People are using Virginia's porn age verification law to flag Bible.com for adult content.

As more and more states pass laws targeting “pornographic material” in books and online, they are repeatedly running up against a problem: The Bible has not just a few passages that could be considered indecent

  • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    It’s not a broad generalization at all. It’s a widespread pattern of hypocritical and contradictory conservative outrage, statements, and laws.

    • “I should be able to teach kids about the Bible in school, but you can’t teach them about Yoga”
    • “we can’t have vulgar language, oh unless it’s from our religious book”
    • “I can’t make a cake for you because you’re gay and that’s against my religion. What do you mean you won’t make a Christian cake? That’s religious discrimination!”
    • “Happy holidays!??! Happy holidays??! You monster, how dare you wage war on Christmas! We have religious liberty in this country! What do you mean that protects other religions? There’s only one God and one religion!”
    • “It’s totally fine that the polling places in large democratic areas have hours long waits so long as my polling places are quick and easy”
    • “it’s totally fine that a county with 10,000 people has the same number of ballot drop boxes as a country with 3,000,000 people”
    • “marriage is between a man and woman … and may include 17 divorces; they gays can’t have it”
    • “we need to teach kids (i.e., indoctrinate them in the ways of) Jesus not this woke (black history, trans, etc)”
    • “let’s let white kids off with a slap on the wrist while we throw a black kid in jail for smoking a plant”
    • “I can’t believe a president could have such a scandal in the white house as to have had an affair with an assistant! We need to impeach! No, I don’t think extorting an ally for information about an opponent is worthy of an impeachment! Trying to overthrow a legitimate presidental victor with a procedural trick? Nah that’s not worth an impeachment either! Oh but hey, this Biden guy’s son who lost one of his parents and a sibling in a car crash, that lost his brother to cancer, that has a drug problem, called his dad while he was in business meetings to show off… so you know his dad definitely was up to something! We’ve got to impeach him over that! What do you mean that was before he was even president and that’s completely unprecedented?”
    • “We should totally lock her up for those emails! What do you mean the guy screaming that’s son and law did the exact same thing?”
    • “We’re sorry we can’t appoint a supreme court justice just before the election! Psych! We totally can if it’s nominated by OUR president!”
    • “We need law and order in this country! What do you mean Trump broke the law? Nah, I’m not hearing it; this is clearly a partisan witch hunt and the majority conservative staff of the FBI is out to get conservatives! Oh but we’ll DEFINITELY weaponize the federal government and go after our political rivals full steam if we get the presidency in 2024”
    • “I believe abortion is amoral, that’s why I hid the fact that my ex/current lovers have had one”
    • “I believe homosexuality is amoral, that’s why I am one in the closet”
    • “we’re going to be the party of health care, but don’t watch as we strip you of your federal protections for your health care”
    • “we’re the party of the little man, but don’t watch as we cut taxes for the rich (and you but make sure that expires under the next term (probably while the Democrats are in power)”
    • “the national debt is an outage! Oh let’s spend as much as Obama did in half the time! Oh Biden is in power again, spending is out of control!”
    • “the problem isn’t guns it’s mental health, but we’re not going to do anything about that either! Must be because the kids aren’t in church, the gays, video games, or hey look over there, a squirrel!”
    • “climate change? Nah. It’s not real. Okay maybe it is, but it doesn’t matter because look at China! Oh we could make a dent and get the ball rolling? Well, it’s too late anyways, we should’ve been building nuclear plants! What do you mean I just made that up? Clearly I’ve been trying to solve this via nuclear the whole time, and it’s not another dog whistle! Oh and btw all of my top presidential candidates say they don’t believe in man made climate change! But yeah, totally serious about this issue!!”

    … and that’s just off the top of my head. If you’re a conservative, wake up, your party is a mess.

    • bitsplease@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      Spoiler: he’ll completely ignore this comment and just continue to go on saying that all criticisms of conservatives are baseless and unproductive

      • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’ll be honest, the point was less for him and more for lurkers, that might not pay as much attention and might benefit from an outline. I gave up on changing the mind of the person I’m replying to on the internet a long time ago (if it happens great!) … but I want to challenge and cut through the “noise” for the casual observer.

        • Reptorian@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          That’s the only single reason I debunk conservatives with some of their tactics thrown back at them. In a forum, I’m pretty much am blocked by nearly every conservatives there.

      • awwwyissss@lemm.ee
        01·
        1 year ago

        Don’t put words in my mouth or accuse my of something you made up in your mind.

        • bitsplease@lemmy.ml
          1·
          1 year ago

          I don’t need to put any words into your mouth, your reply to the comment was to ignore all the real, objectively true examples and just claim that despite the fact that they’re the actions of real conservative policy makers, that they somehow have nothing to do with real conservative policy

          You ignore the faults of real world conservatism, holding up this idealistic version of conservatism you have in your head as “real” conservatism. Ill bet you also hold that conservatism has nothing to do with anti-LGBT+, despite their policy makers constantly making anti-LGBT+ policy decisions

          • awwwyissss@lemm.ee
            01·
            1 year ago

            You’re completely ignorant of who I am and you’re reinforcing my initial point that we should be careful about creating an echochamber.

    • awwwyissss@lemm.ee
      01·
      1 year ago

      Yeah… I agree. None of that makes selective enforcement the core of conservative laws.

      • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’d argue it does, conservative lawmaking has consistently operated with a distinct understanding (and execution) that shows “this applies to them not us.” I’d love for conservative law makers to do what they say and say what they mean. However, they won’t and thus can’t build a coalition that gets them elected by being honest about their policy goals.

        Conservative law making in the US has become at its core “outrage politics” (and that depends on selectively enforcing ideals, policies, and laws/antagonizing part of the population). I don’t make generalizations lightly, but this is the core and fundamental piece holding the Republican party together, and it’s an awful state of affairs.

        This can be further demonstrated by Vivek Ramaswamy climbing in the polls despite, as Chris Christie put it, “sounding like ChatGPT.”

        • awwwyissss@lemm.ee
          01·
          1 year ago

          I’m done with this conversation, you lot are ignorant, loud, and preventing actual progress and critical discourse.

          You want to talk about outrage politics? You morons are outrage politics. Fuck off.

          • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            K. When you figure out what discourse you want to have come back without an empty argument.

            You’ve just proven everyone else’s point that wrote you off. You’ve made no supportive arguments for your position and resorted to an opaque moral high ground where everyone else is an idiot.