• rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.com
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    11 months ago

    Look, there’s a reason why people who use wheelchairs aren’t running track events. Disability is a spectrum, but let’s not pretend that it doesn’t actually prevent people from doing things.

    • John Richard@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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      11 months ago

      Like Dianne Feinstein or Ruth Bader Ginsburg? Did that stop Democrats from supporting them?

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        11 months ago

        You mean all the Democrats that were praising them for their decades-long careers and all the good work they’d done, but also calling for them to step down once it was clear they were no longer up to the task?

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          11 months ago

          They wheeled Feinstein around in a wheel chair to “vote” till her dying breath. RBG stayed until Republicans could appoint a Republican justice. They didn’t do shit stop gaslighting people.