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.
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.
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!”
Next year they could pass this and the Supreme Court could approve it. Imagine still believing in guardrails…
I think we should always take these bills as serious attempts to accomplish what they say. Anything else gives them cover, like:
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.
