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  • DancingBear@midwest.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Did anyone else not even know who Charlie Kirk was!?
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    1 month ago

    I knew there were memes of him with a distorted face, but I still don’t know why. Apparently his views on some topics are fairly racist, sexist, homophobic, in general I think…

    but I guess he did support free speech which apparently the people who really loved him do not.

    I probably agree with the dude on one or two issues but I’m pretty sure he was just another grifter for the republicans. No one deserves to die on the internet like that I guess, he did say some people had to die for second amendment freedoms though I have no clue

  • DancingBear@midwest.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•If you were born with a disease that made you blind, complete loss of hearing by 20, have seizures, require a feeding tube, colostomy bag, wheelchair and have sleep apnea. Would you want to live?
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    2 months ago

    Yes, I think I would want to live.

    I don’t think we can truly empathize with how strong our will to live is.

    Also, I think questions like these tend to cause us to dehumanize folks with disabilities. (Edit: correction, I don’t think it’s the question that dehumanizes folks with disabilities, I think it is the thoughtless answer given by folks that tends to dehumanize)

    Folks with disabilities absolutely can contribute to society. The most obvious example is Stephen Hawking. He could only move his eyeballs or something ridiculous like that, although I believe he did start off fully functional and slowly lost control of his muscles over time.

    There’s the issue of ‘being a burden’ in family or caretakers, which is more an issue of health care in our society (USA here). It is not the fault of the disabled person that they need health care.

    We are all a drain on society. No one lives in a vacuum.

    No one is self sustaining, no one lives without the help from society without which we would all most likely die in a few weeks if not sooner.

    Folks with disabilities are humans. It’s society’s job to take care of all humans. Period.

    “If I died and went to heaven, I would sell my soul to the devil just for the chance to come back and stub my toe….” —— paraphrase from a line in a poem by Tim Seibles.

  • DancingBear@midwest.socialtoMemes@lemmy.ml•"We're totally different sides!"
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    3 months ago

    Can you not see that the people who are disagreeing with you are merely suggesting that it is not as black and white as it being the democrats fault, or the republicans fault, that perhaps there’s more to it than which corporate/aipac/billionaire donor football team you like?

    The donor class owns both teams by the way.

    It’s the corporate dems and the corporate republicans who are holding back progress… because of legal bribery - campaign donations….

    By your logic, democrats blocked 100% of Biden’s agenda while he was in office.

    Biden literally accomplished nothing during his administration, and even the dumb stuff that was passed has been clawed back already.