Was it a one-time sudden realization, a nagging feeling you couldn't get rid of, or a back-and-forth process?

For me, it was 5 or so years of back-and-forth waffling between vegan and "reducitarian/VAH" before a very strong dose of magic mushrooms a few years ago gave me a stern kick in the ass about my own ethics and hypocrisy, which is how I finally stayed vegan. The same trip was the beginning of my political radicalization left as well.

  • CatherineTheSoSo [any]
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    4 years ago

    Incredibly stupid memes on r/vegancirclejerk. I was a vegetarian for quite some time before that though.

      • CatherineTheSoSo [any]
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        4 years ago

        Some of those stupid memes are next level and should probably be studied by people who want to do smart activism. It's like they make enough sense to be convincing but too absurd to trigger defensive reaction you have when you feel like you're being preached to.

        • raven [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Would you share one or two so I can get a better idea what you mean?

          • CatherineTheSoSo [any]
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            4 years ago

            That's actually harder than you'd think. It's been like five years ago, so it's basically from the time when people thought rage comics were the hight of comedy. The sub's content changed with the time and all the "most upvoted of all time" stuff is from this year.

            Look up "vegan sidekick", it was all the rage on the sub at the time. It might look cringe now but it fed me a constant stream of arguments and counterarguments in a form of badly drawn comics and probably worked better than telling me to read articles or to watch Earthlings would.

    • LessNephrons1 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      No joke it was VCJ for me as well. I went from eating meat literally 3 times a day, to overnight vegan. Been more that 2 years since then, never slipped, never been visited by the vegan police.

      Something about people just being like "fuck you stop eating meat" just worked on me idk why.

    • Rodentsteak [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I like VCJ in theory. I got banned recently because I pointed out that finding lonely people on reddit and bullying them for that is pretty scummy though, so they can fuck off and die.

      • CatherineTheSoSo [any]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah. It has this weird fundamentalist streak to it that surfaces ocassionaly. I guess this kind of hyperfocus on individual is a radlib thing.