<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">On Aug 7, 2020, at 3:13 AM, John Clark via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 1:07 AM Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>> </span>Because the phrase "defund the police" is suddenly all in the news and is basically a good idea,</font></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>### <i>"Privatize the police", "Reform the police", "Make police great again" might be good ideas but "Defund the police" is just stupid.</i></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> <font size="4">Abolishing the police is stupid and advocated only by crackpots<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">,</span> but I specifically said "<i>Defunding the police is not the same as abolishing the police</i>".</font></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">And you still haven’t responded to why you thought Cory Massimino confused abolition with defunding. </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I’m guessing you haven’t and won’t ever read his piece. Your empirical stance stops at actually reading what he actually wrote, no?</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Regards,<br><div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://author.to/DanUst</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>