I suggest you re-read the article/listen to her speak because she is clearly taking a side. What she’s speaking to is not limited to that day, to the best of my knowledge. If you disagree with the coverage or find it inaccurate, feel free to point out the inconsistencies or distortions.
It’s pretty clear that this is a denial, I suggest you listen to her speak.
From the article:
“It’s not just the usual suspects. It’s a lot of young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand,” she claimed, adding, “A lot of the challenge is with younger people. More than 50% of young people in America get their news from social media.”
Clinton complained that when she tried to talk to young people “to engage in some kind of reasonable discussion, it was very difficult because they did not know history, they had very little context, and what they were being told on social media was not just one-sided, it was pure propaganda.”
The former first lady concluded, “So just pause on that for a second. They are seeing short-form videos, some of them totally made up, some of them not at all representing what they claim to be showing, and that’s where they get their information.”
If that’s not a denial, what is? Even if there is some amount of propaganda, it’s undeniable the horrors that have occurred. It’s not pure propaganda and she failed to speak to what actually has occurred.
This is literally the same thing as holocaust denial. She’s claiming to be an authority of the history of the region, when in reality the history doesn’t invalidate or excuse what has occurred for over two years against an occupied people.
If somebody was denying the holocaust and making this point in the context of that denial, would you respond the same way and say it’s a totally fair point?
I am not doxxing myself because the paranoia will likely continue in such a scenario.
And what’s next? Suspecting US citizens of being foreign agents and then sicking the FBI on them?
Unlike you, I’m not going to be cheerleading the return of McCarthyism.
Discrimination and all forms of bigotry (racism, transphobia, homphobia, etc.) likely invalidate this image/thread title in some part.
People aren’t always worrying about random strangers, but when it becomes a pattern in an individual person’s life that has very real consequences and effects, it’s very easy for them to feel like the spotlight is on them and it could very well be in certain instances. It’s gaslighting them to suggest otherwise as a blanket statement.
Why are people mostly silent about this shit?
Please, please, please start spreading this awareness with everybody you know!
From the article:
The agency also announced plans to relax a rule requiring companies to report all products containing PFAS and has proposed weakening drinking water standards for the chemicals.
So they are deliberately trying to cover up the pollution crisis in the US.
https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/pfas_contamination/map/
We test for, regulate, and monitor about 100 chemicals in our water. There are many, many thousands of chemicals that could be present in our water and harming our health.
Related:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/18/california-pfas-forever-chemicals
This will end up releasing private info in some form, right?
I was going to specifically argue this point to them, thank you.
Personally, I believe that everybody is neurodivergent and feel that the concept of anybody being neurotypical as having the potential of extreme harm. Difference is normal, but some people need extra help and support. That’s where diagnosis comes in, with very specific criteria and identification of support needs and impairment levels.
I believe that one can resonate with autistic traits validly and feel that is extremely desirable to accept and support, but I don’t believe that everybody is autistic, is on the autism spectrum, or identifies with autistic traits.
I believe that one can easily say they are “neurodivergent with autistic traits” or say that they have an “autistic neurotype” and that be seen as completely valid (with or without diagnosis). I believe the level of impairment is what speaks to the functional differences specifically found in autism, in addition to meeting the specific diagnostic criteria (which I feel is extremely accurate - as evidenced by many studies, meta-analyses, and so forth).
I’m pretty sure that 1-2% of people worldwide are recognized to have autism or are seen as being on the autism spectrum. This may not account for misdiagnosis, inaccessibility of diagnosis, or barriers to diagnosis, but I don’t believe it’s 100% of people. “Level 0” does not exist in any diagnostic system; and clinically, if someone does not meet diagnostic criteria and are not functionally impaired in specific ways, that means they do not have autism.
Keyword being “clinically”. I believe in self-diagnosis or identifying with an autistic neurotype or autistic traits for a number of reasons. My intimate knowledge of the barriers to proper support and diagnosis are at the forefront of why I feel this way, but ultimately, it boils down to me not wishing to invalidate or reject anybody’s experience or gatekeep people resonating with the autistic neurotype or autistic traits. Everybody deserves help and support and to have validation, acceptance, and understanding directed to them.
I did not insult you. Your tone does not read as friendly or anything close to it. I’m recognizing that I may be too sensitive here, so I’m refraining from reporting you.
I responded because you were being arguably hostile to the other commenter in tone throughout your response, and you’re being uncharitable and hostile to me here too, from my perspective. Maybe I’m too sensitive, but it doesn’t seem like civil behavior.
With respect to you, I can’t engage further in this conversation.
Thanks for engaging and thanks for answering my question! Have a nice rest of your day!
I value your response and feedback, but I’d like to raise a point in response -
Even if there are common themes, I argue that autism generally presents differently in every individual and is likely an umbrella term describing a multitude of differences, as recent research is showing.
From my understanding, there’s a lot of facets to determining where somebody is on the spectrum - support needs required, social ability, verbal ability, overall functioning, (and even if I disagree that it’s particularly enlightening) IQ tests and scoring, and so forth.
I’d speculate that in you and your family’s case, there is likely a strong indicator that the mechanisms causing the differences is inherited and/or possibly to some degree environmental. The mechanisms causing the differences are likely complex, but shared in some respects between you and your family members who are also autistic and are quite similar in presentation.
I’m sure there are many on the spectrum that consider themselves to be challenged intellectually, at least in some respects. I’m one of those people. I don’t see myself as “smart” and I do my best to not think of myself as “dumb”. The challenges are definitely present though and I’m slow in certain areas. I’m not being overly harsh on myself, but it takes me an inordinate amount of time to digest information and complete tasks in certain domains. I believe I have a spiky skills profile.
We get distracted easily when bored, but we can hyperfocus on one thing for 16 hours while forgetting to eat, sleep, and piss.
Have you considered that you and your family may be AuDHD? Research is showing that there is a lot of overlap between autism and ADHD. Given what I’ve read online, I’ve been considering being evaluated for ADHD as well. No need to answer, but I’m curious because of my own personal situation and resonance with you and your family’s specific experience.
I feel that you are being unfairly hostile to the person you responded to, while ignoring the content of what the initial commenter said and why the person you responded to pushed back on that.
I’m not disagreeing with you that there aren’t differences, but do you have autism or are you a mental health professional versed in or specialized in autism? If neither, I would like to respectfully ask that you refrain from commenting about the differences and distinctions of autism.
Our science and understanding of autism is still evolving steadily, and e.g. in regards to what you specifically stated about IQ scores, I don’t feel that they fully capture and measure intelligence in autistic individuals (wherever they are on the spectrum) for a variety of reasons.
For most people, the best case scenario is vacuuming their floors with offline options.
And forgiveness for an eye destroys society as we know it.
There are alternative systems to facilitate justice just waiting to be explored that don’t involve blame or forgiveness on a societal level.
Blame and forgiveness are personal matters, but societally we can hold people who e.g. commit violent acts to account and allow them the chance to rehabilitate and participate in society when they are deemed capable of doing so.
Punitive measures are not an effective deterrent to disincentivize crime.
The chances of really anybody being able to successfully defend themselves against an organized armed threat targeting them individually is nil. More guns in circulation and money to gun manufacturers just perpetuates this reality.
What do the radicalized people who tune into the far-right media pipeline think when they see this headline? They likely see the “radical left” arming - the very people they have been propagandized to see as violent terrorists. It doesn’t calm anything down, it only further inflames the situation - while the people who make and sell guns rejoice.
If I could get a candle that smelled like the purple kush hemp strain I got back in the day, that’d be great. It had such an amazing fruity pebbles smell.
one of thousands of people experimented on as part of the CIA’s top-secret research into mind control
The image shows a character wearing a Nazi uniform, a black SS officer’s hat, with a perplexed and concerned facial expression. This is from a scene in the comedy TV series “Look Around You”, where the character humorously questions, “Are we the baddies?” — a reflection on his realization of the moral implications of his actions.
It’s likely in everybody’s best interest that this is a wild success. Not only will game developers be incentivized to actually optimize their games for reasonable setups; this will unseat Nvidia’s monopoly over gamers with their ridiculously overpriced graphics cards and also Microsoft’s monopoly of a gamer’s operating system.
Nvidia’s partnership with Palantir is incredibly concerning and any blow to Nvidia is a welcome one. Encourage these developments and hype this all up.
Respectfully, saying, “what they were being told on social media was not just one-sided, it was pure propaganda.” is what makes this denial. It’s fine if you disagree.
Hillary is free to acknowledge what’s happened from a neutral perspective and prove me wrong. But thus far, has she?