cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15286301
“A group of Republican lawmakers introduced a bill on Wednesday which would send “any person convicted of unlawful activity” at a college or university, to do community service in Gaza for six months.”
“Strangely, the bill appears to refer to any “unlawful activity on the campus of an institution of higher education beginning on and after October 7, 2023” but does not specifically mention the ongoing student protests, rendering it stupidly broad.”
"Ogles spoke with Fox News about the bill, saying that, “If you support a terrorist organization, and you participate in unlawful activity on campuses, you should get a taste of your own medicine. I am going to bet that these pro-Hamas supporters wouldn’t last a day, but let’s give them the opportunity.”
I am going to bet that these pro-Hamas supporters wouldn’t last a day, but let’s give them the opportunity
Most people don’t last long in death camps.
They’re basically admitting it’s a death camp.
More wood for the fire, please
No, they wouldn’t last a day, neither would any other civilian there. That’s the problem, good job proving their point.
Imagine claiming to support freedom while also supporting anything even remotely as ghoulish as this.
Remember, we’re paying them to draft this legislation.
Check the election calendar for your state and vote them out!
That’s the worst part. This has no chance of passing, this is just bad theater. Bad theater that you and I are funding.
Like a community funded production of Dance of the Vampires.
If I did my job this poorly I would be fired. Two tiers.
Remember folks, a protest vote against Biden just puts us one step closer to fuckery like this actually happening.
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We live in a 2-Party system. Let me guess: You already vote, donate, and volunteer to abolish it, and are leading a grassroots effort for voting reform… Right!?
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You only live in 2 party system because you keep screaming that you live in a 2 party system.
No, we have a 2 party system because the existing law is inherently biased against 3rd parties thanks to our use of the electoral college/FPTP, lobbying, and lack of election finance regulation/enforcement.
It is a built in feature to our current laws.
Maybe learn how the world works. It could help you in life, because clearly, you’re not even close to reality .
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I don’t know, man. I used to vote nothing but third party, yet here we are. So I kinda feel like the third party voters are the ones who keep doing the same thing and expecting different outcomes. Ross Perot was a character, though. But of course he still lost anyway and my vote did fuck all. Until Fascism is back out of fashion, I’m going to vote straight ticket dem. Eliminate the existential threat and then we can worry about the little stuff.
I can relate. I voted for Nader when Bush stole the election in 2000. I spent that entire term wondering how much better Gore would’ve handled 9/11 response and retaliation. It was the last time I let my vote go uncounted.
Being registered as Independent or Green Party is practically disenfranchisement. Now I periodically change my registration from Democrat to Republican, depending on which primaries I’m more interested in participating in.
and then we can worry about the little stuff.
Genocide, Climate catastrophe, Internment Camps at the Border, Police and state racism… All the little stuff.
Instead of holding the Dems accountable and offering them to win you back by actually adressing issues, you give them a free pass not to adress any issue you care about. They care about losing power. They don’t care about what you want. Threatening to take away their power is the only thing that makes them listen to you.
247 years.
A two party system is the natural result of the American voting system. A first past the post voting system will always eventually lead to a two party system. If you want to avoid that eventuality, you need to use a different voting system.
Notable that the founders didn’t think there would be parties. That was naive and they would have gone about it differently if they knew better.
lol you should work to change the world. That starts with understanding how it works
So, no. You do nothing to improve the world and are just angrily yelling into the void… Thanks, adult toddler.
A child’s take on game theory.
I wonder what you would say after looking up how many third party candidates successfully gained enough EC votes to be president?
Can’t win an argument with a fucktard.
Biden still runs internment camps at the border. Biden builds the wall that Trump was ridiculed for by the Dem supporters. Guantanamo is still open…
You play this game one round at a time. They play this game ten rounds ahead. And that is why you lose every round, thinking you had won it.
Thanks for the thoughts, bothsideser.
Way to not engage with the points i made. Scared of not having any arguments?
Engels said, in a letter to Marx, the US “[c]onstitution…which makes it appear as though every vote were lost that is cast for a candidate not put up by one of the two governing parties.” (Engels to Frederick Adolph Sorge, December 2, 1893, in Marx and Engels on the United States (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1979), p. 333.)
We need to work to change things, but this is not new, and you are not smart for thinking that you have moved past it. Sure, if everyone agreed to vote for a single third party, it could happen. That’s not going to happen though, at least for the president. Even people voting third party can’t really agree on which one, diluting votes even further. Third party may work for some local elections, but not the president. Not yet at least.
From the table on Wikipedia, the record by percentage of EC votes is 24% (72/303) in 1860. By a former VP, not a Jill Stein.
Splitting the vote in PA that year made Lincoln’s win a certainty. Nice that a spoiler candidate worked against the pro-slavery regressives of the era.
Their party split when the national convention didn’t agree they’d abide by the SCOTUS ruling on States’ Rights, LOL, absolute shitheads. And then they also did an insurrection.
Sure, if everyone agreed to vote for a single third party, it could happen. That’s not going to happen though
And by repeating this mantra you protect the system and the systems parties against change. From a mass psychological point this is brilliant and the same play that the Sovjet Union and other regimes played and play. Break peoples spirit so they defend their own opression as they cannot envision anything outside of it.
I propose a law that says any rep introducing or supporting performative, moronic legislation that wastes my tax dollars gets to have their balls kicked off. Who’s with me?
Now hold on just a minute there. They can have their balls or ovaries kicked off. Inclusivity, y’know.
For sure but in this instance the assholes in question are male. In the name of inclusivity, I’m happy to discuss alternatives for women as I’m not sure ovaries can be kicked off.
Just wait til MTG and BoBo get to the party.
I’m not sure ovaries can be kicked off.
Anything’s possible, with enough enthusiasm!
I have a compromise- male, female or nonbinary, we just bash them in the kneecaps with a tire iron.
Hmmm I like the idea, but we want to stop them from breeding.
Uranium underpants could do wonders there
Guillotine too.
All of them are old. It’s too late for that.
Unfortunately not for the ones still able to make swimmers.
I propose we kick off clits n dicks instead.
If this passes, you do have to have your balls kicked off, though
I disagree. In the long term, IchNichtenLichten’s proposal would save so much time and money - through the mere threat of a ball kicking - that it would fail to meet its own second criteria.
“Don’t like the death camps? Well, we’ll send you to death camps and see how you like them then!”
The concept already seemed like something from a Futurama episode, and this fake quote cements it
Why wouldn’t they last a day in Gaza, Andy?
Why wouldn’t they?
Right like that’s kind of the entire point of these solidarity encampments; it’s a statement that we should not be subjecting humans to those conditions
I mean, they probably know there’s no chance in hell of that bill gaining traction let alone passing (for so many reasons ‡). It’s all performance / pandering to their base in an election year.
The scary takeaway should be that’s what the Republican base wants to hear.
‡ The fact that you can’t just “deport” a citizen to a random country is the least of the things logically wrong with this bill.
Can we get a bill started that says if you support any war, you have to be enlisted to fight on the front lines of it?
I stand by the fact that there would be way fewer warhawks if they had to put their money where there mouths are.
Cowardsw
Yeah, that one I could get behind.
100% of the population must vote to go to war or not.
Everyone is notified beforehand that a vote of Yes is also immediate enlistment into the military for the duration of said conflict.
No more shouting “hell yeah turn the middle east into a parking lot” from the comfort of your armchair or lifted pickup.
That would be great if we could get most governments to pass the same rule. If adversarial governments aren’t restricted by the same rules then it tips the power balance in a way that favors foreign warhawks.
I feel like enough people would be willing to step up and defend their own country.
Defensive wars almost always have high approval ratings.
This is America though, we will end up tearing ourselves apart from the inside, no outside entity has the power to wage wars over an ocean to invade us.
We are naturally in one of the most defensible spots, with both mineral and arable resources
I’ll 100% grab a rifle to help defend my neck of the woods, but no way in hell am I supporting an offensive war.
Never Again Volunteer Yourself, but in a defensive war it’s no longer capitalism and the military industrial complex you’re “defending”, it’s your neighbors.
It’d be nice if they stopped wasting money on things that they knew were unconstitutional though.
“Arooo, that may be so. But I know a place where the Constitution doesn’t mean squat!”
I think we should always take these bills as serious attempts to accomplish what they say. Anything else gives them cover, like:
Next year they could pass this and the Supreme Court could approve it. Imagine still believing in guardrails…
Just wait until next year. I wonder if you’re post will seem silly or prophetic.
As with any statement I make when I make fun of Republicans, I sincerely hope it turns out to be silly.
The left need to stop being scared of guns, stop voting for useless gun control measures that only restrict control in their own district and do nothing to reduce crime (meanwhile right wing districts allow you to buy an arsenal of nice ergonomic firearms that can allow even a morbidly obese diabetic to accurately shoot the dick off a fly, delivered to your front door like Amazon), start forming left wing LGBTQIA+ friendly militias and train to protect themselves.
We can do that, or hope the boot lickers and cops don’t persecute us. Which is the same as sending hopes and prayers on Facebook.
Ding ding ding. Authoritarian governments never disarm the right. The police have shown that they won’t protect you, if they’re not actively joining in on it.
We protect us.
How can anybody believe that more guns is the only possible solution for everything?
If your only tool is a hammer, every screw starts to look like a nail.
It’s another tool for the toolbox. How can being more prepared with a more diverse set of tools be bad for any situation? Right now the only tool seems to be posting outraged comments on the internet.
Protest against genocide? Straight to genocide. Be against genocide? Believe it or not, straight to genocide.
So when do we get to start calling these guys nazis? Cause I’m pretty sure that calling to send dissenters to camps, where a concentrated ethnic group is actively having genocide committed against them, is some nazi shit.
You don’t need permission.
I’ve been doing it since 2016
So people who are anti-genocide should be genocided?
Gotta fight fire with fire
-Republicans, probably
to do community service in Gaza for six months.
Sooooo… these geniuses are proposing to send people who are already (and justifiably) not very fond of Israel on an actual state-funded six month fact-finding mission to witness the horrors caused by Israel for themselves?
Better make sure they don’t have smartphones on them… otherwise, they might just record enough Israeli war crimes to fill three TikToks.
No Mr. Bond, they expect them to die.
Not if they ban tiktok too ;)
What terrible, awful people these conservatives are.
I had to triple check this wasn’t an onion article. This seems too stupid and horrible to be real.
too stupid and horrible to be real.
And yet…
The real magic with the Onion is how they are able to satirize Repubs before the Repubs do the thing. The articles are no longer fiction, they are just early.
This is so old. “If you love communism so much, move to Russia” said every right wing asshole to the boomers when they were kids a half century ago. Yawn.
The new twist is it’s now, “if you hate it so much, we’ll move you there!”.
What a great use of their time. Vote these chucklefucks out already.
