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Jul 15 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
And here we are. Right there on paper. A lot of people believe police don't have *enough* money. If an institution is not doing what you want, it must be because it's underfunded. Don't bother looking at the actual budget. Just get out the checkbook.
My new radical platform involves fixing policing by giving them even more money and then pleading with them to stop beating and murdering people. #OverfundThePolice
I know I just got here. But a cursory glance at history assures me that this revolutionary technique has never been tried before. I know! I was surprised to learn that as well. But it has to be true, because I saw it on Tik Tok. #OverfundThePolice
Look, I don't know where the current billions of dollars are being spent. Stop asking questions I don't know the answer to. The important thing is I saw a cop the other day and he looked sad. And that's gotta stop. #OverfundThePolice
I'll repeat what I said as many times as you need to hear it. Do not argue with people about #DefundThePolice being a "bad slogan". That's not it. If you keep talking to them, you'll learn the real problem.

They just don't want to defund police. They are saying "no thanks".
They will suck up a lot of your time arguing though. What they wanna do is pull you aside and say "can't we pretend we agree on this and then just do nothing? Come on bro. It'll be great!"

Don't do it to yourself. I'm showing you how it goes so you don't have to.

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Jul 17
What kind of money talk do y'all wanna have today?
I don't think I'm the best person to address this. I don't know what people mean by "collapse". To me it's a strong word that indicates catastrophy. But when talking about economic markets, people say "collapse" when they mean a 20% drop in value.
I can tell you what I believe as I've learned more and more about economic markets. Things *will* go down eventually. We go through cycles of boom and bust. Nobody knows how to predict it, and nobody knows how to prevent it. Learning how to protect yourself is critical.
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Jul 16
I've been trying to find the right ways to talk to people about money. There is a lot of talk out there, but the vast majority of it sucks and is deeply unhelpful in my opinion. I've been asking myself what kind of info is actually helpful.
It's hard to give people detailed advice. Everyone's circumstance is different, and you need to talk through a lot of their situation before being able to confidently give advice. You can do a lot of damage by steering someone in a direction that doesn't work for them.
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Jul 14
Defunding IS different from reform. #DefundThePolice is an explicitly anti-reform platform. Reform usually results in more funds being allocated to police. Reallocate also leaves room for shenanigans. Defund the police. It means what it says.
That's why people hate it. That's why they're so sure it's a "terrible slogan". Precisely because it's harder to misinterpret, redirect, or water down.

You don't like it because you don't really want to defund the police. That's fine, but it ain't got shit to do with the name.
It IS an anti-cop movement. #DefundThePolice takes a very clear stance that reducing police interaction with the populace will result in less violence and less death. It also allows us to actually address the causes of crime through non-violent means.
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Jul 14
Here's some simple advice. If you see something on here that makes you want to argue, post it on your own TL instead of replying. Instead of picking a fight with a random stranger, use it as an opportunity to express your own personal values to those who want to hear you.
Some of us may have to work on building this new habit. But it has so many nice benefits.
- Fewer shitty fights with random strangers
- The people who opt-ed into hearing from you will hear from you more often
- You may gain more followers and thus get more opportunity to influence people.
- Ideally you'll build a habit of self-reflection and thinking about how to speak your own values. Rather than only expressing them in opposition to others.
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Jul 13
"Defund the police has no real plan" is the same phenomenon as "Democrats never deliver results". Folks just really want to be spoon fed. They want big bang solutions that are neatly packaged. And it's just never going to be that way.
That's the real reason why it's difficult to build political movements. Why it creates so much apathy and disengagement. It's work. It takes actual work from everyone to figure out what we're gonna do and to get on board. It's not gonna get dropped in your lap.
I'm 41 years old. I say that only to illustrate a point about growth. I'm only now at the phase in my life where I'm really figuring this out. Many older folks already get it. It took them a lifetime to get it. But now they show up. Because that's what is required.
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Jul 12
I know this is a useless comment at this stage, but I still think it needs to be stated explicitly. Trolls and bots are the biggest reason that social media is toxic and harmful. A lot of other issues stem from and revolve around that.
There are many other problems. This stance isn't meant to minimize or dismiss a lot of other real and valid issues. But I believe those issues stem from humans being humans. The issue of fake people having outsized impact on public discourse is uniquely a social media problem.
We can't actually get the value of being more connected and having important conversations as a society. And the reason is that it's impossible to know which actors are fake. Some large set of people are only here to intentionally fuck shit up. And that population is amplified.
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