Oklahoma proposal would make watching porn a felony, ban sexting outside marriage
Oklahoma proposal would make watching porn a felony, ban sexting outside marriage
A bill set to be introduced next month would ban consuming or producing sexual content and punish offenders with prison sentences of up to 20 years and $25,000 fines.
this country is so fucking cool
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Oklahoma is not the entire US, thank you very much.
It is a state of the US, and this is just the latest radical conservative measure to get onto legislative debate floors.
As has happened many times over the last few decades, the rightwingnuts will throw around a bunch of similar bills with slightly different wording in a bunch of atates to find out which version can survive the inevitable challenges.
One of 50. Trust me, no one cares about us in Okieland and I don’t blame them.
And there are many more states also going down the radical conservative route. This is just the latest thing.
And there are just as many, if not more, that are going the other direction in response. Being this reductive is incredibly frustrating.
Ok, but the decisions made in Oklahoma don't apply anywhere besides Oklahoma. Suggesting that the whole country is as braindead as the Midwest is, itself, also quite braindead.
Should we shit on the entire EU because gay marriage is illegal in Croatia?
Ok, but the decisions made in Oklahoma don't apply anywhere besides Oklahoma.
They care about it in the context of everything else happening, like the abortion bans and the don't say gay laws. Sure, they only apply to their respective states too but that ends up being a big chunk of the US.
Germany is a part of the EU, but you don't hear anyone blaming them for the fact that Croatia still doesn't allow gay marriage.
The EU doesn't run like the US. It is an alliance of countries, not states within a country. The EU cannot pass regulations unless literally all members agree to them
Abortion bans
Several US states are actually more lenient than most EU member states when it comes to how late you can terminate a pregnancy. Pennsylvania, for example, allows abortions up to the 23rd week. Ohio allows it up to 21 weeks. Germany, on the other hand, only allows them up to 12 weeks. The fact that Texas only allows them up to six weeks highlights just how significant the differences between states really are.
The EU cannot pass regulations unless literally all members agree to them
But they can still pass legislation that affects only their country, much in the same way US states can pass legislation that only affects one state.
Oklahoma is not the entire US and it's idiotic to insist that one of the least populous states represents the entire country.