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  • So, here we are.

    You said your piece, and it turns out you’re completely wrong in your assumptions, and instead of addressing that fact, and re-engageing me, you’ve ignored what I replied with. You stroked your ego initially by not engaging with me and addressing every one else in the thread, in a very shallow way I might add, but I do wonder how your ego is doing now? This is a potential learning point for you, but only you can decide to become better than the person you were a few days ago. I do hope.

    Maybe you’ve just learnt the term sealioning, and it’s your word of the week. You might carry on lambasting people based on your misguided interpretations, but I have hope you’ll one day think critically about this interaction, and move forward with a new understanding.

    I’ll go out on a limb and assume you’re American, young, and just immature and naive enough to think you have all the answers, which from my experience leaves you an “all or nothing” attitude, and so everything is a fight for you.

    Unable to see nuance in conversation, especially over the Internet where context is very easily mistaken, I’ll give you some friendly, human to human advice; sometimes people just want to learn, and not everything is a fight you have to take.

    Based on the aggressive tone of your comment, seeing a legitimate question as a perceived slight at best, you might already be set in your ways.

    To put it bluntly, you saw that you should gatekeep a learning moment for someone else, probably more or less on your side, trying to understand the nuance of the conversation.

    I read something on here that makes a lot of sense to me, and so I’ll repeat it here. The America DEI mentality is anything but inclusive, and is very confrontational to the point of working against what it’s supposed to defend.

    I recommend you read Aldous Huxleys:The island, and try to understand that compassion, not baseless vitriol, is the way we progress as a species.

    If you take anything away from this, coming from someone far further along the left leaning path you’re quite clearly on, to me you’re just as bad as the people you vilify, such as the police in America. Your reaction without due cause is just as bad as theirs, thankfully you haven’t nearly the power or influence they have, and if you are truly are as liberal as you think you are, I believe you’re at least on the right path, even if your delivery and methods are synonymous with the right.

    I wish you the best for the future.

    Yours sincerely, the biggest advocate for a true functional utopia you’ll ever have the pleasure of interacting with, online or in person.

    Peace.


  • Well then, here we go…

    These stupid fucking liberals have no plan for what to do after the police are removed

    I have no idea what the outcome would be, I’m pretty new to this line of thinking so I thought if I ask someone I might get an answer I can move forward with. But what is the plan? Again, genuinely asking because I want to learn.

    So let’s ask them what do we do afterward?

    Well yeah, what else do I do if I want to engage and learn?

    Then we either deconstruct every answer they provide or call them out on having no answer

    I promise you, I couldn’t begin to deconstruct any answer, because this is literally the first time I’ve engaged in this line of thinking. I’m from the UK, haven’t had the best experience with police myself, and due to some inherent distrust of self proclaimed authority without boundaries, it’s in my interest to be aware of the options for the future.

    Then disingenuously dismiss the idea of getting rid of police as ill thought out and immature when we never had any intention of conceding the point to begin with, because we want police to continue subjugating and abusing people, because we are bigots

    I’ve not got a point to concede, it’s completely my opinion, based on my knowledge of current society that we need them for some sort of order.

    The only answer I can give you here is I read Aldous Huxley:The island when I was younger, and it shaped the way I think to some degree. As idyllic an idea he portrays, the island Pala, I’ve been living in accordance with the principles he writes about, and leading by example. It’s caused me mental anguish for 2 decades that humanity is moving in the opposite direction, been called a dreamer and utopian thinker by some friends I’ve grown up with, and since distanced myself from them, cultivating friends and connections that can see the potential of humanity. I’ve identified how much of the world is wrapped up in a selfish attitude towards their own life, and I’ve felt like I’m fighting a losing battle for 20+ years, I’m an absolute wreck because of it, my life is in shambles because I’m let down again and again, day after day, year after year, decade after decade.

    Because their justification for having police is:

    My justification for having police is based on my life having police in it, nothing more. I’m saying here that I want the world aldous writes about, regarding Pala. I’ve been striving for it, but every sign has shit on my thought that we COULD have that world, and I’m a mental breakdown machine because the reality is a select few have propagated the idea that selfishness is king, and the rest of humanity is on board. I will say I do believe certain institutions are beneficial, such as education, healthcare, scientific institutions (so that we better understand the universe we find ourselves in). But I’m a complete noob when it comes to talking about this, so I could be missing the mark, I don’t KNOW. Its just my opinion.

    And ignoring the fact that bootlickers like him are deeply insulting the intelligence of everyone else in the discussion and this clown is clearly NOT being nice at all because he’s advocating for your brutal subjugation under the jackboot of sadistic racists that only want to bully, abuse, rape and murder you, other individuals have already answered the question effectively, so why am I going to entertain scum like him?

    I’m sorry if I insulted yours and everyone else’s intelligence by asking, but even now, I’m not looking for a fight in this. I was trying to be diplomatic in my question, if not overly open to learning about it, and with my lack of knowledge in this area I’ve clearly engaged in the wrong way. Whether it be the way I asked, or if I may say, you’ve encountered so many disingenuous people regarding this, which I can believe, you aren’t used to people being genuine. I really don’t mean to offend in saying that. I’m vegan (how do you know someone’s vegan? meme on me idc) and I’ve sometimes found myself being reactionary to genuine questions about “plant feel pain” etc, that I’ve initially disregarded people, before they’ve told me they read it somewhere and they don’t really know what to believe, and so are asking for my take.

    If you can point me to other individuals that have answered effectively, I’ll read and read and read before I engage again. You’ve written me off as scum, but I’ve not written you off, because I’m not that guy. I’m not the guy to read what you put and take offense, or want to push back, or ignore your harsh words, however incorrect, and further an agenda opposing yours. I’m more than likely that one guy, in a sea of selfish fucks you’ve encountered, that is just trying to learn about how we can get to Pala.

    How about instead of wasting our time sealioning to push a line of reasoning designed to manipulate our fears and put down our self esteem and self worth in order to convince us to accept an obviously failed institution that causes nothing but harm and abuses us in horrific ways, you take your fake attitude and go fuck yourself with it?

    I’ve not designed anything, it was pure sincerity. I’m not trying to manipulate you. On that note, I read Richard Dawkins:the selfish gene at 13 years old. My first job at 15 was in retail In a high end department store. I was trained to sell stuff, up-sell everything I could, and make some already rich fuck even more money, while I was grafting my ass off for ~£3.50 an hour (2005) I came across the concept of social engineering around the same time and realised I had a choice, I can socially engineer people to benefit me, or socially engineer people to benefit themselves. And as a dumb af 16 year old, I related it back to the selfish gene. Selfishness, or altruism. I have a choice, and chose altruism. That’s the only manipulation I do (I’m a human living in this world, so I’m not perfect)

    I grew up in a good home, with a mother that I can honestly say, in my hyperbolic opinion, is love incarnate. She poured so much love into me that when I grew up and started to think for myself, I realised I’m so fucking alone in this fight that I have to be the example and give that love back to whoever I can, and whoever needs it. I’ve been fucked over and over for giving pieces of myself to bring other people up, just to be abandoned by the same people, that I’m a shell of a human, still trying to get to Pala.

    I’m sorry for the essay, I didn’t expect to be writing all this. You call out my “fake attitude” and said “go fuck yourself with it”. There’s no need, because the world had fucked me for 2 decades now, because of my real attitude.

    I hope you respond with an answer to my initial question, or at the very least, check your assumptions.

    If you’re reaction to reading all this is “he can’t be serious, no one is like this, he must be talking the biggest amount of bullshit to save face”

    I am serious. I am like this. Because if I give up now, I might as well top myself.

    Peace.

    Edit: I’ll give you a day to reply. If you don’t, I’ll give my opinion on you, because that’s all you have. An opinion. Based on speculation from past experiences in your life, I’m willing to give you the benefit of the doubt, even when that same grace wasn’t offered me. And your opinion is very misguided.




  • Smirk@sh.itjust.workstoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldTime to grow up.
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    9 months ago

    …because I’m accusing you of speaking incoherently?

    If that’s what you believe, that’s OK.

    Instead of just insulting me, why don’t you try harder to explain what you mean?

    Sorry if you feel I insulted you…? You’re trying to have a debate here, I’m not. That’s it. Get over it, move on with your life. Or keep me in your head rent free idm. If you can’t read between the lines, and see the bigger picture, there are future vegans that will see, and then act, as I did.

    Whatever your goal, you either know what you’re doing, or don’t, isn’t my concern, and it’s apparant from the off that your anti vegan stance comes before anything worth responding to. That’s why my engagement with you is low. Others will see through it (intended or not).

    If you need to feel the thrill of a win, here you go.

    You’d actually make a brilliant case study on anti vegan rhetoric ngl.

    Here’s my disengagement kiss. X


  • Smirk@sh.itjust.workstoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldTime to grow up.
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    9 months ago

    At this point I think you’re either an anti vegan bot/troll, an animal agriculture shill, or just someone so enraptured in the decision they’ve made, before ever really thinking, that I genuinely feel sorry about what got you to this point.

    You’d made your mind up ages ago, yet you’re still looking for my attention… So yeah, either bot/troll, shill, or dogmatic to the point you’re blind to how you come across.

    Peace.


  • Smirk@sh.itjust.workstoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldTime to grow up.
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    9 months ago

    You said it yourself, but yeah you do misunderstand.

    Like I said it’s not meant for people like you. It’s meant for people who I don’t need to convince that what we unnecessarily do is wrong, you’ll feel it if you have the empathy, and that’s entirely on you and your morality bro.

    The people this will reach and make think, will tell people what needs to be done, and even when they know, and don’t want to do it because irrelevant reasons, they STILL do what needs to be done, because compassion.

    If you don’t get it, it’s OK! It’s not meant to “be got” by you.

    Take care, try be better bro x







  • I advocate for widespread prolonged de-use and eventually abolition of animals as objects in societies that don’t need to.

    What you’ve amounted to saying is “if the world can’t be 100% vegan, why try?”

    Let’s try this then-

    Me: “respect women”

    Misogynist: "You realize we don’t want to do that, and aren’t going to, right?

    Unless both you and I agree on regulation, misogyny will continue uncontested.

    I think we need better regulation, do you? Are you willing to accept that I won’t become a feminist, and take the compromise of continued sexism with strict punishment for female abuse?"

    Or this one’s good-

    Me: “don’t be racist”

    Racist: "You realize we don’t want to do that, and aren’t going to, right?

    Unless both you and I agree on regulation, racist will continue uncontested.

    I think we need better regulation, do you? Are you willing to accept that I won’t become a non-racist, and take the compromise of continued racism with strict punishment for lynching?"

    If the feminist movement met up against people saying what you’re saying, what do you think their response would be?

    And similarly, what would MLK say to you?

    No, before you call out my comparison, I’m not comparing racism to sexism to animal abuse. I’m comparing the rhetoric used to defend the acts themselves. And it’s awfully similar.

    In summation; I choose consistency in my morality, based on this: if the topic is different, but my rhetoric to justify is the same, check my biases.

    People are just simply inconsistent with their justifications, mainly due to detachment from the reality.




  • Smirk@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@lemmy.mlStay in school
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    11 months ago

    Annnnnd you just went full PETA on me.

    What does this mean? If you can’t challenge what I put, and resort to ad hominim, this is just textbook anti peta parroting whatever supports your narrative…

    I’m a huge animal lover

    Oh awesome me too! How long have you been vegan? :)

    Yeah I’ll be honest, i thought exactly the same as you about PETA before going vegan. But if you’re vegan, you’re intent on reducing the suffering of animals right? So it’s not too much of a leap to imagine a world where the people with the most money and the most to lose have orchestrated an incredibly effective smear campaign.

    I’m giving you the benefit of doubt and assuming you’re here in good faith. As a fellow vegan, you must understand the commodification of sentient beings is absolutely unnecessary in 2023



  • Smirk@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@lemmy.mlStay in school
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    11 months ago

    The AKC isn’t the bastion of good you’re making it out to be. They quite literally haven’t got the dogs interest at the forefront of their minds, but the amount of campaigns and disinformation throughout the years has made people like yourself blindly support them because Idk, dogs are cute and everyone should have one?

    No. I don’t think dogs are for our enjoyment, and as long as ACK sees them as objects for us, I can’t take you seriously in saying they care about the welfare and rights of dogs.

    You’re either being massively disingenuous (which makes sense with the fact you didn’t read the info I posted), you genuinely believe that kennel clubs are ethical, or you’re the PR account for AKC lol.

    Dogs are objects in our society. They are bred and bought, and those that aren’t wanted are thrown away. That is wrong.