Iraq Criminalises Same-sex Relationships with 15 Yrs Prison

If you don't think they are coming for porn, you ain't paying attention. The Comstock Act is literally about restricting interstate pornography.

#iwishmyvotecounted

11 Not sure why your equating this with conservatives, last I know gay people have no issues living in blue or red states.
The people who should be told about this are the college kids protesting against Israel and for Hamas. They don't even have a clue that they are supporting anti LBGT governments.
POSTED BY FISHPAW AT 2024-04-29 02:21 PM | REPLY

I am fairly certain that the kids protesting on campuses are primarily concerned about the colleges they attend making money off of the genocidal actions being perpetrated by the Israeli government. Thus the calls for divestment.

That is too complicated and nuanced for idiots like you to comprehend.

en.wikipedia.org

A disinvestment policy the US adopted in 1986 in response to the disinvestment campaign is credited with playing a role in pressuring the South African government to embark on negotiations that ultimately led to the dismantling of the apartheid system.[2]

Higher education endowments
Student anti-apartheid activists in the US demanded that their colleges and universities divest from companies that traded or had operations in South Africa. At many universities, students and faculty pressured the board of trustees to take action on the issue. The first anti-apartheid organization on university campuses in the United States was CUAA, founded by Ramon Sevilla at the University of California, Berkeley. Sevilla had support from Nelson Mandela, with whom he was in communication while Mandela was imprisoned on Robben Island, and he was also in contact with the African National Congress (ANC).[citation needed]

Some of the most effective actions in support of divestment from South Africa took place in the years 1976"1985. Sevilla travelled throughout the US and Europe gathering support for sanctions against South Africa, and he led a successful effort to force the University of California to divest all of its investments in companies doing business in South Africa. In an anti-apartheid protest in April 1986, 61 students were arrested after building a shantytown in front of the chancellor's office at UC Berkeley.[8] At Occidental College in Los Angeles, future US president Barack Obama was one of the divestment activists.[9]

As a result of these organised divestment campaigns, the boards of trustees of several colleges and universities voted to divest completely from companies with major South African interests. The first of these was Hampshire College in 1977.

These initial successes set a pattern that was later repeated at other campuses across the country. Activism surged in 1984 on the wave of public interest created by the wide television coverage of resistance efforts of black South Africans. According to Knight's analysis,[6] over the next few years the number of educational institutions fully or partially divesting from South Africa increased as follows:

Those that will not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.

Again, jackbooted thugs are NEVER on the right side of history.

FWIW

Nelson Mandela remarked that the University of California's massive divestment was particularly significant in pressuring for an end to white-minority rule in South Africa.

Now, one must consider whether the actions of the Israeli government are worthy of this action.

and fwiw, I am a strong supporter of Israel, my next-door neighbor growing up was Jewish who lost family in the Holocaust, my best friend in college was Jewish and we visited his grandparents during spring break one year and his grandmother had a number tattooed on her arm. My first true love was a Jewish girl. I have read a great deal about the Holocaust and understand the Jewish people's singular sensitivity to security concerns. I get that, truly I do.

But I am also Irish American who proudly identifies with the Northern Ireland Irish who were subjected to abuses by an occupying government. So that gives me sympathy for the Palestinian people.

I view the problem with Israel arises from their conservative authoritarian politicians, who expand settlements, who treat the Palestinian people as a problem to be destroyed, who refuse the logical and just path to a 2-state solution and not with the average Israeli.

Yeah? Where are these efforts to strip people of their 2nd amendment rights? Where is this happening? I see just yesterday a 2nd amendment aficionado using his 2nd amendment rights in NC, something you assuredly support.