US Representative,NY-14 (BX & Queens). In a modern, moral, & wealthy society, no American should be too poor to live. 
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What if activists aren’t PR firms for politicians & their demands are bc police budgets are exploding, community resources are shrinking to bankroll it, & ppl brought this up for ages but it wasn’t until they said “defund” that comfortable people started paying attn to brutality
The thing that critics of activists don’t get is that they tried playing the “polite language” policy game and all it did was make them easier to ignore. It wasn’t until they made folks uncomfortable that there was traction to do ANYTHING even if it wasn’t their full demands.
The whole point of protesting is to make ppl uncomfortable. Activists take that discomfort w/ the status quo & advocate for concrete policy changes. Popular support often starts small & grows. To folks who complain protest demands make others uncomfortable... that’s the point.
AOC is a communist. America doesn't want communism.
If she's a Communist then I am the Pope of Rome.
They want people to be quietly protesting somewhere they can ignore them. Hard to make progress happen when you can just be brushed off like that. Shame they had to "deal' with the people's issues more directly huh?
"Power concedes nothing without a demand." --Frederick Douglass He said demand, not polite request.
Looking at the context of that quotation only underscores her point: "If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground...."
@MacSmiff "YES WE CAN DEFUND THE POLICE"
'Demilitarize the Police' would be dramatically more effective. Ít conveys the message you want to send without the baggage.
the message is "take away some of their money and give it to social workers instead" -- the military gear is not the core issue, the money is, so "demilitarize" is also a dodge/euphemism, sorry
It's like they prefer confusing euphemisms like the Right uses. Y'know, like "fiscally conservative" when they mean "screw the poor;" "Family values" when they mean "for LGBTQ discrimination;" "Pro-Life" when they mean "anti women's rights," etc.
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