this country is so fucking cool

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    7 months ago

    Let’s take bets on who’s getting caught first! Drag queens or some god-fearing dude??

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      It is a state of the US, and this is just the latest radical conservative measure to get onto legislative debate floors.

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        As has happened many times over the last few decades, the rightwingnuts will throw around a bunch of similar bills with slightly different wording in a bunch of atates to find out which version can survive the inevitable challenges.

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        Ok, but the decisions made in Oklahoma don’t apply anywhere besides Oklahoma. Suggesting that the whole country is as braindead as the Midwest is, itself, also quite braindead.

        Germany is a part of the EU, but you don’t hear anyone blaming them for the fact that Croatia still doesn’t allow gay marriage.

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          Ok, but the decisions made in Oklahoma don’t apply anywhere besides Oklahoma.

          They care about in the context of everything else happening, like the abortion bans and the don’t say gay laws

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            Abortion bans

            Several US states are actually more lenient than most EU member states when it comes to how late you can terminate a pregnancy. Pennsylvania, for example, allows abortions up to the 23rd week. Ohio allows it up to 21 weeks. Germany, on the other hand, only allows them up to 12 weeks. The fact that Texas only allows them up to six weeks highlights just how significant the differences between states really are.

            The EU cannot pass regulations unless literally all members agree to them

            But they can still pass legislation that affects only their country, much in the same way US states can pass legislation that only affects one state.

            Oklahoma is not the entire US and it’s idiotic to insist that one of the least populous states represents the entire country.

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      Yallqaeda everyone.

      They cry about Sharia law because they really want Bible law… It’s fucking stone age bullshit, it’s absolutely insane we’re still dealing with this crap.

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    Everyone involved in pushing this law should be barred from working in government, and fined for wasting our time.

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      Just let them pass it then search their browser history. You know the only reason they’re so concerned about it is they’re ball’s deep into it.

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    We should all consider the meta of the situation as well, with an upcoming Republican candidate election, and the need to drive people out to the voting booth.

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    he bill, set to be introduced next month by state Sen. Dusty Deevers (R-Elgin), would prohibit consuming or producing sexual content that “lacks serious literary, artistic, educational, political, or scientific purposes or value” in any medium.

    Deevers, a Baptist pastor who was elected last year to represent a rural district that includes the tiny cities of Comanche (population under 1,400) and Elgin (about 3,700),

    So some backwater representative is proposing something that will never go anywhere. I bet stupid bills like this are proposed weekly.

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      Have you not been paying attention to the laws that red states have been passing for the last decade?

      Sure, it’ll probably be challenged in court, and if our judicial system isn’t complete trash, it’ll be repealed. But there’s a very real chance it gets passed.

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        This is just a random proposal. It won’t even make it to a point that it needs to go to a court. He’s just some dude from a small district that has nothing to do.

        I get that American politics are weird AF right now, but shit like this is just posted to get a reaction. When ultimately it might sit on a desk for a week before it ends up in the trash.

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          …I said almost the same thing about the random state abortion bans before Dobbs happened.

          Boy did I have mud on my face for that one.

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            Yeah, but thats comparing a controversial Supreme Court issue that’s been a hot topic for decades, to a sticks representative elected by 3000 votes filing some random shit that wont gain any traction.

            You can see these dumb ass proposals filed all over in the real rural areas. Hell, you can see them also done higher populace areas for dumb political maneuvers. They know they will fail, but they can say they tried.

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              As I mentioned elsewhere, Justice Thomas wanted to overturn Ogberfell and Griswold in the discussion of Dobbs. There’s a LOT of voices wanting to backpedal on porn. Oklahoma is just small enough to make one of those happen.

              The real problem is that the wording (from the article) seems to have been vetted to survive SCOTUS. It’s almost like they’ve done more work and spent more time and money than just the one rep who brought it up.

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      I can support that, I hate when they gloss over the storyline or when they’ve forgotten it by the end/don’t follow up how the sex impacted the world

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        I read this one book where this old guy saw a hooker on the road and paid her in some family heirlooms. A week later, he finds out his daughter-in-law (to his dead son) is pregnant, and he almost orders her death, but then she shows that she has the heirlooms. He was totally embarrassed and nothing else was said on the matter.

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      Why can’t we have random proposals for “strip billionaires naked and give 90% of their money to homeless people”?

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    Honestly asking for second opinions: Looking at the report of the actual proposal, it seems to only target sexual content containing people under 18? Am I missing something?

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      Honestly asking for second opinions: Looking at the report of the actual proposal, it seems to only target sexual content containing people under 18? Am I missing something?

      Based on a picture in the article of the first page of the law as its written, it seems to be modifying/enhancing an existing law that currently only affects minors, broadening it so that it covers all ages, and under new additional rules. IANAL.

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    I can’t believe it’s men who want this law, it sounds like a feminist wet dream. Marriages are going to the rise, but at what cost? Who’s benefiting and where’s the money behind it?

    In strict Islamic countries like pakistan, afganistan, yemen+ many middleeastern countries and some provinces in bangladish, india and so on…, men have 0 access to pussy; it’s all illegal: no porn, no escorts, and no girlfriends are allowed, ( gay is not even an option on this list). so everyone gets married early, and there’s hardly any grown person who is not, but these laws are miserable for men

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      I mean, SWERFs are a thing, but that they are a meaningful category is in major part because they don’t represent mainline feminist thought.

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        We aren’t speaking Arabian. It’s like “naan bread”, sure, naan means bread but not in this language and we’ve lots of other breads…If you just say Rye a Canadian will hand you a glass of whisky not a loaf of bread.

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          That’s still a bad example. We don’t say that “I drive a XYZ car” since car is implied and we can just say “I drive a XYZ”

          Check with any XYZ standing for a manufacturer like Toyota, Tesla or a model like Corolla, 911, etc.

          If there’s enough understanding of the concept, no need for clarification. Everyone knows naan is a bread. Unless you are asking a question in Japanese, just drop the bread (and law for Sharia)

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          But the differences are slight. Maybe won’t go as far down the oppression of women rabbit hole, but not for lack of trying. Merely because, I hope, our society is to far past that for them to drag us back that far.

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            Merely because, I hope, our society is to far past that for them to drag us back that far.

            These women in Iran just before the Islamic Revolution in 1979 probably thought they were too far past it, too.

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                Iran caused that revolution. They were fed up with a leader seen as a western puppet so they replaced him with religious extremist.

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                Iran. Even if the British and American interference was abhorrent, an Islamic Fascist state wasn’t the only alternative they had.

                Putting all the agency (and therefore responsibility) in imperial powers is also a form of imperialism.