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[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Think of all the politicians he'll have to arrest

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Going to be throwing a lot of people in jail then.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Oh lord another "christian nationalist" nutjob with severe mental problems. If he wants to persecute evildoers, he needs to start by putting a clamp over his own monsterous mouth.

It is NOT morality to condemn pornography. In fact, I believe it's far more idiotic and immoral not to watch "porn" (which I wish didn't have a name with such negative connotations to it). People put effort and money into making that s#it for our enjoyment (mostly us males, I admit, but it's there for everyone to enjoy).

They found cave paintings in Lescoux that show cavemen sex with animals and other humans, including kids. My point here is that "porn," which is a term that usually just refers to sexual congress between human beings, has existed FOR A REASON as long as human beings have been around.

I know it's not fashionable, "christian," or polite to make a statement supporting the viewing of sexual pleasure as a necessary part of life, but I hold with Larry Flynt's view of "relax people, it's JUST sex." The idea that human sexuality is sinful is perhaps the most evil idea ever perpetrated by man.

The one impulsive, pleasurable and inexpensive joy we have being labelled a sin and wrong is, to me, the real crime here. I'm not saying porn doesn't sometimes create victims, but for every instance of that, there are billions more who enjoy it and are not harmed but in fact are uplifted and given a healthy outlet because of it.

Something to think about - just sayin'.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

When will conservatives realize that what people behind closed doors is none of their business?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No. Traditionally, people were nosey as hell! This is one instance of a conservative actually being conservative.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Why must HIS morality be EVERYONE'S morality? What gives him the right to decide that for me?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

This dude definitely watches porn, and is most likely into the weirdest fetishes.

It's unusually the ones that bring this shit up that have the most experience in this department.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Well guess I'm getting the death penalty. You can have my porn when you pry it from my cold dead hands.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oklahoma lawmaker Dusty Deevers is a hardcore Christian nationalist

Again, separation of church and state is a myth...

I think that's our biggest problem right now. All of these religious assholes who somehow get into government positions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

somehow get into government positions

It's no great mystery. The rightwing show up to vote reliably. The leftwing complain online and get mad at each other for not marching in lockstep.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Well now we know what he likes to do during his free time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I've got fifty cents that says this dude watches an extraordinary amount of gay porn and somehow he thinks that is shameful. It isn't, but he thinks it is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Blasphemous cunt.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That’s not a phrase they’ve heard before.

Donate to the Satanic Temple. They’re fighting this fight for us by challenging these assholes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Love those guys ever since they left that spook LaVey in the dust

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

just build a wall around the state of oklahoma, don't let anyone out. done.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

lol great. Now we just need hackers to hack every republican device, so that at least ⅔ of the party ends up in jail.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Two thirds? Damn you're optimistic. More like 90%. I'd guess about a third of those would be looking at jail time if their porn was revealed even if regular porn wasn't made illegal. Remember with Republicans every accusation is an admission and they've been awfully strident about groomers lately.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

No need. There is a 100% chance that everyone that would vote for a measure like this has loads of porn on their devices already.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Most porn viewers are in red states but we all know they are above the law, so it's good

[–] [email protected] 107 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I’m not looking forward to learning what weird shit this dude is actually into. It’s gotta be real pervert hours when he goes down to his sex dungeon.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He prob got caught watching porn by his wife and he had to go all scorched earth to get her to not take the kids and leave

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but a sex dungeon is not porn /s

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

100% this guy films women attaching his balls to jumper cables and shitting on his chest.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Because America doesn't suffer enough from frivolous prosecutions and overcrowded prisons.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (4 children)

That's the point. The US has for profit prisons and also uses prisoners as slave labor (ok, technically not slave, they officially get paid, but it's like $0.03 an hour or something, so it's effectively slave labor). More prisoners means more profits for the owners and the politicians they give kickbacks to. They're modern day plantations. The more things change the more they stay the same.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

They're usually paid some miniscule amount, but not always; the 13th amendment specifically allows prisoners to be used as slaves. Most states have laws banning it, but not all of them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I tend to use the phrase "coerced labor" when I talk about that s***.

I completely agree with everything you're saying, the American criminal, judicial and prison system is absolutely f****** horrifying.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

He’s like the preacher in ”There Will Be Blood”

[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 months ago

Jesus save us from your followers.

[–] [email protected] 133 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (9 children)

American Taliban

Are any of his views backed up by Jesus?

[–] [email protected] 60 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Jesus lived in a region conquered by the Roman Empire. Many of his fans at the time wanted him to be a conquering ruler and overthrow them. His answer in the text amounted to, "that's not why I'm here." Nominal Christians trying to install a Christian Government have missed the point of their own text so hard it's actually kinda funny.

Jesus: Share resources among those that need them, it's very hard for rich people to enter heaven.

His Followers: Temporarily embarrassed billionaires who idolize wealth and build literal golden statues of their favorite rich guy.

Jesus: Hangs out with tax collectors (i.e., agents of the Romans, who were not popular), hookers, low status foreigners, and people with terminal diseases.

His Followers: Ew, drag queens and brown people. Gross.

Jesus: Encourages non-violent responses to his own capture pending execution. Tells many parables about forgiveness and treating foreigners as neighbors.

His Followers: Immigrants are invading us! They terk our jerbs! BOMB IRAN!

Anyone seeing a pattern here? The reality is that Christianity isn't really a belief system for them, it's a cultural identity or tribal marker. You don't have to actually believe any of this shit or behave accordingly. All you have to do is say the right words and present the right image. Right wing Evangelical Christianity is a hollowed out husk; an empty aesthetic presenting as a belief system that promises that anything you do will be wiped away if you say the right words and give money to whatever charlatan is giving his Dollar General Ted Talk today.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (2 children)

And is prolly a secret pedo

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In this case, the law could potentially give green light to CP as long as it's between married couples, as

  1. it has an exception for married couples,
  2. it does not differentiate between porn of consenting adults and of children who cannot consent.

After seeing many laws that are written in a way they have other effects that are "totally unintended", I refuse to believe this guy isn't aware the pedo part of his law. I usually oppose pedojacketing, but in this case it's not unwarranted.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Probably? This is textbook for these people. Every accusation from Conservatives is an admission of guilt.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 9 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Other way around. Christian extremism predates Islam as a religion.

Its also almost certainly directly responsible for the burning of the Library of Alexandria, and possibly the burning of Rome.

It's also why European folklore and ancient customs don't really exist other than bits and pieces outside of a few places. Christian extremism wiped it out.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


In Deevers’ view, civil society, apart from the influence of overt Christian doctrine, is not a neutral middle ground, but rather the realm of the devil, or what he calls “a serpentine theocracy.”

But when Deevers opens his mouth, he invariably presents a jarring, black-and-white view of the role of government — which he believes exists to “protect innocent people and to punish and terrorize evildoers.”

While campaigning, Deevers told a religious podcast he also favors “public shaming for those who are at fault in divorce.” (In a related essay, he calls this “an important act of justice for both the transgressor and the transgressed.”)

Deevers embodies a threat that experts believe Christian nationalism poses to democracy — by literally demonizing his opponents, and casting compromise as moral corruption.

As Brad Onishi, author of an “Extremist History of Christian Nationalism,” recently described in an interview with Rolling Stone: “If you’re a person who is convinced that the United States is under threat by a Luciferian regime, comprised of Marxist globalist secularists, feminists, the LGBTQ community, and so on, democracy is not your sacred value.”

Pitching himself to voters, Deevers filmed a campaign ad wielding a rifle while wearing a black T-shirt that read: “Obey God: Defy Tyrants.” He railed against “the Godless leftist agenda” that he warned threatens “thriving families and their moral development.” He additionally decried “drag queen story hour” and the “chemical and surgical mutilation of our kids.” A longtime opponent of abortion, Deevers positioned this stance in biblical terms as “loving my pre-born neighbor as myself.”


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