It's always amazing to me when Republicans pick bigotry over profits. They pick profits over family, friends, lives, environment, religion, you name it - feels like profits are king. And then they pull shit like this, and I'm just astonished at how much cruelty reigns supreme.
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Happens all the time. Starbucks chose to close profitable locations instead of letting them unionize. If I was a substantial stockholder in these types of companies, I'd want their board on a platter.
That’s a surprising and insightful comment. I never really thought about it, but you’re absolutely right.
Again highlighting the importance of the Internet Archive.
How long until the book burning people come for it?
Copyright maximalists had a crack at it first: https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/17/what-the-hachette-v-internet-archive-decision-means-for-our-library/
Maybe they simply don't have any lqbt friendly places? That would actually not be that hard to believe :D
west palm beach and miami beach aren’t under water yet
True, but it might become illegal not to be cishet there even before that happens.
What will win the race? Republican bigotry or Republican science denial?
May their birthday cakes be as bland as their souls.
I have a lot of openly gay friends at Fernandina.
No, we have a large and vibrant queer population here, and plenty of gay events. I would guess it's just simple bigotry of the governor himself. He wants them back in the closet. Tampa is #5 in the nation in terms of absolute numbers of population being gay, our current mayor is lesbian. And Florida overall about 5% gay, that's average or more, it's certainly not hidden.
Come to Pensacola Beach for Memorial Day weekend, every LGBT person in the South is partying down. A truly gay event in both senses of the word. We're not talking about a few thousand people, think tens of thousands.
https://www.visitpensacola.com/blog/a-guide-to-lgbtq-weekend-on-pensacola-beach/
Best part is that despite being the most conservative part of the state, suddenly the rainbow flags fly and we love gay people! The annual tsunami of cash may have something to do with that.
On a serious note, no one really gives a shit about homosexuality down here. Notice how the hate pivoted to trans folks and drag queens? The gay hate lost all traction.
This feels a lot like 'Come to Brazil!'
I am not an American, have never been to Florida and have based my joke entirely on the Florida jokes on the internet. Enjoy the party
Hi, LGBT person in the South here, you won't catch me fucking dead in Florida right now. No thanks. I'll keep my tourism money at home, and so should anyone else who cares about gay issues.