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[–] [email protected] 20 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Practically, how do you prosecute someone for not voluntarily consuming a good or service?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I'm guessing you can't but this might be aimed at businesses where there could be memos maybe?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago

It's for harassment. Even shit lawsuits cost serious money to defend. Yeah, it's unwinnable, but but the company defending might choose to not publicly side with a boycott or engage in one, which is the goal of these apocalypse seeking lunatics.

Also, lawyers don't take civil rights cases anymore since the Supreme Court ruled the lawyer couldn't get paid out of government reparations to the victims. Constitutional violation cases take time and a shit load of money to prosecute, something most victims don't have.

There was a recent decision continuing this trend.

https://studentbriefs.law.gwu.edu/crcl/2024/11/11/the-importance-of-attorneys-fees-in-civil-rights-cases-a-look-at-lackey-v-stinnie/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Even then that only works if they specificy that it's because of a boycott, they could refuse to do business because the other guy smelt like a vegetarian omelette MRE which would be a valid reason. Anti-boycott laws are pretty universally easy to get around since a boycott functions on the principal of "I'm not buying that" which is pretty hard to prove the reasoning to.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

fyi a vegetarian omlette is just an omlette, you're probably thinking vegan, also yeah vegans are so annoying for randomly bringing it up huh

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

No, I know what I said. The naming scheme for military shit can be a bit weird but for the Vomellete in particular it's because they were planning on bringing back a ham and eggs MRE equivalent. They never got to it since the Vomellete was so fucking bad, it was so bad that stevemre1989 gagged which is impressive since he has eaten food from the 1800s.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

it didn't really register that we're talking about military rations
i was talking more generally, vegetarian diet includes eggs and milk, so idk what else they might have added, maybe some old unused cheese from the cheese caves

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Cheese and veggies were the secondary components. Obviously the shitty eggs were primary.