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The United Police State of America Has Arrived (theintercept.com)

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Damn if only there was a widespread movement focused on defunding the police so they can't be used as a military force for fascism.

I'm so tired

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

You can't run a campaign on defunding the police. That's unelectable.

You can only run a campaign on improving the police by giving them more training. And then you need to do a bunch of photo-ops with police officers to prove you still love and support them. And if anyone says you're anti-police, you need to say Aktuly They're Anti-Police and you're the most pro-police candidate on the ballot.

And then, if you alienate a chunk of your base voters, because they're exhausted from over policing and sincerely cannot tell the difference between two parties insisting "We're The Ones Who Support Police The Most", its their fault when you lose because they couldn't read between the lines.

But also, if you win, never actually use your police powers to prosecute anyone in the opposition party that was flagrantly breaking whole textbooks full of laws. Only prosecute college students waving anti-war protest signs. And civil rights activists demanding equal treatment for LGBTQ / PoC. And TikTok, because its too Chinese.

That's the path to a real majority. You'd know that if you listened to these millionaire consultants Keir Starmer and Liz Cheney recommended to us.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Liberals come up with the most easily twisted slogans. The 1% thing threatened too many people, should have been the .001%. Defund the police has nothing much to do with the actual policy we want, but guess how it sounds.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Defund the police has nothing much to do with the actual policy we want

My city has a $3B budget and $1B of it goes to cops. And every year the divide gets worse.

100% "Defund the Police" is what I want. It's bleeding every other city service and amenity dry.