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Under the bill, content would be considered obscene if it appeals to prurient interests in nudity
And since they've already taken away due process, they're basically paving the way to send anyone who has a body they don't like to a death camp. I don't think it's hyperbole anymore to say that that US is fucked.
Conservatives keep saying they're for the common people.
Are they? Are they really? Seems to me they're really busy doing stuff that regular folks hate.
Conservatives keep saying they’re for the common people.
They are, they just didn't say ouotloud that are for the common people being jailed/deported.
we know mike johnson couldnt control his porn consumption.
I'm loath to search 'mike johnson porn.' Could you provide background, please?
Mike claims to have an app on his phone that restricts such content and that he made his son his accountability partner... To not look at porn.
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
Conservative fascists are obsessive consumers of trans porn.
https://lawsuit.org/general-law/republicans-have-an-obsession-with-transgender-pornography/
Yep, this is 100% why I hope they actually pull off the porn ban. You want to see MAGA flip faster than Simone, you take away their porn.
It's part of the plan in Project 2025, to ban pornography and then classify LGBT literature as pornography
For fucks sake, why is every article pay walled? Just let me read!
404media requires an account but gives you some number of articles per day for free. It's annoying but they have super good reporting with more depth than many publications without being long winded like some
That's better than requiring a subscription fee but I'm so tired of pretending like this shit is okay. Run ads, fine, I get it, but let me see your damn articles. WSJ is the worst with their whole "democracy dies in darkness" slogan.
They don't intend to ban anything. They're just creating reasons to lock people up.
They are, to a man, insane authoritarian shitbags. All they care about is control.
The plan according to project 2025 is to classify trans people existing as pornographic. Wish I was joking. Been warning people about this for a year now.
Even the most oppressive tyrants in history understood the concept of bread and circuses. Most people will stay complacent when their fundamental rights are being taken away as long as they have their distractions. Taking away the distractions is something you only do after you've fully consolidated your power. They're so obsessed with projecting an aura of oppressiveness that they've forgotten how to hold power.
I've been saying this for awhile; I think Trump wasn't supposed to win this term. He looked legit surprised when he won, and I think the Republicans were planning for four more years to really solidify their plans, and get more right wing gov'ts in power first (like Canada). Trump winning pushed everything up four years early, and made them basically have to speed-run to the goal. They went mask off so fast, and they're driving everything through before it would have been ideal. It's now or never.
This is about getting people breed more. Honestly, I see this motive in all of their policies. The real reason republican politicians hate people who fall into the LGBTQ spectrum is because they can't produce new children and even when they can they're probably much less likely to. They want to get rid of porn, contraceptives, women's rights, and alternative lifestyles and at the same time try to entice people to have kids. If you want to fight against their agenda then don't have kids.
Unfortunately those that believe in their ideology will keep having kids. As an anecdote, my Trump loving cousins have a total of 18 kids compared to the total of 2 for those that aren't. Most of those kids will go on to follow their parents political and ideological beliefs.
I. Dare. You.
If they want a "civil war" this is the way to get one, lol
It might actually be their intention, keep pushing until you get unrests and then they can declare martial law and kill anyone they deem left or woke
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.
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.
Oh look, the Republicans are doing what they always try to do control what we do with our lives. I'm sure this guy has some shady content downloaded onto his computer.
Republicans: “We have learned nothing from prohibition and refuse to try!”
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
Of course it's that fucking senator from my fucking state. If this actually somehow passed and was somehow enforceable, Utah would be one of the most affected states. Mormons love their porn. The numbers don't lie.