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And I can’t even imagine it’s an intentional addition, it’s just become part of boiler plate legal documents here in the deep south.

The wiki on anti-BDS laws

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[-] Judge_Jury@hexbear.net 80 points 1 year ago
[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 58 points 1 year ago

Utah holding out but just because they hate the Jews.

[-] Crikeste@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago

Ethno-United-State

In 2017, the governors of all fifty U.S. states signed a statement describing their opposition to the BDS movement, stating that the BDS movement’s “focus on the Jewish State raises serious questions about its motivations and intentions” and that the governors “strongly condemn the BDS movement as incompatible with the values of our states and our country.”[14]

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago

strongly condemn the BDS movement as incompatible with the values of our states and our country

Where's the lie

[-] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

Not doing anything to make fascist ideas of a Jewish conspiracy less believable. Although maybe that's the point. Support fascist israel and at the same time make it so american nazis are eating good with their propaganda fodder.

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

But sanctions against [ethnic] bad state is okay because

Yeah... and we never even got to the point of seriously demanding sanctions lol, the boycott part was rolling along, and a few institutions were being pressured to divest, but the anti-BDS reaction was pretty strong and swift

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yea

We're not doing ok

[-] D3FNC@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Surprise, it's never not always just basically a population map .jpeg

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[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 76 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Israel considers BDS an existential threat. I don’t think they even consider Hamas this deadly of a threat. I think it’s because BDS is a peaceful way of opposing Israel, which makes it hard for centrists and liberals to justify opposing.

That’s why they need to smear the movement with claims of systemic antisemitism so it’s easier for the cowards to not support it despite it being literally “voting with your money,” something they so dogmatically believe in instead of picking up arms.

Remember that Black Wall Street was destroyed because the residents were able to prosper despite the systemic discrimination against them - essentially destroyed for ‘peacefully resisting’ the Oppressor. Do everything the way they want, and you still get killed.

[-] jabrd@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

BDS is an existential threat because it threatens to popularize the truth that Israel is an apartheid state. Proponents of the occupation will cite the end of apartheid South Africa as a worst case scenario. Hamas is less so for the inverse reason that the violent opposition (as long as it’s manageable violence) provides reason for the occupation to continue

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It’s crazy how the US has laws prohibiting the boycott of a foreign country’s products but not domestic products. If people can’t see that Palestinians are the ones with no power and every right to fight back, then I’m feeling hopeless.

Discrimination argument. Proponents argue that boycotts of Israel is a form of discrimination because they target a particular group (Israelis) with the intent of inflicting economic harm on them.

It’s literally how sanctions work lol. Like who do they think will be affected when the US prohibits business with China?

[-] Jenniferr@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

I'm convinced people, for the most part, really don't understand the situation. When laid bare, it's clear that Palestinians have every right to self defense in this situation. The strike was self defense. They have a right to rebel against their oppressors

[-] StellarTabi@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

It has to already be popularized/ing, I remember most of life loosely only hearing Israel's side of the story (and almost no story at all, too). Now it's like everybody cares and has opinions.

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[-] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago

Just a reminder that while everyone flips shit about "CCP/Putin influence" these AIPAC mfers subvert our democracy on behalf of a foreign government everyday

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

Talk about Russian/Chinese influence ops that nobody has ever provided proof for: Reasonable centrist take.

Talk about a large, well funded, publicly known organization that explicitly and openly lobbies for Israel: antisemitic conspiracy theory.

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 52 points 1 year ago

How did you end up homeless?

Legally I have to buy a sodastream every month and it shipped late in April.

[-] Hohsia@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

Lmao what can you even do as a powerless prole living in a genocidal nation state

People always fucking say “how could the people let this happen” when discussing genocides of the past and the simple answer is that they were probably in the same fact situation we’re in right now (no power whatsoever)

[-] star_wraith@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

The Nazi Seizure of Power is a somewhat obscure book, but it’s great because it tells the story of a single small town in Germany, and their experience before, during, and immediately after the Nazis came to power. Two things that stood out to me when reading it:

  1. Just how much folks in the KPD (and to be fair, at least in this town, the SPD) fought and fought hard against the Nazis before they took power.

  2. Once the Nazis did take power, if you tried to fight against them, if you’re caught you’re gone. Maybe jail. Maybe killed. But any resistance was dealt with pretty harshly.

[-] masquenox@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

You can beat the Nazi off the street - but once the libs hand them the keys to the tanks, it's over.

[-] D3FNC@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Libs: we have preemptively given the nazis control of the military so we can concentrate on our continued efforts of performatively wringing our hands on Twitter and Facebook

[-] Hohsia@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

We’re at the stage right now where you can lose your job for speaking out, so I’d say jail isn’t far behind on that track. Probably being labeled as a terrorist or some shit

[-] D3FNC@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Incorrect, the real answer is always "somehow (magically, after a lifetime of propaganda) I have been coached to identify with the oppressor rather than deal with dissonance of understanding it would absolutely be me under that boot today."

[-] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

My wife works for a small company that refuses to ship to countries that are extra evil. They usually pick the right ones. I'm waiting to hear if isntreal or Palestine ends up making the list. The boss is an "Interesting" guy

[-] D3FNC@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

How the fuck do you make a list of "extra evil" countries and not start and end with the USA & Israel, this really destroys the credibility of the entire enterprise right out of the gate

It would be very funny to one day order some parts for work and see a pop up explaining that despite being a domestic corporation due to beliefs they are choosing to describe as religious (GospelofStMarx.jpeg) they will only ship their products to China, Vietnam, Laos, and the DPRK though.

[-] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

The real answer is he has a business to run. The hexbear answer is I hope he strokes out real soon because he makes my wife's life hell for no reason, and his daughter is set to take over. She's a lot more reasonable.

[-] D3FNC@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

These are the types of people (Pelosi) that always somehow end up outliving the kids they kept promising they would eventually hand the reins over to next year

[-] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

I just don't get why his 75+ old hippie three heart attack having ass feels the need to come into the office to accomplish nothing and cause all kinds of slowdowns.

Dude, you built a successful company. Go to your motherfucking lake house and I don't know, watch Lawrence Welk reruns?

[-] D3FNC@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The boomers destroyed all the old gods, and only now, facing their own mortality, have they begun to realize just how terrifying the ramifications of the world they created truly are where there is no God, no masters, only a narcissistic black hole of a world where monetary instruments have been mistaken for having inherent value rather than serving as a placeholder in a very poorly thought out, completely broken false economy

Oh you're too good for the exact same (in reality, ludicrously better now than it was before) nursing home you let your own mother rot in for 20 years until she finally died, covered in her own piss? That's crazy. What a crazy, insane plot twist absolutely no one could have ever foreseen. Ad nauseum.

Edit: you're confusing his business with a functional company when in reality, like everything else in the lives of these people it's just yet another monument to his own self worth and ego

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[-] Abraxiel@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

Is that actually legal? Tenant rights (and anti-BDS legislation) vary state to state, but this seems particularly egregious.

[-] jabrd@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Honestly I haven’t done the investigation to say. It very well could be an unenforceable part of their lease. But the south is notorious for insane anti-tenant legislation so I wouldn’t be surprised. My state famously banned the passing of rent control legislation so good luck running your local socialist candidate for mayor they can’t do anything even if they win

[-] D3FNC@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

"Welcome to our show, 'Wait - Is That Actually Even Legal,' where we take you through a normal day of going about a normal day anywhere in the southern United States of America."

"With us today us our cohost, Steven Williamson, local tradesman, city council member, and union shop steward, whose entire family has been found tied up in the trunks of various cars at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, a fun fact which absolutely does not immediately also broadcast to any of our listeners from the South or Midwest exactly where Steven's family, on average, falls under the Fitzpatrick scale quantifying non melanoma lifetime skin cancer risk. "

[-] sloth@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What are you gonna do tough guy? Huh? Go to the Lawyer Store and buy the best Lawyer?

[-] dinoirl@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

They probably figure it's extremely unlikely to come up. Unless you have:

  1. A tenant who boycotts Israel
  2. And tells their landlord about it
  3. And the landlord wants to get rid of them
  4. And the landlord can't come up with a more conventional excuse
  5. And the tenant knows their rights and has the resources to fight

Nobody would likely challenge it.

[-] Dingus_Khan@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

One state (Arkansas) has a law that a rental doesn't even have to be livable, so I believe this. Like literally,in Arkansas, you could rent a unit that has not heat, running water, or roof. And if you sign the lease, you have to pay

[-] micnd90@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

Just say you prefer AMD, don't have money to buy Soda Stream, a Linux enjoyer, and allergic to humus.

BDS ain't that hard.

[-] jabrd@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

The point is to silence outspoken opposition. Silent, individualized product boycotts are virtually useless. Keeping the message that Israel is an apartheid state based on oppression out of the mainstream is the point of anti-BDS legislation

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago
[-] Sickos@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

BuT mOnEY Is sPeEcH

[-] dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 1 year ago
[-] D3FNC@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Imagine being a Tory P.M. and having the audacity to get in front of parliament and pretend to be outraged at the entirely predictable actions of a country that your own intelligence services founded within the bounds of your own living memory

Like, no, the genocide is fine but calling me a vain , silly muppet with stupid hair is absolutely beyond the pale sir and I will have my satisfaction in this lifetime or the next

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[-] ElRenosaurusReg@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Once upon a time I wanted to start a coffee shop/bookstore back when I lived in Texas. Looked into the laws around starting business and it turns out that to own and operate a business in Texas you must swear fealty to Israel.

Fuck that

to own and operate a business in Texas you must swear fealty to Israel

that's fucking wild

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