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.”
Why don’t we introduce a bill that would send any politician convicted of being GOP to Russia for free labor?
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?
If this passes, you do have to have your balls kicked off, though
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.
What a great use of their time. Vote these chucklefucks out already.
Protest against genocide? Straight to genocide. Be against genocide? Believe it or not, straight to genocide.
This has to be satire.
Wait, will that include Matt Gaetz?
College. Not kindergarten.
Performative nonsense. Even plenty of Republicans would vote against this.
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!”.
Does that mean “any” person? So all police officers that broke the freedom of speech ammendment have to do 6 months of community service as well? And those nut jobs that attacked peaceful protest camps and clubbed students over the head?
Concussions can make you more conservative so of course head injury is a priority
So all police officers that broke the freedom of speech ammendment have to do 6 months of community service as well?
Hopefully not… Israel has enough genocidal white supremacists.
“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
What terrible, awful people these conservatives are.
Thanks for wasting even more of our tax dollars on these publicity stunts
That is really messed up of the GOP.
I mean, they probably know there’s no chance in hell of that bill gaining traction let alone passing. It’s all performance / pandering to their base in an election year.
The scary thing should be that’s what the Republican base wants to hear.
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.
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
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.
Yeah, that one I could get behind.
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:
Just so people don’t panic this is blatantly illegal at least for US citizens.
