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It's all in in black and white in Project 2025.
Ban porn > Categorize LGBT as Porn > LGBT is crime > LGBT in prison
Religious zealots and bigots were given the reigns. This is what we get.
Regarding payment processing specifically, they are under direct pressure from religious lobbyists and are folding like a cheap suit.
Do they specifically mention how banning porn is a step towards attacking queer people?
If you read Project 2025 you would find that literally on Page 1 they equate pornography with "the spread of transgenderism and drag queens" and claim that all of the above are "invading their school libraries" so all further references to combating "pornography" in the text also means transgender people.
You can read it for yourself here and I strongly advise you to do so to stay informed. The enemy has laid bare every single one of their tactics and remaining ignorant to it is irresponsible.
You’re intentionally misrepresenting what it says, what a surprise.
That sentence is in reference to the “pornographic” transgender-advocate book in schools that have extremely graphic pictures and descriptions about things like “sucking girl dick” and so on. It’s not equating pornography with transgenderism at all.
What's the name of that book you/they are referencing?
Red states have already passed legislation classify any book that has any form ofnLGBT representation as obscene and not fit for school libraries. It's the same process on a bigger scale.
Source?
Your mom
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/banned-books-lgbtq-transgender-black-people-of-color-pen-america-rcna193879
That doesn’t support your comment at all.
Also, this:
How about just not describing how to eat someone’s arsehole in a book for 4-6 year olds? Ever thought that might be inappropriate?
Again, please let me know what book you're talking about, I'd love to judge it for myself.
Rape?
Incest?
I mean, these readings are all acceptable for children by christian standards right?
Tell me more about how it's LGBT books that are the issue.
Wow this literally could not be any more of a bad faith take. You decide to ignore the entire article for a statement by the lying administration spokesperson.
🙄
The entire article is bullshit, pretending that it's about something it's not. Just don't give graphic, sexually explicit books to children. Why is that so hard for you guys?
I'm still waiting on those titles. Care to share them and prove me and the article wrong?
I'm sure you can google the books that were "banned" (though not really banned, just removed from school libraries as they were highly inappropriate). Just like they don't put playboy magazines in schools, they're not "banned" they're just not in school libraries.
See here's the thing, it's not my job to prove your argument correct. So if you aren't going to take the time to defend your own point, why should I take the time to do it for you?
No titles to prove these books were inapropriate? Then stop posting and stop lying that these removals and bans aren't just targeted attempts at censoring authors writing about non-cis non-het non-white topics.
You don’t have to prove my argument correct, but I don’t care if you don’t want to look it up. These books and pictures of them were everywhere for weeks/months, and politicians and parents etc were told to stop reading and showing images from them because they were too graphic when they were appealing to get them removed in parliament and in school meetings lol.
I dare say you already know the books and graphic illustrations that I’m talking about anyway.
Downvote all you want, that doesn't change the fact you're a liar.
So you are saying you never saw any of the conversations around the “trans book banning” and have zero idea about the books?
X to doubt.
Nope I've seen the conversations and every single time they play out as follows.
Conservative commentor: "ban porn books in school libraries!"
People with more than 1 brain cell: "sure what books are pornographic? Tell everyone which books are porn."
Conservative commentor: "I won't tell you the titles because you should already know because the conversation has been happening"
So yes i have been paying attention to ThE cOnVeRsAtIoN, and nobody on the side of banning books from libraries ever gives any details as to what is or isn't pornograpic and why. Gee that sounds familiar, almost like this is exactly what you've done, you conservative freak.
Now you can either fuck off and leave everyone alone or you'll double down on the lies and keep making nonsense gesturing at windmills you think are giants without ever providing any evidence that you're correct.
Stick your head in the sand some more if you want, I don't care. You clearly want little kids looking at extremely graphic illustrations and descriptions of how to suck dicks, finger their own arsehole (or other peoples'), etc. Thankfully people like you end up on a list or unable to legally go near schools eventually.
Jesus fuck you're so predictable. You just cantnhelp but double down on lies. You keep talking about all these books that have graphic content but refuse to give so much as a title of any of these books actually exist. Either give some examples or go away. Nobody believes your bullshit.
Then prove it.
What are the titles of the graphic sexually explicit books that you believe are being give to children?
just do a web search with "project 2025 porn" and marval at it... it is amazing
here is a good write up example https://www.gratefulweb.com/articles/project-2025-war-porn-privacy-and-progress
You're right except the zealots and bigots are the ones being propagandized to support the legislation. The reason for it has always been for expanded prison labor. That's where America's slavery thrives. Don't play into the culture war while corporations and the owning class take everything from us.
Nah, they want this legislation.
Amazing since most of em molest little kids.
A certain section of society watched The Handmaid's Tale (they wouldn't read it because books are bad) and thought: "yes please, let's have some of that thank you very much" this is the thin end of the wedge.
Which section is that, the one that wants to take away women’s rights by letting males into their spaces, and who constantly award women of the year awards and women’s representative spots to males?
So you'd actually be OK with a christofascist dictatorship as long as people you don't like get oppressed as well? Cool.
How in the world did you get that from my comment?
How did you turn my comment into something that supports your warped point of view (some time after I actually posted it which means you specifically went looking for something to get upset about.
I’m not sure if you understand how discussion forums work. Comments don’t self destruct or disappear after a day.
Which side of the political spectrum are currently forcing age verification all over the internet, especially on porn sites - conservatives or “progressives”? Hint: it’s not who you’re saying it is.
You guys need to move on from the project 2025 rubbish - no one bought it before the election, and still banging on about it only harms the democrats already in-the-toilet credibility.
In the USA Porn isn’t banned, being gay isn’t “classified as porn” (whatever that means, it makes no sense). Still haven’t seen those concentration and death camps you’ve been yapping about for years either 🤣
The “progressive left” are the ones on their way to criminalising porn. Have a look at what’s going on in the UK under their increasingly far left government for a glimpse at what the party you support wants.
The conservatives introduced the online safety act. Labour enforced it, but labour haven't been a progressive party in the UK for decades.
"Increasingly far left government", tell me you know absolutely nothing about the subject, without saying you know absolutely nothing about the subject.