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docsilence said:
I forget what I was watching the other day, which old movie, but I had the thought "I kinda miss just... randomly horny movies" and realized how long it had been since we had that sort of vibe. I mean there was a whole fuckton of toxic stuff that went with it, but also just the playfulness of thinking with your hormones in stories seems to be gone. Unless it's about big dicked fairies in the single genre of novels that sells well right now. Which is probably a whole other commentary on the state of horniness and media consumption in this era.
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One excellent example of a casually horny movie i miss, the Mask of Zorro with Banderas and Zeta Jones.

You'd guess it'd be a nightmare, the whole cutting the woman's clothes off scene, but if you watch it, it's surprisingly unproblematic (especially for the era). At that point in the movie she's met Zorro, and is already extremely horny for him, and he knows it because she accidentally confessed to him in the church, but key to that is she KNOWS he knows it, because the fact that he was pretending to be priest she suspected in the moment and had confirmed right after. So the whole scene is above board within the sort of heightened contexts of the film.

And that scene is just like, really fun, and it's these two beautiful people who, despite there never being a sex scene, you know, without a shred of a doubt, are FUCKING.
 
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Goldbug said:
abcnews.go.com

Texas AG sues makers of Tylenol, claiming they hid alleged links to autism

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the makers of Tylenol, claiming that they deceptively marketed the medication to pregnant women despite alleged links to autism.
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I know the money comes out of OUR pockets in the end, but I hope the makers of Tylenol sue the ever-living shit out of RFK and Trump over this. Just salt the fucking earth for spreading dangerous misinformation.
 
May be an image of the Oval Office and text that says 'The guy on the left was arrested & convicted for illegally selling missiles to Iran during the Reagan Administration. The guy on the right is a Fox News military analyst who says every day he thinks Iran shouldn't have missiles. They're the same guy. htw.c.b.bombomomomom foxnews'
 
docsilence said:
I know the money comes out of OUR pockets in the end, but I hope the makers of Tylenol sue the ever-living shit out of RFK and Trump over this. Just salt the fucking earth for spreading dangerous misinformation.
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It would never matter. Look at Alex Jones. Look at Dominion Voting Machines. Massive lawsuits for spreading misinformation and it didn't even SLOW the ongoing spread of misinformation. Not even in the direct wake of the judgments.
 
More of the "it doesn't matter if he's voted out, we have to live with these assholes for the rest of our lives" shit. Half of America is okay with "your mom" as a response from a government official.
 
Every time I see a "feel good" story like that I go into a blind rage because WE DO NOT NEED TO BE LIKE THIS.

I spent this afternoon building a website for folks collecting ways to get food during the government shutdown, and yesterday it was a site about home heating assistance. I fucking hate this country. Richest country in the world and people are starving and freezing. Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
 
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Yeah, in the more political circles I travel in, dystopian nightmares reframed as bootstrap feelgood stories is considered the highest level of the bullshittest of the bullshit. Some 8-year-old works in his dad's coal mine for the summer to pay off his classroom's lunch debt is a FEEL GOOD story? What the fuck is wrong with literally every single person that thinks 'yes?'
 
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