• JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world
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    19 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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      10 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.

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        3 hours ago

        Yes, you’re right. I’m being pedantic. I should have forewarned that, my bad.

        And you’re also right that people tend to tune out negative words. At first, sure. But, assuming you’re American, I bet I could cause some cognitive dissonance in you if you I use the right ones. Isolationism isn’t one of those yet, but in 30 years we need that word to sound the same as “Feudalism”

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          2 minutes ago

          No you did mention maybe you’re being pedantic, that’s why I brought it back up I wasn’t trying to be a bitch lol

          And yeah, isolationist really is a more accurate term. However I’m thinking that the right has indoctrinated their voter base against it.

          I don’t have hard evidence for that argument, it’s just the vibe I get living here.