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[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago

Oh yes the same Republicans that want to save the children also want to marry them..

[–] [email protected] 55 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Banning porn nationwide is part of Project 2025's plan. defeatproject2025.org

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago

Conservatism / Religiosity is a plague that's been retarding our species since the dawn of man.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is part one of the religious rights plan to go after porn sites and their patrons. Don’t give them your ID. If they get power, it will come back on you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't think pornhub wants your ID.

I live in Texas and just tested the site to see if anyone has changed. It hasn't since they essentially shut down here.

It's a full page statement about Texas politicians.

There's no option to submit an ID even if a person wanted to do so.

But maybe I've misunderstood who "them" is in your comment.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's not pornhub that wants your id, it's the facist states, so they can have a registry of who's not aligned with their puritanical ideals.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (3 children)

To add to this, the repugs are going to demand user access data next and identity confirmation stuffs.

They’ll see everyone’s porn habits. And have addresses for everyone watching anything except all the fucked up incest porn.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 92 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Honestly, this feels like a canary in a coalmine. A coalmine that we've known to be on fire, but a canary nonetheless.

12 states total. That's like a quarter of the country.

2025 is gonna be a wild ride..

[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 months ago

Ironically their leader pays porn stars to have sex with him which obviously is not a problem for their voters.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

Just imagine how angry everyone is going to be when they can't masturbate the pain of Present Day away

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Ok What is the canary wearing?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I’ll have to ask e621.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Oh step-canary!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I believe it's just stuck in the dryer.

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[–] [email protected] 146 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I had to travel to Austin for work a few weeks ago. Got off the plane, checked into the hotel, took a shower, decided to use mother nature’s melatonin to help with the jet lag… then, boom. Upload your driver’s license.

So I had visited some sites that were hosted outside US and didn’t give a fuck about Texas’ stupid laws.

These laws are not only authoritarian, they’re fucking useless.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What's worse: Reputable sites that comply with U.S. laws (such as participants being 18+ and filming of their own free will) are effectively forced out, while questionable site carry on.

The likelyhood of seeing abuse victims or underage in Texas goes up, not down.

If they truly cared about protecting minors, they'd see the flaw in their law and rectify it. Of course, we all know (not through cynicism but cold repeated behavior) that political conservatives do not care about minors and care far more about punishing consenting adults.

This law is a step toward the latter.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I assume this is the "small government" party doing this?

(I'm not an American)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes. They want "small government" when the law affects them, but "law and order" when it punishes someone else who annoys them.

It's childishness we've come to be accustomed to, thanks to lead-brained 70-year-olds who are falling into legit cognitive decline... but still have the numbers to be a formidable opponent at the polls on election day.

Also, their dicks don't work anymore without a blue pill, so they may as well take away the consensual naked fun of Gen X, Millennial, and Gen Z (18+) people right?

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Republicans, which yeah. They like to talk about “small government” when it comes to billionaires and taxes, it really, that’s about it.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Time to invest in VPN companies..

[–] [email protected] 59 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Enjoy that freedom!

Never lost that backwards, repressed, puritanical, "we come to the new world to be more dogmatic" prude streak.

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