this is a 🔥 quote from a local city councilor in Arizona who faced, *and survived,* a recall effort for lifting up mutual aid efforts rather than policing
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Yay Tucson
aug 27, 2025, 12:07 am • 0 0 • view
I've got an idea: We agree to spend $50 billion/year to "clean up the streets" and then: 1. Give social workers fancy tactical vests and tell the hillbillies they are "troops" or something; 3. Have them load folks up into big vans (with comfy seats) painted black so they look scary; 1/2
aug 26, 2025, 11:29 pm • 1 0 • view
3. Then drive the unhoused or whoever needed the help to the perfectly adequate public housing we spent the money on; 4. Give them a basic monthly income but we call it wages for "monitoring" or something; 5. Show off the massive savings over cops/private prisons; 6. Watch crime plummet. 2/2
aug 26, 2025, 11:29 pm • 1 0 • view