Hegar @ Hegar @kbin.social

Mostly kind chonky weirdo. Gentle nerd freak of the pacific north west. All

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American vegans are either doing it because they’re morons or...

Or they don't want to hurt animals unnecessarily or be complicit in the environmental devastation of meat production.

they insist on calling even vegetarians carnists for not being vegans too.

I'm a vegetarian and I've never heard vegans say that. The craziest online voices are not an accurate representation of a group.

ethical consumption under capitalism! Meatless Mondays

Wait vegans hate vegetarians AND love people who eat meat 6 days a week? You're accusing them of being fanatically doctrinal and too accepting. When you accuse a group of mutually exclusive traits, you're thinking of a stereotype and not reality.

Chilli beef and cheese from a servo or gtfo.

I find this comment absolutely hilarious.

I recognize your profile pic from a comment months back that was also a short, deadpan reinterpretation of the question that I found hilarious. I can't for the life of me remember what it was of course.

Thanks for making me laugh!

You said that two incredibly different things were very similar because of a single trait they share with many other things. Many people are going to point out the laundry list of significantly more important differences in contrast to the one similarity you see.

My point is that being annoying isn't the same as being annoying and actively harmful.

If your main complaint about vegans is that they're patronizing, that still doesn't put them in the same category as say, the catholic church or the evangelical movement which have protected rapists, encouraged violence and spread hate.

Christianity in the US actively contributes to almost every major problem facing our country whereas veganism improves the environment, reduces the suffering of some life and annoys some people. Sure, like any group of people vegans can be liable to groupthink and sometimes wrong about things. But you're ignoring a whole bunch of reality if you think both vegans and evangelicals are equally harmful.

He was 100% killed by boeing.

Either they had him professionally killed or their treatment of him was a major contributing factor to his suicide.

When the powerful decide to target, marginalize and gaslight individuals, they are fully aware that piling on stressors can break a person and solve the problem via suicide.

Well that's a gift to democrats.

The fascists could've just stayed quiet and let the issue drive down democrat turn out. Instead republicans decided to remind everyone that they will still be way worse than genocide joe.

Since self-sabotage is normally a democrat tactic, I wonder if this counts as reaching across the aisle?

This article:

won't sacrifice lore

Also this article:

"Throwing the Dune encyclopedia out – with the blessing from the Herbert estate – appears to have been a necessity, rather than something ego-driven."

What?

John pilger was a national treasure.

I doubt the iranians want to assassinate trump era officials for the same reason that the allies didn't want to assassinate hitler - you want your enemies' idiots left alive.

No we don't. If you already oppose the horror there's no need to see it for yourself. If you support it then yes, you should have the courage to face what you support.

I always presumed that Montana was telling Idaho, "It's okay, I believe you're in the PNW."

I feel sorry for whichever harvard minion had to invite joe machin to speak without also calling him a sick fuck.

How could anyone stand near that professional bribee without at least calling him a sick fuck?

I think you're confusing approved and appropriate.

Kicking a bigot or a creep off a train is appropriate, if even it's not done by an official, approved authority figure.

Support for that doesn't mean supporting behavior that is unapproved and inappropriate, like religious persecution.

Relying only on action from approved authorities doesn't make it any more likely that the actions taken will be appropriate. As the police show us daily.

Fellowship.

At least from me. It's lunatic christian speech for "friendship", as if having friends without the bible being involved is dangerously queer.

If I see someone using the word fellowship outside a LotR discussion, I'll downvote because they're almost certainly an evangelical, christian nationalist or some such danger to the world.

I feel like 'fascist dictatorship' is used in common parlance to just mean a political system without effective representative mechanisms, even though political scientists or historians would use more specific definitions.

I've heard terms like managed pseudo republic - there's a lot tightly controlled theatre of representation that you wouldn't need in a textbook dictatorship, even if the effect is the same.

There are obvious and strong autocratic elements in putin's personal power, but the need to keep key elites on side - and everyone (including actual generals!) building PMCs - highlights oligarchic elements.

There's also the resource-curse so there's petro-state elements.

The state ideology is a little loose to fit neatly into fascism, but is certainly heading more in that direction.

A hybrid mafia state seems to describe it fairly well from what I know, but I definitely think it's too unique to fit into any one textbook definition.

I think grammatical gender is just a feature of languages across many different families.

Yep, inevitable and intended consequences.

That's an easy block. Not today, troll!