The Orange County Public Schools system in Florida has announced guidance banning trans students from bathrooms and the use of nicknames.
We call my son and daughter by shortened versions of their first names. Both are in High School in OCPS. Today they brought home the forms for us to sign to allow them to go by those shortened names in school. I was shocked.
Perhaps Ronald DeSantis should be forced to get permission from his family inorder to continue to be called Ron.
The sad thing is, my brother has a name like “Benjamin”. My mother is a very mentally ill individual and is extremely militant about her children’s names “I chose your names and you will go by exactly what I named you!” and refused to let him go by “Ben” or let us call him “Ben”. Except, outside of the house he always went by Ben, she just didn’t know it. I always called him Ben when we weren’t home, because it’s what he wanted to be called. So kids like this would have to bring a form home and get their ass kicked by mom for going by a name they aren’t supposed to? Fuck that.
My mom was the exact same way. “If I wanted you to be called that I would have named you that”.
Let’s also not forget Rafael “Ted” Cruz, Leslie “Gerald Ford” King and Donald “Don Jr.” Trump, Jr.
I hope all media refer to him as Ronald until this goes away.
The amount of abject cruelty that is being leveled at trans children in Florida is fucking horrifying. This is legally enforced humiliation and bullying. This alone would have been more than enough to drive me to suicide when I was a child myself. And they are absolutely aware that this will cause that. Ron plans to orchestrate a genocide in Florida. He’s essentially forced every single person, company, doctor, politician, educator, teacher, any professional human being or group of human beings who values human life out of the state. When he’s done all that will remain are the most openly violent fascists and all the people who are too impoverished to leave the state. Of which many such impoverished disenfranchised people are trans children. How such open fascist power has not been internationally condemned and how he himself has not faced expulsion from any political office and faced serious legal actions from the government of the United States is beyond me. I thought world War 2 and the rise of fascism in Europe was supposed to have taught us something. Evidently not.
Fascism should’ve ended with WW2. The most violent ruthless war in human history. The death count alone is mind-blowing.
Yeah but “COMMUNISM killed more people” so fascism is cool I guess.
You could just not like dictatorships no matter what their official doctrine might be. It is allowed.
Fascism exists outside dictatorships. Like in Florida, for example.
I know I did the numbers once and if you just lined up the dead combatants from the USSR side head to toe it would cover a distance from NYC to LA multiple times.
Most depressing road trip ever.
What’s going on is the ramp up to genocide
I thought world War 2 and the rise of fascism in Europe was supposed to have taught us something.
They don’t gotta burn the books, they just remove 'em.
WWII might have been the end, but they’ve slowly been worsening education especially in places like Florida. I think at this point, capitalist social media is also a significant cause of the rise in fascism. When Zuck decides to platform holocaust deniers or twitter decides “free speech [for nazis]” it legitimizes it. It doesn’t take much before this translates into real life. You surround yourself online in your little bubble with all of the other crazies (yay Facebook is bringing people together) long enough and it’s nearly impossible not to translate that into the real world.
History is pretty fuckin’ easy to repeat if you don’t know the history.
Did you know that in the worst case sea level scenario due to climate change, all of Florida will be completely underwater? That means that while the world IS headed toward an inhospitable hellscape, at least we have the silver lining of seeing Florida completely eradicated.
You’re not thinking this through. Every Florida man alive will flee to dry land. Florida is a people, not a place.
Idk, wouldn’t they spread to other states or maybe most move to the same location and then turn that place into new Florida
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Wait where have I seen this before
That would entail admitting that climate change is real and that GQP mythos was wrong about something. Based on the way we handled covid, I wouldn’t worry about most floridians migrating due to climate change
So basically deny it’s happening until the water is up to their necks, then start talking about the importance of boats while they drown?
New Florida already exists. It’s called Ohio.
Considering the victory Ohioans just had, I don’t know about that.
listen, Florida is more than a set of policy decisions by pudding fingers, Florida is a state of mind.
I assure you, Ohio residents are equally batshit. I live in Erie, PA and deal with them regularly.
They’ll just leave and ruin everywhere else. At least they’re contained in their shit hole
Ahh, the Florida Containment Theory.
“Those shithole states.”
-Donald Trump probably
Did you know that most voters in Florida don’t agree with this shit and that taking glee in the potential eradication of an entire people and their home is exactly the same kind of shit that racists do when they blame all Muslims for terrorism or Hitler and the Nazis did when they targeted a population for their religion (or for simply being related to someone who was a Jew)?
The examples of this “they’re the bad guys” generalism is part of the problem. If you’re really so enlightened, don’t be part of the problem, too, it only alienates more who might be part of solving the problem if they weren’t ostracized over something as stupid as their birthplace or where they choose to live.
DeSantis won his last election by the largest margin in a Florida election in over 40 years
If this isn’t what people there want, they’ve got a very strange way of showing it.
I mean they voted for the people that do this stuff. Just by nature of how voting works, a majority of them likely agree.
“Floridian” is not “a people” in the sense you’re trying to use the word (I mean, really, comparing them to the Jews, lol). If someone wants to stick around while the ocean slowly swallows up the panhandle, that’s their business.
All this to bully the 10 whole trans kids. What goes through these fascist fucks heads
Hate gets votes
Fear maintains power.
Aha i remember when conservatives claimed to be the party of small government.
That was when they were just psychopathically neoliberal and “small government” was code for “we want gut regulations so corporations can put formaldehyde in milk again”.
Which they’ll still do of course, it just won’t win them elections these days. So they pander to bigots to make up the numbers.
They still claim it, been claiming it my entire life and it has never been true
How’s that freedom working out for you guys?
Land of the free and home of the brave…
I guess you have to be brave to live there.
So is DeSantis going to start going by Ronald now?
He IS a clown. 🤷🏼♀️
Clowns at least make an effort at being entertaining.
Ronald Dion DeSantis, you MUST use his full legal name now.
You’d think that half the population of Florida is trans with the disproportional amount of effort the gremlins in charge undetake to inflict cruelty on them.
When are the people of Florida going to put their precious second amendment rights to good use?
The enemy has to be all powerful and easy to defeat.
Under the guidance, published Monday (7 August), teachers at schools in Orange County must use pronouns and titles that correspond to their “biological sex” at birth, and parents must fill out a form to let teachers know of any deviation from their child’s legal name, even if this is a simple nickname.
So if the governor of Florida was subjected to this “guidance”, he would need permission to go by Ron.
This is the same guy going to war with Disney World who also held his wedding there.
At this point I wouldn’t be at all surprised to hear that Florida had switched to using human skulls as a currency.
LGBTQ+ skulls to be specific.
Who run Bartertown?
How many orphan souls cans I get for 6 skulls?
How do you ban nicknames? What if they just state this is the name I prefer to be called? People named William being called will or bill, is that a nickname? Why are Republicans so damn stupid? Mfers trying to block porn hub like most the Internet isn’t filled with porn.
Hopefully everyone takes it this literally and all the bigoted Bobs/Bills etc feel as stupid as they are.
*Nicholasnames
*slow clap
Comments like this almost make me wish Lemmy had awards
Florida - The Fascist State
The most fascist state, but definitely not the only one. Texas is a close second.
It’s a race to the bottom
Next step: thought police that comes after you each time you think about another sex than your own!
That’s what the gay agenda has been after the whole time!?
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@Mon0 Voter suppression is rampant in the US.
My city demographics are about 80% white 20% Asian and the household income average is over 100k. It has changed a bit but it was fairly reliable GOP for a while. My polling place is walking distance from my house. If I am lazy I can drive and there is a massive parking lot. No lines, I have timed it, walking in to getting in the booth in under a minute. We are also (I was a poll worker a few years ago) able to brag that in the entire history of the provisional ballet system we have never once thrown out a vote. The goal is no eligible voter turned away.
The city next to mine is nearly all POC and reliable DNC, they have less places to vote, and every single election there are news reports of multiple hour long lines.
If voting didn’t matter they wouldn’t be working so fucking hard from denying it to certain groups. Vote vote vote!
I think the only people who vote in state elections are political nerds. The average person in Florida probably didn’t know that much about Desantis before he started trying to run for president.
