Alt Text:
Woman in a wheelchair saying: “THERE IS NO MARRIAGE EQUALITY UNTIL PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES CAN MARRY WITHOUT LOSING BENEFITS”
Alt Text:
Woman in a wheelchair saying: “THERE IS NO MARRIAGE EQUALITY UNTIL PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES CAN MARRY WITHOUT LOSING BENEFITS”
Oh man, it’s complicated, John Oliver had a whole bit on it.
Basically if you’re disabled and on federal assistance, you have to stay below a certain income level.
If you get married, that double income puts you over the limit and you lose your assistance. It’s deeply fucked up.
24 minutes, NSFW:
https://youtu.be/hq2s7RMRsgs
Marriage bit is around the 20 minute mark, but really, everyone should watch the whole thing.
That’s extremely dumb. The obvious way to measure income limits is income per capita. Also, being officially married shouldn’t make a difference.
Whatever, I’m deliberately trying to block US discourse. Best of luck to anybody dealing with it, but I’m actively trying to make my Internet be as little about the US as possible, so I’m walking away now.
As a mod of [email protected], I feel your pain. US News creeps into there continually. We remove it when we see it.
Even then it’s still just mostly:
Ukraine
Ukraine
Israel
Israel
Israel
Israel
Ukraine …
Have you considered that might perhaps be because of the terrible moderation policies driving people away?
Nope, traffic is good, it’s mostly just everyone wants to fixate on Israel and Ukraine.
I literally saw you arguing something was a call to violence in YPTB today, when it was just someone having an opinion on current events. People already left a long while back, and I’m willing to bet traffic isn’t increasing as much as it is on more diverse comms. I abandoned it for reading news from various sources on country-specific instances.
LOL - Saying we need blood right now to water the tree of liberty IS a call to violence. If you disagree, that’s fine, we don’t need that polluting our communities.
That would be true if that’s what was said.
But looking back, they actually said they that they fear that time has come.
Expressing a credible fear of violence isn’t a call for violence.
k bro, and THIS is why no one posts more diverse content in your communities 👏 because fascists being violent is fine but when people suggest violence back you throw hissy fits like this one
edit: and despite that, they weren’t even suggesting it. they made an observation, not an incitement
It’s not a “hissy fit” when it’s actively against the rules of the community and lemmy.world terms of service:
https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/