Limited Freedom

5 Democrats are cosponsors:

Josh Gottheimer - NJ-5
Jared Moskowitz - FLA-23
Joseph Morrell - NY-25
Donald Davis - NC-1
Laura Gillen - NY-4

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/867/all-info

How do you outlaw a boycott? It's not an act, it's a non-act. An absence of a purchase. How do you distinguish boycott from just not buying something you don't want or need like any other item. Are we going to be required to put so much of our purchases toward Isreal now?

Didn't CU rule that spending money is free speech? So isn't compelling the spending of money compelling speech? Sounds straight up unconstitutional.(as if that fucking matters these days)

Oh you didn't buy a Soda Stream?
Believe it or not, straight to jail!

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

If you make the 1st Amendment illegal, the rest of the Constitution cannot be far behind.

Sounds kinda DEI to me

How tf can u ban a boycott, how is that even possible let alone provable 🤦 Politics aside if I js don't like a brand that endorses or has ties to Israel would I then be subject to charges. How u trynna force people to buy from certain companies, what if I was bruk, would I be breaking the law? 🤡

First you get people comfortable with defending genocide in another country, then they won't be so resistant when you start doing it in your own country.

How do I boycott Israel in the first place? Not booking my next vacation there? Do I get 20 years in prison for that?

Fuck this shit, this is intentionally vague to be used as a cudgel

Hey big shoutout to all the Redditors and Lemmy guys who told me that we can have no restrictions on free speech because if we restrict Nazis they will restrict us if they ever gain power.

Welp, here ya go...like I told you...and many of you blocked and/or banned me for saying it. Ironic.

America can't be taken seriously anymore.

It's a good thing Russia gave half of a wakeup call to the rest of the free world to arm the fuck up 3 years ago. We know America can't be relied on for anything anymore.

You remember that first amendment thing we used to have here?

Yeah... neither does our government

Is that legal? It doesn't sound legal. I'm sure they could make it illegal for US government agencies to boycott Israel because that's at least partially a foreign policy decision, but private businesses? What are they gonna do, force you to buy Israeli goods?

How to hack your GDP while ordinary people suffer

Private weapons manufacturers make more weapons than should ever be needed.

Why? Your country gained its wealth by becoming the world's largest weapons manufacturer, making it the greatest financial beneficiary of WW2. That manufacturing infrastructure didn't just disappear overnight.

Large government subsidies to countries like Israel which aren't actually cash, rather they are purchases of these privately manufactured weapons using taxpayer dollars. These are given to Israel and other countries / entities in the world which perpetuate military conflict in order to keep feeding the machine.

There you have it. Production and consumption which keeps your GDP and GDP per capita growing without providing a meaningful benefit to humanity.

Any government that tells you what you can complain about

Is by definition a Totalerian government

How do you enforce anti boycott, how do you force someone to spend their money?

Dont get me wrong Ill know they will try again, but wow.

Nazi America

Brought to you by millions of fascist fucks, including your own family and friends.

Buy a gun.

Can someone explain why Israel is so important to them? Aren’t these the same people who are antisemic? Additionally, how does supporting Israel make the us a Christian nation?

Incremental steps into the police state.

The courts won't enforce this right, because of freedom of speech, right?

Wait you first blame us for not having free speach, because lying about the holocaust is illegal and now you ban boycotting Israel for engaging in a de facto genocide?

Well, we now know what death cult is behind the misery of literally the entire world.

Gosh I wonder how the democrats will vote on this.

What goods or services does Israel provide that we're "boycotting "

Law is summarized as:

Prohibited actions include (1) refusing to do business with companies organized under the laws of the boycotted country, if the refusal is pursuant to an agreement with or request from the country or IGO imposing the boycott; (2) refusing to employ any U.S. person on the basis of race, religion, sex, or national origin; and (3) furnishing information about whether someone is associated with charitable or fraternal organizations that support the boycotted country.

how this reminds me russia....

I always thought the Israeli would destroy the US is some fashion

I'm going to guess that they're trying to make it seem like boycotts are a serious threat. It's a start but not enough.

Don't worry guys, this will surely create blowback next election and a liberal can be back in charge

Republicans do this shit because it makes people vote against Democrats

Far right zionists vote against Democrats because most Democrats will oppose it
Leftists vote against Democrats because a few of them will support it

Pure win for Republicans.

Lets wait and see what percentage of democrats will vote yes

This will go down in flames.

Isn't there already an anti boycott law on the books?