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Firefighters confronted DeSantis' governing board on Wednesday. “The removal of this benefit takes away, for some, their entire reason for working here."

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[–] [email protected] 127 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Orange County, where Disney World is located, went for the D candidate 53-46. Don't blame them for the malignant human tumor their state foisted on them.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (3 children)

But Disney themselves donated plenty to R candidates for years. The state and its inhabitants are finding out what that gets you.

I’ve spent far more time in the sunshine state than i ever would wish on anyone, Im not saying everyone in the state is brainwashed but there are plenty of people who cheer on as their state is imploding.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

We have to acknowledge that Republicans have lots to offer if you're a mega corp.

  1. They pick up the phone for you and your lobbyists - day or night
  2. They lower your tax burden
  3. They functionally killed unionization - allowing you to pay your executives enormous sums of money while the majority of your workforce struggles financially.
  4. If you're somehow unable to outright buy their legislative agenda with ~~bribes~~ campaign donations, they can instead be forced to comply with subtle threats to leak details of their various ~~homo~~sexual escapades to the media.
  5. They tend to have absolutely no morals - which is great for your shareholders.
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

But you see, Disney made the mistake of going woke. How dare they cast non-white or any gay characters in anything. Next they'll tell us women should be able to vote. It's a slippery slope.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

If they think the implosion will "own the libs", they are for it.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Blame the 46, yes. That is still atrociously high.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

True, but I bet you that the 53 isn't able to do much about that 46. At least nothing that fits in the bounds of a civil democracy.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Orange County, where Disney World is located, went for the D candidate 53-46.

This might explain DeSantis' actions. He has also suspended two Democratic state attorneys over the past year, for no good reason.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Orlando and Tampa are both fairly liberal cities. Miami has a big Cuban population which leans conservative, Jacksonville is basically southern Georgia. Tallahassee is a weird one because you've got a bunch of government workers and it's a college town. I think DeSantis would like to fuck with Tallahassee but doesn't want to shit where he eats.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh he's shitting there. How can one teach about the Seminole tribe without falling into the category of white guilt for subjugation of another group. Tallahassee is where Florida State University, who uses the Seminole as their emblem/mascot. The Seminoles faught a war (3 according to the U.S.) that spanned 42 years agaisnt the U.S. In the 90s and early 2000s they were still sorting out things, I think the Supreme Court was paying them a settlement over lands stolen.

That's where it all gets dicey though, the Seminole tribe was made up of torn apart tribes they accepted into their culture as well as African Americans who were "granted" freedom after serving in the Civil War. The U.S. basically had tried to take a census per say of who they were, then tried to divy out the land as individually owned as per U.S. law. Previously it was all owned by the community/tribe I believe. Anyone that hadn't been written down but was part of the tribe would essentially not get part of the payout.

Sorry I got way off topic. End of the day I guess what I meant is that stereotypically people who watch college sports are viewed as ignoring politics if they can. If the Seminoles had to change their name per request of the tribe stating "you can no longer use it if you are no longer allowing education to your populous about the subjugation you put us through." People would get mad that they had to hear about it and mad they had to use another name.

Not to mention many would potentially protest it being changed and demand that their history be still an eligible topic. (Which would diminish the bills signed by Desantis)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There's a lot of good facts in here, but I'm struggling to understand what point you were trying to make. Could you maybe clarify how all of that is related to DeSantis attacking Tallahassee and/or what point you were trying to make?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, Disney world is also in a county called Orange? That's pretty funny, I never knew that

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Yeah, Orlando is Orange county. Florida was the largest producer in the U.S. California is recently passing them up due to issues. Between the two it something like 95% of all the citrus grown in the U.S.

That said, if you want a sweeter, juicier orange, get an orange from Florida. If you want a longer shelf life orange, go with California.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol it’s come out the fire department endorsed desantis. Just thought you would like to know.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ooh, then that's on them now.