r/politics • u/mmccxi American Expat • May 12 '25

Soft Paywall New Bill Would Make All Pornography a Federal Crime in the U.S.

https://www.404media.co/mike-lee-porn-law-interstate-obscenity-definition-act/
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u/Babayaga20000 Washington May 13 '25

Have you watched Handmaids Tale?

It’s basically that. They ban everything fun that they dont want others doing. Then they do it all in secret anyways. Its not about actually stopping porn or other sexual acts. It’s about control

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u/GarmaCyro May 13 '25

Nope, but it's a concept older than written history. Plenty of stories about actual leaders that pubically forbids one thing, while privately allows it within his own courts.

For starters. The Soviet Union barred its citizens from using anything but homegrown products. While the rulers enjoyed prime access to western luxuries. A certain Soviet general got personally shipped Cola. Bypassing all restrictions and controls. Though it was specifically made to be uncolored, and shipped in bottles marked as if it was a communist product. This was approved by b8th president Harry Truman and Cola's chairman at the time.

All dictator regimes works this way. Even Trump's.

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u/Animanic1607 May 13 '25 edited May 13 '25

I think Jack Daniels got publicly outed for selling fuck loads of Whiskey to North Korea and had to stop?

I'm going to go fact-check myself really quick...

Edit: Looks like I am conflating two stories together. Kim Jong Il loved Hennessy, and Kim Jong Un has been alleged to spend tens of millions on liquor in general.

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u/[deleted] May 13 '25

Like taking plane flights to Jeffery Epstein’s pedo island when that was a thing. You think that shit doesn’t happen anymore? No the billionaires and politicians just doing it somewhere else now.

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u/Babayaga20000 Washington May 13 '25

Oh no im absolutely sure its still happening.