The party of small government sure does a lot of mommying.
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I remember being VERY pissed about Obamacare requiring an individual having insurance by paying a for-profit company, else pay a penalty, because of the pro-corp "nanny state" implications, much like I despise legally-required auto insurance (without a government-funded baseline).
Yet here we are with "muh indivdulizm" republicans making the overreach far worse than Democrats ever would have.
Obamacare was invented by a Republican. It was done as a compromise because most Democrat legislators are right wing and don't want to see public healthcare enacted in the US.
This. In retrospect it's kind of amazing it even got passed, and that is the best we can do with democrats controlling 60% of the house and 58 senate seats. And unless republicans are somehow tricked into voting for national popular vote legislation and federally enforced fair districting, or we wait 25 years for all the boomers to die out and hope that millennials still want UHC, AND we also repeal citizens united, the ACA is probably the best we are going to get for some time.
What in the hell is happening across the country right now? Why are we getting all of these short sighted, personal-liberty-violating, bullshit laws popping up?
We let the South off to easy and they been slowly poisoning America from within.
We learned nothing from Reconstruction.
The Supreme Court is heavily in favor of "states rights" now, so state politicians know they can cater to special interest groups (for donations of course) with impunity. States are heavily gerrymandered, so they have little risk of losing their position. In some cases, such as book, education, voting, and immigration laws, the goal is to further ensure the states remain Republican in the future (prevent children from growing up "woke," and prevent immigrants from living there, which tend to vote Dem). Democracy in the U.S. is pretty broken, and is slowly being dismantled further.
Honest opinion: The republican party is flailing and trying to "accomplish" anything they possibly can regardless of the actual benefits to citizens.
Banning porn has been on the Republican agenda since like the 40s.
How "small government" of them.
That's fine if we have a sign when entering Texas warning us of all the dangerous things there compared to where they were coming from
I saw a billboard on the way to Texas that read, "Going west? Arm yourself."
Warning: the surgeon general has determined that this state contains government representatives whom are dangerous to your health.
Theres a joke about Ted Cruz to be made here.
9/11, Never Forget.
A health warning?
Warning: You'll shoot your eye out!
Pretty clear First Amendment compelled-speech case. The government may not compel a speaker to say a bunch of false things (the supposed "warnings" are lies; and arguably even defamatory ones) as a condition of being permitted to speak.
The 2018 NIFLA v. Becerra is the most recent Supreme Court case on compelled speech, and it does not look favorable to this sort of thing.
Warning: Residency in the state of Texas may result in the inability to function as a decent human being.
What's an example of a health warning for looking at naked humans? Seriously someone explain what they mean because it doesn't make any sense.
"Those movies are performed by trained professionals, do not attempt to replicate at home."
There is room to talk about the handful parts of porn, but this certainly isn't the way to do it. Porn doesn't increase anyone's desire for a prostitute or pedophilia. That's just insane. There could be evidence that it reduces one's self esteem, but we'd have to study that. This is just Texas furthering the nanny state and actively requiring lying to people. Again.
Porn actually helped me further my skills in building automation. It gave me a target for learning to scrape websites. Of all the things I've built for myself, this was one of the most generous projects in that I had tons of room for refinement as my skills grew.
Texas is moving to protect against the Communist infiltration comming for our precious bodily fluids.
For retaliation, just block texas IPs. That shit will be fast tracked
Nah pornhub etc just need to release the number of ip pings they get from texas government locations.
They absolutely have this info
Warning: masturbating may cause post nut clarity. Viewer discretion is advised.
Warning: You're in Texas.