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Summary

Project 2025, a manifesto supported by the conservative Heritage Foundation, calls for a ban on pornography, labeling its purveyors as criminals and advocating for strict penalties, including jail time for producers and registered sex offender status for educators distributing it.

The manifesto argues that porn lacks First Amendment protection, framing it as harmful and exploitative.

With a right-leaning Supreme Court, proponents aim to overturn existing protections established in Miller v. California, potentially impacting mainstream media.

Donald Trump has pledged to bring Project 2025 contributors onto his team.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Well luckily the military has a good chance of not listening to him, atleast in my opinion. The police on the other hand are more of a threat, though not an insurmountable one.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The liberal officers are going to resign in protest then pat themselves on the back and call it integrity.

Then the fascists are going to follow orders.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Luckily the chain of command helps dilute the worst of this type of effect. As I understand it most orders will have to go through the folks at the Pentagon first and they could very well just say no or otherwise pull some malicious compliance.

Reminder the military has a more or less parallel system to the civil system. Its entirely possible they may just decide to separate themselves more or less.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/30/military-veterans-remain-a-republican-group-backing-trump-over-harris-by-wide-margin/

I am so fucking tired of Lemmy living in an alternate reality where liberal leadership will somehow magically get its shit together when it matters, like this hasn't been a completely predictable trend over decades, where Someone Important will fucking Do Something.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I live in an area with veterans and its a bit more of a mixed bag. Most of them are dissolutioned with the system, its not that they dont have political leanings they just hate both. The ones who are politically active are usually lowd and dumb as fuck Republicans, the JD Vance type. The few I met who were commissioned officers were fucking feral and had nothing good to say about the right.

Remember the split in the veterans will be based broadly on education similar to the general public. And frankly speaking the actual folks at the Pentagon are pretty well educated.

Also I will happily admit that this is me hoping for a somewhat workable scenario. Im Californian which means I am in the perfectly cooked chicken zone of this soon to be nuclear blast, watching a bunch of mush brained dipshits play with the nuke. I practically cant do fuck all.

[–] sensiblepuffin 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Good thing we spent the last 25 years giving the police surplus military equipment.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Honestly a good amount of that shit is of questionable function, reminder most of the good shit is going to the national guard first. The police are at best using old ass NVG and optics, maybe they have a functional IFV but itll be of questionable maintenance. My local police department gave up and just has the Sheriff department do anything that requires more than a rifle, mostly cause the mechanics refused to work on the humvee they got.

Also the police arent exactly trained for an actual resistance movement, itll be likely a more embarrassing version of the union and county wars.

[–] sensiblepuffin 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That scares me more, honestly. The police riding around in a malfunctioning APC....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly fhe worst that can happen is the engine decides its in fact a fire pit. Otherwise it will just be a boring ass breakdown, transmission failure is pretty common in military vehicles as a general rule. Reminder the US military is a logistics network with an army meaning that just cause they can keep a vehicle running doesnt mean even the oversized budget of LAPD can.