A bill set to be introduced next month would ban consuming or producing sexual content and punish offenders with prison sentences of up to 20 years and $25,000 fines.

      • EvilEyedPanda@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Like American Marijuana laws, the cops didnt really care about people smoking weed, it was a convient way to put black people in jail.

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        10 months ago

        In no way this is the secret sauce in fascism, because these type of things often happen outside of fascist regimes. There is even a Russian saying «Друзьям — всё, врагам — закон», which translates to “[for] friends — everything, [for] enemies — the law”.

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          10 months ago

          Haven’t heard that one. Another relevant one: ‘The fact that you are walking free is not on you doing something right, but on us slacking off’.

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      They want something to feel special about. Conservatives love getting away with stuff that is “wrong” and since society has normalized a lot of previously “wrong” behaviors these people no longer have anything to feel special about. Subjugating others is how they get off.