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PenelopeWitherspoon

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  1. 1 hour ago, Anastasis said:

      

     

     

    While y'all in here clowning, NYT reporting that Tulsi appears to have lead the push back within the Trump administration on providing American support to an Israeli operation to escalate an extended bombing campaign in Iran. I posted the article in the right thread for you to comment on once y'all take your clown noses off. 

    You are such a joke.

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  2. 4 minutes ago, safe sex said:

     

    Just when I thought he couldn't appear more distasteful than he already does..

    I'm done playing nice with cunts like him. He will come back in a bit with an excuse (spending time with his wife, who most likely married him for his money and only puts up with his sorry ass to fund her lifestyle blog/kids who will end up hating him when they realize what a piece of shit he is) then double down on his hate and tell all of us how we are so miserable cause we are unmarried with no kids. Immamac should have jettisoned his ass years ago. Icono as well. They bring nothing but hate to this site.

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  3. On 4/16/2025 at 4:47 PM, Captainant said:

    Yeah dude, we're shipping them to fucking conentration camps. No fuckin shit they're not getting any due process. The fascists have figured out how to weaponize the legal system to slow their enemies and accelerate their own schemes. @Frank Drebin has been casting all sorts of accusations of "lawfare" and wouldn't ya know it, there's the lawfare in action now. It's just being applied against the general population, and the good deacon's enemies in particular

    @Frank Drebin is a misogynistic cunt. It should not shock anyone that he graduated undergrad from ACU. Fuck him.

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  4. The court is taking up birthright citizenship. This should be a 9-0 decision telling Trump to sit down and shut the fuck up, but with Alito and Uncle Ruckus....

    Fuck this timeline.

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  5. 6 hours ago, Pimphand said:

    I tried telling you that all your noxious virtue signaling was going to lead to a moron Jesuit educated dipshit whose sole job was to destroy the financial system for his own personal gain.

    I hope at some fucking level you wake up and realize the universe is a mirror. That mirror has absolute evil contempt for the fact that you supported all the evil behind p-diddy Epstein and every last fuckface

    Buy bullion while you still can change fiat notes for actual value. Failure to do so will result in me laughing at you more than I already am.

    PS: Trump and Musk suck ass but your bitchass bullshit is why they are here to hold you accountable and rape not just you but your future generations too.

    @immamac I will donate $2,000 to the 2025 tailgates but please ban this account now as well as all future accounts

    What a cunt.

    Signed, someone educated by Jesuits. 

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  6. Went to Restaurant St. Barth's on Saturday after a day of drinking champagne with friends. Followed up by cocktails (and more champagne) at the Connaught.

     

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  7. 8 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

     

    TIL (after reading an article about her and the account) that she was a real estate agent. The simulation decided to stick with the plan on that one, lol.

    She’s a hateful cunt that deserves to be deplatformed. 

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  8. 3 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

    oh for fuck's sake

     

     

    The siege on self-gratification rages on in the 89th Texas Legislature. A new Senate bill, filed by North Texas Sen. Angela Paxton,  Attorney Gen. Ken Paxton's other half, would require online shoppers to submit photo identification before purchasing a sex toy. Check the date, this is not an April Fool's joke.

    Like the sex-focused bills that have come before, Senate Bill 3003 claims to home in on the protection of minors by regulating the online sale of “obscene devices” to those under 18. According to the Texas Penal Code, an obscene device is qualified as “a device including a dildo or artificial vagina, designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs.”

    The bill would make selling and distributing sex toys to a minor or failing to implement an age-verification process at the point of sale a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in jail and a fine of $4,000. The bill also imposes a $5,000 civil penalty per offense. Acceptable age-verification processes include submitting government-issued photographic identification, utilizing third-party verification services that access public records to verify age and limiting sales to payment methods only available to those 18 and up. While the bill does not prohibit the online sale of sex toys, it does create barriers for individuals wanting to indulge in healthy onanism by introducing identification submission.

    “Requiring ID to purchase a sex toy sends the message that pleasure is something to be policed and surveilled,” said Dr. Shamyra Howard, a licensed clinical social worker sex educator for We-Vibe, a couples’ sexual wellness brand. “It pathologizes something that is completely normal and turns a private, healthy act into something shameful. This kind of legislation doesn’t protect people; it embarrasses them. It creates unnecessary barriers and reinforces harmful stigmas that many of us have spent years trying to dismantle.”

    This isn't the first time the state has tried to limit sex toy sales and ownership. Texas has had laws restricting the devices since 1973 when the Texas obscenity statute was first introduced. Originally, the law banned the sale of sex toys. The statute was amended in 2003 and limited the possession of sex toys to six devices. Following the 2004 arrest of Joanne Webb, a Burleson woman charged with obscenity after hosting multi-level marketing sales parties for dildos, a U.S. district judge ruled the law unconstitutional and unenforceable, but it remains in the Texas Penal Code.

    But Senate Bill 3003 ignores an immutable truth, Howard said. Texans use sex toys for a plethora of pleasureful purposes. According to a research study conducted by We-Vibe, only 34% of Texans own a sex toy, but 77.6% masturbate to relieve stress and 15.5% partake to relieve menstrual pain.

    “What’s often overlooked is that sex toys are not just about pleasure. They’re also part of comprehensive sexual wellness,” Howard said. “Men use them too, both for pleasure and to manage erectile issues, neuropathy from diabetes and poor blood flow related to high blood pressure. There are devices designed to support pain management, pelvic floor health, sex toys even help people manage mental health issues through stress relief and help to re-establish intimacy after medical procedures or trauma.”

    The legislative attack on sex is the next chapter for dampening women’s rights, says Howard.

    “These restrictions absolutely function as a proxy attack on women’s sexual autonomy,” she said. “Sex toys are tools of empowerment. They allow people, especially women, to explore their pleasure, address sexual concerns, and experience intimacy on their own terms. That challenges traditional gender roles that often expect women to be passive participants in their own pleasure.”
     

    Privacy Risks

    The helicoptering of sex toy sales through online age verification processes brings with it concerns about data collection and privacy violations, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The EFF has been vocal about its disapproval of existing age verification laws in Texas that limit access to porn sites. 

    "Texas’ age verification law robs internet users of anonymity, exposes them to privacy and security risks, and blocks some adults entirely from accessing sexual content that’s protected under the First Amendment,” said EFF Staff Attorney Lisa Femia said in a press release. “Applying longstanding Supreme Court precedents, other courts have consistently held that similar age verification laws are unconstitutional.”

    In May of 2024, France passed a law requiring age verification to access porn sites, and Olivier Blazy, a computer scientist and professor, developed a verification process that includes a screen, blocking websites from collecting identifying information, and also preventing third-party verifiers from seeing what websites the surfer is accessing. Blazy told Scientific American that his system is better than the unregulated alternatives that could be used to catalog sensitive biometric information.

    "The privacy concerns come from questions of 'What kind of data do you collect to do this age verification? And what are you going to do with them?'"  Blazy told Scientific American. "The worst example would be if you directly collected people’s name and the type of website they’re trying to access. Then someone could establish a list of who follows certain content—which could be used to target groups such as LGBTQ+ people. That would be terrible."


    The Politicization of Sex

    While Texans may be wary of uploading their government-issued identification to an unknown portal regulated by a third party in hopes of purchasing a phallic device and overnight shipping it to their doorstep, their sex-toy-buying options may be drying up. If House Bill 1549 passes, grocery and convenience stores would be prohibited from selling sex toys.

    The author of HB 1549, Rep. Hillary Hickland, said she pre-filed her sex toy bill also with the intent of protecting children.

    “Children have the right to grow up free from premature exposure to explicit materials, and as lawmakers, it’s our responsibility to uphold that right,” Hickland wrote in an email sent to the Observer in December.

    The two bills would limit shoppers who are opposed to uploading their personal information to an internet retail site to making their purchases from brick-and-mortar sex shops.

    “In Texas, we’re seeing a pattern of proposed legislation that reflects a discomfort with pleasure, intimacy and personal agency,” said Howard. “Especially when it comes to women and marginalized communities. These attacks aren’t about protection; they’re about control.”

    The Paxtons, collectively, are heading the age-verification for explicit materials movement. An age-verification law that requires porn sites to collect identification from their visitors is currently being defended by the attorney general at the Supreme Court. Porn industry leaders claim the law violates the First Amendment rights of porn perusers.

    “As you may know, your elected officials in Texas are requiring us to verify your age before allowing you access to our website,” reads Pornhub’s site. “Not only does this impinge on the rights of adults to access protected speech, it fails strict scrutiny by employing the least effective and yet also most restrictive means of accomplishing Texas’s stated purpose of allegedly protecting minors.”

    The Supreme Court has not issued a ruling on the case.


    Wasting Legislative Minutes

    Dallas state Sen. Nathan Johnson told the Observer in December, following the filing of Hickland's bill, that bills like it and SB 3003 garner lots of attention because they aim to fix something that is not broken while wasting crucial legislative time.

    “This is silly,” he said. “If you want to be serious, let's be serious about something more serious.”

    According to Johnson, even if these bills fail to gain traction, that doesn't mean they've not been a distraction.

    “This is such a grotesque display of misplaced priorities that it is disheartening,” Johnson said. “I hope we get over this stuff real fast because the voters, including Republican primary voters, Democratic primary voters, every voter, really need us to perform our job.”

    The Supreme Court has not issued a ruling on the case.


    Wasting Legislative Minutes

    Dallas state Sen. Nathan Johnson told the Observer in December, following the filing of Hickland's bill, that bills like it and SB 3003 garner lots of attention because they aim to fix something that is not broken while wasting crucial legislative time.

    “This is silly,” he said. “If you want to be serious, let's be serious about something more serious.”

    According to Johnson, even if these bills fail to gain traction, that doesn't mean they've not been a distraction.

    “This is such a grotesque display of misplaced priorities that it is disheartening,” Johnson said. “I hope we get over this stuff real fast because the voters, including Republican primary voters, Democratic primary voters, every voter, really need us to perform our job.”

     

    What a miserable cunt.

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