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I'm a proud American, but if my country decides to go all-in on the crazy, I know where I stand... (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/30850716

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[–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Complete non-sequitur, that threat doesn't just magically give someone more time or resources to "just fight harder 4head" with. If someone has family that literally can't take care of themselves without them, what happens to that family when that caregiver gets illegally arrested or killed trying to "just fight harder"

Blaming the most vulnerable people for not "fighting harder" is like blaming someone bound to a wheelchair for not being able to stand up on their own.

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  • [–] -4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not blaming them, but their loved one is going to get launched out of a canon. It's up to them what they do or don't do about that is up to them.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    aka telling the person sitting in a wheelchair that if they don't stand up then they'll die.

    Sure, maybe that person just has very weak legs and can stand and walk very short distances. Maybe if they really had to, then they could stand up. But that person also might actually just be paraplegic and just can't use their legs at all and you're just telling them that it's their fault that they're going to die. There's no way for you as an outside observer to know just by seeing the wheelchair.

    That's what I'm saying. What "resistance" am I supposed to mount as a caregiver that spends all day caring for 3 developmentally disabled kids and a wife with a brain tumor that can randomly with at most maybe 30 minutes of warning can go into an atypical seizure where she thinks she's 7 for several hours? How "hard" do I have to fight before it's "enough" for you? Is there any amount of "fighting" I could have engaged in that you wouldn't still be blaming me for not doing enough?

    (ETA: I should add that 30 minutes of warning she can't recognize in herself. This is warning that I have as her caregiver to prepare for her to "time travel" within her own mind for at best it to just be a bad headache with some confusion and at worst have her possibly think I'm a kidnapper and child predator.)

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