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Beastly Boy

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97. It was not eliminated. It was included in the spectrum.
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 05:52 PM
Jun 10

More accurately, several related conditions were included in a single spectrum. It is still colloquially referred to as Asperger, even among medical professionals.

Ok, I will not smear you, I will quote you instead: "Yes, autistics are like a dog with a bone when it comes to their focus on what others may consider unimportant."

You know what you said. You had choices and analogies that did not include comparisons to dogs. You picked the one that did. I suggested that you might want to reconsider comparing autistics to dogs. Tone deaf, I said. Is this what counts as a smear?

Save your righteous indignation for when I begin comparing dogs to cats. Now that would be the bottom. and a dishonest ridiculous smear. I just don't know against whom. Probably both parties would vociferously object to such indignity.

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Selfie yacht! Richard D Jun 2025 #1
More "self-defense"? claudette Jun 2025 #2
Greta Thunberg Detained, Ordered to Be Shown Oct. 7 Footage After Gaza-Bound Flotilla Seized Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #7
8 Recs to 1 at this time. Whose side are you on? Exp Jun 2025 #13
You've got to be kidding. Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #16
This is a matter of right and wrong. Too bad you can't see that. Some people are blinded by hate. Exp Jun 2025 #20
So why turn it int o a popularity contest? Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #24
It proves that your ideas are not popular by 8 fold. Exp Jun 2025 #25
There is a hell of difference between popular and right. Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #28
Hmm, then you think that the majority of people responding to your post are wrong. You are very enlightened. Exp Jun 2025 #29
Don't put words into my mouth. Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #33
Yeah, Fucking Traitor in the WH is so called "popular" Cha Jun 2025 #31
Agree. AloeVera Jun 10 #80
You should take a peek at this thread... sheshe2 Jun 2025 #36
Kidnapped, fed sandwiches and sent home within hours. Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #39
It is almost as if it was a staged event. sheshe2 Jun 2025 #46
I'm not clear. Are you giving an opinion about this vanlassie Jun 2025 #53
Once they realized... Richard D Jun 2025 #57
She is a child. A brave child. vanlassie Jun 2025 #62
She used to be a child, she is currently 22yo nt EX500rider Jun 10 #63
Were she brave... Richard D Jun 10 #66
Seriously? How about the truth of hundreds of days of atrocities, air strikes, starvation and deaths... brush Jun 10 #76
This. Exp Jun 2025 #12
This is a third rail topic. BidenRocks Jun 2025 #3
This apparently started while the boat was in international waters muriel_volestrangler Jun 2025 #4
According to who? Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #8
According to the UN special rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian territories muriel_volestrangler Jun 2025 #9
"But communications were jammed when the yacht still in international waters, she says." Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #14
It shows the last location, before the boarding muriel_volestrangler Jun 2025 #17
According to whom? Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #21
Go to the site, and reset the time slider to about 16 hours before now muriel_volestrangler Jun 2025 #22
I did just that, and let me count the ways you are wrong. Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #32
Last movement was around 2350 BST, which is 0150 local time, or 1850 EDT muriel_volestrangler Jun 10 #73
Israel has the right to defend itself from baby food and diapers. AloeVera Jun 2025 #5
Mission accomplished. Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #6
It was halted by the Fuckers. That is why food and aid did not get through. Exp Jun 2025 #11
It was never intended to get through. The whole enterprise was meant to be "symbolic" from the beginning Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #15
It wasn't a freighter! Still had rice and formula aboard. So why stop the boat then? Exp Jun 2025 #18
According to the organizers, it was a a publicity stunt, not a bona fide delivery of aid. Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #23
Enough to save more than a few children. AloeVera Jun 2025 #42
Enough to symbolically feed a few children. Maybe. Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #45
I fear you will never get it. AloeVera Jun 2025 #47
No, I will not. I will never get the hypocrisy of using starving children for no other purpose than to boost egos. Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #52
It helped bring more attention to the plight of the people of Gaza who need help. Do you think that is a bad thing? Doodley Jun 10 #65
I think helping bring more attention to the plight of the people of Gaza who need help is good. Beastly Boy Jun 10 #72
The utter lack of compassion BuddhaGirl Jun 10 #79
Such is the power of indoctrination and zealous adherence to ideology. AloeVera Jun 10 #81
Well said BuddhaGirl Jun 10 #88
That's why I fear for the fate of Palestinians. AloeVera Jun 10 #99
Reuters: sheshe2 Jun 2025 #48
Shame on Greta?? WTF ??? Have you observed the last two years??? Exp Jun 2025 #51
Yes, shame on her for self promoting. sheshe2 Jun 2025 #56
Hmmm, ya know, I don't think she murdered any kids or is involved in a genocide operation.. hmmm Exp Jun 2025 #60
Is that suppose to mean something in response to my post? sheshe2 Jun 2025 #61
You said you has observed a lot in 2 years. Surely you observed over 50,000 Palestinians killed muriel_volestrangler Jun 10 #74
It was about a truckload, according to other Israeli sources. AloeVera Jun 10 #78
Indeed. We're talking about the genocide and ethnic cleansing aren't we? AloeVera Jun 10 #83
We are takling about Greta plastered all over the news media. Beastly Boy Jun 10 #84
That's unintentionally funny. In light of what I said. AloeVera Jun 10 #85
The funny part was totally intentional. Beastly Boy Jun 10 #86
Not sure you understand the concept of standing up for your beliefs, even at personal cost. AloeVera Jun 10 #87
It is ironic to the extreme to bring up personal cost in the context of a publicity stunt. Beastly Boy Jun 10 #90
Nice of you not to object to autistics. AloeVera Jun 10 #94
Why would I object to autistics? And why are you presuming I know nothing about autism? Beastly Boy Jun 10 #95
Aspergers was eliminated as a separate condition years ago. AloeVera Jun 10 #96
It was not eliminated. It was included in the spectrum. Beastly Boy Jun 10 #97
FUCKERS!! The citizens of the U.S. must demand that we STOP supporting the IDF! This is and has always been Exp Jun 2025 #10
Setting all comments regarding IDF's carnal dexterity aside, Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #19
It's long past time for economic sanctions and an arms embargo Rob H. Jun 2025 #26
Hamas supported propaganda photo op. nt LexVegas Jun 2025 #27
If Israel didn't refuse reporters access iemanja Jun 2025 #40
"which is among the deadliest and most destructive since World War II" I doubt it makes the top 10 EX500rider Jun 2025 #30
I'm sorry, but I'm not following the point you are trying to make. Doodley Jun 10 #67
That was a quote from the article EX500rider Jun 10 #71
Wrong. Gaza is worse than the previous record-holder, the Second Congo War. AloeVera Jun 10 #89
Wrong If a Pacific Island with 2 people on it has one killed that is not worse then the estimated 5 million in the Congo EX500rider Jun 10 #91
Pls see my edit just now. AloeVera Jun 10 #92
The 5 million comes from the follow-on deaths from disease and malnutrition. AloeVera Jun 10 #93
It breaks my heart MorbidButterflyTat Jun 2025 #34
Starving and burning babies is a deliberate act of genocide. AloeVera Jun 2025 #37
What's wrong with a publicity stunt to bring attention to people being maimed. starved, displaced or slaughtered? Doodley Jun 10 #68
Did the Greensboro Four stage a publicity stunt? AloeVera Jun 10 #82
The cowardly "selfie yacht" publicity stunt crew. . . Richard D Jun 2025 #35
In the past week while this "aid flotilla" was underway Mosby Jun 2025 #38
What makes a "real human rights organization"? iemanja Jun 2025 #43
Link Mosby Jun 2025 #50
Thank you iemanja Jun 2025 #58
How many days in a week are there? And how many people in Gaza? Doodley Jun 10 #70
This is about feeding starving people iemanja Jun 2025 #41
This is about a publicity stunt. Beastly Boy Jun 2025 #44
No, it wasn't.. Richard D Jun 2025 #49
Israel children enid602 Jun 2025 #54
Any. Richard D Jun 2025 #55
I suppose Gazan children are killed for publicity stunts too? iemanja Jun 2025 #59
So Greta Thunberg is the problem? There's no benefit in bringing more attention to what is going on in Gaza? Doodley Jun 10 #69
There are clearly many people around the world who want no attention on Gaza at all muriel_volestrangler Jun 10 #75
We are all Democrats here, so why can't we at least agree that what is happening in Gaza is unacceptable? Doodley Jun 10 #64
Having read a great many of these threads, the answer presents itself. Orrex Jun 10 #77
Maybe Israel did her a favor. What if that boat had landed in Gaza? JustABozoOnThisBus Jun 10 #98
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