| ▲ | DevKoala 6 hours ago |
| That sounds so gross. Why do British people tolerate that?
It’s as if British people belong to their government. |
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| ▲ | michaelt 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| The people who think incest porn should be banned are loud and proud in their beliefs. They’ll put up posters, tell their MPs, respond to surveys, and appear in political debates. The people who support incest porn are a lot less talkative. As such our windsock government with no strong beliefs does what the survey says is most popular. |
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| ▲ | gzread 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Interesting - There was once a movement in Germany to criminalise bestiality, and the opposition to this movement were vocal enough to hold street marches for the right to fuck dogs. https://www.webpronews.com/zoophiles-march-on-berlin-to-dema... | |
| ▲ | LAC-Tech 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The people who think incest porn should be banned are loud and proud in their beliefs. They’ll put up posters, tell their MPs, respond to surveys, and appear in political debates. The people who support incest porn are a lot less talkative. I think there is an argument to made the pornography in general is harmful. But to single out one single type of porn strikes me as... very odd. Maybe politicians can list, explicitly, all the other porn genres they find acceptable or agreeable to them, as a kind of compare and contrast exercise. | | |
| ▲ | michaelt 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I chose incest because https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/pornography-sexual-relationshi... > So-called "barely legal" pornography and content depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives are set to be banned amid efforts to regulate intimate image sharing. > Peers agreed by a majority of one to ban videos and images depicting relationships that would not be allowed in real life. > They also agreed by 142 votes to 140, majority two, to bring intimate pictures and videos of adults pretending to be children in line with similar images of real children. There's actually a 200+ page government review of pornography https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/creating-a-safer-... | |
| ▲ | Dylan16807 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | What's especially silly is effectively deciding the legality based on the dialog. | |
| ▲ | jimnotgym 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I guess you have to draw a line somewhere, if you are going to legislate against porn you are going to have to decide what is and what is not ok | | |
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| ▲ | 3rodents 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The same principles apply around the world. The U.S. recently invaded a sovereign nation and abducted its democratically elected leader because that leader was ostensibly involved in shipping cocaine to the U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_interventio... |
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| ▲ | anvuong 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Saying Maduro was democratically elected was too rich. | |
| ▲ | drnick1 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | So what? The only reason the U.S. did this is because it can. What will the UK do when 4chan tells its online regulator to go suck a d***, send in James Bond? | |
| ▲ | ImJamal 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Maduro was not legitimately and democratically elected. | | |
| ▲ | 3rodents 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Potato potato. No less legitimate than Trump. | | |
| ▲ | ImJamal 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Trump was validly elected. He won the required number of electors in the electoral college in the 2016 and 2024 elections. Maduro on the other hand... | | |
| ▲ | markdown 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Didn't Trump admit that Musk fixed it for him? | | |
| ▲ | rootusrootus 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The only election for the president that matters is the electoral college. What the citizens are voting on is a referendum to choose the electors (and in some states it is not binding). You might try to argue that the referendum was rigged somehow, but rigging the electoral college voting is even less plausible. | |
| ▲ | ImJamal 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Trump was talking about how Elon campaigned for him for a month in Pennsylvania and said he knows all about the voting counting machines in Pennsylvania. Even if Musk did something in Pennsylvania, Trump still would have won the electoral college vote. I think the good faith argument is that Musk confirmed they were secure so that the election wasn't stolen from Trump. But frankly Musk is too much of an idiot to steal an election or make sure it is secure so I don't know how to take it... |
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| ▲ | LAC-Tech 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | This argument is tiresome. You can be against freespeech restrictions in Britain and the 2024 Trump Administrations braindead military and foreign policy. If I attack either, I am not taking the people in the countries whose politicians make the decisions. |
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| ▲ | anigbrowl 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It’s as if British people belong to their government. Legally speaking, British people are subjects, not citizens. |
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| ▲ | shellac 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Then somebody needs to let the government know, because the relevant 1981 act is "[a]n Act to make fresh provision about citizenship and nationality". In that 'British subjects' are a quite limited subset of citizens. Most British people are citizens, not subjects. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/61/contents | | |
| ▲ | lovich 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | What’s the difference? I’m not knowledgeable enough about English law to parse this |
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| ▲ | NullPrefix 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| The term is called "Subject of The Crown" |
