• febra@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Why is your political class in the UK even discussing such nonsense? If no harm is done, let people jack off to whatever they please.

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      5 hours ago

      The Labour Party has some Methodist roots (possibly more than Socialist) and has long included a petty-authoritarian faction. Starmer and Shabana Mahmood are very much of that tendency. See also bans on anti-genocide protests, the failed-yet-again ID card scheme, cruel treatment towards asylum seekers and trans people, continuing opposition towards soft-drug decriminalisation, and upholding previous age-verification and porn bans.

      It’s idiotic because Labour’s chances of seizing the curtain-twitcher vote from Labour and Reform are next to nil.

      But I suppose Starmer’s too afraid to stand up to Trump, so there needs to be some kind of “think of the children” displacement activity to stay in the press.