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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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It would be great if my existence and the existence of my friends and family weren’t considered “political.”
But here we are. Sorry that our not going quietly into the camps inconveniences you.
You know you're in a discussion with a blind person, and you included an image without alternative text.
Please learn what alternative text is.
They did not say what you're implying them saying. There is a world between not caring about people getting arrested by ICE, and not wanting every other post being about Trump's antics or US politics.
Plus, if they are blind, I guess it's harder for them to decide "at a glance" what they'd want to check or not. It doesn't suffice to see someone's face to decide to skip, they have to read what the post is about.
Did you miss that OP mentioned they're blind?
Here is that image you posted, but with manually-written alt text added.
(I don't usually do this when adding alt tags but in this case I also added the same text as a title/tooltip to make it also easy to read for users without a screen reader. Apologies to screen reader users that this probably causes you to hear the description twice.)
I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that being blind is much worse than any of that extremely common stuff you want to feel oppressed about
Nobody is sending anyone to camps bro.
Might help if your talking points were delusional conspiracy nonsense.
The Trump administration literally sold merch at the front gate of one such camp in Florida. Old prisons are being reopened and new ones are being built to hold all the new ICE detainees, and they throw them all together in a cell with deportation papers in the middle of the room hoping they'll give up and sign to be willingly deported. ICE now has massive deportation quotas that they're being pushed to meet.
The above doesn't even scrape the iceberg of everything that's been happening. Your confident ignorance betrays your stupidity.