Yeah were not getting any movement on this until people like Pelosi are far removed from any role in the democrat party. They're just gonna keep pointing and screaming at the big orange distraction because it's a lot easier than making peoples lives better.

[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Im in the disability field and honestly I feel like we need something and need it bad. Not institutions, at least not like they were, but I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see some people in the disability community respond positively to this with the hopes that its different this time, lord know the people who like him don't believe his words at face value. I can also tell you thers definitely is a not insignificant amount of people in the community who have a neutral to faborable feeling on Trump.

The key here I think is that during the pandemic, even before mask mandates, we started seeing services get cut, orgs defunded, and staff reduced. So much of the disability community right now is relying on support staff and self directed program funding, which is essentially the disbursement of medicare and medicaid funding to one individual, not necessary with a medical background, to help the person with the disability with their day to day stuff and goals stated in their Individual Service Plan. The flexibility is great but its just one person at a time, they don't even get a budget to do things typically.

A lot of people with disabilities are missing the structure of actual organizations that has the resources to do more than what a one on one support worker can, and someone on Trumps team is either smart enough to know that, or quite lucky.

[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They've killed dozens of journalists and even the family of a journalist. That family was staying in a building that was marked safe by the IDF for exactly these kinds of people. The US didnt let Saudi Arabia live down the bonesaw incident for years, have you heard any ranking politician in the US speak about the press slaughter? To me it seems a lot like a free pass.

[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The National Guard is not well regulated? Im gonna wager your definition of well regulated is a body in which nothing bad ever happens, which is not what well regulated means, that's called perfection.

If the national guard isnt considered well regulated then nothing is, and clearly the writers of the bill didnt intend for 'well regulated' to be an impossible standard. So if well regulated is going to mean something it didnt mean from the authors then that phrase no longer has bearing on the right, and shockingly enough the US Judicial system agrees with and upheld that.

This was a shooting by a member of a well regulated milita. That phrase or organization structure is not a magic spell that stops crime. The authors would have written 'crime free' instead of well regulated if that's what they meant.

[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Personally I wouldn't let the systematic flaws in our government system off the hook for enabling things like this to happen, having no formal way for citizens to recall federal representatives, and allowing justice to crawl so slowly it may not stop someone who committed crimes around and about the election in time from wining the next election and setting up a sham trial or impeachment that clears him and prevents him from being charged with that crime under double jeopardy laws ever again like they just did with Ken Paxton. A healthy system doesn't ever get to where we are and there's no getting around that it's part of the problem. It really seems like the laws of this country are not enough to save it.

Arent they all? They're pro birth because you need em alive for the sacrifice.

[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

With the amount of funding US schools get, they're glorified daycare centers so making them 4 day weeks is a good way to keep the poorer parents reallll poor. This lady is lucky shes got a 13 year old, because you're not leaving that 7 year old alone without fucking them up either mentally or physically.

[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Call me whatever you want but Im happy the people who make these bad decisions from their insulated lots in life have to face at least some kind of consequences now, because the law is explicitly set up so that they typically never have to. Sucks that it comes to this but its behavior analysis 101, if you dont introduce consequences for undesirable behaviors, you'd be an idiot to expect change.

I don't love that it's probably caught up a lot of people who have nothing or little to do with it though, but the guys at the top need consequences or nothing will change, and beggars cant be choosers.

What a comment, what a name, what a purpose. Claps.

[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A wire in a Pringles can makes for a fabulous directional can-tenna

Shocking that the industry who needed the government to make it illegal for their workers to strike after forcing a deal aren't treating their workers well.

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