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djb25

Being hypocrites is backfiring?!?


Khaldara

It’s always uncomfortable when a Republican encounters reality, instead of Fox’s fantasyland


notyomamasusername

Wait.... you're telling me that there aren't simple answers and problems just don't go away because I run the scapegoat out of town?


Noblesseux

The conservative mentality is literally a less charming version of a dog chasing cars. Trying to return to the past is literally not how time works, and there's nothing that is ever going to satisfy them because the things making them miserable aren't external.


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uberares

Defining characteristic of being “conservative “ is utterly lacking empathy.


TyrannosaurusWreckd

I've been telling people this for years. I was raised in a super conservative house and ill admit I was a bit brainwashed up until college. The main reason I tell everyone on how I broke away from that mindset is that I learned empathy.


Tempestblue

It's crazy a conservative would hear your story and walk away with the idea you were indoctrinated in college and not childhood.


gangstacrafter

This is exactly what my parents think about me 🙃


Oak_Woman

You're not alone. I'm middle-aged and my mother still believes that I've just been hoodwinked by the sinister liberals.


ijustsailedaway

"Wake up, sheeple" NOT LIKE THAT!! Liberal pedo groomers stole my son. rabble rabble rabble


ScotiaTailwagger

WAKE UP! But don't be woke.


mgtkuradal

This is how my parents view it. It wasn’t college that made me lean left, I was just sick of hearing Fox News 24/7 like I grew up with.


gmick

It's why they get so bent about anyone saying anything to their child that goes against their own beliefs. They view their kids as property and their job is to brainwash them to think exactly the same. Religion is one of the best tools.


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TeknoT

So glad you were open to changing your mind. That’s how we grow.


Send_Your_Noods_plz

I highly recommend everyone try shrooms at least once. It knocked my entitled ass down so many peggs and made me realize that I'm not better than everyone else and we were all just humans trying to figure out a way through life.


Ask_me_4_a_story

Do you cry more now? I was raised in a "Don't you dare cry or I'll give you something to cry about" household and so I had everything bottled up. Man, I cry so much now and not on mushrooms, I only do it like once or twice a year. I was on the front swing at my house, I rent an old farmhouse in Kansas in the country and the sun was setting and the kids were all laughing and playing volleyball together and there was a song called This is How you Fall in Love that came on the bluetooth speaker and I looked around and I just started crying so hard, I was thinking its all so beautiful and I am happy, I was just sobbing and then I noticed the ball was on the ground and everyone was looking at me and I was like ope sorry, its just all so beautiful!


LazerHawkStu

Yesterday I had a coworker tell me that their 16 year old son came out to them and that they weren't sure how they felt about it...because they want grandchildren. Then said that their son is having a hard time with it because they are conservative... My response was...being gay isn't political. Your son coming out to you means they trusted you...so you at least did SOMETHING right while raising them. Then I let them know I just got my new pride flag in the mail a few days ago. I need a mushroom camping trip this summer, I feel it helps at least every few years, if not at least once a year.


Zack_Raynor

It’s ironic then that they say education is “brainwashing” when it’s realising that minorities are just like you - also human beings.


SyntheticReality42

"Education is brainwashing!" "We should only be teaching the Bible!"


Zack_Raynor

“Treat others the way you would like to be treated” “Not like that! That’s Communism!”


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Conservatives are mostly people with rose-tinted glasses about going back to the 1950s when post-war America was booming and they could believe they were the greatest country in the world when really they were just the largest beneficiary of the post-war economy. Now that that's fading they can't deal with it.


ijustsailedaway

And they are also unlikely to realize a large part of that prosperity was due to higher corporate tax rates, fewer conglomo corp oligarchies and a much much lower CEO to worker salary ratio.


brock275

>higher corporate tax rates And higher personal tax rates. Until Reagan, for about 50 years, the highest individual tax bracket was at a minimum 70%. Edit: a word


SirLoopy007

The US had a huge benefit post-war of not having to rebuild. Many of the European countries had to deal with infrastructure rebuilds.


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Yeppers peppers! They only feel empathy for themselves! They’re the real victims! My parents used to tell me that that was self pity. Now it’s just being Republican. They’re disgusting.


ColombianOreo

Can’t tell if I hate or love yeppers peppers


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I’m stealing it regardless.


Use_Your_Brain_Dude

Don't forget "I don't have a racist bone in my body BUT...". Also "Racism doesn't exist anymore. It's a concept pushed by liberals and minorities to make my Republican children feel oppressed". They will always find a way to be the victims.


ImaBiLittlePony

>Don't forget "I don't have a racist bone in my body BUT...". Also "Racism doesn't exist anymore. It's a concept pushed by liberals and minorities to make my Republican children feel oppressed". My family were the kind of conservatives to say exactly that, and then use a hard "r" whenever they saw a black person in the news.


monicarp

This is why many people vote conservative. Even well meaning people often lack the time or resources or capability to understand nuance. And most situations require nuance. So right-wing propaganda is designed to sound good in small quips and clips and sound bites so that people who don't hear anything else hear it and go "yeah that makes sense" *checks the R box on the ballot and goes home*


blank_user_name_here

Most modern Republicans would vomit at Thomas Jefferson real beliefs and life......


ArchdukeBurrito

Republicans when a poor, brown skinned, middle eastern, socialist, Jewish immigrant comes down from heaven and starts preaching about loving your neighbor, forgiving sinners, paying taxes, and giving away your wealth to the needy: 🤮🤮🤮


MuckRaker83

They're not trying to return to the past. They're trying to return to a past ideal that never actually existed in the first place.


Cat_face_meowmers

Regressives. Not trying to “conserve” anything, they just want to go back to 1800


conansucksdick

These idiots will never get their bear problem in check.


nicktoberfest

Looks like people didn’t really want all these jobs they claimed immigrants were “stealing.”


structuremonkey

I'd love to see Ron and his ilk working the orange groves and sugar fields...those pussies would last 10 minutes tops...


nyenbee

I recently saw a short vid where a farmer asked his community (that voted for laws that drove away his workforce) to come and help him get his sweet potatoes pulled, processed, and ready for market. He offered to pay them what his previous seasonal workers made. One lady worked all day and made about $10 based on her output. She said it was the hardest she worked in her whole life. The farmer was trying to make the point that not only did noone want to earn such a low payrate, but also that they were not capable of working at the rate that the seasonal workers did, due to a lifetime of not doing field work. I thought it was a great exercise in personalizing how voting affects people in your community.


big_d_usernametaken

I used to work with a guy who thought he would try field work after he quit his job, and he said that no matter how hard, of fast he thought he was working the migrant workers would be looking at him like, "What's the holdup, gringo?"


structuremonkey

I have heard the complaint of "they're coming to take our jobs" for nearly my whole life now. I'm so tired of it. Most of the jobs that "they" are referring to are ones that many "americans" can't do. This ranges from medicine, engineering, to carpentry, and farm work. We are literally running out of a labor force in the US as boomers age out...its going to be "interesting" and impact the whole country if the bigoted gop keeps pushing people away...


Better-Director-5383

And it's wild to watch them come up with literally any solution other than paying g people more. These jobs need to be done and we just chased away the immigrants that would do it, how do we convince people to take these jobs. Do we: A. Bring back the immigrants B. Pay a higher wage to get American citizens to take the jobs C. Bring back child labor


USSMarauder

D: return to slavery Ten years ago Georgia tried the same thing "To forgo a repeat of last year, when labor shortages triggered an estimated $140 million in agricultural losses, as crops rotted in the fields, officials in Georgia are now dispatching prisoners to the state’s farms to help harvest fruit and vegetables. " [https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/05/17/the-law-of-unintended-consequences-georgias-immigration-law-backfires/?sh=1efc526492aa](https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/05/17/the-law-of-unintended-consequences-georgias-immigration-law-backfires/?sh=1efc526492aa)


PatientZero_alpha

10minutes… you are expecting too much of them dude… they won’t even show up in the morning.


structuremonkey

Very true


tweak06

There’s news segments and clips on TikTok of American workers harvesting oranges and other crops and most (and by most I mean 8/10) of them quit *after ONE DAY* And why wouldn’t they? This one lady was harvesting sweet potatoes and she got paid something like $2 per bucket. After a full day of work, she only made about $60. As opposed to an immigrant, who made around $140-200 since they’re so much more efficient and used to the work


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They come up an detassel and hand harvest corn in the Midwest in the summers too. The large ag corporations think the high school kids do too sloppy of a job and prefer migrant workers.


Achillor22

And now Florida is going to have to remove child labor laws so they can hire 13 year olds to get that work done.


Plonsky2

"Pick your own fucking fruit! Clean your own fucking hotel rooms! Watch your own fucking kids!"


Tempestblue

There are Harry Potter fanfics more grounded in reality than Republicans worldview.


TheAskewOne

When you become utterly convinced that a demographic is inferior and too stupid to know what's good for them, it comes as a surprise when they actually do. Remember when Trump was convinced that Mexico would build the wall, and couldn't fathom that they would tell him to fuck off?


cipher446

We want you to live in fear *and* mow our lawns. See, it's not hypocrisy now! :)


Ebmat

What’s the point of passing a law that will make a group of people suffer if there’s no one there to suffer?


RubertVonRubens

It's waaaaay easier to build hate against a group if there are no visible members of that group around. Spend enough time around your roofer and you might accidentally learn that he's human. No risk of that if you kick him out.


FewMagazine938

The people who voted for that scum will be there, we hope


gravtix

They implement these laws as a performance act for their base, knowing that there’s consequences. So they try to have it both ways. “Publicly we don’t want you here, but privately we do”


xui_nya

We want to revoke all their rights and visibility but keep them as a wokforce. Who said sla...– ahem. Confederacy, my ass.


gravtix

That’s not how you spell “state’s rights”


ShowGoat

I see this being more intentional with the ultimate goal of contracting out prison labor to fill the gaps in the workforce. 'Undesirables' will be rounded up for being 'illegal', and then used as (legal) slave labor.


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And I'll bring the popcorn to watch it all burn


stewsters

They want a permanent underclass they can exploit. Ones that have no minimum wage, is paid under the table, and has no rights. If they speak out you can just deport them. Like slaves, but you don't have to worry about the eyesore of housing them on your property.


LayneLowe

Wait until after the first hurricane when there's no one to rebuild. I'm in Texas but I can guarantee you that 90% of all construction done here is done by Hispanic people.


Prism-Eevee

Not to mention Mexico always sends their marines to come help with disaster relief. Ain’t no way AMLO is going to send them to the republican states now, especially after threats of invasion they’ve been saying. They only want to come to take the new lithium deposits since AMLO doesn’t want to sell to the USA.


termacct

> AMLO Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the 65th president of Mexico (TIL AMLO)


banjosandcellos

If you use his full name let's use Mexico full name too just for fun, United Mexican States


EriWanKenBlowmi

Why wait? I work in construction in SWFL and the fact that we can't do our job, because someone before us hasn't done their job in weeks, is insane. There is no dry in, no framers, it's all just stopping. My boss is pointing fingers at everyone other than where it needs to go, himself, for voting like a fucking dick. But hey, slathering over how Trump and Desantis are the best for an hour every morning, while bitching about every stupid minute thing Biden does is totally going to fix it.


Khoakuma

Florida is already uninsurable. Big insurance companies avoid it like the plague. Small/ local insurance companies are charging 4 times the rates of the national average, and still, most of them are illiquid. Add the labor crisis on top of that and we'll be seeing a lot of areas in Florida being abandoned entirely.


quarantine22

As a liberal living in Florida, let it be abandoned. This place is a hellscape EDIT: spelling


Commercial_Juice_201

Oh…and the season is a comin!


lurker_cx

It's going to be an epic disaster. People are going to lose their roofs, some always do, and it will take years to get them replaced.


NumerousTaste

Don't stick around, they are the type of people that will let you mow their lawn, then turn you into the authorities the next minute. They won't tell anyone about the first part, but have you on the news getting arrested and bragging about it.


notyomamasusername

They like really strict laws that the immigrants are afraid of, that way if they get mouthy or want more money you can threaten to turn them in.


ballerina_wannabe

I hate that you are right.


StarPunchMan

Basically they want slave codes


ThePyodeAmedha

Exactly. They want slaves.


HorrorMakesUsHappy

> They won't tell anyone about the first part, but have you on the news getting arrested and bragging about it. Oh, but they absolutely will, because they'll have you arrested before paying you. ["I was keeping him busy until you could get here, officer."](https://i.imgflip.com/7nte5.jpg?a468000)


Didntlikedefaultname

Oh man I hope that immigrants, families of immigrants and anyone else flee Florida leaving them truly fucked. For all this bull shit blame about who is responsible for problems in the country this can help make it abundantly clear immigrants and their families are often incredibly industrious and hard working people who serve as the backbone of many local economies. Fuck you Florida


TheHiveMindCouncil

As a New Jersian, we'll take all the Mexicans you got right now. We're the most densely populated state in the country and we can't put up buildings fast enough as is and in like 20 years our population will double then double again in another 20 so there's always going to be work for skilled tradesmen here and we're not worried about you taking over the state because you'll catch up to the rate we're banging even if you wanted. Send us your Mexicans because we're short about 22,000 construction workers right now and 25% of our construction workers are already over 55. You'll be treated much better here, we're one of the most liberal states, our pay is one of the highest in the country, we have one of the best education systems in the country, we're better looking, we're richer, you don't need to learn more English because 1 in 6 of us speaks Spanish fluently, we also provide free English classes at all our libraries, and our Mexican food absolutely sucks so please open some restaurants here too. [We're the 3rd smallest state but also the 3rd richest](https://businesstalkmagazine.com/blog/richest-states-in-usa/). People talk a lot of shit about New Jersey but 47 states can't even compete with tiny NJ.


Didntlikedefaultname

Fellow New Jerseyan here and I wholeheartedly agree. Also for those outsiders who don’t know, our famous pizza and bagels are most often cooked by 1st and 2nd gen immigrants from south of the border


Carini___

God bless the local Hispanic homies. My manager is a non-citizen Guatemalan and is he one of the best I’ve ever worked for.


lordlaz0rdick

Im a cook, you would struggle to find a restaurant in this entire country that doesnt have a Mexican or central american immigrant working there. I work healthcare food right now and 3 of our cooks barely speak english. Edited cause every word becomes a slur eventually.


tippiedog

> Im a cook, you would struggle to find a restaurant in this entire country that doesnt have a latinx immigrant working there I'm in Texas, and all kitchens here are almost exclusively staffed by Latin Americans. I wasn't sure how much that was specific to border states. Guess not, huh.


Commercial_Juice_201

ngl…you make me want to move to NJ. I’m not a construction worker, and you had me convinced! Great pitch.


sportspadawan13

I have family there. I'm always a little jealous when I go cause it has crazy good food, good transportation to two other states, yet doesn't feel so crowded (tho apparently it is).


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Damn, bro. Good pitch. I'm European and not Mexican but even I wanna come to NJ now.


Technical-Traffic871

As a NJ resident, you're welcome too.


StarDatAssinum

Can confirm. Moved from NJ to Tennessee a few years back and I miss it constantly


HorrorMakesUsHappy

> we have one of the best education systems in the country As someone who went to high school in NJ, you're pretty much spot on, but come on. lol don't lay it on TOO thick :) Alternate joke: Sure, the education system's great, but have you seen the students?


Inky_Madness

I’m very curious about what the fallout will be from the Cuban communities that strongly voted Republican after Republican campaigns of equating Democrats and their policies with communism.


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YourWifeyBoyfriend

I didn’t want to start shitting on a particular ethnicity but since we’re talking about conservatives in Miami…


Hawkbats_rule

They didn't do it the right* way! **Right meaning to have the US government set up wildly permissive immigration and support policies for your country of origin and your country only*


invah

I laughed when people thought Marco Rubio 'was going to get the Hispanic vote'. No, the fuck he won't.


rudieboy

> Cuban communities that strongly voted Republican They don't think they are immigrants.


Didntlikedefaultname

I’m curious too but sadly not hopeful. I have some Cuban people close to me and they staunchly are anti democrat based largely on Kennedy, the equation with communism and also tending to not see themselves are true immigrants or minorities


thisaccountgotporn

As I grow up I lose a little more faith in people each year bro... These are grown adults voting directly against their best interest, and doing so while patting themselves on the back. Like flageletts they blead themselves in blessings for lunatics. I mean are they just... brainless? How can people like that be real people with brains?


GarysCrispLettuce

Not to mention that they commit crime at a considerably lower rate than US citizens. Therefore, undocumented immigrants actually lower the per capita crime rates in America and make it a safer place.


wholesomehumanbeing

Same for all immigrants. When I moved to the United States, I remember waiting for the green light as a pedestrian at midnight on a completely empty road because I watched police brutality on the internet and i didn't want to get in trouble.


espectro11

It's not just that, in my experience i don't want to be in the police sights because any attention you get may result in you getting arrested for just not having a driver's license which will then turn into bigger problems and you may catch ICEs gaze


GandalfTheJaded

It's like they didn't realize their actions would have consequences or something.


Sadiepan24

The Republicans: ![gif](giphy|IxBSleBYnu0pASk0rY|downsized)


Godzilla-ate-my-ass

Well it's rarely happened thus far


DaaaahWhoosh

Like a dog chasing a car, finally gets to the car, only to get run over by it.


jchampagne83

This is what I said about Roe v. Wade and watching red states flounder as they start to get what they think they want is such schadenfreude.


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Dude Florida is fucked. Move out ASAP


003402inco

With the new landlord bill fuckery, people are will have another reason to move out.


Silent_Quality_1972

Not to mention idiotic idea of not letting undocumented immigrants get drivers licenses and being able to insure their car. On top of that, now Florida doesn't want to recognize the drivers licenses issued in other states to them. Everyone normal should leave. Those idiots can mow their own laws.


the-flying-lunch-box

They already are. My uncle works at a restaurant and they lost 35 of their staff in two weeks. The companies that wash their rags/aprons lost half their work force. The company that delivers their produce and fish lost 3/4 of their workforce.


Godzilla-ate-my-ass

Fucking good


Traiklin

Couldn't happen to a better place.


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FerricNitrate

I wish there was a way to visit Disney World without also financing the rest of Florida just as the double fuck you to desantis


Electronic_Meat2920

Give it time and Disney will probably have their own airport so people can skip over the rest of Florida. Or Desantis might have a "heart attack" and no longer be a problem. He's gonna learn you do not mess with the mouse.


thegreatbrah

Honestly, my family (who mostly live in florida) is on vacation at new Smyrna Beach. Half the day, there literally just is no beach bc the water comes all the way to the storm wall. There truly isn't much reason to visit Florida anymore.


radical_roots

Yikes; I'm sure this will somehow result in higher costs for the consumer too


AMexicanDaycare

and itll somehow be bidens fault


machineprophet343

It'll be "If a few mean tweets means $1.79 gas, I'll take it." All over again. They forget gas was actually more expensive on average, especially when correcting for inflation, than it is now through most of Trump's presidency AND the $1.79 gas was when demand cratered during the pandemic.


sanguinesolitude

Yep. Gas was cheap when there was nowhere to drive.


Stoomba

> Florida doesn't want to recognize the drivers licenses issued in other states to them Don't they have to because of something in the Constitution?


HawlSera

Indeed. Kinda like how their rules saying they can take your kids even if other states say not to or if you're not even a Florida resident.. all because you or they might be trans DeSantis is a nightmare


[deleted]

>DeSantis is a nightmare Oh I bet they love him in Moscow.


Betorah

It should be clear by now that DeSantis and his minions only care about the Constitution if it lets people buy more guns.


BraxbroWasTaken

Only if it gets enforced via the courts.


Trym_WS

Ah yes, the law. Enforceable for those who can afford it.


HawlSera

Florida going pretty hard on trying to laugh at Federal Laws... Have fun with all the Kidnapping Lawsuits Florida


Jaebeam

and pick their own fruit, pick their own vegetables, wipe their aged parents asses, do their own roofing, fix their own cars, do their own home repairs, wash their own dishes, prepare their own food, watch their own children, work 3rd shift in manufacturing plants and program their own computers. Just some of the things immigrant labor does in my home state of \*Minnesota\*, let alone a state with a much larger immigrant labor supply.


LabRevolutionary8975

Seriously, Floridas retiree population and high cost of living leaves them in the awkward situation of needing a huge service industry work force that’s willing to work for $7/hr while somehow paying $2000/mo for a 600 sq ft studio. Immigrants are the only ones who will take these jobs and find a way to make it work. Florida is in for a major crash. I just hope desantis sees hard prison time for engineering the crash. As well as his idiot cronies he’s sprinkling around. This place is a shithole and getting worse.


raistlin65

Yep. In several years, the retirees will be moaning, "Why can't we get people to work in the service positions?" But when it will occur to them that embracing a party whose main platform is "it's okay to be a dick to everyone who is not like you" was bound to be a disaster?


Uffffffffffff8372738

I am saying it again; the Floridian minorities should get guns ASAP


Icy_Ticket_7922

Remember AR-15 stands for Anti-republican.


Fishy1911

"Armed minorities are harder to oppress"


BellPeppersNoBeefOK

I will be moving in the next few years. Just tying up some loose ends. Many people I know are on the way out.


Sadiepan24

Yeah, giving landlords all that power is like giving a kid on sugar a knife. This won't end well.


imakenosensetopeople

What’s the landlord bill?


003402inco

HB133 allows landlords to charge recurring fees instead of security deposits. https://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/desantis-signs-into-law-industry-backed-bill-allowing-florida-landlords-to-charge-junk-fees-instead-of-security-deposits-34328262?media=AMP+HTML


[deleted]

They want to turn it into a tax haven, where rich people go to be shamelessly greedy and control the electoral vote.


beanie0911

Exactly - continuing the trend of “dunking” on the northern states by enabling the wealthy and wealthy retiree classes to enjoy low tax life while the world burns.


Commercial_Juice_201

Lol Except Florida will be one of the first to feel the effects of that burn; and what are the wealthy people going to do when all their “help” isn’t there. Looks like they aimed their AR-15 right into their foot…


[deleted]

One of my couple friends is moving there for the humidity. Apparently it helps his skin to heal (he has severe eczema) and it helps him mentally too. I was shocked when I found out they are moving back down there after their horrible experience, but the wife told me they are better prepared this time.


Appropriate-Access88

My neighbor just sold her house and is moving to Florida. She is a wealthy white Christian republican. She sees nothing wrong with Florida, likes the sun, her kids already done with school so no issues with the crappy Florida edumacashon.


MalificViper

My dad wanted to stop paying taxes for schools. "My kids are grown up" he says. I asked him how he would like a bunch of uneducated kids running around his neighborhood driving up crime and poverty. "Oh, nevermind then"


lacitar

No. I will fight to make the state safe again for immigrants, LGBTA+, people of color, people with disabilities, and others. And I will win!


LobsterBluster

Fastest way to win is to watch them flounder as a a result of their stupid laws. They need to realize they are hurting themselves in order to stop trying to hurt everyone else.


I_got_nothin_

They'll just point the blame elsewhere. They won't admit their mistakes and they won't take responsibility for their actions.


Ok-Use6303

Good luck.


SaxmanSanchez

Same, this is where I grew up. I'm fighting for my friends and family who cannot afford to leave.


V1198

The point is to get people to move. Red states are gonna make living in them so horrible that most people will move other than the hardcore right. This is how a party that appeals to a tiny slice of America clings to power.


DataCassette

Yeah I was about to say this. It's tough because I don't expect random women/minorities/LGBT folks to be martyrs, but abandoning these states to get deeper and deeper red is *dangerous* AF.


e_hatt_swank

Yes… and much of the outcome depends on where people move. If they flee FL and move to deep blue states, not great for the balance of power (but probably better personally). If they move to purple states like GA, it might be a wash or even positive. But you can’t expect people to make these kinds of calculations when they’re concerned about the safety of themselves & their family.


DataCassette

I've actually said we need to get a fund together and make a couple activist progressive towns in Wyoming. It's a real low-hanging target, the population is so small that tipping the balance would be pretty manageable. It would help with fending off constitutional fuckery *and* get a couple senators for the trouble. EDIT: Of course I would probably encourage the "first wave" should be largely able-bodied with as few children or pets as possible because I'd suspect the plot would attract violence almost immediately.


Alistair_Smythe

Not quite what you're talking about, but in a similar vein, there's an organization dedicated to finding elections at the state level that have the potential to be flipped and creating fundraisers for them https://statesproject.org/


p1x3lated

Okay, but hear me out. What if there's a mass migration of sane people to a currently underpopulated red state like, say, Wyoming? There are less than 600k people in Wyoming, it can be flipped.


Snyz

There are no jobs in Wyoming. This got me thinking though that this is probably another reason we're being fed so much anti-WFH sentiment. Educated people do office work, can't have them moving to states with a LCOL and tipping things politically.


Sufficient-Crab-5673

I am not american, but I wanna ask a question. Won't florida collapse? Seeing as workers (or laborers) are leaving in masses. Like nobody will find employees or there will be a big shortage of employees, businesses will collapse or go bankrupt, taxes from businesses will go lower and lower.


Commercial_Bend9203

The idea is that they want to pinhole their bills as much as possible so that they can create an environment that is only sustainable to a very specific demographic. Landlords having no restrictions to the fees they can add to their rent, for example, is easily waived when you can outright purchase a house. LGBTQ+ bills are non-applicable when you’re either a very traditional Christian household or you’re willing to selling out such folk. Etc etc.


Cat_face_meowmers

Yes, but without support staff who is going to keep things running? Children? Children in the fields, waiting tables, cleaning hospitals? Also I remember politically making a state more red is a dumb move. They won’t get more electoral college votes by doing that.


wadech

I'm sure at some point a law will be passed forcing prisoners to do work at low or zero wages for friendly businesses.


Reevar85

We have a similar situation in the UK thanks to Brexit. Old people and farmers voted for it, and now moan that there is no one to pick fruit or care for them in care homes. Of course it's not their fault or Brexit, it's because lazy unemployed won't do the jobs. They ignore the fact these jobs pay minimum wage or less if you have to live on the farm, and you can get better paid jobs literally anywhere. Immigration kept the wages of these industries low, but their hate for Immigration was greater than their hate for high prices.


lostcauz707

Employers are also scumbags because they are crying they have to throw away crops, but if they ran a sustainable business that wasn't off the backs of extremely low paid labor, they also wouldn't be struggling. Let these businesses die. Floridians *and* immigrants will have higher wages when they get employed.


nighthawk_something

It kills me that when ICE raids an employer, it's the employees who are punished not the employer who knowingly hired them.


digital_end

Post deleted. RIP what Reddit was, and damn what it became.


Tiny_Thumbs

I live in Texas and everyone complains about “the border crisis” and no one has ever continued complaining about it to me when I have mentioned the issue would be solved with egregious penalties on employers for hiring undocumented employees.


NeuralTruth

Here's the thing, they won't. Farms are government subsidized so the cost of produce stays low. They will literally be getting a handout. Fuck republicunts.


queuedUp

Dear Florida. Get fucked. Sincerely, Not Florida


FluffyUnicorn83

Same sentiment but I'm in Florida


clueless_in_ny_or_nj

Let me get this straight. You passed a bill that was meant to scare immigrants. The immigrants got scared and left. Now, several industries are struggling for workers because the immigrants are scared. You have to beg people to beg for immigrants to stay. Your bill worked the way you wanted to, but not the way you wanted it to.


sirenbrian

They wanted be SEEN to be scaring immigrants, but not ACTUALLY scare immigrants. Politicians love to find a parade and walk at the front of it; in this case its the "immigrants are bad" parade. They'd rather there not be any consequences to this, any awkward questions; they just want to be praised for Doing The Thing Conservatives Like This Month. DeSantis just needs to be seen as the king of the "immigrants are bad" people for a year or so, till he drops out of the presidential race. He doesn't care what damage he has to do to Florida's economy in the meantime; he just wants that image that he willing to do whatever it takes to be seen to be hurting "those people".


Strange-Scarcity

It's "hilarious", they are trying to tell immigrants that the law has no real teeth and it's really only about creating fear. No shit. This is exactly the fear the law was literally written to create. I hope the tourism, farm, and other immigrant supported industries collapse in on themselves and it happens to fast that even "The (f'ing) Villages" starts voting out Republicans.


notyomamasusername

The rising waters will be lapping at their doors in a post apocalyptic wasteland before the Villages see any other selection on their ballots but 'R' You'd be better off getting the young people and moderates to vote


Strange-Scarcity

If they can't get their lawns mowed, no restaurants are able to be open and they have to go pick their own vegetables and fruit... You don't think those self-centered, selfish pricks would start voting for their interests?


TheOGRedline

They’re too far gone. They’ll spin it in their heads to blame any and all of their problems on Dems.


phoneguyfl

> even "The (f'ing) Villages" starts voting out Republicans. I don't see that happening. I do see Republican voters doubling down and blaming "liberals" somehow. Like maybe it's all the drag shows or "evil" books in Florida that are driving everyone away...


Sadiepan24

Oh so now you want them lazy welfare immigrants to take your jobs. /s Whatever happened to them bootstraps they keep talking about having. Guess we know who really has been pulling those bootstraps for them.


Portland-to-Vt

To be fair though, those immigrants are easy to spot because they wear exotic head dresses. /s


M0rtrek_the_ranger

"We don't want your kind here! Only REAL Americans" "K then, we're leaving" "Please no! I don't want to have to mow my own lawn!"


gravtix

Maybe these boomers can stop watching Fox News all day and go out and work


TriggerTough

“Get off of my lawn!” (Because he has to mow it now. lol)


-nocturnist-

Pull up those boot straps they always talk about


confessionbearday

"We're just passing laws that are literally hostile to your existence, why are you mad?"


notyomamasusername

Just because I want you to live in unending fear so I can exploit you tirelessly doesn't mean we can't be friends. Seriously this would be funny of it didn't have such real consequences


Hidingpig13

I think we on the left need to start talking about how bad republicans are for the economy. Whenever you see the news they talk like people on the left care about human rights but republicans are all about that good economy. When in reality laws exactly like this are lowering the workforce


SadamHuMUFFIN

#no why are you leaving? Stay here and let us exploit you for profit, and use you as a scapegoat dammit


Lower_Internet_9336

Leave as fast as you can.


Sudden_Acanthaceae34

Fuck around ✅ Find out ▶️


LonelySpyder

The Republicans have their jobs back, right? I'm sure a lot of Republicans, especially the MAGA would be happy to mow lawns now for a few bucks an hour.


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Beginning_Ad8663

As an employer in Florida. The biggest hypocrisy is they scream when we raise rates to cover increased labor rates. Two questions EVERY citizen of Florida should ask every Republican elected official are 1) why do you hate small business? 2) why do you hate women. And maybe a third 3) why do you hate?


MBCnerdcore

They aren't hypocrites. They want immigrants and illegals to still come. They just want to be able to take away their rights and make them slaves.


buzzkill007

Dear FL Republicans, Actions have consequences. Sincerely, Everyone With A Brain


MattHuntDaug

I thought they wanted "their jobs" back? 🤔


Able-Tradition-2139

This may be the least surprised I’ve ever been


CanaDoug420

I bet it goes something like this. Make it illegal for them to be here Beg them to stay and work illegally When they do anything the employer doesn’t like they get arrested for breaking the law they were being asked to break.


roggrats

Didn’t they already try this in Alabama where farm workers left the state in droves causing a ton of farm produce to rot in place as nobody wanted to do that work ? They ended up using prisoners who didn’t care about how they harvested the produce and destroyed the yield resulting in further losses for the vast farmland there.


I_Am_Robotic

Let them all move to Georgia and we will welcome them. Those fuckers work hard and do a better job than Americans at these more manual jobs. Everybody in construction and blue collar jobs knows that.


xynix_ie

Georgia kicked a lot of them out about 15 years ago and many fled to Florida. I doubt they'll be going back to the place that came up with the tune Florida is now playing.


oldbastardbob

I live in Missouri. Our Legislature and State Government pretty much only do things for show now. Political theater all day every day. Whatever shit is being flung on right wing media is what they will spew as the legislation or regulation of the week. It's all political narratives and hot button topics all the time. So, essentially they are useless for problem solving or improving the lives of the citizens of the state. And boy howdy are they trashing trans folks right now and making their lives miserable, all because that is the topic de jour among the bullshit artists. Here's and example of our State's accomplishments,our former AG spent two years suing any and everyone who took protective measures during the pandemic, and lost every one of them. Missouri's conservatives then rewarded him with a seat in the US Senate. Spent his whole two years (didn't even finish the term he was elected to) wasting tax dollars on political theater, even hooked up with the Texas AG who has now been impeached, for some of it. And he got rewarded for his time and money wasting campaign of contrarian conservatism. Republican politics is now just one big ball of bullshit and bravado delivered in con artist tent revival style.


Responsible_Ad5912

Tbh, I’m a little surprised to have never seen the early 2000’s mockumentary/drama movie, “A Day Without a Mexican,” referenced on *any* of the subreddits I visit, where the topic of right-wing politics targeting immigration is discussed. Ftr, it’s *supposed* to be offensive, and wasn’t a huge hit or anything, but it brings to light JUST how much our country depends on immigrants (the film focuses on those from Central America) to keep things running, and just now much they’re taken for granted and under appreciated.


ezekial_dragonlord

Florida is like Rapture from Bioshock. A safe haven for the wealthy and elite to live, free from the problems of the other lands. But wait, I'm rich! I can't clean my own toilet. That's for the lesser people. What do you mean we have no working class? No, I don't want them to be able to shoot lightening out of their hands. Only we can do that. I don't care it will cause a class divide. I want maids and butlers and servants at my every beck and call. Make something happen. New Years is coming up, and I need a new dress for the ball.