The Sunshine State governor made a similar comment in late December where he said the Maine ruling 'opens up Pandora's box'

The Sunshine State governor made a similar comment recently when he warned that Maine’s ruling disqualifying Trump ‘opens up Pandora’s box’

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has revealed that he’s “looking” into ways to block President Joe Biden from the 2024 primary ballot in Florida.

“This is just going to be a tit for tat and it’s just not gonna end well,” the GOP presidential candidate warned Friday alongside Rep. Chip Roy, R-TX, according to a video posted by CNN. “You could make a case — I’m actually looking at this in Florida now [if we] could we make a credible case” to block Biden from the ballot “because of the invasion of 8 million.”

  • rab
    12·
    5 months ago

    Hot take but if you are born somewhere you are a native, land doesn’t belong to anyone, that goes for people who live in Europe too

    An immigrant is someone who leaves the country where they were born for another country

    My blood is German but I’m born in Canada, that makes me Canadian not German lol

    My Nigerian nephew was just born in Finland, he’s not an immigrant he’s Finnish. But why are people “native Finns” when Finns stole the land from the Sami people? By your logic all finnish people are immigrants

    How about Iceland? Nobody existed there till somebody landed on a boat, does that mean all Icelandic people are immigrants?

    Wild concepts here I know but if you need more examples I can keep going

    • orrk@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 months ago

      no, but if one group lives there for a few thousand years, and another group comes like less than 300 years ago, then no technically you are not a native of the place, especially if you come from a colonial background.

      now this doesn’t mean that you are any less of a citizen, but it does mean that generally speaking that you come from a very different background

      • rab
        11·
        5 months ago

        So when are white Americans not considered immigrants anymore? I hate desantis too but if he was born in Florida how can you call him an immigrant? That makes zero logical sense

        All of Europe is stolen land, so who are not immigrants there?

        And when you say “different background” do you mean skin colour?

        I like my Finland example with my nephew, he is black but natively speaks finnish and was born there, is he an immigrant or a Finn?

        • orrk@lemmy.world
          1·
          5 months ago

          So when are white Americans not considered immigrants anymore?

          A: never, mainly due to the history of the colonial expansionism of “white” Americans (the fact that you still use white already shows the problem)

          All of Europe is stolen land, so who are not immigrants there?

          A: only some parts are.

          And when you say “different background” do you mean skin colour?

          A: can’t help it that black people were the slaves, Native American Indians (as opposed to the first nations of Canada, or the natives of southern America, because even these people have different backgrounds and experiences), or the Chinese “workers” of the early industrialization, often puts the demarcating line really close t skin color (almost like America is deeply systemically racist or something)

          I like my Finland example with my nephew, he is black but natively speaks finnish and was born there, is he an immigrant or a Finn?

          A: did his ancestors kill most fins/Saami and drive the remainder into reservations in some backwater badlands?

          • rab
            1·
            5 months ago

            People on lemmy are completely delusional