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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.”

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

All the GOP does anymore is block useful bills when they can and shitpost the rest of the time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Jfc, just when I thought people were as dumb as our species can get

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Same group. They just changed their target from black people to woke people.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Woke includes minorities and women.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago

did the Weimar Republic also have a "lol jk" stage of fascism

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Dude saw the "u like socialism, move to vuvuzela" memes and took it as a suggestion.

[–] [email protected] 135 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Yeah everyone should just let Republican lawmakers do whatever they want, no matter how outrageous, without discussing or complaining. Because that totally doesn't normalize their outrageous behavior.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

You believe this legislation is being put forward with the intention for it to be codified into law?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes. They spent years fighting Roe V. Wade with inane bullshit until one stuck. They fought student loan relief, immigration changes, and healthcare reform. Republicans in America have clearly demonstrated that they are dogs chasing after cars, and when they catch them they don't care or realize what the consequences are. We need to stop excusing their behavior as if they're "making a statement" or "posturing". They tell us what they want to do, we say "nah, they don't mean it", and then it happens

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Roe v. Wade is a supreme Court ruling, not a law. And what happened was the supreme court changed. This isn't comparable at all.

Again, this isn't real, at all. For like 100 reasons.

Get mad at the real ones, there are certainly enough REAL ones to get mad at that deserve yours (and everyone's) attention. This is noise. A smoke screen. It's bait.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 6 months ago

Students: Genocide is BAD!

Pro Life Republicans: TERRORISTS!

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