• Quazatron@lemmy.world
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    As a relatively recent country (by European standards), USA did not go through the Middle Age. I guess this is it. Enjoy the public burnings of heretics.

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    They’re banning explicit manga AND erotica? Gooners, you gotta rise up and save the Michigan fujoshis and fudanshi!

    In all seriousness, the real reason is clear, conservatives love telling on themselves:

    Schriver’s bill also has a transphobic component. If adopted into law, the act includes prohibitions on material that “includes a disconnection between biology and gender by an individual of one biological sex imitating, depicting, or representing himself or herself to be of the other biological sex.”

    Someone in the Michigan legislature got caught being too into femboys or something similarly stupid, probably.

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    From the bill:

    “Pornographic material” includes any content, digital, streamed, or otherwise distributed on the internet, the primary purpose of which is to sexually arouse or gratify, including videos, erotica, magazines, stories, manga, material generated by artificial intelligence, live feeds, or sound clips.

    Soooo they want stronger plot lines in their porn? Is that what I’m hearing? Something that they can sit down and watch with the family?

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      You seem to be mistaken, sir: the primary purpose of this content is to promote dialogue on the meaning of interpersonal relations and the growth of human experience.

      Maybe you just don’t have a good grasp on art studies.

    • altphoto@lemmy.today
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      I get aroused by the weight loss drugs, diabetes medication, tires, car, hear care product, online shopping, restaurant, grocery store and fastfood commercials! Can we get rid of those?

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      Am I missing something or can you just get around this by not having it on the Internet? Like you could just start shuffling a bunch of flash drives around.

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    Lmao good luck idiots. Already tried it with alcohol, then with weed. How’d those work out? Porn isn’t even tangible.

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      It doesn’t need to be absolute in success, it just needs to be applied arbitrarily to further abuse out-groups.

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        which will also have the opposite of their intended effect and create more crime via black markets, trafficking etc.

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          No, that is the intended effect. Their enemies will become criminals, which means they can arrest them and use them to justify further state power.

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          They don’t care about crime at all, it’s just a dogwhistle for black and brown people. If anything, this is a benefit because it means they can inflict harm on more people they don’t like during the “crackdown”.

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    This won’t pass (not now anyway) but it’s funny they want to ban the bible. Or they’re too dumb to realize that implication.

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      All of project 2025 is the fascist declaration of war. When the heritage foundation architect said “the revolution will be bloodless, if the left allow it” he meant they will murder everyone who opposes their Christian fascist dictatorship. Everything left of fascism is “the left”.