I am perfectly happy to discuss how exploitive the porn industry is of the participants and the arguable harm it does to certain populations, but am not a supporter of a blanket ban. And is this a potentially legitimate slippery slope situation?
All of this is over age verification laws? Iâm not familiar with the specifics of this effort, so Iâm not sure exactly how the effort will epically fail (just that it will, since the US historically hasnât been good at banning things). I think the main arguments against are data security and free speech based though.
Also, Louisianaâs law in particular applies to websites with 33.33% or more adult content. So, just change the website to be 31% adult content and 69% âarticles.â 
Thatâs arguably exactly what reddit is.
The elite class wants to destroy the middle class and eliminate social safety nets because they want to keep all the money for themselves. All of the pie.
I wish more people realized this. Should be in political truths imo.
The rest of us are distracted with things like abortion, immigration or other cultural war stuff.
Itâs a shame this same playbook works every time. Youâd think people would get wise to it eventually.
âDOGEâ makes me think of that annoying State Farm commercial with the ballet teacher: âBoondolay? Saavay!â
That ad is terrible. Just terrible.
Pretty sure that 95% of the elites who push things like anti-trans hate, book bans, etc. donât actually give a shit about those topics.
The rubes who bite onto stories about kitty litter boxes in schools distract the discourse from real issues. Now weâre forced to deal with a vast array of stupid issues like book bans because a character has two dads. Or more serious topics involving the safety of LGBTQ folk, racial minorities, etc. And so on and so on for what should be social non-issues.
Meanwhile the billionaires keep pulling away from the normal people. Billionaires shape our narratives. Musk in particular is a transnational political force propping up fascism in America, Germany, the UK, and more, while simultaneously owning and manipulating one of the primary sources of global communication to spread messages he wants.
Things are ominous.
Recent discourse reminds one of this:
In the background of my mind I vaguely questioned, âWho is the most powerful person in the world?â
and my brain didnât return Biden, or Trump - Elon Musk first came to mind.
I keep getting political texts urging me to contact my Congresspeople to tell them to vote for Trumpâs nominees.
I donât recall getting post-election texts like this pushing support for the President in prior elections. Itâs weird. Also, wonder who sold my number.
Any and every company who has ever had your phone number
WSJ gift link â âVoters want MAGA liteâ
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From humor, but want to respond seriously:
This is what people say and argue, but Republicans do not actually want to minimize government in practice. They want government interference instead of letting patients, doctors, and parents make medical decisions about reproduction or gender. The growing number of anti-porn laws are sufficiently vague that many people expect them to be used against websites providing sex ed or LGBTQ content, especially given many key figures have already declared LGBTQ people to be inherently pornographic. Republicans have long been at the forefront of wanting expanded powers for law enforcement, and people are now seriously talking about using the military for domestic actions.
Yeah, I wonât disagree with any of that and you can find exceptions to any generalization. I put a the blame on the Christian part of the republican coalition for both of those examples and I think they represent some potential areas of backlash from your average R.
