No, the issue most people have with it is that it requires a king (god) to make it work. People don’t mind a higher being (god) ruling them as an absolute monarch. They do mind handing such power to a human, since we have seen again and again how such power corrupts people.

Also, heaven is an absolute monarchy. The fact so many commies don’t even see the difference between communism and a monarchy should tell you all you need to know.

You only see it as an accusation because you internalize the kink as bad. I prefer male-dom content. I am not ashamed of it. There is nothing wrong with it.

If you look past your prejudice, you should be able to see what my actual point is.

I’ll ignore as much parts of your comments as I want when you don’t answer to mine but derail the discussion.

You accuse me of derailing the discussion, then pivot from claiming porn is “demeaning” to “it reinforces rape culture”. One has nothing to do with the other and I don’t feel like addressing random unrelated arguments you pull out.

However, I find it intriguing that you believe most mainstream porn focuses only on male needs. In my experience browsing anonymously (VPN, anti-fingerprinting), there is roughly equal amount focusing on women needs.

I suspect your view may be distorted, for example by algorithms feeding you content they expect you to enjoy.

First of all, don’t ignore half my comment. I believe (almost) no consensual porn is demeaning to all women (or “vision of womanhood”). Maybe some is “demeaning” to the actress specifically, but that is it.

Second of all, what even is your argument? What are you arguing for? That some porn being demeaning would mean porn in general is demeaning? Would this apply to movies? Books?

Man, porn is scripted you know. And by men for men.

No, I don’t know. Considering how much of it there is, I am surprised you are able to know all (or most) of it is scripted, and even more that it is by men for men. You must be a true porn expert. /s

Besides, are actresses in normal movies not expressing themselves because the movies are scripted?

There have been many trustworthy news sites

Can you give an example? I am not aware of any, but then again, I did not try very hard to find one.

However, I still believe he’s a Russian agent, or something just as useful, because of the way he acts. I don’t need further evidence than that. He couldn’t act more like a Russian agent if he tried.

But that is the tragedy of the situation. There are so many awful things Trump does with incontrovertible evidence, but they are drowned out in conjectures, hyperboles and outright lies.

Even if porn actress are doing that willingly, and even if porn films aren’t propaganda, they still convey a vision of womanhood which is demeaning.

It sounds incredibly sexist to me to say it is demeaning specifically to women or that a woman should have to take some image of womanhood into account when expressing her sexuality or herself in general.

Sounds to me more like you are projecting your own internalized sexism onto porn (your belief that woman’s sexual expression is demeaning to women for some reason, but not men).

You know, it is still mind blowing to me that people will share stuff like this (an accusation of espionage based on one Russian Facebook post), and then be surprised, when a lot of people actually believe Trumps “fake news” BS. One of the reasons Trump was able to win is that the Democrats and their supporters completely tanked their credibility with anyone still capable of critical thinking.

Polling shows most Trump voters would not have voted for him if they were better informed, but of course they won’t be informed if there is no trustworthy mainstream source of information.

Wow, an actually important economic statistic, here on Lemmy? 👏

Good people with guns limit the ability of awful people to do awful things. Good people who give up their guns, not as much.

I am not sure leaving now and letting people who may not have scruples about illegal orders remain is a good idea. If anything, it may be the opposite.

Except 99% of people pay with credit/debit cards.

Besides, if it takes you more then 5 seconds to get the penny, count it and use it again, you worked below minimum wage for that penny.

I don’t want to convince you here, you do you.

But it seems funny to say that while you are using Linux, where almost nothing has official support.

I personally love that even if GoG shut down or otherwise was inaccessible, I would still have offline installers (that can be installed to wine manually). Obviously having a launcher is nicer, but I hate that there is no backup with Steam.

I just switched to Linux and there are multiple Launchers that support GoG. It is not official but honestly, that makes it better in my eyes. They are open-source, no bloat, no tracking, …

Games not being on GoG is much more of an issue. :(

Wouldn’t that make Bernie in charge at this point?

I for some inexplicable reason feel optimistic about this. I think large majority wouldn’t mind as long as she had popular platform.

Just heads up, DOE is Department of Energy. Official abbreviation for Department of Educations is ED, an informal one is DoEd.

Also the student loans would be transfered to Department of Treasury, which they will likely try to do even if ED is not shut down.

“Too far left” for the Dems, yet popular with the so called “centrists”. There is a lesson in there somewhere.