American Taliban.
Simple as that.
Domestic terrorists who typically look unkempt and dirty, attempting to oppress others.
American Taliban.
They’re not domestic terrorists when they’re the ones in charge. They’re fascists.
The GOP really thinks there won’t be any more elections, don’t they?
At the speed at which this is happening, there won’t be, and I’m not joking.
No one is coming to save us.
Arm up. Train. Help everyone you can arm up and train. Form networks and use encrypted messaging apps to communicate.
I’m not going to pretend like I know how this will play out, but the one thing I know is that our federal government has been captured by literal fascists and they’re going to dial this up to 11 and see what happens. Maybe they simply don’t have enough national support to really pull it off. Maybe they do. I do know that you don’t want to be unprepared if they do.
It can happen here. We never thought we’d be where are are right now. But we are.
There will be elections. They’ll just be sham elections in the places where they’re overseen by Republicans.
So normal then?
Worse than what used to be normal.
But not gambling, cigarettes, day trading, doom scrolling, sub minimum wage gig work right ?
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.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?
In case it wasn’t clear to everyone, the end goal here is not banning porn, but to classify being gay, trans, etc, as sexually arousing and ban any speech by anyone in those groups, followed by banning those groups.
Lmao good luck idiots. Already tried it with alcohol, then with weed. How’d those work out? Porn isn’t even tangible.
It doesn’t need to be absolute in success, it just needs to be applied arbitrarily to further abuse out-groups.
which will also have the opposite of their intended effect and create more crime via black markets, trafficking etc.
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.
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”.
