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[–] 100 points 2 years ago (2 children)

climate change: lol I'm going to erase Florida.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    As I understand it, insurance providers are already leaving and their role is now done by basically a government run socialized insurance.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I'm honestly baffled Disney hasn't just... up and left. They could literally buy the entirety of bumfuck, middle of nowhere, and stick disneyworld there. The loss of tax revenue bought in by tourists would have to be a serious hammer to wield against Florida

    Beyond Disney (and universal?) It's just... beaches, boomers, and golf?

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  • [–] 70 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What could go wrong it’s not like Florida is at any risk for damage from rising seas right!?!?? Right!?!?!?

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  • [–] 58 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    DeSantis and anyone who follows him really are fools. Same with the Trump fans. Fools. There is no other way to put it nicer. I hope the smart people in Florida step up and make some noise, but they are probably busy moving out.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    As far as I can tell, the trump supporters are several levels detached from reality. We can talk about their real grievances that led to them supporting trump initially, but that was the mile one, 800 miles in the rear view mirror.

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's such a missed opportunity. Climate change could be used as a blanket excuse for a boon in technology, construction, transport network development, urban redesign, an agricultural revolution and all the investment, tourism, etc that would come with that. Adapting our communities and ways of life toward a sustainable world could be an awesome process and something to celebrate. Any politician that sees this and runs with it will look like a hero for relatively little effort.

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Don't you love it when the universe gives you the perfect gift.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's only fair. After all, climate change is going to erase Florida.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago*

    Edit: (tap for gif)

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Lol, why not make climate change illegal? That was only the criminals would change the climate

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago*

    Democrats need to begin to understand that even if they don't think they're at war, Republicans do. They should start fighting like it.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

    This always gets me. WTF has the Democratic Party been doing this whole time? It seems like they are always caught by surprise that conservatives are doing shitty stuff. Why is their messaging so incredibly shit? Why do they suck so bad at being the opposition?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    They don't spend much money or effort on Florida, that's why. Also, Conservatives are actively moving to Florida in droves (largely from California), seeing it as some kind of bastion for their extremism and bigotry. If they spent the time and effort needed to change things in Florida, the rest of the candidates across the nation would suffer.

    And as for the national efforts, Dems are still run by the same milquetoast moderates who think their privilege affords them the leeway to simply hope the extremist problem on the Right will just go away, rather than face the fact that it's a cancer that will only grow if left unchecked.

    As for messaging, I have no idea why they suck so much at messaging. They should take a hard look in the mirror and hire some new talent.

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    The free market will just make living there unaffordable because it cannot be insured anymore.

    Without dikes, levees, and a proper system to alleviate water issues, Florida will return to the sea. And Florida man will have to move elsewhere.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The only good thing that could ever come from climate change is Florida being flooded out of existence.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    @GlennicusM @ProdigalFrog Perhaps, but then we'd have a bunch of displaced legislative malefactors infiltrating other state governments

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    They really gonna be cryin' once their 'Glade homes sink. Only then will they backpedal.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I disagree. They will find a way to still be right while blaming the problem on others. Alternatively it’ll be like giant forests. Cut one down and that open space seems perfectly fine to the children who never saw the forest that used to be there.

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