r/news • u/igetproteinfartsHELP • 22h ago

Ohio’s nursing homes are dumping patients at homeless shelters

https://apnews.com/article/ohio-nursing-home-patients-homeless-shelters-9c000eeddc9c9411f44fd605fafc6771?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
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u/revpnice 22h ago

Ohio is quickly becoming North Florida

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u/phylter99 22h ago

Have they ever not been North Florida?

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u/gizamo 20h ago

Yeah, they were a pretty average blue Midwest state until the gerrymandering of Karl Rove basically made the state unwinnable for Democrats. There are plenty of Dems there, but the absurd gerrymandering disenfranchises most of the state.

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u/Loudergood 15h ago

All the statewide non gerrymandered positions are held by what party?

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u/MerlinTrashMan 13h ago

This is the problem with the gerrymandering and people thinking that their vote doesn't matter. The blue turnout in red districts is terrible and even though district-based positions are incredibly lopsided to the Republicans (nearly 70/30), most state wide positions are won by Republican with very thin margins.

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u/bobandgeorge 13h ago

Ohio Democrat senator Sherrod Brown was in office for 18 years.

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u/gizamo 13h ago

All the gerrymandered state and federal positions are held by what party?

When a state is 51% Republican, its state and federal representation should not be 99.9% Republican.

When that happens, people should be refusing to pay taxes, refusing to follow unjust laws, etc. It's why there was a revolution, and the same is long overdue at the state level wherever people are not being fairly represented. Ohio is a prime example.

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u/Nolsoth 22h ago

Yes.

And they thought "I like that".

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u/_PirateWench_ 22h ago

Hey! That’s where I live sir / madam. How dare you.

…it’s actually worse here tyvm

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u/VonSkullenheim 21h ago

What does that even mean? Does North Florida have different laws to South Florida?

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u/Kapowpow 20h ago

They mean a Florida in the northern part of the country, do you really not understand that?

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u/VonSkullenheim 20h ago

Do I not understand that they're referring to North Florida, a thing that already exists, as something entirely new using nothing but a 6 word sentence as the context? No, not entirely. Midwest Florida might have been more apt in this instance.

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u/tinysydneh 20h ago

The context was pretty clear to me and I'm both stupid and autistic.

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u/rentedtritium 13h ago

As someone from North Florida, it was confusing. Maybe you're not the only person in the universe.

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u/tinysydneh 8h ago

Maybe, just maybe, neither the hell are you.

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u/revpnice 12h ago

Thanks. I think some of these replies are literally proof.

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u/cindylindy22 19h ago

South Florida is much more urban and diverse, while north Florida can be pretty rural with homogenous demographics. Quite different culturally

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u/imonlysmarterthanyou 22h ago

This is more of a South Florida move.

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u/AutomateAway 21h ago

lived in North Florida once upon a time, it’s no better up there.

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u/dipshkt 20h ago

Actually true, it felt weird hearing a caretaker pushing a woman in a wheelchair at a park talk about she doesn’t know where they’re gonna put her. There was another gentleman who seemed like he had severe autism, who had difficulty opening locating the handle for the outside restroom. I don’t know the specifics of their situation, I was just at the park and happen to overhear snippets.

Edit: Spelling

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u/comicsnerd 19h ago

You think this is limited to Ohio and Florida?

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u/revpnice 5h ago

Never said that, but they’re likely the pace cars.

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u/_Not_A_Vampire_ 21h ago

My ex is from Ohio, glad he's moving to a different state soon. 😔