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Woman in a wheelchair saying: “THERE IS NO MARRIAGE EQUALITY UNTIL PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES CAN MARRY WITHOUT LOSING BENEFITS”

  • MudMan@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    That’s extremely dumb. The obvious way to measure income limits is income per capita. Also, being officially married shouldn’t make a difference.

    Whatever, I’m deliberately trying to block US discourse. Best of luck to anybody dealing with it, but I’m actively trying to make my Internet be as little about the US as possible, so I’m walking away now.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      As a mod of [email protected], I feel your pain. US News creeps into there continually. We remove it when we see it.

      Even then it’s still just mostly:

      Ukraine
      Ukraine
      Israel
      Israel
      Israel
      Israel
      Ukraine …

          • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            21 hours ago

            I literally saw you arguing something was a call to violence in YPTB today, when it was just someone having an opinion on current events. People already left a long while back, and I’m willing to bet traffic isn’t increasing as much as it is on more diverse comms. I abandoned it for reading news from various sources on country-specific instances.

            • jordanlund@lemmy.world
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              16 hours ago

              LOL - Saying we need blood right now to water the tree of liberty IS a call to violence. If you disagree, that’s fine, we don’t need that polluting our communities.

              • Cort@lemmy.world
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                10 hours ago

                Saying we need blood right now to water the tree of liberty IS a call to violence.

                That would be true if that’s what was said.

                But looking back, they actually said they that they fear that time has come.

                Expressing a credible fear of violence isn’t a call for violence.

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                  9 hours ago

                  We don’t give the benefit of doubt on things like that. It’s too easy to try and avoid responsibility by using weasel words.

                  “I’m afraid that…” can equally mean “I hate to say it but…”

                  So, yeah, erroring on the side of caution means the comment gets removed.

                  Same with the Nazi Bar premise:

              • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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                14 hours ago

                k bro, and THIS is why no one posts more diverse content in your communities 👏 because fascists being violent is fine but when people suggest violence back you throw hissy fits like this one

                edit: and despite that, they weren’t even suggesting it. they made an observation, not an incitement