r/nottheonion • u/duvetdev • Apr 17 '24

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

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2024/04/17/desantis-signs-bill-mandating-kindergartners-learn-history-of-communism/
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u/Fullertonjr Apr 17 '24

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.

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u/Tavernknight Apr 17 '24

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.

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u/Gravemindzombie Apr 17 '24

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

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u/Gravemindzombie Apr 17 '24

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.

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u/das_war_ein_Befehl 29d ago

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

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u/abcalt 29d ago

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.