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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:It cannot be understated the level of delusion that exists within the Cuban émigré community is something that will never die and is most definitely getting worse as the GOP tries to grasp something as their demographic hold on FL slides. Since terrorism never panned out for the far right elements of the community, they're just doing their best to copy the Israel lobby but instead of having politicians pledge eternal support to the state of Israel, they're making politicians end all speeches with Cuba delenda est.
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# ? Jul 25, 2023 16:25 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 14:02 |
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It just seems to me like more conservative leaning Hispanics in South Florida are REALLY into the Trump poo poo
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# ? Jul 25, 2023 16:28 |
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Shrecknet posted:What happens when (if?) Cuba's relations with America are normalized and you don't have automatic one-dry-toe citizenship on arrival in Florida and it becomes impossible to add more virulently anti-communist Cuban expats to the voter rolls? The Alpha 66'ers aren't getting any younger. Most Cubans who came during the Special Period or after tend not to be virulently anti-communist. They're generally not happy with the regime for obvious reasons but send remittances back and see it as something that's not going away. The children of émigrés from the periods before that tend to be conservative but it's skewing more left as they stop believing that there's a plantation waiting for them in Cuba the second the communists lose power. Good news, wealthy Venezuelans and Brazilians are doing their best to fill the empty spots. Miami has always been the landing spot for former Central South American dictators and death squad leaders. Miami itself was pretty much built on CIA money and money going to and from School of the Americas projects. It's always going to have a hard right element in it that you don't see unless you speak Spanish or Haitian Creole. Spanish media mainstreaming Qanon stuff also isn't helping so while you won't get people going ultra MAGA or whatever, they will definitely think twice about voting for the "pedophile elite." It's making the already right wing go crazy and the moderates to left leaning people quiet up because there's a history of politically motivated killings in Miami that for some reason go unsolved by the Miami PD.
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# ? Jul 25, 2023 16:39 |
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Miami has always existed for money laundering, but more and more those empty condos are owned by cryptobros rather than cocaine traffickers
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# ? Jul 25, 2023 17:44 |
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I swear I’m getting mi familia’s sugar plantation in Cienfuegos back as soon as communism is overturned. Viva Batista.
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# ? Jul 25, 2023 23:18 |
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L. Ron DeSantis posted:I don't know why California and Texas get megathreads while Florida doesn't I can assure you that it's not because Texas goons are better posters
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# ? Jul 26, 2023 00:30 |
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I tried making a FL Politics thread some years ago but it withered away pretty quick. Hopefully this one does better! In other news, buoys off Boynton and the upper keys recorded several ocean temps of 100+ the past few days. I'm sure that's fine, especially entering the exciting time of hurricane season while insurance companies flee the state.
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# ? Jul 26, 2023 02:25 |
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Not a great outlook for the coasts with this graph.
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# ? Jul 26, 2023 02:29 |
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Google Jeb Bush posted:I can assure you that it's not because Texas goons are better posters the mods do let me make clear, actionable threats against public figures in that thread so who's to say
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# ? Jul 26, 2023 03:06 |
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i say swears online posted:the mods do let me make clear, actionable threats against public figures in that thread so who's to say please don't tell better, less Texan mods
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# ? Jul 26, 2023 03:13 |
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Assuming the abortion and recreational cannabis amendments get enough signatures to get on the ballot, which they almost certainly will, what are the ways the FL Supreme Court or legislature could ratfuck them? Is there any way they could raise the threshold past the already high 60%?
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L. Ron DeSantis posted:Assuming the abortion and recreational cannabis amendments get enough signatures to get on the ballot, which they almost certainly will, what are the ways the FL Supreme Court or legislature could ratfuck them? Is there any way they could raise the threshold past the already high 60%?
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# ? Jul 27, 2023 05:11 |
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FlamingLiberal posted:They can't raise that, it's in the state constitution. However, the FL SC could find ways to disqualify the amendments from the ballot. Well they could try to raise it via a ballot amendment but I suspect that would work as well as it seems to be going in Ohio. I guess the more pressing concern is does the FL SC find a bullshit reason? They might; aren't most of them DeSantis appointees? L. Ron DeSantis fucked around with this message at 05:36 on Jul 27, 2023 |
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Recreational marijuana already has the signatures and Ashley Moody is trying to challenge the language of the proposed ammendment with the state SC to disqualify it. Hopefully it still makes the ballot, I would assume they'll try similar a similar challenge with abortion rights.
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# ? Jul 27, 2023 11:02 |
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L. Ron DeSantis posted:Well they could try to raise it via a ballot amendment but I suspect that would work as well as it seems to be going in Ohio. I guess the more pressing concern is does the FL SC find a bullshit reason? They might; aren't most of them DeSantis appointees?
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# ? Jul 27, 2023 11:28 |
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I had a nightmare last night - Gov. Randy Fine.
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# ? Jul 28, 2023 01:36 |
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Lol, I’m watching the local news talk about the educational curriculum and the head of the Democratic youth council took his time to push back against the progressive wing. How loving long will we run Charlie Christ and his clones?
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# ? Jul 30, 2023 17:26 |
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LordSloth posted:Lol, I’m watching the local news talk about the educational curriculum and the head of the Democratic youth council took his time to push back against the progressive wing. How loving long will we run Charlie Christ and his clones?
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# ? Jul 30, 2023 17:42 |
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LordSloth posted:Lol, I’m watching the local news talk about the educational curriculum and the head of the Democratic youth council took his time to push back against the progressive wing. How loving long will we run Charlie Christ and his clones? I know people in FL that I grew up with that tend to vote for Democrats but still defended DeSantis when it came to keeping FL open for COVID and opposing vaccine mandates. There's just some kind of hosed up libertarian bent to people that choose to call FL home.
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# ? Jul 30, 2023 18:47 |
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WHAT KAMALA HARRIS DOES NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW: The slaves were also sometimes fed food that they digested for their own personal benefit. Slave owners also shared the air they owned and the sunlight their God allowed with the slaves. Why don't the democrats want that taught?
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# ? Jul 30, 2023 22:01 |
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Slavery personal benefits seems like a direct line of descent from "The rape 'victim' was given a beautiful gift of a baby boy with blue eyes"
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# ? Jul 30, 2023 22:03 |
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Ron DeSantis sits down with Nazis. Ron DeSantis hires Nazis. By the transitive property, he is a Nazi https://www.semafor.com/article/07/31/2023/desantis-meme-factory That deleted video with the Nazi symbolism? His campaign director of research and data -wrote- “This belongs in the Smithsonian” in their confirmed authentic campaign ‘war room’ official meme creation Signal channel/chat room.
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# ? Aug 1, 2023 02:00 |
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It's pretty notable that Randy Fine, who is basically Ron's favorite bootlicking state rep and happens to be Jewish, has seemingly had nothing to say about the sonnenrad video. He can't not know, so I assume he thinks when the pogroms hit he'll be considered one of the "good ones".
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# ? Aug 1, 2023 04:37 |
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Well, if nothing else, at least this state excels at generating useful idiots.
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# ? Aug 2, 2023 17:38 |
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Looks like AP Psych may be permissible after being effectively banned days ago: https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/08/04/florida-ap-psychology-reversal-desantis/70532365007/ Florida Today posted:AP Psychology could be back on students' schedules in Florida as DOE clarifies guidance
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space uncle posted:
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 16:07 |
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I was in Florida in 2010 for a Congressional election and the fact that not much has changed is troublesome.
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# ? Aug 6, 2023 17:23 |
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It's actually gotten a lot worse since 2010 by a fair magnitude
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# ? Aug 6, 2023 19:17 |
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There's also a conservative demographic that HATES Trump for the same reasons us liberals do (ostensibly), but still think Desantis is good because they really don't pay attention to the news much.
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# ? Aug 6, 2023 20:30 |
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Mulaney Power Move posted:There's also a conservative demographic that HATES Trump for the same reasons us liberals do (ostensibly), but still think Desantis is good because they really don't pay attention to the news much. He’s a tax cutter. That’s enough.
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# ? Aug 7, 2023 01:25 |
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Mulaney Power Move posted:There's also a conservative demographic that HATES Trump for the same reasons us liberals do (ostensibly), but still think Desantis is good because they really don't pay attention to the news much. I'd be fascinated to find any poll with crosstabs for party affiliation and trump disapproval and "reason: too dumb and crass" instead of "reason: isn't hurting marginalized people enough"
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# ? Aug 7, 2023 01:54 |
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I’m still blown away that Florida schools won’t allow college psychology and African American studies but will flat out use lies from Dennis Prager.
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 11:57 |
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Mr. Nice! posted:I’m still blown away that Florida schools won’t allow college psychology and African American studies but will flat out use lies from Dennis Prager. Look at what they are doing to New College and you can get an idea of what they want
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 13:22 |
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https://twitter.com/esqueer_/status/1688729484516577281 The cruelty is the point and the stupidity is a beneficial side effect for the fash
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 13:29 |
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Once again they are making lists
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 14:00 |
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It came out at a school board meeting last night that Broward County Schools covered up a gang rape of a student in 2020. A student who was already the victim of child sexual abuse (my wife was her 2nd grade teacher and the parents of the child were very forward and honest about the girl's history so that Mrs. LaLD would be informed and be able to identify any red flag behaviors and communicate with the parents/child as appropriate). The parents pulled the girl out of primary and homeschooled her for a number of years some time after she left 2nd grade. In 2020, she returned to public schools at Stranahan high school. Two boys decided to make her a target. They carefully stalked her and learned where she lived, when her parents would be home, and took the wrong bus home for the purposes of stalking their chosen victim. Notably, this was not the bus that the offending students would normally take home - the bus driver never stopped the unauthorized passage of the offending students. Once the boys knew her pattern and when she'd be vulnerable, the first boy that raped her followed her home, gained access to the home, and violently raped her. Upon leaving, the rapist ensured that the door remained unlocked so that the second rapist could easily access the home and commit his crime. The then-14-year-old girl's father found her lying naked and victimized on the bathroom floor when he came home that day. No investigation was conducted.
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# ? Aug 9, 2023 15:02 |
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Well since neither of the boys was wearing a skirt like in the similar incident in Virginia, there's nothing here for right wingers to get outraged about. Cis boys will be boys.
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# ? Aug 9, 2023 16:14 |
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L. Ron DeSantis posted:Well since neither of the boys was wearing a skirt like in the similar incident in Virginia, there's nothing here for right wingers to get outraged about. Cis boys will be boys. This is in the Democrat Party's deep-blue stronghold of Broward County.
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# ? Aug 9, 2023 16:15 |
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L. Ron DeSantis posted:Well since neither of the boys was wearing a skirt like in the similar incident in Virginia, there's nothing here for right wingers to get outraged about. Cis boys will be boys. I don't think this is a trans issue and we should not respond to hearing about a child being raped by trying to make it about trans people, speaking as a trans person. Is there a news story about this or something I can read? All I get is "Broward School Board meeting sees heated debate over LGBTQ+ Pride", which is sort of ironic. ComradePyro fucked around with this message at 23:55 on Aug 9, 2023 |
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ComradePyro posted:I don't think this is a trans issue and we should not respond to hearing about a child being raped by trying to make it about trans people, speaking as a trans person. I've been searching all day for a version of the meeting that isn't the one that was shared privately to my wife and I've found "a" meeting from last night but I'm either wrong about which board meeting it was or the speakers were simply edited out and while I'm perfectly happy to just assume a grand conspiracy it's just as likely it was some sort of Public Safety Commission board or something like that - unfortunately my wife is passed out on the couch at the moment so I'll have to push for some more info when she's awake.
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