5 June 2020 - George Floyd 3
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These protests come with a demand—black lives matter—but they do
not come with concrete proposals for how to meet the demand. That’s
in part why so little has been done after past protests. It’s time
to get organized, and I, as future king of the world, am obviously
the best organizer. How about “no lives matter” as an equalizer? All
ideas are self-serving, that’s why the people need their own.
clue:
I have seen one proposal, “defund the police”, meaning cut their
budget. Ideally that comes with reducing their job—don’t send
police to a typical domestic dispute, send a social worker, that
kind of thing. There has been a strange emphasis on trying to
solve soft problems with hard power.
give me a clue so sweet and true
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