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neohippie

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36. We all saw how well defund the police messaging worked out

Reply to Fil1957 (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 16, 2026, 03:15 PM

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While ICE is out of control and seemingly unaccountable I am not sure that the Democratic members of Congress will be able to successfully defund ICE and how well that message is going to resonate. Working on making them accountable and operating in a less violent, reckless and lawless way needs to be the message the last defund the police messaging campaign seemed to just bring a lot of blowback and no success

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