• molten@lemmy.world
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    Whoah whoah whoah. Let’s chill with the general fuck vegans statement. Most vegans are just people. Now the psycho vegans who try to make their cats eat vegan. Fuck those people. But broad statements like “fuck this group” tend to stick in people’s heads and promote undeserved hate. “Fuck the Nazi’s”? Yeah. “Fuck Germans”? No.

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      Don’t even bother.

      That person is so obviously full of shit, picking the most obvious and easiest strawman to beat on.

      I am vegetarian and know many vegans.
      None would even think about torturing our pets to death with food that is not edible for the specific species.

      On the other hands I have heard multiple omnivores tell stories about how they “know” crazy vegans that would do shit like that.

      There are some crazies (like in any big group of people) and I can’t know if OP accidentally ran into one, but the way they generalize makes it clear to me that they are the one with issues, not every run of the mill vegan.

      Vegans usually care a great deal about animals, including carnivorous animals. So fuck them right back for spewing their indiscriminate hatred.

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      Nah yo, fuck vegans.

      Seriously

      Every fucking one of them, idgaf if you think some are ‘good’ or ‘nice’ or ‘just keep to themselves’

      Fuck _ All _ Vegans

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      Then “most vegans” need to tell those vegans to shut the fuck up. Just like the Germans did the Nazis.

      I’m stuck with a memory I can never get rid of because some piece of shit decided to do that to this poor animal. It couldn’t even hold it’s head up because it was infected so bad and didn’t even have to the energy to live. I got to sit there and watch it’s life slip from it’s body and there was nothing I could do. It was withered to bones.

      They never saw jail time or even punished in the slightest amount.

      So don’t come in here telling me to play nice.

      Fuck.

      Vegans.

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        So… you had one experience and now you associate that with all people you think are the same?

        I dunno, seems a bit extreme.

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          I’m am only speaking of the worst instance of things I’ve seen. I’ve been working with/around animals all my life.

          Dog breeders, dog fighters, people that get too many cats (or any animal in general) that they can’t take care of, horses that have been whipped so much their entire bodies are covered in scars, and many of the other horrid things I’ve seen. Seeing the look on that cat’s face hurt me more than anything I’ve ever experienced. He wanted to live, but couldn’t because he was too weak at that point to fight. If he had been found a week earlier, he could have been saved.

          But you dumb fucks always think you’re in the right because of your “morally superior stance” on all thing animals. Pushing your shit ideals on other creatures because you think you’re right even though science will say over and over again that it isn’t possible for a cat to survive properly on a vegan diet.

          Keep denying science all you want, but do it at your own cost, no one else’s.

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          I have had literally hundreds of irl and thousands of online interactions with vegans, every experience was horrible and toxic no matter how conciliatory I approach the discussion.

          So, fuck vegans

          Every fucking one of them

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            You, conciliatory? I find that tough to believe. Are you sure you weren’t yelling and screaming or otherwise hurling insults at them as you seem to be so fond of doing?

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              The me you see now is bitter and disillusioned after 3+ decades of slowly degrading wide eyed optimism.

              It was a death by a thousand sneers and slogans, protests and coups and misplaced ideals.

              So I pretty much hate everyone now but this wasn’t always the case, and in the course of my life the degree of bitterness I feel towards nearly every living human has barely been around 5 years. I’m also not sure this is the most misanthropic I will become and people like you test that limit with such blithe abandon.

              If I had to make a list that reflects my current spectrum of severe dislike:

              1. Fascists. Fuck fascists with every fiber of my being and hypothetical non-physical extension of my consciousness in whatever ether it originates in.
                B) Vegans. Fuck vegans, seriously. III) Nearly every other human that has ever existed.

              The people I do not harbor some degree of hate could fill a small college auditorium and I can guarantee there is no one on this site that is in that group at the moment.

              I engaged in sincere and respectful conversation with every vegan I could find at my university, and whenever I began to ask sincere questions, they ALWAYS responded with derogatory labels and for YEARS I did not and just figured I hadn’t found the right vegan to ask and kept trying.

              When you go to a stone lined well and get poisoned water for 30 years maybe it’s time to not go to any more stone lined wells, understand?

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        It’s not fair to assume a member of a population is guilty until they condemn/renounce the problematic members of their population. I remember there being a problem after 9/11 where some people expected individual Muslims to publicly condemn Al Qaeda or else be assumed complicit. If it wasn’t alright there, it’s not alright here.

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          Every. Single. Interaction. I have EVER had with vegans was a shitshow, and I’ve been doing this for decades, IRL and on the internet.

          Out of 100+irl and literally thousands of online interactions, I know only one thing for sure about vegans: They are the second most obnoxious and ill-informed self-identifying group of people I have ever met, and since the first is LITERAL fascists, that’s saying something.

          Don’t bother arguing, you won’t like where it goes.

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        If a sick cat upsets you so much, then watch out when you learn about the incredible suffering, misery and billions of deaths caused by the global animal industry. I’m vegan because I watched the videos most “animal lovers” refuse to look at. Unspeakable horror, 24/7.

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          You know nothing of animal suffering at the hands of humans. “I watched a video once and it made me sad!” Call your local animal control and ask to go for a ride along. Only then will you understand what suffering really is.

          I’ve seen the videos, multiple times, and I only wish some of the animals I’ve seen were given such a quick suffer free ending.

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            So animals living a happy life without humans making them suffer is good? We both want that, right?

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          ^ THIS FUCKING THIS

          So many vegans claim to not understand why literally the entire world hates them, but then they constantly post whataboutism bullshit like this.

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            How is this whataboutism? We’re talking about animal rights. A sick cat and a billion suffering mammals are the same topic, no?

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        Let’s try to sow unity instead of division.

        I’ve gone vegan before. Mostly because I think animals are gross and carry disease as opposed to doing it for ethical reasons. I also love steak and feed my snakes mice. Everyone is different. Stupid people will be stupid and people without empathy will be cruel. I grew up in a rough neighborhood where I knew of not one but two different men who beat their dogs and one, I believe, to death. Neither vegan as far as I know. Ostracizing a certain group will only make them band together more strongly. Empirically speaking. I know personal experience can make a ton of self-righteous hate. I can’t speak to what you’ve seen. But the majority of people in any group are just normal folk unless it’s religion or a cult. The broader the group the more normal people within it. You’re criticizing a diet choice for fucks sake. Everyone is going to have different reasons. I know a very cool person (a practicing vet in fact) that is vegan because her body can’t process fats or oils found in almost every animal product.

        If you really feel for animals that this happens to you should try to make change and be involved. Educate people. Fuck, there’s no way you’d ever care to, but you could go to vegan events and educate people on why some animals cannot survive a vegan diet.

        Make the problem better.

        Or just keep spreading hate and exclusion and making the problem worse.