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  • Nope. Assuming that Trump loses (which I had thought was a foregone conclusion, but genocide and stupidity is a hell of a drug)…

    People like being on the winning team. And having lost the popular vote three times in a row, Trumpism will start to fade. Republicans will switch to the Democrat party, cementing the current rightwards shift. Imagine the Democrats being pro-border in 2020? 2022?

    The only silver lining is that in 8 to 10 years we might actually see a progressive party emerge.

    If Trump wins, we get faster genocide plus Fascism at home, so at least there’s that to look forward to. Hope you’re practicing how to be a straight cis white male Christian because it’s going to be a rough time for everyone else.

    But hey, Jill Stein won’t get that check from Putin unless you vote for her and Cornel West has alimony payments to make.














  • Veneroso@lemmy.worldtoMovies@lemmy.worldThe decline of sex in films
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    I think some of this comes with age?

    I used to be more willing to watch that stuff 20 years ago, which was almost half my lifetime ago.

    But it’s personal choice.

    There were some pretty horrendous stuff on TV, particularly an episode of Law and Order LA where they were dissolving a guy in lye in a bathtub and an episode of Medium where a guy was putting out lit cigarettes on the belly of a dog. I noped right the fuck out of those. These were both years ago at this point but I pretty much refuse to watch cop shows anymore as a result.

    One aspect of sex in media is probably the accessibility of pornography. It’s not special anymore to see a butt or a nipple, so it’s not driving people to the theaters. When I was a kid the closest thing that I had to a Playboy was the Lane Bryant catalog, so seeing Cindy Crawford’s side-boob was pretty awesome, even if I had to endure Alec Baldwin’s hairy ass for the privilege.

    The social acceptance of things seem to be like a pendulum rather than a continuous movement too. It’s definitely swinging towards the prude at the moment. It will swing back eventually.