Ottoboy didn’t say “commercial pornography” or “the pornography industry.” If Ottoboy had, I wouldn’t have given the comment a second thought. But they said pornography. Period. All-inclusive. Relegating any exceptions to the realm of a (clearly hypothetical) liberated society. As in, everything from the front page of PornHub to a naked drawing of someone’s original character that they share with a Discord server of 10 people goes in the same bucket.
How do you read “if you obsessively consume porn, probably capitalism is for you because it will produce a greater variety of porn” and see… That?!
People tend to support their material interests.
This comment is saying it is in the material interest of those who use porn to support capitalism.
Ottoboy’s comments in that thread do not allow for any level of acceptable existence or use.
Therefore people who use any amount of porn will have an interest in upholding capitalism.
Therefore, they are likely to support capitalism (see #1).
Therefore they are, as a group, counter-revolutionary.
The comment it was in response to said
Responding to that specifically with
when Ottoboy also said elsewhere
Ottoboy didn’t say “commercial pornography” or “the pornography industry.” If Ottoboy had, I wouldn’t have given the comment a second thought. But they said pornography. Period. All-inclusive. Relegating any exceptions to the realm of a (clearly hypothetical) liberated society. As in, everything from the front page of PornHub to a naked drawing of someone’s original character that they share with a Discord server of 10 people goes in the same bucket.