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Firefighters confronted DeSantis' governing board on Wednesday. “The removal of this benefit takes away, for some, their entire reason for working here."

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[-] spider@lemmy.nz 20 points 1 year ago

Orange County, where Disney World is located, went for the D candidate 53-46.

This might explain DeSantis' actions. He has also suspended two Democratic state attorneys over the past year, for no good reason.

[-] ashok36@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Orlando and Tampa are both fairly liberal cities. Miami has a big Cuban population which leans conservative, Jacksonville is basically southern Georgia. Tallahassee is a weird one because you've got a bunch of government workers and it's a college town. I think DeSantis would like to fuck with Tallahassee but doesn't want to shit where he eats.

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh he's shitting there. How can one teach about the Seminole tribe without falling into the category of white guilt for subjugation of another group. Tallahassee is where Florida State University, who uses the Seminole as their emblem/mascot. The Seminoles faught a war (3 according to the U.S.) that spanned 42 years agaisnt the U.S. In the 90s and early 2000s they were still sorting out things, I think the Supreme Court was paying them a settlement over lands stolen.

That's where it all gets dicey though, the Seminole tribe was made up of torn apart tribes they accepted into their culture as well as African Americans who were "granted" freedom after serving in the Civil War. The U.S. basically had tried to take a census per say of who they were, then tried to divy out the land as individually owned as per U.S. law. Previously it was all owned by the community/tribe I believe. Anyone that hadn't been written down but was part of the tribe would essentially not get part of the payout.

Sorry I got way off topic. End of the day I guess what I meant is that stereotypically people who watch college sports are viewed as ignoring politics if they can. If the Seminoles had to change their name per request of the tribe stating "you can no longer use it if you are no longer allowing education to your populous about the subjugation you put us through." People would get mad that they had to hear about it and mad they had to use another name.

Not to mention many would potentially protest it being changed and demand that their history be still an eligible topic. (Which would diminish the bills signed by Desantis)

[-] orclev@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

There's a lot of good facts in here, but I'm struggling to understand what point you were trying to make. Could you maybe clarify how all of that is related to DeSantis attacking Tallahassee and/or what point you were trying to make?

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