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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I still think “defund the police” was an astroturfed trend pushed by dark money conservatives groups on social media. They found a few black people who posted about it on Twitter and then used bot networks to make it seem like it was a plank of the Democratic Party.

Crazy how it took off and then mainstream individuals were debating an inorganic topic pushed by bots. [/quote]
Nope, it came out of the Democratic Socialists of America platform.  Their "demands" for the "abolition" of the "carceral state" are: 
-Defund the police by rejecting any expansion to police budgets or scope of enforcement while cutting budgets annually towards zero
-End the criminalization of working-class survival
-Freedom for all incarcerated people
-Demilitarize the police and end colonial policing of our cities and neighborhoods
-Freedom of working-class self-organization and democratic political action
-Invest in community self-governance and care, not cops

[url]https://www.dsausa.org/working-groups/abolition-working-group/[/url][/quote]

...and what does DSA have to do with Democratic Party? They literally oppose people who run as Democrats. [/quote]

In the propaganda-addled brain of your typical Republican, everyone who isn't a Republican is a leftist. That's why anarchists, socialists, and Democrats get painted by the same brush whenever it's convenient for a Republican to do so.[/quote]

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