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.
doesnt even trigger me anymore. tomorrow the legion of dumbasses will come up with something way stupider. place your bets now!
Moon of America? …been there fIrSt! Annex earth?
it will be stupider!
“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.
Obscenity isn’t protected by the First Amendment
Is this the same Constitution that they’re pissing on? 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.
Guns fall into children’s hands all the time, something that literally kills, and they don’t seem to give a shit about that
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.
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.
When you use AI to write your bills and tell it to implement Project 2025.
Do gay, be crimes?
Hmm. Maybe this’ll be what wakes America 🤣
project 2025 became public before the elections
DVDs, video compression, high speed Internet, wouldn’t be the first time it was a driving force
Don’t forget Blu-ray!
VR, AI…
Unlikely.
who is this Bill, and what does he have against porn. does Bill not know that his other name is Willy?
Bill is like Richard, a dick.
“Party of freedom”, everyone.
freedom to invade your home without a warrant on suspicion for harboring an undesirable.
freedom to live in crushing debt and be forced to work like a dog your whole life.
freedom to buy, freedom to sell.
edit - guess that’s what you get when you elect Biff… twice
Yeah, that’s the sadness we’ll live with the rest of our lives.
No one invaded us and did this to us. We did it to ourselves. Because we’re an exceptionally stupid society.
Republicans want government in the bedroom.
Who’s gonna tell Ted Cruz?
Lindsey Graham
Republicans telling on themselves again.
Extreme porn is to child abuse what cannabis is to heroin.
Wonder how much extreme porn Catholic priests watch. /s
Probably very little tbh, they just rape children directly.
trump admin: proclaims hate for China
also trump admin: pass a Chinese law (banning pornography)
🤔
What next? trump portrait in everyone’s houses? mandatory little red maga bibles that everyone has to carry?
Seems like trump doesn’t actually hate CCP, he’s just mad he isn’t the leader of the CCP.
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
Joke’s on them. Crime is my fetish
I’ve been responding to a lot of Republican news with this same comment:
“What happened to bringing the choice to the states?”
- Comments on news articles are going to largely be bots, it’s a waste of time.
- They do not care about being hypocrites. They are laughing with glee that they are winning and that you are losing, frustrated, angry, and scared.
Exactly. Same with Meta platforms. You’re not fighting with a concept or an idea, this is their entire personality. They don’t care how horrid the viewpoint is, they’re just happy to be better than something. There’s a reason that it’s usually the poorest and lowest of our society, it’s because they want to feel better than people when they deep down know they’re not. It’s why it’s so hateful. It’s why they get joy even when it hurts themselves. They’re winning at something.
Yes, “it’s us or the porn”, yes this will go well for the republicans, yes. Then they can start on alcohol and gambling
Nah, not alcohol - they’ll start with drugs, because that gives them a convenient casus belli to say “Mexico isn’t doing enough to suppress the cartels, so the carpet bombing began 20 minutes ago”.
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.
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.
To clearly state the obvious: it does take away their liberty and that’s a good thing. Economic liberalism is a tragedy.
Can you provide examples? Or just here to make generalizations?
No one has the rights to harm another. Your argument is ridiculous.
Do you mean idealistically (a belief), or reality in practice? Because many groups have been given the legal right to harm others, e.g. military, police, certain sports players and businesses, so in practice, many people have the right to harm another and it’s terrible.
If you mean idealistically, well, that’s a nice idea but it means nothing until we collectively build the power to enforce it. The bourgeoisie crying about regulation taking away their freedom to put lead in our food tend to be the people with the money and power to perform regulatory capture.
It’s not their argument, they are just reporting. Chill out.
That’s just “people are saying”. It’s either a straw man, or a belief. If not both.
So you think we shouldn’t have regulations?
The opposite. I heartily disagree that regulations protecting some people from harm are at the detriment of others.
Do you believe that if regulations are put in place, some people will be upset that they aren’t allowed to continue their bad behavior and claim that their rights has been violated?
What kind of regulations?
You’re baiting people without providing examples. Which I’m sure you’re aware of.
Any singular regulation will do. If any come to mind, then you can list any you think should be out in place.
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.
Yeah, the freedom to oppress others, just like the founding fathers did!
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.
