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annabenedetti

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Well let's talk about them
and
not about red vs blue

is it climate change?
is it immigration?
is it a woman's right to choose?
is it health care for everyone?
is it education?

let's talk about that

Racism
Income inequality
Corporatism
Fascism
Government corruption
Christian nationalism
White supremacy

Why not red vs blue? Why don't you want to talk about that?
 

annabenedetti

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I'm curious. Did you talk to them in person?

they want us to defund the police
do you agree with that?

"Defund" is a loaded word, with multiple interpretations. I think I'm in the majority when I don't think of defund as disbanding. I don't think it's the best word that could've been used because it strikes fear in the hearts of law and order middle America. But on the other hand, as a way of getting their attention, it certainly worked. It's a word that sticks.

Broadly sketched, I agree we should at the least: review and reallocate funding. Fund less police hardware, fund more community-supporting social outreach. Demilitarize. Even Espy said it bothered him that the police looked like the military. It bothers me a lot that we look like a police state. We need way better police training in de-escalation, we have to weed out the white supremacists.There needs to be more transparency, more accountability.

For starters. We need to reform the justice system, stop privatizing prisons, end stop-and-frisk, fix the bail system, reform sentencing guidelines.
 
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