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handmade34

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4. NO!, don't call it "defund the police"

Reply to PTWB (Original post)

Sun Dec 6, 2020, 05:41 PM

Dec 2020

we need to be a whole lot smarter about words and how we let Republicans frame the narrative... we, here, know what it means but there are a lot of people that communicate much differently than we do and our message is too important to be lost on them

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Call it Defund the Police or call it something else ... it's still the right thing to do. [View all] PTWB Dec 2020 OP

Actually, call it something else or the GOP will take over and nothing will be achieved. Demsrule86 Dec 2020 #1

"Actually, call it something else" LenaBaby61 Dec 2020 #8

Thank you. No one should use that phrase...it helps the GOP. Demsrule86 Dec 2020 #10

I can think of a better way. PTWB Dec 2020 #13

Do tell...a better way? Demsrule86 Dec 2020 #17

There is no better way. SoFlaBro Dec 2020 #20

This message was self-deleted by its author PTWB Dec 2020 #27

Why is this unfortunate phrase "defund the police" popping up on the net everywhere today? mchill Dec 2020 #2

trump lost and the trolls are still trying to divide us. nt RandiFan1290 Dec 2020 #21

This from a closed door meeting Biden had with civil right leaders. Autumn Dec 2020 #26

So we should applaud the departments refusing to enforce mask rules, correct? cwydro Dec 2020 #3

No, because the way the system is set up right now that's appropriate. Biophilic Dec 2020 #9

NO!, don't call it "defund the police" handmade34 Dec 2020 #4

If it were being done by the GOP they would call it fiscally responsible and smaller gov't. Thomas Hurt Dec 2020 #5

I think drug testing all cops would be a start Blues Heron Dec 2020 #6

Messaging matters if you want to change things redstateblues Dec 2020 #7

Completely right oswaldactedalone Dec 2020 #11

i dont think its the funding. its the fundamentals. they are supposed to "serve and protect" but bullimiami Dec 2020 #12

Lots of municipalities already have, to a full range of degrees. Hortensis Dec 2020 #14

Can't do anything if you can't get enough good people elected. Crunchy Frog Dec 2020 #15

This slogan cost us races that we should had wnn Gothmog Dec 2020 #16

Calling it "defund the police" is immoral, if what you are proposing is moral. (And I think it is.) gulliver Dec 2020 #18

It got people talking about the idea. Once the idea enters the public PTWB Dec 2020 #19

It's still the right thing to do is actually the problem. Ms. Toad Dec 2020 #22

Fund the police properly so they don't have ticket quotas! Brainfodder Dec 2020 #23

Is "Defund the Police" the start of the 2022 primaries? JustABozoOnThisBus Dec 2020 #24

If party leadership didn't like the term "defund the police" that the protesters started perhaps Autumn Dec 2020 #25