The Orange County Public Schools system in Florida has announced guidance banning trans students from bathrooms and the use of nicknames.
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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.
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
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
“Those shithole states.”
-Donald Trump probably
Ahh, the Florida Containment Theory.
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.
All this to bully the 10 whole trans kids. What goes through these fascist fucks heads
Hate gets votes
Fear maintains power.
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.
Grrr. “Call people what they ask you to call them.” is not supposed to a difficult aspect of the Golden Rule to understand.
Call me Dark Lord Snugglypoo… …and I will question your life choices.
Anything you say, Dark Lord Snugglypoo.
No! FuglyDuck I assume is your given name and I will only call you FuglyDuck!
It’s more honest anyhow.
Well I will assume that Snuglypoo is your family name and FuglyDuck is your given name so I shall call you Dark Lord FuglyDuck Snugglpoo.
My liege…
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.
This is so ridiculously out of touch. You think they’re gonna stop kids from using nicknames?
That’s not just out of touch, that’s Stalinist purge level dystopian. And those despicable fucks have the gall to go on about how they’re in favour of “freedom”.
It doesn’t have to work, it just has to be one of a thousand cuts.
At the least this law will protect teachers that bully trans students, at the most they could start actively prosecuting teachers for using a student’s preferred pronouns.
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?
I left Florida in '93, and there were times I regretted it. There were a lot of good things about Florida, and it was always interesting. And once you adapt to the weather, it’s nice (if a bit dull).
Now though? Holy fuck I’m glad I’m not there. I don’t even understand what’s going on there - it’s like some sort of mass psychosis. It’s gone way beyond a political shift - it’s more as if someone decided that the thing to do was to establish some sort of right-wing version of the Khmer Rouge and a bunch of Floridians said, “Yeah! That’d be great!”
At the rate they’re going, it’s only a matter if time before they start systematically killing “undesirables”.
Seriously.
I lived there from 2010-2012 and it was more than enough to realize I would never do that again, esp with a funny foreign name, brown skin, and mixed race daughters. It’s sad too, thinking about e.g. Carl Hiaasen or Tim Dorsey, or time I’ve spent camping in the keys or swimming in fresh water springs in Central Florida. There’s clearly some real majestic environmental beauty and culture there but jesus christ has the states human culture gone absolutely to shit.
Utah is similar. Breathtaking natural beauty, but you couldn’t pay me to live there.
The folks coming to my area fleeing Florida said the worst of the worst moved there during Covid.
Florida makes me think that we would be better off with just 49 states.
As a guy living in Florida, I agree with you.
Yo Puerto Rico is dope.
I smell a trade brewing!
TRADE OFFER:
US recieves: Puerto Rico
Atlantic Ocean recieves: Florida
It and the rest of america’s dystopian history makes me think america would have been better if they lost the revolutionary war and later gained independence peacefully like Australia for example
I am serious about this opinion
It wouldn’t have. The American Revolution inspired revolutions in 60 other countries, including the French, Haitian and Mexican revolutions, and it’s what helped kickstart modern-day democracy in much of the world for that fact. Had the U.S. lost, it would have forever cemented the idea that the crown is all-powerful, beyond reproach, and the only way to get anything in life is to kiss the ring.
No matter how evil the U.S. turned out to be, the way it began will always be its true importance imo.
Won’t need to, most of it’s gonna be underwater eventually anyway…
It’s become the boomer republic but it could be so much better.
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
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.
