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Re:The Capitol Attack Doesn’t Justify Expanding Surveillance by naveen99 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @02:02PM (#25703383)
“Reduce police funding” ?
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Re:The Capitol Attack Doesn’t Justify Expanding Surveillance by ardy42 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @02:07PM (#25703447)
> “Reduce police funding”?

Better in some ways, worse in others. It avoids the confusion with abolishment, but it looses the connotations of seriously changing the status quo. Because of that, it's less attention-grabbing.

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Re:The Capitol Attack Doesn’t Justify Expanding Surveillance by sokoloff on Saturday January 09, 2021 @02:16PM (#25703561)
The truth is often less attention grabbing than falsehoods.

It’s “one crazy trick” or “you’re not going to believe #7” but for matters that are actually important to discuss and debate in specifics.

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Re:The Capitol Attack Doesn’t Justify Expanding Surveillance by ardy42 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @11:29PM (#25710039)
> The truth is often less attention grabbing than falsehoods.

Pretty much every slogan is a falsehood, if you want to quibble.

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