• Echo71Niner@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Translation: It backfired politically in his face, resulted in massive criticism, lost support within his party, and harmed his state’s interests.

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      1 year ago

      “and harmed his state’s interests.”

      Neither he or his voters care about that last one, clearly. Republicans haven’t cared about improving or even maintaining for a long time. Politically, Desantis is right to appeal to his voters by harassing the populations Republicans don’t like, everyone who isn’t them.

      It’s all they respond to. Trump took over and won the 2016 primary simply by commiserating with Republican voters on stage about how he’d like to take their protesters around back and beat the shit out of them. Before that, he literally had to hire extras to his events.

      Republicans would (and have) gladly vote to lose their own jobs, schools, parks, infrastructure, etc, just to watch their enemies be sad about losing those things too. A race to the bottom. If they could press an “infinite resources for everyone with no downside for anyone” button they wouldn’t, and they’d fight like hell to make sure their enemies never could either.

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        1 year ago

        So you were ok with them retaliating against free speech as long as it was something you did not approve of in the first place?

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                  1 year ago

                  Dude, chill the hell out. You don’t know anything about this person other than their political affiliation.

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                    1 year ago

                    We also know the presumed person is opposed to bodily autonomy and for forcing their personal values upon others.

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                    Their political affiliation is with the party that has someone charged with 91+ felonies, including trying to overthrow elections, leading in the polls. They don’t even have a party platform, because the last time it came up they were all on board to do whatever that guy said.

                    Plus the party is all about removing rights, burning books, undermining attempts to mitigate a pandemic, and forcing 14 year old rape victims to give birth. Oh, and they tend to attract a ton of neo-nazis.

                    I will certainly judge them based on their adherence to that particular party, thanks.

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      1 year ago

      Time to declare victory and hope people forget. Maybe another political stunt will help