glockenspiel

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[โ€“] glockenspiel@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

They also tend to have less sprawl, more homogenous and high trust societies (relative to where most people live in the US), and a shaky history of true legally enforced disability considerations. On that latter part, there still isn't a good equivalent to the ADA in European peer countries. Europeans will hand wave it away, but it's too patchwork and exclusionary.

All things in this scope considered (i.e., not healthcare necessarily), I'd rather be disabled in the US than in Europe or most Asian countries because the US actually have strong legal protections both federally and at the state levels. Lack of extensive public transport outside of a couple major hubs is obviously a problem for most people (especially the disabled). But no other country comes close to enshrining protections like the US did with the ADA (and how some states extended it even more themselves).

[โ€“] glockenspiel@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

Something all of us have to keep in mind, especially based on many of the comments here generalizing about MAGA, Jews (and the guilt by association angle), immigrants more broadly (for the rare conservative about these parts), etc..

I see a lot of rationalization and emotionally strong trigger words being used to justify acting the way Arnold is being celebrated for saying people should not act.