So are you gonna apply that logic to all the Belle Delphine clones who make themselves look like they're underage, or all the porn involving really small women dressed as schoolgirls with braces and such?
They're adult women, but adult women who make themselves look underage, and even roleplay underage characters, including daughters and nieces. But for some reason credit card companies aren't doing anything about that.
Censorship of content you find to be abhorrent is still censorship lol, everyone tolerates speech and artistic expression that doesn't offend them.
Hentai involving lolis and shotas is absolutely vile, foul, repugnant, depraved, degenerate, abominable, cursed, ungodly, demonic, vomit-inducing, etc. But it's nonetheless a victimless crime, unlike real CP which involves the raping of actual children.
If you mow down a bunch of civilians in GTA, you're not a murderer. But if you mow down a bunch of civilians IRL, and film it, you're still a murderer. Same principle applies to hentai involving kids, or to porn with adult actors that roleplay as kids, or porn involving rape and murder roleplay, even the most atrocious fiction is still fiction.
Are Classical and Renaissance statues and paintings of nude children CP?
I know this sounds like an obvious "no," but there isn't a simple, non-arbitrary criteria for differentiating between loli/shota hentai and legitimate art, for the same reason that there's no simple and non-arbitrary criteria for differentiating between art and porn.
Yes, you can certainly describe what you regard as the relevant differences between porn and art, but there's never gonna be anything even approaching objectivity in that discourse, and policy-making is something you have to be a total autist about or else nefarious actors will take advantage of ambiguity to abuse the rules to their advantage.
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His name is Sunigga Wuzkang!
The CCP knows that while they have a lot of economic and geopolitical power, their military and cultural power is severely lacking. Japan and S. Korea have lots of soft power in the form of entertainment, pop-culture and consumer products, whereas China is still regarded as the place that makes all the cheap crap at Walmart.
So when a Chinese company makes a cultural product that shows promise for becoming a pop-culture phenomenon, going out of your way to undermine that is legitimately subversive to China's soft power. This is the country that promotes faggotry on TikTok while prohibiting that same faggotry on Douyin, the fact that our own government promotes the same subverse brain rot as our most powerful adversary is its own can of worms but regardless, the CCP knows how this game is played.
I'll note that yes, China has had an influence on pop-culture with kung fu films and the like, but that stuff mostly came out of Triad-sponsored Hong Kong studios from back when HK still had freedom. The Cultural Revolution and China's subsequent totalitarian system gutted their ability to produce anything remotely creative, interesting, or even entertaining for generations, but it looks like they're finally starting to heal on that front.
The gentrifiers are almost always baizuo scum. Fact is that plenty of working class and even poor neighborhoods are "good enough" places to live for the residents, and have achieved a stable economic equilibrium. But then a bunch of affluent crunchy hipster faggots come in, make the place unaffordable for the previous residents and small businesses who have to move somewhere that doesn't have the infrastructure to handle them, thus creating a cascading effect of displacement.
Nevermind how these baizuo vermin take over small towns and eventually red states altogether and bring in the pozz. Gentrification isn't middle class people making an utter shithole like South Chicago into something livable, it's affluent douchebags spiking the wealth disparity in a previously stable neighborhood, which in turn makes a lot of people homeless, and then those newly homeless people get hooked on drugs by some junky whom they'd have never otherwise met had they not been renovicted, but the same baizuo scum who created this mess lobby against forcing addicts into rehab programs, etc.
Homelessness is a problem where you have a core of absolute degenerates who can't be reformed, but the majority could be reformed under the right circumstances. Unfortunately though, gentrification makes it way more difficult for a broke sonofabitch to get back on their feet for economic reasons, and then when they get hooked on drugs or their mental illnesses which they'd previously had under control gets unleashed by their life going down the shitter, they don't get the intervention that they actually need because of baizuo retardation.
The busybodies won't go anywhere, they're just gonna cry louder and louder until the Japs go Nanjing 2: Erectric Boogaroo.
It's almost like the vast majority of so-called "refugees" aren't actually refugees and this bullshit is just emotional blackmail meant to force Western nations to accept mass immigration without questioning who's behind it or why it's happening. One of the greatest criminal conspiracies in modern history, as it's been a windfall for people smugglers promising broke brown dudes in the third world that if they give what little they have to a smuggler, they'll immediately become rich in Europe and beautiful white women will wanna bear their children.
Then when they find out they've been fleeced, they become enraged and vent their frustration out on the local populace - including the white women they were promised would want them but don't.
Of course this works out swell for the same rich assholes who owe their wealth to colonization, while they guilt-trip those uppity poors over colonization, when in reality colonization never benefitted the poor whites, it was the poor whites who were used as cannon fodder for the colonial empires. Meanwhile the families who became incomprehensibly wealthy off the backs of the poor whites then are telling the poor whites now that we have to accept the cost of housing and crime rates going up, our children being brainwashed to hate themselves and bullied by angry foreigner children with a chip on their shoulder, our women and even girls being preyed on by remorseless, hateful savages, etc. All so that the same rich assholes can have a much more conveniently-located slave class, while the third world is looted of its prime labor force so that the supply of slaves never dries up due to those countries never becoming self-sufficient.
There might be an opportunity for private military academies that operate paintball/airsoft courses to find promising recruits, and put them in apprenticeship programs. Only problem would be civil rights law and ESG bullshit, it would unfortunately need to be HQ'd in some LatAm country, although since LatAm is such a hotspot for mercs I suppose it's not the worst inconvenience.
Edit: Argentina would be the perfect place for such an academy, come to think of it. That country could become the Switzerland of the western hemisphere.
Don't mercs only accept vets due to the expense of training?
The fact that military men are often prohibited from maintaining their own damn equipment because of obscenely cronyist contracts genuinely shocked me the first time I heard about it. How the fuck are you supposed to fight a war if you have to wait for a licensed contractor technician to be sent over every time you need something fixed?
So many edgelords from the 00's have become total faggots, Maddox probably being the ultimate example of this. I think it's because they were always just edgy for the lolz, but were never willing to genuinely question their normie liberal beliefs.
Then in the early 10's a lot of these normie lib edgelords went anti-SJW for a while, but they got taken back into the fold by the bizarre brand of "it's not happening and it's a good thing" cognitive dissonance pushed by breadtubers (and social media in general) following Trump. Basically, they got brainwashed into thinking that SJWs were never a real thing, because the Orange Man scared them and they really bought the notion that mainstream conservatism was evolving into a form of neo-nazism.
As such, you have lots of these guys who are desperately holding up a jenga tower of cognitive dissonance, refusing to accept that politics has really changed, that SJWs are not only real but control the left, and that the left is the status quo. They just can't handle the reality that the "far-right" is the new counter-culture, that edgy humor is subversive to liberal dogmas, and that there's just no going back to the good ol days when being an atheist was edgy.
I gotta wonder if bots are gonna force all social media to be subscription-based, because otherwise the data harvested from these platforms is worthless.
Doesn't SCOTUS ever think about all the gang shootings and crimes of passion that are committed with modified AR-15's? Man walks in on his wife cheating on him, or a junkie catches his dealer trying to scam him, and before you know it, out comes the AR-15!
Excuse me, it's not diarrhea, it's a trans period.
I thought the problem with ethanol is that petrol is just cheaper and so engineers design ICE's to run on petrol. But if petrol became prohibitively expensive, engineers could design ICE's that run on ethanol, even if it would still be a step back from petrol. Hell, small jet engines in cars have been done before, albeit experimentally, so they can certainly be done with today's tech, and they run on ethanol just fine.
As far as lab-grown meat goes, couldn't they just genetically engineer farm animals to have only the most rudimentary brains, so that there's no suffering involved? They would basically be GMO zombies and that would be creepy in its own right, but for anyone concerned with animal welfare that seems like the most obvious solution. Or maybe just lobotomize them when they're young, even simpler, albeit still creepy.
That disturbing possibility aside, fungi are a lot more like animals than like plants, even though they don't move, so with some infernal GMO sorcery there's gotta be a way to develop mushrooms that taste just like meat, have the same protein content, even the same iron content. You could literally splice animal DNA to make meat mushrooms, with something similar to blood, because blood is one of the key things that makes meat delicious.
I don't think that ceding the goddamn military to the enemy is a very smart idea, and anyone who's willing to endure such maltreatment for the sake of not allowing the vampires to seize absolute control is a hero.
They already got the Monkey King as the MC, is that not enough black representation?
I made this on my phone, but yes it's low-effort regardless.
They've been a dumpster fire for a long time, I guess now they've finally folded.
God that game is so overrated, dialogue reads like a second-year lit major's odiously tryhard pseudo-intellectual slop. And whenever I see someone with a Disco Elysium pfp, I know that I'm about to deal with a colossal douchebag, so I guess at least it works as a red flag.
You know, this might be something that blockchain tech is actually useful for. Botting on a blockchain would be prohibitively expensive.
Then again simply requiring a subscription to post would also make botting prohibitively expensive.
I admit, at least this is kinda funny, even though it's also retarded. Extremely rare leftist comic that actually knows how to set up and execute a joke, even if, again, the premise of the joke is retarded.
The prison planet theory makes more and more sense by the day. We all did something really bad in a past life to end up here.
This is just moving someone to another office, so to speak, not at all an indication that the censorship-industrial complex is failing.
America has the 1A and SCOTUS has ruled that loli/shota hentai is constitutionally-protected speech you inbred low-IQ mouthbreather.