<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 4:07 PM Dave Sill via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><span class="gmail_default"></span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><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><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Defunding need not be complete. Partially defunding is still defunding.</i></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4">Why are we even talking about this?<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Regardless of who wins the presidential election nobody is going to be abolishing the police! Although I grant you that one of the candidates may be less than enthusiastic about encouraging people to spend $1 million on yet another police armored personnel carrier and figure that money would increase national security more if it were spent in other ways.</span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark</span></font></div></div></div>