This would give the state immense power to ban any kind of non-profit organization that they don't agree with. Even if they don't go after all the left-wing organizations, that threat hanging above their heads would seriously limit the scope of their mission and most would probably be forced to remain very small and unnoticed. Obviously this violates the 1st Amendment, but I doubt that the government or the SCOTUS would see it that way.

The House already passed it with overwhelming bipartisan support!!

I'm talking here about a bipartisan legislation the House passed last week (382-11) & that was intro'd last week in the Senate -- HR 6408 & S. 1436

Reminder: US charitable organizations — like ALL US entities — are already barred, by law, from providing material support for terror & already face intense scrutiny.

The goal of the new legislation is to dispense with the due process (incl the need for evidence) afforded under law to targeted groups, empowering a single US official to act as prosecutor, judge, jury, & executioner of US orgs whose viewpoints that official disagrees with.

https://twitter.com/LaraFriedmanDC/status/1783129420598837506

  • AdeptusPrimaris@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    wtf is happening in Europe and the US? The US government is really going mask off fascist now, and a lot of European countries seem to want to emulate the worst parts of the US. I really thought it would take longer. I'm staying in Africa where it's safe.

    • newmou [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      Yeah it really feels like it’s accelerating. Establishment knows they won’t budge on Israel, ever, and so it seems like the ruling class is rushing to implement even more fascist tools to deal with the consequences of that

    • kristina [she/her]
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      2 months ago

      im gonna fuck off to some island in the pacific. taiwan maybe, im sure thats far enough away from the great satan's reach clueless

      • Teekeeus [comrade/them]
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        2 months ago

        Well you might as well visit taiwan before it gets turned into the next ukraine

        • carpoftruth [any, any]
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          2 months ago

          I think hot war with China is more likely to happen in the Philippines, not Taiwan.

    • casskaydee [she/her]
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      2 months ago

      If only people had voted for Biden we could have avoided this