Surely it can’t only be butthurt 4th generation descendants of sugar plantation owners in Miami and techbros in Sam Fran that caused this phenomenon, right?

    • Steel_Wool [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      How does anyone in 2020 hear/see an ad and not imediately discount it 110%, knowing that there's an agenda behind it? Do people think these agendas serve them as individuals somehow?

      EDIT: But hey, I've been screaming 'ILLEGAL TAXI BUSINESS' since I first heard the term 'ride share'.

      • grisbajskulor [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Maybe I'm younger and dumber than you, but I can easily answer this question because I have relatively recently had this mindset. I think a lot of it is blind corporate faith, propaganda, and acceptance of the neoliberal status quo that corporations are job creators.

      • grisbajskulor [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        People tried but wtf can you do when you’re against something like that?

        It's bleak. The only answer is the old cliche of some form of mass workers party/org. These are the kinds of local issues that DSA seems to specialize in, and I do agree that they would have been further encouraged and energized to do so under a Bernie candidacy, very possibly to the point of changing the outcome. The optimist in me thinks that the left is just not there yet, but that despite our small size, America does have a growing potential for some form of empowered left organization to aggressively and openly tackle this type of bullshit.

    • throwawaylemmy2 [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Florida has a substantial conservative population, as I’ve heard “the more north you go (in florida) the more Southern it gets” i.e. the south of florida is blue but the northern part is very red.

      That's true. Outside of major cities, the "rural" population in Florida is very conservative/red. You can check the historical county maps over the past like 40-50 years and see it. Sometimes there is shocking changes (like Duval going "blue" this election) but generally Florida hasn't super-changed in demographics/voting blocks over the years.

      I think the reason the $15 minimum wage passed for Florida is (from what I've heard) that it goes $15 gradually and then stops to where it's like $.05 increase per year based on cost of living, to where the conservatives would be like "ok, fine. You can have your $15 over the years but you can't get a 'living' wage out of it" and voted for it because it was "palatable" for them.