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0 pointsceejayoz1y ago0 comments

> Lots of people, including Republicans, support the ADA and support expanding its protections.

Now, sure. At the time? Same sort of bullshit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_with_Disabilities_Ac...

Both are rooted in the same concept - that people should have fair opportunity to participate in society even if different in some ways.

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pc861y ago

Scroll up a couple lines from your link and take a look at the sponsor, who Republicans nominated to be President. So no, your partisan assertion is nonsense.

ceejayozOP1y ago

Tom Harkin? The Democrat?

Are we to think that the Republican party of 1990 - of the Bushes and the Cheneys and the Romneys - is the same as the Republican party of 2025 that has driven them out of the org?

pc861y ago

We're both wrong. I was referring to Dole who was not a sponsor but was a supporter and advocate.

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0 pointsceejayoz1y ago0 comments

> Lots of people, including Republicans, support the ADA and support expanding its protections.

Now, sure. At the time? Same sort of bullshit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_with_Disabilities_Ac...

Both are rooted in the same concept - that people should have fair opportunity to participate in society even if different in some ways.

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pc861y ago

Scroll up a couple lines from your link and take a look at the sponsor, who Republicans nominated to be President. So no, your partisan assertion is nonsense.

ceejayozOP1y ago

Tom Harkin? The Democrat?

Are we to think that the Republican party of 1990 - of the Bushes and the Cheneys and the Romneys - is the same as the Republican party of 2025 that has driven them out of the org?

pc861y ago

We're both wrong. I was referring to Dole who was not a sponsor but was a supporter and advocate.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse