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Missouri Bill Would Ban Many Companies From "Refusing To Deal With" Anti-Trans Businesses
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Well, this law is going to backfire.
Even if this somehow passed... from a business perspective: Pull out of Missouri and stop offering services to 6 million people, or tell tens or hundreds of millions of other people that you're supporting hate speech? Hmm..
They could always say that they don't see the business relationship being profitable and just shut up afterwards.
The headline is very misleading. This law would just stop them from getting contracts from the state. They could still do business in the state.
If you're not doing business with the state, it doesn't impact you at all.
Ah! I misread that as 'doing business within the state', this is much less of an issue.
Yeah, but it could make companies pull out of the state, or to stop doing business with the state. Or they might shoot themselves in the foot by going after major service provider that isn't going to take kindly to this.
These laws never seem to backfire because for them to backfire, the left would have to start using all of the loopholes that the right have put in place, and for some reason the left continues to act like they're "better than that" as the entire country devolves into fascism. I hope they sleep well at night when they say "well we may have lost our country to fascist dictators, but we didn't break a single rule on the way!"
Just look at the gerrymandering in this country and how it wholly benefits the conservatives and you'll realize the democrats are wholly incapable of even stressing against the rules, even to save our country from people who are actively working to destroy our freedom and our rights. We're never going to beat the opposition when the opposition cheats at every turn and we obey all the rules. It's a losing game and there's no ethical silver bullet that we can say we upheld when our country is overtaken by immoral and deceitful thieves.