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		munificent 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What it's like to work on cold cases "Demilitarize the police" would certainly have been a better slogan than "defund the police".

altruios 11 months ago [–]

It was more accurate. I've heard that around the same time defund was going around...

But humans don't select catch-phases and sound-bites by their truth value...

Sticky truths: that's what we need.

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