Chef Jim

Partial defuning is a real concept. So is defunding. They are two different things. See how changing the construction of the sentence completely changes the meaning. And the word is adamant. I suggest you learn the language before you debate it.

I agree. That old man is insane.

ESL?

de- prefix Definition of de- (Entry 2 of 2) 1a: do the opposite ofdeactivate b: reverse ofde-emphasis 2a: remove (a specified thing) fromdelouse b: remove from (a specified thing)dethrone

Not you too. Who said anything about "withdraw funding"? The word is DEFUND. Please define the word Defund.

You conservative bastards are all against CHANGE!! We have changed the meaning of the. word dammit. Kind of like how Global Warming became Climate Change. No this is not a "words matter" argument. This is a "words have meaning" argument. Have you gotten ANYTHING correct in this forum?

I agree. I actually like it. It works. Paper Tiger is Chinese in origin and you know how us racists feel about the Chinese. How do you simplify a definition of a word? I can't believe I'm even having this conversation.

I'm making some changes myself: No Goal = GOAL Wide Right = It's Goooooood!!

No seriously you're argument is based solely on changing the meaning of a word. In what world is that an acceptable argument??

It's been added to the book.

Methinks you don't know what an acronym is. No that's using EVERYONE IN THE ***** WORLD'S definition of defund up until last week. Good lord. And a straw tiger? Or did you mean a paper man. You're the last person to be arguing semantics.

And these are definitely the people I want to follow when it comes to restructuring of the police department.

Ummmm acronym is the word I think you're looking for here. Learn the language before you change the meaning of words. What does DEFUND stand for then? How does the police department operate if they have no funding?

What defunding literally means it to remove funding right? That's what you said. So what that means is..... NO FUNDING = NO POLICE Correct?

Regarding the part in bold. Try 250#

What was done in Camden NJ seems to have worked. But to call it "defunding" is asinine. "Restructure, retrain, reassign dollars" is what happened. Dump the expensive Unions. Restructure the out of control pensions of all Municipal Employees and reassign those dollars to put more (properly/better trained) cops on the street, to create programs to reduce crime. I think we'd all be in favor of that. It's all marketing and "Defunding the Police" is a ***** marketing nightmare.

Snap judgement?? What do you think when someone says "defund"?

So where does one get this education to figure out what these words mean? The dictionary just doesn't seem to work anymore. And who is in charge of changing these meanings. "When we say DEFUND we don't mean DEFUND. We mean RESTRUCTURE! Why can't you understand that??"

I grew up in WNY in the 60's and 70's 5 miles from Attica Prison. I knew many dad's/uncles/older brothers who were CO's there. Knew a few of the CO's and their families that were killed in the riot. It upset me quite a bit the racism I heard from these guys. My best friends dad scared me with his. My dad grew up in Batavia in the 30's and was a very dark completed Italian. He told me he never ever wanted to hear me use racist language because he had to sneak to the other side of town to meet his white girlfriend and got beat up several times due to his skin color. But yeah @GregPersons I'm a racist.

Thanks for this. This changes things a bit don't you all think? Oh and how are things up in the Space Station?

Where are you seeing this?

So unions are bad now? Dammit where's that ***** playbook?!?!

Stupid should hurt.

If I wash their feet will they wash my car? It's a ***** mess.

Wait a minute. My car is black. Am I allowed to have that? i did have a guy years ago try to convince me colors are racist. “Brides wear white. Bad guys wear black.”