"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 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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Apparently, in the very clear minds of Republicans, if you got busted drinking at a college party at any point after Oct 7 2023, that's sUpPoRtInG hAmAs nOw and you deserve to be deported to Gaza.
...Guess RFK's not the only politician with brain worms
It feels Kafkaesque. "Hello, I'm against genocide. Do I stand in line to be labeled a terrorist simp? Should I stand in the Nazi line? Just wondering what label I'll need to own."
Oh, fuck you, you posturing GOP crybabies. Also, do you clowns realize that by using a trip to Gaza as punishment, you’re acknowledging that the conditions are unfit for the citizens who live there, many of whom are innocent?
Any federally elected politician who does not school acknowledge the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and that that crisis is the direct result of actions taken by the Israeli government should also serve 6mo service in Gaza.
It was originally posted in World News, but was (rightfully!) removed for being internal US news and not world news. I screwed up - I think when I read anything about Gaza I start thinking about how it relates to the international war at large. Clearly though this story doesn't belong there, and hopefully it fits here.