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[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 49 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"Pro life feminist"

A christian conservative group in drag,nothing to see here.

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[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Its more perverted to want to control what other people are jacking to than it is to jack it to porn games. Keep your perversions to yourselves weirdos.

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 2 points 2 days ago

This is the exact thing I've always thought about homophobes. It's pretty gay to get obsessed about what other men do with their dicks.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 84 points 4 days ago (29 children)

I'm sick of religious sex freaks forcing others to adhere to their puritan fetishes

We need to ban organized religion

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[–] Zink@programming.dev 44 points 4 days ago (6 children)

OK now I am not one to lob accusations without evidence, but for any of you kind government agents or AIs reading this, let’s say from anywhere within the Five Eyes since we’re talking about Australia:

We have another fanatical religious conservative organization here that is publicly labeling opposition groups pedos. You know how this has trended in the past. Keep an eye on these people.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago

We have another fanatical religious conservative organization here that is publicly labeling opposition groups pedos.

projection. they want a monopoly on skeezing on the kiddos.

for some reason people will bend themselves into pretzels to give religious people a pass on buggery. here in washington state, we passed a law mandating the reporting of abused children. conservatives and religious types want to keep these children in their abuse.

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/07/18/judge-blocks-wa-requirement-for-priests-to-report-child-abuse-disclosed-in-confession/

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[–] InfiniteHench@lemmy.world 145 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I like how the language is ‘claims responsibility.’ You know. Like terrorist groups do after an attack

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[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 156 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Here's something I've noticed. Whenever someone describes a group, individual, activity, or anything else with more than 2 negative adjectives in a row, they're probably saying something deeply unstable. This is one of those times.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 103 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (7 children)

It's a Christian fascist org, so there's a 100% likelihood of mental illness.

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[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 81 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

Collective Shout claim it’s about harm reduction, but then push an agenda that functionally amounts to moral panic.

Their approach is identical in logic to the “GTA causes school shootings” hysteria: loud, pearl-clutching, and utterly unmoored from data.

If Collective Shout want to argue these games cause harm, then show us the harm. Not correlation. Not outrage. Not hypothetical downstream consequences. Show causation. Peer-reviewed. Reproducible.

Otherwise, they’re just moralizing bullies using the banking system as a cudgel.

On top of this, they might actually be harming their own cause. The catharsis hypothesis poses that sexual fantasy enactment might reduce risk of real world harm.

The logic is simple: suppressing a compulsion doesn't eliminate it. It just bottles up until it explodes. Redirect it into a safe outlet, and it becomes manageable.

The only reason this research isn't cited more often is because it's politically radioactive. Nobody wants to admit that it's better to let a gooners jerk off, than to escalate under repression.

The burden of proof SHOULD be on Collective Shout to provide a reasonable argument which supports their claim that censorship will reduce real world harm.

Current working theory in psychology: it doesn't. Emerging theory suggests: they're shooting themselves (and potential rape victims) in the foot.

The real solution to real-world harm involves empathy, autonomy and education.

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 51 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Furthermore...

Their decision to target the payment processors - not the developers, or itch.io, or steam, is some of the most cowardly and authoritarian things I've ever seen in the gaming space.

It's economic coercion; a playbook used by religious bigots and authoritarians for decades. Financial censorship by proxy. IMO: they should fuck off.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 30 points 5 days ago (7 children)

They are religious nutjobs, they don't care about causation.

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[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 28 points 4 days ago (2 children)

That is so dumb. How would such a small group have that much pull? It seems like gooners would vastly outnumber them.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 33 points 4 days ago (4 children)

In the 90s, in my country, a single person made a webpage stating that Microsoft minesweeper promotes war and violence, so since windows 95 if the Windows locale is set to my language, minesweeper becomes "flower field" and you have to find flowers instead of mines

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And if you step on the flower you DIE.

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[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

These people are loud, most gooners don't want to be loud about it

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[–] VoidJuiceConcentrate@midwest.social 118 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

me watching clearly adult humans doing consentual sex things

some religious zealot chud: this makes you a pedo somehow

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 108 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Trump doing actual pedo and rape shit and being a convicted felon

Religious zealot chuds in the US: "there's no proof"

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[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 31 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Ah yes, now anyone who enjoys wanking themselves off in private, is also a Pedo, because they ran out of mean words.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not just any pedo, but a brain-rotted pedo.

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[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 84 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Hold up, all this shit because of an extremist group, *in Australia, where half the M games on the market already can't be sold, is driving global payment processor behavior?!?

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[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 47 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Are we wagering this absurdity is built on projection?

cause I'm wagering this absurdity is built on them projecting.

[–] Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It always is. These are the type of folks who have that feeling of shame wash over after they bust a nut to something they "despise."

That literally all these types of groups are. They want us to feel the same shame, too. I wish folks could just keep their shit to themselves. Have rules for your own home, sure, but eat shit and rot if you think you should be able to tell me how I should live my life.

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[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 36 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (24 children)

I truly don't understand how Visa/MasterCard/etc can be pressured. They are basically infrastructure.

What's someone going to do, stop using credit cards if they don't stop a store that person doesn't even patronize from selling morally hazardous goods?

I don't get how these campaigns are even effective.

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[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 62 points 5 days ago (3 children)

This whole thing smacks of the "anyone who has a sexual proclivity I claim not to share must have all sexual proclivities I claim not to share" logic. i.e. the logic that got gay people flagged as child molesters back in the bad old days. And occasionally still today.

Such logic might actually be rooted in projection, which is a deeply disturbing thought. Deeply closeted people desperately clinging to heteronormativity and traditional gender roles because they think that if they don't they they'll do something abhorrent. Maybe even to someone who can't consent. Or they already have and they desperately want to hide away from it.

Yes, for the love of all that's holy and secular too, ban the games with apparent child sexual abuse. Children can't consent. Leave everything else the hell alone.

I don't even play video games with sexual themes, but I do play ones that contain 18+ violence. I assume those will be next on the chopping block.

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[–] omniman@piefed.zip 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

fucking fuck fuck fuckers , if they wanted to ban then they should have contacted to steme why payment providers bruh

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 35 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Because they want to apply their rules to everyone, it's the entire point for religious assholes

Fuck all religions

[–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 3 days ago

Fuck All Religions 😍

I’ll join that cult!

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago

Yeah, rules for thee not for me. Bunch of dildos.

[–] sndmn@lemmy.ca 52 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I expect this group is rife with paedos.

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