No, you’re wrong. Cults of personality fall apart fast when the leader dies. There are exceptions, but there’s huge survivors bias in counting them. For every Scientology and Mormons, there’s a hundred little ones you’ve never heard of that formed around a guy and dispersed when something happened to the guy.

The MAGA true believers will be around for a long time, yes–there’s still a few Shakers around–but they won’t be a unified political force.

They should be. Plenty of adult women are trafficked, too, and Epstein almost certainly didn’t care either way as long as someone would pay him.

It’s a disagree button. That’s how it’s used in practice, and we’re better off just accepting that.

Attempting to hold up contradictions will do that to you. Can’t deport migrant labor without destroying the base of cheap farm labor. The people hiring them are often Trump supporters themselves, and they’ll lose money with crops rotting in the fields if MAGA got everything they wanted. At the other end of the spectrum, the tech billionaires love hiring H1-B visa holders to keep tech salaries down, and they’re the ones buying $1M/plate dinners with Trump.

Arguably, you may have already lost that bet, or close to it. Depends on how you measure the results. Trump’s approval rating this week is 41%, which is 1.6 points down from last week. 5% of 41% is about 2 points.

This is one of those issues where people won’t come back when they leave.

Stay cracked. It may take years to work out, though.

No, cults do not have permanent control over peoples minds. People do leave. When there’s big events like this that expose problems in the group, lots of people towards the edges will take off. Those who remain are the really devoted ones. It may take decades or even centuries to truly disappear (there’s still a few Shakers out there), but MAGA doesn’t have to shrink that much before it’s no longer a meaningful political force.

There’s always someone who likes it. The real secret to good sex isn’t any specific technique. It’s being open with your partners about what you like and explore that in a safe and consensual way. The rest is details.

He does need them, though he may not think so. Support isn’t just for voting. His narcissism needs people to like him, and his entire personality can collapse without it (possibly to suicidal levels). They support him in more tangible ways, as well, such as counter protest actions.

Just in general, fascism needs to maintain the illusion of widespread, inevitable “populist” support. That’s one reason why big public protests are important even if they don’t have tangible results right away.

The quality of tankies has really gone down. This one started tried to make a really big deal about the difference between annexation and settler colonialism, as if that matters at all. I’m only disappointed that most replies fell into the obvious trap.

Pretty sure fems can benefit from having less crotch sweat, too.

Check the sodium level. Mexican coke has a lot more.

How many fingering minutes is that?

Gutfield. He’s the Fox News attempt at a satarical talk show. Unlike the Half Hour News Hour, it’s stuck around.

Imagine you can’t use visa or mastercard. What other fucking payment card acceptance system are you going to use for payment processing in under 30 seconds?

This is one of the few places where I think cryptocurrency could be useful. It ain’t much, but there it is.

Because I’m not a right-libertarian who ignores how corporations setup coercive structures all their own in a perversion of free association.

Not really. In the US, the first amendment protects a lot. Just like with YouTube censorship, capitalism has created a more restrictive regime through financial pressure than the government does. This has affected the porn industry, as well (see another comment in this subthread on that).

It’s been like this for a while in the porn industry. In an interview a while back, Bree Mills says she gets more limited by payment processors than the government (though that might be switching).

Ever wonder why every faux-incest video goes out of the way to say everyone is a step family? Step father, step daughter, step mother, step brother, all somehow living in the same house, over 18, and no blood relation? The first amendment protects them from the US government, so that’s not why. Credit card companies are why. The old Taboo series was distributed differently back in the day. Can’t make that anymore.

This also applies to some of the more extreme BDSM stuff, like blood play or scat. Won’t find them on kink.com.

A very important distinction that is clearly not just splitting hairs.

Unlike the Soviets and Kaliningrad. Wait…

Send them a random dick pic back.