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minus-squareWoodScientist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down1·2 days agoMessage: Defund the police! Your response: stop using that phrase. It’s not specific enough and too easily weaponized by the right. Message: reallocate police funding to mental health response teams. Transfer duties from the police to medical professionals. Your response: the left sucks at messaging. We need powerful slogans that capture the imagination, not wonkish policy positions.
minus-squareaubeynarf@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down5·2 days agodon’t ascribe fictional quotes to me, buddy
minus-squareWoodScientist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 days agoIf they were quotes they would have quotation marks…
Message: Defund the police!
Your response: stop using that phrase. It’s not specific enough and too easily weaponized by the right.
Message: reallocate police funding to mental health response teams. Transfer duties from the police to medical professionals.
Your response: the left sucks at messaging. We need powerful slogans that capture the imagination, not wonkish policy positions.
don’t ascribe fictional quotes to me, buddy
If they were quotes they would have quotation marks…