Closet Cases – Republicans secretly love what they publicly hate So far in 2022, more than 300 anti-LGBT bills have been proposed across 36 states – at least one third of which are directed at trans youth. This surge, especially in anti-trans legislation from Republicans, stands in stark contrast to a startling fact. Republicans love […]
Interesting, but not sure the data proves the headline. The best they can say is that such searches originating from red states are a significant portion of all US searches.
Obsessed: no definition or evidence to support this.
Republicans: not a definitive connection, though plausible.
I don’t want to say this is irresponsible reporting, but it’s not factually accurate either.
Yeah not to mention some of the data for searches for porn coming from states with age age verification checks are using VPN’s to other states. (Like 80% of porn hub traffic from Louisiana dropped after the age verification laws, and VPNs went up across the board, as in those users likely were not just showing up as users from other states)
It’s bait. Take a vague dataset, and draw overgeneralized conclusions from it to play into people’s biases and hostilities.
And people LOVE it. They want to believe that republicans are all evil transphobes who are sitting around masturbating at trans porn all day, because it makes them feel good about themselves to setup these strawmen compare themselves too.
The truth of course, is far more nuanced and complex, but people don’t want to learn. They want to hate-masturbate and ego-stroke.
Oh and let’s not forget, all religion is bad and evil and hates sex!
What are you smoking? basically every lemmy thread has that, and it’s in this thread. Lots of lemmy users are angst atheist types who are think anyone who is remotely religious is a fundamentalist and are completely ignorant of moderate or reformist sects that make up the majority of believers.
Interesting, but not sure the data proves the headline. The best they can say is that such searches originating from red states are a significant portion of all US searches.
Obsessed: no definition or evidence to support this.
Republicans: not a definitive connection, though plausible.
I don’t want to say this is irresponsible reporting, but it’s not factually accurate either.
Yeah not to mention some of the data for searches for porn coming from states with age age verification checks are using VPN’s to other states. (Like 80% of porn hub traffic from Louisiana dropped after the age verification laws, and VPNs went up across the board, as in those users likely were not just showing up as users from other states)
You mean yo say correlation is not causation?! How dare you, sir!? I challenge thee to a bartitsu duel!
There’s always a relevant XKCD.
There is always a relevant xkcd
It’s bait. Take a vague dataset, and draw overgeneralized conclusions from it to play into people’s biases and hostilities.
And people LOVE it. They want to believe that republicans are all evil transphobes who are sitting around masturbating at trans porn all day, because it makes them feel good about themselves to setup these strawmen compare themselves too.
The truth of course, is far more nuanced and complex, but people don’t want to learn. They want to hate-masturbate and ego-stroke.
Oh and let’s not forget, all religion is bad and evil and hates sex!
I’m pretty sure PornHub knows. Especially now that people are being verified in some red states.
I dont think pornhub does any verification, no? I thought they just blocked those states outright
I’m sure the states know too
Nobody said that. Talk about straw men!
What are you smoking? basically every lemmy thread has that, and it’s in this thread. Lots of lemmy users are angst atheist types who are think anyone who is remotely religious is a fundamentalist and are completely ignorant of moderate or reformist sects that make up the majority of believers.
Oh, so this is a rant against Lemmy generally, not the person you were responding to. It would help if you made that clear at the start.
I am both atheist and religious BTW (Satanist), so some of those types get under my skin, too.
…this is an overgeneralization