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06-27-2020, 02:15 AM | #1 | |
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Defund the Police
I followed a link to this twitter thread about defunding the police. I knew generally what they wanted but thought that choosing that slogan was shooting yourself in the foot. This chick explains it better.
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06-27-2020, 07:58 AM | #2 |
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Slogans are words to impress, not express. They're meant to get a select target audience to jump on a bandwagon. They're bark is typically worse than their bite. We experienced something similar with BLM. It wasn't BLM Too; or, All Lives Matter. Its bark was exclusiveness. The Defund The Police bark is punitiveness. The slogans are just sensationalized rallying cries like MAGA.
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06-27-2020, 09:22 PM | #3 |
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But it's a slogan that will drive a lot of people away from investigating what it's about. Right away a normal person hearing that for the first time will dismiss it as silly, we must have police or there will be bad guys controlling the streets.
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06-27-2020, 09:50 PM | #4 |
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The Police were disbanded once before in 1986; but, brought back by popular demand in 2007. History shows us that we can't do without them.
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06-27-2020, 10:19 PM | #5 |
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Really, I remember considerable contact with them between 1986 and 2007.
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06-27-2020, 10:21 PM | #6 |
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A Sting operation?
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06-28-2020, 07:54 PM | #7 |
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No, mostly on the highway.
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06-28-2020, 09:29 PM | #8 |
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Did you make contact with them one on one; or, was there a group?
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06-28-2020, 09:58 PM | #9 |
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Both, up to 4.
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06-28-2020, 10:11 PM | #10 |
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06-30-2020, 02:26 PM | #11 |
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Don't stand so close to me when you're saying things like this, I have been driven to tears.
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