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[–] ricecake 27 points 7 months ago (1 children)

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1C022I/

Tldr, they're actually trying and have been trying, to pass bills to gut the ADA because disability access is anti American.

Also, the post is just making fun of the US consistently doing messed up stuff. When picking something for hyperbole, you usually pick something that's extreme, not something that actually already happened.
it's not quite as funny to say "the news is always like: former US president argues he should legally be able to do whatever he wants without consequences and courts might let him, meanwhile Finland has nearly eradicated homelessness." You do get that the point was to be funny?

[+] [email protected] -18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

That proposal died in Congress 7 years ago.

We Americans are not the monstrous caricatures you make us out to be. We're not evil. We're not wicked. And the US is not some dystopian nightmare. It's actually a pretty good place to live.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The proposal shouldn't have existed in the first place! There wouldn't be a need to kill the proposal if our representation was composed of empathetic decent people, instead of ghouls bought out by the wealthy few.

It's pretty monstrous to even consider proposing a removal of legislation that objectively helps a lot of Americans.

[–] ricecake 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

First, I live in the US, so not sure where you're going with that.
Second, nice straw man. No one said Americans were evil, people said the news is often distressing and backwards.
Third, it doesn't matter when it's from when your argument was "America would never assail disability rights!". An article about recent efforts by active politicians to rollback our biggest protections speaks to that. In any case, here's a more recent article on the topic: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/midterm-elections-republicans-disabled-community_n_6375a759e4b0afce046aefef

Four, you're entirely lacking in nuance or a sense of humor, and seen incapable of distinguishing a joke from "all Americans are evil", which is definitely a way to live, but not a very productive one if you ask me.