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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Jfc the vegan extremism in tech shows so hard on Lemmy it makes me both embarrassed to be in tech, and on Lemmy.

Fuck off. Feeling guilt (or worse yet, telling others to feel guilty) for eating beef when there exist billionaires with private jets is beyond absurd. Especially when we consider food availability, cost efficacy of feeding the populations...

Get your head out of your asshole.

You're no better than the Christofascists telling 'the gays they'll go to hell,' ramming ideology down peoples throats by way of guilt and shame. Exact same ideological posturing. Its abhorrant; it's pathetic.

[–] boletus@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't think it's irrational to be critical of decisions just because there are worse evils. Whataboutisms don't solve anything, because you basically invalidate any argument with "but rich people have private jets".

You can have more of a bearing on your fellow man than you do on corporate untouchables, so if you want to see change, start with the small stuff.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world -1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

No. That is just rampant stupidity. That is the same as a fat person celebrating eating a salad for lunch while still planning on gorging themselves on chocolate for dinner.

Blaming individual poor person choices IS ALWAYS WRONG in a world with billionares. PERIOD. This is fucking brainless in-fighting because you are too stupid to understand the sheer scale of the world or the rich's impact on it. Genuinely, a pathetic attitude to have and especially to defend.

[–] boletus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago

Cool so I should ignore issues around me because someone else out there is doing much worse. I didn't even mention fighting people over it, I simply believe it's worth discussing and debating these topics, regardless of its relative impact. Without community and localism, culture will vanish, and culture is how things change.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you have a moment to discuss our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ?

🙄

[–] boletus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

I'm good thanks

[–] EndlessApollo@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If you genuinely think vegans are no better than people who want to force me into conversation therapy and ban hormones, you've completely lost the plot. Seriously touch some grass, and stop trivializing the actual dangers of FASCISTS WHO WANT TO FUCKING MURDER PEOPLE EN MASSE by comparing it to feeling hurt by a goddamn lemmy post

[–] EndlessApollo@lemmy.world 0 points 17 hours ago

Big fan of those downvotes, it's very nice knowing y'all think veganism is somehow equivalent to wanting to murder minorities. Seriously yall are fucking ridiculous, look at your goddamn selves and figure out where the fuck you went wrong. The people who want to kill me are worse than vegans, how the actual fuck do you need to be reminded of that? Jesus fucking christ