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  That punishment makes no sense. They did non-kid friendly things, so as a punishment they made the venue more kid friendly.
context: This theater is normally used for the Orlando Philharmonic, smaller concerts and comedians.
  It’s the theater is where Christina Grimmie was shot the weekend of the Pulse Nightclub shooting. >
  
  That brought back some unpleasant memories. 😢 >
  
  Would Monty Python or The Kids in the Hall be considered drag performs in Florida?  They often performed and even sang songs in drag. >
  
  You know how many Shakespearean plays involve a gender swap?
  I don’t either, but I do know it’s a lot
  can movie theaters show Tootsie, Mrs. Doubtfire, White Chicks?
  The film or musical Hairspray?
  In fact, ALL of John waters films
  and why aren’t they banning movies like Brokeback Mountain or Moonlight? >
  
  Lots of old theater productions had men playing all the female rolls. >
  
  💯
  but its not even that
  the plot of Twelfth Night is based on a girl pretending to be a boy
  it’s the Comedy version of Yentl, which would also be banned I guess >
  
  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. >
  
  Because it has always been effective to ostracise minorities for political gain. Look no further than 1941 Germany.
  Yes I am calling republicans fasci nazis deservingly. >
  
  The issue (for them) is that this isn’t really effective, they stacked their midterm roster with people who wouldn’t shut the fuck up about kids and sex and they barely achieved anything. Pretty much every “anti-woke” creep ate shit. 
  Normal voters find this kind of behavior weird and off-putting, especially when you consider they have real problems. >
  
  The motivation isn't to get a majority to support them. It's to radicalize the minority base to commit violence. They know.they can't get. A majority anymore so they're going to shoot their way to power by killing the opposition. We need to be prepared to defend ourselves aginst outright terrorist attacks from them >
  
  Hahahaha Holy shit so unhinged. >
  
  Please note the unhinged part >
  
  Remember that attempted coup in January? Pretty unhinged. People died. Like actual people that mattered were trampeled holding out for backup that never came. Actual people died.  
  But also a dude tased himself in the nuts until he died. Pretty much sums up the two sides. >
  
  I'm pretty sure the guy who tasered is nuts was a rumor that was proven untrue >
  
  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? >
  
  Gay movie theater owners should start screening the birdcage again. >
  
  The right is also trying to demonize Ms.Doubtfire. >
  
  Yep. A lot of the drag bans being proposed are worded in such a way that it’d be illegal to show Mulan to a kid, because it features a character crossdressing >
  
  Last time I checked priests wear dresses and serve alcohol… >
  
  And unlike drag Queens, rape kids and get away with it >
  
  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. >
  
  It's true, all the worst people from up north moved down here after Covid. They're destroying the land, sending housing costs through the roof and intimidating minorities. It seems every day there is more hateful legislation being passed here. In my county there are hardly ever any Dems on the ballot. All you get is to do is choose from is insane MTG wannabes. >
  
  as a born and raised Floridian that moved to California 20+ yrs ago, it hurts to see it happening but this really is for the greater good. We can contain a large amount of the lunatics to one state and subsequently saw it from the Panhandle, Bugs Bunny style. Or just wait for global warming to do its thing and drown them like rats on a burning ship. Win-win. >
  
  It sort of is.  Though the demographics haven't all shaken out yet, it looks like FL going red made PA, WI, MI and maybe even GA blue.  In the electoral college race, I'll take that trade any day of the week. >
  
  Conservatives: "we need to keep government out of people's daily lives"
  Also conservatives: "let's just make laws against people doing things we don't like" >
  
  The same people who scream that cancel culture is bad when it means exposing their racist history. >
  
  Shut down all the churches where children have actually been abused. >
  
  That would fix the problem in a hurry. >
  
  Parents decided to bring their kids. The state decides that parents are not responsible enough. The state must now be the nanny. 
  Florida is a nanny state the doesn’t respect parental rights and choices. 
  Got it. >
  
  Sad about the drag show but glad to know that Florida’s Governor has solved all the issues facing the state from the insurance crisis to rising sea levels. 
  It must be great to have the time to review local liquor licenses instead of dealing with healthcare, homelessness, poverty, drug addiction, water rights, education, and all the other challenges governors usually face. >
  
  No, you see, you can only use that argument when Democrats are trying to do something. If it's a Republican, then those problems are not important and culture wars are the real issue. >
  
  People upset over drag shows should actually attend one to find out what it’s all about. It’s not porn. >
  
  You’d have to be a pretty angry person to go to one and not have a good time. >
  
  Florida is the least free state in America >
  
  Florida is one of the few good arguments for allowing global warming to occur. >
  
  How big a pussy do you have to be to be absolutely terrified of a guy in a dress? >
  
  They are scared it turns them on for some reason >
  
  In the UK we have "drag shows" for children all over the country in almost every theatre for the whole of December.
  They are called pantomimes and have a history predating the USA. Most pantos feature a dame - a drag character. 
  All this noise about drag queens is yet more manufactured moral outage to distract people from more important issues. >
  
  Please send Eddie Izzard to chokeslam desantis for us. >
  
  only sexually insecure people's worry about things like a drag show >
  
  The big venues should get together and all put on drag shows. Get Loan Depot, Hard Rock and wherever the Rays, Lightning, Magic play and Disney all to host and tag show and see how fast DeSantos backs down. >
  
  The party of small government. >
  
  The party of small d*ck energy government. >
  
  Republicans love their nanny government telling them what they are allowed to do apparently. >
  
  No, no, not telling them what to do, telling others what that can’t do. It’s the conservative way. Rules for thee but not for me. >
  
  Confederate Republican ron desantis is doing this because, like a magician uses a shiny object, desantis needs the distraction from his record as governor. >
  
  Ron DeSantis 2024
  When Open Racism is not Enough >
  
  What about Kabuki theatre. Everyone's in drag. >
  
  The dems need to write off Florida and stop wasting time and money down there. Switch it to Arizona, Georgia,Nevada and Wisconsin. Virginia, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania should receive more attention as well. Between gerrymandering and 60-65% of the state being ignorant. Time to let it become what most of the south is a racist dump. Miami and Orlando will remain popular plus the beach life. Having your kids grow up there, not a fucking chance. Seems they want the kids to grow up uneducated bigots. Important life skills for republicans >
  
  More right wing insanity using government to force behavior. >
  
  First they came for our liquor licenses. >
  
  I wonder how they deal about Joan of Arc, an actual patron saint… >
  
  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. >
  
  Government so small it fits in your bedroom >
  
  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) >
  
  What is so threatening about people wearing fabulous outfits and singing their hearts out? Seriously? >
  
  Ah yes, the poor children... that old gem.  Whenever you need to demonize something somehow make it bad for the kiddies. >
  
  The party of personal liberty strikes again.  Pussy ass Bitches. >
  
  Can't the Federal Government intervene? I mean I get the sovereign part but some things just go overboard and the Federal Government shouldn't be sitting there like that. >
  
  That is the function of the Supreme Court. Just imagine how wrong that could go the next time conservatives are in power. >
  
  The conservatives are always in power, the two part system is a lie. Also, they run the Supreme Court. The same court that says that tomatoes are vegetables, corporations are people, and money is speech.
  Though if it makes you feel better, the California Supreme Court recently ruled that bees are fish so ¯_(ツ)_/¯ >
  
  "The conservatives are always in power,"
  False.
  " the two part system is a lie"
  True n that we have more than two parties. IF you mean they are all the same, then you are wrong. Demonstrably wrong.
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  "tomatoes are vegetables,"
  ONalt when defined for tariff. And there is good reason for that.
  "corporations are people"
  yes, in 1906. 2010 was about rights.
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  " money is speech"
  nope.
  " bees are fish "
  No, they upheld a lower court ruling that  "bees are fish"  for the purpose of protecting them under California’s endangered species law.
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  Mayb read more then headlines instead of spelling misleading crap just because it confirms your biases? >
  
  Money is speech: Citizens United.
  Cali Supreme Court did literally confirm bees are fish
  US Supreme Court literally decided tomatoes are vegetables
  US Supreme Court literally decided (twice) that corporations are people.
  The two party system is a lie. Our country is an oligarchy and I'm agreeing more and more with the folks who say it's a kleptocracy
  Dems and The GOP are both owned by Billionaires. They are the same. 
  I love how you're like, "the supreme court didn't say tomatoes are vegetables. They said they were vegetables for tax reasons. And the Cali court didn't say Bees are fish. They said bees are fish for conservation. The US Supreme Court didn't say corporations are people, they said they were people in 1906, and gave them more rights in 2010." Like bruh. >
  
  Florida Nazis at it again. >
  
  I'm from Florida and fuck Orlando >
  
  I can’t imagine the state of Florida turned into a state of pearl clutching,  sanctimonious idiots. I know a lot of conservatives having second thoughts about Florida, to live or just vacation. Really, who wants to visit a state the has their panties in such knots it forces their voices to a screech. 
  Use to be Florida, kick back and enjoy the surf. The clowns are ruining it lining it with strip malls and substandard construction. They’re killing the golden goose! >
  
  Disney World is one big drag show FFS. I’m over it. Signing off to Red states until they get WOKE. >
  
  That's how they win. >
  
  I don’t live in a Red State. If I did I’d be protesting and raising hell. >
  
  Was Alex jones there with a boner in the corner? >
  
  I guess Pricilla Queen of the Desert is a no show in the US these days..... >
  
  So what the hell is George Santos suppose to do now? 
  Invent water? >
  
  My question,  was the nature of the show made clear to adults who made entry with their kids? If so then the parents made their choice. >
  
  This is going to turn into a first amendment shitstorm and likely be in the courts for next 5 to 10 years as it starts in state courts and goes through federal >
  
  Kiss your freedoms goodbye >
  
  
  In the letter, state officials wrote that they believed the show may have involved “the exposure of sexual organs, simulated sexual activity, and/or the sexualization of children’s stories.”
  
  “May have”? If the state is going to make such allegations and act upon them with the force of law, they better have detailed proof, which does not solely rely upon, “someone said”, and/or someone’s personal opinion of what constitutes what.