Lame sauce. Can our elected officials just freaking decriminalize weed instead of worrying about dumb crap like this?
Elect better leadership. A state government run by a criminal mafia isn't going to operate in your best interest.
Edit: Of course I've got some raging prick cussing me out below because I said go vote. You can't even tell a Texan to vote without them giving up. This is the reasons the Republicams run this state. The voter suppression they cause can be overcome with effort, which was my point.
But the voter suppression caused by the apathy and laziness of the masses is not something that can be overcome from external forces. So either spend your effort in response to this crying about voting being impossible or work to coordinate.
I already know the outcome after having this conversation in Texas constantly for the last 20 years.
As someone from a deep red state, thanks for the advice. I didn’t realize it was so easy to get around gerrymandering, voter suppression, and the like. I’m glad you showed me the light!
I was removed from the voter rolls in Texas 5 times and still managed to vote. Cry to somebody else. It's just another form of voter suppression that I was sick of listening to while working to get the people of Texas to vote.
And you don’t think that suppression has anything to do with why Republican fascists win? Telling us to vote harder… smh.
Yes, it does. But I know what it takes to get it done, and I know the voting aged people in Texas don't care to get off their asses to do what is necessary.
You think crying nothing can be done about it was going to make it better? And the reality is most Texans welcome the likes of Cruz and Abott.
Every time somebody says go vote, some lazy loser cries about how hard it is, another form of voter suppression.
No, I’m complaining about assholes who don’t live in red states blaming the victims of republican governance. There has been a systematic disenfranchisement of vast swaths of the American electorate. Telling the victims of that that we just need to vote harder is asinine.
What we need is solidarity from outside, not sniveling bullshit advice.
Edit: also, fuck off. I live maybe the hardest life of anyone I know. Taking care of my extremely ill, bed bound wife for ten years. I still make it to every fucking election and my wife still votes, even though it causes her unbelievable pain. But even with all our motivation I can’t throw off the yoke of my oppressor because voting in a rigged system is fucked. It is so fucking infuriating to listen to people like you condescend.
And how many non- republican leaders did you manage to get elected? Clearly you un-purging yourself did not result in not "electing a state government run by a criminal mafia"
Come on bro, think about what you wrote, you literally proved his point. Whether it was true or just some shit you made up, you gotta either lie better or truth better.
I now live with non Republican leadership, so clearly I was capable of taking action to find governance worth supporting. You have to assume so much to justify your laziness.
I fought for new leadership in Texas and had these same discussions with people unwilling to get off their asses and vote then as I am having with you now. I drove people to get registered to vote and volunteered for political campaigns. I informed people when I was removed from the voter rolls and asked them to check their status.
In the end, it was always lazy people unwilling to stand up for themselves.
What are you doing for the upcoming election bro?
Okay but is pornhub banned under that leadership, yes or no? Or do you get a special exception cause you tried so much harder than everyone else in that district the gerrymander mafia left you?
See what I mean? Your point is moot. Not even picking sides, I live in a lefty state, I have no skin in the game. I was just saying your argument is self defeating because you picked a flawed approach, defending something that already played out and lost. You just gotta work on your tactics in these type of convos, that's all I'm saying.
It's easy guys, just elect better leadership!
Don't worry everyone, the guy that (checks comment thread below) left Texas for a blue state has figured it all out! It's so simple, I can't believe we didn't think of it sooner!
Government not allowing me, a grown adult to watch porn is called FREEDOM!
I'm fairly sure if they took porn off the internet, there'd only be one website left, and it'd be called "Bring back the porn!"
Dr Cox is that you?
Only thing that stops a bad guy with pornography is a good guy with pornography
I will crank one out for sad Texans without a VPN account
The party of personal freedom 😂
Your freedoms must comport with Christian values, or else they'll be stripped from you.
You know, you can just open the Brave Brower, click a button get a new private window with tor, which gives you a random IP, which bypasses many targeted IP/location restrictions. This is free compared to VPNs, which will cost money to get around these restrictions.
Just say if you need to nut Texas, Brave has got your back.
Psst! Didn’t you get the memo? Lemmy hates Brave… for some reason
I did not . But apparently they like porn more than they hate Brave.
Not surprising.
Protecting, say, 17 year olds from deliberate access to porn is weird when you think about it. If they want porn, they are post-pubescent and therefore sexually mature.
"You are not 18 therefore you cannot have sexual interests" is a weird take on the face of it.
Maybe lock up the weird/dangerous stuff, and make it hard for little kids to see, but otherwise, knock yourself out.
Also by restricting access for sexually mature people it opens a means by which adults can provide access as a way to prey on them.
The reason adults shouldn’t be fucking 17 year olds isn’t their bodies, it’s the fact that the age of majority and difference in experience means for a massive power imbalance
"I’m fairly sure if they took porn off the internet, there’d only be one website left, and it’d be called ‘Bring back the porn!’"
Can our elected officials just freaking decriminalize weed instead of worrying about dumb crap like this?
Apparently that is too "woke" an idea for Texas, and what doesn't appear to be too "woke" for Texas is letting you, an adult, watch porn.
34 tabs
Trying to visit pornhub
OP is criminally horny. And indecisive.
Maybe it's porn mixed with regular browsing? Then 34 tabs isn't insane if you're not a serial tab closer. I wasn't uncommon for me to have 10+ tabs open on my phone, and now that I switched to Firefox I don't really even close tabs. I currently have 70+ tabs open, most of which Firefox has unloaded into inactive tabs, and every once in a while I purge all inactive tabs to feel like a responsible adult.
Is that considered excessive? Honestly I’ve been trying to be better about that. I feel like my average was in the 80s for a long time. And no it’s not all porn lol
Nope. Because didn't you know? Porn is why society is in decline and why Millennials and Gen Z are having fewer children—not climate denialism, the rise of theofascism, or the constant attacks on people's autonomy.
And porn is why people aren't getting married as often—not because they've found healthier ways to have meaningful relationships.
And porn causes people to get addicted—nevermind the vast majority of psychologists and experts who don't agree that it's even possible to get addicted to porn; we should only listen to the relatively few theistic ones who support that notion.
And porn promotes human trafficking and abuse of minors, something I'm sure Republicans have no first-hand experience with and aren't regularly caught engaging in, and a greater problem I'm sure they're addressing by prosecuting and not hiding the perpetrators...
(/s)
Someone who gets the verification database will be able to blackmail people. Will have a picture of you and that you watch XYZ kinky porn.
Not to mention, little jimmy can steal his dad’s drivers license pretty easily.
I mean, this is a constant problem with legislation. This, and enforcement.
You make it illegal to do something because we need to protect the children and only those willing to break the rules will be able to deliver on the thing that people want.
This already happened recently to smoking, specifically vaping, and I'm all too familiar with the arguments. But if I can take an example from vaping.... They wanted to outlaw flavors, and largely failed. Bluntly, there's already laws, which lack any semblance of effective enforcement, which prohibits people who are underage from buying, owning and using any tobacco products.... More or less, depending on your specific country/state/province/region/county/whatever. But history has shown that tobacco products end up in the hands of underage people regardless of this. Whether because the cashier at the local smoke/vape/whatever shop or convenience store or gas station or whatever, didn't give enough of a flying fuck to deny someone because they "did not have their ID with them" or didn't even care enough to bother asking for it. I can't blame them, pissing off a passing customer who might be armed, could be violent, may have anger, violence, or homicidal issues, just because some fat fuck behind a desk says no, risking the rare chance that the person could be participating in an investigation which will result in a "hefty" (though not hefty) fine at worst, one which they won't have to pay, doesn't really give the best motivation for giving any shits about the law.
But upstanding law abiding organizations trying to do their best to comply with the laws are punished by trying to make these fuckers happy. It's not worth the trouble.
In the case of vaping, black market/street vapes have no regulation to protect the users. I followed almost every case of "vaping caused x respiratory problem for this person", and in every instance that I could track beyond the initial report, it was discovered that the individuals were buying their shit from illegal operations, who put God knows what additives into the shit they sell, and frequently, if I could get enough information on it, the result was that some bullshit illegal additive caused the problem, not the legit ingredients that are supposed to be in a vape, as governed by law. Those additives have no place being inhaled, and for good reason, they damage your lungs. But mass media's one-and-done style of reporting, never, ever, fucking follows up and the public who don't bother doing any goddamned research of their own start to think all vaping products are bad because reasons.
To bring it back on point. Sites like porn hub, have benign ads. I'm sure we've all experienced the bullshit ads at one point or another that seem to rip you out from where you're browsing and they take over your screen with some crap like "you have a virus, call our (scam) center to fix it".... On legitimate websites (pornhub included) these ads don't exist. If you spend as much time on shady websites as I do, you would know that such browser hijacks still exist. The only thing this law will do is make it extremely difficult to use any legitimate website, pushing people to use less reputable sources for their porn, and leading them right into the waiting arms of scammers and con-artists. This kind of idiotic policy erodes public safety.
IMO, this shit is happening and keeps happening because the law makers are ignorant of how this shit actually works, they don't understand behavioral patterns, and the media reinforces their fears and the fears of their constituents with their one-and-done sensationalist news stories that never get any kind of follow up.
This is a well thought out response and I 100% agree. Laying out the parallels with vaping and all the “think of the children” fearmongering nails it pretty well IMO.
HornPub should also tag along a voter registration link as a giant fuck you to Texistan republicans
... and the Texas' joke of a government back tracks in 3, 2, 1...
I feel like this is the extreme place they feel they needed to go after "accidentally" jerking it to some tranny porn, one to many times
My guess is rape rate will increase
https://slate.com/culture/2006/10/proof-that-internet-porn-prevents-rape.html
Gotta take issue with the use of "proof" in that headline. It's an interesting study but filled with assumptions.
Did they at least put a nice note on their homepage for the victims? As in "This outage was caused by the stupid ideas of the following congressmen (list of culprits) and senators (other list of culprits). Remember those names at the next election."
I find this is a little ironic after the whole PH amateur video purge, which just pushed all those videos onto platforms with much worse moderation & oversight. And now they literally use the same type of argumentation that was used against them back then to criticize the dumbfucks in Texas?
That was to comply with the child porn thing though, right? I wouldn't think they'd have much choice in that situation.
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