[Newsbot]

Title: Florida Just Gave Disney the Finger.
Category: Business
Posted By: Scape
Date: 2022-04-21 17:27:20

[Scape]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_H8J1P ... WL&index=5

[xerxes]

And gave Florida citizens a higher tax bill. That’s the Republican way. Hurt their imagined enemies, but make their voters pay in the end.

Fascist pig. All because Disney wouldn’t bend the knee to their homophobia.

[Scape]

Tip of the iceberg if what Beau is saying about the air force is on point. The GOP war on gender is directly impacting operational effectiveness and bases are going to pull pin. If these idiots think picking a fight for their base to pander to this pap is going to hold up the only people they are going to have left is themselves. That may sound all well and good to the choir they are preaching to but to the people who see what that will do to the economy and investment they are looking at the exits.

These idiots won't be happy till they burn it all to the ground.

[xerxes]

As long as they rule the ashes they won’t care. Distract the rubes with fear mongering over gays and transgenders and “groomers”, all while they amass their wealth and leave their voters with nothing but idiot children from unfunded schools who are destined to work at Walmart and Amazon.

[Thanos]

Then again, as opposed to the rest of the states, Florida children don't have to spend the first three or four years of school learning that Kevin's Mom/Dad Has Eight Different Genders or The White Man Is The Devil. They save that kind of important curriculum for Grade Five and up apparently.

[Thanos]

I never thought the day would come, especially after Trump, that a garbage state like Florida that's run by a garbage right-wing governor would be one of the few places in the United States that is actually trying to protect small children from the perverts and predators that have firmly ensconced themselves in the school system.

[Scape]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6iA6iLozTE

I think it's a sane option given that global warming will mean they have to anyway.

[Scape]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sCfOL_ ... L&index=11

[DrCaleb]

I'm conflicted on who to cheer for.

They both suck.

[bootlegga]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

I'm conflicted on who to cheer for.

They both suck.

Agreed.

[Thanos]

The sanest and most moral option IMO is to have a default setting where you choose that which promotes or ensures the greatest degree of safety for children. And for women too. I don't give a flying fuck if some wokey finds that to be too "patriarchal". Any adult male who doesn't have the protection of women & kids as their absolute first priority in life has failed completely in performing the greatest duty of a man's existence. Old school, to be sure. But given how utterly perverse and truly sickening the new school is turning out to be, I'd rather be old-timey OG any day of my goddamn life than to ever be on the side of the sickos. Not even once, goddamn it.

So sue me. It's the way I think and it's the way I always want to think. And at least I'll be able to say that it wasn't my actions, as opposed to the actions of the hardcore extremist left, that have all but ensured the re-election of Donald Trump or of someone even more profane & corrupt than he is. There was a massive list of things the Democrats desperately needed to address after beating Trump in 2020. And critical theory ideology (both race & gender) being imposed in education, even for small children without any consent of the parents, are the hills they decided to stake everything on and eventually die on? Fuck the Dems straight to hell, they completely & utterly deserve the asskicking they're going to get in both the 2022 midterms and in the 2024 general election. Why? Because a freak show on Twitter and Tumblr are more important to them than actual real people with real lives are? This sickness is the literal worst thing I've ever seen in my entire life, with an entirely predictable blowback going to be inflicted on the sane gays & lesbians who had nothing at all to do with it. The hardcore leftists who are implementing it deserve to be chased en masse out of public service and banished forever from entering that service ever again.

Sarah Palin is a completely miserable person. A true moron on pretty much every level, and basically nothing but an insincere wind-up toy that spews insensible right-wing talking points. But she was entirely correct on one thing - you do not fuck with other people's kids. When you do get ready for hellfire to come down on you. And the enraged reaction is really just beginning.

[xerxes]

Thanos Thanos:

Then again, as opposed to the rest of the states, Florida children don't have to spend the first three or four years of school learning that Kevin's Mom/Dad Has Eight Different Genders or The White Man Is The Devil. They save that kind of important curriculum for Grade Five and up apparently.

Dude, I think you are seriously going way off the reservation with this all this grooming talk. And I think you are falling prey to a gross over-exaggeration of what is being taught to kids in schools.

When you and the other fear-mongers throw out words like "groomers", you are playing a dangerous fire and your well intentioned bias to protect children is being weaponized to dehumanize political opponents, and not protect children.

It was a few years ago in Ontario that Doug Ford and the religious nuts raised a big stink about sex education in school, claiming that young children were going to be taught about the ins and outs of sex when, in reality, it was about teaching children about their bodily autonomy.

And the same is happening in Florida and in the rest of the CSA, to an extreme degree.

Children are not being "groomed" for a lifetime of sexual enslavement or whatever the zealots who throw that word around so casually think it means.

Groomer is the slur of the year for the Right-wing fascists. Last year it was CRT, the year before that, Socialism. As always, it is a distraction.

A distraction from the fact the GOP is dead set on ending democracy in America and turning it into Gilead.
A distraction from the fact that the ultra-rich are hoarding more and more of the world's wealth as we are set against each other to fight over the scraps they deign to leave us.
A distraction from the fact that the planet is irreversibly becoming unlivable and no one is doing jack shit about it.

The ridiculous fear-mongering over Trans people, a group of people who less than 1% of the population, is nothing more than the gay panic of the 80's & 90's.

And frankly, it's sad to see you succumbing to that panic. You're smarter than that. At least I thought you were.

[Thanos]

Not grooming, at least not to the extent the true-righties are saying. But next to churches the place more likely for children to be sexually assaulted is in schools. Our own residential schools are proof of that, where the pedos managed to use both religion & education as a free-for-all in their predations.

Most of what's happening is pure indoctrination, just like any other cult practices. And it's aimed squarely at the kids who are most likely simply gay & lesbian experiencing massive difficulty in accepting who they are and hesitant to come out. Basically the education system, with massive assistance from reckless and ideologically co-opted social media, has chosen to go with the "no, you're trans!" tactic instead. It's the gay kids who are in the most danger here, not the straight ones. Pro-trans should keep their mouths shut when they say they care about the gays and lesbians given that the evidence is piling up that they have absolutely zero regard for the best interest of LGB people.

There's a lot going on here. That some of you can't see it is bothersome. That some of you actually agree with the most extremist ideas is outright alarming. I just hope that not too many women & children end up paying the price for this so-called social "advancement" you're siding with. Lots of people end up getting chewed up and spat out by the various revolutions, with the revolutionaries not apparently giving much of a shit at all about what happens to them. That certainly seems to apply to the perpetrators of the trans agenda as much as it did to anyone else who liked to watch bodies pile up just because "change is always good".

I won't be the one being ashamed of my actions at the end of all this. Some of the rest of you certainly won't be able to say the same thing. I could care less what adults do to themselves. Kids though? Inflicting things on them that are not reversible, either mentally or physically, that deform them for life? Anyone who supports that kind of attack on children deserves nothing less than to roast in their own special little circle of hell.

PS: all across Europe (where far too much of this insanity originated courtesy of outright perverted and criminally dangerous psychiatrists back in the 1970's) they're putting the brakes on self-identification, puberty blockers, and irreversible transformative surgeries, as they seem to have noticed that letting this happen to people in their teens might be dangerously wrong - maybe they finally figured out something isn't right with any of this, despite the fact that you revolutionaries keep insisting everything is A-OK.

[Thanos]

Great thread here for conjecture on how this all happened so suddenly in the middle of an infinite number of other serious crises, with no advance warning at all....

https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1517469482217836545

$1:

1) Why did we take a vanishingly rare psychological anomaly best treated as the concern of a niche medical specialty and transform it into a societal crusade?

$1:

2) My tentative answer is that this was entirely a demand-side driven phenomenon, serving the interests of a professionalized activist class, a political party for whom the class is a major constituency, and the hunger of the youth for great causes, even when they are astroturfed

$1:

3) by various donor-funded and profit seeking interests. The demand is for palliatives for the terminal boredom at the end of history -- the need to plunge society into an immersive fictive role playing game in which we playact the heroic struggles of the past

$1:

4) All this would be fine were it not for the fact that our societal LARP necessarily entails the sacrifice of whole categories of person whom we are affecting to save: gender non-conforming and mentally ill youth above all

$1:

5) The expansive and utterly untenable conception of rights that the movement seeks is that "others must see me as I see myself" -- a call for the enforcement by the state of the subsumption of social reality to the will and desire of the individual

$1:

6) Which proceeds through the semantic game of redefining desire and will as identity. The more the entailments of this move becomes clear, the more the totalitarian dimension of it comes clear.

Bored effete elitists playing crusader - something that can only be possible in Europe & North America simply because the rest of the world is either socially intolerant altogether to any form of hyper-individualistic lunacy. Or because they live much more basic and far less complicated lives due to their poverty relative to the luxurious wealth of the West - no one poor has the time, energy, resources, or money to engage in any of the various clown-shows that erupt in the West because their entire existence is geared towards simply surviving.

The highest levels of the West is now the court of Caligula, or the freak-show menagerie of Persia under Xerxes, where the greater the perversion the more applause & reward it receives from both the emperor and his catamites. The rest of the world is still too busy trying to put food on the table, and don't have time for the games Western dilettantes play to stave off the ennui only the rich ones with all the power are afflicted with. "I'm bored, let's go fuck someone up".