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Re:NASA Astronauts in SpaceX Capsule Make First Water Landin... by pixl97 on Sunday August 02, 2020 @06:44PM (#24032439)
Ugh, what rhetoric. Defund the police is not abolishing the police, it is removing their responsibility as only tool we have in the toolbox against many different societal problems. The police are a hammer. Sometimes you need a hammer, especially if the problem is a nail. Problem is when someone has a few screws loose, they tend to also get hammered.
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Re:NASA Astronauts in SpaceX Capsule Make First Water Landin... by gwright on Sunday August 02, 2020 @07:15PM (#24032616)
> Ugh, what rhetoric.

I agree. You seem to think that the police function should be re-examined and adjusted and you seem to be OK using the short hand of "defund the police" to communicate that. Unfortunately there are other folks who think that "defund the police" really does mean to zero out the budget of the police and there are all sorts of positions in between those two.

So I would assert that as a means to communicate clearly, "defund the police" fails miserably. It is terrible rhetoric that just sows confusion and promotes division.

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