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.
The Puritans are still ruling in that stupid country.
They don’t intend to ban anything. They’re just creating reasons to lock people up.
They are, to a man, insane authoritarian shitbags. All they care about is control.
The plan according to project 2025 is to classify trans people existing as pornographic. Wish I was joking. Been warning people about this for a year now.
The original documents for project 2025 were released in 2017 well leaked in 2017. And it was talked about for about the day and disappeared and here we are.
Project 2025 has been happening in Oklahoma since 2017. No one gave a shit when it was the asshole of the country, but shit spreads.
Y’all get to enjoy the suffering I’ve been enjoying for the past ten years.
Oh boy, I can’t wait to find out if Oklahoma is a shining utopia, a guiding beacon of the future for the rest of the country.
I’ve got some bad news.
It really made the rounds again in 2020, even to the point of breaking into the mainstream. Probably a lot more people are aware of it than you might think, it’s just the doing something about it that we’re all sticking on.
In 2020 we didn’t have to do anything about it. It was just another set of online nutcases, no one who could get elected would actually try that.
2025: hold my beer
I meant to say 2024, during the election. The past few years have been a blur to me.
Exactly. It’s well known now.
It’s unfortunately not. Go ask your (general) parents or grandparents what it is and what it means. Ask them if they think it’s happening right now and to what extent.
I bet their answers will be surprising to a lot of people.
The text that became Project 2025 has been published every four years or so since the Regan administration.
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Basically everything they have to say on the subject is thinley veiled homophobia and should be treated as such
so just like Russia
Yup, it’s the typical conservative playbook: If you don’t like something, redefine it as something unpopular. Then target the unpopular thing, so democrats can’t oppose it without inciting “this democrat voted against a bill to protect/stop {sympathetic demographic} from {unpopular thing}” smear campaigns.
Step 1 was equating trans people with sexual predators. You keep that messaging consistent and constant. Find stories of trans people doing normal things, but spin it as if they’re dangerous. Invent stories if you need to, because debunking them takes a lot more time than inventing them…
They weren’t jogging in a neighborhood; they were casing the neighborhood. They weren’t using a public restroom; they were looking for people to sexually assault. They weren’t trying on clothes to see if they fit; they were looking to assault women and children in the changing rooms. They weren’t volunteering for the local women’s shelter; They were looking for defenseless victims. They weren’t writing a book for other trans people; They were indoctrinating kids and trying to turn them trans. Et cetera, et cetera…
Once conservative voters have started to accept that messaging, you move onto step 2:
“This bill will protect children from sexual predators” means it bans trans people from being able to pee.
“This bill will protect children from being exposed to dangerous sexual material” means it bans any kind of trans iconography by labeling it as porn.
“This bill will stop sexual predators from hiding in your neighborhood” means it requires trans people to register in a public database/wear a {pink triangle} badge.
“This bill will ensure sexual predators are kept away from the rest of the population” means it rounds trans people up into camps.And if anybody ever tries to point out what the bill is really doing, put them on blast with the “radical left is trying to let sexual predators steal your kids and assault your women” messaging.
Sure would be nice if the not-as-conservatives could use their own tactics to flip the script on them.
I disagree that it’s conservative. It’s nazi/ authoritarian/radical. For 50 odd years afer ww2 the cons knew this was a daft tactic. Prior to that (well prior to 1790 ish ) con/feudal/landowners managed their serfs and peasants, they didn’t want infighting. (outfighting, thats a different , maybe lucrative albeit lottery).
Cons are just common or garden cunts. populists are serious, they can mobilise labour .
The traditional cons wil ride the wave because they have no choice and no friends. until they realise they’ll be expropriated eventually, which the nazis won’t do until after they have critical mass. Fucking con Niemollers
In the 50 odd years after WW2, we saw them frame civil rights as communism and use the war on drugs to bomb and destroy black neighborhoods.
This is conservatism.
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It is.
We need more media to take advantage of the SCP Foundation. Movies, games, etc. Give the authors credit. Pay them. Because there’s a whole lot of great stuff there.
SCP-001 “When Day Breaks” would make an incredible horror movie.
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That is the pragmatic and short term outcome, but I would not discount the level of power hard-line Christian nationalists have over the far right. Many of them believe “moral degeneracy” like porn is the most grave problem of western society and would be glad to “correct” it given the chance.
Please don’t drag the insane down to this level. This is planned and intentional (even if there is factional opposition)
“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.
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.
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.
Who’s gonna tell Ted Cruz?
Lindsey Graham
Republicans telling on themselves again.
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.
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
Do gay, be crimes?
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”.
I find the entire MAGA movement obscene. Lock them up.
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.
Yeah, the freedom to oppress others, just like the founding fathers did!
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.
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.
To clearly state the obvious: it does take away their liberty and that’s a good thing. Economic liberalism is a tragedy.
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.
Can you provide examples? Or just here to make generalizations?
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.
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.
Are there really not enough house or senate votes, or court decisions, that we resort to writing articles about every bill introduced?
