Stranger in store to me, a wheelchair user: “I couldn’t do what you do and live life that way. I’d rather die.”
It would be nice as a disabled person to go shopping without someone devaluing my life as a disabled person.
The 100 biggest low-wage employers have spent $341 billion on stock buybacks for their corporate shareholders since 2020, while their median annual worker pay was just $31, 672 last year.
We don’t suffer from scarcity. We suffer from greed.
@BennieDotGay Personally by living with my twin and her wife in a shoebox of a house 3 working adults to pay for one shitty house in the bad side of town. A shooting directly behind and petty crime all the time cant leave anything outside a bike a mower they won't be there in the morning
@MadScientistFF I love this assumption that millennials don’t know how to drive a stick shift it is legit only an American thing in the rest of the world manual is still the most commonly driven
High level snitch on the Speaker of the House. Truth is, he and other Republicans talk about America first policies but actually vote against policies that help Americans.
The system you ignore now which lets disabled people suffer and die will be the one you inherit. So figure this shit out now before they cease to believe you like they do us.
Doctor: “How long have you been wheelchair-bound?”
The common use of the terms “wheelchair-bound” and “ confined to a wheelchair,” especially by medical professionals, is so limiting.
It is devaluation.
It is ableism.