• @JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works
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    10310 months ago

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

    Typical. Rules for thee I guess.

    • Jesus
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      6210 months ago

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

    • sp3ctr4l
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      2310 months ago

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

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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      410 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.

    • @masquenox@lemmy.world
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      210 months ago

      when so many keep getting caught with prostitutes sex workers?

      FTFY. If you’ve ever worked for a living, you’re a prostitute - just like the rest of us.

    • @rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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      -410 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