• JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    How could American politicians be so against pornography, when so many keep getting caught with prostitutes?

    Typical. Rules for thee I guess.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zip
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      4 months ago

      Because we live in a ravenous corrupt oligarchy barely able to keep the appearance of a functioning democracy.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Pornography and prostitution are different.

      One is information, allowing you to dream (maybe of stupid things), another is in the physical world.

      I don’t want to think a lot of these parallels, but I’ve noticed that people close to actual government bureaucracies are in general very sceptical of imagined things against physical.

      Among other things, consuming pornography doesn’t make you feel powerful, while a prostitute is a real human working for you.

      Also 30s’ propaganda had traits clearly aimed at, eh, sexually dissatisfied youth.

      So maybe it’s just about feeling their own power, and maybe it’s about returning that device of affecting minds. I dunno

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 months ago

      It’s entirely about loyalty and institutionalized stratification. Laws are meant to constrain those outside the party, while those within the party are given a lot of latitude.

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 months ago

      because they’re conservative, and that’s a thing cons do for some reason. google “i know it when i see it” to get some history on how batshit insane it gets.

    • Drusas@kbin.run
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      4 months ago

      The politicians who are against it are the vast minority, they’re just extremely vocal and irritating.

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      4 months ago

      They pander to the Christian nationalists for their votes. They just want power, they don’t actually hold those values.

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      4 months ago

      There’s probably a name for this just like the “author’s barely disguised fetish”. Usually when you see politicians campaigning this hard on topics like those, it’s probably because they themselves are doing it