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)

Jair Bolsonaro

I like how they say there's no way to negotiate after several hostages have already been freed. Maybe Israel just sucks at everything but killing people who dont even have tanks.

[-] 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.

You and your org lost control of the rich class a long time ago, organized religion is just for the commoners these days. You have no power here, the stock market has taken them fully.

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

[-] 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.

[-] 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

They essentially showed the market their firm cap for revenue, and the market was like 'uhh thats it?'

Surface-to-air window technology.

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