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The federation drama really drives home the fact that liberals despise anyone and everyone with better politics than themselves. They want a monopoly on "being good" and being shown up enrages them. (hexbear.net)

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Every liberal does it too, from center right radlibs to far-right "conservatives": the most extreme right fringe liberals hate the mainstream liberals for not being bigoted enough, the mainstream libs hate the radlibs for not being cruel enough, and the radlibs hate the left for not being chauvinist enough.

Denouncing chauvinism in particular is like a liberal moral event horizon, a cardinal sin against their self-interested belief in the righteousness of the imperial hegemon that keeps the treats flowing at gunpoint.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

People were mad at the vegan comm because they were aggressive and confrontational dicks to everyone on the site while using the patina of veganism as an excuse.

Its why most of those very same vegans are all mostly banned off the website for their behaviors.

Its one thing to advocate for veganism, its another thing to for example call someone a “r*pe enjoyer” to a sexual assault victim for drinking milk in a thread completely unrelated to veganism.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its one thing to advocate for veganism, its another thing to for example call someone a “r*pe enjoyer” to a sexual assault victim for drinking milk in a thread completely unrelated to veganism.

Hexbear, pondering how it is perceived on other instances: wonder-who-thats-for

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

yeah, the defederation drama is probably a good opportunity for self-crit

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ngl I kinda miss the chaos vegans

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They certainly made the website spicier

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thus of olde: get that slave labor out of my face, bloodmouth!

Thus now: uwu wat a nice looking honey biscut, no thanks, I don’t want one…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Begone bloodmouth thyne impure imbument habitations are foule, a blasphemy against creation and cause many ill portents for our beastly companions

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Its one thing to advocate for veganism, its another thing to for example call someone a “r*pe enjoyer” to a sexual assault victim for drinking milk in a thread completely unrelated to veganism.

I may have missed the worst of that; I wouldn't have said that myself.

I had not seen any recent examples of that, but the "vegan spoke up, how uncivil" thing percolates from time to time without anything near the insult you mentioned.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It was pretty much the only other experience with meeting other vegans on this site tbh, I was legit excited about more vegans being on the site…up until they started posting lol.

Some hilariously unhinged statements did come from them like:

Hunger isn't a real thing. It doesn't exist. If you make conscious decisions about what to eat based on an informed view of nutrition, you will still feel hungry. It's not some magic signal telling you that you're not getting enough nutrients, it's a dumb feeling that exists in your head. You ignore it, and it goes away. The feeling of hunger cannot harm you.

and

Delusions may or may not go away if you ignore them, I have no idea, I'm not knowledgeable on that topic. What I can tell you for sure is that hunger does go away when you ignore it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was pretty much the only other experience with meeting other vegans on this site tbh, I was legit excited about more vegans being on the site…up until they started posting lol.

I'm kind of glad I either tuned it out or was just not in those subsections. I believe you when you say that happened and I remember some vegans talking about the mass bans and not liking those, but the context of what got them banned was lost.

Hunger isn't a real thing. It doesn't exist. If you make conscious decisions about what to eat based on an informed view of nutrition, you will still feel hungry. It's not some magic signal telling you that you're not getting enough nutrients, it's a dumb feeling that exists in your head. You ignore it, and it goes away. The feeling of hunger cannot harm you.

wtf-am-i-reading

Delusions may or may not go away if you ignore them, I have no idea, I'm not knowledgeable on that topic. What I can tell you for sure is that hunger does go away when you ignore it.

galaxy-brain

I appreciate the quoted bits of Hexbear history. Maybe some of the site's cultural reactions toward vegans are more than lingering reddit-logo cliches. Unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I actually saw that comment first hand and it was in the middle of a thread I was in and I got so fuckin mad. As someone who has been food insecure myself for most of my life and currently cannot afford a kitchen and will be hungry till I get to work and heat up my little bowl of 3 bean chili honestly seriously fuck that person that said that and I am glad they are gone.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I remember that last bit haha

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah I remember getting those replies when I started talking about how hard it was for me to eat enough, so I empathised with those who had the opposite issue.

Only to be told hunger isn't real lmao