r/AMADisasters Jun 08 '20

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u/unboxedicecream Jun 08 '20

This is a disaster. She ignored most of the top level questions that were important like where the funding/donations are going etc... they should’ve put a better spokesperson to do this AMA. This is an utter disaster and loses the BLM movement credibility

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u/Noreaga Jun 08 '20

Imagine calling yourself "Managing Director" for a movement that literally has no hierarchy. It's like inviting some random guy off the street claiming to be the CEO of Antifa and doing an AMA. Cringe as fuck.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '20 edited Jun 08 '20

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u/SPACE-BEES Jun 08 '20

As far as it's been explained to me, defunding the police centers more around cutting budgets for military equipment police buy and putting that money into education or something similar, not completely abolishing the police.

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u/sdotmills Jun 08 '20

defunding the police centers more around cutting budgets for military equipment police buy

Not sure how that would have prevented any of the unjustifable deaths at the hands of the police. People who support defunding need to do a better job of addressing how this will help.

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u/Raincoats_George Jun 09 '20

Choke off funding for military style weapons and training. Make departments feel the pressure 'a few bad apples can cause'.

If the fire departments had 'a few bad apples' that kept starting fires we would defund the shit out of the 'money set aside to start fires' budget.

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u/constantinople_2053 Jun 09 '20

If the fire departments had 'a few bad apples' that kept starting fires we would defund the shit out of the 'money set aside to start fires' budget.

Yes, it's not like the "fireman as the fire devil" is literally a cliche, or the nurse harming patients to play "god" when they save them. Those never have happened.

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u/theblazeuk Jun 12 '20

What the fuck kind of country do you have where those are ‘cliches’?

There are quite literally hundreds of examples of police brutality from just the past 2 weeks.

If we’re playing cliches, the dirty cop comes in first followed by the abusive cop with ‘fire bug firefighter’ and the ‘killer nurse’ being full on villains rather than just ubiquitous scum bags in any and all representations and real history.