Anyone know if this is true or not?

  • Katana314@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I mean, I kind of guessed this way back when Collective Shout pushed their action.

    I actually had a comment removed here on Lemmy when I brought up how this was “US politics/elections affecting your life as gamers”, because the mods insisted it was purely an Australian action, and my comment was off-topic. But we live in a global online world. There’s no way that US politics wouldn’t have a huge effect on this type of censorship.

    • SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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      11 months ago

      It is as it always was: Even if you have no interest in politics, the politics are interested in you.

      Ordinary people should adopt politics as a hobby, if only to have agency about which type of politics thrives or dies. I would much prefer sex-positive media to proliferate over sex negative, because the latter will take away my hentai games and manga. Furries, queers, and genuine perverts, all of them should have a shared interest of putting conservative values into a pine box, with a bit of stake and garlic.

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        11 months ago

        There are a lot of people that are capable of suppressing women without the US just fine. Just have a quick look at the Arabic peninsula, or the Taliban.

        Western securely repressive puritanism, maybe.

        • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
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          11 months ago

          This is Iran in the 1970s, before the US started providing weapons, training, and funding to groups like literally the Taliban.

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            11 months ago

            Wow, I’ve never seen this before. I don’t mean this in a derogatory way or anything, but they look like people.

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              11 months ago

              They still are, they’re just people that are repressed by a theocracy now.

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              11 months ago

              It’s why iran has so many educated women and is weirdly technologically powerful for a theocratic regime. Iran in the 70s was modern. Inshallah the people of iran will be freed from the tyranny of theocracy.

              But yeah, iran is what should scare you the most because their collapse was fast and unexpected.