Comment on How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet

JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They pander to the Christian nationalists for their votes. They just want power, they don’t actually hold those values.

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  • Cuttlefish1111@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Neither do Christians, it’s the Billionaires

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• sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Because we live in a ravenous corrupt oligarchy barely able to keep the appearance of a functioning democracy.

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• radivojevic@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  And kids

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• Virkkunen@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There's probably a name for this just like the "author's barely disguised fetish". Usually when you see politicians campaigning this hard on topics like those, it's probably because they themselves are doing it

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• Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Doublethink is a core tenant

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  • subignition@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Tenet

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And that tenet lives in their heads rent-free.

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      • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That filthy dirty freeloading communist tenant tenet!

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• PineRune@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They’re against pornography, not prostitutes. There’s a difference, I guess.

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  • NegativeInf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They are also against prostitutes. Sex work is work! Criminalizing it only serves to endanger those who are most at risk.

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    • macrocephalic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And yet they love the man you cheated on his wife with a porn star.

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      • admin@lemmy.my-box.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I suppose that’s one way to generalize an entire country.

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• rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Pornography and prostitution are different.

  One is information, allowing you to dream (maybe of stupid things), another is in the physical world.

  I don’t want to think a lot of these parallels, but I’ve noticed that people close to actual government bureaucracies are in general very sceptical of imagined things against physical.

  Among other things, consuming pornography doesn’t make you feel powerful, while a prostitute is a real human working for you.

  Also 30s’ propaganda had traits clearly aimed at, eh, sexually dissatisfied youth.

  So maybe it’s just about feeling their own power, and maybe it’s about returning that device of affecting minds. I dunno

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• uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s entirely about loyalty and institutionalized stratification. Laws are meant to constrain those outside the party, while those within the party are given a lot of latitude.

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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Bind, not protect, protect, but not bind.

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• KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  because they’re conservative, and that’s a thing cons do for some reason. google “i know it when i see it” to get some history on how batshit insane it gets.

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• masquenox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  when so many keep getting caught with prostitutes sex workers?

  FTFY. If you’ve ever worked for a living, you’re a prostitute - just like the rest of us.

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• StaySquared@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You just answered it… ban pornography. It doesn’t ban prostitution.

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