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Like: if you bring up that half of all people murdered by cops are disabled, a normal person will make the connection that police violence is a disability rights issue.

A chud won't, they'll get extremely agitated and defensive and shut down instead.

A normal person doesn't react this way, they get curious instead. They don't retreat into sullen angry silences and "why are you insulting me?!" bullshit when presented with "actually X and Y are the same thing: Z"

Part of motivated incuriosity is that the chud will refuse to generalize. They'll act frustrated and defensive when asked to generalize something, insisting *vigorously* that such abstraction is entirely irrelevant.

They will shut down rather than admit X is part of Y.

You've seen this.

You're like "don't you see that the ABA industry, regardless of target, is all about eroding children's rights?"

And they'll be like "you keep insulting me and accusing me of being a horrible person"

Which is *not* a normal person's reaction.

The chud *will*. They'll retreat, they'll act perplexed and irritated every time the conversation turns to a more abstract thing, they'll shut down and stop thinking about it, go non-verbal about it.

A normal person would not view the conversation switching to the subject of children's rights and bodily autonomy, as a weird and inexplicable and frustrating tangent. It would be pretty obvious to them that this is actually what they'd been talking about the whole time.

A normal person would, instead of shutting down, get curious: wait literally the same guys torturing autistic kids, started doing literally the same thing to trans kids? etc

They won't retreat into annoyed "well I don't know why you're bringing *that* up" bullshit.

A normal person upon hearing about ABA evolving from child abuse done to disabled kids, to child abuse done on queer kids, won't act confused and frustrated when the conversation turns to: children's rights and bodily autonomy.

They won't shut down and go uncommunicative about the shift in subject.

Here's an example:

ABA therapy was first done to autistic children, pioneered by Ole Ivar Lovaas. He was a nazi.

In 1974 he pivoted to creating the Feminine Boy Project, applying these torture techniques to develop conversion therapy for queer children.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Iva...

Usually you can see the exact point the chud's mind shuts off and they decide they do not want to think about it anymore, decide that this inexplicable tangent is simply not worth their time.

"Why are they asking who I voted for? What does this have to do at all with anything?"

A normal person won't get *offended* by the conversation's new direction, the revelation that what they thought was X is actually a part of Y, etc. They won't shut down and go uncommunicative about it as this continues.

Motivated incuriosity.

A normal person, upon hearing that X and Y are connected, or may *even be the same thing*, doesn't react like this.

They don't act incredibly confused, frustrated, and evasive about what they're trying to say. They are *curious* about it.

"What does ___ have to do with ____?" and it's like, The Sermon on the Mount and poverty.

They'll act confused, and then they'll act frustrated that you keep bringing up something irrelevant, and then they try to disengage from the conversation's inexplicable turn to such a strange topic.

There's a conversational thing maga chuds do that I call motivated incuriosity.

They will say thing X, which to normal people is something very, extremely, cartoonishly, obviously connected to thing Y.

And then act incredibly confused frustrated when you bring up thing Y.

YouTube video by CoachD_Speaks MAGA WAS IN TEARS BECAUSE PEOPLE IN ANOTHER COUNTRY WERE MEAN TO HER!

It takes a while, but this guy did as bit a research...
youtu.be/IQGTXMXc_s0?...

Her trip to Ireland was ruined by this one question?? Gee, I wonder why…

press conference where they announce a wartime economy to support the not-war lawlessly not-waged by the department of war and all the journalists just keep asking Hitler what this means for affordability

The consequences of this war for Americans will be bleak and take decades to unfold, but it will impoverish and provincialize them in ways that would have been unimaginable ten years ago

'"I can code this from scratch" is way more impressive than you might think given toxic industry pro-AI nonsense. The same goes for writing clearly, reading and comprehending journal articles, thinking things through.'

Trying to figure out which Star Trek characters are most likely to have been in the Epstein files and right now the three frontrunners are Gul Dukat, Liquidator Brunt, and Neelix

I am shocked to learn this is actually underestimating costs, because it ignores the infrastructure costs.

This video is lowballing it.

Strongly suspect that as this war and its negative effects escalate, we're gonna see a massive increase in disinfo and unsourced "news" - starting right the hell now.

PLEASE don't share "breaking" news from rando or disreputable accounts who provide no links.

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

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Working on what has become a "these dipshits blew up the entire world economy to own Iran, make money on the betting market, and cause the return of Christ at the end of days" episode and I haven't been this mad working on something at 3am since I discovered that the

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

This is genius stuff! And soon we’ll have shopping trolleys with a privacy policies. Fuck I love the future, @juliadassin.bsky.social!

Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.

Like: if you bring up that half of all people murdered by cops are disabled, a normal person will make the connection that police violence is a disability rights issue.

A chud won't, they'll get extremely agitated and defensive and shut down instead.

A normal person doesn't react this way, they get curious instead. They don't retreat into sullen angry silences and "why are you insulting me?!" bullshit when presented with "actually X and Y are the same thing: Z"

Part of motivated incuriosity is that the chud will refuse to generalize. They'll act frustrated and defensive when asked to generalize something, insisting *vigorously* that such abstraction is entirely irrelevant.

They will shut down rather than admit X is part of Y.