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In response to "you gotta understand the people on the ground that pushed Defund the Police - they're anarchists, socialists, progressives. they have as little in " by colin 🤏

That’s fine, if you don’t care about enabling the people in power who would be more likely to be sympathetic to addressing the problems at hand

Posted by znufrii Nov 20 '20, 09:31

Instead of intentionally and expressly making the situation worse.

But of course actually solving the issues would mean there’d be no need for activists to protest against them and they’d have to find something else to do with their time, so....

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as i said to spawn, the neoliberals running for office have the same chance of enacting changes to the police as republicans. -- nm - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:35 10
- Come on, you can do better than your parroting of “neoliberal” as an epithet against the insufficiently progressive left. - znufrii Nov 20, 09:41 9
  - the problem is... the funding of the police. not the messaging. the fact that dems are complaining about it shows they're not willing to be part of - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:46 8
    - The problem isn’t funding though, it’s the institution of policing. You’ve just decided that’s the only acceptable way to address it. -- (edited) - znufrii Nov 20, 09:54 7
      - some systems are too broken to fix. replacement is much better. -- nm - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:55 6
        
        Baby, bath water. -- (edited) - znufrii Nov 20, 09:57 5
        
        the A in ACAB stands for "all", if you forgot. -- nm - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:57 4
        
        Another pithy but ultimately counterproductive slogan. -- nm* - znufrii Nov 20, 09:58 3
        
        you just cost yourself that bottle of bourbon. - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 10:01 2
        
        Heh - znufrii Nov 20, 10:03 1
        
        man, here's hoping. being in the US sucks out loud right now. -- nm - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 10:09

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