Mobilewalla used cellphone data to estimate the demographics of protesters

Re:Mobilewalla used cellphone data to estimate the demograph... by triceratops on Friday June 26, 2020 @04:31PM (#23656659)

I don't see it as a lot different than "Starve the beast"[1]. "Starve" means kill by removing nutrition or sustenance. But do we literally take it to mean "cancel the government by removing funding"?

There's a difference between a slogan and a program. Somehow accuracy and correctness in slogans are only demanded when someone doesn't agree with the basic premise of the program.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast

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Re:Mobilewalla used cellphone data to estimate the demograph... by DenisM on Friday June 26, 2020 @06:01PM (#23657567)

Starve:

  ... transitive verb
  a: to kill with hunger
  b: to deprive of nourishment
  c: to cause to capitulate by or as if by depriving of nourishment

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/starve

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Re:Mobilewalla used cellphone data to estimate the demograph... by triceratops on Friday June 26, 2020 @09:57PM (#23658901)

Is that significantly different from what I said?

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