It's so cool that we have invented reverse sanctions that target the people living in your own country.
America is an empire built on sanctions. No sanctions, no empire. No empire, no sanctions. When the rest of the world has had enough of its shit, it turns the force of empire inward.
..so being poor wasn't enough, they just HAD to turn the screws just a little bit more...
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Empire runs on having a disposable army of suckers desperate or willing enough to do its bidding. When that supply runs out overseas it must seek them out within. When even that supply of suckers runs out, that's the point it will reverse every mechanism of oppression it has used and turn it on its own.
How long does it take for these kinds of blatant violations to get to the Supreme Court?
New York just put B&J on 90 day notice after which they'll be taken to court on the anti-BDS laws. I cannot fucking wait for this to be properly challenged in court because either way we win. Unless B&J/Unilever chicken out like the capitalist cowards they are.
CIA hijacking ice cream shipments and forcing them to land in the west bank
We will melt one pint of ice cream every hour, on the hour, until B&J complies.
The sad part is that NYC withdrawing their pension funds from apartheid South Africa was a tipping point in the 80s anti-apartheid struggle.
Well think about it; Scenario A: Anti-BDS gets challenged in court - judge rules the entire concept grade-A "fukken stupid" and it falls apart. Scenario B: Judge upholds anti-BDS laws as legal - this will have huge long-term implications on future laws and I guarantee you this will make very many people extremely angry. It may coalesce into a more focused anti-Israeli movement. This will take longer than scenario A, but I love a good slow burn crisis for empire. Bonus; this will cost Unilever a shitton of money and I love billionaires losing lots of money. Scenario C: Unilever chickens out like the cucked little cowards they are. Anti-BDS stays, Unilever stays, the glorious status quo is upheld. Ironically, this is the worst outcome, but it's more or less where we are now, so fuck it, do or die.
I guarantee you this will make very many people extremely angry.
This specifically is where I'm not optimistic. But I suppose it does depend on how hard they start to push similar laws for other things. If it's just Israel/BDS one-and-done, I think most people would just accept it. Hope I'm wrong.
Unilever could boycott any state that sues them and there'd be breadlines inside a week from the economic collapse. Capitalism seriously hasn't got the will it used to.
Because this happens all the time. Lawmakers pass blatantly unconstitutional law, takes a while for it to go to court, make people suffer until the court shoots it down in at least a year. Then they do it again, because there's zero consequences for making unconstitutional laws.
lmao my employee handbook at work specifically says I'm not allowed to do anything against Israel, including boycotts, or they will report me to the police
jesus. I should cntrl+f my handbook before I bite the hand that feeds me.
What if a state legislature passed an anti BDS of Cuba law? How could the courts strike it down without also striking out all of the other Anti BDS laws. :thonk:
It triggers the last bit of patriotism I didn't know I still had. If we gotta live in a shithole it should at least be a sovereign shithole.
But the US must protect the only democracy in the Middle East that's actually an apartheid state.
Democracy is when there are huge swathes of people in "your" country that have no say in their governance.
WWAAAHHHHTTT!!!... I"m only allowed to choose who I don't do business with if they're "teh gaayyee!!"??!!??
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