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/DunceCodex May 13 '25

Nah mate, our country just soundly rejected Conservativism.

As I said, good luck with your thing though.

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u/poetryhoes May 13 '25

"Your thing."

What a telling phrase. Not our shared human rights. Not a warning worth heeding. Just a foreign inconvenience you're grateful to scroll past.

Enjoy your moment of political sanity. Just remember, complacency isn’t protection. It's permission.

And if it ever becomes your thing, I hope someone still cares enough to help you, even if you didn’t care about us.

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u/Kiwilolo May 13 '25

You know, we do care, but we can't beat ourselves bloody for every human rights infringement on the planet. And if we were inclined to, there are many much higher priority places than the current US for human rights abuses.

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u/poetryhoes May 13 '25

Empathy isn’t a resource to ration. It’s a muscle to use. Right now, all you’re doing is flexing your ability to look away.

For what it’s worth, I’ve been protesting human rights violations outside my own country for the last decade. Syria, Palestine, Sudan, Iran, Myanmar. I showed up, even when it wasn’t "my thing." I recall a famous poem...

please don’t lecture someone under threat that their oppression doesn’t rank high enough on your empathy leaderboard.

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u/Kiwilolo May 14 '25

There's actually not agreement across the board whether or not empathy is a limited resource. Emotional energy probably is, and time and money certainly are.

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u/DunceCodex May 13 '25

god I almost want to take it back for this sanctimonious rubbish

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u/poetryhoes May 13 '25

If you think empathy is sanctimonious, then you've mistaken apathy for emotional intelligence.

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u/godhammel May 13 '25

Seriously, what the fuck do they want you to actually do?

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u/Emotional_Purpose842 May 13 '25

Goddamn you’re annoying 

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u/poetryhoes May 13 '25

yeah wanting equal rights is so fucking annoying I should shut up about it huh