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[–] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 96 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

Brought to you by the party of small government*

*Some restrictions apply

Also:

“Thanks to the leadership of Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida continues to be the freest state in the nation.”

What in the actual fuck? How does banning things = freedom?

[–] elliot_crane@lemmy.world 40 points 6 months ago

No, no, you got it all wrong. It’s freedom for bigots to not have “the gay agenda” forcibly foisted upon them. Don’t you see how it could be offensive to and even discriminatory against christofascists to be reminded that non-straight people exist and are human beings too? Idk dude it sounds to me like you just hate small government conservative values ™️ and freedom.

(/s if it wasn’t obvious)

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago
[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 6 months ago

Wtf, do I have to spell it out? It’s just like how teachers can go to jail for mentioning their same-sex partner. If that doesn’t spell freedumb, I don’t know how else to explain it to you. And tracking pregnancies? How could you get any freer?!

[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

How does banning things = freedom?

That's the official Republican definition of freedom now.

Just like how "Patriots" = "Racist white Boomers".

Or how "First Amendment" = "Please let me say the n-word".

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

They've mistakenly taken it to mean "freedom from" instead of "freedom to".

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

To Ron, homosexuality is not freedom.