• reddig33@lemmy.world
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    Can’t have people changing their names. I mean how would Rafael Cruz or Donald Bowman ever get elected? Oh wait…

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      Well to be fair Pudding Fingers Cruz isn’t Ohio’s problem.

      Edit: As a commenter observed, Pudding Fingers is actually Ron Desantis. Cancun Cruz would be more accurate

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        He’s a Senator from possibly the most gerrymandered state in the entire country. He’s everyone’s problem and accountable to nobody except the fascist GOP.

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          I mean you’re not wrong (I live in Texas), but there is nothing Ohio state law can do about him is what I mean.

          The fuckery Abbott and his cronies get up to in Austin basically ensures we’re stuck with him.

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        Wait, isn’t desantis the guy that ate pudding with his fingers? I think Cruz is mostly famous for fleeing to Cancun when things got ugly at home

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    If the governing body who has to decide on this is GOP led, nothing will come of this.

    They will decide to follow the intent of the law, not the letter.

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      Yup. Still important to bring up these cases to highlight how ridiculous the whole thing is.

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        I didn’t mean it doesn’t matter. I meant to point out the two-faced arbitrariness of the GOP.

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      It’s the “conservatism means there must be outgroups for the law to bind but not protect, and in groups for the law to protect but not bind” thing again.

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    Republican State Rep. Tex Fischer legally changed his name from Austin James Fischer to Austin James Texford Fischer in 2020

    Ha! What?! Why! What a silly thing to do. I have no ability to understand the motivation here. We are different types of people.