GOP introduces bill that would send anyone convicted of unlawful activity on a campus since Oct. 7th, 2023 to Gaza.
GOP introduces bill that would send anyone convicted of unlawful activity on a campus since Oct. 7th, 2023 to Gaza.
Rep. Andy Ogles desperately wants to punish protesting students.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15286303
GOP introduces bill that would send anyone convicted of unlawful activity on a campus since Oct. 7th, 2023 to Gaza.
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.”
Hmm. So a US law introduced solely to 'fire up the base' now has the agency to override any immigration/visa requirements of Gaza? American exceptionalism at its finest.
Who's going to handle the logistics of travel, housing, and food? Is the US military going to house thousands of civilian students? or should the studennts check out Gaza's bustling real estate listings for vacant hostels and flats?
Get busted in your dorm for getting drunk.. off to Gaza?
Think of how stupid the average conservative is, then remember, half of them are stupider than that.
For the reasons you listed, among many even more fundamental ones, the would never pass, and if it did, it's unenforceable.
It's not to fire up the conservative base. It's to fire you up.
It's just bait to shape their strawman "screeching liberal" archetype. They want pictures of blue haired college LGBTQ folks frothing at the mouth, chanting "death to Republicans"
That's all the Republicans do. It's all they've done for 40 years. They're never FOR anything they're just AGAINST the ENEMY. Sometimes they get one dropped into their laps like on 9/11. Sometimes they gotta make their own. Communists. Immigrants.
At this point, they're even happy to create their own out of queer college liberals. They were NEVER EVER going to vote R anyway. They know they can stir a REE out of them with legislation like this and then use the response as fodder for "America used to be strong and now it's full of soyboy cucks."
The arrogance of the Democrats is that they think Republican politicians are just stupid. Some are, but like if they're so dumb, why haven't the Dems been able to get more than 8 years? If your opponent is borderline mentally impaired, but you're neck in neck in what is absolutely a competition of wits, what HARD reality are you failing to accept?
You want to know how to defuse the strategy? Don't take the bait. It'd be one thing if it was in any way real. It isn't. Don't take the clickbait. Don't feed the trolls. Don't let someone take a picture of anyone with blue hair having a meltdown.
They've never needed pictures before, and they don't need pictures now. Hell, even the iconic meme picture is taken from a video of a woman speaking normally - they just used an unflattering frame to discredit her. This isn't a ploy to get a photo op of the left being mad, it's another small push of the republican boundaries. Enough "joke" bills about overbearing punishments for minor offenses made by people their party doesn't like, and they'll be primed enough to fully support the real thing. We're already there for a large portion of the republican base.
It’s so dumb, but this I’d the same base that was excited about Mexico paying for the wall.
I swear the federal governments that killed off entire populations of native Americans and authorized the recapture of escaped slaves were less childish and vindictive than today's GOP.
Same group. They just changed their target from black people to woke people.
Woke includes minorities and women.
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Students: Genocide is BAD!
Pro Life Republicans: TERRORISTS!
Pretty sure there are some rules about not forcibly relocating US citizens to foreign war zones. Ah, who am I kidding, rules don't apply to the GOP anymore.
The ICC in The Hague will probably bar tha- what? they don't recognise that court? Oh well.
Good luck over there.
People who don’t agree with war should go fight in a war. Am I reading this right?
Even worse: people who object to genocide should be forced to go to a war zone unarmed. And not just any war zone, one completely controlled by a fascist apartheid regime whose armed forces are deliberately targeting aid workers, healthcare workers, journalists and other unarmed people either keeping Palestinians alive, showing the world what the regime is doing, or both.
Also, wouldn't it be foolish to send a bunch of angry young people to the country that they are supporting?
Seems like that would make it extra easy for Hamas to recruit American students, especially after they get to experience the horror first hand.
did the Weimar Republic also have a "lol jk" stage of fascism
Remember, this is not only the kind of shit that would get proposed but would be the kind of shit that would pass in a future Republican controlled state with Fuhrer Trump at the helm.
It sounds ridiculous and insane now, but remember, there are representatives that actually believe in this, and don't think it's rhetoric.
Their voter base as well would happily see "the other" carted off, in good fascist fashion.
It's just the price they pay for my freedom. /s
Every year I respect the law less. The people in charge are using their post to play games with each other. They don't give a fuck about us.
So, since they're not-so-subtlely trying to murder these students, then they are saying that political violence is okie-dokie?
The GOP is a literal fascist party. Political violence is their bread and butter.
have you skipped the part where they're arguing that in trump's trial too
at least they're consistent... consistently violent and undemocratic, but consistent
At the same time, when these assholes take to the streets...
"Don't tread on me! Muh freedum!"
Stupid motherfuckers that they are in their factory-default state, and they only get worse from there, not better.Just wait until they find out that date rape is "unlawful activity", so their sons all start getting sent .
Better start drafting that carve out for congressional family members.
So every time they had "counter protests" aka attacking people for their beliefs, they were performing unlawful activities. Meaning they should all be shipped to Gaza according to this.
Israel won't let journalists and food into the gaza, you think they're going to let a bunch of US college students in? Besides they're too old for Israel to kill.
All the GOP does anymore is block useful bills when they can and shitpost the rest of the time.
Dude saw the "u like socialism, move to vuvuzela" memes and took it as a suggestion.
Foreign volunteers are restricted from entering Gaza. If we are allowed to bring supplies, it may not be a bad idea. I wouldn't mind getting send there, I have no other way of sneaking in.
Ordinarily, I'd agree with you, but the IDF is intentionally targeting aid workers, so even if they let you in, they may well murder you for trying to help save Palestinian lives.
Not saying that you shouldn't still help if you're willing to risk your life to save lives, just that you REALLY need to know what you're signing up for and that forcing anyone to is ABSOLUTELY cruel and unusual punishment and almost definitely itself a war crime.
Jfc, just when I thought people were as dumb as our species can get
The party of twitter trolls. Sad.
GOP’ers are the fucking worst. Maybe they should go move to Israel and have a stab at killing babies. On second thought, they’d probably like that since the kids have been born already and are brown.
They going to send whole fraternities over when they supply alcohol to under age kids?
Doubtful, given that the fraternities have collaborated with the police in harassing and assaulting campus protesters.
A viral video circulating on X revealed that several Jewish fraternity members at Arizona State University were seen assisting police officers in throwing away ASU’s “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” materials while police arrested 69 people on Saturday
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“I don’t want to see my campus fall to divestment of donors for the actions of a few loud mouthed hamas supporters. This is America,” he continued. “I should not be told I’m not allowed on campus because of my race or religion. After traveling to Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising was prevalent in my mind if only regular people had acted sooner. It’s our duty to help keep our freedoms secure. Jews should not have to feel threatened to hide on campus, when they call for ‘Jewish genocide,’ the answer was extremely clear: help the police.”
All that succeeds in doing is showing how insanely nuerotic the gee, oh pee is
What if I make a 20 million people protest?
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Terrorist supporters can do it from the ground in Gaza. Start with the purple hair ones.
Ah so it's not about rights and freedoms, it's about the right opinions and the freedom of your side. The opinions of hypocrites can and should be discarded.
You have the right to peacefully protest. That's not what's going to get you shipped away.
What we have here though is far from peaceful and it's far from a protest. These are terrorist camps harrassing people for their ethnicity and beliefs and based on the arrest records that we're seeing, they're being heavily influenced by non-students and bad actors.
The opinions of useful idiots should not be considered.
As someone who is sympathetic to the legal and moral Palestinian resistance by Hamas and other factions, I wouldn't mind going there and helping out.
You should book a ticket and go. Plenty of flights to Tel Aviv, quick ride to the border. It's not a terrible trip. I'm sure you'll be welcome with open arms and I doubt the IDF would mind the extra ammunition being spent 👍
Don't understand how this troll doesn't get banned. Spouts the most rage bait shit.
Banning fact-based opinions that are contrary the group think. That's my fascist. Nope. Not at all.
Supporting palestine is not supporting terrorists. Can you tell me how many palestinian civilian casualties are recorded till now in Gaza? Can you tell me what is the number or Israelis who died as a result of IDF invasion into Gaza?
