this country is so fucking cool
They really want a christian theocracy. In 2024. Completely crazy.
Yallqaeda everyone.
They cry about Sharia law because they really want Bible law… It’s fucking stone age bullshit, it’s absolutely insane we’re still dealing with this crap.
Is everything OK, OK?
Cool. Let’s see the legislature’s browser histories.
My money says this guy can’t even close his closet door anymore for all the skeletons.
He’s in there with them.
Getting boned
Hi-oooooooo
Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, loves talking about his creepy spy app he and his son have on their phone that alerts the other if they visit naughty sites. So the writers of this proposal and all that vote for it would be happy to put the same program on their devices and computers, right? And tie that straight to a public feed we can all see? Great Great.
See when I read this story it isn’t really that bad.
They believe porn is bad and use the app to keep each other accountable. I don’t really have an issue with that. You do you.
But when they start trying to enforce that view through the government it’s obviously not okay.
Aside from it being creepy as hell to do that with your son (who probably didn’t have a say in the matter) this is a massive national security risk. Spyware on a Congress member’s phone? Not a great idea.
I severely doubt they can install it on government equipment.
Can you imagine that IT request?
“In having trouble installing this app on my phone. It’s so my phone can be remotely monitored to make sure I’m not looking at porn.”
“Could you just not try to look at porn on that phone?”
“Sir, you have a federal government IT department. Which federal agency do you want to tell your family if you watch porn? Don’t worry they already monitor your personal devices too.”
I’m imagining they have government issued phones and private phones. The government issued one for sure wouldn’t be allowed to have that shit on it.
That sounds reasonable and so it’s probably not even remotely close to what actually happens.
The craziest thing about the Hillary Clinton private email server was not that she had it, but that her predecessors also used private email for government stuff as Secretary of State. Not a one-off, but the norm. Absolutely nuts.
They’ll be exempt, obviously.
I’m sorry, I didn’t know we lived under Sharia Law.
Simple FYI… it should be just “Sharia”. Not “Sharia law”.
We aren’t speaking Arabian. It’s like “naan bread”, sure, naan means bread but not in this language and we’ve lots of other breads…If you just say Rye a Canadian will hand you a glass of whisky not a loaf of bread.
That’s still a bad example. We don’t say that “I drive a XYZ car” since car is implied and we can just say “I drive a XYZ”
Check with any XYZ standing for a manufacturer like Toyota, Tesla or a model like Corolla, 911, etc.
If there’s enough understanding of the concept, no need for clarification. Everyone knows naan is a bread. Unless you are asking a question in Japanese, just drop the bread (and law for Sharia)
I drive a chevy truck
People know what Sharia is referring. If not, they’re not worth a conversation.
Tomayto/tomahto, sharia/christo-fascist. Different pronunciations of the same thing.
It’s hilarious and ironic that Christian nationalists hate sharia law whilst wanting their own brand enacted.
They don’t hate sharia law because it’s abhorrent. They hate sharia law because it’s not Christian based.
But the differences are slight. Maybe won’t go as far down the oppression of women rabbit hole, but not for lack of trying. Merely because, I hope, our society is to far past that for them to drag us back that far.
Everyone says “that’ll never happen” and then it does.
Inaction means suffering. Apathy is death.
Merely because, I hope, our society is to far past that for them to drag us back that far.
These women in Iran just before the Islamic Revolution in 1979 probably thought they were too far past it, too.
And guess which country caused that revolution…
Iran caused that revolution. They were fed up with a leader seen as a western puppet so they replaced him with religious extremist.
Iran. Even if the British and American interference was abhorrent, an Islamic Fascist state wasn’t the only alternative they had.
Putting all the agency (and therefore responsibility) in imperial powers is also a form of imperialism.
Go to another state 🤷♂️
You’re in the Poland of the US.
Honestly asking for second opinions: Looking at the report of the actual proposal, it seems to only target sexual content containing people under 18? Am I missing something?
Honestly asking for second opinions: Looking at the report of the actual proposal, it seems to only target sexual content containing people under 18? Am I missing something?
Based on a picture in the article of the first page of the law as its written, it seems to be modifying/enhancing an existing law that currently only affects minors, broadening it so that it covers all ages, and under new additional rules. IANAL.
We should all consider the meta of the situation as well, with an upcoming Republican candidate election, and the need to drive people out to the voting booth.
I didn’t know they had an Oklahoma in Saudi Arabia!
Let me guess: his wife caught him watching gay porn and since he is a good Christian he wants to save others from falling into the same trap? And now his wife is really proud of him?
The suggested law would even require social media sites like X to be made unavailable in the Sooner State, unless it heavily censored its content, as the Mary Sue noted.
Yeah okay there’s no way this is going to pass. In fact I’m not convinced the guy who proposed it wanted it to
That guy watches so much porn
I don’t want to engage in slander, but just extrapolating from previous conservative projection, that guy has a 15 year-old Honduran boy chained in his laundry room.
15? A bit old for a guy like him, isn’t he?
😞 I really hope not. That’d be so horrible, yet the possibility lingers.
Just put a candidate endorsement in porn to make it political.
I’m not from the USA, I thought a felony is a crime at the national level, not the state level? How can a state specify that?
Felony is more about severity and consequences.
Misdemeanors punishable by a fine or “short” jail term, and a felony by more than a year in prison.Felonies can also bring penalities like being barred from certain jobs forever, restrictions on firearm ownership and depending on state loosing the ability to vote.
Below those are things like traffic tickets or citations, which are typically a small fine and don’t involve a trial, unless you ask to talk to a judge.
Federal vs state is a question of jurisdiction rather than severity. You don’t hear about federal misdemeanors very often because federal prosecutors are more interested in things like “interstate smuggling” than “someone urinated in public on the lawn of the Des Moines Federal building”.
Or the weird “shot a burro from a helicopter”.Personally, I think we really need a crackdown on airborne donkey hunting. (/S)
Let’s take bets on who’s getting caught first! Drag queens or some god-fearing dude??
Don’t pretend for a second itll actually be enforced against the in group
Oklahoma is not the entire US, thank you very much.
It is a state of the US, and this is just the latest radical conservative measure to get onto legislative debate floors.
As has happened many times over the last few decades, the rightwingnuts will throw around a bunch of similar bills with slightly different wording in a bunch of atates to find out which version can survive the inevitable challenges.
Ok, but the decisions made in Oklahoma don’t apply anywhere besides Oklahoma. Suggesting that the whole country is as braindead as the Midwest is, itself, also quite braindead.
Germany is a part of the EU, but you don’t hear anyone blaming them for the fact that Croatia still doesn’t allow gay marriage.
Ok, but the decisions made in Oklahoma don’t apply anywhere besides Oklahoma.
They care about in the context of everything else happening, like the abortion bans and the don’t say gay laws
Abortion bans
Several US states are actually more lenient than most EU member states when it comes to how late you can terminate a pregnancy. Pennsylvania, for example, allows abortions up to the 23rd week. Ohio allows it up to 21 weeks. Germany, on the other hand, only allows them up to 12 weeks. The fact that Texas only allows them up to six weeks highlights just how significant the differences between states really are.
The EU cannot pass regulations unless literally all members agree to them
But they can still pass legislation that affects only their country, much in the same way US states can pass legislation that only affects one state.
Oklahoma is not the entire US and it’s idiotic to insist that one of the least populous states represents the entire country.
