I'll never financially recover from this.
I'm already several hundred thousand in debt.
These performative bills are so dumb; you can't shame the shameless. Republicans are open hypocrites. You think they care about this?
Push laws for actual protections against people being hurt
Absolutely will not happen in Ohio, the only way the statehouse could do anything beneficial for it's citizens would be to have a massive gas leak
They aren't trying to shame anyone. They are just trying to get thier own names on the news. You mistake these poloticians for people who care about others.
This isn't performative. It's part of the plan. Porn and non-nuclear child-rearing families are absolutely in the crosshairs once they clear out the judicial "interference" and suspend habeus corpus.
Here's the introduction (aka "Pillar I") to the plan currently being implemented: https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
Some highlights:
From page 20 of the project: "Vought (officially in charge of OMB after being confirmed recently) writes that the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) should establish a “reputation as the keeper of ‘commander’s intent,’”"
From page 21: " In Chapter 1, former deputy chief of staff to the President Rick Dearborn writes that the White House Counsel “must take seriously the duty to protect the powers and privileges of the President from encroachments by Congress, the judiciary, and the administrative components of departments and agencies.”
Page 28: "When a new President takes office, he will need to decide expeditiously how to handle any major ongoing litigation or other pending legal matters that might present a challenge to his agenda"...", the President should hire a counsel with extensive experience with a wide range of complex legal subjects. Moreover, while a candidate with elite credentials might seem ideal, the best one will be above all loyal to the President"
Page 32, regarding the office of presidential personnel (DOGE): "Playing “bad cop” in a way that other White House offices cannot (including serving as the office that takes direct responsibility for firings and hirings)."
Tell me you didn't read the article without telling me you didn't read the article.
This bill was introduced by two Democrats to highlight how all these policies are being enacted by Republicans that target women but not men.
Well thats 10x worse if you actually read the goals of the project.
You wrote all that in response to an article you never read?
the fake christians of America prove why freedom of religion also means freedom from religion.
They should quit trolling and start resisting. Gesture politics is a displacement activity.
Agreed.
I get what they're doing, but they can look at the stats and see that Trump has broadened his coalition, in part, because of the fashionable hate directed toward men by people who consider themselves progressive, and stupid shit like this just adds gasoline to the fire.
I mean tbf the GOP has a supermajority in the Ohio House so there's probably not much she can do other than trolling.
Not true. She could take a page from AOC's book and inform the people of their rights and how to resist the fascist administration AND troll the fascists for their ignorant reactions.
Ohio voters recently passed a constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion rights, so writing that bill here is certainly mostly a signal to national politics.
Also, I had a vasectomy, so would I still be able to wank away under the proposed bill? lol
Also, I had a vasectomy, so would I still be able to wank away under the proposed bill? lol
Required, actually. With mandatory minimums for both frequency and duration.
mandatory minimums
duration
...fuck.
We could pay down the national debt in about 4 hours.
A lot of men will need ~~bank~~ spank loans.
New business opportunity!
New fintech startup, Wankr, provides loans at 2400% to pay your wank-fines.
....Now to get $300 million in Series-A funding.
A few nation’s debts
Would be nice if we had an actual opposition party to, you know, put in bills to oppose the massive abuse of power that's been going on for a while now. Instead we get frumpy faces, folded arms, an occasional angry letter, moral victories, and of course the "that'll show 'em" bills.
Every sperm is sacred,
Every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite irate.
if they pass this law, people would go out jerking off everywhere in protest
I mean, what about people with vasectomy? Do we just get the death sentence?
There would be a national day of gooning.
Which is great until you remember that the religious right is okay with that idea
It'd legitimately be hilarious if they introduced it on the House floor and the general response was, "Oh, yeah, this is perfect!" and it somehow passed.
Hilarious, but awful. This has cursed monkey paw wish written all over it.
I don't live in the USA, so I would be very amused to see these things pass.
It's already happened. Not this exact bill, but a "inception begins at ejaculation" bill. Forget which idiot Congressman proposed it.
I believe they actually did it before these people started to attempt to use it to troll people.
No, all of these bills are satirical. Dems are doing it in a few states to point out the absurdity. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/mississippi-lawmaker-introduces-contraception-begins-erection-act-rcna188938
I thought that the first one I read about was a Republican, but it's definitely possible that I'm misremembering.
Yah, the at times almost universal male genital mutilation in the US goes back to religious nutjobs like Kellog & co to stop boys from masturbating. It's also what motivated Kellog, in his quest for the blandest food, to invent cornflakes, because, apparently, spicy foods make you naughty. Good Glob, I wish I was kidding.
So, what you're saying is I can move to Ohio, open a sperm bank that charges $100 per deposit, and make a mint?
Maybe I'm OOTL, but what is the appeal to pay $100?
So that you could legally ejaculate, paying $100 rather than paying much more as a fine.
Gun owning Americans, not being allowed to jerk off.
That's probably fine...
Right?...
That's a lot of overdraft fees. Just gonna make me masturbate even harder though.
Their bill has some exceptions, as it says men in Ohio will not be fined if they are using birth control, donating sperm, masturbating, or having sex with another man or member of the LGBTQ+ community. The bill is specifically aimed at men having straight sex without protection who do not then create a baby.
Woe's Hollow
"Your Honor, I was trying to get the Kleenex pregnant."
Doing some quick math, I have in my possession a 1.2 billion dollar RATM tshirt with Che’s eye stuck together for good.
The poor agents that will have to watch the recordings of proof of discharge in order to charge these men.
Pro gooners are fine because they never cum /s
Their bill has some exceptions, as it says men in Ohio will not be fined if they are using birth control, donating sperm, masturbating, or having sex with another man or member of the LGBTQ+ community.
The bill is specifically aimed at men having straight sex without protection who do not then create a baby. (emphasis added)
I haven't read the article yet but I'm really not understanding what they're even trying to dissuade here... Like what tort are they even punishing in their twisted little minds?
EDIT okay right away the article adds some much needed context:
The bill has been proposed by State Representatives Anita Somani and Tristan Rader, who wrote it to point out what they see as the absurdity of rules that control women's bodies but do not control men's.
It's like a protest bill.
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