Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

fair. it's poorly worded/marketed.

Noo. It was worded exactly how the lunatics intended. But then the adults came back and said oh shit.

With teachers basically needing to buy their own supplies and children who don't get to eat lunch haven't we already defunded schools to a sorry extent? Not giving our citizens excellent educations is the reason other countries pity us now because look at us.

school spending in the US hasn't fallen. per student, operating expenditures are the highest they've ever been (yes, in inflation-adjusted dollars.) https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cmb.asp …

This feels like a false equivolency. Is the claim that police funding is similarly effective to school funding? Do you have good evidence to support the effectiveness of police funding? It seems that our default should be to NOT spend a ton of money, unless shown otherwise.

I mean, this language makes sense from a consistent libertarian perspective. But for center-left types who think smashing the public school system is murder, and are not interested in narratives that lead from ‘empirically ineffective’ > ‘defund, dismantle’, it’s kind of rich.

Also, if the problem is with police not having enough training, how will that cost less? They need more training and safer non lethal equipment. That costs more money not less.

I think part of the idea is that many of the calls police deal with (e.g., homeless issues, wellness checks, traffic safety) could be handled by other departments & that'd be safer + about as effective. Likely cheaper too, but I don't think that's a direct goal.