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Abortion rights, voting rights, gay marriage, privacy, trans rights, immigration, housing, the economy, net neutrality, take your pick.

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-66 points

The topic at hand is wheelchair accessibility, though.

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Nope. The topic at hand is free ice-ceam. A topic that you, as a rational adult, can understand that is 100% literal and not at hyperbolic example to make a point about general trends and not a single specific item.

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A topic that you, as a rational adult, can understand

Massive assumption tbqh

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Then somehow I’m in the wrong thread.

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Not specifically. They just picked a random idea out of a hat. One that is currently working fine with no issue. To signify that is the type of stuff they go after.

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Which takes us back to my first comment.

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https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1C022I/

Tldr, they’re actually trying and have been trying, to pass bills to gut the ADA because disability access is anti American.

Also, the post is just making fun of the US consistently doing messed up stuff. When picking something for hyperbole, you usually pick something that’s extreme, not something that actually already happened.
it’s not quite as funny to say “the news is always like: former US president argues he should legally be able to do whatever he wants without consequences and courts might let him, meanwhile Finland has nearly eradicated homelessness.” You do get that the point was to be funny?

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That proposal died in Congress 7 years ago.

We Americans are not the monstrous caricatures you make us out to be. We’re not evil. We’re not wicked. And the US is not some dystopian nightmare. It’s actually a pretty good place to live.

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That’s an example used in the OP meme, but the context still suggest all those other things, too. That’s what the “news is always like” part is. You can replace wheel chair access with all sorts of things and the meme would still ring true.

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The context of this thread is my criticism of that example.

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It’s a fucking similie. Stop being so goddamned literal.

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