimental to you’re mental well-being in order to simply survive our sick society. There isn’t really any sugarcoating it.

Guess I’ll just die then. I’ve tried adapting to it and it is literally killing mentally to do so. I’m done adapting to a sick society.

The New Deal did a great job at offering concessions from the system in order to placate the working class, which was building revolutionary momentum, so that the owning class could systematically dismantle the foundations of what allowed that revolutionary effort to take place. Now they have achieved that and are dismantling those concessions.

The law never worked for the people. It is a tool of the owning class to enslave the people to their whims.

The system is inherently oppressive and must be replaced. It is not the “best we could hope for”. Fuck off with that capitalist realism bullshit. Replacing it would be leagues better than floundering at trying to reform it out of its fundamental function: reinforcing the power of owning class hierarchy over the people and the land.

We either replace the system with something fundamentally different or forever be consigned to repeat this cycle of oppression.

You’re only argument against doing so is hyperbolic fearmongering of the unknown. Saying that if we do something different it would just be worse. That’s entirely conjecture. It has just as much possibility to become even better. You give up before you even try and consign yourself to a life of oppression under a system that only exists to exploit you.

There is vocational rehab which is supposed to help but good fucking luck being approved for access to the service.

Masking is the absolute bane of my existence. I can’t bring myself to do it anymore. Burned myself out so much doing it for decades I lost myself. Had to mask at work then had to mask at home around the family. Basically never had even a moment where I could safely be myself without being chastised for doing so.

So now I just don’t. If I’m gonna be uncomfortable either way then I’m not going to waste my fucking energy catering to the sensibilities of assholes who would never do the same for me.

The problem with this is that you still believe the system is simply broken and must be fixed.

We tried reform once before, a century ago with the slow shifting from Gilded Age to the New Deal reforms, and we simply came right back around to the owning class once again treating this country as their personal playground.

The system doesn’t need reform. It fundamentally reinforces the power of the owning class and their system of private ownership over the land and its resources that rightfully belong to everyone. You cannot reform it out of that fundamental structure. It needs complete and total replacement with something fundamentally different.

The only thing this system was ever meant to control and regulate was the working class to keep us subservient to the owning class.

Big screen. I want to actually be able to see the details in the media I’m watching.

Also, I want to be able to put my phone down and not have to hold it the entire time I’m trying to watch a show or something.

The inconveniences of watching things on a phone far outweigh the inconvenience of just getting up to watch on the PC or TV.

Take your own advice, champ.

No, you’re thinking about the fascists. Not those who defend themselves against them.

That’s just all the more reason to disobey. You can’t live your life in fear. Doing the right thing sometimes requires risk.

Read up on anarchist praxis and revolt. The only way out is to burn this fucker down and build something new.

You lie through your teeth. Fuck your fake concern. Go bite pavement.

“I have annoyed this person with performative politeness and bad faith arguing in support of those who espouse inherently violent rhetoric to the point they told me to fuck off, repeatedly. Now I get to act smug because they don’t maintain an arbitrary decorum.”

Gods you’re a fucking child.

Eat shit and die, fascist sympathizer. Fuck your performative politeness.

Fascist. The term you’re looking for is fascist.

Hope you meet the fate those like you deserve.

Oh fuck of with that disingenuous “people who disagree with you” bullshit.

You’re clearly here in bad faith.

Fuck off, fascist sympathizer.