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[–] ThrowawayInTheYear23@lemmy.world 123 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (8 children)

American Taliban

Are any of his views backed up by Jesus?

[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 52 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] 7u5k3n@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] LopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.works 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] cmhickman358@thelemmy.club 10 points 9 months ago
[–] 4grams@awful.systems 8 points 9 months ago

Vanilla ISIS, gonna have to use that one :)

[–] AshMan85@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And is prolly a secret pedo

[–] Carvex@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Probably? This is textbook for these people. Every accusation from Conservatives is an admission of guilt.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

I think some feds should be called in and seize his computer and phone right now.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 8 points 9 months ago

Are any of his views backed up by Jesus?

I'm no religious scholar, and I'm aware the Bible is so full of vauge and conflicting statements that it's possible to cherry pick a verse that agrees with literally any worldview, but let me cherry pick a few that this man must interpret differently than me.

John 8:1-11 Religious leaders bring Jesus a woman who has commited adultery and asks if he agrees with religious laws that state she should be stoned to death. His response is the often quoted "let any one of you who is without sin cast the first stone".

Luke 7:36-50 Jesus is dinning at the home of a religious leader. A prostitute enters and washes the feet of Jesus with her tears and hair. He explains to the religious leader that this woman has shown him great love because he has forgiven her of great sins. However, the religious leader has shown Jesus no love. Jesus explains "Those who have been forgiven of little, love little".

I'd argue Jesus would be against jailing people for watching porn if he so easily forgave adultery and prostitution.

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[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 102 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I’m not looking forward to learning what weird shit this dude is actually into. It’s gotta be real pervert hours when he goes down to his sex dungeon.

[–] Bdaman@sh.itjust.works 43 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He prob got caught watching porn by his wife and he had to go all scorched earth to get her to not take the kids and leave

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

"I swear honey I was just doing research on what all those evil porn watchers have been up to so we know exactly how much to terrorize them!"

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

He sounds like the sort of person who attempted to try a bdsm event but was horrified by the emphasis on consent

[–] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but a sex dungeon is not porn /s

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

100% this guy films women attaching his balls to jumper cables and shitting on his chest.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 56 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I bet he watches so much porn. And I bet it’s weird.

[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

There was one person the Knowledge Fight guys did a break episode on who wanted to make porn illegal. After getting pretty far into the episode Dan finally reveals what he eventually found out after the guy mentions people having legal issues:

His son got caught with (already illegal) child porn, and it hurt his sons career options. So this man's idea is to ban all porn.... despite the reason for his tirade being already illegal. He just wants to harm everyone else too, lashing out.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

If everyone else's son is in jail his won't look so bad

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[–] nixx@lemmy.ca 48 points 9 months ago

Jesus save us from your followers.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 42 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Because America doesn't suffer enough from frivolous prosecutions and overcrowded prisons.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago (4 children)

That's the point. The US has for profit prisons and also uses prisoners as slave labor (ok, technically not slave, they officially get paid, but it's like $0.03 an hour or something, so it's effectively slave labor). More prisoners means more profits for the owners and the politicians they give kickbacks to. They're modern day plantations. The more things change the more they stay the same.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 12 points 9 months ago

They're usually paid some miniscule amount, but not always; the 13th amendment specifically allows prisoners to be used as slaves. Most states have laws banning it, but not all of them.

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[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

He’s like the preacher in ”There Will Be Blood”

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 39 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The con movement is chock full of creepy weirdos and freaks. If they want some con paradise where they love oil and have morality police, they should get their freak selves over to Saudi Arabia, and fuck right off from here.

This is a country founded on secular values - the xtian jesus freak stuff need not apply to government, thanks.

[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago

Seriously, you're right that land already exists.

  • Illegal porn
  • Illegal drinking
  • Morality police
  • Women are under control of men
  • Religion is part of government
  • The wealthy can do whatever they want
  • Essentially legalized slavery through exploitation of migrants

Sounds like their paradise, they can move there. Trying to make other countries like that is just greedy.

[–] kd45@lemm.ee 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So is this like a person that actually matters or just some retarded american yokel the media is using for clickbait?

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Semi-matters, but not really. He does hold a real office, but the chances of this passing are about tree fiddy below nil.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

In NC, a purple state, where she has to use a VPN to access e621

[–] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 29 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Think of all the politicians he'll have to arrest

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 9 months ago

We can do that if he is willing to share his search history.

[–] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 9 months ago (4 children)

That’s not a phrase they’ve heard before.

Donate to the Satanic Temple. They’re fighting this fight for us by challenging these assholes.

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[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Eat shit and die, rabid fundamentalist scum. You & your ideas are the antithesis of America.

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[–] taanegl@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

lol great. Now we just need hackers to hack every republican device, so that at least ⅔ of the party ends up in jail.

[–] RudeOnTuesdays@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

No need. There is a 100% chance that everyone that would vote for a measure like this has loads of porn on their devices already.

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[–] GroundedGator@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

I suspect a case of projection here. Make porn illegal so I will no longer be tempted to watch it.

I think someone needs to research prohibition a bit more. During which time nude images, even art, were banned in many areas.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 11 points 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


In Deevers’ view, civil society, apart from the influence of overt Christian doctrine, is not a neutral middle ground, but rather the realm of the devil, or what he calls “a serpentine theocracy.”

But when Deevers opens his mouth, he invariably presents a jarring, black-and-white view of the role of government — which he believes exists to “protect innocent people and to punish and terrorize evildoers.”

While campaigning, Deevers told a religious podcast he also favors “public shaming for those who are at fault in divorce.” (In a related essay, he calls this “an important act of justice for both the transgressor and the transgressed.”)

Deevers embodies a threat that experts believe Christian nationalism poses to democracy — by literally demonizing his opponents, and casting compromise as moral corruption.

As Brad Onishi, author of an “Extremist History of Christian Nationalism,” recently described in an interview with Rolling Stone: “If you’re a person who is convinced that the United States is under threat by a Luciferian regime, comprised of Marxist globalist secularists, feminists, the LGBTQ community, and so on, democracy is not your sacred value.”

Pitching himself to voters, Deevers filmed a campaign ad wielding a rifle while wearing a black T-shirt that read: “Obey God: Defy Tyrants.” He railed against “the Godless leftist agenda” that he warned threatens “thriving families and their moral development.” He additionally decried “drag queen story hour” and the “chemical and surgical mutilation of our kids.” A longtime opponent of abortion, Deevers positioned this stance in biblical terms as “loving my pre-born neighbor as myself.”


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[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 11 points 9 months ago

Ok good luck with that one, bro.

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 11 points 9 months ago

Believe it or not, Dusty Deevers goes straight to jail.

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Most porn viewers are in red states but we all know they are above the law, so it's good

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Well guess I'm getting the death penalty. You can have my porn when you pry it from my cold dead hands.

[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

When will conservatives realize that what people behind closed doors is none of their business?

[–] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No. Traditionally, people were nosey as hell! This is one instance of a conservative actually being conservative.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

The cons are all essentially puritanical.

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Combine that fear with their projection - because they are up to all kinds of freaky stuff themselves, most likely and that spells conservative.

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[–] tidoni_@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

what a cool country to go and live in

[–] PeckerBrown@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Send that trumpy cunt to prison and let him be porn.

[–] FlashZordon@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Well now we know what he likes to do during his free time.

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