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20 Feb 2023, 3:51 am

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/17/republican-anti-sex-legislation-state-level

This does it. Banning stand-up comedians from making sexual jokes?

Are we going to go back to the days where we couldn't say the word "pregnant" on TV?


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20 Feb 2023, 11:09 am

And it also looks like they're going to have all porn shut down, deleted, and destroyed. They say it's to stop kids from discovering sexuality and stop sex addiction in adults, but it's really killing a flock of birds with one oversized boulder and squashing an endangered land mammal before it can mate.


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20 Feb 2023, 11:35 am

That's their goal, but most of the right aren't that prudish either.


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20 Feb 2023, 12:05 pm

This proves the point that the religious zealots do not have a "live and let live" philosophy. Views like these remind me of The Morality Police in Iran. A good name for the religious right would be the Moral Minority. If they feel a certain way - live their own life that way; don't try and dictate that I live MY life according to your views.



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20 Feb 2023, 1:12 pm

Aspinator wrote:
This proves the point that the religious zealots do not have a "live and let live" philosophy. Views like these remind me of The Morality Police in Iran. A good name for the religious right would be the Moral Minority. If they feel a certain way - live their own life that way; don't try and dictate that I live MY life according to your views.


Their idea of small government doesn't preclude the government from interfering in the bedroom.


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20 Feb 2023, 7:06 pm

funeralxempire wrote:
Aspinator wrote:
This proves the point that the religious zealots do not have a "live and let live" philosophy. Views like these remind me of The Morality Police in Iran. A good name for the religious right would be the Moral Minority. If they feel a certain way - live their own life that way; don't try and dictate that I live MY life according to your views.


Their idea of small government doesn't preclude the government from interfering in the bedroom.


Small government only applies to guns and vaccines.


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20 Feb 2023, 7:30 pm

Tim_Tex wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
Aspinator wrote:
This proves the point that the religious zealots do not have a "live and let live" philosophy. Views like these remind me of The Morality Police in Iran. A good name for the religious right would be the Moral Minority. If they feel a certain way - live their own life that way; don't try and dictate that I live MY life according to your views.


Their idea of small government doesn't preclude the government from interfering in the bedroom.


Small government only applies to guns and vaccines.


And rich people's taxes.


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20 Feb 2023, 8:36 pm

As this is going to be used to crack down on Romance novels and the like, then this shows the absolute contempt the religious right has for the arts. And to think, the sexually free wheeling, multiple adulterer, Donny Trump, is their real messiah!


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21 Feb 2023, 3:11 pm

funeralxempire wrote:
That's their goal, but most of the right aren't that prudish either.


Their goal is to Make America great again

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Anyone seen the Handmaiden's tale?



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21 Feb 2023, 4:20 pm

cyberdad wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
That's their goal, but most of the right aren't that prudish either.


Their goal is to Make America great again

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Anyone seen the Handmaiden's tale?


I saw the movie years ago. I know of the series.


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21 Feb 2023, 5:51 pm

funeralxempire wrote:
Tim_Tex wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
Aspinator wrote:
This proves the point that the religious zealots do not have a "live and let live" philosophy. Views like these remind me of The Morality Police in Iran. A good name for the religious right would be the Moral Minority. If they feel a certain way - live their own life that way; don't try and dictate that I live MY life according to your views.


Their idea of small government doesn't preclude the government from interfering in the bedroom.


Small government only applies to guns and vaccines.


And rich people's taxes.


And a uterus.



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21 Feb 2023, 6:26 pm

adoylelb90815 wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
Tim_Tex wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
Aspinator wrote:
This proves the point that the religious zealots do not have a "live and let live" philosophy. Views like these remind me of The Morality Police in Iran. A good name for the religious right would be the Moral Minority. If they feel a certain way - live their own life that way; don't try and dictate that I live MY life according to your views.


Their idea of small government doesn't preclude the government from interfering in the bedroom.


Small government only applies to guns and vaccines.


And rich people's taxes.


And a uterus.


Not in Texas. Abortion is almost completely banned here.


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21 Feb 2023, 9:41 pm

If these bills become law, how can people fight back?


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22 Feb 2023, 2:57 pm

Us dudes on the spectrum would get so much more poontang if it weren't for those goddam conservative prudes trying to control us all the time!

Amirite or amirite or amirite?



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22 Feb 2023, 5:03 pm

slam_thunderhide wrote:
Us dudes on the spectrum would get so much more poontang if it weren't for those goddam conservative prudes trying to control us all the time!

Amirite or amirite or amirite?


:lol: :lol: :lol:


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22 Feb 2023, 5:21 pm

slam_thunderhide wrote:
Us dudes on the spectrum would get so much more poontang if it weren't for those goddam conservative prudes trying to control us all the time!

Amirite or amirite or amirite?


Man, imagine believing other people's freedom was really all about getting your dick wet.


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