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"Let's move funds from police departments to public health infrastructure, and additionally, use remaining funding on accountability mechanisms" doesn't exactl
by badRNG 6y ago
"Let's move funds from police departments to public health infrastructure, and additionally, use remaining funding on accountability mechanisms"
doesn't exactly roll off the tongue at a protest.
- goda90 6y ago"Reform public safety" works though
- shadowgovt 6y agoHas less punch, and we're not talking about restructuring fire departments.
- basch 6y agoIs the goal to be as polarizing as possible, or to persuade people on the fence to come over to the party?
- shadowgovt 6y agoHow many people, at this point in the first four years of the Trump administration, are still on the fence?
- tarboreus 6y agoPretty much everyone who matters if you're trying to convince people of something.
- shadowgovt 6y agoI suspect we're well past the time of convincing and into the time of doing.
- chroem- 6y agoIs this post advocating for domestic terrorism? (i.e. committing acts of violence to instill fear in political opponents)
- shadowgovt 6y agoIt is not, and I don't see where you're seeing that it is. People marching around chanting "defund the police" isn't domestic terrorism. Domestic terrorism looks a lot more like rolling troops in camo into a city in unmarked vans to abduct citizens off the street to a location unknown to them.
- chroem- 6y agoI guess it was just that the way it was worded caught me off guard. It seems odd to commit to unilateral actions without consent, especially in the context of recent shootings/bombings/arson.
- basch 6y agoIn the 7 or 8 swing states that matter, you think the election is already decided in each of them? I would expect a bunch more defectors if the economy is still in ruin by then, and a bunch of 'moderates' who end up deciding based on how recent foreign policy turns out. Remember, most people are single issue voters. The rest of everything he does, doesnt matter.
- shadowgovt 6y agoPossibly, but this administration has been so polarizing that at this point, I think it's a lot more about getting like-minded people out of their chairs and to the polls than it is finding more like-minded people. It's been year after year of polarizing decisions and rhetoric. At this point, basically everyone's dug in on how they feel about this direction for America.
- sigzero 6y agoSo true. lol However, many at the protest are meaning exactly what the words mean.
- NovemberWhiskey 6y agoThe dichotomy between what rolls off the tongue at a protest and what is an implementable policy is exactly the problem.
- bassman9000 6y ago"Fund social services" does. You've either been deceived, or are consciously playing the game: Abolish the police means exactly what they want it to mean: no more police. https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16181/black-lives-matter https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16181/black-lives-matter They want to replace the police with militias they control.