Jesus, I get off work and suddenly there are 20 reports on comments about Abbott being in a wheelchair.
Removing ALL of them. You want to make fun of him for being a useless fuck? Go ahead. Pick on him for being emotionally and intellectually bankrupt? Not a problem.
Going after him because he can’t walk is low hanging fruit. Do better.
For the unaware: He’s in a wheelchair because a tree branch fell on him while he was jogging. He sued the homeowner where the accident occurred, won millions in the settlement, and even got the homeowner on the hook for lost future earnings. Abbott had just graduated from law school a few months prior to the accident, and argued that since he wasn’t able to work he should be compensated for his future lost earnings. So the homeowner has to pay him a wage of $14k/mo (an amount the judge decided would be fair for a lawyer to make if they were able to work full time) for the rest of his life. Abbott then used that money to kickstart his political career.
The only time it’s “acceptable” to make fun of him being in a wheelchair is when pointing out his hypocrisy, because one of his first acts as a lawmaker was to put a cap on his exact type of settlement, with an exception for himself. So nobody else can get the same kind of massive settlement he did. The dude is the very definition of “pulling up the ladder behind himself.”
14k a month is like 14 peoples min wages. Wtf.
168k annually isn’t crazy for an attorney.
Fuck Abbot, and you can still practice law just fine from a wheelchair. But the valuation of the career isn’t insane. If he’d actually been hurt in a manner that affected his ability to practice law, it wouldn’t be as galling.
Precisely. It’s textbook GOP “fuck you, I got mine” behavior and he should absolutely be shamed with it, if that degenerate had the capacity to feel shame.
lawyers in wheelchairs can still work. lawying doesn’t involve your legs.
Good to know the mods are on the job.
Thank you mister janitor.
Thank you. That was pretty disappointing both how readily they were coming out and how thoroughly they were being supported. Taking a hard stand to not make that the norm is good for the community.
You are awesome.
I see no such comments. I assume you’re not n an instance that is federated with astroturfing propaganda.
Well, yeah, because I removed them. :)
I’m not sure how that’s better.
Bro what are you talking about
Deleting comments because the mod finds them distasteful then that mod commenting while including the details of the distasteful comments doesn’t remove the distasteful content.
There is also a hint of virtue signaling.
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Try not to make a joke. Try not to make a joke. Try not to make a joke. Try not to make a joke…
Making fun of someone because they need a wheelchair: not cool
Making fun of Greg Abbott for literally anything (including that tree that should’ve finished the job): totally fine in my book
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I’ll make a joke.
Why’d the chicken cross the road?
answer:
To save his nuggets
Abbott’s neo-secessionist bluster, cheered on by GOP governors and Republicans in Washington, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, has set up a confrontation with the federal government over immigration policy. “We encourage all willing States to deploy their guards to Texas to prevent the entry of Illegals, and to remove them back across the Border,” Donald Trump wrote on Thursday.
Maybe I’m reading about this too much, but I’m in Texas and really starting to worry about how this all ends & what the next step is. I don’t want to overreact, but with Abbott basically telling the feds to fuck off and Trump encouraging other states to send their National Guard…you know how crazy that fanbase is, we saw it on 1/6.
I know Eisenhower nationalized the Guard when Arkansas tried to pull this shit with desegregation, and yeah Biden has some harder choices because it’s an election year.
I guess I just don’t know where this goes and I hate it. I fucking hate that this is where we’re at.
My tin foil hat theory is this is all a conspiracy to create another pain in the ass situation for Biden to have to deal with on an election year .
No need for the tinfoil, that’s literally what this is.
Nothing is going to happen. Congress will pass a shitty immigration bill. Abbott will claim a victory for Texas and the whole thing will blow over.
The interesting thing is that Trump is trying to prevent congress from acting because he wants to campaign on the immigration issue. If Biden is able to get something through it will look like a victory.
I don’t think Biden will do anything really. He is already making concessions by trying to push an extremely bad immigration bill in congress. His strategy for dealing with this stuff seems to be to make concessions, sending cases to the courts, and just wait for Texas and Republicans to move their attention to something else.
I think Biden should activate the national guard and force them to stop their shenanigans, but I don’t think he will.
The Dems are playing the political game like they’re in the 1990s, and the Reps are playing the game like they’re in 1930s Germany.
Idk I’m eager to watch a bunch of riled up Gravy Seals with $5000 AR-15 kits fly to Texas thinking they can take on the feds
I’d be happy to see it just to get them out of all the other states.
You know what Texas already has? At least three Active Duty military bases. If every Guard wants to come driving down to say hi, you know what they need? Fuel.
And you can’t find JP8 at Buc-ee’s, so good luck using Cavaso’s fuel point while on your way to flip off the feds.
Yes, the states can do what they want with their Guards but this isn’t something to worry about unless you’re worried about the waste of life and tax payers money.
Can’t Biden nationalize the Texas National Guard like Eisenhower did with Arkansas, as described here?
I suppose that coming to a head is what I’m worried about - Biden will issue the EO but the Texas National Guard will refuse to acknowledge it. And now there are convoys and shit joining them, so it will just be a standoff that goes on forever (not unlike the Bundy ranch saga) and potentially lead to a serious crisis within the military and the refusal to follow the ruling that SCOTUS handed down.
Secession will literally never happen. If they did, they’d be throwing 38 red electoral votes in the garbage and the Dems would win every national election for the next 3 decades easy, probably more.
IF they did (not even a big if, seriously, like i said above it will never happen). No need to fight a war over it, no need to even fire a shot. Let them take everything they want in the state. Cut off all trade, blockade their international shipping, seize all assets outside Texas of all businesses based there, then watch as they have to now come to terms with the fact that their only viable land based trading partner is the same country they have been trying to stop immigration from for over half a century.
It’s all showboating from Abbott. Prick probably thinks he has a chance at being President one day.
I heard he can’t run
Ableist jokes aren’t funny.
They are when the disabled person is a fucking Nazi.
You’re making fun of the fact he’s disabled, not the fact he’s a piece of shit.
So make a fucking Nazi joke instead.
Any pretense of respect for disabled people leaving lemmings’s body when they see a disabled person I they like
I’ll do both. Dude’s a crippled Nazi that can’t stand up for himself, and is running Texas into the dirt. Unfortunately, he’s shown that he can roll with the punches.
So what have disabled people done to deserve ridicule from you?
we are on the verge of civil war, a world-killing environmental crisis, and the return of fascism. your petty social justice concerns over words do not matter. take a back seat, kid.
I have a cousin in an electric wheelchair, she’ll never not be in one. She intentionally runs into people on the street just so the normies apologize to her out of a misplaced sense of fault. She thinks it’s fucking hilarious. If she has that good of a sense of humor, why can’t you?
I’m not taking shots at disabled people, just the one right now. I have shadenfreude from Paxton not being able to walk. If someone else that takes that as an insult, that sucks for them. If Paxton fell out of his chair and couldn’t get up, and I was the only person around that could help, I’d laugh at him, tell him this is karma, and skip away, because I can.
Go.
Away.
There’s a million things you can fault him for, being disabled is like literally the one thing you can’t.
The Astroturfing is strong here, does anyone actually believe that liberals are suddenly, with absolutely no warning, crawling over each other to mock his disabilities instead of his decisions, despite never having done so before?
Obvious setup is obvious.
I’m weary af of liberals accusing all opposition of being russian plants, but it kinda wouldn’t surprise me here. Maybe they’re just the loudest, but the last couple weeks the only liberals I’ve seen have been doing shit like that, saying pro Palestinian protesters are Russian plants that should be executed, that anyone critical of biden is worse than a trump voter, lots and lots of abusive, thoughtless, maga tier shit. If I were Russia and wanted to keep leftists from voting for biden I’d hire a bunch of people to act like that. I still think liberals are just quickly devolving into magats, but maybe if I just touch some grass it’ll be obvious that’s not the case
Also liberals have always been bad for making fun of trump for being fat, this is completely within that wheelhouse, so I wouldn’t take it as evidence of a psyop or anything
Trump being fat is fair game because he presents himself as being an ideal male specimen, surrounding himself (purchasing) beautiful women and running beauty pagents.
Abbot isn’t claiming he’s a world class marathon runner.
Nobody is atroturfing Lemmy, a small niche community of social rejects that have less impact on societal dynamics than NTFs
Why you gotta do the National Turkey Federation like that?
C’mon, not every shit take on the internet is paid by Putin or whatever. If it was, I’d have enough money to do something else
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Also, this Texas Monthly article from late 2022 is an excellent read on the subject. It can never happen, because a post-Civil War law from 1869 makes a state’s unilateral secession from the union illegal. There can be no secession, nor even a referendum. No wonder these drama kings are so confident.
Which is pretty whack. I don’t in any way endorse what the Texas government is doing with the border, just to get that out of the way. The idea that a state isn’t free to seceed is completely ridiculous. One can not rightfully claim the U.S. is a free country if the states are not free to leave the union. This idea that once you’re a part of the union, you’re apart of the union forever is a gang mentality that has no place in a free society.
Both Parties Have Turned the Border Wall Into a Death Trap
Decades of bipartisan policies have turned the border into an ugly and dangerous laceration.
https://truthout.org/articles/both-parties-have-turned-the-border-wall-into-a-death-trap/
This is absolutely true, probably Biden’s biggest campaign lie and just actually awful policy.
I think it’s the record oil production he doesn’t talk about.
i, for one, would love to see conservative states get spanked into submission like they did 150 years ago. they need to learn to shut their fucking mouths and do as they’re told.
You’re aware hundreds of thousands were killed during the Civil War, right?
I, for one, would love to see a resolution without bloodshed.
I would love to see our national problems solved peacefully but the same republicans pushing for civil war in Texas are the same people who also have been obstructing Congress from doing the will of the people for the last 15 years. They’re the same people who tried to overthrow the government when Trump lost to Biden.
Have you been living under a rock, or just idealistic? It might be time to get a bag ready.
If advocating against a civil war makes me idealistic, then so be it.
Anyone who thinks a civil war is necessary and appropriate is ignorant of the cost of war. They should honestly ask themselves if they would truly back up their words with actions, or do they only hold those feelings behind the safety of a screen.
If I’m going to get shot at by some AR-toting bigot, or I’m going to get shot at by an AR-toting bigot that I’m returning fire on, I’ll take the second choice 10/10 times. These people have proven that they are willing and able to use violence to accomplish their goals. Waiting calmly for them to do so is a recipe for dying without anything to show for it.
me too. spoiler: there isn’t one.
I dearly hope cooler heads than yours prevail.
One side of the political spectrum has proven that they are willing to kill to get what they want.
Not sure how it will turn out but there’s already bloodshed.
The question is how much bloodshed are we willing to see before we do something about it.
That’s precisely the reason a peaceful outcome should be reached. Rather than advocating for an extreme escalation in violence to “own” the other side.
I’d rather see them secede and watch how quickly Texas and Florida get tired of having to carry the rest of the red states without federal money from blue states. We’d be fine or perhaps better of without them, but I don’t think the reverse is true.
Yall are some absolute pieces of fucking trash, making fun of people for being disabled. MAKE FUN OF HIM FOR ACTUALLY BAD SHIT!! QUIT LETTING DISABLED PEOPLE KNOW YOU THINK THEIR CONDITION IS SOMETHING TO BE MOCKED! It’s so fucking simple, how do you libtards not get that this is bad? Yall love fatshaming trump too huh? How about calling caitlin jenner a man in a dress, is that OK bc she sucks?
Yall are reactionary cunts, plain and simple. At least you’re open enough about your bigotry for people to know to avoid you ig
So says the hypocrite using a portmanteau of liberal and retard. Shame on you.
I’m autistic, I get called that enough to use it. Nice argument though, my point is invalid because I said a word you don’t like, very cool. Almost as cool as how you singled me out for using a slur that applies to me while ignoring the thread full of assholes making fun of people for being disabled
Eh i removed mine too. I was being a bit tongue in cheek and you have a good point. I’m neurodivergent as well, and my dad suffered a traumatic brain injury when I was 7.
I like to think most people here are piece of shit shaming. Trump is a piece of shit who happens to be obese and pretends that he isn’t. Abbott is a piece of shit who happens to be in a wheelchair. I think people are grabbing the low hanging fruit.
Ye, I understand the urge to go after low hanging fruit like that, especially on people like Trump who fatshame people all the time. As a queer person I don’t even mind people joking about Putin being gay for similar reasons (especially bc I’ve heard it actually really bothers him), but don’t take that as permission to do that around other gay people or anything, bc the general consensus is that gay people don’t want to hear straight people making fun of homosexuality, no matter the context. Same is true of how most fat people feel about fatshaming trump, or how most disabled people feel about the shit in this comment section. Most of the time that bigotry doesn’t even matter to the person being insulted, just the group being made into a punchline. Imo even calling them a hypocrite for stuff like that is fine. Trump’s called women fat and ugly, nothing wrong with pointing out how silly that is, as long as you’re not just calling him fat and ugly for its own sake
I think this is fair. I’m fat, queer, and disabled. My (neurodivergent) son calls me grandma and it’s funny because I know he means it lovingly. However, if my boss decided to do something similar, I’d spit in his eye. It’s a case-by-case basis.
Make fun of Caitlyn Jenner for being a entitled, right-wing murderer? We’re good. Make fun of Caitlyn Jenner for being trans? We’ve got a problem.
Who is saying it and the intention behind what they’re saying matters quite a bit.
I guess I’ve also learned over the years to be less sensitive. For example, I’m in recovery. I used to have a very serious problem with heroin, cocaine, etc. And I used to get very offended when people would joke about crackhead, junkies, etc. I’d correct them and try to make them feel bad. But now I realize that most people don’t have malice in their hearts. Just like most people know someone who is fat or queer, most people probably also know someone with a substance abuse problem. So I’ve learned to appreciate the humor and let it go. Crackheads do some silly shit after all, and I’m sure I was no different in those days.
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The internet edgelords aren’t going to agree with you, but you’re 100% right. Conservatives will insist they’re not racist while talking about how X minority can’t speak right, liberals will insist they’re not ableist while literally joking about a disability rather than all his actual flaws. They’ve internalized that “racist/ableist” is a bad thing to be, but instead of thinking about how those issues manifest and steering clear, they just know they’re not bad, so they couldn’t possibly be the bad thing. It’s the same fundamental disassociation of the word from actions, just shifted once over toward the liberal end of the spectrum.
Are you saying transgenderism is a disability?
I am seriously of the opinion that the United States is too large and needs to split into at least four independent nations. Mind you that the United States has completely perverted the definition of a “state” as that term normally refers to an independent entity, not part of a larger hole. Really, we should be 50 independent nations, but have chosen to follow the mandates of a higher authority, which could be removed.
