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[–] -2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 child)

"burqa ban" in my country. That they didn't even know what kind of garment they wanted to ban or that there's more than one type of face veil told me a lot about how much thought they must've given

  1. "Defund the police" doesn't mean actually remove all cops; just supplement them with care workers for better success and change their interaction rules for better outcomes.

  2. "No datacenters" doesn't mean "zero datacenters" because we realize that while toxic new datacenters rush-built with no oversight are wasteful, toxic and damaging to the local and global environment, we understand that secure consolidated housing of our personal, healthcare. Criminal/court and research data is important to its integrity and availability long-term. So it just means "no bad datacenters wasting power and water just to make weiner dog animation"

Yet

  1. "They said burqa. They can only mean it literally, the indolent fucks"

We can be less hypocritical.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 hours ago*

    I'd expect politicians who want to restrict a basic right like freedom of religion to communicate what they want to do and why instead of throwing out a slogan that requires interpretation. Besides, when they did give a reasoning they kept using the word "burqa". It was pretty clear that they neither knew nor cared about any details.

    The whole thing was an exercise in thinly veiled xenophobia (keeping foreign looking people off the street under the guise of helping women) and thankfully didn't get very far.

    (Also, "defund the police" was a pretty bad choice for a slogan and allowed the opposition to paint the movement as hardcore anarchists.)

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