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What is the "Mamdani Act"? GOP bill would ban socialists, Marxists from US (www.newsweek.com)
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The Mamdani Act would amend existing immigration law to prohibit the admission and naturalization of any noncitizen who is or was a member of, affiliated with, or advocates for a Chinese communist, communist, socialist, Islamic fundamentalist or other totalitarian party—or any organization that advocates those ideologies. Under its deportation provisions, a noncitizen already in the United States could be removed if they engage in advocacy for socialism, communism, Marxism or Islamic fundamentalism, distribute or publish material promoting those ideologies or hold membership in affiliated organizations at any point after admission.

You know he is a much needed anti-toxin, especially when they name a bill after him. Let the healing begin.

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[–] 120 points 4 months ago (9 children)

That means this bill has to define socialism. Good luck with that one bucko, if you have 10 socialists in a room, you get 11 definitions /s

I'm genuinely curious how it gets defined. I'm wondering if it can be sidestepped with a simple word change

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  • [–] [S] 44 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    That means this bill has to define socialism.

    It's not meant to have a definition. That's why the proposed law denies judicial review. The "definition" is supposed to be whatever the ICE Officer(s) Gestapo wants it to be.

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  • [–] 40 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    That's not an issue with the law, it's a feature. They don't need to prove you fit a definition. They only need to prove that they can call you a socialist. Anyone to the left of whatever positions they don't like are in danger of this law. It doesn't matter if you'd call yourself a socialist, only if they would.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    I'm genuinely curious how it gets defined

    ?? whom ever is head of Immigration says it is.. it will be deliberately nebulous so you can say "banned because they are a socialist " if you have dark skin and don't wear Kirkland pants to the interview.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    I mean, every Anti-Woke person got a full on definition from Republicans which is described as an awareness of social inequalities within racial, gender, and workplace environments.

    So basically, all the right wing nut jobs wanted to "get rid of 'woke'" is perfectly okay with the idea of having rights for me, not for you, that women, POC and LGBTQ+ people should have less rights than cis white men.

    They can define socialism all they want and the frothing low-IQ dipshits will still vote for it, even if the definition of socialism straight up tells them their lives would be better under it.

    It's never about the definition. It's never about any of it. It's entirely about their own slice of pie. Anyone else getting any semblance of good will means less to them.

    It's why they're against gay marriage. If two men get married, it somehow makes his marriage to a woman invalidated.

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