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Re:The Capitol Attack Doesn’t Justify Expanding Surveillance by pera on Saturday January 09, 2021 @02:12PM (#25703498)
English is not my first language, but it seems an ambiguous slogan as the prefix de- not only means to remove but also to reduce / degrade. For instance, there were some recent calls for "defunding the Pentagon", in the sense of reducing military spending.

> Defund

> to deplete the financial resources of

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/defund

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Re:The Capitol Attack Doesn’t Justify Expanding Surveillance by travisoneill1 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @02:18PM (#25703577)
You left out the first definition:

> to withdraw financial support from, especially as an instrument of legislative control

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Re:The Capitol Attack Doesn’t Justify Expanding Surveillance by pera on Saturday January 09, 2021 @02:27PM (#25703688)
Correct, that's why I used the word "ambiguous" (i.e. having or expressing more than one possible meaning).
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