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substack is screwing with me… My substack should be free and need no subscription. If you have a solution I’d appreciate hearing it..
Tusli Gabbard would be in jail if this exchange happened 3 months ago…
Bananland.
Democrats aren’t worried about the war crimes. They want the war crimes done competently. By their folly and arrogance, the Trump regime interfered with the imperatives of empire, and one of the core principles of the one-party consensus was broken: the duty to inflict massive violence at will, and to do so with your mouth shut.
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If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.
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So, which is it?
If this info wasn’t classified, that in itself would be a scandalous screw-up that must be explained.
And if it was classified, then the Trump administration lied to Congress and to the American people.
Porn is bad for the watchers, for relationships, for the performers, and for society at large.
I could write at length on all of these issues - but to restrict my comments to the direct questions in the post below:
“You have more sex and more orgasms in a good relationship than you do with porn…”
a) children much younger than relationship age are discovering and obsessively watching porn;
b) a “good relationship”, in sexual terms, is maintained by each partner making sure that they’re fit, healthy, attentive, attractive - all of which is rendered obsolete by porn;
c) acts in pornography can be arbitrarily extreme, inducing a kind of sexual autism, while a relationship introduces healthy moderation;
d) a sexual relationship brings goods between the partners (love, connection, nurture) and societal goods (children, motivation to pair bond and marry) - while porn brings none of these things, just sterility.
All of this crushes the healthy relationships and social dynamics which are an essential part of growing up.
Securing a desirable sexual partner is a huge impetus for the pursuit of personal excellence. Without this, the young can turn inwards and accept mediocrity and unattractiveness.
The whole framing of the post and the thoughts of the author shows the fundamental issue with porn - he is entirely thinking about sex as an atomized individual as opposed to a social activity. “How does this affect my prolactin levels” is the last thing you should be thinking about when deciding how/if to have sex.
