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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 307 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Cool. Let's see the legislature's browser histories.

[–] xhieron@lemmy.world 144 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My money says this guy can't even close his closet door anymore for all the skeletons.

[–] KISSmyOS@feddit.de 54 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] RIPandTERROR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 69 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, loves talking about his creepy spy app he and his son have on their phone that alerts the other if they visit naughty sites. So the writers of this proposal and all that vote for it would be happy to put the same program on their devices and computers, right? And tie that straight to a public feed we can all see? Great Great.

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 28 points 10 months ago (9 children)

See when I read this story it isn't really that bad.

They believe porn is bad and use the app to keep each other accountable. I don't really have an issue with that. You do you.

But when they start trying to enforce that view through the government it's obviously not okay.

[–] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 60 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Aside from it being creepy as hell to do that with your son (who probably didn't have a say in the matter) this is a massive national security risk. Spyware on a Congress member's phone? Not a great idea.

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[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's creepy because it's his son, and he clearly is only doing it to control his kid.

You think the dad doesn't have a second device that's dedicated to wanking?

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[–] StinkyOnions@lemmy.world 229 points 10 months ago (10 children)

I'm sorry, I didn't know we lived under Sharia Law.

[–] VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 120 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's hilarious and ironic that Christian nationalists hate sharia law whilst wanting their own brand enacted.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 113 points 10 months ago (6 children)

They don't hate sharia law because it's abhorrent. They hate sharia law because it's not Christian based.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 91 points 10 months ago (37 children)
[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 115 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Sex dick? Really Oklahoma? Are you guys OK?

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago

They want to ban porn because it might tempt those who desperately want to be one of the straights.

But seriously, that congressman is so scared of being gay that they want everyone else to give up porn so they won't be challenged by easy dick.

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[–] quirzle@kbin.social 46 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Those poor, lonely Alaskans.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 37 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I like that of all the states, Hawaii and Utah remain on-brand.

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 37 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

I'm in Wyoming. There's only ten of us here. The goth search was mine. The rest didn't bother with PornHub after I explained that "bear sex" wasn't going to give them the result they were expecting.

Idaho's "dildo ride" absolutely tracks. I have been wearing a Bad Dragon cap for weeks (it's an amazing hat) and it was a ~50 year old woman on the Idaho side of the mountain who recognized the logo.

EDIT: I am not joking. The caps are sick.

https://bad-dragon.com/products/caps

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[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 36 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Lmao.

Sex dick.

Also, damn Arkansas. You nasty.

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[–] iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 73 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That guy watches so much porn

[–] modifier@lemmy.ca 53 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don't want to engage in slander, but just extrapolating from previous conservative projection, that guy has a 15 year-old Honduran boy chained in his laundry room.

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[–] ryan213@lemmy.ca 67 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Alto@kbin.social 45 points 10 months ago

Don't pretend for a second itll actually be enforced against the in group

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 66 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 65 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I wish I didn't live in my COMMUNIST blue state where I can freely watch porn, read books, receive healthcare, feed hungry kids, breath clean air, turn around in driveways without getting shot and an abortion if I or my 10 year old daughter gets RAPED! I would MUCH rather live in a Red State where it's only legal to shoot homeless people, go to church and breath fumes from the coal plant next door unless it gets too cold and I freeze to death!

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[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 59 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

This guy is nuttier than squirrel shit. Total christofascist.

https://x.com/DustyDeevers/status/1734792445789884779?s=20

Besides banning porn, he wants to ban no-fault divorce, and ban abortion with no exceptions. He called COVID vaccines a"mark of the beast", called for the jailing of Fauci, and the virus was engineering by Bill Gates to decrease population.

[–] Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Please consider posting Nitter links, so it doesn't give Musk a single cent in advertising by using privacy focused Nitter: https://nitter.net/DustyDeevers/status/1734792445789884779

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[–] MenacingPerson@lemm.ee 48 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 46 points 10 months ago (5 children)
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[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 45 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Taking bets on how long it takes (not if, but when) this man is hacked and found to be absorbed in the exact thing he's trying to ban.

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[–] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 43 points 10 months ago (4 children)
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[–] tegs_terry@feddit.uk 41 points 10 months ago (13 children)

What is wrong with Americans?

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

a brand of conservatism driven by religion

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[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago

This is like... Middle East religion police stuff.

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 36 points 10 months ago (2 children)

So what do you think? How many of the politicians pushing for this are sexting with children?

[–] fsr1967@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago

The Venn diagram is a circle

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[–] TK420@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago

Proof once again these delusional religious people need to fuck off.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 33 points 10 months ago (8 children)

The 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.

Ok then, every piece of sexual content I produce or consume is in political protest of this specific bill. That should hold up in court. Bust one for Dusty!

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[–] MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago

Land of the free, home of the American Taliban

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 33 points 10 months ago

I love watching our clueless citizens just allow this descent into fascism. Who knew it would be as simple as just not teaching kids what the word means.

[–] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago (6 children)

would prohibit consuming or producing sexual content that “lacks serious literary, artistic, educational, political, or scientific purposes or value” in any medium.

So you get get around it with a whiteboard in the background that has a math equation on it. Kinda like you can get around the swimsuit ban on twitch if you have an inflatable pool with water in it in the background.

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[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We really need a law where any politician who wants to vote to ban something has to first disclose their own relevant actions.

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[–] LodeMike 30 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Both of those are constitutionally illegal.

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 42 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Let's ask the Supreme Court what do they think.

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They're on a private plane with a billionaire. Will get back to us later.

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[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Does Oklahoma not have any real problems going on lol?

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[–] books@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

God I lm glad I live in a blue state.

Backwardass motherfuckers.

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