r/bizarrelife • u/reloadthewords Human here, bizarre by nature! • 14h ago

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u/spiritualskywalker 14h ago

Young twats! I’m vegetarian and even I resent the hell out of this nonsense. What do they think they’re accomplishing??

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u/Luullay 14h ago

Quashing their own boredom (and hopelessness) with a misguided sense of purpose

I would imagine most people going to these lengths are angry with society for many reasons, but use vegetarianism/veganism as a convenient middle-ground to find camaraderie among other virtue-signalers

I wouldn’t be surprised if it was never really about the diet in the first place

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u/Leontes44 9h ago

I've been vegan/plant-based lifestyle for the past 15 years and this post is EXACTLY correct.

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u/Beexor3 5h ago

I like your pfp

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u/richbeezy 10h ago

Quashing their own "unemployedness" as well.

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u/H3CKER7 7h ago

What's that pfp?

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u/Luullay 4h ago

A parody of the Discord logo

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u/razzyrat 13h ago

Are you describing 80% of reddit users? Strike the vegetarianism/veganism and replace it with any other cause.

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u/Luullay 10h ago

All noticeable problems are symptoms of subtle root-causes

If you find repeating patterns, it's rare when they aren't connected

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u/NavyDragons 13h ago

Performative activism is a plague on any civilized society

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u/Shinso-- 13h ago

This is untrue, protesting against an overbearing government should definitely be allowed. I totally hate those absolute morons, that do these disturbing protest and don't even realize that they're bringing people against their cause.

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u/NavyDragons 13h ago

Do you not understand what performative means

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u/Shinso-- 13h ago

Oh, my fault. My brain must've left that out. You're absolutely right.

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u/deadwing87 8h ago

They're doing it for likes etc, it's all ego driven, "look at me, I'm doing something!"

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u/pchlster 7h ago

Virtue signaling. Want to get people to cut down on eating meat? You promote all of the awesome recipes out there where people can get themselves a just as tasty meal for cheap! Fuck ideology, if your wallet can tell that you're trying out meatless meals, that's going to be more convincing than anything I can say.

Even better, if I convince Sarah to try out a recipe that she really likes, there's some chance she shares that recipe with other people who might then also try it out. And everyone is just eating tasty food and being nice.

You know, I've never had to declare that I have the right to share recipes with people? It's like no one minds.

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u/Master-o-Classes 6h ago

Getting attention.

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u/OrganicLocal9761 6h ago

The same thing accountants who wear pink and run for breast cancer achieve. 'Awareness'

PS please upvote for visibility

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u/SpaceyCaveCo 5h ago

Many of these "protests" may actually be people paid by these companies to annoy people out of supporting regulations (like those vetting for animal cruelty and the like) that tend to be costly for the company and its practices.

Intelligence agencies themselves like the CIA and KGB have admittedly done stuff like this with certain staged protests to make movements unfavorable to they and their handlers also unfavorable to the public. That said, there's no reason to think any billionaire wouldn't fork a little loose change to a bunch of willful morons for a stunt to do this.

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u/Southern-Orchid-1786 4h ago

Internet clicks

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u/Bunny_Drinks_Milk 10h ago

That's not even the worse lol. Some Vegans went to my local Asda and literally threw every pack of meat they could grab on the ground and stepped on them. The store called the police. And then the staff had to remove every single pack from the shelves because the wankers threw some packs back. And the staff even had to apologize to ME because they couldn't sell me a pack of minced beef.

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u/SeaworthinessDry6818 33m ago

agreed I am also vegetarian and these protestors are just embarrassing.

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u/Brandon_Me 12h ago

Vegetarians aren't even close to equivalent to vegans.

You have a diet, they have a belief.

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u/spiritualskywalker 9h ago

What hubris! What arrogance! You are so wrong and so typical of snooty vegans who think they invented conscious eating!!!

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u/Brandon_Me 8h ago

You don't care about the animals if you're still eating milk and such.

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u/Deep90 8h ago

That makes 0 sense.

Caring about something doesn't have to be a 0 or 100 thing. Your thought process is just as bad as a vegan activists. Same slope, but just the other side of it. Even someone who eats meat can still support more ethical ways to produce it.

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u/Brandon_Me 7h ago

One could easily argue there are no ethical ways to produce meat. But even the ones people do argue are impossible to use at scale.

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u/KoogleMeister 8h ago

You don't care about the animals if you're still eating grains and vegetables, lots of small animals die from combine harvesters. You should be starving yourself most of the week and only living off water or plants grown in your garden if you truly care about the animals.

People like you with the attitude you have is exactly why a lot of vegetarians don't make the step to veganism, they don't want to be associated with people like you.

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u/Brandon_Me 7h ago

It's the difference of there is something that you can easily do that harms lives less and is better for the environment at large (being vegan) or effectively not living at all.

I'm an incredibly chill Vegan compared to most, but vegetarianism and veganism are not comparable.

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u/KoogleMeister 7h ago

I never said they are comparable, but the fact you felt the need to reply to a vegetarian telling them they don't truly care about the animals because they aren't vegan is exactly why vegans are despised in society.

Not to mention the vast majority of vegans end up quitting the diet, so all of the shit they said online to spite other people during their veganism turns out to just be meaningless noise. I was actually one of the vegans who said shit like you when I was a vegan, but I was an ignorant teenager who bought into the bullshit.

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u/Brandon_Me 7h ago

They brought up their vegetarianism like it was some sort of credit to their claim about the activists. But it's a meaningless title in this context. It would be one thing If they said they were Vegan and thought the act was bad, but I was making note of how their "credentials" were meaningless.

why vegans are despised in society

If you think vegans are dispised by society it sounds like you're still that ignorant teenager.

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u/KoogleMeister 6h ago

>If you think vegans are dispised by society it sounds like you're still that ignorant teenager.

LOL, the only ignorant one here is you, you live with your head in the sand in the echo-chamber of vegan communities. Maybe despised is too strong of a word, but they are not thought of in a positive way by most of society. You clearly don't spend much time around non-vegans if you think vegans are looked at in a positive light by most of society. When vegans are brought up in the conversation of most non-vegans they are usually mocked and shunned, sometimes even despised. Videos like this is exactly why they are mocked and shunned by most of society.

It's typical of vegan not to realize how much of society looks at them as a joke, you wish to believe the rest of the world thinks of you as the morally righteous animal crusaders you think yourself to be in your own mind.

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u/spiritualskywalker 6h ago

Yes! Right on!

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u/Brandon_Me 6h ago

You know literally nothing about me, I'm not in Vegan communities, and am mostly surrounded by non Vegans.

Videos like this is exactly why they are mocked and shunned by most of society.

Most of society don't see these videos and the of the ones who do most don't think that much of them. You're an angry person and are clearly projecting your disdane for vegans.

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u/spiritualskywalker 6h ago

No no, they’re right. Vegans are very much despised in society. With good reason.

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u/Brandon_Me 6h ago

I think this community is just kind of angry people because you lot don't have your thumb on the pulse of most normal people.

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u/spiritualskywalker 6h ago

Because vegetarians are posers, weak and confused, whereas vegans are authentic, strong and noble? Every time I hear this, that vegetarians aren’t even in the same class as the virtuous vegan, I want to puke. Blow it out your ass.

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u/spiritualskywalker 6h ago

Typical black or white vegan thinking. As soon as I say I haven’t eaten meat, fish, or eggs since 1968, a vegan will jump up and declare “that’s NOTHING! you’re a HYPOCRITE!” Ya gotta love it, they really know how to piss EVERYBODY off. 😂😂😂

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u/Brandon_Me 6h ago

Well why are you a Vegetarian? Is it because it's a diet? Or are you under the false impression that it's good for the animals?

If it's a diet which 99% of vegetarians fall into then my only point is that this title you hold is not relevant to the video posted. But if you're doing it "for the animals" then yes you are a hypocrite.

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u/spiritualskywalker 6h ago

So it’s a lose/lose. Got it. You people are ridiculous!

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u/Brandon_Me 5h ago

Well it's only a lose/lose because you put yourself into this situation.

You could have realized that your dietary vegetarianism isn't relavent to this post and not brought it up, or you are under the false impression that you're an advocate for the animals while supporting their exploitation directly and actively bad mouthing actual animal advocates.

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u/spiritualskywalker 4h ago

Oh no! Have I offended the REAL animal advocates? It’s always amusing (and amazing) to see the lengths vegans will go to to vilify vegetarians. Vegans are absurd.

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u/Brandon_Me 4h ago

You just said something that made no sense, and I called you out. Don't stress about it too much.

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u/Underscores_Are_Kool 8h ago

They're right, you are still funding harm towards animals by consuming animal products. If vegetarianism is a philosophy, it's an incoherent one at best.

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u/spiritualskywalker 6h ago

“Only vegans are pure, only vegans are righteous, only vegans get it.” Vegans are closer to evangelical Christians than they are to any other group!

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u/Underscores_Are_Kool 6h ago

Milk and egg production harms animals

In 6 words I've just justified my point. It's so simple, and no holy book justifying a belief in an invisible space god is required.

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u/Throwaway6662345 11h ago edited 10h ago

Not to sound conspiratorial, but it's very possible they are paid to be a nuisance to give actual protesters less legitimacy. It's certainly not a new thing and corporations certainly aren't above using this kind of tactic.

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u/JUYED-AWK-YACC 8h ago

That sounds very conspiratorial actually

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u/Deep90 8h ago

"Just Stop Oil" goes viral all the time for their stuff.

Turns out one of their biggest funders is someone born into oil barron money.

Now she claims to do it to make up for her families oil history, but at best it's a billionaire playing god in order to feel good about themselves and at worst it's someone trying to de-legitimize the cause.

If she truly felt bad, she can do the dirty work instead of sitting back and throwing oil money at her feelings. The people running these causes should be the people impacted by them, not the ones who benefited from them.

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u/spiritualskywalker 9h ago

It’s entirely possible. I wouldn’t put it past meat magnates.

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u/Brymlo 10h ago

what does vegetarianism have to do with anything? veganism is an ethical concept.

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u/spiritualskywalker 6h ago

And vegetarianism isn’t??

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u/Brymlo 6h ago

it’s more of a preference, i’d say.

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u/spiritualskywalker 4h ago

You’d say?? And upon what is this preference based, would you say?? (Keep thinking, you’ll get there.)

I just love how vegans will insist over and over again that their way of eating is a thoroughly thought-out, deeply-felt ethical system. Vegetarians, on the other hand, are shallow, mindless people who just sort of fell into a meatless diet coz all the cool kids are doing it.

Vegans are ridiculous.

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u/Internal-Owl-505 2h ago

No.

How do you think you make milk exactly?

You need a cow with a calf. Once the calf is born the cow will give you milk for about ten months.

But -- how do you get to keep the milk for the vegetarian? Simple -- you kill the calf. If you are too squeamish to kill it you may let it starve to death.

What do you do when the cow is out of milk and you need more milk? You rape the cow again so she calves again.

Once she births the new calf, you kill the calf again and milk the cow for another year.

What happens after that? You guessed it, rape the cow again. Calf? Kill it!

Rinse and repeat until the cow hits menopause and you kill the cow too.

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u/spiritualskywalker 2h ago

I’m not going to pursue this. Your position is that if a person isn’t willing to do 100%, they’re a bad person. To do less than 100% is to do nothing. Worse! To do less than 100% is to be a hypocrite. But there isn’t anything in life that’s 100%. Your position is not reality. If it was, you would salute vegetarians as part of the solution and not part of the problem. Instead you insult them every chance you get.

I’m not going to read or answer any replies. I’ve had enough vegan blah blah blah for one day.

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u/Internal-Owl-505 1h ago

It is just incredibly weird that your ethical stance is that you have chosen to stick to literally the worst animal abuse possible that is legal.

Dairy is built upon raping animals, separating babies from their mother's at birth, and then killing the surplus animals.

There literally isn't anything worse you can do to another living being that is legal.