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The Radical Plan to Save the Planet by Working Less: The degrowth movement wants to shrink the economy to address climate change, and create lives with less stuff, less work, and better well-being. (www.vice.com)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pro tip: any one telling you the problem with your movement is the optics, doesn't actually care about the objectives of thst movement

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I care very much for this objective, I just think you'll never convince the dumber people with a name they'd immediately perceive as very negative

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This has extremely strong "defund the police is not a good slogan" energy. obama-socialism

Also i don't view people who share my position yet are not yet aware or educated yet on why they should stand in solidarity with the rest of their class as "the dumber people."

That kind of language and outlook isn't something i view favorably. Its ar best borderline ableist, and conveys a sense that you veiw yourself as superior to those you should be in solidarity with.

If you do care about these issues then i suggest a little self crit on this

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sorry I'm hurting feelings all over the fediverse. I just care so much that I'm not afraid to say out loud that it's a dumb slogan and those that picked it are dumb because of it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's not my feelings you're hurting. You're hurting yourself if you're viewing other people as inferior.

My point about the slogan thing is more about the disingenuous statements from liberal pundits and specifically Obama's comments on "defund the police", as opposed to a criticism of you, so sorry if my critique came off as too harsh toward you on that.

If you think its a bad slogan that's fair, but that line has been used by disingenuous people to try and derail things and thats what got me aggro.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I'd figure you'd convince people by.. I dunno... talking to them about it instead of worrying about what they might think about a particular word.