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    1. Benjy Sarlin‏Verified account @BenjySarlin 8 Jul 2020

      Benjy Sarlin Retweeted Ben Kamisar

      This is a *wild* poll result. Not only has Trump/GOP been promoting the defund message in paid media, earned media, every media for a month straight, there are actually.(some) activists making the police abolition case they can cite.https://twitter.com/bkamisar/status/1280881950681595904 …

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      Ben KamisarVerified account @bkamisar
      Fascinating new # from Monmouth on "defund the police." —77 percent of adults say the movement aims to "change the way the police departments operate." —Only 18 percent say it wants to "get rid of police departments." Read more with @Ed_Demaria here: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/blog/meet-press-blog-latest-news-analysis-data-driving-political-discussion-n988541/ncrd1233158#blogHeader …
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    2. Astead‏Verified account @AsteadWesley 8 Jul 2020
      Replying to @BenjySarlin

      Neolib twitter reading this resultpic.twitter.com/yxFmVrszvg

      3 replies 0 retweets 84 likes
    3. David Weigel‏Verified account @daveweigel 8 Jul 2020
      Replying to @AsteadWesley @BenjySarlin

      MAH GOD THAT'S @SeanMcElwee's MUSIC

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    4. Benjy Sarlin‏Verified account @BenjySarlin 8 Jul 2020
      Replying to @daveweigel @AsteadWesley @SeanMcElwee

      Just un-frigging-believable message fail https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/blog/meet-press-blog-latest-news-analysis-data-driving-political-discussion-n988541/ncrd1233158#blogHeader …pic.twitter.com/5ihYJveFmg

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Jul 2020
      Replying to @mattyglesias @BenjySarlin and

      What if I told you that political slogans have no stable meaning -- political actors and factions fill them in with different agendas?

      8:34 AM - 8 Jul 2020
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        2. Benjy Sarlin‏Verified account @BenjySarlin 8 Jul 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @mattyglesias and

          I’d tell you one of those political factions and agendas is doing a pretty poor job filling it in based on the result

          1 reply 1 retweet 24 likes
        3. Chad Chavez‏ @ChadAChavez 8 Jul 2020
          Replying to @BenjySarlin @HeerJeet and

          Pouring one out for all those people who tied themselves in knots over NEEDING to call it “reform” or “refund” or whatever.

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        1. 𝙻𝚘𝚜𝚝-𝚝𝚘-𝚕𝚞𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐. 𝙿𝚞𝚗𝚌𝚝.[etc etc]‏ @alexandersafir 8 Jul 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @mattyglesias and

          (eg) "cancel culture"

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        1. Salvatore Giliberto‏ @sgiliberto 8 Jul 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @mattyglesias and

          Yes but some allow for a wider interpretation than others. This on is on the extreme end.

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        2. W.T.H. Little‏ @wthlittle 8 Jul 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @mattyglesias and

          Can’t the same be said for political concepts like ‘equality’, liberalism’ and ‘free-speech’?

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        3. W.T.H. Little‏ @wthlittle 8 Jul 2020
          Replying to @wthlittle @HeerJeet and

          And wouldn’t such an argument contradict the appeal to ‘free-speech as neutrality’ that motivated the Harper’s letter you signed yesterday?

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        2. Leo Casey‏ @LeoECasey 8 Jul 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @mattyglesias and

          You go from giving credence to caricatures of Derrida, as a linguist nihilist who says any meaning is possible, to taking up that caricature yourself. Of course, words -- political slogans -- have no single fixed meanings. But they can't be given any meaning.

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        3. Leo Casey‏ @LeoECasey 8 Jul 2020
          Replying to @LeoECasey @HeerJeet and

          Political slogans should be self-understood in their context: that is the beauty of Black Lives Matters. When you have a slogan that has to be explained, shown to be something other than its common usage, it is a bad slogan.

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        1. PedroYokes‏ @PedroYokes 8 Jul 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @mattyglesias and

          That makes no sense — when political actors fill them in with agendas, that imbues them with meaning.

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