Republicans are drunk with power. What a stupid fucking idea. There’s no chance of banning porn. Then they wouldn’t be able to jerk to Trans women and feel shame after.
Trans women are hot, in case that reads as though the shame is correct. It’s not.
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Remember that the far right has been desperately trying to label any LGBTQ-related content as ‘porn’. Educational resources? ‘Porn’. Biographies about gay people? ‘Porn’. Drag queens? ‘Porn’. A book about a boy with two mommies? ‘Porn’. Anything that acknowledges the existence of trans people? ‘Porn’.
The purpose of this bill isn’t to ban porn, it’s to ban ‘porn’. Anything they don’t like will be deemed ‘porn’, and then this gives them the legal justification to ban whatever they want.
Cancel culture at its finest. Where my free speech absolutists gone?!
They were just bigots?
🔫 Always have been
Check this guy’s computer first. Guarantee there’s some fucked up shit on there. It’s always projection.
Mike Lee is a full-blown Mormon, which heavily frowns upon porn in any form (including literal prophetic teachings calling women “walking pornography”), so he absolutely does have porn on his devices.
Source: grew up Mormon, was taught this by leadership
And their definition of “porn” is so broad, it’s bordering on ridiculous.
Dude… Their doctrine is all over the place haha. Like, everyone knew that the garments were all about “modestly”, and yet with the recent release of tank-top style women’s garment tops, they’re all claiming that “it was never about modesty teehee”. Fucking gaslighting bullshit. Same with rated R movies. Some leader somewhere stated that members shouldn’t watch rated R movies, and somehow everyone took it as literal gospel, despite it not being written anywhere.
I’m so fucking glad I’m out of that goddamn cult.
Friendly reminder that only one party takes rights away.
And that’s the party that got all the stupid fucks in our society to think they were the party of freedom.
Look, reflexively saying “both sides aren’t the same” is ignorant and actively doing harm when you use it to broadly. Are both parties the same? No. But on many issues, both parties are the same. And this is one of those issues. What you are saying is demonstrably, patently false.
The South Carolina bill passed with near-universal bipartisan support.
Same thing with the Texas bill.
On this issue, both sides are just as bad. Democrats are just as bad as Republicans.
The problem Democrats have is that they don’t actually believe in anything. They follow polls and consultants, and they lack any backbone. They have no fight in them.
Look at trans rights. Democrats have completely ceded the issue to Republicans. Trans people make the walking corpses that are the Democratic leadership feel icky, so they offer only symbolic support to the trans community. Kamala, in the face of tens of millions of dollars of right wing demonization of trans people, couldn’t even offer the most basic defense of trans rights and the worth of trans lives. All she could say was, “I’ll follow the law.”
It’s really, really easy to make Democrats completely cave on the rights of any group. All you have to do is make the case to the public that it’s for the good of children. Want to ban porn? Bill it as for the kids, and the Dems will be too chicken shit to say a word against it. Want to send trans people to gas chambers? Say it’s for the kids, and Dems will vote for it. Demonize immigrants? The Democrats will try to outflank you on the right, competing with Republicans to see who can be crueler to immigrants and asylum seekers. Name the bill after a white woman that happened to be killed by an illegal immigrant, make defending it require effort, and Democrats will be falling over themselves to vote to send migrants to death camps.
Are the two parties the same? No. But on many issues, they are virtually identical. As long as you can make a flimsy case that some stripping of rights is for the good of the children, Democrats will ALWAYS be too cowardly to stand up against the propaganda. It’s been this way since at least Tipper Gore in the 90s.
I got to the part where you tried to equate Democrats not doing enough to help trans people with Republicans actively persecuting them and then I stopped reading because I realized I was reading straight up bullshit.
Democrats have removed ZERO rights. Republicans have and are actively trying to remove more. And one quick glance at both party’s voting history, you know, the thing that actually causes legislation to be enacted, very clearly paints the parties in TOTALLY different lights.
And all the “Dems aren’t fixing it fast enough!” voters thinking it’ll be good for some reason.
That’s because they’re children who want exactly what they want, immediately, or fuck it all and let it burn.
Regulations are put in place to make sure some people aren’t allowed to hurt other people. Some would argue that this takes away their rights.
Regulations are put in place to make sure some people aren’t allowed to hurt other people
I’d also extend that definition to “other life” too. Some MAGA may say: “The libruls want to take a way my rights to do what I want with my land!” When in fact it may be an endangered species has its last nesting ground on that land.
At this point, US politics has gone far beyond the point where we can make jokes about morons voting for the face-eating leopard party. Anybody who didn’t vote for Kamala Harris because she wasn’t critical enough of Israel, didn’t do enough for LGBTQ rights, didn’t have enough left wing policies, etc. is now reaping what they sow.
How’s that 100 years of “voting for the lesser evil” treating you?
Better than it would have been if we were voting for the greater evil.
Better for whom? The world is actually better off, generally, with Trump pulling back from global politics and toppling democratic governments…
Ah yes toppling democratic governments
Mind explaining why you think that would make the world a better place?
I think they meant, “Trump pulling back from toppling democratic governments.” i.e. the actual function of USAID
Your lesser evil decided it wanted to do genocide more than it wanted to win the most winnable election in history.
One of the last things Biden did in office was secure a ceasefire. One that ultimately fell apart when Trump let Israel off the chain to “finish the job”.
People who refused to vote for the party that was committed to stopping the war simply because they were acting too slowly for their taste are now culpable for the continued genocide under Trump. Enjoy the greater evil.
Are you giving Biden credit for the ceasefire that started after he already left office?
Interesting.
I’m certainly not crediting Trump for that ceasefire. Biden negotiated it. Doesn’t matter whose ass was in the seat in the oval office at the time.
Negotiated what? The ceasefire was a trick that Israel used to retreat and rearm and reorganize. Doesn’t matter who you credit for it because the ceasefire was never supposed to last, it was always going to be broken by Israel because they are fucking monsters.
I also think Israel deliberately chose to give Trump a ceasefire to start his term to help him boost his initial popular power and demobilize the anti-genocide protests.
The only thing Biden deserves credit for is his unlimited support for Israel, which Trump seems to have continued. Bipartisan consensus.
“Obscenity isn’t protected by the First Amendment, but hazy and unenforceable legal definitions have allowed extreme pornography to saturate American society and reach countless children,” Lee said in a press release. “Our bill updates the legal definition of obscenity for the internet age so this content can be taken down and its peddlers prosecuted.”
My memory is a bit hazy, but I think this phrasing is taken almost verbatim from Project 2025.
When you use AI to write your bills and tell it to implement Project 2025.
They are jumping the gun a little here. Project 2025 has declaring basically anything a transperson does as pornographic first then this. Guess some incompetence in execution shouldn’t be surprising from their crowd.
I think the order of operations is almost unimportant if their opposition can only secure minor, temporary victories and nobody is truly stopping them. If anything the broad stroke of this bill could be used as cover while states quietly criminalize homosexuality and transgenderism by fiat.
Guns fall into children’s hands all the time, something that literally kills, and they don’t seem to give a shit about that
Will no one think of the children? Whenever these people say something, the best strategy is look in the opposite direction they are pointing you. In this instance, they are working to pass child-bride full-legalization. They’re definitely thinking of the children.
Don’t forget Florida trying to weaken child labor laws. MAGA. If the mine was good enough for great grandpa, it’s good enough for you.
Obscenity isn’t protected by the First Amendment
Is this the same Constitution that they’re pissing on with everything else? It most certainly does protect it. Do NOT use the “think of the children” shit when your actions towards children safety has been the complete opposite. Hell, I saw news today of further cuts being pursued for Medicare, as well as past things on cutting school lunches and of course the destruction of the DoE. You do NOT care about children, do not bring them into this.
Actually they’ve been trying to invoke the Comstock Act constantly to force ISPs to block porn sites. This particular rallying cry is something I remember since the late Bush II years.
New Bill sounds like kind of a dick. Bring back old Bill.
And no more plastic bags! Idiots
Gotta love it how one party steals rights away from Americans and it’s always the one party that screams the loudest about “muh rights!” and they’re constantly supported by smooth brains who just can’t stop talking about “muh rights or you get muh bullets!!”.
I’m still waiting for those bullets to fly but smooth brains are occupied now by trump jingeling some keys calls “no trans bathrooms” in front of them so they’re a bit busy
Your observation is eternal. During the American Revolution one person noted (I forgot who) that the people who clamoured the loudest for liberty also happened to be the hardest slave drivers.
In Stiff Little Fingers sobg “Fly the Flag” they sang “free to screw you before you screw me”.
I sure am glad we dodged that bullet by not electing Kamala! Could you imagine the hell we’d be living gin right now?
- Me in an alternate universe where there aren’t dumbfuck protest voters.
Kamala couldn’t have stopped this bill from being introduced. Do we think she’d veto it?
Um… Yes? So you think she would sign it into law?
I don’t know, that’s why I asked. I honestly wouldn’t have put it past her; she was pretty spineless when Biden signed the Willow Oil project.
Doesn’t fucking matter, since she didn’t get elected. It doesn’t matter even the tiniest little fucking bit and makes me look at you like something is seriously wrong with you.
Hey Rhoeri,
Just checking how electoral reform is coming along in your state. I’m sure you’re working tirelessly to give voters the freedom to transfer their vote if their preference didn’t win. Looking forward to it buddy!
Here are those videos I share ya long ago in case you lost them.
Electoral Reform Videos
First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)
Videos on alternative electoral systems
The Puritans are still ruling in that stupid country.
i live in such an atheist bubble. i’m constantly shaking my head at the fact that we haven’t woken up to how many problems religion creates. every day that we don’t do a massive purge and/or reeducation camp imprisonment of all theists allows this ridiculous charade to keep going.
I watch atheist content creators on youtube do take downs of theistic arguments.
I have been out of religion for so long that I can’t fathom those theists not realizing their idiocy.
And those theists always come with such strawmen “You believe we come from a rock” (no, that’s not what atheism entails, but you do believe we come from dirt, so that’s actually what you believe), “why do you hate god?” (how can I hate something I don’t believe exists?) “You should read the bible” (I did, cover to cover, it made me atheist, you should do it too for a change)
You know what’s crazy? The part about feeling shame. There’s been some recent studies about a lot of previously diagnosed sex/porn disorders and addictions being tied to shame due to misinformed religious conservative upbringing. If anything, we need to be talking about and teaching more about sex. Not learning about it correctly leads to hangups and shame about the human body, love, and self love that makes you nearly incapable of showing or expressing yourself correctly. That’s why all these conservatives are so fucking weird.
The lowest my self esteem had ever been was when I was religious. I’d avoid porn and masturbation for months on end, 6-8 etc, but eventually I’d get a little too turned on and “succumb” to it. I remember hearing peers discuss it as something disgusting, and I considered myself too impure to consider having a relationship.
I won’t say my self esteem is amazing now, but I feel much better about myself, and don’t think of myself as some terrible sinner who doesn’t deserve happiness.
Thank you for sharing that. I’m glad to hear you’re feeling better. Just remember that no one is perfect. The older I get the more I reflect back to times or abuses that may have hindered my emotional intelligence. Getting to the root of my own self loathing or anger has made me realize I don’t need to continue feeling that pain of the past and bringing it to the present. It’s a struggle but I try and just be honest with myself and remember that I am the one that needs to know myself better, learn to rewire that past trauma, and move on with better senses and awareness through my experiences. Let the present mold your future and keep fighting the good fight.
There’s absolutely nothing they can do to ban porn, and the number of people who watch and view porn is so large they can’t arrest everyone, maybe just arrest their enemies?
Also this guy is obviously a pedophile or something, no one else spends this much time talking about porn
Funnily enough, porn is sort of the canary in the coalmine for free speech. Their use of banning it will be through defining what is and is not obscene. If they can get a case run up to the supreme court, who then confirm that this self expression is obscene, that opens the flood gates for them to freely define what self expression is obscene and ban it or send people to jail.
From there it’s a small step to calling something like a dissenting political opinion obscene.
Make everyone a criminal, selectively arrest your enemies. Very simple.
Does everyone remember that bit from Scrubs about removing all porn from the internet?
We’re about to find out if it’s true.
