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

The ignorance you’re showing here is absolutely astounding. Banning things and removing certain people’s rights is a defining part of US republican politics. Every damn week, there’s a new thing they’ve decided is evil and needs to be banned. That’s very much not the case with US democrat politics. Sure, there are things they too want to ban or change, but it’s based on logic and not a constant stream of new things.

It’s helpful though because it indicates your bias.

Lol.

We don’t have fish flavored one, but we got ice cream that tastes like ammonium chloride

Other than all the conservative efforts to destroy the ADA I guess.

I don’t think it makes much difference whether or not it is plausible. It’s just trying to communicate a message. I guess it has to be plausible enough that a reader can understand what it is even talking about; but not so plausible that the reader is led to believe this specific case is actually happening.

obligatory mention that it’s not “The South,” but ~30 minutes outside of any metro area in the US.

Evangelical Christian assholes are not uniquely southern, have you been anywhere outside of a city in any state?

20 years ago yeah. Now it’s everywhere.

Aka backwards fucking stupid American.

You are currently debating whether hospitals can let women die instead of performing abortions

Evil and malicious? Of course not. Mislead by a tailor-made Christian cult that always supports whatever the cult leader thinks is important? Literally nothing more American than that. We have a state that was founded for that propose. The largest, consistent voting block in America is fueled by exactly this.

Of course we’re not but “the supreme court bans something good because it’s not explicitly allowed in a 200 year old document” is a goddamn accurate statement lol

Have you told your leaders that?

You have a sidewalk, that is obstructed sometimes. Having a sidewalk puts in like the top 10% of countries instantly lol

Think about your favorite restaurant, bar, kebab place, corner shop etc.

All have wheelchair ramps. Even the townhall that was built in the 1700s has a wheelchair ramp, as does the church built in the 1400s.

I only know a handful of places that are in the centre of dense cities that don’t have them.

Then if I wanted to make comparisons to the US, yes lots of buildings are wheelchair acceptable, but they still expect you to drive between those buildings, even if you’re disabled, so sidewalks and crossing points are abysmal.

If you wouldn’t have put the last sentence into your first comment, your point would be fine. Same with your second comment

It’s an excellent example. Politicians take something the US does great, and fuck it up because of their religious zealousy.

Technically in common disability parlance the motion of movement in a wheel chair is still considered “walking” just like listening to an audiobook is considered “reading” for visually impaired people.

Basically it accepts the whatever means you get to the end product as being a synonyms with the verbs those used by abled people.

Learned this from my librarian buddies.

i may in fact have meant actual walking on two legs, hence why i used the word “walk”

that was my point, yes

Europe doesn’t set all the rules at the EU level, this type of thing was probably law in many EU countries before it was law at the EU level.

Cool. Not sure how that counters anything I said though

At least that’s what it would be now if Russia attacked.

Maybe I misunderstood you but I’m talking about Finland. We didn’t drop any bombs. We’re just reacting to Russian attack on Ukraine and them using refugees as tools.

Yep, it happened. Scroll up a bit and you’ll see evangelicals opposed the ADA because it included protections for people with HIV.

If we really wanted to explore the concept further there’s also been a not insignificant about of cultural exchange that happened between the Scandinavian area and numerous regions outside their immediate area, as vikings traveled around, they encounter the early British, Normans and Franks, the had encounters with the late Christian and early Muslim world surrounding the Hagia Sophia, as evidenced by the viking graffiti carved I to stonework in there. They’ve had Christian missionaries proselytize their lands and convert them to Christianity away from the Norse traditions and dramatically retold those traditions from a christocentric framing.

Finland isn’t some culturally untouched place, left to their own devices for centuries. They both invaded others and were invaded, they engaged in trade and cultural exchange, they influenced other cultures and other cultures influenced them.