• AItoothbrush
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    8 months ago

    How did florida become a shithole btw? As a european for a long time i thought florida was a hotspot for queer culture.

    • @[email protected]
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      348 months ago

      From what I hear, it’s left wing in the big cities, right wing everywhere else. And the electorates or whatever they call them are Gerrymandered so that the right wing areas have more voting power than the left wing. Basically the local government is doing everything they can to keep in power, shitty or not.

      Don’t quote me though. I’m an Aussie and it’s only my probably biased opinion.

      • @Maalus
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        68 months ago

        It’s far right everywhere else, and rightwing in the city. Democrats aren’t a left leaning party.

    • @shalafi
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      18 months ago

      It’s not. Yeah, we slipped right after voting for Obama twice, but we’re far, far better off than the majority of red states. See: Mississippi, Louisianna, West Virginia, Oklahoma, well, about every one except Texas is worse off than us.

      You hear a lot of shit about Florida for 3 reasons:

      • Our governor is a complete ass yet caught national attention as a possible Presidential candidate to run against Trump. He’s spent a lot of time trying to go as radical right as possible.
      • Our Sunshine Laws are very liberal. The whole Florida Man meme comes from journalists have broad access to arrest and other records.
      • We’re the 3rd most populous state. A lot goes on here. Also, the state is HUGE and wildly varied.