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A bill introduced and sponsored by Republican legislators in the Missouri Senate would give residents a $1,000 payout for reporting migrants who entered the country illegally.

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

Don't spam it with nonsense, just report your local republican voters for having a migrant housekeeper/gardener/nanny/lodger or similar. They wont believe it if you report the owner is a migrant and they have republican signs in-front of their house, but they'd have to investigate whether they employed a migrant.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

edit: and of course you are all obligated when (not if) it goes live to spam it with 100,000 reports of this lawmaker's name and address and any other random not-real reports to clog up their shit

[–] takeda 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Sounds more and more like Nazi Germany.

There's no way trump can depart that many people, and unlikely that the other countries will want them back, so they will end up in camps.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

There’s no way at all that the internet would have some fun with the web portal by creating various fun spam generators to flood them with garbage. Absolutely not. That’d be crazy.

[–] Viking_Hippie 2 points 4 hours ago

Who's going to report the Governor's mansion this time? Who's pasting the entire script of Bee Movie into the comment field?

[–] monkinto 10 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Why flood it with garbage when you can flood it with reports about every currently elected Republican in the state?

[–] Viking_Hippie 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)
[–] coyootje 2 points 7 hours ago

And once that's done, continue with every republican voter, starting with the ones with signs and shrines in their yards.

[–] TootSweet 11 points 9 hours ago
[–] zib 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

How many times do these idiots need to get the Bee movie script before they realize these bounty systems are worthless?

[–] Viking_Hippie 2 points 4 hours ago

At least once more, it seems

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

To be fair, they did the same thing to Mormons in 1838 and got rid of them for a while.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

This bounty is going to backfire. I’m just gonna call them and report every fast food place in the phone book and take in the cash. Does it say the claim needs to lead to an arrest? Probably not.

[–] Viking_Hippie 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like a good idea until you consider the fact that you'd be subjecting a bunch of people already working ridiculous hours at a crappy job for below a living wage to a lot of harassment.

And that's if you DON'T get someone deported. Which is highly unlikely, since the fast food industry is probably the second-largest employer of undocumented immigrants after agriculture..

So maybe DON'T do that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 minutes ago

But I’ll be rich, and then I can leave this place. Besides, whatever task force is doing this will be overwhelmed. Remember when Utah had that website to report trans bathroom use? It was flooded with bogus claims to clog their system.

Either way, I seriously doubt they actually plan to PAY out. I have to imagine there’s a ton of paperwork that never gets finished.

[–] CharlesDarwin 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I don't see this going terribly wrong.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago

Melania and Elongated Muskrat come to mind