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>ABA most likely causes prompt dependence and PTSD, so there's no need for an "alternative" as ABA itself is abusive. This is mostly self-evident, and a staple in the literature, but here's some specific examples:

10.1016/0891-4222(93)90036-j
10.1108/AIA-08-2017-0016

>Reward and punishment, as opposed to naturally occuring observations of the enviroment, is inefficient at teaching even very simple tasks; there is no reason to consistently and regularly reward a child for specific 'behaviors' as present in especially the EIBI and UCLA models of ABA, as opposed to TEAACH, JASPER, SLT, OT, Mileu therapy, ETC.

10.1016/0304-3940(95)11631-6
10.1111/cdev.14181

>The reason people support ABA in the first place is because people claim that it raises intelligence; ignoring all the nuances of autism score as a measure of problem solving, the studies that are at least long-term and/or randomized suggest it does not, even when the child is mentally equivilent to an infantat intake. In particular, the control group of Estes 15 did no worse than either group of Sallows 2005. The former recieved almost no ABA whatsoever and the latter had 30 hrs/wk of the UCLA model for two years

10.1352/0895-8017(2005)110[417:IBTFCW]2.0.CO;2.
10.1016/j.jaac.2015.04.005

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had an argument with a person insisting that putin is communist, and their reasoning was that they promote soviet nostalgia, which I argued is just the most readily available reactionary building material available for them as a fascist. it took me a good while to realize that they were not a tankie arguing in bad faith to push putin, but a manchurian nationalist arguing in bad faith to denigrate them. I don't know what to make of this, but I found it amusing that kuomintang lovers are almost perfectly aligned with tankie russia defenders in their talking points on communism, both having equally well honed anti-communist messaging.

Colombia ex-president Uribe sentenced to 12 years of house arrest, will appeal
Heredia read the sentence to the court in an afternoon hearing on Friday. Uribe will be fined $578,000, Heredia's ruling said, and barred from public office for more than eight years. Uribe, whose legal team has said it will appeal, is to report to authorities in Rionegro, in Antioquia province, where he resides, and then "proceed immediately to his residence where he will comply with house arrest," the ruling said. … Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this week that Uribe's conviction was a "weaponization of Colombia's judicial branch by radical judges" and analysts have said there could be cuts to U.S. aid in response.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombia-ex-president-uribe-sentenced-12-years-house-arrest-will-appeal-2025-08-01/

Collapse at Chile’s major copper mine kills 1 worker and leaves 5 missing
Authorities said they’re still investigating whether it was a naturally occurring earthquake or whether mining activity at Codelco’s flagship El Teniente mine caused the quake. Chilean prosecutors also launched a criminal investigation to determine whether any safety standards were violated. Chile’s national disaster response service, Senapred, said that the tremor struck the Machalí commune in the O’Higgins region, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the capital, Santiago.
https://apnews.com/article/chile-mine-collapse-copper-earthquake-ring-of-fire-f0bbef9034146d3ab43cae0773507401

Argentine Justice Minister under flak for hidden camera footage
Argentina's Justice Minister Mariano Cúneo Libarona is facing calls for his resignation after a video was leaked showing him offering to help former CIA agent Timothy Ballard clean up his public image. Ballard, who inspired the film Sound of Freedom, has been accused of sexual violence by former employees of his anti-trafficking organization, Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.).
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Met Police to double its use of live facial recognition technology
CAMPAIGNERS sounded the alarm today over the Metropolitan Police’s plans to ramp up its use of invasive and unregulated live facial recognition (LFR) technology. The force is set to double its use of LFR while it looks to slim down its workforce and boost protest surveillance.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/met-police-double-its-use-live-facial-recognition-technology

12,000 workers protest as German auto supplier ZF plans massive job cuts
Early Tuesday morning, around 6,000 employees from the two ZF plants and the research center on the city adjoining Lake Constance marched to the company headquarters. Their protest was directed at the ZF supervisory board meeting, which continues until Thursday and is expected to decide upon additional cuts to those already announced. Protests also took place in Saarbrücken and Schweinfurt. In front of the Bavarian plant (workforce of 8,600) in Schweinfurt, 4,500 employees demonstrated to keep their jobs while nearly 2,000 employees protested in Saarbrücken (ZF workforce of around 8,500). Current plans call for job cuts of 4,500 from a total 10,000 posts by the end of 2028.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/31/4a13-j31.html

Russia blocks Speedtest
Speedtest, one of the most popular internet speed-testing platforms globally, boasts millions of daily users. Roskomnadzor has recommended Russian users switch to a homegrown alternative called ProSet, developed as part of the country’s broader push toward digital sovereignty. Russian authorities first signaled a potential ban on Speedtest in October 2024. At the time, the regulator warned the service could be blocked if it was found to compromise the stability, integrity, or safety of domestic networks.
https://www.rt.com/russia/622273-russia-blocks-speedtest-security/
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When did minimalist aesthetics become associated with the right-wing all of a sudden?

I’m seeing so many social media posts claiming maximalist aesthetics like heavy makeup, brightly-coloured wardrobe, etc. are an “act of defiance” against “clean girl conservatism and MAGA fascism”, emphasizing that minimalism and the “clean girl” aesthetic are indicative of fascism, purity, eugenics, and whatnot. This makes no sense to me. Being in my 30s, I remember when minimalism and anti-consumerism were largely associated with the radical left. Think Ad Busters and CrimethInc. Gen X and xennial comrades were extremely anti-consumerist and preached a minimalist lifestyle. At the same time, maximalist aesthetics were largely associated with the right, because they were seen as indicative of mindless consumerism and neoliberalism, e.g. right-wing women were the ones showing off their 200 different eyeshadows, 60 different pairs of shoes, and 27 different handbags. Today, it’s like the paradigms have flipped. Having 200 eyeshadows and 60 different pairs of shoes is now promoted as revelling against “Trump Era conformity”. The beige-ification of everything is entirely blamed on American politics becoming more conservative, despite the fact this was already going on years prior when Biden was in office. Hell, I’m even seeing progressive women complain about a “war on femininity” on the basis that Trump’s America wants to privilege traditional masculinity and wants to keep “girl-like” aesthetics that allegedly emphasize weakness out of public view (ironically, right-wing women have long complained about a “war on femininity” being lead by feminists and queer activists).

So what’s going on? My understanding is that this is another example of how liberals erroneously believe they can offset fascism by propping up neoliberal individualism. It’s liberals who are now pushing mindless consumerism as the antidote to Trump’s system, because they think being an individual who stands out will “defy” a conservative cultural shift. This is so pathetic I don’t even know where to start.

Am I full of shit, or are others seeing the same thing?

I don't know what to tell you if you don't accept that, but the crime and gang problem in inner city America is out of control. What soy leftists don't want to acknowledge is that broken window theory is actually true. Do they think any of the socialist states would have tolerated lumpen chimp-outs, let alone ones on the scale facing American cities? The calls for "restorative justice", police reform, judicial reform, prison reform can only work if the current generation of gangs are swept off the street. Leftoids forget that the Clinton crime bill was heavily backed by African-American community leaders who were desperate to see the gangs gone. Prison reform? Yeah, send them to a gulag to do some productive labor.

i know the image is unrelated but soon theres gonna be a council meeting in my city and i was thinking of filling up a bucket with pee and poo and throwing it at lobbiests and bourgeois including the mayor because the building's design would allow me to do it. should i do it or not?

I wanna play a game with you folks because I think it is funny.

>"Who wrote this quote- a socialist, or a capitalist"?

First round. Who wrote this quote? The answer may surprise you.

You don‘t understand the issue with adventurism and you evaluate adventurism in a static and therefore undialectical manner.

Lenin criticized adventurism as an individual‘s or small group‘s violence against people of the ruling class during a time where such acts were ubiquitous. That was during a time where people proudly and openly called themselves terrorists and assassinations were conducted regularly. This is not enough to enact systemic change which is why Lenin criticized the naivety of thinking as such. He urged to focus on mobilizing the working class. However, you are misguided to think “adventurism” can have no positive impact.

We live in a time where socialist movements are dead in the West. Get real and acknowledge that. Many people understand that there is something severely fucked up with the system but society has become docile and pessimistic. They believe nothing can be done and that their complaints are screamed into an unresponsive void. They get the impression that their situation is hopeless which is why they stay in-active. The assassinations of capitalists or PMC who have done things that are blatantly immoral rip people from their illusion that nothing can be done and that tomorrow is going to be like yesterday.

The assassinations show that the gods do in fact bleed. A dormant working class frustration is unleashed, and celebrations and a belief in being able to have an impact rises and diminishes hopeless pessimism in return. These assassinations are not useful in the sense that they will enact revolution, no one is saying that and you are an idiot to dismiss their usefulness just because they don‘t imminently create a revolution, but they are useful for their psychological impact of bringing about enthusiasm for class war that arose in both left liberals and right liberals when Luigi killed that health care CEO. You are sorely misguided to ignore this valuable bipartisan approval of capitalist death. Instead you sit on your ass an dismiss it like impotent pseudointellectuals who interpret Lenin in a scholastic manner.

To believe “adventurism” is all around bad is undialectical because it is context that determines the effect of the thing in question. You disregard context and assume the nature and effect of X is always the same and therefore fail to see that under our current conditions adventurism is a useful catalyst for developing enthusiasm for class war that communists of today mPost too long. Click here to view the full text.