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From a political perspective, it’s time to admit Florida is gone. We need to focus on keeping Georgia and maybe Arizona blue. I feel for all the LGBTQ folks in Florida though. Don’t give up hope and please stay with us.
“The plan isn’t working only half are leaving” - DeSatan, probably >

"We'll send the rest to the conversion ^(torture) therapy centers!"
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—Desantis, for sure >

Genspect is a thing. They're just NARTH reincarnate. They just slapped a new brand on it and are already reselling it. >

Genspect, a group so mad about Roe being overturned they blamed it on trans people. Literally, they did that. >

Isn't their name short for "genital inspectors?" >

And now you have me thinking of a cartoon character named Genital Inspector Gadget. >

Go-go gadget speculum? >

exactly the point >

Yep, make living there so repugnant for anyone other than white Christians, Republicans "win" every election going forward. 60-40, 70-30, eventually 90-10. >

Mississipification. Transform your state into a shithole, in order to drive out the liberals. Ohio has ramped up that strategy as well. >

Oxford is the one bright spot in that shithole state (Mississippi). It's like the one decent city in the entire place, even then it's got MS problems. My dad is trying to move me there and I do not want to go sorely on the basis of it being in Mississippi. >

I was convinced to return to my hometown blue city in a red state. Just before Trump was elected. I very much regret it. >

Come to Minnesota, we're a helluva lot better than Florida! >

I came to Minnesota as a traveling medical worker. I love it so much I’m considering staying. >

Minnesota rocks. Minneapolis absolutely rules. Gorgeous green spaces and paths to recreate throughout the city. >

We have a great music scene too. Heres a local artist that filmed their music video on the Minneapolis Greenway >

Pretty sure that's "mission accomplished" to these fucks.
The bad guys won. >

Yup. They are sending the message to LGBTQIA+ people that if you better flee Florida or they will make you extinct. >

They're working on another Holocaust. >

They really are. Pay attention to their rhetoric. >

The real battle is getting enough of everyone else to pay attention to it and connect the dots accordingly.
I'm scared, y'all. >

Same. The shit that I hear from my dad gives me panic attacks. >

Come to Georgia! 😇 It’s leaning blue and those extra votes will tip it into nearly solid blue >

Honestly, as a Floridian, it's so weird seeing our neighbor to the north being ahead of us. Georgia has gotten A LOT better. >

I would...  Look back on Nazi Germany.  Those who left early lived. >

The pessimists came to America and the optimists died in the camps. >

I have to say that the poor never had a chance. >

They never do. I was paraphrasing a dark joke I remember hearing from a survivor. I forget where the interview was. >

Your point is somewhat true, but even some of the pessimists were turned away.  Dark times. >

I saw the writing on the wall and got the hell out of there last year.  And I am a straight, white old fuck. Most of my neighbors were right wing nut jobs, and they all knew I wasn't.  I miss the beach and the lack of winter, but I just couldn't stay there anymore.  I can only imagine how it is for the LGBTQ folks. >

DeSantis, his cronies, and his ideological bedfellows all around the nation are civic terrorists >

That's the truth. I'm wondering when they are going to set up the conversion centers filled with electric shock chairs. Once that happens, we know Desantis and his prevaricating friend Christopher Rufo will call for all parents of LGBTQIA+ kids and LGBTQIA+ adults to be rounded up and electrocuted. >

Disney etc should leave. I know it would be difficult. But they should. >

They can use the recent hurricane threatening Orlando as justification, if they want an apolitical exit. (If they want to make shareholders happy, say it's because of Florida changing the county-tax issue and "government unpredictability" in the future) >

They’ve dumped way to much money over 60 years into Disney world >

But not enough in local politics apparently. >

I think Disney was actually one of the biggest corporate donors for Donald Trump during 2020 so I’m assuming they donate heavily to who they think will likely win regardless of party. >

Same could be said for Trump, who was a longtime Democratic party donor before running in 2016. >

Not exclusively a Democratic party donor though. He donated to Mike Pence once. >

And just today I saw a “Desantis 2024” bumper sticker in Michigan. I’m truly terrified for the future of this country. >

Doesn't surprise me in the least. I live in TN and almost all LGBTQ people I know, myself included, are considering leaving the state. Some have already made preparations. I bought a house last year before the extreme craziness in my state started, so I am kind of stuck. If it gets much worse, I am going to sell and move somewhere else.
EDIT: Okay, even more extreme craziness. The TN legislature was already batshit crazy. >

Biggest regret was buying a home outright in Alabama.  This nut job conspiracy groomer crap hit maybe 2 months after we closed.  Nice area ruined by MAGA Christian fascists.   
We've been here for 10 years and it's never been a problem within our community before now. Now it's a serious problem. Got doxxed by one of the daughters of a prominent MAGA politician locally. We armed up and dared them to come get us. Surprise, nothing but hot air.   
Very happy we didn't listen to our friend and buy a home in Orlando though. F Desatan.   
If the rhetoric isn't put in check we'll be selling and moving to a more progressive state. >

I closed right before the Roe v Wade overturn. It seems like it was around that time that things started getting even more insane in TN. Honestly, so much has gone wrong here it's hard to keep track. It seems like the TN legislature is increasing hostility to LGBTQ people gradually. 
I just don't want to end up waiting too long to leave. Not to be overly dramatic, but Germany had a thriving LGBTQ community before the Nazis seized power. People say it can't happen here, but it can. Some of the rhetoric I hear people say casually about transgender people gives me chills. >

They're openly talking about feeding members of the LGBTQ community feet first into wood chippers.   
The fact that this is allowed in a "first world nation" tells me that we are anything but a first world nation.   
It also tells me that our constitution is woefully outdated and inadequate for the modern era. Concepts like freedom of speech and the right to arms are abused to the point that they've brought more harm than good.   
We need speech and gun control yesterday. >

Speech is a slippery slope. 
Gun control was needed yesterday. Fact is we need a new constitution protecting things like healthcare and education for a long time now. 
Other than speech, I agree with what you said. The issue though? We need to be in a healthy place to write a new constitution but we are so far from it. >

The biggest problem with unabridged freedom of speech is that it allows people like Alex Jones & others to exist and spread insane conspiracies with no basis in reality which in turn directly translates to the endangerment of minority groups.   
Common sense curtailment of the 1st amendment could be achieved while maintaining some right to free speech.  Follow the UK model. They investigate terrorists pushing conspiracy theories, and those who post hate speech.   
If they can do it, we can too. >

I don't know if they are so much terrified or logically understanding that Florida is a sinking fascist ship. There's no shame in leaving a state full of scumbags. What other categories will Desantis persecute til they leave? And when the state is left with a couple million fat old white men their ass will go under. >

Fuck that: I’ve lived in Florida my whole life. Fuck these fascist assholes. Me and my husband will continue to raise our two children here just fine.  
My family bond will outlive this dying gasp of antiquated republican ideology. >

I support you, but be careful because I bet a lot of Jews in Germany thought that exact same thing. >

The whole GOP plan is to drive left-leaning voters out of certain states so they remain permanently red and keep those 2 senate seats no matter what. >

Same shit in every red state. >

Jewish people fled Germany so they wouldn’t be persecuted. Now here in 2023 Americans flee Florida so they and their family are not persecuted. >

Jewish people should be fleeing too, look at how literal Nazis are on college campuses now.
Fuck Florida! >

I would. If you have the means,then leave. Life is too short to stay somewhere so backward 
He's only one guy, but apparently a majority of folks support his views. >

Don't come to Oklahoma. We are under the Stitt-show. >

Yeah. We’re in the stages of an early genocide where they only want us gone. It’s prudent to take the hint before the fascists decide they want us dead.
I know I’m evaluating my long term prospects of being able to stay in Kansas. >

Don’t kid yourself, they already want us dead. They just don’t have the means to do it yet, so they’re settling for other ways of terrorizing us while they consolidate power. >

I can't blame them. I'd leave, too, if I felt threatened by the local government. >

Same thing is happening in missouri. >

Good. I hope all the interesting and vibrant people leave that hellhole and it will be left with urban sprawl, tweakers and the Villages >

Don't forget Meth-laced alligators. >

Oh lord, is that the com8ng sequel to Cocaine Bear? >

I feel like that sequel should be "Crackodile" >

I live in Alabama and so very many LGBTQ people I know have left, are making plans, or are scared. I can’t tell you the slurs I’ve heard yelled at me, a straight person, for flying a Pride flag. Don’t send your kids to school in red states. >

I wouldn't be surprised if DeSantis blows up the bridge to Key West. >

The Conch Republic will rise again! >

I wonder how many Republican voters who have LGBTQ family members don’t know how to feel about this position? >

How they feel doesn’t matter as much as speaking up and voting against this hate. >

First they came for Gay people, and I did not speak out—because I was not Gay.
Then they came for the school teachers, and I did not speak out—because I was not a school teacher
Then they came for Transgender, and I did not speak out—because I was not Transgender.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. >

Where is the ACLU on this? >

They're trying. >

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. >

Isn’t this what R wants? People unlike them to leave? >

That's the goal. These cruel red state policies are designed to drive those who oppose out, making the state even redder. >

See people with a lot of disposable income are poison for an economy. Plus they draw tourists and who needs that? Mo money mo problems right? What’s really nice is the synergy! Make abortion illegal then drive out a lot of the folks who might adopt a child, thats two great ideas combining to be greater than the whole! No one can accuse you of not thinking ahead, with all the restrictions on teaching anything race related pretty soon minority residents will take off and once they leave you will lose House seats and electoral college votes and then people will finally leave you alone. Brilliant! >

Anyone that isn’t white straight Christian male should consider moving out of Florida. >

They should leave, teachers, black people and businesses too. Florida is being run by racist homophobic anti education Republicans. >

Leave now, or leave later because of climate change. Might as well do it now. >

Desantis is American Hitler. Prove me wrong. >

DeSantis hasn’t advocated for full-on genocide of the LGBTQ+ community just yet (And let’s hope it stays that way). If anything, he’s more like American Putin or Orban. >

Not openly, anyway >

Disney etc should leave. I know it would be difficult. But they should. >

What other state would allow a Disney fiefdom? >

I will gladly trade our inbred hicks craving freedom to be abhorrent for these families. Florida seems to like taking in the former. So win-win. >

Only half because it’s up to the parents, if it were up to the kids it would be 100% >

Call it what it is: a full-fledged government POGROM targeting the non-binary. >

Not all trans people are non-binary, just to clarify >

Not all non-binary people are trans. What are you getting at? >

I don't understand why any LGBT person or woman stays in that fascist hellhole >

Moving at all is expensive in a world where most people are only a few paychecks from the streets. Moving out of state even more so.