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I hate how inescapable politics are on Lemmy, but at least nobody's constantly asking how blind people wipe their butt or pick up their dog's poop then completely ignoring me when I try to answer. (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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[–] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

It would be great if my existence and the existence of my friends and family weren’t considered “political.”

But here we are. Sorry that our not going quietly into the camps inconveniences you.

Meme: There are two sexes. Male and political. Two sexualities. Straight and political. Two races. White and political.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago*

    They did not say what you're implying them saying. There is a world between not caring about people getting arrested by ICE, and not wanting every other post being about Trump's antics or US politics.

    Plus, if they are blind, I guess it's harder for them to decide "at a glance" what they'd want to check or not. It doesn't suffice to see someone's face to decide to skip, they have to read what the post is about.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Did you miss that OP mentioned they're blind?

    Here is that image you posted, but with manually-written alt text added.

    (I don't usually do this when adding alt tags but in this case I also added the same text as a title/tooltip to make it also easy to read for users without a screen reader. Apologies to screen reader users that this probably causes you to hear the description twice.)

    A meme with three rows and two columns. The first row has the heading 'Two sexes', above a picture of a white male-presenting person (labeled 'male') on the left, and two female-presenting people (labeled 'political') on the right. The second row has the heading 'Two sexualities', above a straight couple (labeled 'straight'), and two same-sex couples (labeled 'political'). The third row has the heading 'Two races' above a picture of the same white man (labeled 'white'), and three non-white people (labeled 'political').

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  • [–] -2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Nobody is sending anyone to camps bro.

    Might help if your talking points were delusional conspiracy nonsense.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    The Trump administration literally sold merch at the front gate of one such camp in Florida. Old prisons are being reopened and new ones are being built to hold all the new ICE detainees, and they throw them all together in a cell with deportation papers in the middle of the room hoping they'll give up and sign to be willingly deported. ICE now has massive deportation quotas that they're being pushed to meet.

    The above doesn't even scrape the iceberg of everything that's been happening. Your confident ignorance betrays your stupidity.

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