• RedAggroBest@lemmy.world
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      I remember seeing this guy somewhere, I wanna say strongman competition? Care to give me a name? Iirc he seemed pretty chill

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        IIRC he’s a world champion, but I can’t remember exactly at what. I want to say there was an arm wrestling champion that was also vegan.

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    Vegans getting offended at a shitpost? Color me surprised, that doesn’t happen on every single post like this.

    Guess I don’t need to check if they sky is still blue.

    Seriously, just cuz y’all are doing more of the right thing doesn’t mean a joke isn’t funny. Learn to take a metaphorical punch and clap back rather than immediately going towards crying about shitposts.

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    I used to own an ice cream shop, and we had vegan ice cream, and a pretty good following for it. I got so I could recognize them as they were walking from their car.

    One quiet day, I saw this older couple start getting out of their car, and I said to my assistant “They’re vegan.” She asked how I knew, and I said “Just look at them, they’re obviously vegan.” She said “But they’re so old.” “You’ll see,” I said.

    They walked in, and the first thing the old guy said was “We hear you have vegan ice cream, we’re vegans!” and I could sense my assistant’s head swivel to look at me in my peripheral vision.

    As I made his ice cream, he went on to tell me how his wife makes vegan steaks so good, I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. Yes, I could.

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    bro vegans are so dumb they’re depriving themselves of key nutrients and become weak and constantly tired.

    that’s wrong, let me prove it to you by climbing the fucking everest

    bro vegans are so annoying and why won’t they shut the fuck up about it

    the carnist intellectuals have come out in force I see

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      Vegans call themselves vegans and they get to call others “carnists”? I’ve been hearing them calling others “meateaters” too. It’s so reductive of people who don’t agree with their ideas.

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          I don’t go over my day calling people names. It’s not hard for me to call them as they want them to be called, and if I don’t know that, they are just people like me.

          • Carnist is a description of someone who has a meat-inclusive diet, other descriptions of people by what they can or cannot eat are e.g. vegan, lactose intolerant, celiac… It’s not a “name” you call someone, it’s a description of someone using a certain aspect of them relevant to the discussion.

            A “name”, as in, something used to insult would be e.g. corpsemuncher, bloodmouth, cheesebreth &c.

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              So, some nonvegan people?

              Edit: Also, that wasn’t the point. Vegans call themselves vegans, nobody is asking them to call others by any name, proper or improper, in vegans’ point of view.

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                The point behind not using “nonvegan” is that it frames carnists as "the normal"s and the “vegans” as the one who have “something special” going on. This is true with celiac and nonceliac, lactose intolerant and not lactose intolerant. But we argue that veganism, i.e. not killing if unnecessary, is the normal thing to do. That the only reason it doesn’t seem that way is because it got normalized through repetition and how widespread it is.

                Nobody is asking to stop the torture of dairy cows &c. other than vegans either so I don’t understand why you think that matters.The point in demonstrating for societal change is precisely doing stuff others aren’t asking for.

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          Most people are apathetic, and a chunk of those are due to ignorance. Calling them carnists likely isn’t helping the cause at all.

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      I think her dying trying is an important part of the point here.

      I don’t agree with it. I’m sure there’s a more nuanced cause of death, but that’s between step 2 and 3.

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        Right I went with the most charitable reading.

        lol stupid vegan dies because we were right about veganism causing malnutrition get owned

        is of course the interpretation that seems the most obvious

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        I’m not sure what you’re trying to say here, you don’t want me to take this “so serious” everyone here is just pretending to be a stereotypical carnist? I’m not surprised at all, why would I be, it’s like this every time a vegan is mentioned.

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    There is no way they were the first vegans in 2016. There have been 100+ ascents per year for decades, should have been around 6000 in total as of 2016.

    Considering the mountain is in a part of the world where significant parts of the population are de-facto vegans without identifying as such, I highly doubt that no one among the 6k people before them was living on a plant based diet

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    No matter my diet, I’m not so sure I’d survive that either. Anyone who’s been up there and found it easy can have a laugh though

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    If this is the same story I’m thinking of, she and her partner wanted to be the first vegans to climb to the top, to show the world that vegans can do it. Coincidentally, another vegan actually did it like 1-2 days before their attempt.

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      Ah, I sincerely hope someone told her during her last dying breaths that she wasn’t the first vegan to climb Mount-Whatever and therefore she didn’t actually need to do it.

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      I have repurposed it for Trump supporters, who ABSOLUTELY NEVER shut the fuck up about being Trump supporters and also are a genuine menace to others where vegans really are not.

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    I’m my experience it’s about a ten to one ratio of people who shit on vegans because they “never shut up about it” vs vegans who actually never shut up about it. So a vegan wanted to show she could climb Mt Everest. She did it, then she died of acute altitude sickness during the descent, something completely unrelated to her diet. Her husband, also vegan, lived. She became one of hundreds of people who have died in that climb, all of whom wanted to prove they could do it. Just let people live their life how they want to. Heaping scorn on someone who died trying to prove themselves isn’t cool.

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      Just let people live their life how they want to

      I’d rather have them not climb the damn mountain though. It’s become a sort of tourist trap -thing (literally), there’s people selling commercial climbings and all. It’s extremely wasteful and them littering the place with all their trash (like extra oxygen tanks) and then with their corpses is disgusting and kind of insulting considering Sagarmatha has some religious significance to locals as well

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      I’m my experience it’s about a ten to one ratio of people who shit on vegans because they “never shut up about it” vs vegans who actually never shut up about it.

      A true testament to how many people they annoy.

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      It’s like right wingers always claiming that gay /trans people are “shoving it down their throat” because they make TV shows for gay people.

      Like for one, no they aren’t. And two, that’s interesting phrasing you’ve chosen.

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        I’m a vegan and I am annoying about it. Like, I’d hope if you sincerely believe in some cause you will be outspoken about it

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          I get the joke, but it’s kind of a shitty joke.

          “Haha, you’ve decided morals are more important than flavour”

          I mean, yeah. It’s an ethical trade-off?

          “Haha, you donated $1 to pay for mosquito nets in third world countries. You’ve decided lives are more important than money”

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            Bro, its a joke. It works too because its clever and subtle. Its meant to make people laugh, not spawn a debate on vegan politics.

            I will say, as a vegan, I thought it was a fantastic joke.

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            mosquito nets in third world countries

            oooohhh…yeah…about those…

            turns out the mosquito nets are devastating local fish populations, because people use them to fish, since they get them as a finished product instead of having to knit nets themselves. and starvation being a bigger immediate threat, they prioritize that over malaria.

            the nets are also laced with toxic chemicals (against the mosquitoes), which are extremely toxic to fish.

            they also have much smaller holes, so they catch the young offspring as well, leading to rapid depletion of stocks.

            so, yeah…good idea in theory, but didn’t turn out so great…

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              It’s a good idea on its own, but the overall issues are more complex and nuanced. Maybe sending some non-toxic fishing nets could help? (Hopefully they’ve thought of this already)