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  I went to a theater one time, and they were playing the movie "Pricilla: Queen of the Desert."  That's utter filth! Drag queens parading on screen! Take away their license.
  (actually not a bad movie, Hugo Weaving and Terrance Stamp are good actors)
context: Desantis and his supporters are such an unneeded waste of resources. >
  
  The nonsensical theater that this is cannot be overstated. 
  If you ask the people who support this if a Hooters restaurant should lose its liquor license if a minor goes into it, they would act like you were insane.
  If you ask the people who support this. If a high school should lose funding for having an overtly sexual cheerleader dance segment, they would act like you were insane.
  If you ask these people if a football team should be punished for having an overtly sexual halftime show, they would think you were insane.
  They don't care, at all, about minors seeing sexually charged content. They just want to use it as an excuse to demonize LGBTQ people. >
  
  Idk, people were pretty upset about a nipple back in the early 00s 😂 >
  
  I can’t believe Florida used to be a swing state. Most the time it sounds like some dystopian conservastate. >
  
  DeSantis won his first election by an incredibly slim margin; he won reelection (against a candidate who had previously been both the governor of that state and a Republican) by a landslide.
  I don’t really understand how enough of a state moves that far to the right that quickly.
  Maybe they just really love a thoroughly uncharismatic culture warrior who bullies children and squanders millions in public funds. >
  
  I recall reading somewhere that a million republicans moved to FL during COVID because they liked his screw masks and vaccines policies.  As a consequence, it turned some purple states more blue, and FL really, really red. >
  
  A drag show, that was for 18+, unless accompanied by a parent. Are parents going to be referred to CPS if they take their kids to an R rated movie too? >
  
  Does the movie prominently feature a marginalized group the Florida GOP is trying to demonize to agitate their political base? >
  
  Confederate Republican ron desantis is doing this because, like a magician uses a shiny object, desantis needs the distraction from his record as governor. >
  
  Florida is the least free state in America >
  
  I'm less interested in what pearl clutching concern trolls said happened and more interested in what actually happened >
  
  I’m not, really. From the article:
  
  Event staff posted a sign to advise that some of the content may not be suitable for those under the age of 18. However, the state released images of adults bringing children into the venue.
  
  If the aforementioned adults were parents, guardians, or adults with proper authority to act in the legal guardians’ stead, this is no different than legally penalizing a movie theater because a family brought their kids to an R-rated movie.
  The only thing of any significance that happened appears to be the infiltration of local government by pearl-clutching concern trolls. >
  
  Don't forget you are supposed to be able to raise your kids anyway you want. >
  
  Apparently that’s only true if you want to raise your kids in the exact way they deem “correct”.
  Because they’re from the party of small government and family choice or something. >
  
  More right wing insanity using government to force behavior. >
  
  Ron DeSantis 2024
  When Open Racism is not Enough >
  
  Republicans love their nanny government telling them what they are allowed to do apparently. >
  
  Would Monty Python or The Kids in the Hall be considered drag performs in Florida?  They often performed and even sang songs in drag.