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• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They don’t hate people with disabilities, they just don’t want them to be President.

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  • aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I had a co-worker who said he didn’t want a woman to be president because “she’d start a war every month.” I guess he’s not really misogynist like I thought.

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  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s ableist though. Implies disabled people are inherently inferior if you don’t want them to be president.

    Roosvelt was in a wheelchair much of his time and he did “fine”.

    (Technically I’m against the idea of politicians at all so don’t feel like glorifying them).

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Implies disabled people are inherently inferior if you don’t want them to be president.

      We’re not talking about “disabled people”, we’re talking about people with mental illness that impairs them.

      Roosvelt was in a wheelchair much of his time and he did “fine”.

      Physical disability absolutely not be the same thing. Would you vote fuckin Ted Bundy for President?

      Technically I’m against the idea of politicians at all

      Okay so just complete anarchy then? Everyone for themselves?

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      • TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Lol, is this your first time encountering an anarchist?

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    • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Airline pilots and train drivers must be passed as mentally fit before they’re allowed to control the destiny of a few thousand people.

      Perhaps at least that much care could be taken with the job that holds the ability to launch nuclear weapons.

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• harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think most people on here are frustrated with the “sanewashing” by most media outlets.

  The drumbeat of “ableism” is more of a bell ringing to make sure that people understand that Krasnov is very unwell and seriously unfit for any decision making position.

  Wanting someone with disastrous mental health issues to not be capable of launching a nuclear strike isn’t ableism.

  Would you loan a gun to a friend who’s been really depressed lately? According to you, you should.

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  • aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Krasnov

    Wat?

    Wanting someone with disastrous mental health issues to not be capable of launching a nuclear strike isn’t ableism.

    Would you loan a gun to a friend who’s been really depressed lately? According to you, you should.

    Oh, I forgot that Truman, the only person in history to actually use nuclear weapons, famously only did so because he had depression. Or he was a perfectly mentally well person who was also a racist to the extent that he didn’t care about the lives of Japanese children. One of those. I always get it confused.

    Anyway, the answer to who I would loan a gun to and who should be capable of launching a nuclear strike is the same: no one. But I would trust your averaged depressed person with the nuclear codes more than I would Trump. To be clear: if Trump has a mental illness, that is not the thing that is wrong with him. What’s wrong with him is that he’s a fascist.

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