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Yes. I think it should be illegal for consenting adults to watch other consenting adults have sex. I'm voting Romney. | |
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No. I believe that consenting adults should be free to watch adult entertainment. I'm voting Obama. | |
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hedgehog
(36,286 posts)Response to hedgehog (Reply #1)
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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,367 posts)The reason 9/11 was so successful is that John Ashcroft removed FBI agents form anti-terrorist duty and had them focus on porn instead.
Ian David
(69,059 posts)... you know, so we can censor it and stuff.
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)things you may legally do in real life.
Lawlbringer
(550 posts)not that I do, or anything like that.
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Uncle Joe
(58,483 posts)Even if I wanted to censor it, I couldn't vote for him, it would be a catch 22.
Thanks for the thread, Warren DeMontague.
RZM
(8,556 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,483 posts)why do you believe I have him confused with Willie Nelson?
RZM
(8,556 posts)There was a rather un-PC joke going around that Wilie Nelson's face resembled a certain 'anatomical feature.' I don't know when it originated, but I remember hearing it in the 80s.
I think it's mostly forgotten nowadays. When people joke about Willie Nelson now, they tend to focus on his penchant for weed.
Uncle Joe
(58,483 posts)Willie's face today seems to me more like a smiling road map with a lot of streets on it.
However rMoney's face looks like the nation is in for some forced intercourse.
UnrepentantLiberal
(11,700 posts)Response to UnrepentantLiberal (Reply #7)
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Warpy
(111,410 posts)but I don't get to make the rules for anyone else and neither does Mittens.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Gads, the man is a manufactory of stupidity, and no, Willard, this ain't gonna make Frothy give you a more enthusiastic endorsement.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Gotta keep those far right fundamentalists, along with their enablers and sooooper secret stealth allies, happy.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)the stupidity is beyond even the Professor's ability to measure it:
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)Lots of good old boys and girls in the south love their porn.
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Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)Eight of the top 10 pornography consuming states gave their electoral votes to John McCain in last year's presidential election Florida and Hawaii were the exceptions. While six out of the lowest 10 favoured Barack Obama.
Old-fashioned values
Church-goers bought less online porn on Sundays a 1% increase in a postal code's religious attendance was associated with a 0.1% drop in subscriptions that day. However, expenditures on other days of the week brought them in line with the rest of the country, Edelman finds.
Residents of 27 states that passed laws banning gay marriages boasted 11% more porn subscribers than states that don't explicitly restrict gay marriage.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16680-porn-in-the-usa-conservatives-are-biggest-consumers.html
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zappaman
(20,606 posts)Response to zappaman (Reply #40)
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LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)bluedigger
(17,088 posts)Go outside, people! You live in Hawaii!
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)want to vote for him. But I really doubt that is going to happen anytime soon.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)3...2...1...
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)So here's a cute LOLcat to help out:
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Gee, whiz, I wonder why?
Scout
(8,624 posts)Response to Scout (Reply #59)
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Chorophyll
(5,179 posts)Whisp
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Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts). . . I think the government has better things to do than be a net nanny. For those who want to censor the internet and at the same time scream about government wasting taxpayer dollars, consider that.
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Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)??
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)what if there were other things?
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)I like porn, and not ashamed to admit it.
UnrepentantLiberal
(11,700 posts)The good people of Provo, Utah decided to take a local video store owner to court for renting out porn videos. Well this was going to be a sure loser for the defence until the defence lawyer had a brilliant idea. He decided to find out how often porn was ordered at a local hotel. Turns out the good people of Utah County ordered more porn than anywhere in the U.S....
Oh yeah, it took the jury 10 minutes to come up with a not guilty verdict and slink away.
I'll see if I can find that on Google.
Edit: Found it! Thank you, Jesus.
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/23/us/erotica-special-report-technology-sent-wall-street-into-market-for-pornography.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
EROTICA INC. -- A special report.; Technology Sent Wall Street Into Market for Pornography
By Timothy Egan
The New York Times
October 23, 2000
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Just before the trial, Mr. Peterman's lawyer, Randy Spencer, came up with an idea while looking out the window of the courtroom at the Provo Marriott. He sent an investigator to the hotel to record all the sex films that a guest could obtain through the hotel's pay-per-view channels. He then obtained records on how much erotic fare people here were buying from their cable and satellite television providers.
As it turned out, people in Utah County, a place that often boasts of being the most conservative area in the nation, were disproportionately large consumers of the very videos that prosecutors had labeled obscene and illegal. And far more Utah County residents were getting their adult movies from the sky or cable than they were from the stores owned by Larry Peterman.
Why file criminal charges against a lone video retailer, Mr. Spencer argued, when some of the biggest corporations in America, including a hotel chain whose board of directors includes W. Mitt Romney, president of the Salt Lake City Olympics organizing committee, and a satellite broadcaster heavily backed by Rupert Murdoch, chairman of the News Corporation, were selling the same product?
-snip-
It took only a few minutes for the jury to find Mr. Peterman not guilty on all charges. His case illustrates what has happened to an industry that used to be confined to the margins of commerce, in the seedy parts of most towns, run by people who never dreamed of taking their companies to Wall Street.
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UnrepentantLiberal
(11,700 posts)She just didn't want to admit it.
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UnrepentantLiberal
(11,700 posts)DutchLiberal
(5,744 posts)They never miss a porn thread.
They okay? I'm worried.
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zappaman
(20,606 posts)DutchLiberal
(5,744 posts)ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)"We" know why you posted it.
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ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)Wow, just wow.
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hifiguy
(33,688 posts)when Dworkin and MacKinnon started spewing it 25 years ago.
Some will say that words have no fixed meanings, and are therefore subject to infinite malleability which in a deeply epistomological sense may be true, just as quantum physicists say that, after a fashion. matter as we know it has no meaning. But a quantum physicist will not deny that the laws of Newtonian physics govern the way we see, touch, and otherwise interact with the world. In fact they will tell you the exact opposite. Newton's genius was in explaining how things we see and do every way work in terms of mathematical laws that expressed those everyday phenomena. People cannot observe quantum structures, so even if they are weirdly random, they don't affect everyday life in any detectable way. (I am not even going to try to get into string theory here. Therefore Newtonian physics still govern the way humans see the world, which any serious physicist will not only admit, but tell you.
In language a similar paradigm exists. Unless we accept a basic premise that words have a meaning which is commonly intelligible and has an agreed-upon meaning amongst speakers of the language in which they are expressed, communication is impossible. When someone repeatedly attempts to redefine the commonly understood word "dog" as representing an animal that looks like this
meaningful communcation is no longer possible within the framework of the English language. There are people who attempt to do just that very thing in many areas of thought. It is not just a foolish exercise, it is a deeply disconnected and/or STUPID exercise. Deliberately removing yourself from the overarching paradigm governing discourse in a given language results only in the speaking of gibberish. Departing that overarching paradigm can be interesting if one is a linguist or a French philosopher, and in those contexts it is a valid thought experiment, much like spinning out string theory is for theoretical physicists and cosmologists. Trying to make a logical argument in everyday discourse while doing the same thing is doomed from the start as an exercise in failure. So there is really no point in arguing with those who do.
I had to slog through MacKinnon and Dworkin in my last year of law school because my senior paper was in part a deconstruction of their "philosophy," if such nonsense deserves that label, as it applied to constitutional law. (I got an A, BTW). I had to understand this crap, to the extent that it can be understood given its often insane redefinitions of common words and utter inability to come to terms with some aspects of human nature, to be able to effectively critique it. It was horseshit then and it is horseshit now. In addition to using the English language in ways that resemble nothing so much as a funhouse mirror, their work is the worst English prose I have read this side of Ayn Rand, and is every bit as didactic, humorless and content-free.
In other words, when you throw away all the framework of the operative paradigm, you no longer have anything of value or interest to say to anyone else. And all anyone has to do to understand why is read Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
ETA: To bring the argument to a terminal degree of simplicity, one need only look to the words of Thomas Paine, who famously said that "to argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead."
Have a good weekend!
hfg
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hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Last edited Sat May 12, 2012, 03:52 PM - Edit history (2)
millions of years of evolution as a conscious design/cause-effect relationship to enable the establishment and perpetuation of the patriarchy - which does exist, just look at the Abrahamic religions and their poisonous effects - is to enter the realm of genuinely psychotic delusion. Had the evolution of mammalian genitalia followed the Dworkin-prescribed course, mammalian life would have died out millennia ago.
Dworkin was a very, very mentally sick woman who mananged to pull off the remarkable trick of being mistaken for a philosopher. If Andrea Dworkin was a philosopher, I am Julius Caesar. Interestingly enough, MacKinnon is very hetero but absolutely refuses to discuss her orientation in terms of her philosophy. Draw your own conclusions. If one were predisposed to engage in amateur psychoanalysis, one might well conclude that she is a profound and deeply repressed and desparately conflicted masochist.
As that great philosopher Bugs Bunny put it, it is to laugh.
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RetroLounge
(37,250 posts)They can only spread their outrage so quickly
RL
TheKentuckian
(25,034 posts)HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Strelnikov_
(7,772 posts)zappaman
(20,606 posts)Didn't he lose it before this?
Kinda just icing on the cake...
sendero
(28,552 posts)He's talking bullshit which is pretty much par for the course. Despite his dreams he will not be a dictator and the porn ship has not only sailed it's arrived.
zappaman
(20,606 posts)many...many...times.
Flatpicker
(894 posts)No Pledge, no promise, nor agreement. Nothing that Romney can bring to the table that will make me want to vote for him.
He, and the entire Teabag, Fleabag party he represents are the B-Ark of our nation.
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Flatpicker
(894 posts)I'm only in favor of punishing potheads if they eat all the Doritos.
20-Life with no parole esp if they double dip the salsa.
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treestar
(82,383 posts)Liberals and Democrats will not agree to the censorship. Republicans secretly want access to porn and won't like that either.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)I'd rather go with the other issues we were kicking around, earlier.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)sarcasmo
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marlakay
(11,526 posts)I voted it shouldn't be censored to adults.
I am sick of people taking away our choices...bad or good ones!
HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)as soon as he's finished bailing out Lake Superior with a bucket.
2ndAmForComputers
(3,527 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Many of the most outspoken figures in the Pro censorship, anti porn crusades on the so-called "left" are really stealth or not so stealth members of the religious right.
Open secret, really.
2ndAmForComputers
(3,527 posts)You read enough things written by the same person, you start seeing tone, undercurrents. Word choice becomes almost like facial expression.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,450 posts)but not out of bedrooms!
RedCappedBandit
(5,514 posts)..that he even thinks something like that is possible.
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MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)mmonk
(52,589 posts)I miss the way things were before darkness took over for good.
The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)Will the US be paying people to watch, determine and censor porn?
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)cr8tvlde
(1,185 posts)to make sure it's done right. The old saying "Me thinks thou doth protest too much." often applies to the repressed Tali-rightwing.
banana convention.
(7 posts)First of all, to be so into viewing sexual activity is a bit low-consciousness.
Maine-ah
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Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)What part of "I'm voting for Romney" is not a clear violation of the TOS and the ITS REALLY ELECTION SEASON TOS?
Not that I think either of these two clowns ought to be demoted to dead, but We Can Haz Rulez.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)They should admit it.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Porn that is responsibly made for responsible adults....not a product of abuse or illegal activity such as trafficking.
As a feminist, my concern is more about context. Porn and porn-esque images of women in mass media is where my anger is focused.
Consenting sex is how adults play and there is a large measure of Theatre in good sex.
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)a single prime-time episode of Criminal Minds than in an entire adult store.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)And I firmly believe, as a general principle, the answer to bad art is better art.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)The only things that would make me want to vote for him is if his true positions are:
The elimination of poverty
The recognition of access to healthcare as a basic human right
Full support of a women's right to choose and control her reproductive health
Equal rights, opportunities and protections for all human beings (regardless of race gender, sexual orientation ....)
A commitment to protect the environment
(I could go on)
These positions would make me want to vote for him ....
Quantess
(27,630 posts)I don't feel strongly about it myself, but I know that a lot of people are not going to appreciate it!
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)...aw, dammit, wrong thread again!