Political Memes @lemmy.world CubitOom @infosec.pub 24h ago

What rights will we lose next?

Edit: updated meme due to being dumb and having not enough Ts in the word boycott.

Edit #2: in an attempt to ensure that no one thinks that this is a real post from Whitehouse.gov (because like, it's getting hard to fucking tell at this point) I'm updating the meme again but without the navigation or article buttons.

PS, I used WorldwideHeadline Regular for the font incase anyone want to use this as a template or what ever

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Boycotts have been illegal for a long time:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/map-shows-states-where-boycotting-israel-is-illegal/ar-AA1nSvg0

The state has been consistently serving a genocidal cult at the expense of our supposed "rights".
- The boycotts themselves aren't illegal. Its primarily that the government has made sustaining a boycott against Israel harder by pressuring non-profit organizations that could potentially aid or support a boycott by threatening their federal funding.
  
  Its still absurd and disgusting. It might also still be unconstitutional and at the very least is clearly against the spirit of the 1st amendment.
Isnt this just evil DEI, only for companies?
It’s illegal to not buy something? How does that work?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws#Anti-BDS_laws_in_the_United_States
  
  First: Jesus christ.
  
  Second: Of course, enforcement will be difficult, so it will probably mostly be an honor system. But lets see...
  
  Nobody tell them I turned down an offer at an Israeli company because it was Israeli
- Even if I wanted one I wouldn’t have the money to buy a Tesla. Is not being able to buy things also illegal now?
  
  Yes, now go to ~~gulag~~ mental wellness camp
- Car Insurance
  
  Except you aren’t required to buy a car. But I get the sentiment.
I don't even understand how that's supposed to work... Make boycott illegal is more or less forcing people to buy specific stuff ?
- It's literally been happening for years. It's illegal to boycott a genocidal cult.
  
  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/map-shows-states-where-boycotting-israel-is-illegal/ar-AA1nSvg0
- Boycott is more than the personal decision not to buy something but an organized action including public announcements, reach-outs, protests, ...
  
  I don't know which one the first amendment is though. I guess it's freedom of speech?
  
  Full text of the first:
  
  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.
  
  Freedom of assembly (to organize a coordinated boycott)
  
  Oh, i get it, this makes more sense to me now. Yeah i think first amendment is freedom of speech and the right to assemble around some idea I guess.
38 US states already have anti-BDS laws on the books. Unfortunately this has already been here to a large extent.
- What the ever-loving fuck? How big is Israel’s dick that has all the countries lining to suck it?
  
  It's effectively the 51st state with plausible deniability and nukes. Going against the country that spends more on its military than the next 10 combined is a big factor keeping them in line.
  
  America’s Israel First policy has really taken shape in the past several years. Both Biden and Trump are wholly complicit in sacrificing our sovereignty for Israel, and it’s absolutely pathetic.
  
  Consider that there are claims that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were Mossad spies.
- Yeah, this. I had to sign a contract with the state (prior to all the Israel and Palestine stuff) and I was like the fuck is there a clause saying I can’t boycott anything to do with Israel?? Like in completely unrelated contracts you have to promise not to boycott or divest from Israel and I had no idea how or why that was even a thing because it didn’t cover any other country or entity. Israel has absolutely insanely good lobbying (or intelligence, or both).
They lost the extra "T" in boycott.
- Because boycotts are still legal, only boycots are not
  
  Boycots sounds like something the catholic church supports.
- Damn, lol. I should've used a spell checker. Will update.
What is it with people posting screenshots of article headlines and no link?

I've been seeing it a lot, and no one else questions it
- This is not a real headline. I made this with the Whitehouse burning while flying a Russian Nazi flag to illustrate the current situation and that this is not official.
Woah is this OC? I must say, if it wasn't for the Russian flag I wouldn't know this was satire.
- Fresh outta GIMP

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