Far-right Rep. Lauren Boeberg added an amendment to the Pentagon budget that targets the BDS boycott movement against Israel.

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[–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Cool.

How do they verify that you're purposefully avoiding purchasing Israeli goods?

After that, how do they determine if it was a boycott, versus just not interested?

If they do determine that it is boycotting behavior, how do they determine that it was politically motivated?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    cool. how does this not violate our right to free speech?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What does that even mean

    Like, seriously, how is that even gonna be enforced? How do you ban a boycott? Genuinely curious. I’m fascinated to hear how they propose to detect and enforce and legally defend prosecution of people under that law, because it’s prima facie complete nonsense.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    It works because they could prosecute anyone organizing, or encouraging the boycott. A boycott isn't just "not buying stuff". For real effect, you need a public campaign. This is obviously 100% an issue of free speech.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Nazi fucks love Nazi fucks.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Fuck Israel, genocidal scum!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Well this makes it way easier:

    "I sell baby food to Palestinians and Israel is literally killing customers"

    seems like a perfectly reasonable protest under these rules

    (Yes, they're soulless husks motivated only by an all consuming and completely unquenchable hunger)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    USA hell bent on isolationism.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    it's Boebert FWIW

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