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The States: Where We Wish Texas Would Secede Already

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Kepler said:
Florida: Derp
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He also signed into law This Piece of Crap

Public universities in Florida will be required to survey both faculty and students on their political beliefs and viewpoints, with the institutions at risk of losing their funding if the responses are not satisfactory to the state's Republican-led legislature.

The unprecedented project, which was tucked into a law signed Tuesday by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, is part of a long-running, nationwide right-wing push to promote "intellectual diversity" on campuses — though worries over a lack of details on the survey's privacy protections, and questions over what the results may ultimately be used for, hover over the venture.

Based on the bill's language, survey responses will not necessarily be anonymous — sparking worries among many professors and other university staff that they may be targeted, held back in their careers or even fired for their beliefs.

According to the bill's sponsor, state Sen. Ray Rodrigues, faculty will not be promoted or fired based on their responses, but, as The Tampa Bay Times reported Tuesday, the bill itself does not back up those claims.
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Though the bill does not specify what the survey results will be used for, both DeSantis and Rodrigues suggested that the state could institute budget cuts if university students and staff do not respond in a satisfactory manner.

"That's not worth tax dollars and that's not something that we're going to be supporting moving forward," DeSantis said.

When pressed by reporters, the governor did not offer any specific examples of repression and discrimination faced by conservative students, simply saying that he knows "a lot of parents" who worry about their children being "indoctrinated" on campus.

Florida Senate President Wilton Simpson was more pointed in his criticism Tuesday at a meeting of the state university system's Board of Governors, calling the institutions "socialism factories" — again without much detail on what makes the schools so left-wing.
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I am sure we are all just pearl clutching though...
 
Handyman said:
He also signed into law This Piece of Crap





I am sure we are all just pearl clutching though...
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It's unconstitutional and will be tossed in court. They know that, so it's raw meat for the base to generate cheap press. They will find other excuses to slash the education budgets without this garbage (as if Florida hasn't already slashed their education budgets enough, based on the average IQ down there).
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
I posted this yesterday but I dint think anyone saw it.

our centrists won’t care- as long as it’s liberals who are silenced
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I'm a centrist and I care a great deal about this. This law is insane and pure fascism. I can't imagine it will past constitutional challenges, but either way I truly have no idea what happened to the self-described party of the constitution.
 
Swansong said:
I'm a centrist and I care a great deal about this. This law is insane and pure fascism. I can't imagine it will past constitutional challenges, but either way I truly have no idea what happened to the self-described party of the constitution.
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Lol I don’t consider you a centrist that’s all
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
It's unconstitutional and will be tossed in court. They know that, so it's raw meat for the base to generate cheap press. They will find other excuses to slash the education budgets without this garbage (as if Florida hasn't already slashed their education budgets enough, based on the average IQ down there).
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Plus a chance to fulminate about the activist judges legislating from the bench when they inevitably strike down "the will of the people." Win-win-win, as far as the derps are concerned.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
It's unconstitutional and will be tossed in court. They know that, so it's raw meat for the base to generate cheap press. They will find other excuses to slash the education budgets without this garbage (as if Florida hasn't already slashed their education budgets enough, based on the average IQ down there).
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Care to wager?
 
Handyman said:
At this point Swansong would be a Commie Pinko Socialist by Right Wing standards.
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This is true.

There's a reason I don't join some of the pile-ons here, and a reason I don't join some of the choruses. I have moved a little to the left over the years, but the party has moved rather drastically to the right. I mean, hell, I only voted a D for president last year for the first time ever. (no, fear not, I never voted for Trump)
 
dxmnkd316 said:
What in the actual fuck did I just read
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The Magical World of Midwestern Whimsy. "Look Frank! They have a train just like us! And fancy restaurants where d-bags from the burbs hang out! Wow! Who knew it wasn't all decay, gang shootings, and urban rednecks?" *vom*

Whatever he was told about theater is dead wrong though. We have it, in fact in its heyday (the Roaring 20s) Detroit used to have almost as many theaters and theater seats as Broadway, but these days no other theater district in America compares to the sheer variety of Broadway. As for vagrants, Chicago and Detroit have their share, he just doesn't know where to look. Similar to Manhattan, the Detroit fuzz keep the downtown streets pretty clear of panhandlers, so a lot of them now beg on the fringes of the city where the cops are spread thin and in the trendy inner ring suburbs where young liberals with money live. They then retreat back into the city at night to score dope and squat in some flophouse or find a fleabag motel bed.

The chest thumping "proud of my city" stuff is dumb (e.g. "Detroit vs. Everybody"). You wanna know why it's a thing though? Because we got tired of the NYT running their semi-annual Detroit Progress Report articles, the NYP's weekly suggestions of declaring a state of insurrection in Chicago and sending in the Guard to deal with gang violence, and both cities being the perennial puppy Fox News can kick when they want to lather the base about "corrupt, socialist, Democrat-run cities".
 
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