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the party of "small government," once again, wants the government to police everything you do with your own junk
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more than half the conservatives would be in jail
I like the "book 5 | pdf: 37" part it makes it look like you're quoting the Bible.
If you are an American and care about privacy:
- Write your representatives. Your message can be as simple as "I care about privacy". It's important they know you are watching their votes.
- Participate in elections, particularly downballot elections. Congressional makeup at the federal and state level matters a lot more for these kinds of things than who is president. Many recent laws like "right to repair" etc have happened at the state level since you can bypass federal congressional gridlock.
- Participate in primaries. Most Americans do not vote, most voters do not vote in primaries. If you don't like having to choose "the lesser of two evils", primaries give you much much more choice to express your preferences. As a primary voter, you have an outsized influence on the electoral system and can help determine the options other people get to choose from.
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- You've left it far too late
I mean, I left but I still have to file taxes, can't use any retirement plans in my current country (yay, PFICs), and otherwise get fucked by the government for daring to want to invest in my retirement. This is mostly why I still also vote.
Move to Canada.
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Watching Republicans ban 4chan would be funny.
Like the US will shut down a multi billion industry.
No, like Prohibition, everyone will keep some around, and the laws will only be enforced against non-whites, non-Christians and uppity women. Oh and gays are right out.
They're already trying. Payment processors and big banks are increasingly refusing to do business with porn companies, and even sites that host nsfw artwork with no actual participants.
Canada will be implementing very similar to this Poilievre gets elected.
Streisand Effect here we... cum?
Maybe in your silly country.
Project 2025 is 100% political and partisan. Due to that, there are false claims being made about Project 2025.
I condem the organization but not all statements are true due to it's entirely political nature.
Wdym they literally have a massive PDF hosted on their website that you can download and read.
I really don't get the fearmongering around Project 2025. It's just a piece the Heritage Foundation released as a giant wishlist. Trump himself said he didnt support it over on Truth Social. And if congress is still split, there will be total gridlock, so even IF this was the official party platform, nothing would get done.
There is a lot of solid ideas in the document, but there is also a lot of hot dogwater.
As for porn, it is protected under the 1st amendment. There has been several court cases about this. If a law was passed, it would be challenged and likely struck down. Having said the most of the rhetoric in the document really points to the availability of books like Gender Queer being freely available in school libraries. This wasn't explicitly stated in the document, but you can draw conclusions from the context of the rhetoric. But yes one of the authors said they wanted porn banned.
Now, preventing kids from accessing porn is a reasonable ask, but this ask has to come with a measure of privacy. Nobody wants their ID floating around in a PornHub database being tied to the type of porn they watch.
Along the same lines, parents should have a say in what books their child is allowed to consume within reason. I read gender queer out of curiosity after all of the outrage about it. That book should not be free to grab by minors. Perhaps there should be a "restricted section" accessible via permission slip from the parents. That way the books can remain present and accessable to those whose parents say it's okay. It's just an idea, but one that I have yet to see floated.
I can agree with this, at least.
VPN into some country that isn't the US of A.