This election is really about who loves the police more

  • OhWell [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    What the fuck...

    These are like attack ads. How do they make him look good?

    I hate this asshole so much. I didn't think the Dems could push a worse candidate than Hillary, yet they proved me wrong.

  • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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    4 years ago

    We all know what this is really about. Biden is, through no fault of his own, most likely going to win this election, and would no matter what his policies were. They're putting this out there so they have it on record later, so that when he wins they can say "well, Joe said he wouldn't defund the police and he won, so that must mean the people don't want him to defund the police". They're establishing the narrative for his "mandate"

    • fathousand [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      doubtful. pa ain't voting for biden which only leaves him with a 30% chance of victory. to everybody else it may be some kind of mystery, but i fucking live in this shit hole and trumps winning this election.

      • Young_Lando [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        it's gonna be fuckin close and at that point the SC just rules in favor of Trump and that's GG

      • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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        4 years ago

        Ok, so adjust what I said for "this is what Biden's team is assuming will happen"

  • Praksis [any]
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    4 years ago

    nothing will fundementally change

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Joe Biden will NEVER DEFUND... you know, you know the thing

  • Mike_Penis [any]
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    4 years ago

    defunding the police will just lead to privatization unless other structural changes are made so it doesn't matter anyway

      • Mike_Penis [any]
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        4 years ago

        yes. he won't really say anything about police reform except for telling them to shoot people in the legs. Personally I think "defund" should be changed to "disarm". let them only have less than lethal weapons. Although i guess that won't really help with cops kneeling on people and asphyxiating them.

        SWAT can deal with things like right wing psychos doing more mass shootings etc.

        • OhWell [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I think when people say defund the police, they mean city budgets. For decades now, many cities have been defunding emergency services and mental health professionals, all to increase the budget for police departments.

          If they defund the police, they can spread the money around and get emergency services back up and running. There is no reason why we should have police being called to situations with suicidal situations and them waving guns around and escalating it. Terms like "suicide by cop" shouldn't even exist.

        • OgdenTO [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I don't think anyone who says defund thinks that there won't be a plan to replace with something else.

          It's a lib talking point that thinks that defunding means that we literally want to just cancel police and then see how it goes.

          This is in strict planning alongside unarmed, well trained, alternative services that will use the budget instead.