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I guess in the end the question is, does it really effect us? Unlike you I haven't seen any demonstration or personally had to waste time/energy to deal with some of the OTT rhetoric. Regarding your point on online communities...In general the internet has normalized radical thinking in addition to ideas that were previously considered outlandish. Keeping politics out of it for a moment, whatever your belief system is or whatever specific fetish, xyz flat earth theory - you will be able to find a community that will back your idea and bring positive reinforcement to a notion that would have previously been given no thought.
a bit of a strange situation here, because vegans are pushing for healthier and more moral food. and we're all receiving the tertiary effect, like non-union members getting fringe benefits. overall i'm fine with vegans, i have a few close friends that are vegan. my real contention is with the anti-hunters, not only because im a hunter and it hurts my feelings but also because of opportunity lost. put the groups together and we can better combat factory farming, the real enemy. the protesters are a bit annoying, but they cant come on private property. so they dont effect me all that much. i chose to engage more out of boredom and curiosity than anger. one sign read "meat is murder", so i wanted to see what they were about. part of me is only mad at militant vegans because they do some harm to their own movement, that behavior irks me even when i dont support the aims of the group. too many years playing strategy games have made my incapable of ignoring a bad strategy in play.
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Sad irony that as powerful an invention the internet may be, I would argue it is the foundation of anti-intellectualism
fuckin A right bud.
Quote (SBD @ May 24 2018 02:10pm)
No humour? Wife must be as dry as her cereal.
i just didn't find the joke premise funny. i dont actually want you to chose to get thrown down the stairs, a surprise push when your hands are in your pockets would be way more funny.
This post was edited by thesnipa on May 24 2018 02:22pm