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Other way around:

Sites that COMPLY with laws and exit the state leave behind sites that do not comply.

The sites you CAN reach in Texas are more likely to have trafficking victims and underage participants -- because those sites clearly don't give a hoot about laws.

Texas drove away the wrong sites!

Yes. They want "small government" when the law affects them, but "law and order" when it punishes someone else who annoys them.

It's childishness we've come to be accustomed to, thanks to lead-brained 70-year-olds who are falling into legit cognitive decline... but still have the numbers to be a formidable opponent at the polls on election day.

Also, their dicks don't work anymore without a blue pill, so they may as well take away the consensual naked fun of Gen X, Millennial, and Gen Z (18+) people right?

What's worse: Reputable sites that comply with U.S. laws (such as participants being 18+ and filming of their own free will) are effectively forced out, while questionable site carry on.

The likelyhood of seeing abuse victims or underage in Texas goes up, not down.

If they truly cared about protecting minors, they'd see the flaw in their law and rectify it. Of course, we all know (not through cynicism but cold repeated behavior) that political conservatives do not care about minors and care far more about punishing consenting adults.

This law is a step toward the latter.

At this point, it's just a temper tantrum.

Democrats/scientists/experts/youth are the "annoying older brother" and anything they want is "stupid."

Lead poisoning (gasoline) really ruined a generation.

Until governments ban private jet travel, we just won't see serious public support. People struggling economically will fight back against taking on the brunt of the cuts.

Nobody actually wants to cut their carbon footprint, including well-meaning wealthy who advocate for change.

We're collectively in a heartbreaking devastating mess.

Remember how Governor Wallace said, "Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever"?

What most people don't know is that decades later, he went to a lot of work to try to undo the damage he caused and advocate for civil rights. The problem was, the damage had been done a lot of it. Very real people have had their lives injured. He egged on voters into bigotry longer than they needed to be.

I can't help but feel that the last 10 years or so, we've been watching the same thing. All of this is going to age like milk. Future (and even current) generations suffering (or who will soon suffer) the effects of the climate crisis, are going to universally find moments like tonight universally outrageous.

History won't be written by baby Boomers. It's going to be written by the gen alpha kids who will be the adults when we're old and gone.

Wait until they see "Smoke Hub" in Bakersfield, CA.

It's literally the porn hub logo.

A radio host in Los Angeles has a mutual friend with Giuliani. He asked the friend, "Does Rudy really believe the nonsense he says on TV. Is he really as nuts as he looks?"

The friend replied, "He's even crazier in real life. He absolutely believes all of it."

Post mayoral life has clearly not been good to him. And cable news celebrates and indulges an old man's mental decline

versus the old network news days, where they purposely avoided crazy people to save them from themselves.

Yep. Disney+ (for now).

Netflix, HBO, and Hulu gradually cancelled over the last few years.

What's stupid of them is that if they'd stayed around $8-10/mo each (ad-free), I probably would have stayed subscribed forever. Now they each get nothing.

I dream that one day there is a RiF for Lemmy. But alas, he's building an app for tildes.

Connect for Lemmy has been really good so far, too.

But it's not.

This isn't intentional. Florida's politicians want an educated, wealthy population and to fight a meaningless culture war with Disney and young people (to keep Boomers happy).

They are too dumb to see they can't have their cake and eat it too! This will be one expensive culture war.

Quality universities create quality employees and quality (tax paying) companies. By the end of the decade, and the region will stagnate and you'll see a "new" Republican going full panic mode to fix the damage (while somehow blaming it on Democrats).

In short: There is NO plan. They're just THAT shortsighted! (Everything you see can be, once again, explained by simple Boomer overindulgence)