Because we live in a ravenous corrupt oligarchy barely able to keep the appearance of a functioning democracy.
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JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
How could American politicians be so against pornography, when so many keep getting caught with prostitutes?
Typical. Rules for thee I guess.
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
radivojevic@discuss.online 3 months ago
And kids
Virkkunen@fedia.io 3 months 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
Evotech@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Doublethink is a core tenant
subignition@fedia.io 3 months ago
Tenet
grue@lemmy.world 3 months ago
And that tenet lives in their heads rent-free.
ICastFist@programming.dev 3 months ago
That filthy dirty freeloading communist tenant tenet!
PineRune@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They’re against pornography, not prostitutes. There’s a difference, I guess.
NegativeInf@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They are also against prostitutes. Sex work is work! Criminalizing it only serves to endanger those who are most at risk.
macrocephalic@lemmy.world 3 months ago
And yet they love the man you cheated on his wife with a porn star.
admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 3 months ago
I suppose that’s one way to generalize an entire country.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 months 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
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months 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.
samus12345@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Bind, not protect, protect, but not bind.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months 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.
masquenox@lemmy.world 3 months ago
when so many keep getting caught with
prostitutessex workers?FTFY. If you’ve ever worked for a living, you’re a prostitute - just like the rest of us.
StaySquared@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You just answered it… ban pornography. It doesn’t ban prostitution.
simplejack@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They pander to the Christian nationalists for their votes. They just want power, they don’t actually hold those values.
Cuttlefish1111@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Neither do Christians, it’s the Billionaires