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Title: Virtue-Signaling Strikes Again
Post by: Hijiri Byakuren on March 09, 2017, 10:27:31 PM
Shameless clickbait.
The government of Tennessee wants to get rid of porn because of "wholesome family values" or some shit. Total bullshit, but it rallies the base.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5XOzR2pxoA

Title: Re: Virtue-Signaling Strikes Again
Post by: Hydra009 on March 09, 2017, 10:42:27 PM
Remember when the Republicans were actually for limited government and personal freedom?  Me neither.

Thankfully, this law is non-binding, but the message it sends - that porn exposure and "addiction" is a "public health crisis" requiring "policy change at the community and societal level" - is ridiculous and smacks of the sort of moral guardianship conservatives claim they dislike.  Apparently, they make an exception for the fundamentalist Christian Right.
Title: Re: Virtue-Signaling Strikes Again
Post by: Sorginak on March 09, 2017, 10:56:43 PM
Attempting to get rid of porn is the one thing that is guaranteed to make people riot harder than anything. 
Title: Re: Virtue-Signaling Strikes Again
Post by: Atheon on March 09, 2017, 11:07:16 PM
I guarantee that all of the legislators who voted for it jack off to porn secretly at home.

By the way, what the hell does "virtue signalling" mean? I keep hearing this word, but the definitions differ wildly when I try looking it up, and when people claim someone is "virtue signalling", the situation often doesn't fit the scenarios I read about.
Title: Re: Virtue-Signaling Strikes Again
Post by: Hijiri Byakuren on March 09, 2017, 11:11:22 PM
Quote from: Atheon on March 09, 2017, 11:07:16 PM
I guarantee that all of the legislators who voted for it jack off to porn secretly at home.
Yup, the guy in the video made that exact observation. He often describes these people as being so sexually repressed that they have pent-up cum leaking out of their orifices. I don't know where he came up with that, but I've always found the description hilarious.
Title: Re: Virtue-Signaling Strikes Again
Post by: Sorginak on March 09, 2017, 11:14:08 PM
Quote from: Hijiri Byakuren on March 09, 2017, 11:11:22 PM
Yup, the guy in the video made that exact observation. He often describes these people as being so sexually repressed that they have pent-up cum leaking out of their orifices. I don't know where he came up with that, but I've always found the description hilarious.

I bolded that to make the factual point that men who refrain from sex for too long will have cum flow their urine when they pee. 
Title: Re: Virtue-Signaling Strikes Again
Post by: Hijiri Byakuren on March 09, 2017, 11:17:36 PM
Quote from: Sorginak on March 09, 2017, 11:14:08 PM
I bolded that to make the factual point that men who refrain from sex for too long will have cum flow their urine when they pee. 
I did not know that. Although in the video's case, the orifices in question are eyeballs and pores.
Title: Re: Virtue-Signaling Strikes Again
Post by: Hydra009 on March 10, 2017, 12:32:32 AM
Quote from: Atheon on March 09, 2017, 11:07:16 PMI guarantee that all of the legislators who voted for it jack off to porn secretly at home.
That's too normal.  These anti-porn people are more like donkey show regulars.  The legislation was re-introduced by Sen Beavers, for crying out loud.  She's a real piece of work (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_Beavers#Controversies).
Title: Re: Virtue-Signaling Strikes Again
Post by: Baruch on March 10, 2017, 06:37:30 AM
Quote from: Atheon on March 09, 2017, 11:07:16 PM
I guarantee that all of the legislators who voted for it jack off to porn secretly at home.

By the way, what the hell does "virtue signalling" mean? I keep hearing this word, but the definitions differ wildly when I try looking it up, and when people claim someone is "virtue signalling", the situation often doesn't fit the scenarios I read about.

Virtue signaling ... hitting me with your clutch purse, when an anvil is required.  Don't pussy hat unless you got one.  Virtue signaling is just bread and circuses, a distraction for people who won't actually do ... anything.

Americans will always choose tyranny ... to protect the children ;-((  Give it back to the British.
Title: Re: Virtue-Signaling Strikes Again
Post by: Baruch on March 10, 2017, 06:38:37 AM
Quote from: Sorginak on March 09, 2017, 11:14:08 PM
I bolded that to make the factual point that men who refrain from sex for too long will have cum flow their urine when they pee.

The horror ... when each of my sperm has a Constitutional right to impregnate some woman's egg!
Title: Re: Virtue-Signaling Strikes Again
Post by: Gawdzilla Sama on March 10, 2017, 08:17:26 AM
I'm personally against porn. Usually navel-to-navel.
Title: Re: Virtue-Signaling Strikes Again
Post by: Munch on March 10, 2017, 08:04:54 PM
Quote from: Sorginak on March 09, 2017, 10:56:43 PM
Attempting to get rid of porn is the one thing that is guaranteed to make people riot harder than anything.

its also more inclined to increase the usage of private IPs and programs like tor.
Title: Re: Virtue-Signaling Strikes Again
Post by: Munch on March 10, 2017, 08:06:38 PM
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on March 10, 2017, 08:17:26 AM
I'm personally against porn. Usually navel-to-navel.

oops, now you done it.

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