Republican lawmakers want to stop businesses in a small Florida town from displaying rainbow stickers to show they are a safe place for LGBTQ+ people
Republican lawmakers want to stop businesses in a small Florida town from displaying rainbow stickers to show they are a safe place for LGBTQ+ people
The initiative gives business owners the opportunity to display rainbow stickers that show the business is a safe space for LGBTQ+ people.
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As a non-Anerican I read that Florida is being awful to a lot of people and I wonder, if people there notice a difference in rural or urban areas? Do people start to migrate to other states? Does it have an impact on the state and its economy? Or are these just impotent talking points designed to engage voters but with no effect on public life? Would love to hear from residents how to relativize all those horrible headlines..
It's quite interesting from some who lives out of state. Florida seems to be a testing ground for all of these terrible policies, as if they aren't afraid to pass a law no matter how shit it is. Maybe it's because they know people are going to be moving out of Florida because of climate change so they might as well see what kinda shit they can get away with. But maybe it is all talking points.
Tourism to Florida is down across all fronts but the only thing you'll hear from right-wing news is that Disney is "too woke" now so people aren't visiting anymore. Of course that's complete bullshit but that doesn't matter to the talking heads.
People aren't going to just upend their family for a short term political climate, even as bad as it is. DeSantis is heading down a path that he won't win the next election. It's easier to vote him out, then to move your family, and start a new life elsewhere. But, businesses will stop coming, and that is already happening. Businesses have stopped expansion plans. Florida is a huge place for conventions, and large meetings (corporate vacations), and those have been getting cancelled. Florida is losing Millions of dollars over this.
These are complicated questions with answers that lack solid data at the moment. People think the “woke” war is too much when it has govt telling corpos what they can and can’t say. So the GOP doesn’t care about free speech of their opponents unless it is their business opponents. Desantis is backing off the Disney fight.