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I don't see how blocking porn and weed is a winning strategy.

Then you're giving the people involved far more benefit of the doubt than they deserve. They're far-right extremists. It's not hollow rhetoric or exaggeration, they're here and they're passing laws.

If you disregard the excuses that come out of their mouths, this is perfectly aligned with the far-right ideology that has infested the Republican party.

Groups like the Proud Boys, the former head of the Ku Klux Klan and incessant fuckwits like Jordan Peterson all openly promote giving up jerking off and routinely make pseudoscientific claims about it increasing your testosterone, therefore making you more of a man.

They're also working hard to broaden the term "pornography" to include anything that acknowledges any sexuality other than "straight" and any form of gender expression that doesn't clearly broadcast what genitals you have. This allows them to attack teachers and authors that dare say anything that isn't right wing.

Weed is essentially the same story as it's always been. It was made illegal so police could target "undesirables" like black people, hippies, jazz musicians and women who wanted to be more than a source of hot meals and warm holes for a middle class husband.

Literally the only thing they changed was updating the left-wing stereotypes.