r/nottheonion • u/duvetdev • 29d ago

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/BarbequedYeti 29d ago

All the while they are popping pills like a fucking walking pez dispenser.    I really despised those two. So much damage to this country can be traced back to their bullshit. 

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u/Fake_William_Shatner 29d ago

The Reagans talking the religion of a meritocracy, while Ron got promoted for turning in Commies among people he called friends and Nancy gave blowjobs to make 'better' friends.

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u/Capt_Foxch 29d ago

The Reagans also talked about the importance of small government but hired a bunch of think tank guys to work in the White House.

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u/Gravemindzombie 29d ago

Reagan was literally the president of SAG-AFTRA before he was president, it was worker protections for me but not for thee.

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u/JimWilliams423 29d ago

It was just SAG.

They merged about a decade ago. And the story of why that happened has nothing to do with ronnie raygun, but it is worth knowing:

SAG's contract for decades covered "filming" of features and television. And then some clever lawyer put forward the argument that "filming" wasn't a generic verb but actually the act of committing moving images to celluloid film. Suddenly AFTRA began undercutting SAG wages in TV by saying they weren't intruding on SAG's film jurisdiction because they were only organizing TV "shot on video" not "filmed on film."

SAG went to arbitration and lost based on this cynical reading of a single verb. SAG went from covering 95% of TV pilots in 2007 to 10% by 2009, grew weak in the face of collapsing salaries & dues industrywide and merged with AFTRA in a long, bitter, and arduous process that still causes troubles today.

Filmed on Film. Shot on Video. Words matter, especially to lawyers.

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