I comment a lot on stories having to do with state governments and legislation or regions of the country. It got me wondering how many people I’m accidentally disparaging when I don’t mean everyone in said state or region is terrible. So… Please be as specific or obtuse as your privacy filter requires. I’ll start:

I’m in the Bay Area, specifically Oakland. Despite Bay Area hate from some posters, I think it’s great. How about you?

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    11 month ago

    Respect for staying and staying strong. That devolution has been rapid and concerning.

    You sticking around encourages every person (disclosed or otherwise) in any of those groups to stay, and eventually force that SOB running your state out.

    My partner is a huge Disney fan, and I see behind the magic and respect everything they do to hide the actual mechanics of it all. It pains us that we can’t get on a WN flight to MCO because we refuse to spend money (that we are aware of) in states behaving that way generally.

    We miss Nashville, too, as well as a place between Nashville and Orlando that sells stuff people failed to “claim” for cheap.

    But I’m not buying gas in GA or FL, much less anything else, in the current environment.

    Miami once was a haven and a melting pot, and I personally welcome everyone to this country. But… current state of affairs.

    I couldn’t do it, we are both straight and a conventional married couple (mosly, aside from things that are no one’s biz). We fled a Midwest state because, among other things, we got tired of defending that WE wore masks/used hand sanitizer over a period of years.

    Fuck those people, we are not hurting them by vexing cautious. Turns out (it seems, per current research) we were right.

    The diesel bros are slowly feeling the long term results.

    • @RBWells@lemmy.world
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      11 month ago

      It’s fine. Boycotts will hopefully get the attention of the businesses and they will push, we are dependent on tourism money. So yes, stay away if you need to, it may help eventually. DeSantis is such a fool to push the culture war stuff - as I said in a different thread, I’m tempted to run for governor myself on a platform of Make Florida Freaky Again. We have a culture of circus folk and drag queens, it’s literally part of our heritage.

      The state is gerrymandered to fuck, the legislature doesn’t represent us, as you can tell by all the constitutional amendments. But on the ground here, it’s still vibrant and diverse in my city and neighborhood, and there is so much I do like about this state, the actual land and creatures here, we have so many state and city and county parks, lots of public land.