I thought this was going to be more of polling post.

Anyway I did. I deleted my account and haven’t gone back for anything since then. It’s rough too cause now there’s no connection to the local groups here.

I joined a local instance hoping there would be local people posting but I guess that’s not how lemmy works.

Right? The best plan.

because as far as you were concerned, everyone is in the same tribe as you

I definitely don’t think that way. I’m aware that I am different from other people.

Reposting from my other comment:

Well I had the luxury of dating a psychologist who specializes in diagnoses and her brother is autistic - so she is very aware of autism and how it works and what it looks like in different people.

She confirmed I’m not autistic and thought it was hilarious that anyone would assume that about me. She’s known me for years and she has experience in that field. She knows better than just randoms at a meet up group would.

Well I had the luxury of dating a psychologist who specializes in diagnoses and her brother is autistic - so she is very aware of autism and how it works and what it looks like in different people.

When I told her that random autistic girls from my comm were making this assumption she gave me the biggest eye roll and a laugh. Because duh, I’m not autistic.

Right? Like the person who was insisting he was always bald due to some weird blind hatred. Like the guy use to just be a dumb stand up comedian/actor. As far as I remember he wasn’t outspoken in the 90’s like he is now.

It did totally feel like a troll.

We have a lot of engineers, and various departments. The customer service side is pretty small but then there are things like advertising and our social media group which is huge cause its more important.

Exactly but I’ve been crucified in conversation for bringing the show up because he was on there.

Eraserhead.

what is ASAB in this context?

god that sucks to hear.

I’m alarmed at the amount of people I met, mostly women, who are like upset when I tell them I’m not autistic. It’s like they want me to be or something. They insisted I needed to get tested to be sure.

Like what is with these people wanting this to be common and wanting to get people join in like its a club? It’s a genetic trait. You either have it or you don’t I thought.

lol even mods don’t follow rules on reddit and there are private subs where people do whatever the hell they want.

and we all know what reddit mods do.

I am legit trying to figure out why the apologists aren’t getting banned

You know, I would like to know this too. I sure as hell don’t want to interact with those people.

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to communists who express support for one-party communist regimes that are associated with Marxism–Leninism, whether contemporary or historical. It is commonly used by anti-authoritarian leftists, including anarchists, libertarian socialists, left communists, democratic socialists, and reformists to criticise Leninism, although the term has seen increasing use by liberals and right‐wing factions as well.

this is what I’ve been going by cause I had to look it up as no one can be confirmed to give a straight forward answer on here that I’ve seen.

Never seen terms like “tankie” until I came here

I mentioned this once and then someone became super unhinged at me.

I mentioned that someone became super unhinged at me and that person seemed okay at first but then started talking down to me about politics in general.

It’s fucking weird here sometimes and I couldn’t be further removed from anything “tankie” related but random lemmy users will still screech it at me.

Talked to some knob the other day who was talking about ruling his small business with, and I quote “an iron fist”

Thankfully that’s not a common interaction but I do notice more hostile folks recently.

I actually keep seeing other repost bots show up

Me too. I was bummed because I had already blocked one and then another one popped up. For places I was already subscribed to that didn’t seem to be bot posts before.

Seinfeld made a joke about how car rental companies don’t understand what a “reservation” actually is nearly thirty fucking years ago and jack fucking shit has changed

Not only that but holy shit if a lot of customer service interactions aren’t just like that now. They use doublespeak to get around customers and look for ways to give people indirect answers so no one ever gets any real help.

Newsradio was a fantastic show. You think it was filled with bad acting? How much of it did you watch?