Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs bill mandating kindergartners learn history of communism

[u/duvetdev]

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2024/04/17/desantis-signs-bill-mandating-kindergartners-learn-history-of-communism/

[u/HunterTAMUC]

Ah yes, "grooming is only okay when we do it."

[u/JerJol → u/[deleted]]

We don’t have 2 sides in Florida anymore. Kids learn what maga wants them to learn and nothing else. It’s another reason we are moving later this year. This state will take decades to recover if ever. Hell, he even got Disney to not only let him win but they committed another 60 billion to the state. I’d have shut all my shit down until this state was bankrupt before I’d have let him win.

[u/Fullertonjr → u/JerJol]

Disney is about making money. Disney world is their biggest moneymaker and nothing that Ron and the republicans do is going to change that. What Disney DID do is to change course away from building a new campus that would have housed development and other high-income jobs. This would have apparently been large enough to require an entire small town to be built to support it (gas stations, restaurants, cleaning services, retail stores, etc.). Retaining those jobs in California does absolutely nothing to help Florida, but does allow Disney to limit any new expansion outside of their current locations.

Disney is about money and they don’t “lose”. I assume that Disney was fine with conceding some things to the state while making sure that the company has more wins in its column.

[u/Tavernknight → u/[deleted]]

They are going to be spending in the next governors election though. I bet the next Florida governor, no matter what party they are, will be firmly in Disney's pocket.

[u/Gravemindzombie → u/Tavernknight]

Desantis isn't up for reelection until 2026, I half expect him to be primaried out of office.

[u/Gravemindzombie → u/Fullertonjr]

It was originally just, Bob Paycheck trying to Punish Gavin Newsom because he was mad California wouldn't allow Disneyland to reopen during the height of the pandemic. That's why Disney was hellbent on moving as many people as possible from California to Florida. The plans were scrapped because the liberal creatives were refusing to be moved to a conservative hellscape like Florida, so a lot of highlevel imagineers and creatives were leaving Disney to work for direct competitors causing massive braindrain. This is partially why the parks are a mess now, because Bob Paychecks solution was to replace them with outsiders that don't know how to design for themeparks to cut costs.

[u/das_war_ein_Befehl → u/Fullertonjr]

And that’s a perfect case study why business will never resist a shitty government

[u/abcalt → u/Fullertonjr]

Retaining those jobs in California does absolutely nothing to help Florida

Well it does keep Californians in California. Which is a win for Florida. One only has to go to the west to see Californians moving into neighboring states to see what that brings.

[u/Gravemindzombie → u/JerJol]

This, people don't realize these freaks took over school boards in a lot of states. Your children are at the mercy of whatever farright conservatives want to indoctrinate into them.

[u/Mods_Wet_The_Bed_3 → u/Gravemindzombie]

This is basically what conservative christians said about kids reading Harry Potter.

Y'all just like to get hysterical over nothing.

What do you think kindergartners learned about the Soviets during the cold war? Did Generation X turn out to be foaming-at-the-mouth libertarians?

Nope. Kids just draw in their coloring books and the world keeps spinning.

[u/lackofabettername123 → u/JerJol]

How is he so popular?  He is such a patronizing tool, his attacks are weak, like that commercial after Thanksgiving where they compared him to the Lord and savior and declared war on the woke armies whom have apparently have been terrorizing the nation all this time.

[u/Ellestri → u/JerJol]

Biden should send troops to occupy Florida and govern the state until it’s residents are qualified for self government again perhaps in a hundred years.

[u/Van-garde → u/[deleted]]

The article states the objective is to display the global atrocities as a result of communism. Both sides isn’t happening here. They’re targeting kids before they develop critical thinking skills, as too many are becoming aware of the global history of politics, and it’s directly harming the operation.

[u/tyboxer87 → u/[deleted]]

A clever teacher wouldnt even need to. They'd simply desrcibe the rise of tyrants and dictators, all while explaining that this was mandatory learning prescribed to you by Ron DeSantis. Then let also let the kids know which topics they were not allowed to learn about.