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How do you outlaw a boycott? It's not an act, it's a non-act. An absence of a purchase. How do you distinguish boycott from just not buying something you don't want or need like any other item. Are we going to be required to put so much of our purchases toward Isreal now?
Ding ding ding.
This is how they "lawfully" throw "dissidents" into the gulag.
Remember...most of what Hitler did was technically legal and above-board. Because they controlled the laws and shaped them as they saw fit.
You outlaw a boycott by using violence against those who promote the boycott. It's not even anything new. Many states have already been doing this. Not to mention recent disappearances of anti-genocide activists.
Violence in service of hegemony is almost the entire purpose of the state.
The bill got pulled!
How do you enforce anti boycott, how do you force someone to spend their money?
Dont get me wrong Ill know they will try again, but wow.
If you’re an American paying taxes you can’t boycott Israel. It doesn’t even need to be a law.
Seems like they’re trying to turn boycott in to a dirty word.
Yes yes I know where my tax dollars go, thank you. Well, ok actually not entirely, but yes to fund the irl fucking evil empire.
But boycotts make me think of private citzens not buying a product, or from a store or provider, etc.
Nazi America
Brought to you by millions of fascist fucks, including your own family and friends.
Buy a gun.
America can't be taken seriously anymore.
It's a good thing Russia gave half of a wakeup call to the rest of the free world to arm the fuck up 3 years ago. We know America can't be relied on for anything anymore.
If you make the 1st Amendment illegal, the rest of the Constitution cannot be far behind.
if? people have already been blackbagged for their speech. this is just encoding something already in effect.
This is brilliant, you could have the gestasi inspecting everyone at the checkouts at a supermarket, and if you don't buy a Sodastream cartridge, you get disappeared.
(Sodastream is an Israeli company, and used to manufacture their machines in an industrial park in an Israeli settlement on the West Bank)
Sodastream is an Israeli company
I didn't know that. Good thing I've been boycotting their cylinders for years.
Hey big shoutout to all the Redditors and Lemmy guys who told me that we can have no restrictions on free speech because if we restrict Nazis they will restrict us if they ever gain power.
Welp, here ya go...like I told you...and many of you blocked and/or banned me for saying it. Ironic.
Any government that tells you what you can complain about
Is by definition a Totalerian government
How tf can u ban a boycott, how is that even possible let alone provable 🤦 Politics aside if I js don't like a brand that endorses or has ties to Israel would I then be subject to charges. How u trynna force people to buy from certain companies, what if I was bruk, would I be breaking the law? 🤡
Excuse me I saw you drinking flat water where is your soda stream ice this one get this one
This will probably be used to target protestors and organizers of political movements.
Yeah, the boycott itself can't reasonably be prosecuted. But it can be used to suppress discussion (e.g. organization, coordination) of said boycott.
Don't worry guys, this will surely create blowback next election and a liberal can be back in charge
No no. The "liberal" won't be liberal enough. Gotta wait for the right type of liberal before we vote against Nazi.
/sarcasm
How is this to enforced. Is there to be a Israeli mandated amount of product that you would need to buy.
"Please drink a verification can"
First you get people comfortable with defending genocide in another country, then they won't be so resistant when you start doing it in your own country.
The courts won't enforce this right, because of freedom of speech, right?
Didn't CU rule that spending money is free speech? So isn't compelling the spending of money compelling speech? Sounds straight up unconstitutional.(as if that fucking matters these days)
Can someone explain why Israel is so important to them? Aren’t these the same people who are antisemic? Additionally, how does supporting Israel make the us a Christian nation?
Evangelical Christianity is a death cult predicated on Israel's existence and eventual destruction.
All those Christian "friends of Israel" long to see every Israeli dead. Because that means the end of the world. White Jesus comes back. A horn is blown. World War ending specifically in fire. Not a flood this time cuz God pinky swore not to.
And everyone except for 144,000 of the most insane Christians is damned to hellfire for all eternity. Jebus rebuilds heaven on Earth.
That's the whole story. From an Exvangelical who was raised in this snake-fuckingly crazy nonsense.
Lol, imagine someone attacks Israel with a nuke, triggers an entire nuclear armageddon, and the whole world is englufed in "fire and brimstone," and the crazy mother fuckers were right all along.
That is literally the plan. It's why Israel has nukes. Those open secret nukes everyone knows about that don't officially exist.
Edit - Its why we're so antagonistic towards Iran. The psychos want to bait Iran and Israel into full scale war hoping one of them will kick start the apocalypse.
This sounds insane because it is insane.
It is also true. They don't even try to hide it. Do they still have a weekly show about it on TBN?
John Hagee is still alive so probably. And that other one. Tall stringy fucker. Looks like an evil Mister Rogers in a suit. Charles Stanley I think his name is.