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Re:Neil Howe: Trust in US Institutions Continues to Decline by jimktrains2 on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @08:27AM (#36785215)
"defund the police" wasn't a call to get rid of the police or cut their funding in a vacuum, but instead to spend less on police while spending that money on social services that would handle many of mental health and domestic issues that police are called to but ill-equiped to handle.

It was a terrible/name slogan.

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Re:Neil Howe: Trust in US Institutions Continues to Decline by gwright on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @08:35AM (#36785295)
I don't think it is just a marketing problem. Lots of evidence to conclude that as a policy initiative it is flawed and detrimental to the communities that adopt that approach.
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Re:Neil Howe: Trust in US Institutions Continues to Decline by walls on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @08:35AM (#36785300)
Nuance is not something that exists in most of the conservative universe.
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Re:Neil Howe: Trust in US Institutions Continues to Decline by littlestymaar on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @09:03AM (#36785615)
Not to defend the conservatives in any way, but nuance is a scarce good when discussing about politics with most people, no matter their political orientation.
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