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Sorry, I am not from the US. So this guy consumed porn. And what? Relax people!

Might sound weird to prude people, but most politicians had sex before! Some may have kinks! Why do people care about other people’s sex life, if they aren’t attracted to them?

And what has this to do with a community called politics? I don’t get it.

Edit: wow, many replies! Thank you all for educating. If this man is saying people shouldn’t consume porn, then yes, you are all right and it’s a controversy that makes sense to shine some light on. I didn’t think about that.

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Sorry, I am not from the US. So this guy consumed porn. And what? Relax people!

That part’s fine, but this weirdo loser actually paid for it! What kind of pathetic idiot does that, instead of downloading it for free like a normal non-desperate person?!

(Yes, even in the '90s - 2000s.)

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(Plus all the hypocrisy, of course, but I didn’t want that to get in the way of my joke)

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Welcome to the US where everything is politicized. You’re right it shouldn’t matter but he comes from a political party that shames any form of sex outside of a married man and woman. They’re already trying to make porn illigal but many of them, including my parents, would make masturbation illegal too if they could.

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Not only married man and woman, but no condoms or pulling out, etc. They want you having lots of kids so you can continue being poor and the next generation has enough people so they don’t have to raise wages, benefits, or retirement.

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The religious right in the US believes that watching porn is the same thing as cheating on your wife

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he’s a bible spouting, socially controlling, christian fundmentalist who has abhorrent ideas on virtually every point of human concern.

I think the hypocrisy of his personal vs public persona is relevant.

whether this issue is of any real importance is debatable, but us politics is usually pure toxic poison, so it may have a small effect on the state election.

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You’re absolutely correct.

This is pointing out the hypocrisy of a member of the Biblical prude party buying sex toys.

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Not exactly ------ no one really buys enough sex toys to become a 'known regular ’ in a sexshop

For-sure he was known to so many staff because he was regularly visiting the ‘video booths’ area, which generally have gloryholes or other forms of public, anonymous sex.

Chances are very high this guy was giving and/or getting blowjobs to/from strangers every weekend

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I know nothing about this specific person. But the American Republican party is on a bit of a hypocritical purity crusade. They claim that porn is bad. They are the ones getting all worked up about other peoples sexual life, because it somehow affects the sanctity of their marriage.

So this article is pointing out his hypocrisy. He is doing something wrong by his own standards, so what room does he have to try to make laws about his stupid beliefs when he doesn’t even follow them himself.

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That’s not the problem. The problem (I’m not looking him specifically up) is that many GOP are anti porn, anti gay, anti sex outside marriage, anti sex education, and many of us think they are anti contraception.

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Robinson is a far right, born again Christian culture warrior. This is newsworthy because it’s extremely hypocritical of him.

But Robinson has used the word “pornography” to describe everything from music and network television to LGBTQ-themed children’s books. During this year’s N.C. Republican Party Convention, for example, Robinson called public school teachers and administrators “all-powerful bureaucrats … who believe it’s OK to feed your children a steady diet of communism and pornography.”

Not that hypocrisy is new to Robinson. He also said

”Abortion in this country is not about protecting the lives of mothers. It’s about killing the child because you weren’t responsible enough to keep your skirt down,”

after having paid for his wife’s abortion.

He has said that trans women should be

“arrested” if they go in a women’s bathroom. Instead, he suggests they should “find a corner outside somewhere” to relieve themselves.

He has also said that “some people just need killing” in a speech where he railed against a variety of evil people including rapists, liberals, socialists and communists.

He is thoroughly a piece of shit, and unfortunately there’s a chance he’ll be the governor of North Carolina. With an extremely Republican state legislature (currently a supermajority), he would be able to make life miserable for a lot of people.

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Still, people shouldn’t be downvoting sinkingship for the first thing that should come to mind. Because generally, who cares?

The hypocrisy and context needs to be here for this to be a story.

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For anyone familiar with US politics, him being a hypocritical weirdo pervert is the first thing most of us think of.

For people like sinkingship this is strange and baffling. For the rest of us, it’s Wednesday.

Also, the context is in the subhead and the beginning of the article…

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He has said that trans women should be

“arrested” if they go in a women’s bathroom. Instead, he suggests they should “find a corner outside somewhere” to relieve themselves.

What are the odds he’s also against “public indecency acts” like peeing in public and would gladly have them strung up for what they’re doing to children’s poor innocent widdle eyes?

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