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

    • @[email protected]
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      24 hours ago

      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.

  • @otacon239
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    761 day ago

    It’s illegal to not buy something? How does that work?

  • @[email protected]
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    291 day ago

    I don’t even understand how that’s supposed to work… Make boycott illegal is more or less forcing people to buy specific stuff ?

    • @[email protected]
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      221 day ago

      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?

      • Dhs92
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        131 day ago

        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.

      • @grue
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        91 day ago

        Freedom of assembly (to organize a coordinated boycott)

      • @[email protected]
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        61 day ago

        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.

  • @[email protected]
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    231 day ago

    38 US states already have anti-BDS laws on the books. Unfortunately this has already been here to a large extent.

    • dohpaz42
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      201 day ago

      What the ever-loving fuck? How big is Israel’s dick that has all the countries lining to suck it?

      • @[email protected]
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        121 day ago

        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.

        • @SoftestSapphic
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          81 day ago

          The knee bending to Isreal, and Zionists’ obsession with racial purity is what makes so many conspiracy theorists buy into the “jewish cabal” conspiracy

      • @[email protected]
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        31 day ago

        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.

      • @grue
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        31 day ago

        Consider that there are claims that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were Mossad spies.

    • @[email protected]
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      91 day ago

      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).

      • @13igTyme
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        111 day ago

        Boycots sounds like something the catholic church supports.

        • @[email protected]
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          71 day ago

          It was named after a British tax collector in Ireland. Charles Boycott who was so hated nobody even the post office and grocery stores refused to do business with him. It got pc renamed as cancel culture when the name isn’t gendered. The best boycott of all time was the Montgomery bus boycotts.

    • CubitOomOP
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      11 day ago

      Damn, lol. I should’ve used a spell checker. Will update.

  • @givesomefucks
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    21 day ago

    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

    • CubitOomOP
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      1 day ago

      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.

  • .Donuts
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    21 day ago

    Woah is this OC? I must say, if it wasn’t for the Russian flag I wouldn’t know this was satire.