Ahead of potential presidential bid, DeSantis heads to New York for law enforcement event
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Darrackodrama t1_j9bk22a wrote
Reply to comment by watupmynameisx in Ahead of potential presidential bid, DeSantis heads to New York for law enforcement event by irish_fellow_nyc
Big cities in florida are on average far less safe. Lets take jacksonville and compare the gangviolence problem to NYC, its not even close Jacksonville is a far worse place in terms of violent crime. Its your perception and the big city nature of NYC that gets the wrap
watupmynameisx t1_j9bqary wrote
And yet Jacksonville has 4x population growth as NYC, meaning people took a look at both cities and were 4x as likely to choose Jacksonville. Seems like they're doing something right there!
Darrackodrama t1_j9br0wc wrote
What are you saying? its momentary regional growth that happens in under developed cities, new york has 8 million plus residents its never going to have anything higher than single digit growth. Its like yea of course botswana has a 20% growth rate and the us is lucky to have 4% the US is fully developed as is NYC compared to jacksonville.
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And part of what you are saying is the public perception of NYC not the reality of actual violent crime statistics.
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And the only thing they are doing right is poaching New Yorkers by failing to tax people to provide basic healthcare, transit, and educational services, all while clamping down on academic freedom in their schools. For a certain type of selfish new yorker who has the money to hide themselves away in a planned suburban town it works, but its not a sustainable means of living. Let florida have all those people though. The midterms showed that republicans are concentrating themselves into like Florida and texas.
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I have lived in both and I felt far safer in NYC than Jacksonville.
watupmynameisx t1_j9ce556 wrote
So people are leaving NYC because of an unbearable tax climate and now Florida is experiencing a GDP and pop boom relative to NYC because of its more business-friendly climate. What a dumb Florida policy! Those selfish people who want to take their wealth and spend it away from NYC. So is it momentary or not?
And don't get me started how academic freedom - a concept that had zero to do with elementary schools - is being impinged! It's as if parents want more oversight over teachers teaching their kids far left sexual ideology!
Darrackodrama t1_j9fcdby wrote
I’m not talking about trans people at all I’m talking about banning books from the library, arresting protestors for certain speech, and banning AP African American history just because.
Let’s be real if Hochul did that you’d be concerned
watupmynameisx t1_j9fcqqr wrote
Banning them from school libraries where there are 2nd graders, yes. That isn't academic freedom. And he didn't ban AA history, that's propaganda. He banned rhe existing format with incorporates gender and queer theory which have zero to do AA history. And when did he arrest protesters for certain speech?
Darrackodrama t1_j9jttjf wrote
And he arrested people who were felons that voted when the state told them to vote in a phony crackdown on voter fraud.
As to the African studies thing, you are just wrong the commission made the determination and he backed it. Let’s say Hochul banned us history because it delves to far into nationalism? Would you honestly be sitting here making excuses for it? I wouldn’t because it’s wrong.
What is happening in Florida is unprecedented and scary, just because you support those things doesn’t mean the precedent isn’t unnerving. Imagine someone you didn’t like started doing the same shit to you?
It also shows you all don’t value diverse ideas in the public education realm, you want an echo chamber and you are willing to hack someone who is slowly dictating a certain nationalist view of the us to kids instead of giving kids a broad overview of thoughts and ideals.
It’s not gonna work anyways, younger kids are increasingly radical and see through it all anyways and gen z and alpha are the most diverse, and sexually divergent generations yet by the numbers so good luck.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/23/desantis-banning-african-american-studies-00079027
Black-n-GoldBleeder t1_j9drdjx wrote
How dare they block my 9 year old from learning that his friend Tommy thinks he’s a Tammy and that’s ok.
watupmynameisx t1_j9ds8s7 wrote
When they have a teacher who tells them they're Tammy and not to tell Tammy's parents about his new identity, yeah that's not ok. Especially when Tommy's parents do not believe that someone can unilaterally declare themselves a different gender.
Black-n-GoldBleeder t1_j9duq2a wrote
The twist is that Tommy was once a Tammy that wanted to be a Bob. Spin the Bottle gets a little more complicated for today’s teens. Meeting a mate is now like picking out of a box of chocolates.
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