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Re:End Amazon’s Surveillance Partnership with Police by kyralis on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @10:16PM (#29021562)
To your point 4: "Defund the police" is one of the stupidest slogans ever invented. It is practically designed to make the argument easy to attack and to motivate opponents.

The actual nuanced goal - Get police out of the business of non-police tasks, and leave those tasks to professionals who specialize in those areas (mental health, social work, etc) - is something that almost everyone actually agrees with. But it's hard to get past the stupidity of the original slogan.

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Re:End Amazon’s Surveillance Partnership with Police by BuyMyBitcoins on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @11:24PM (#29022020)
The slogan is so bad that I can’t help but think the people who thought of it actually want to “defund the police”. Not in a ‘well what it actually means is’ kind of way, but the actual, ‘get rid of the police’ kind of way.

When less ideologically rigid people use the same slogan, they make sure to explain the slogan doesn’t actually mean what it says.

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