This Lawmaker Wants to Jail People for Watching Porn
This Lawmaker Wants to Jail People for Watching Porn
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This Lawmaker Wants to Jail People for Watching Porn
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I bet he watches so much porn. And I bet it’s weird.
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There was one person the Knowledge Fight guys did a break episode on who wanted to make porn illegal. After getting pretty far into the episode Dan finally reveals what he eventually found out after the guy mentions people having legal issues:
His son got caught with (already illegal) child porn, and it hurt his sons career options. So this man's idea is to ban all porn.... despite the reason for his tirade being already illegal. He just wants to harm everyone else too, lashing out.
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His son got caught with (already illegal) child porn, and it hurt his sons career options. So this man’s idea is to ban all porn… despite the reason for his tirade being already illegal.
He probably thinks regular porn is a "gateway drug" to more extreme porn, eventually culminating in what his son was caught with. This isn't a super uncommon view, and isn't even limited to weird fundies or even the right. I don't agree with it personally, but I've seen it enough times from people on enough sides that I wouldn't be surprised if he's part of that crowd.
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If everyone else's son is in jail his won't look so bad
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Tentacle furry bondage porn.
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American Taliban
Are any of his views backed up by Jesus?
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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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I think you're a hell of a lot closer than most Christians, but my read through was different when it came to Rome
Like when they asked if they should pay the tax collector. He asked who's head was on the coin, and said "give unto Cesar what is Caesar's". My teacher said that means pay your taxes... That's a pretty strained reason
What he was saying is "let's just share among each other, then coin means nothing to us". He was advocating dropping out of the Roman economy
He also preached that if you have excess, you share it generously - so no huge stockpiles of grain to be seized.
And it was like this across the board - we don't need temples, it's enough to share a meal. We don't need the holy of holies or complex bathing rituals - here's a new ritual that only requires a bit of water
We don't need leaders, if we all focus on serving each other everything will fall into place.
If Romans demand work from you, use their laws and customs against them. Make it frustrating to deal with you while giving them no justification to draw a sword
It all fits together nicely. It's not about religion - everything he said on that topic boils down to "you've mistaken our laws for the meaning behind them and they've become a reason to do evil. At the core, it's just be good to each other, everything flows from there"
Jesus was a revolutionary. He sought to free his people not as a heroic warlord, but by making them unprofitable and frustrating. He was removing the weaknesses of his people. If you have no leaders, there's no one to hold hostage. If you hold the spirit of the law above it's wording, the religious leaders couldn't demand obedience through religion. If you give away your money freely and have no big stores of food or wealth, there's nothing for them to take. There's no handle to control them, and there's no profit in raiding them
And that's why he died - it seems very clear to me that Judas didn't betray him - he followed Jesus's plan. Jesus warned them all it was about to happen, and told them not to resist. Judas didn't want the silver, he felt enough guilt/grief to take his own life.
Jesus himself was the last weakness, so he had to die. Or at least stage his death - he was very popular among the legions very soon after his death. Maybe he had inside help from his executioners, he was up on the cross for a very short time (granted, he was probably on the verge of death already)
Unfortunately, it still had one weakness... The Romans straight up brutally massacred his peaceful followers
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Y'all Qaida
Vanilla ISIS
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Gravy seals
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About half
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.
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Hornyjail?
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bonk!
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what a cool country to go and live in
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Eat shit and die, rabid fundamentalist scum. You & your ideas are the antithesis of America.
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The worst thing of all is that people like these are usually the worst offenders.
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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.
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Think of all the politicians he'll have to arrest
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Jesus save us from your followers.
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Believe it or not, Dusty Deevers goes straight to jail.
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Because America doesn't suffer enough from frivolous prosecutions and overcrowded prisons.
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When will conservatives realize that what people behind closed doors is none of their business?
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No. Traditionally, people were nosey as hell! This is one instance of a conservative actually being conservative.
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Well guess I'm getting the death penalty. You can have my porn when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
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The con movement is chock full of creepy weirdos and freaks. If they want some con paradise where they love oil and have morality police, they should get their freak selves over to Saudi Arabia, and fuck right off from here.
This is a country founded on secular values - the xtian jesus freak stuff need not apply to government, thanks.
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Seriously, you're right that land already exists.
- Illegal porn
- Illegal drinking
- Morality police
- Women are under control of men
- Religion is part of government
- The wealthy can do whatever they want
- Essentially legalized slavery through exploitation of migrants
Sounds like their paradise, they can move there. Trying to make other countries like that is just greedy.
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I suspect a case of projection here. Make porn illegal so I will no longer be tempted to watch it.
I think someone needs to research prohibition a bit more. During which time nude images, even art, were banned in many areas.