K & Finn

I know that a lot of people are looking to leave the country right now for obvious reasons. However, the reality of that is for disabled people that you will not have the same civil protections as you do in the US, there is not as wide spread physical accessibility. and at least in my case for as a service dog handler almost every other country will not recognize my dog as an assistance dog.

I also think that a lot of disabled people on the left need to have the perspective that in the United States disabled people are split 50-50, 50% of disabled people vote republican. The very unique flavor of American individualism, “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” mentality, and lack of universal healthcare (which I’m not saying any of these are good) does allow for more civil protections of disabled people because we’re not seen as bogging down the collective. From a strategical standpoint attacking disability rights as a Republican lawmaker is not a good look and I’m not pretending like they aren’t right now like the 504 lawsuit. But they’re gonna lose voter base.

Also, the reality is if you were to move outside of the US, you are now a disabled immigrant And will most likely have even less protections as natural, born citizens. As well as the fact that even if you escape America, you will still encounter American politics. Europe is currently a mess with an extremely similar ideologies to Elon Musk and why not, (AFD)

I am not saying this to scare anybody or to say that moving out of the US is bad but outside of the US disabled civil protections are significantly less and you need to prepare yourself for that as many significant problems as the ADA has It was passed in 1990 by BUSH and was an incredibly revolutionary document and still is on the world stage.

He has quite the wardrobe. 😅 in my more recent posts he has been wearing his river dog gear vest and tactical vest with some holo patches.

And I generally don’t see a difference in behavior in the public based on what he’s wearing. Though one thing I think is really important when people are getting fun service dog gear is actually making sure it’s legible. I often see low contrast vests with embroidery on patterns in cursive hard to read fonts, and you just can’t expect the public to be able to read that on the fly. That is why if you’ll notice his galaxy river dog gear vest has patches on it rather than direct embroidery on the fabric. I knew it would be a harder to read if I did direct embroidery.