General Politics Thread

[nnodley]

YAAAAAASSSS!  Will be nice to have 10k of mine wiped.  And i'm pretty sure i still have a year or so that i can put them on forbearance after i refinanced mine into 1.  So i'll have  a little till i need to repay on the last bit.

[Legend]

Sri Lankan politics. This is part 3 of a trilogy about a crises in Sri Lanka. I haven't watched this channel in a long time and I had no clue this was a thing countries were having to deal with.

[the-pi-guy]

Thankfully everyone else opposed him, all Republicans included.  

But yeesh.

Not even sure what to say here. Rep. Eastman says it’s a benefit to society when children who are victims of abuse die “because there aren’t needs for government services over the course of that child’s life” when they die as a results of abuse. #akleg pic.twitter.com/0hV4o7AzTY

— The Alaska Landmine (@alaskalandmine) February 21, 2023

[Legend]

Yeesh indeed.

[kitler53]

this really belongs in my other thread.

[the-pi-guy]

While the board handles infrastructure and maintenance, DeSantis boasted that it could use its leverage to force Disney to stop "trying to inject woke ideology" on children.

"When you lose your way, you've got to have people that are going to tell you the truth," DeSantis proclaimed. "So we hope they can get back on. But I think all of these board members very much would like to see the type of entertainment that all families can appreciate."

It is worth pausing a moment to grasp the full breadth of what is going on here. First, DeSantis established the principle that he can and will use the power of the state to punish private firms that exercise their First Amendment right to criticize his positions. Now he is promising to continue exerting state power to pressure the firm to produce content that comports with his own ideological agenda.

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[kitler53]

let's not forget,.. by "woke ideology" with respect to Disney he's specifically stating that it's not okay for a non-white or non-straight persons to be the protagonist of their movies.



considering how blatantly and loudely he is breaking the first amendment right i would think Disney could take DeSantis to court.

[Legend]

The origins of Disney World are pretty cool. Walt literally wanted to build an experimental prototype city of tomorrow, hence why they bought a whole city worth of land.

The amount of misinformation about their district has been insane. It's like Florida's own mini brexit I guess.

considering how blatantly and loudely he is breaking the first amendment right i would think Disney could take DeSantis to court.

I'd hope so. It's not harming Disney that much atm but this is just flat out illegal if done for those reasons.

[kitler53]

The origins of Disney World are pretty cool. Walt literally wanted to build an experimental prototype city of tomorrow, hence why they bought a whole city worth of land.

The amount of misinformation about their district has been insane. It's like Florida's own mini brexit I guess.I'd hope so. It's not harming Disney that much atm but this is just flat out illegal if done for those reasons.

it's costing them a lot of Republicans get control over what content they can create. 

[BananaKing]

While I think its important to monitor what content is presented to kids. A government deciding what content a private company can and can't release is ridiculous.

And this dude is really trying to control what Disney does? Does he think he is bigger than Disney?

[Legend]

it's costing them a lot of Republicans get control over what content they can create.

Reedy Creek just applies to specific things at Disney World. This doesn't give the Florida government any control over what content Disney makes.

If they want to control Disney, they have to keep breaking the law and threaten/punish them.

[the-pi-guy]

Ron DeSantis: Florida bill would give governor more power over state universities and ban gender studies | CNN Politics

new bill overhauling Florida universities to match Gov. Ron DeSantis' vision for higher education would shift power at state schools into the hands of the Republican leader's political appointees and ban gender studies as a field of study.

The legislation, filed this week, would also require that general education courses at state colleges and universities "promote the values necessary to preserve the constitutional republic" and cannot define American history "as contrary to the creation of a new nation based on universal principles stated in the Declaration of Independence." It would prohibit general courses "with a curriculum based on unproven, theoretical or exploratory content."

[the-pi-guy]

Proposed Florida bill would require bloggers who write about Governor Ron DeSantis or other elected officials to register with the state or face fines

[kitler53]

ffs

[the-pi-guy]

Iowa Republicans trying to ban gay marriage