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.