Today’s decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton is a direct blow to the free speech rights of adults. This ruling allows states to enact onerous age-verification rules that will block adults from accessing lawful speech, curtail their ability to be anonymous, and jeopardize their data security and privacy.
  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    It’s literally on page 5 of Project 2025, which equates being transgender with abusing children. Then on page 554 they posit that they must increase the use of the death penalty and they single out “crimes against children” to be one of the things that they should put people to death for. This is literally the plan.

    https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

    Page 5:

    Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.

    Page 554:

    Capital punishment is a sensitive matter, as it should be, but the current crime wave makes deterrence vital at the federal, state, and local levels. However, providing this punishment without ever enforcing it provides justice neither for the victims’ families nor for the defendant. The next conservative Administration should therefore do everything possible to obtain finality for the 44 prisoners currently on federal death row. It should also pursue the death penalty for applicable crimes—particularly heinous crimes involving violence and sexual abuse of children—until Congress says otherwise through legislation.

    • Libb@piefed.socialFrançais
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      11 hours ago

      I too am quite surprised so few people seem to have been reading that book. I’m not even American but I’ve read it.

      So much of what has been happening recently is explained in it.

    • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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      14 hours ago

      Sorry, I guess I wasn’t clear.

      The Heritage Society has thought this through – I meant rank and file republicans haven’t. Thus my original comment about people going Pikachu face when this shit happens when it was all spelt out in Project 2025.

      It’s infuriating that most people had no idea what they were voting for, but that’s true. It’s also true that many would still deny it whilst ruffling the ashes of their neighbours from their hair. And they won’t acknowledge it in the future, either.

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        14 hours ago

        Thank you kindly for the clarification. This, I largely agree with. However I do think a large contingency of Trump voters literally want to return to an era where they can abuse the LGBTQ+ community and other minorities with impunity.

        • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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          14 hours ago

          That’s true, but again, not consciously. They think of themselves as morally pure, and they’re only following their god’s word. It’s not their fault that others are wicked, and they’ve tried to save us from hell.

          That’s why we can’t reach them. They think they’re the righteous ones, and will think that long past when they’re literally lighting the fires upon which they burn us.

          • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            13 hours ago

            I still think that’s giving them a little too much credit and that religion is just a convenient excuse to hate people who are different.

            • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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              13 hours ago

              That’s certainly what it was at first, but we’re talking about people who have been indoctrinated at birth for generations.

              e: I strongly encourage you to watch some of their educational content. I won’t even try to guide you towards anything specific. Just any of it.