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[–] 237 points 2 years ago (16 children)

It is mind boggling to me that in the year 2023 we're complaining about porn, LGBT existence, and fucking book content. Isn't this what we were laughing at 20 years ago? About book burnings and how stupid the previous generations were for fearing and banning media that challenged them?

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  • [–] 87 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    It is mind boggling to me that in the year 2023 we're complaining about porn, LGBT existence, and fucking book content. Isn't this what we were laughing at 20 years ago?

    It's easy to forget because of how quickly the cultural zeitgeist shifted when it finally did, but the early 2000s was still very homophobic. Watching pretty much any comedy from that era reminds you of just how common the punchline to jokes was just, "teehee they're gay."

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    In the early 2000s it was exceptionally common to hear things referred to as “gay” if they were “bad” in some way. Chandler’s “Dad” in friends is one I look back on and shudder. I understand when boomers say things like “things were different back then, but our ability to reflect and do better is what moves our species forward. Not dig in and scream no!

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    You should watch the documentary show about the duggars and how they’re part of a huge cult that systemically indoctrinates kids, fucks them, and gets them into politics. It’s disgusting. It’s an organized push of quiverfull fundamentalist shit being pushed into law.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    Human nature doesn't change that much over time. Teenage me thought the future would be awesome because people like me would be in power. Adult me knows that people my age and younger are like everyone before them, just younger.

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    [–] 126 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    So, let's get this straight. They're going to take a bunch of dudes, take away their porn, not teach them sexual health, not tech them about consent, strip abortion rights, make women scared to come forward, teach them it was their fault, and do nothing about police ineptitude/corruption. I'm not even exaggerating when I say that it seems like the GOP wants a generation of rape babies. Banking on their future voting bloc?

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  • [–] 50 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If I had no context and read your comment I'd think you're describing the Taliban or some other islamofascist government. The GOP has really gone off the deep end.

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  • [–] 102 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    This is not going to stop porn. All it will do is criminalize the actors, producers, and viewers.

    I'm reminded of the drug war, where they took a relatively harmless narcotic used disproportionally by minority populations at the time (Marijuana), and used it to criminalize and imprison large swaths of the population, especially within the black community.

    It's no coincidence that most of the folks targeted by this effort are women and sex industry workers, which skew liberal by a large degree. Note I'm not just talking about prostitution or porn actors, but the entire sex industry, including toys and books.

    The GOP is scared shitless of the rising power of women in modern society, and being able to criminalize and consequently attack the revenue stream of sex industry workers is a way to blunt it. There's also an element of class warfare involved, as OnlyFans or similar sites are often the most economical way for a young woman to lift herself out of poverty if she has no other marketable skills.

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Marijuana was so they could arrest hippies. Cocaine was so they could arrest black people.

    Source: one of the guys responsible for the war on drugs straight up said it.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago*

    Actually, when William Hearst originally started the campaign in the 20s to take out the hemp farmers that were competing with his timber business (he bought up most of Humboldt so he could corner the paper market), he targeted Hispanics (primarily Mexicans) with Marijuana in his articles about drug crimes and how they were ruining America. Henry Ansligner bought it hook, line and sinker, and he set the tone until the 40s, when hemp was briefly made legal for the war effort. Note that Jack Herer's The Emperor Wears No Clothes does an excellent job illustrating this historical relationship.

    Once the Beats started smoking weed in 50s, hemp was criminalized again, and the prohibition was expanded to felony status as law enforcement started targeting the evolution of the Beat movement, the hippies.

    The subsequent prohibition on cocaine products was targeted at black neighborhoods (as per the GOP intention during the Nixon/Reagan era), and was built upon the "successes" of the previous marijuana prohibition.

    This is why I don't think they'll stop at porn.

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    [–] 87 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    The GOP/Nazi party is where humanity goes to die. Good thing they are in an ever shrinking minority.

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    [–] 64 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Wouldn't it be nice if these clowns stopped trying to legislate away their hangups and instead sought some fucking therapy?

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    [–] 55 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The death rattles of a dying political party embracing #fascism.

    The GOP has lost something like 11 of their last 13 special elections & just keep digging their grave.

    If we keep voting Blue, keep doing exactly what we are doing to preserve the USA, the #GOP won't be a national party by 2028.

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  • [–] 52 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The fight doesn't end at the ballot box, but it does start there. Everyone needs to vote. Vote in the primaries, vote in the general, vote in local elections, & vote in state & national elections. Make yourself heard, & organize.

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    [–] 37 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It's always incredibly ironic when the party that favors small govt, minimal State, is also the one that loves to make the most bullshit laws curtailing personal freedom.

    Not exclusive to the USA, unfortunately.

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    [–] 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    America is losing the fucking plot!

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    And you just know these guys are the first in line giving some egirl money on their chaturbate

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    [–] 25 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    As someone who stood in front of some dude trying to force me to suck his dick (and I fucked off immediately) and getting back assaulted by randoms on the midschool (while dressed) yet I'm still an hetero, biological male...? What the heck is going on? Why on earth I'd start sucking dicks just because I saw some dude naked on screen? That'd be ridiculous, and a demonstration of a severe lack of wit and common sense. That is like, staring at my own cock would make me gay or something amongst those lines.

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    [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    When you pry it from my warm, sticky hands...

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Or even secretly renting hookers and escorts, even if they are gay or trans.

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