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Loukas Christodoulou | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 The fact that 'fifteen-minute cities' is now a dirty word really puts into perspective all the time people spent agonising over whether 'defund the police' and similar slogans were too radical.
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Loukas Christodoulou | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 You can call your proposal 'free cake for everyone' but if it threatens powerful groups you'll get painted as a sinister plot anyway.
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em | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @b870d4c8 i think the response to 15 minute cities reaffirms my affinity to really brazen slogans like "literally eat the rich" and "fully automated luxury space communism".
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01cf6009 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @b870d4c8 Definitely - the far right is so far gone that it can pick up any innocuous phrase and turn it into a conspiracy theory.

Slight side point: The thing that bugs me about defund is that almost everyone who uses it is now overly defensive about it ("oh we don't really mean defund...") which does quite defeat the point of a radical slogan.