[RE: Austin votes to defund the police]
Sounds like Austin is being Zionized, left wide open to division, crime, ritual human sacrifice, and then...chaos.
First, New York. Then, California. Now, Texas.
Frist, you'll see an uptick in rigged elections, the missing children numbers will go up, crime will flourish, then...gun confiscations, finally...genocide.
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Texas is already Purple. You are already opening yourselves to division, o Repubicans: you Trumptards made sure of that. Once Texas turns Blue: you're fucked.
Your screaming is becoming less and less listened to, o minority that is being silenced.
@Thraxas #77618
The problem is that people are using it to mean reducing police funding to distribute to community programs.
If taken at face value it could be read as eliminating the police altogether without an alternative.
In short, defunding can mean a reduction in funds, but is more commonly parsed as eliminating funds altogether.
And the phrase "Defund the police" makes no mention of the alternatives, or the fact that they are even intending to replace police functions.
This is why wording is so important. All of this is distracting us from the conversation we should have been having.
@Mathius_dragoon , @Thraxas :
The problem with any terminology is that someone on the right will twist it into some version of “Jews/POC/LGBT/Women/PWD are taking our jobs/religion/women/rights” etc, and then the rest of them jump on that bandwagon because it allows them to not have to examine or change anything about themselves.
So I’m not an American so I can only speak about what I see in the media but I think the literal worst meaning (close the police) wouldn’t be so bad. Because some systems are just build wrong from the beginning because they are specific or old (both for american police) that they just can’t function in the modern world with modern values.
Im all for fixing and stuff but the racism militarism and law and order mentality are so deeply ingrained in the system that it is hard to fix without just starting anew.
That’s not to say every cop is bad. I would be on the edge too if I was a cop in country where every crazy person can own a gun. But even the good ones can do nothing against the bad system.
Their little riot at the Capitol proves what they really meant by “back the blue” or “blue lives matter.” They love police when they’re exercising force against black, brown, and allied peoples. But they could give a damn about their safety and well-being except when it’s convenient to their racism.
The only way police reform efforts will work is if we’re truly committed to them. And these efforts will save blue lives as well by preventing them from being in extremely dangerous situations in the first place. I get the risk will never truly be eliminated but if they cared one iota about police lives than they would commit to Black Lives.
I realize that defunding makes sense… it can work as a boycott and force the cops to reform or else!
Frankly; The police should consist mainly of stuff like detectives & forensics… the guys that actually investigate crime and get stuff done (ideally, anyway).
Since most crimes are discovered after the fact and the grunts with the uniforms and badges aren’t really as necessary, it makes sense to cut it down to folks who actually analyze and investigate crimes.
Put money into community programs and fight poverty, ethnicism and addiction… and totally nuke the Blue Wall and that “Killology” crap!
It can be done. I refuse to be a pessimist… even if the change is gradual… it can and will be done.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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