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It was a branding fuckup more than a policy fuckup. The idea that we want types of response units other than armed gunmen available to respond to certain types of emergencies isn’t exactly radical.

We don’t send the police for medical emergencies or house fires. We send personnel with dedicated training for those types of events.

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> It was a branding fuckup more than a policy fuckup.

And frankly, the folks who turned "liberal" into a dirty word can make any branding into a branding fuckup. That's what they have Fox News for.

Modern liberals made "liberal" a bad word.

Maybe... but something doesn't sit right with that assertion.

Anyone against concentration camps now gets the "liberal" slur thrown at them. Why is that?

As someone who grew up with a dad who listened to conservative talk radio, "liberal" has been used as an epithet for at least thirty years. I was genuinely stunned in high school when I met people who would willingly refer to themselves as liberals.

You'll have to pardon me for rolling my eyes at the notion that modern liberals have somehow made the term a bad word given the general path of conservatism over the last several decades, not to mention the last eight years specifically.

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