Republicans have a Nazi porn problem, again. Virginia Republican lieutenant governor nominee John Reid is facing mounting political pressure after a report tied him to a Tumblr blog that reposted Nazi-themed pornography and violent sexual content. The allegations, which Reid has denied, have fueled fresh calls for his withdrawal from the race.

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      Interesting read, although I still feel like it’s a leap to say that a patriarchal society requires pedophilia. What I think is more likely is that the more pedophiles there are in positions of authority, they will prefer to give positions to those in their “special group”. I would imagine it almost becomes a right of passage because those in power need something to hold over those under them.

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        There is some research showing that objectifying women isn’t done for sexual gratification but to reduce women’s value as a human. To make them lower.

        It looks like sexual gratification motivation. But it’s not.

        It’s power.

        People have been pointing out for decades how rape isn’t about sexual gratification. It’s about having power over another person. And they target people where they have a high chance of success.

        When men (or at least a large majority) consistently promote objectifying women, it becomes normalized. And if women complain, they are just being complainers. The narrative is promoted that they actually like being objectified because they like the attention.

        But talk to any woman and the majority will tell you they don’t like being objectified and it makes them feel less respected.

        Cause that’s exactly what it is.

        If you follow this logic, you can see how women start being targeted for this turning them into lower humans at younger ages. Before they even hit puberty.

        Because in order for a man to be superior to a woman. She has to know from childhood that she is nothing but an object for his pleasure.

        This is called grooming.

        And that word is usually applied to a specific situation between 2 people. However, it does happen at a societal scale.

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        Trying to make pedo shit out to be an artifact of the patriarchy certainly requires ignoring the fact that there are a ton of women that are pedos. Even in an entirely gender-equitable society there would still be creeps of all genders. Its just a sad fact of life that there are a lot of creeps, and those creeps seek positions of authority in order to enact their creepy shit. Patriarchy has nothing to do with it

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          “ton of women pedos”? You sure about that?

          93.6% men. (2017-2021). Data may be different now.

          How many of the reported female ones were just helping their male partner with his sick perversion ?

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        Even if they don’t give those positions to them they certainly won’t punish someone for having those same views. And that’s another part of it, where people who aren’t actively bad are still passively enabling everyone who is because it doesn’t affect them personally.

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    Republicans: Democrats call us fascist and Nazis and it hurts our fee fees.

    Also Republicans: Masturbates furiously to Nazi porn.

    Every accusation is a sticky mess of an admission with these guys

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      You must have a sheltered existence. Kinky women in taboo, authoritarian uniforms dominating men is a genre common enough to just show up on porn sites without specifically looking: work-safe example.

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      I mean republicans are full Nazi these days so it makes sense. I mean a lot are self loathing closeted gay Nazis but they’re all Nazis now every last one.

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      I’m not defending the guy in the OP, but “violent”, “extreme” and “nazi” porn is a slippery slope. A latex domme facesitting could be framed as extreme, violent, nazi pornography by some people.

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          I’m saying that, and we had this in the UK with the extreme pornography laws, that puritans (/proto-fascists / cryptofascists) will call it Nazi porn in order to ban it, even if they are (lower-case) nazis themselves

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            Oh, if you’re saying banning things are a slippery slope, I agree. Plus I would rather let Nazis be Nazis so I can know who my enemy is.

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      Trust people that say please don’t look it up. It exists. Just because you can chew gum in church doesn’t mean you should.

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    Yo if people in the 80s and 90s could see these headlines they’d not even know how to digest it.

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    Wait, this is a gay Republican who is also in an interracial relationship?

    Um, does he not understand that conservatives…have plans…for people like him?

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    Sad thing is that is going to make him a martyr. A beyond pathetic and disgusting excuse of a martyr. But hey, whatever burns your cross & sigs yer heil.

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      There used to be a lot of talk online about how popular nazi porn was in Israel. Lots of people said at the time that it was probably due to generational trauma related to the holocaust, but in hindsight I think that it’s because nazis love Nazi porn.

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      Its crazy to me they are seeing it as a feature, not a bug. Its like they forgot their grandfathers fought and killed Nazis to free the world from fascists.

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        Oh, but they’ll cry about how it’s so mean to call them fascists.

        Also, they’ll pull some Murc’s Law shit and act like they were made to be fascists because of the mean Democrats…

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        “The masses have never thirsted after truth… . Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.”

        The Crowd, Le Bon

        Propaganda must be continuous and lasting—continuous in that it must not leave any gaps, but must fill the citizen’s whole day and all his days; lasting in that it must function over a very long period of time.’ Propaganda tends to make the individual live in a separate world; he must not have outside points of reference. He must not be allowed a moment of meditation or reflection in which to see himself vis-a-vis the propagandist, as happens when the propaganda is not continuous.

        Propaganda, Ellul

        Words and symbols have no real meaning to these people. They are more like mantras, or incantations, to elicit conditioned feelings and demonstrate whether one belongs to the group or not. Fascist has no emotional meaning tied to the term, it’s just a meaningless noise “the others” make.

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    Shit that might get him elected as all conservatives love fucking children and being hateful. Every. One. Of. Them.

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      I actually think a lot of the voting base actually does genuinely care about protecting children. They simply have a very warped idea of what that entails, because they’ve been given boogeymen to distract from the real problems.

      Look at how many republican voters were pissed about the Epstein files not being released. Especially early on, before Fox News figured out their talking points and had time to keep repeating them. Those voters were genuinely upset about it.

      “Protect the children” has been a war banner for the right for a long time. It has been something they rally around, and that Fox would use to galvanize voters. For instance, they don’t like drag queens? Say that the drag queens are harmful to children, and those voters will go along with it. And there is a significant percentage of that voting bloc that genuinely believes the “protect the children” message.

      The ones in power absolutely love fucking children.

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        Nope.

        Conservative PEOPLE love fucking children. It’s mainly the right that is asking about child marriage, lowering consent age, banning contraception, and such.

        Most documented pedophiles that I’ve seen tend to be white, male, and lean conservative. Now white women are making an effort to catch up in the fucking children department however.

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    Reid’s longtime partner, Alonzo Mable, is Black.

    If they’re into race play, that’s weird but none of our business. Judge not lest ye be judged for the porn that you like.

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      Some of the stuff that people are into can tell us about what they’re like as people. Fetishizing nazis and white power shit, that’s not just a fetish, that shit’s a lifestyle, and I’m pretty sure that that carries over into a person’s actual political opinions and attitudes. But, it might not be him. That’s always a possibility. I’d like some proof that it was.

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        Yup. He’s got a right to do that. Doesn’t make him a great candidate, though.

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            Me either. He’s not my candidate, since I don’t live in VA, but if I did, he would not have my vote.

            He still has the right to share Nazi porn.

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            i don’t want my candidates supporting nazis in any way shape or form engaging in deviant sexual fantasies

            FTFY

            Do other deviant sexual fantasies imply support of the fantasized subject? eg

            • restraints imply support of illegal detention & coercion?
            • rape-fantasy imply support of real rape?
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              i spent many years as a dom to my now late wife. no, binding and such do not mean I support real rape.

              but it did normalize it to her. because she was a victim of it in her earlier days.

              and consenting to a fantasy allowed her control of it.

              NONE OF THAT is the same as normalizing nazis. sheesh. would you be ok if someone wanted to age play in a manner illegal otherwise?

              you’re just baiting.

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                Nope, it’s logically the same thing & and you’re doing some weird mental gymnastics pretending it’s not. It’s the basic formula of taboo + kink: not hard to understand.

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              what are you talking about? I’m all for anything that makes anyone happy. and unless the fantasy is about doing things to the nazis, that I won’t type online, the fantasy must be other wise supporting them.

              any candidate that supports nazis and their culture normalizes them. normalizing nazis is never a good thing.

              you make it seem like “if it’s a fantasy it’s ok.”

              a very slippery and childish slope.

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                It is fantasy which isn’t support. You’re conflating.

                People fantasize & act out fantasies of being abducted & raped with consenting partners: doesn’t mean they support actual rape. Some guys imagine & act out being subjected to oppressive sexual situations & others get a rush indulging their fantasies: doesn’t mean they support oppression, either.

                Work on your cognitive dissonance.

                A slippery slope is to argue pretense & fantasy inevitably lead to non-fantasy (such as real endorsement): a fallacy you commit.

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                  normalization of genocide (something nazis do) is not something I’ll vote for. there is no conflation here.

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              You mean consensual non consent? That shit freaks me out a little bit, but it doesn’t seem to bleed out into most people’s lives. Most of the participants aren’t rapists. I’m willing to bet every dollar that I have that people that are on Tumblr using white supremacist and nazi terms, fetishizing the ideologies, sure as hell have some measure of belief in them. There’s even a political compass for fetishes (yes, I know that the political compass is pretty useless, but it kind of lets us know about where the average participant leans). Raceplay, was the most authoritarian right-wing result.

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                Speaking of race play. Lol who do you think is watching all that interracial pron? Perhaps people who slip in the n word? What are your thoughts on anime porn?

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      It also appears the entirety of the evidence the Tumblr account is his is the username being the same. That’s interesting, but not conclusive.