Comment on Pornhub shuts down in Texas... and predictably, VPNs benefit

Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• scoobford@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They are heavily entrenched in Texas. They will have to badly piss off most people enough that they all go vote in the same cycle.

  Our state government has actually been getting much more radical over the past few years, because the only people who vote are conservative radicals, because everyone else is either apathetic or aware that their vote won’t matter unless millions of people suddenly wake up tomorrow and vote.

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  • JackiesFridge@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Millions of people not voting because it would take millions of people voting to elicit positive change and nobody is doing that is one of the most frustrating things.

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    • Tinks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I refuse to be part of that group. I’m a democrat living in KS and I vote in every single election I can. My candidate may not win, but damnit they will count my vote and know that I dissent.

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      • Bear_pile@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I look at it as earning my right to bitch about our elected officials

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      • AtmaJnana@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        My candidate may not win, but damnit they will count my vote and know that I dissent.

        Which is the same exact reason I vote third party despite them mostly not winning.

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• HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not as long as the other guy is some dirty liberal who believes in socialist conspiracies like the holocaust having actually happened…

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve never really understood why they claim it didn’t happen, it’s not like they were the ones doing it so i don’t understand why they feel the need to protect themselves by claiming its non-existence.

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    • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s a recruitment tactic mostly, they all know that it happened, but they hope they can reach those who pride themselves on being open minded by saying “What if it didn’t?” or “Hey, they seem to get REALLY made at people who are just harmlessly asking questions?”

      So that they can be “Heard out”, and hope to indoctrinate you.

      This tactic sadly works, and it’s why you can’t just “Debate them and challenge their idiocy in the free market of ideas.”

      They simply won’t play the game fairly and in good faith. An honest debate is between two parties hoping to better make their positions understood, but if you’re not honest about what you believe in or why, the whole process has the rub pulled out from under it.

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• jhulten@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Unfortunately that isn’t how identity politics works.

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• MostlyGibberish@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not as long as there are minorities to blame for everything.

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• billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Something something… Leopards … Face eating …

  I doubt it.

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  • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    the old guys with piles of old greasy porn mags grinning with their remaining teeth.

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• Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They are trying their damndest with this and going after IVF, but so far it hasn’t moved the needle too much.

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