• trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 months ago

    Actually, it’s quite surprising and disappointing how most leftists (or ostensibly left-leaning people) correctly shape their political views around being anti-exploitation and pro-liberation, only to immediately become reactionaries when it comes to ending animal exploitation.

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      6 months ago

      Yeah it’s actually really funny how many hardcore leftists turn into neoliberals the second a vegan walks into the room.

      I was more referring to like, given that most vegans tend to be leftist, any community that has a lot of leftists is probably going to have more than a few vegans.

      • DriftinGrifter@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        6 months ago

        dont care what you eat but more than half my feed has been vegan protesting and im starting to get annoyed (yes i eat meat yes im trying to reduce my consumtion of said meat(it tastes bad)but ffs go post this shit in some steak subreddit where people will see it that should)

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          6 months ago

          Would you say the same thing if the posts were protesting a different issue?

          Pro-environment memes get posted here all the time and nobody complains about them, even though they almost certainly outweigh the vegan ones.

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          6 months ago

          Or maybe you need to recognize when a message is only going to continue to grow, and get louder. Get with the times.

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      6 months ago

      That’s because animals aren’t human. They should be exploited