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> Everything is a crime in our neo-puritan state. What is strange is how today's puritanism is coming from the left rather than the right. Growing up as kid,

> Everything is a crime in our neo-puritan state. What is strange is how today's puritanism is coming from the left rather than the right. Growing up as kid, I remember christians and conservatives attacking "Married with Children", "Simpsons", "Beavis and Butthead", "Southpark", etc. Even as an elementary kid, I remember associating christians/conservatives with censorship and for most of my life identified myself as a liberal. The past few years, I've given up on liberals too as they are now pushing their form of censorship under the aegis of "social justice". > Congrats, two 17 year olds sending pictures of themselves consentually = child porn. It's even worse that isn't it? If a 17 year old takes a picture of herself on a smartphone and sends it to herself on her other accounts, then she's guilty of distributing child porn. Technically, isn't she guilty of distributing child porn of herself to herself?

quuquuquu 9y ago
Re: your last point, I hope the God I don't believe in helps us... At this point, if they spend time going after people for that type of technicality, then it's only a matter of time before they get all of us in prison for something. 70m people in the USA have a criminal record of some kind. The more victimless crimes we have, the more power we will lose.
nine_k 9y ago
It's because the leftism in the US comes from the puritanism, not the other way around. Most of the social justice ideas, some of the key tenets of the left ideology, have obvious parallels in Christianity. (And if you think that the animosity between many churches and most leftists refutes this, remember how different Christian confessions liked each other 100 years ago, let alone 400 years ago.)
loeg 9y ago
I believe you are mischaracterizing all liberals as a group.
snakeanus 9y ago
> What is strange is how today's puritanism is coming from the left rather than the right. From both actually, take the UK for example, the anime=CP law was made under a right-wing government.

quuquuquu 9y ago

Re: your last point, I hope the God I don't believe in helps us... At this point, if they spend time going after people for that type of technicality, then it's only a matter of time before they get all of us in prison for something. 70m people in the USA have a criminal record of some kind. The more victimless crimes we have, the more power we will lose.

nine_k 9y ago

It's because the leftism in the US comes from the puritanism, not the other way around. Most of the social justice ideas, some of the key tenets of the left ideology, have obvious parallels in Christianity. (And if you think that the animosity between many churches and most leftists refutes this, remember how different Christian confessions liked each other 100 years ago, let alone 400 years ago.)

loeg 9y ago

I believe you are mischaracterizing all liberals as a group.

snakeanus 9y ago

> What is strange is how today's puritanism is coming from the left rather than the right. From both actually, take the UK for example, the anime=CP law was made under a right-wing government.