All Porn Is 'Violence Against Women,' U.K. Parliamentary Committee Says
Plus: The SAFE TECH Act, Reason talks to young conservatives at CPAC, and more...
An All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) studying sexual exploitation in the United Kingdom says that not only is porn a major contributor to real-world violence, it is violence. The group is calling on U.K. lawmakers to enact a bevy of new laws regulating porn.
Their concerns are not just about coercion in the porn industry, porn's availability to minors, or other common worries. Rather, the group echoes old radical feminist tropes about pornography—that there is no such thing as ethical porn, that it's all "exploitation," and its mere existence is "a form of violence against women."
Sigh.
All-Party Parliamentary Groups "have no official status within Parliament," according to the Parliament website. Nonetheless, "these groups can sometimes be influential," it says. A 2022 report from the House of Commons Committee on Standards called them "a vital part of how Parliament works."
So it's worrying to see statements like these from Diana Johnson, a member of Parliament and chair of the APPG on Commercial Sexual Exploitation: "It's now high time that Government acted and recognised the damage caused by the pornography industry to the lives and the safety of women."
The committee calls for things such as mandatory age verification for porn websites (a scheme that may sound good but is almost impossible to implement—and has tons of privacy concerns, since it means all visitors turning over identification—in practice) and also more vague changes, like addressing porn "as commercial sexual exploitation, and a form of violence against women, in legislation and policy."
The group also calls for giving all performers a right to veto their images being online at any time, even if they have previously consented and been paid for their work. This would not only create major problems for porn producers and distributors but be completely unworkable in practice, since something uploaded to the internet has a way of traveling even if folks later wish it wouldn't.
The committee's new report—Pornography regulation: The case for Parliamentary reform—repeats a number of unfounded or debunked theses about porn, like the idea that it's a major driver of off-screen violence against women and sexist attitudes.
In fact, there's research showing that people who watch porn may hold more egalitarian views than those who don't.
And while some research has shown a potential link between high levels of sexual aggression and high levels of porn consumption (among both women and men), there's nothing proving that this is causal (that is, that porn consumption drives aggression). Aggression could drive people to watch more porn, or some third factor could drive both.
And if pornography were really fueling real-world violence, we would expect to see violent crime rising as the internet has made porn much more widely accessible over the past three decades. Instead, this is a period in which murder, sexual assault, and other violent crime rates have largely decreased.
Some research has shown that people who commit rape actually consume less porn than those who aren't rapists. And the failure to find links between viewing porn—in the olden days or now—and committing violence goes way back.
"Exposure to pornography during adolescence had little effect on persons who later became rapists and child molesters," the Associated Press reported 53 years ago on the findings of a presidential commission on pornography. Rather, "sexual deviates generally came from homes where pornography was restricted and sex was never discussed," and "most deviates had been severely punished as teenagers by their parents when caught with pornographic material."
Taken together, evidence suggests that banning pornography or severely punishing people who watch it could even lead to an increase in violence against women. Meanwhile, cracking down on internet porn platforms could not only hurt the livelihoods of many independent performers and content creators, it could also drive people into riskier avenues of sex work.
Perhaps the U.K. porn commission would know this if they actually talked to anyone in the porn industry or to a variety of researchers on porn, sexual violence, and media effects. Instead, the committee concluded its inquiry after hearing "from leading figures in the US Christian anti-porn lobby but no sex workers," notes Vice.
"The inquiry did hear from individuals specialising in children's safety," points out Vice's Sophia Smith Galer. "But the inquiry also heard from prominent figures in anti-porn advocacy, such as Dr Gail Dines, and figures associated with the Christian-backed anti-porn lobby in the US."
These are not figures taking a cool-headed look at the effects of pornography but people—like Laila Mickelwait of Traffickinghub and Haley McNamara of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (formerly Morality in Media)—who explicitly call for abolishing all sex work and say all sex work is sex trafficking, even when participants do not claim to be forced or coerced. (See Reason's May 2022 cover story, "The New Campaign for a Sex-Free Internet," for more on these crusaders.)
And the academic researchers the committee talked to were not folks actually studying porn effects themselves but, largely, men who have made a name for themselves being Good Male Feminist Allies, talking about things like "toxic masculinity," or women whose work is focused on defining all sex work as exploitation.
There are definitely discussions to be had about best practices for preventing children from viewing porn, the (unfortunately outsized) role of porn in sex education, how best to prevent exploitation and coercion within the porn industry, how to best help people who feel "addicted" to porn, and things like that. But these are complex topics that require nuanced discussion and viewpoints, and none is helped by a simplistic "all porn is bad" narrative.
FREE MINDS
The SAFE TECH Act is anything but safe. A new proposal from Democrats in Congress would upend the internet as we know it. Dubbed the "Safeguarding Against Fraud, Exploitation, Threats, Extremism and Consumer Harms (SAFE TECH) Act," the bill—introduced by Mark Warner (D–Va.) in the Senate and Kathy Castor (D–Fla.) in the House—is a redux of a bill first introduced in 2021. Techdirt Editor in Chief Mike Masnick called the earlier version "a dumpster fire of cluelessness." And this year's bill doesn't appear to be any better:
The SAFE TECH Act is yet another stab at undermining Section 230 of federal communications law. As it stands, Section 230 protects tech platforms—large and small—and their users from civil liability for content created by others.
[…] The first change the SAFE TECH Act would make is to say [Section 230] doesn't apply when "the provider or user has accepted payment to make the speech available or, in whole or in part, created or funded the creation of the speech."
This would open up a huge range of tech companies to more liability. Blogging platforms like WordPress and newsletter and podcast distributors like Substack would be vulnerable, as would any social media platform that provides a paid tier level (like Twitter Blue).
So would all sorts of web hosting services—creating huge incentives for providers to cut off web hosting access to any person or group even slightly controversial.
And this change "would also threaten liability on any service that shares its advertising revenue with creators, for instance as YouTube does," as law professor and blogger Eugene Volokh pointed out when the SAFE TECH Act first came out. This would create incentives for platforms to cut off or severely limit creator monetization schemes, meaning "creators would thus be less likely to earn money from their works."
In addition, "the section would threaten liability whenever any providers provide grants to support local journalism or other such projects (something like the Google News Initiative)," noted Volokh. "Providers would thus become less likely to directly or indirectly support journalism and other expression."
So, already, the SAFE TECH Act would usher in an array of negative incentives—and that's just with its first change. Alas, the bill would also change a lot more.
Read the rest here.
FREE MARKETS
Do young conservatives still care about the free market? A depressing dispatch from the 2023 Conservative Political Action Conference, courtesy of Reason's Emma Camp:
Of the dozen young conservative voters Reason interviewed at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a significant majority voiced waning support for free market values, instead favoring regulation, protectionism, and cultural war zeal to battle abortion, "wokeness" in schools, "cancel culture," and globalism.
"There has been a rethinking throughout the movement of the laissez faire–style economics. And that rethinking is to use more regulation toward things that Republicans feel are targeting them," said Zachary Wanuga, a senior at Salisbury University. "So, for instance, Republicans are for free markets, they're against breaking up businesses and regulating them. However, they're taking a different approach now to the issue of Big Tech censorship, and they would like to see more censorship, they would like to see regulation."
Jacob Ashley, a 19-year-old student at Ohio Northern University, repeated the sentiment. "I tend more nationalistic and 'America First' than opening up the free market completely," said Ashley. "Globalization has done some damage, particularly to our culture and national identity."
See also: Conservatives at CPAC Criticize—and Misunderstand—Section 230
QUICK HITS
Florida Sen. Jason Brodeur (R-Lake Mary) wants bloggers who write about Gov. Ron DeSantis, Attorney General Ashley Moody, and other members of the Florida executive cabinet or legislature to register with the state or face fines.
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— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) March 2, 2023
• The U.S. is expected to announce even more aid for Ukraine today. The new military aid package will be "worth roughly $400 million and comprised mainly of ammunition," Reuters reports.
• Documents released by Arizona's new Attorney General show that "former Republican Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich declined to publish investigative findings by his office that disproved 2020 election fraud claims."
• "A government watchdog has found that the Secret Service and ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) unit repeatedly failed to obtain the correct legal paperwork when carrying out invasive cell phone surveillance," reports TechCrunch.
• TikTok is introducing a 60-minute screen time limit for minors.
• Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D–Wis.) attempts some dairy industry protectionism once again:
Imitation dairy products have gotten away with using dairy's good name for their own benefit. Today, I introduced my DAIRY PRIDE Act to take a stand for Wisconsin dairy farmers and the real, quality dairy products they make. pic.twitter.com/VH7T9H0kbB
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ENB is the best – reminder.
ENB is over 12, so the hard-on you have for her seems misplaced.
It’s comforting to know that his majesty is regulating violence across the pond.
Will they have the balls to tell the women who are making it?
Fuck off, Misek.
Hahaha.
Fuck off and die, Nazi scum
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You obviously have strong feelings for me. You’re delusional that you think they have any effect at all on me.
You demonstrate that you’re insane by doing the same thing while expecting a different result.
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Your feelings for me, your delusions and poor choices are yours alone kol Nidre boy.
I’m pleased with the optics that I prove what I claim and refute what I deny.
Hahaha
Are you on the rag?
Pluggo praising ENB on a pro-pornography Round-Up
She’s not talking about little boys, pervert. Fuck off and die.
Mike already called dibs on being her sycophant.
ENB only has eyes for Matthew Yglesias
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All Porn Is ‘Violence Against Women,’
Especially gay porn.
“All Porn Is ‘Violence Against Women,’”
I dont buy it. Especially not the porn where the guy is choking, slapping, bukakeying all over her, and occasionally pissing on her. That’s empowering for the woman!
Go on…
Tell us more….
British porn is both violence against the women and the viewers.
I feel like some version of your “stiff upper lip” comment can be rearranged and used in this context
Having seen some amateur Brit porn, would tend to agree. The UK toothpaste effect is not appealing.
Mmm… I would say the teeth are frequently the least appealing thing about their face but the acne is generally worse.
Well, you know how the gals can be, angry when we pay attention, and angry when we don’t.
How? Asking for many friends.
My thought too.
Is gay male porn involving only two men violence against women?
Is lesbian porn involving two women porn violence against women, even if made by women and it profits only women?
Is porn produce by women, for women, who get rich from producing that porn violence against women?
Yet giving young girls puberty blocker is not violence against women?
Mutilating the sexual organs of girls under 18 is not violence against women?
We really do need a “+1” upvote feature, but failing that:
+1
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1631508065265635328?t=DnXbF0S_gVrewnb5y2remg&s=19
2 groups of people were asked if they are proud of their skin color
One group was black
One group was white
This was the result: [video]
A direct result of academia / hollywood / activist teachers telling kids that whites are evil oppressors and blacks are virtuous victims.
Gee, I wonder why the self hating liberal whites are so depressed.
What a stupid thing to be proud of (or not).
Personally, the most “heartbreaking”* is that there’s a pretty clear, but unsaid, tone of “I don’t want to step left/agree on video because I don’t want to get lynched on social media now, or 30 yrs. down the road.”
*I’ve seen other Youtubers that have participated in these meme/debate/opinion polls and am sure it was said and got edited out.
The question relies on the premise that black skin doubles as an ethnicity, while white skin is a physical characteristic. I’m sure there are varying interpretations and beliefs about that.
Yeah, replace “white” with American, Irish, Italian, etc., and the reaction will be totally different. Most white people don’t identify as “white” per se, except when discussing it in contrast to being black.
Likely why the most fucktarded progressive types insist that white folks have neither history nor culture. They confuse African American blacks for the vast majority of white people who are capable of finding more about their specific ethnic and cultural ancestors.
Which is, of course, utterly ridiculous.
It’s OK to be black.
Also…[censored]
And that rethinking is to use more regulation toward things that Republicans feel are targeting them…
So it’s young Republicans, not necessarily young conservatives.
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Florida Sen. Jason Brodeur (R-Lake Mary) wants bloggers who write about Gov. Ron DeSantis, Attorney General Ashley Moody, and other members of the Florida executive cabinet or legislature to register with the state or face fines.
I hope this is a gross mischaracterization but deep inside I know it’s probably not.
State Congresscritters tend to be even stupider and more authoritarian than the federal ones.
Also, Florida.
SB 1316: Information Dissemination GENERAL BILL by Brodeur
Information Dissemination; Deleting a provision requiring a judicial notice of sale to be published for a specified timeframe on a publicly accessible website; specifying that a governmental agency may use the public website of a county to publish legally required advertisements and public notices if the cost for such publication is not paid by or recovered from a person; requiring bloggers to register with the Office of Legislative Services or the Commission on Ethics, as applicable, within a specified timeframe; authorizing a magistrate to enter a final order determining the reasonableness of circumstances for an untimely filing or a fine amount, etc.
No idea the definition of “as applicable.” That was the entire text.
That’s the header, the full bill is at the FL legislature site.
Unlike some other FL bills that have been mischaracterized, this one appears to really be as bad as they say. It applies to bloggers who write about Florida politicians and get paid to do it, regardless of amount. They are required to register within 5 days after the first time they write about a politician, and then continue to report their blogging income periodically.
On the face of it, it does not appear to directly regulate incidental ad revenue but one would fear facing penalties if a regulator decided there was some quid pro quo.
It’s a bad bill and clearly unconstitutional.
The best I can come up with for its purpose is to create some transparency by flushing out paid critics or advocates and treat them the same as lobbyists.
Whether lobbyists should be forced to register is a while different thing.
” is to create some transparency by flushing out paid critics ”
Or, it’s paranoia based on the belief that only a paid shill could possibly write something negative about DeSantis.
I’m very confident that many who would do it for free and equally confident there are many campaigns that would pay someone to do it too.
I don’t care which is which. They should all be free to write what they want without anything like a registration.
DeSantis came out against it….
That’s apparently his defense. Bloggers are lobbyists. Gop has started castigating him already.
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/03/03/republican-state-senator-introduces-authoritarian-anti-free-speech-bill-requiring-bloggers-to-report-to-the-state-n711115
Yeah, GOP legislators really get stuck on stupid sometimes. One of my local assemblymen tried to get dwarf tossing banned a few years ago. Reason covered it.
https://reason.com/2019/01/25/washington-state-lawmaker-wants-to-ban-d/
I’m acquainted with Mike Padden for some time. He’s normally a level headed conservative. But he really got into full mission creep mode on this one. Fortunately, it went nowhere.
I doubt this will either.
Does anyone think that anyone other than Florida Sen. Jason Brodeur will vote for Florida Sen. Jason Brodeur’s bill?
I do like how ENB looks for small state legislative bills while ignoring major federal ones.
The opposite of the ‘too local’ story, but only working when certain politicians can be mentioned, preferably in a negative light?
She had to balance her previous post calling out the democrats retarded SAFE ACT or whatever it’s called.
If it got to a vote, maybe a few votes. Not a lot of quality control on who gets to be a state legislator, and its mixed up with some possibly reasonable stuff about placement of government notices.
The U.S. is expected to announce even more aid for Ukraine today.
WAR MACHINE HUNGRY!
But when do we get our Ukrainian super models? You know they don’t age well.
Often very hot when young, babushka when not.
NO BLOOD FOR BORSCHT!
I know Viktor Orbán is a facist, racist, nationalist,…but I don’t think Hungary is at war, let alone a war machine (at least not since the days of archdukes).
The new military aid package will be “worth roughly $400 million and comprised mainly of ammunition…”
I wouldn’t mind some free ammo.
Operate a massive, decades-long grift and money-laundering operation for our political elites and they’ll give you anything you want.
Step 1: contact Hunter.
No shit, that stuff has gotten absurdly expensive.
This ain’t gonna make it cheaper.
Better than going to student loan forgiveness.
This is beginning to blow my mind. 30 yrs. of drone strikes and guided munitions… Einstein was right for the wrong reasons. We won’t fight WWIV with sticks and stones because we’ve nuked everything else. We’ll fight WWIV with sticks and stones because nuclear isn’t profitable enough and the rural mountains of Pakistan and Tibet will be only shitholes left to fight proxy wars in.
Identify as Ukranian.
Please don’t tell me you have something capable of firing 155 mm shells in your personal arsenal.
Okay, I won’t tell you.
And if you do, please take me to the range with you next time you go!
And what would be wrong if he did?
Nothing, nothing at all.
His neighbors might object to target practice sessions.
That would violate a noise ordinance or a public nuisance issue. If he has access to an artillery range to shoot at targets for his own amusement, that’s fine.
So why did you want him to tell you he doesn’t own such a weapon if it’s completely copacetic?
“Please don’t tell me …” is a common English idiom. It doesn’t literally mean, “Please don’t tell me …” It means, essentially, “Go on with your anecdote. I hope it goes in the direction that the next thing you are going to say is [blank] because that would be humorous.”
The reason personally owning a howitzer would be humorous is because it would be highly unusual, expensive, possibly illegal (I’m not sure of all applicable laws where Fist lives), noisy, a possible source of mayhem, etc.
I don’t have neighbors. But even so, if they want to earmark something smaller caliber for me I will be happy to receive it.
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Way to impractical – – – –
Now an 81mm mortar; capable of firing laser guided shells, that’s something else again.
Of course, you need four friends (really only two) and a four mile target range, but what the hell?
Dee! You bitch!
That’s why ammo, and especially primers for us reloaders, is so damned high.
Documents released by Arizona’s new Attorney General show that “former Republican Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich declined to publish investigative finding…
He probably just couldn’t find them, hidden somewhere with that missing vowel in his name.
Poor JFree.
Entire Senate Passes Bill to Declassify COVID-19 Origins Intel
The Senate voted unanimously — at the behest of Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) — to pass a bill known as the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023.
Brown requested unanimous consent for the bill, which was granted with no objections from a single member of the Senate.
If unanimous consent for a bill is granted, the bill passed automatically. No voting is necessary.
If the House passes the bill — which is almost certain to happen — the Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, will have 90 days to declassify the following intel relating to:
– Potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origin of Covid-19
– Activities performed by the Wuhan Institute of Virology with or on behalf of the People’s Liberation Army (that’s the Chinese Communist Army)
– Coronavirus research or other related activities performed at the Wuhan lab
– A list of researchers who became sick while working in the Wuhan lab, as well as their full names, symptoms suffered, and the dates the symptoms began, as well as their positions at the Wuhan lab.
Seems like the GOF-Wuhan-COVID origin got the green light *looks at calendar* immediately after Fauci left public life.
A public life that involved testifying to congress that they had no idea what they were talking about and we absolutely were not funding GOF in the wuhan lab.
This guy needs to be in the stocks
Well, and when they might need an excuse to go to war with China.
This
We were always at war with Eastasia?
Yeah, it seems they’re stumbling around right now trying to figure out how we can provoke China into some kind of shooting war in a desperate gambit to unify the country past its fundamental political and cultural differences.
The thing is, as much as I’d love to see China get blasted back to the 19th century because they’re a bunch of commie thieves, there’s no reason to support it if it’s going to ultimately help the Rainbow Industrial Complex gain more authority in this country. That’s a major reason I’m glad to see our current leaders so frustrated that Russia’s military has taken massive losses and still hasn’t fucked off back to their vodka-marinated, tundra wasteland of a country. Why give these assholes and their neocon buttlickers a win?
“immediately after Fauci left public life.”
He’s going to get away with everything.
but this is just a wild conspiracy theory
A government watchdog has found that the Secret Service and ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) unit repeatedly failed to obtain the correct legal paperwork when carrying out invasive cell phone surveillance…
OMG THE SECRET SERVICE AND HOMELAND SECURITY ARE ALL GOING TO JAIL
Hahahaha! Good one, Fist. 😀
But who will keep our borders secure? Oh, never mind.
Circle of Federal Life:
OMG THE SECRET SERVICE AND HOMELAND SECURITY ARE ALL GOING TO GET FIRED
OMG THE SECRET SERVICE AND HOMELAND SECURITY ARE ALL GOING TO GET PUT ON PROTRACTED UNPAID LEAVE
OMG THE SECRET SERVICE AND HOMELAND SECURITY ARE ALL GOING TO GET PUT ON SHORT UNPAID LEAVE
OMG THE SECRET SERVICE AND HOMELAND SECURITY ARE ALL GOING TO GET PUT ON SHORT PAID LEAVE
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“Why I’m sticking up for science” – Richard Dawkins
That shit is well underway in US academia. And some younger “science” faculty are all in.
Great line:
“…are branded heretics by a nastily zealous new religion, a witch-hunt that recalls the false accusations…”
Nastily zealous new religion…rather apt descriptive.
Neo Marxism is a religion. Albeit a secular one. But it’s even more dogmatic then Islam.
The old guard must be purged. Down with the heretics.
I have a good idea. We can recruit groups of young people to go around and intimidate their elders into ideological conformity. Would could call them the Red Guards or something like that.
One of The Four Horsemen of Atheism has teamed up with The Magnificent Seven of Science in Kiwi-Land against the “Equal-Time-For-Sky-Parents” crowd! This is one rip-roaring epic!
Now where have we in the U.S. heard this before? Oh yeah! When the Creationist “Intelligent Design” crowd were wanting their mystical drivel inserted into science texts on an equal par with Evolution that has been confirmed by evidence across multiple disciplines.
It also shows the folly of putting all science education in the government basket. In a Free-Market in ideas, creation myths stay in the fiction section and science moves on to the medicine chest and the launch pad to the Wheel In Space Resort!
“wanting their mystical drivel inserted into science texts on an equal par with Evolution”
Instead we got 93 genders and CRT.
Opposing Creationism does not mean supporting 93 genders and CRT. Don’t abstain from Logic for Lent.
Well okay (because I’m not Catholic), but I didn’t infer it was. Don’t abstain from reading comprehension for Fedora Month or whatever.
Perhaps the most disagreeable aspect of this sorry affair is the climate of fear. We who don’t have a career to lose should speak out in defence of those who do. The magnificent seven are branded heretics by a nastily zealous new religion
I wonder how he feels about climate science.
Why bother? Let New Zealand destroy itself.
TikTok is introducing a 60-minute screen time limit for minors.
Minors have a 60-minute attention span?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2023/03/02/democrat-mayor-arrested-child-pornography-n2620150
Democrat politicians with high-profile connections arrested for child porn? He must have gotten annoying to the wrong people.
Pete Bs mentee.
Yeah, I think Biden’s handlers might be getting tired of Bootyjudge.
He was also a fan of ol’ joe and his fine work for the lbgtq+.
Too straight?
Them too. We had a congress critter from Chicago by the name of Mel Reynolds (D-Phone Sex). This is from 1995:
http://www.cnn.com/US/9509/mel_reynolds/index.html
He picked cotton as a child. He couldn’t read until he was 9. He also became a Rhodes scholar and was elected to Congress. But it was a convicted Mel Reynolds who emerged from Chicago’s Criminal Courts Building Thursday, sentenced to five years in prison for having sex with an underage girl and then covering it up.
Fetterman’s Chief of Staff Won’t Tell Anyone How the Hospitalized Senator is Introducing Legislation
Jentleson blocks people asking the question on Twitter.
Tim “Beanie Man” Pool and his panel were speculating this morning that Fetterman might have actually had another stroke or some other severe medical episode that’s left him incapacitated, and they’re using the “severe depression” argument as cover until they figure out if he’s actually salvageable, or if they need to keep him under deep cover until August, when Shapiro can appoint his replacement (if Fetterman steps down before then, there has to be a special election).
Either way, it’s obvious it’s his staff doing all the work, or that dipshit Jentleson wouldn’t be blocking people.
The guy was a moronic loser before the stroke. He wouldn’t have been capable of actually doing the job of Senator when he was physically able, and he’s not remotely physically capable at this point.
Parody is obsolete: Exhibit #6,481
Flashback to Reagan’s 1984 landslide win when elections were more honest. I’m convinced Trump’s 2020 *actual* results weren’t much different. 2000 Mules proved *millions* of illegal ballots were stuffed into drop boxes and yet not a single mule has been arrested. Ask yourself why
Got that? Biden actually only carried one state! Trump won the other 49. This proves Trump is super popular which is why only a “RINO” would prefer DeSantis.
#TrumpDeadEndersArentSendingTheirBest
https://twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/1631328340266057731?t=21wXsddj0xQt_UB2mfLEww&s=19
Columbia University will no longer require SAT or ACT scores in undergraduate admissions
The first Ivy League college to implement pandemic emergency measure as official policy
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Much easier to perfectly craft the racial and (most importantly) ideological makeup they desire if they can just throw out merit all together and have a ‘holistic’ approach.
Much easier to let the appropriate minorities (and less desirable races who swear fealty / ‘allyship’ to the cause).
Overachievers tend to skew toward good work ethic and *gasp* capitalism. We dont need them mucking up our future, we need good Soviet Men (TM)
good work ethic and *gasp* capitalism
More aspects of white supremacy. Looking forward to seeing what becomes of these future graduating classes of wokeness.
Just because something is hard to prove in court, doesn’t mean it didn’t occur. Most crimes have no arrests attached, that doesn’t mean the crime didn’t exist.
Arizona has also banned ballot harvesting, videos exist of said harvesting. But identification was not made. It doesn’t mean harvesting did not happen.
Jay walking is a crime in most cities. It is rarely prosecuted. Yet you can see it happen all the time. Does that mean nobody ever Jay walks?
Not a good argument Sandra.
Another example. Arizona and GA admitting to thousands of double voters, they chose not to arrest or indict. Does that mean they didn’t attempt to vote twice, and some doing so provisionally?
Garland just made a similar argument against attacks in churches and pro life centers. Only 2 arrested. Guess those attacks never happened.
Sandra’s a product of the status quo, thus Sandra supports the status quo.
The status quo requires Trump, as not “the right sort”, to have been miraculously rejected by the American people in a free and fair election, thus what is most important is orangemanbad and orangemanvoters worse. The well being of this country is a small sacrifice to make to pajama class narcissism.
Just because something is hard to prove in court, doesn’t mean it didn’t occur. Most crimes have no arrests attached, that doesn’t mean the crime didn’t exist.
Yup. There’s all kinds of examples of this. A lack of evidence in court simply means something wasn’t proven to the extent of a legal standard (beyond a reasonable doubt in criminal cases,) but it doesn’t definitively mean it didn’t happen.
There was a court case from a couple years ago I followed, in Ohio, a woman shot her spouse dead. Physical evidence showed the woman grabbed her rifle (both of them were ex military) and fired one bullet directly into the head. He didn’t die immediately, he staggered outside with a brainbleed and died in the front yard.
Indisputably, they’d been in a physical fight that evening, and there’s a major dent in the drywall that she claimed was from her head being pounded into it. She had a very minor skull injury to match. Prosecutors believed she got mad about the fight, grabbed her gun, and got revenge by shooting him in anger. She claimed he was coming to attack her again and she was firing in self defense.
So it was a case of she said, he dead. It was inside the house, no video, and physical evidence doesn’t answer one thing or another. So it’s entirely possible she murdered him cold and pounded her own head into the wall to leave that dent, but she was found not guilty. Doesn’t mean it wasn’t a murder, just means we can’t prove the murder.
https://twitter.com/nmlinguaphile/status/1631672688401055746?t=0efT9cYni_3rlu1tDnEm9g&s=19
Literally everything our government says is a lie, so . . . .
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Townhall and a few other places will report on this; don’t look for it to go very far and wide and MSM will do everything they can to squelch it.
Parody is obsolete: Exhibit #6,482
Trump’s approval numbers have gone to new lows
according to a new poll–and we’re never wrong about those
And is Starbucks’ new cup bringing people to tears
No, but we’ll find two tweets like we do every year
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1631508122350002183?t=4t4775lNeSsL3K-w7iGBqQ&s=19
You really don’t think it’s a story that DHS/FBI has an elaborate bureaucracy set up in which over a dozen Internet platforms receive thousands of moderation requests a month from agencies across the government — from HHS to cops in Minneapolis to the DOD/CIA? Not a story ?
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https://twitter.com/VDAREJamesK/status/1631544360461369344?t=wFpiQEqqAUvsSzVYw_ED3w&s=19
Again, unless you’ve seen it from the inside, you can’t imagine the contempt and sheer hatred Republicans have for their own voters.
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Today, I introduced my DAIRY PRIDE Act to take a stand for Wisconsin dairy farmers and the real, quality dairy products they make.
Non-lactose intolerance.
Dairy pride? Cross-dressing bulls who demand equal time at the milking station?
Bulls can have periods too.
That’s a load of bull
Title IX demands equal time for cow fighting.
https://twitter.com/SecArmy/status/1631291267538722817?t=Caeef5oEh4kZGwqicrIUxw&s=19
A priority for me and our @USArmy is #resiliency in the face of climate change. At #FortBragg, we have the largest floating solar array in the Southeast United States. This is just one of many examples of how our Army #LeadsFromTheFront in climate innovation and adaptation.
Not sure how that contributes to resiliency.
Or combat readiness. Sure as fuck won’t stop bullets from killing Infantry if they’re not trained and conditoned.
Funny how the accusations and press just kind of disappeared after the midterms.
FBI Was Against Mar-a-Lago Raid, Argued With DOJ Prosecutors
Sullums articles look even worse now.
It’s easy to look bad when you’re fully infected by TDS.
Not here, it’s strictly Koch kash.
Semafor Says It Wants To Fix the ‘Crisis of Trust in News.’ It Just Partnered With a Chinese Communist Influence Group.
Chemjeff trembles with delight.
Roald Dahl books were neutered by woke consultants aged eight to 30 – led by ‘non-binary, asexual, polyamorous relationship anarchist who is on the autism spectrum’
But remember, the right are the real censors because they won’t allow porn in school libraries.
what a surprise – another ‘non-binary’ person on the ‘autism spectrum’ and in the LGBTQ cult.
I wonder if they/it suffers from tourettes and pseudoseizures too
I don’t see any part of any of it that isn’t perfectly accurately summed up by the term “crazy spinster”. Whether that’s what she actually labels herself or not, that’s what she’s presenting/identifying as.
Child porn is free speech. Also jeff.
‘non-binary, asexual, polyamorous relationship anarchist who is on the autism spectrum’
Can you get more counter-normal?
But what color is its skin?
for every lore category progs add to their IRL D&D avatar, add +1 mental illness point
i read an article about how the digital copies of Roald Dahl books on people’s kindles have been getting updated for them. Amazing
I don’t understand “asexual polyamorous.” Seems oxymoronic.
And I don’t understand what a “relationship anarchist” is. Is there a government for relationships?
What she’s done needs to be given a name like ‘gnihsiftac’. As in, the photo is a (seemingly) unaltered picture of her and her list of turn ons/turn offs is so true-but-unreal that no one except the clowder of cats that she shares an asexual polyamorous anarchistic relationship with would want her. The exact opposite of catfishing.
“It’s now high time that Government acted and recognised (sic) the damage caused by the pornography industry to the lives and the safety of women.”
That’s why I don’t watch the stuff. It’s nothing but nubile young ladies with nice titties and firm ripe asses getting vigorously plowed by young men with huge penises, their intertwined lithe bodies wriggling in pleasure, thrusting and moaning as she slurps on his cock with those luscious lips, her pussy dripping with …… excuse me, I’ll be back in a few minutes. Gotta go do something real quick.
Next claim: the existence of men (and perhaps the very idea of men is violence against women*.
*This the the definition of women as not men, and thus include 72 genders. You assholes can fight among yourselves.
Okay, So It Looks as if the Justice Department Has Spies in Catholic Churches
Hawley: “Let me just ask you, as my time expires here, a very direct question. How many informants do you have in Catholic churches across America?”
Garland: “I don’t know, and I don’t believe we have any informants aimed at Catholic churches. We have a rule against, uh, investigations based on First Amendment, um, activity, and uh, uh, uh, Catholic churches are obviously, uh, First Amendment activity. But I don’t know the specific answer to your question.”
No wonder Reason hates Hawley.
seriously, this is unreal. and nothing will happen.
I actually thought this story would garner a lot more attention among the commentariat here, seeing as it’s so frightening and psychotic… and I’m not even Catholic.
At this point the pile of bodies is so big and burning so hot that you can’t even get close enough to see when they toss another one on or who did it. The same testimony Garland, who makes Nixon in his debate against Kennedy look like Miles Davis, essentially tosses parts of the FBI onto the fire.
Edit: Not to discount The Church too much but I mean, we’re still getting dumps of the Twitter files and the FBI and DOE collaborated the lab leak theory, as terribly slanted and at arms length as they could, this week.
What has the Catholic church done to deserve…oh…right.
If only it were pedophiles.
But it’s not. It’s Latin Rite traditionalists and Opus Dei conservatives because they don’t like abortion.
I don’t know anything about that, but it make more sense than doing something productive like rooting out pedophiles.
Right wing terror watch:
Fresno Police Chief Paco Balderrama on Wednesday announced the arrest of five people after a series of bombings in the city. A task force of local police and FBI agents also seized bomb-making components, firearms, methamphetamine and white supremacist paraphernalia, including Nazi flags. The investigation ranged as far as Riverside County, where Scott Anderson, 44, the suspected bomber, was arrested together with Frank Rocha, 56. Two other men are in custody after they were arrested in Fresno: Steven Burkett, 51; and Paul New, 55. Also arrested was Amanda Sanders, 41.
Read more at: https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article272640614.html#storylink=cpy
Remember when you pissed your pants about the SECOND INSURRECTION BY RIGHTWING EXTREMISTS your highly-placed intel sources told you would happen on 9 / 18 / 21?
Of all the Democrat hack #Resistance garbage you’ve spammed over the years, that might be my favorite to shove in your face.
Actually, no, I still prefer your May 2021 prediction Trump would go to prison “soon.” But the SECOND INSURRECTION hysteria is near the top. 🙂
Sorry Shrike, the Nazis are your tribe.
Why We Are Socialists – Joseph Goebbels
And if that weren’t enough, you regularly shill for Soros, who is one of the planet’s last living Nazi Party members.
Every Nazi in the United States runs to support Trump and the Republican Party.
Your propaganda is useless.
Got a citation for that, Shrike? Links?
Of course he doesn’t.
I’ve given him a link to an official Nazi Party claim to be socialist (It was also in their party platform), I challenge him to give one where they claim to be conservative.
Would you click on any link that creep posts?
Well thats just false as I showed below.
Hey, turd lies.
Turd, the ass-clown of the commentariate lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
“Every Nazi in the United States runs to support Trump and the Republican Party.”
What about the ones that supported Clinton… or Biden?
White Nationalist Richard Spencer Votes for Joe Biden
If you’re going to try and troll, maybe next time don’t pick a subject so closely tied to you and your ilk.
Who is Robert Byrd?
I’ll stick with Racist Democrats for 400 Alex.
The people pursuing Nazi policies in the US overwhelmingly identify as progressives and democratic socialists, and those people are almost exclusively found in the Democratic party.
Turd, the ass-clown of the commentariate lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
Congrats, Shrike, you managed to find a grand total of 5 out of a population of over 500,000 in Fresno alone, an 39 million in California. Don’t hurt yourself too much by patting yourself on the back.
Which one of the five was the FBI agent ?
Thats weird. The California KKK endorsed Hillary. She is right wing too i guess.
https://www.vocativ.com/312479/kkk-endorses-hillary-clinton-for-president/index.html
As for Clinton, “All the stuff she’s saying now, she’s saying so she can get into office, okay? She doesn’t care about illegal immigrants—she’s acting like she does so she can get into office. Once she’s in office, then she’ll implement her policies. She’s a Democrat. The Klan has always been a Democratic organization,” Quigg said.
Remember that bit, “The Klan has always been a Democratic organization.”
I mean they still openly push segregation. Just through CRT now.
Yes, there are some stupid, violent right wing extremists in the world.
But 99.9%+ of American conservatives/right-wingers want nothing to do with any of that. Neo-nazis are completely irrelevant to America politics. Unlike violent communist activists who get a lot of cover from the mainstream left.
Nazis were progressive, anti-capitalist, anti-Christian socialists.
The German “right wing” was monarchists and Christian conservatives.
Trying to rebrand Nazis as “right wing” was something socialists did after WWII.
The insects of Walmart.
https://www.kctv5.com/2023/03/03/insect-found-outside-arkansas-walmart-identified-jurassic-era-insect/
A giant insect found outside an Arkansas Walmart is setting historic records.
Is that the new WEF meat bug?
Potted GOP plants.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/desantis-addressing-top-donors-chastises-republicans-act-like-potted-plants-woke-ideology-fight
And DeSantis insisted that “Republicans need to not shy away from these fights just because the media and the Left’s going to call you names.”
“Some of these Republicans, they just sit back like potted plants, and they let the media define the terms of the debate. They let the Left define the terms of the debate. They take all this incoming because they’re not making anything happen,” he claimed.
DeSantis spotlighted that “the best defense is a good offense sometimes, and I think for a guy like me and other Republicans that’s certainly the case.”
This goes for libertarians as well. Don’t let the authoritarian left define the debate, and don’t shy away from the fight.
Paul Ryan is definitely a ficus.
Wrong! Some GOP like Larry Hogan and Mike Pence are actively fighting to protect the free speech rights of giant corporations that dispense huge campaign donations.
That Russian diesel fuel is still going somewhere.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/North-Africa-Is-Buying-Up-Russian-Diesel-After-EU-Ban.html
At the same time, Russian oil product flows to North Africa are surging. Morocco, for example, saw imports of 2 million barrels of Russian diesel in January, compared to just 600,000 barrels for the whole year 2021, according to Kpler data cited by The Wall Street Journal. Tunisia has also seen a surge in imports of Russian petroleum products – to 2.8 million barrels in January and another estimated 3.1 million barrels in February, after negligible volumes imported prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
According to analysts, those countries will not be consuming all the Russian oil products. North Africa isn’t boosting its refining processing, either. This leaves one plausible explanation for the jump in imports of Russian fuels—re-export to other countries, including Europe, after blending with products of non-Russian origin.
“Safeguarding Against Fraud, Exploitation, Threats, Extremism and Consumer Harms (SAFE TECH) Act”
These people will twist, turn and contort as much as they can just get the acronym they want. I hate it. It’s so transparent too. “Hey, why are you voting against the Safe Tech act?! You must be against safety!”
The Dairy Pride Act is “The Defending Against Imitations and Replacements of Yogurt, milk, and cheese to Promote Regular Intake of Dairy Everyday Act”
We need to start fining these people.
Or shooting them. How in the fuck does milk play second fiddle to yogurt in the dairy wars?
They may have been hesitant to even include it since milk is associated with white supremacy. I don’t think yogurt is in the same boat.
Well, now that you bring it up… chocolate milk was not represented at all.
What a bunch of bigots.
Well, what’s a “Dairm”, smart guy? Obviously you don’t understand the subtleties of legislating.
The least they could’ve done was capitalize the milk. A partnership with McDonald’s does the rest. I.e., the DAIRY McPRIDE Act.
Or they could’ve gone with Make It Legal to Kill Milk Emulators… the MILK ME Act (no to be confused with other *ahem* milking acts).
They could have just gone with the “Defining Of Animal Milk In Liquid Form” Act.
Beautiful.
White Mike’s favorite pastime, gaslighting; or, at this point it’s a six to twenty-four month spoiler of events.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/gaslighting-conspiracy-theories-already-proven-true-2023
Preppers get called conspiracy theorists a lot. It’s supposed to be demeaning, but considering how many conspiracy theories have been proven correct lately, I no longer consider it an insult. The more time goes by, the more “conspiracy theorists” just seem ahead of the game.
Quite a few “conspiracy theories” have recently come to light as actual facts in 2023 already. And it’s only the beginning of March.
Yes, they were that crazy.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/uk-considered-mandating-killing-all-pet-cats-stop-covid
Killing pet cats was just one of numerous horrors almost visited on the British public in pursuit of a lockdown that went on to have a devastating impact and caused more harm than good.
As we previously highlighted, another proposal was to separate children from their parents and hold them in quarantine camps if they were infected with the virus.
100k wattsapp texts were released regarding British covid lockdown planning. Only discovered because a politician supplied them to a writer helping them write a book.
https://news.yahoo.com/matt-hancock-texts-the-most-explosive-messages-from-100000-leaked-whatapps-163811846.html
In their defense that I feel obligated to offer: an abundance of cats is not a classic sign of sanity either.
That said, I’d at least be honest enough not to manufacture a lie like COVID as justification for intrinsic value of killing cats.
Something’s up, and someone’s lying.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_f1a04fb4-b94d-11ed-9f7e-bf4fc0f073f1.html
Undersecretary of the Air Force Gina Ortiz Jones’ testimony before a congressional committee about service members being forced out over the Department of Defense COVID-19 vaccine mandate was “demonstrably untrue,” service members’ attorney told The Center Square.
She testified under oath on Tuesday before the Military Personnel Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee.
The testimony given also contradicted a Department of Defense Inspector General report that found that military branches, including the Air Force, were violating the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Florida, said. Federal judges last year, including a panel of Sixth Circuit appellate judges, also ruled to the contrary of Ortiz Jones’ statements.
Something’s up, and they all are lying.
FIFY
Standing up to wokeism at the university level.
https://nypost.com/2023/03/02/a-university-finally-stands-up-to-woke-virtue-signaling/
When did all the adults leave the room?
I started to get an answer to that question last week when I was at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
If by adults you mean people who consider objective truth and logical analysis as more deterministic than feelings and emotions then the room changed when women got the vote.
Top tier trolling.
Sen. Blaise Ingoglia, R-Spring Hill, filed “The Ultimate Cancel Act” Tuesday to immediately de-certify any political party that previously advocated for slavery in their party platform.
The Democrat Party adopted pro-slavery positions into their platforms during the conventions of 1840, 1844, 1856, 1860, and 1864
“For years now, activists have been trying to ‘cancel’ people and companies for things they have said or done in the past. This includes the removal of statues and memorials, and the renaming of buildings.”
Should’ve been done in 1865, IMHO, nationally.
““Sorry, we don’t base our party’s platform on what happened ~180 years ago. We evolve and grow. Glad to hear you don’t support the insurrectionists who attacked the core of our democracy on Jan 6, though,” they wrote to Ingoglia.”
What does Jan 6th have to do with slavery and their party’s previous endorsement of it? Bringing up Jan 6th in this manner lets you know they got caught with their pants down here and just went with the first thing they could think of.
A prize ironically named after the king of “yellow journalism”.
https://nypost.com/2023/03/02/the-pulitzer-prizes-are-nothing-but-elite-self-congratulation-divorced-from-real-journalism/
Officially it was that the grand old man had pangs of conscience about his yellow journalism vs. William Randolph Hearst amid the Spanish-American War, but there was also good reason he’d been the villain in “Newsies.”
Joseph Pulitzer had been an imperious neurotic, ahead of his time but cruel, greedy, vengeful and vain. It was impossible to determine whether his philanthropy came more from genuine remorse or an attempt to rehabilitate the family name in high society.
And so too it’s hard to say how much today’s vacuous prizes sanctifying contemporary yellow journalism truly betray Pulitzer’s intentions.
Aside from all the historical examples, we have the glaring recent inclusion of Nicole Hannah-Jones, who wrote retcon fan fiction thats been pretty universally panned by actual historians, to wide acclaim from the critics and got her a Pulitzer.
Its a reward for propaganda any lying, nothing more
Her “pulitzer” is as meaningful as Obama’s “peace prize”.
White guilt and chocolate infatuation. Again, blame it on women.
More Twitter Files from Matt Taibbi, this time dealing with the GEC.
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1631338650901389322
New Knowledge, the Global Engagement Center, and State-Sponsored Blacklists
Two decades ago just one of these revelations would have sucked up all the oxygen in the nation’s newsrooms for months.
Now they deliberately ignore it.
Too local, didn’t happen, it’s good for you, old news.
The feds and online censorship to the tune of $74 million a year.
https://nypost.com/2023/03/02/how-the-feds-spend-74m-a-year-to-try-to-censor-americans/
Have you ever tweeted about Russia? You could be tarred as an “unwitting proliferator of Russian narratives” by US government scorekeepers.
Do you support the French “yellow vest” anti-lockdown protests? You are “Russia-aligned,” according to Uncle Sam.
Are you a Cuban immigrant to America?
A federal contractor might try to get you banned on Twitter because you’re a Hindu nationalist.
Journalist Matt Taibbi is back with perhaps the most bizarre installment yet of the Twitter Files.
School choice versus the teachers union.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/mayor-race-pits-school-choice-against-more-power-for-chicago-teachers-union/
Vallas supports the idea of giving families a choice about where to send their kids to school, especially those in low-income communities. He made a point of it in his election-night speech and throughout the election.
Both Johnson and the CTU have made school choice a target. They have tried killing the Invest in Kids Act and limiting charter schools in the city.
The elites would rather be feudal lords.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/03/a-neo-feudal-war-on-the-people/
This catastrophism and embrace of austerity reflects a worldview that is best described as ‘eco-medievalist’, in which the lower classes will be expected to make sacrifices. They will be unable not only to buy homes, but also to own cars, especially electric cars, which are affordable only to the rich. As part of a green agenda, some cities are even eyeing policies to restrict the use of cars outside of one’s immediate neighbourhood, as well as making parking ever more difficult.
/As a note, had to move these as I saw ENB as the author of the last one and thought it was the Roundup. Went on autopilot and flew straight into that mountain.
Drag queens, gyrating, and babies.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/03/babies-should-be-nowhere-near-gyrating-drag-queens/
Yet today’s self-styled progressives seem to be utterly in thrall to the pornification of society. They seem to actually think exposing their little ones to sexy theatre is a good thing. So those who dare to criticise drag shows or cabaret for children are routinely smeared as prudish and censorious, just like Mary Whitehouse.
Former Vice President Mike Pence to speak at Hillsdale College March 1st
https://wwmt.com/news/local/former-vp-mike-pence-speak-hillsdale-college-michigan-march-first-wednesday-christ-chapel-drummond-series-lecture
Mike Pence speaks at Bob Jones University
https://www.wspa.com/news/local-news/mike-pence-speaks-at-bob-jones-university/
Pence targets Fundie-Nut vote – declines to support a Trump second term.
Trouble in that family.
Turd, the ass-clown of the commentariate lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a TDS-addled shit-pile, a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
And your point is??????
Here’s an Obama one for comparison: https://abcnews.go.com/US/barack-obama-giving-high-school-commencement-speech-class/story?id=70512666
Former Presidents and VPs speak at a lot of different college and universities.
I don’t understand your problem here, Pluggo. What are you so upset about?
You’re presuming the lying pile of lefty shit is capable of logic; much too kind.
“Exposure to pornography during adolescence had little effect on persons who later became rapists and child molesters,”
Check with turd; as a kiddie diddler, he’ll know. But he’ll lie about it, since that’s what turd does. turd lies.
the (unfortunately outsized) role of porn in sex education
Sex Ed must have changed a lot since I was in public school!
I’m going to guess what ENB meant is adolescents learning about sex from watching porn (on their own, outside of school).
Kids should learn about sex the way I did: from taking with my totally clueless, pimply buddies on the playground.
“Sex Ed must have changed a lot since I was in public school!”
It did. Now your lefty boos are introducing sexuality to kindergarteners, whereas when you were a kid, it was a class for 6th graders and wasn’t filled with trans propaganda.
Mike had to learn what pegging was from his wife instead of his principal.
My “lefty boos”. Hey, calling me a lefty even though I’m a libertarian is a great way to signal allegiance to the Mean Girls. Maybe they’ll invite you to their next sleepover.
The Master Baiters are swooning.
Sad how little people here respect you two. But it brought two morons together. A true love story.
Victimhood: a love story.
“even though I’m a libertarian”
Definitely need a cite there. Zero evidence to this day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_13th_State_Senate_district
Look under California State Senate Election, 2004.
A cite of you actually behaving as a libertarian, not with a bumper sticker.
You show up and go to bat for every crackpot lefty idea. Its really no surprise you are a san francisco prog.
You are a libertarian like ENB is a libertarian. Does that make sense to you?
It doesn’t. He believes as long as he wears the shirt you are forced to ignore his constant simping and defense of the left.
Damn straight! True libertarians want morality police like in Iran! MAGA 2024!
Going out and giving campaign appearances and speeches, doing media interviews, as a Libertarian is “behaving as a libertarian”.
Can you link to an example, even one, of my “[going] to bat for [a] crackpot lefty idea”?
No it isnt. It means SF is so far left anyone to the right of Kamala can be classified as libertarian.
Jennifer Rubin is a Republican
The irony of Mike getting offended for being called out as a member of a group as he responds by calling others a member if a group.
Yes Mike. Keep defending the sexualization of children.
I know why you are hell bent on doing so. The majority of federal dollars supporting these programs is funneled through planned parenthood, one of your DNC money laundering charities.
Planned Parenthood and its affiliates dominate the grant process. According to our study of award winners, nearly $167 million, comprising 80 percent of HHS sex education funding, went to grantees partnering with Planned Parenthood. Seventy-nine percent of successful programs used Planned Parenthood-endorsed curricula. Planned Parenthood and its affiliates won 86 percent of TPP funds, 90 percent of PREP funds, and about three-quarters of SRAE funds.
https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/03/the-sex-ed-industrial-complex-revolves-around-planned-parenthood-and-is-fueled-by-your-tax-dollars/
Um… Freudian spelling?
Face it, no one is wathcing British porn. The brits are all pissed that the good porn is coming from Sweden, Ukraine, and United States. Nords, Slaves, and Yanks, oh my!
Hungary and Czechia. ^
Parody is obsolete: Exhibit #765
Yesterday I had conversations with long time FL Republicans. They told me they are done with DeSantis & want change. “He’s a dictator,” “he’s too extreme.” “This is not Cuba he reminds us of Castro.” Don’t give up hope FL, we are bright purple, we can get back our state!
OMG! The guy who just won by 19 points is rapidly losing support! 😛
The saddest part is, I don’t even think DeSantis is all that special. It should be possible to make a decent case against him. But the anti-DeSantis / pro-Trump case is absolutely pathetic, and the anti-DeSantis / pro-Democrat case is the same old “fascist, Nazi, dictator, worse than Hitler” routine that Dems have been using for decades.
#GetBetterArguments
He really isnt all that special. He’s a normal family man who lives in the real world, and is willing to say the sky is blue, water is wet, and call out the crazy people for what they are.
And in a world immersed in pregnant men, furries, and pushing nazi race propaganda on children, its a breath of fucking fresh air.
Parody is obsolete: Exhibit #766
Trump’s approval numbers have gone to new lows
according to a new poll–and we’re never wrong about those
And is Starbucks’ new cup bringing people to tears
No, but we’ll find two tweets like we do every year
#YouMeanLikeThreeTweets
#WatchesFoxNewsKnowsRepublicansThoughts
“a form of violence against women.”
But there is no such thing as “women”!
I heard it from a supreme court justice (to be).
Who is “not a biologist”.
But follow the logic. We don’t know which people are women, and we can’t be sure what actions (and ideas) might harm them, so ban everything. Genius.
It’s now high time that Government acted and recognised the damage caused by the pornography industry to the lives and the safety of women.
How does gay porn, made by only men, starring only men, marketed only to men, jeopardize the safety of women? How does San Francisco dyke porn, made by biological women, starring only biological women (and the occasional strap-on), marketed to…fuck only knows, jeopardize the safety of women?
I see a lot of VPNs in Britain’s future.
How does San Francisco dyke porn, made by biological women, starring only biological women (and the occasional strap-on), marketed to…fuck only knows, jeopardize the safety of women?
I wouldn’t claim to be any sort of porn expert. But it’s been, tangentially, a part of business and I’m not at all unfamiliar with it. If I had to generally waive my hand in the direction of “most unequivocally abusive or demeaning/demoralizing things I’ve seen” it would all be same sex and/or solo work with virtually zero commercial/profit/fiscal coercion motives. Asking which gender is to blame for “2 girls 1 cup” or goatse.cx is like asking which gender is to blame for the East Palestine derailment.
My point exactly in my question to Fist above. And do the prudes who think porn is violence against women condone this “violence” against Gay, Bi, and Pan Males?
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Oh, it’s just another Reason favorite going around taking pictures of people’s cars for minor infractions, then posting those pictures online for the authorities…
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1631297819888812034?t=ENoOKo_n9a7ZivC7PR3pmw&s=19
Another hard luck case as the owner of this BMW M3 apparently couldn’t afford to affix his license plate to the front of the vehicle as required by law.
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Jesus. He definitely would have been one of the “the Jews are hiding in that basement over there” guys
I learned from COVID, however, that that description applies to about 70% of the population, including nearly 100% of all Democrats.
What a dick.
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It’s weird to me how many conservatives turn into total anarchists when it comes to license plates.
“Cars should have license plates” is not like some radical new idea.
How does he know if this is a conservative or a progressive? Sounds like Matty is making an ass of himself. And why should he give two shits about someone else’s license plate issues.
Its really bizarre. It would be like wearing a “IM A PROUD NARC / HALL MONITOR / KAREN” T shirt.
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Somebody should float the idea to him that women making sandwiches in the kitchen are subtly (or not-so-subtly if barefoot and pregnant) outing themselves as conservatives to see if he’d start posting pictures of women making sandwiches disparagingly.
“Donald Trump Is Not Immune From A Lawsuit About The Jan. 6 Riot”
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“DOJ officials issued their statement amid an ongoing lawsuit filed by two Capitol police officers and 11 members of Congress who claim that Trump is liable for physical and mental injuries they sustained during the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021…”
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Weapons-grade fire extinguisher?
BTW, how about property owners, cops and Rittenhouse suing the D congress-critters for encouraging all the BLM rioters?
The Speaker of the House is the person in charge of the Hill police. It was Pelosi who turned down several offers of assistance.
This won’t go anywhere because it’s just a cheap political stunt paid for by the Democrats, but it gets the headlines that they wanted and it is part of a greater lawfare strategy.
Rather, the group echoes old radical feminist tropes about pornography—that there is no such thing as ethical porn, that it’s all “exploitation,”
I’d say there’s a tangible harm being done by it, in that people lower their value by engaging in it. Porn is desirable in part because people crave intimacy, but people who share that intimacy with others, strangers, lower the value of sharing intimacy with a partner. It also objectifies them by focusing solely on their bodies when they should be trying to enrich themselves as whole persons, individuals. That’s to say I don’t like porn myself and view a good bit of it, but it’s not something women should aspire to do. I’m in favor of them being free to make those choices but not “destigmatizing it” as ENB would like.
its mere existence is “a form of violence against women.”
Violence is a word, and words need to have clearly understood meanings in order to be useful. So no, it’s not violence by any commonly understood metric.
The group also calls for giving all performers a right to veto their images being online at any time, even if they have previously consented and been paid for their work.
Nope, sorry, the world doesn’t work like that. If you sign a contract, you’re bound by the terms of that contract unless both sides agree to change the terms of the contract. You don’t get to decide that your mortgage was a bad idea and just stop paying it, you don’t get to decide that you’re no longer responsible for your work duties, and you don’t get to decide to press CTRL Z on the decision to share nude photos of yourself online. Which is why we discourage young women from porn in the first place because it’s a decision without an undo function. Maybe this is why it’s worth stigmatizing it, so young people don’t just casually make decisions they may regret a year or five years or a decade later.
men who have made a name for themselves being Good Male Feminist Allies, talking about things like “toxic masculinity,
We really need to shame and shun all White Knights. They’re trying to make decisions about what is acceptable behavior for other people. They’re the male version of Karen and need to be recognized and labeled just like Karens are.
“destigmatizing it” as ENB would like
I would go further to point out that ENB’s insistence in this aspect is self-defeating. By her own precepts on agency, objectivity, nudity, promiscuity, morality, etc…. it’s little different than The Catholic Church’s insistence that everyone pray to the Virgin Mary.
“…, and words need to have clearly understood meanings.”
Lol. That’s cute. Dude, like do you even 2023?
How are there not global riots and politicians being defenestrated over this?
Their concerns are not just about coercion in the porn industry, porn’s availability to minors, or other common worries. Rather, the group echoes old radical feminist tropes about pornography—that there is no such thing as ethical porn, that it’s all “exploitation,” and its mere existence is “a form of violence against women.”
Perhaps they should pass a law that Reason will dub “the Magna Carta of the internet” in twenty years.
the stuff I’ve shot is beautiful.
Does it ever lead to a sticky situation?
goals achieved at all times.
The U.S. is expected to announce even more aid for Ukraine today. The new military aid package will be “worth roughly $400 million and comprised mainly of ammunition,” Reuters reports.
these fucking warpigs will not stop until somebody gets nukes.
“All Porn Is ‘Violence Against Women,’ U.K. Parliamentary Committee Says”
Methinks Cromwell and his Roundheads would be pleased.
Anthony Comstock would celebrate by torching the complete works of Mark Twain and a copy of Frank Harris. (They didn’t HAVE Beatles albums…)
the Secret Service and ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) unit repeatedly failed to obtain the correct legal paperwork when carrying out invasive cell phone surveillance,
this is my shocked face. Surely out constitution would protect us from this?
doesn’t the ruling class tell us what is correct?
“Of the dozen young conservative voters Reason interviewed at the Conservative Political Action Conference”
Why the hell would you choose to be interviewed by a magazine that has become notorious for being overtly hostile to your philosophy over the last decade?
Yeah, keep your ideas to yourself. That’s the best way to keep them from spreading.
There’s no way in hell their actual ideas would be fairly presented by Reason.
They saw Robbies Fauci interview and thought cake walk?
There is exponentially more and far more egregious violence in novels, movies, television and in Democrat controlled cities than exists on all porn ever made.
Amazing.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/new-study-finds-tragic-factor-contributing-to-thousands-of-gun-deaths-nationwide/ar-AA17WWbZ?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=6e4ce0614bf64053caab358030b61b01&ei=9
The tide of bullshit seems to be turning. When you lie so blatantly, people will stop believing you. There are plenty of die hards that will vote for anything with a D behind it’s name, but shit like this has to be severely detrimental to the independent vote.
APPG isn’t merely echoing tired feminist canards about porn and harm, they are mirroring Dworkin’s and MacKinnon’s ludicrous thinking about male violence toward women. It doesn’t seem particularly surprising that feminism & progressivism have devolved into a cultish circus of contrived victimhood given these 2 ‘luminaries.’ Add a bit of Judith Butler to really get the fantasy world o’ grievances picture complete.
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If feminist gave one crap about any issue which disproportionately affects Males, I would give one crap about their issues; since feminist rabidly screamed down, shame and cancel anyone who suggests that some issues disproportionately affect males than females I am unable to support them in their radical Puritanical agenda against porn.
Next we will hear all hetero sex is violence against women. It fits with the LGBTQ+++ agenda.
“US Christian anti-porn lobby but no sex workers,” of course can be counted on to assure us that forcing women at gunpoint into involuntary labor of reproduction is NOT REALLY slavery or violence just like conscription to murder “slopes” on the other side of the planet is NOT REALLY slavery. Indeed, Christians had their say back when Stowe wrote of Dred. They had it again when Christian Adolf Hitler ruled Germany, France, Belgium, Poland, Ukraine, East Prussia, Lithuania, Sweden… (https://bit.ly/3izsEKj)
In Christianity god is the spirit of truth.
In satanism god is the father of lies. There is no difference between right and wrong. Not even animals do whatever they can get away with.
You get to choose but not without consequences.
Now that they have finally given in to the very obvious lab leak truth, they have to do everything possible to avoid blame.
None. Maybe that’s why I thought the other ENB article was the Roundup.
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80 million votes without even leaving the basement
You know who is the 2nd most popular presidential candidate in history?
Trump. He received over 73,000,000 votes in 2020, surpassing Obama’s record set in 2008. In fact, Trump is like, 6000 times more popular than George Washington.
I guess these candidates just keep getting better?
Paid for a new roof out at the cabin.
He was guilty as sin, but had no clients except that one prince with immunity.
Nobody has argued that there wasn’t fraud in support of Trump….
That’s ironic.