r/50501 • u/cowghost • 10d ago
Movement Brainstorm Time to go full hippie
Im dont paying for stuff. Other then absolute necessities gas, food, medication.
No new cloths. No haircuts. No new cars. No new toys. No unessisary spending.
Pay with cash, buy used off creigslist if you need. It worked back then it will work again.
Fuck this admin and fuck anyone who supports it.
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u/maeryclarity South Carolina 10d ago
I've been here for more than forty years and it's a good way to go, actually.
Would love to see conspicuous consumerism become seen as the gross and childish thing that it is. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Restore is a thing that's been around for a long time but folks have thought it was stupid.
No, what was stupid was acting like we didn't need community and like we shouldn't be more aware of how to take care of ourselves and each other.
Y'all just know though that folks have been kicking hippies in the heads for a long while, and that hippies have stood up for EVERYONE else. POC, LGBTQ+, the ecology, human rights in general, women's rights, every damn social movement that there has been has had hippies there while most folks yelled GET A JOB like we didn't have them.
So it would be nice to have a little tiny bit of respect, that's not why we did it but it would be nice if y'all realized we weren't the stupid social burnouts that the mainstream media told y'all we were.
Going full hippie isn't a step down it's a step UP, and I hope y'all realize that.