Our secret weapon is soft power

The administration would love that. Porn is a sin that makes young sexually frustrated men able to relieve some of that frustration when they could be channeling it into terrorism

I've been downloading my porn since before streaming was a thing. My stupid country will suffer, but I'll be set for life. Punish us. We deserve it.
- Tariff me harder, daddy

If you can, pay for ethical porn.

General question about this sub - does it populate from Reddit’s r/ehbuddyhoser? Exactly how does this work? Asking for a hoser.
- AFAIA, we only federate with the other parts of the Fediverse. Walled gardens, like Reddit, FB, Instagram, and all other corporate owned social media, except Blue sky, doesn't federate with the rest of the Fediverse.
  Funnily enough Truth Social is a private Mastodon instance.
  We just named a lot of communities the same as the popular subreddits to make transition to the Fediverse a bit easier.

Please do it would be so funny! XVideos and XHamsters should also do it!

What baffles me about Trump supporters is that they were all told that tariffs mean we get paid more by other countries. They believed it. They didn’t believe it would cause a trade war or increased prices. Then they are told, yeah, we lied, tariffs will increase prices and will cause a trade war. And they’re like: fuck yeah! We’ll win this trade war!
They will believe anything, even after being lied to, and will change their political stance based on whatever he is currently saying. How anyone lives so mindlessly is beyond me.
- There's always a reason for it though. The right always spins it in a way that of you don't have the facts, or even just a few of the facts, you believe what they say. And if you have the facts ready and can logically prove them wrong based on their partial facts, they will shift to saying that my source of the facts is wrong or unreliable. If you manage to find them sources from something they deem reliable, they just say they will research it later when they get a chance but never actually research it. There's always a way for them to dance around reality because reality is an ever shifting thing for them. There's always a lie or conspiracy afoot for them to deny basic reality as it's presented to them. I work with these people and live in a conservative area. There is no getting through to them and if you manage, they come back a few days later slowly going back to their old way of thinking. In the end, it's not about justice, reality, logic, or fact. It's about fear, anger, and hatred. That's what drives them. No reasoning with someone like that.
  
  this is why republicans have been systematically destroying public education.

It’s already been cut off for a significant portion of the us due to the ‘take a picture of your id’ law
- VPN providers are no shit doing a brisk business because of this
  
  Vpns or the next thing those same states are going to ban. It's the obvious Next Step.
- And it seems that the Louisiana is the only state smart enough to have this kinda law figured out a solution that pornhub is ok with. They use a third party tool to verify access, so the government doesn't get to know who or what access is given to.

I already go to xvideos for all of my maple syrup themed porn anyways
- That's an EU based site. I imagine Trump's tariffs will apply there when their leaders don't say he's the prettiest dictator.

Ok I've wanted to ask this question but can't figure out who to ask it to:
Can America cut off our digital subscriptions? Examples that I care about: Steam... That's all I can think about but I guess streaming services? Maybe Spotify?
Can Trump announce a digital embargo and shut Canadians out of their paid for libraries, since it's all just "renting" and never owning anyways?
- The oligarchs would “take care” of trump before it got that bad for them
  
  Until they can't. Part of the progression of fascism is that the fascist leaders are beholden to business leaders until suddenly it's inverted. Oligarchs are free to oppose putin so long as they're comfortable being defenistrated.
  Trump and business leaders are clearly in a push and pull at the moment. But the second trump can send bezos to prison or seize his assets for opposition the rich will become just as subjected to the party as the rest of us.
- That would be economical suicide. Every European company would see this as a threat and move away from American cloud services which is all the infrastructure and servers.
  
  Economic suicide is the current administration's economic policy
  
  What gives you the impression that he cares about ruining the US economy?
- Unequivocally yes, they can do that.
  It would be an extreme measure, but I have been warning people and emailling my MP/MPP about this issue.
  All it would take for our phones to stop working is Apple and Google invalidating one security certificate. They could release backdroored versions of our phone operating systems (I'm sure somebody would be checking the OS checksums somewhere).
  US cloud companies being forced to stop allowing canadian credit cards alone would kill most canadian tech.
  
  Google runs their own cloud hosting so I think they would fight that as it would really hurt their business, so I hope trump does try and piss off more people in power.
  
  Frankly I would love it if something would hurt the credit card industry. The fact that a transactional service charges a % of the transaction itself is insane.
- Way to speak that evil into existence
  
  I know and I'm sorry.
- Nothing is stopping digital services from doing this right now, much less with a presidential order.
- Spotify sucks ass but it's Swedish. Their servers probably run on AWS but almost everything runs on AWS. And they are listed on an American stock exchange (through Luxembourg, probably for tax evasion reasons).
  
  Yeah I didn't mean to single out Spotify or slander or by implying it was American. I just use so few of those sorts of services and was searching for a second example.
- Regardless of whether it's possible, that would be untenable. The USA tech bros would lose a ton of money on a giant customer and the rest of the world would boycott even harder, maybe even block american services. Canada's Shopify alone would be enough of a deterrent.
  
  You think? Canada is less than 1/10th the us population right? Keeping orange man happy and securing more tax breaks and free tax payer money for some "investment" or whatever would probably smooth that out....
  Other countries backing us up would be nice though and certainly up those numbers...

Look I am 100% behind Canada on this whole thing, but something tells me we won't have too much trouble finding alternate sources of fap material.
- Aylo (Pornhub parent) owns the following porn sites:
  Brazzers Pornhub RedTube YouPorn Xtube Digital Playground Men.com Mofos Nutaku Reality Kings Sean Cody Twistys WhyNotBi.com
  enjoy your sketchy sites, Americans!
- The US has been adding more and more digital verification laws which block all porn unless you tell Uncle Sam what you're up to.
  Digital verification laws are an abomination as is, and no free speech supporter could remotely support them.
  Digital verification could be done anonymously, but there's no power in that.
- You say that, but Aylo has a pretty big lock on the industry. I honestly didn't realize they were Canadian.
  I think the only thing saving us right now is that Canada is targeting against maga supporters, and though they use porn more than the rest of us, it's still a universal product.
  
  They own like, 6 sites I didn't know they owned, until that stupid fucking law took place in my shithole state.

"soft power" 👨‍🍳😘
- Damn it, I just got it now. Well done, OP.