• JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    You’re right, subsistence living in an individual level is impossible. There’s a lot of Americans though, and they could do subsistence living if they worked together. Again, you and I aren’t disagreeing. We just need to make sure to use the right words. Even if subsistence living isn’t a commonly held thought, it’s one with a more positive connotation than Isolationism. We should use words with negative connotations to describe negative bills

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      5 hours ago

      All right so you were just being pedantic.

      Because my examples did not make it sound appealing lol

      And I personally prefer to use neutral words, as folks have a lot of defense mechanisms toward words with negative connotations.

      Meaning, they will just tune it out.