No bro I swear they’re a bad person, look at this document I’ve personally compiled about their every waking movement for the last 5 years, they said a few means things that can be really really bad if you squint. 3 years ago. In the middle of a psychotic episode. I’m in the right here btw.
Congress is now considering the appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security, whose funding runs out at the end of January.
Call your members of Congress and tell them to vote NO on any bill that increases ICE’s funding.
Please demand that the DHS appropriations bill prohibit ICE and Border Patrol agents from carrying guns and that it unambiguously declare that agents do not have absolute immunity under the law if they harm civilians.
Also tell them that any bill must restrict ICE and Border Patrol’s ability to conduct dragnet arrest operations and target people based on their race, language or accent. And the bill must clarify that ICE agents are liable under civil and criminal law if they harm civilians.
Do this as soon as you can.
To reach your representative or senator, call the U.S. Congressional Switchboard at (202) 224-3121.
Tell them the state and city where you live. They will connect you to any member’s office.
When I was a kid I was “darn I just love when female characters pretend to be dudes for whatever reason” and the reason will not shock you in the slightest
Now, researchers have put a nail in the coffin of porn addiction. Josh Grubbs, Samuel Perry and Joshua Wilt are some of the leading researchers on America’s struggles with porn, having published numerous studies examining the impact of porn use, belief in porn addiction, and the effect of porn on marriages. And Rory Reid is a UCLA researcher who was a leading proponent gathering information about the concept of hypersexual disorder for the DSM-5. These four researchers, all of whom have history of neutrality, if not outright support of the concepts of porn addiction, have conducted a meta-analysis of research on pornography and concluded that porn use does not predict problems with porn, but that religiosity does
If the concept of pornography addiction were true, then porn-related problems would go up, regardless of morality, as porn use goes up. But the researchers didn’t find that. In fact, they cite numerous studies showing that even feeling like you struggle to control your porn use doesn’t actually predict more porn use. What that means is that the people who report great anguish over controlling their porn use aren’t actually using more porn; they just feel worse about it.
Having moral conflict over your porn use (PPMI) does turn out to be bad for you. But that’s not because of the porn. Instead, higher levels of moral conflict over porn use predict higher levels of stress, anxiety, depression, and diminished sexual well-being, as well as religious and spiritual struggles. In one study by Perry and Whitehead, pornography use predicted depression over a period of six years, but only in men who disapproved of porn use. Continuing to use porn when you believe that it is bad is harmful. Believing that you are addicted to porn and telling yourself that you’re unable to control your porn use hurts your well-being. It’s not the porn, but the unresolved, unexamined moral conflict.
This is a really good writeup.
The people who believe in “porn addiction” do always seem to be either hyper religious or part of that weird atheistic purity culture, you know the one, the one that weirdly crosses over into keto diets, eugenics or anti vaccination fears, like they’re channeling Dr. Kellogg’s various phobias.
I NEED TO GET SAPPIER I NEED TO GET CORNIER AND CHEESIER WITH MY ART. I NEED TO DRAW STRAIGHT. GODDAMN. SLOP. THE WORLD IS CRUEL AND THIS IS ALL WE HAVE LEFT. Everybody listen to me YOU HAVE TO DRAW BULLSHIIIIUU7YTTTTTTTTTTTT YOU HAVE TO DRAW THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GIGGLE AND KICK YOUR FEET AND GALLOP AROUND YOUR HOUSE LIKE A DELIGHTED HORSE. YOU HAVE TO AND YOU MUST. I LOVE YOU
Forever grateful to have learned the term “Negative Affect Interference” because before I had a word for it I was just like “if you do something to make me think you are a genuinely kind and good person who wants to be around me then I will be forced to kill one or both of us immediately” like some kinda fucked up emotional misophonia
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