1) Democrats run on "Republicans are FASCISTS, we'll stop them!"
2) Left responds: "What's in it for us?"
3) Democrats: We stop Repubs from being fascists; that's good enough!! What's your beef, Commies?
Left: Can't we have something a bit more useful for voting for you?
Dems: Oh, OK, OK, here's a platform we'll ignore....errrrrrrr, try to enforce and a couple of bags of old gold!! Is that good enough?
Left: I guess that'll do!! *Votes for Dems, Dems win*
Right: HAHAHAHA, look at those damn Democrats, pandering to the Commies again!!! Let's obstruct them while we plan our comeback!!
Centrists: Look, Dems, your pandering to the Left is hurting our portfolios, and ultimately your re-election funds. Get your asses back over here!!
Dems, seeing threat of capital strike during midterms: Oh, wait, hold up, we didn't mean that!! We love our centrists and conservatives, we would never abandon them!! Hard to starboard, NOW!!! *Snatches bags of gold from Left*
Left: Hey, hold up a GD minute....you promised!!
Dems: What, you thought we really meant that? Back of the bus, Commies, before we throw you out and under it!! Our conservative and centrist donors come FIRST!!!
Left: OK, we're out of here!! *Starts to #DemEXIT*
Liberal enters the chat with loaded guns: Not so fast, Commies!!!! We need you to stay, Vote Blue and accept the tiny crumbs Dems give you, because our privileges.....errrrrrrr, DEMOCRACY IS AT STAKE and WE CANNOT ALLOW THE FASCIST GOQP TO WIN!!!
Left (to Liberal): Wait....Who in THEE HELL are you to tell us who to vote for and what we should fight for?
Liberal: Who are we? Your superiors who know how to work the system for s-l-o-w incremental gains that retain our power, that's who!! Get with the program!
Left: Yeah, right....those slow gains that get repealed with every losing cycle? And leave us holding empty bags while your centrist and conservative buddies run off with our gold? Naaaaah, no more of that. Cut us in or cut it out!!
Liberal: Whatever, Commie!! We need to unite to defeat the Republican fascists, and if you won't join us, tough poopies!!! *teams up with Dem centrists and conservatives to screw Left for 100th time*
Right: HAHAHAHAAAAA....Dems in Disarray!!! See, told 'ya they couldn't govern without pandering to those Commies! Vote CONSERVATIVE for real leadership!! *Gains seats in Congress
Centrists & conservatives (in unison): Damn, Dems, can't you get it together? Lose those Commies!!
Dems: Oh, so so sorry; we didn't mean to hurt your feelings!! We'll back away from those horrible Commies right now and reboot to your liking!!
Left: Uh-huh, same old Democrat bullshit. Tease and denial!! Enough of this. #Bye
Liberal: Oh, no, no no no no, Commies!!! You are not going to deny us our right to defend our own privileged positions within the system!! You WILL vote Democrat ONLY and LIKE IT (or at least fake it), or we will hold *you* responsible for what happens if the Repubs win!!
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I have been a long-time consumer & supporter of adult sexual entertainment for 25+ years, & I've worshipped and wanked off to plenty of awesome women (and men), who took all the risks, paid all the costs, and took all the crap society threw at them in order to express themselves.
So, it burns my ass hard to see any performer be mistreated, disrespected, or denied his/her/their basic right to live as a human being just because (s)he/they chose to expand his/her/their sexual limits.
And that's by so-called fans, enemies, or otherwise.
The industry itself needs about a thousand kicks in the ass and some two-by-fours broken off some domes, because it has serious issues well beyond being assaulted by Puritan society.
Equal pay.
Performer safety.
Protection against STI's/COVID
Basic rules of consent.
Racism.
Liberal: Oh, no, no no no no, Commies!!! You are not going to deny us our right to defend our own privileged positions within the system!! You WILL vote Democrat ONLY and LIKE IT (or at least fake it, or we will hold *you* responsible for what happens if the Repubs win!!
Left: And just why in the Hell should we just continue to vote for you just to get hosed every 2 years?
Liberal: Because DEMOCRACY IS AT STAKE!!! Also, Ukraine....errrrrr, our Woke Liberal machines need your money/votes to keep the gravy train going! Rainbow capitalism rules!!
*Democrat POTUS strikes deal with GOQP to screw Left
Right: (publicly) So what that you gave us 80% of what we wanted; you're still Commies anyway, Dems...we'll just take the rest ourselves!! (off camera, but with hot mic: Got 'em again!! Heheheheh)
The absolute worst thing that can happen when adult expression is under the greatest assault in 60 years, is to have one of our icons decide to bail out because some of us are too hyperaggressive, disrespectful of their boundaries, and unwilling to accept their full humanity.
We can talk about all the Puritanism and discrimination that sex workers go through, and how they deserve full rights and fair treatment, but as long as we continue to tolerate crossing boundaries of respect for privacy and propriety, and allowing stalking and harassment....
...and especially reducing sex workers'/porn performers' total lives to the sum of their sex organs, we will risk losing them all to the Dark Side of Lubben/Micklewait sexual reaction.
We as porn fans need to check ourselves as well. We are our own worst enemy sometimes.
Liberal & centrist Democrats are simply incapable of thinking of anyone but themselves. They can't even fathom the idea that people exist to the Left of them, or that there is more to political governance than being the "adult conservative". The world does not rotate around them.
OK, let me clarify, because there are plenty of self-described liberal and even centrist Democrats I do respect who are fine and kind people. But, lots of them have such narrow political tunnel vision that they can't see the global forest for the Beltway/MSDNComcast bushes.
The real issue is not the fact that compromise exists.
The real issue is that the majority of working class/working poor/marginalized folk are basically locked out of the building while both sectors of corporate capital debate degree to which said majority gets fleeced.
Two British Black girls sucking on a hot dog in a supermarket.
A White Supremacist bigot riffs on "degeneracy" and "Think of the CHILDREN!!!"
Please.
It's a HOT DOG, not a double-headed dildo.
Even more hilarious is the absolute jumping to conclusions that two young fully dressed women sucking on and biting a weiner is the equivalent of a full-on GG paid Only Fans sex scene; or the pronounced fear that the former would corrupt children with "bad ideas".
Seriously.
I mean....SERIOUSLY.
We Black folk rightfully decry lynching and abuse when it's done to us by others, but the millisecond our Puritan sexual radars are even slightly pinged by implicit acts, we go straight to the "We gotta BEAT THEIR ASSES and PUT THEM UNDER THE JAIL!!!" card.
OK....there's been A LOT of ink spilled and Twitter keyboard fingers sprained about this thread about the "right" to sex; and I'm going to offer my dime's worth to this.
The views expressed here are mine and mine alone; I take full responsibility for them.
My initial response when this first came about was that while I sympathized with Ms. Hunt's ideal of expanding the bounds of freedom regarding sex, her critics (particularly pro-sex work feminists) were just as absolutely correct in pointing out its limitations & complications.
The feminist argument against Ms. Hunt basically says that assuming a "right" to sex can easily morph dangerously into an "entitlement" to sex, which denies the right of refusal as well as the acceptance of boundaries regarding personal consent...a slippery slope in a patriarchy.