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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
It's not too important, but it is nice to see her acknowledge it, and how it got that way.
Cross-posting this to several relevant threads.
This is the Most Important Election of My Life Because I’m Autistic
from Wrong Planet
The Republican National Convention, by contrast, seemed to focus mainly on exclusion. The word disability wasn’t even mentioned once. Eric Trump said that his father was running for “families with special needs children,” as if adults with special needs don’t exist.
The differences between the two parties’ approaches to disability also informs their platforms. The Democratic Party platform includes 35 mentions of disability rights in 19 sections. The Republican platform, on the other hand, specifically states that it does not support ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (which is supported by the Democrats).
Even more importantly to me, the Democratic platform specifically addresses the needs of people with autism, stating that Democrats “believe that our country must make supporting the millions of individuals with autism and those diagnosed in the future and their families a priority.” The text goes on to explain how this will be accomplished by expanding services — including housing and employment — to include adults, as well as those transitioning to adulthood. Additionally, the platform states that the party will “push states to require health insurance coverage for autism services” and stresses the importance of early screening for autism in children.
In stark contrast, the Republican platform does not mention the need to support individuals with autism at all. In fact, the word autism is mentioned only once, in a paragraph about biomedical research that also describes “new dangers like Ebola, Zika, Chikungunya, and antibiotic-resistant pathogens.” The juxtaposition of autism and terrifying diseases like Ebola and Zika is incredibly damaging to people on the spectrum, many of whom see autism as a core part of our identities. It’s also incredibly dehumanizing.
edited 8th Sep '16 12:54:02 PM by BonsaiForest
So, apparently Trump said that Clinton is America's Merkel.
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Much of the above equally applies to other minorities, including LGBT people and people of color. This is the first time that I've seen a major argument from a disabled perspective. This expands the argument against Trump's policies.
edited 8th Sep '16 12:38:54 PM by SpaceWolf
This is a signature.NBC execs have admitted that Matt's performance last night was subpar.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/08/media/nbc-news-forum-trump-clinton-postmortem/index.html
In the view of the hard right, the only okay immigrants are the ones who are white, only speak english, have a perfect American accent, and don't exist.
Seriously, they don't care about skin color for immigrants. They'll yell at an old russian woman to "learn English" while she's speaking English. Yes, I've actually seen this happen.
Trump's base is mostly chill with Europeans and Canadians, free trade aside.
In fact, a few Canadian reporters say that they have an easier time getting access to Trump supporters than their American counterparts. They play up the curious foreigner act to come across as less judgemental and threatening.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Trump apeal a lot to the idealist view of what a america should be: already speak perfect english, always obey the rule and if something bad happen them she fight back in individual sense(because otherwise it will be protest and protest is for the weak) and so own, thanks to that he avoid must acusasion of racism.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"I saw on Google News that Breitbart is claiming Trump is gaining rapidly amongst Hispanic and black voters.
I looked for alternative sources. There are none.
The far right really is living in a bubble, aren't they? Hell, Politico has an article saying that 3 of the 11 battleground states are being lost to Clinton.
National polling is deceptive. If Trump loses the battleground states, it doesn't matter what his ratio of the popular vote is. That said, I have a hard time believing that he's really going to capture a majority of said vote.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"The Merkel thing: Remember when Trump introduced Farage to speak at a rally? Most of the people there had no idea who Farage actually was. The vast majority of Americans have no idea who Merkel is beyond that she's Germany's equivalent to a President and even that's kind of iffy. It won't do anything to people who already think that, it'll confuse people who don't know who Merkel is, and it might actually swing some people who like Merkel towards Clinton.
On another subject: If people think Trump speaks perfect English...I suppose technically they're right, but he literally speaks at the level of a 5 year old who knows the extremely rare large word. I can guarantee that many of the immigrants he rails against speaks better English than he does.
edited 8th Sep '16 1:28:57 PM by Zendervai

I hope that Laurer being dragged by other media outlets scares Lester Holt shitless and vows not to repeat the same mistake
New Survey coming this weekend!