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You guys in the UK better burn any copies of Game of Thrones you might have around. The show wasn't that good as to be worth the jail time.
On a side note, is the UK alright?
No, the UK is not alright. They've been banning a lot of stuff lately. And I mean a lot. It's comparable to even the Deep South of the US, and that's hardly an exaggeration. The worst part is that most of it seems to truly be a bipartisan effort.
It's "bipartisan" because we live in capitalist dictatorships, and the fascist oligarchy have given their marching orders to the politicians they own.
You can just say US at this point lol
That's just bollocks mate. What have we banned? Porn needs ID, yes that's puritanical, but nothing a VPN can't sort. We are NOTHING like the deep south.
Banning the step-sibling porn is weird AF, granted, but beyond poorly conceived and weirdly puritanical porn rules, I'd much rather have Keir in charge than that decaying, semi-literate lunatic half the US inexplicably worship.
The concept of privacy on the internet for one thing. VPNs as well, or perhaps that was only an attempt. ID verification to go to Wikipedia is an interesting idea, that, funnily enough, I can't say that even Alabama has done.
Ingsoc is already here.
I remember reading a while ago that, because you can't have full incest in porn, the Game of Thrones porn parody (or, at least, one of them) was LESS explicit than the show.
And no. No we're not. I doubt many places are.
Wait... Are you implying that incest is actually banned in porn, and that's why it's always step-relations? I thought it was just because the majority are disgusted by incest... I don't think actual incest is even illegal in most places...
I decided to look it up, just to be sure. Specifics vary based on where you are, but depicting anything too extreme is generally gonna be illegal. Even if it's legal in the bedroom, it's not necessarily legal in porn.
Heck, I'm British, and the age of consent is 16. It's 18 in porn, though.
No, the UK is not alright. They are worse off than the US, less the blowhard leadership. As of yet.
No one here is building concentration camps or deporting natural born citizens lol, but keep telling yourself that.
That's just because the favored style for populists in the UK is "posh twat" rather than "loud blowhard", making them a lot harder to spot unless you're familiar with British (especially English) culture.
Ha ha, I see those motherfuckers, or magna carta fuckers as the case may be, how do we make the voter see it?
Absolute nonsense. I dislike our government but all the other alternatives would shift us further right. I'm not a fan of Keir, but he's pushed back on Trump's mad war and, in terms of policy, Labour is the UKs most liberal mainstream party.
dont forget BREXIT, they seem to be slow-walking to fix that relationship with the EU.
I mean GoT is horrible garbage, but that's independent from this article.
Game of Thrones was awesome, the last season was garbage I will give you that.
Fucking Martin, still waiting on winds of winter, that fat fucker is going to keel over before he finishes it. He's not even trying.
Yeah because showing kids being raped as a love story is amazing.
wtf are you on about? You cancelled game of thrones? No one told me, and I will not go along by the way, this is why everyone hates us, you.
Yeah... ask the Lannisters... and I'll leave it at that.
Edgy!