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[magnetothemagnificent]

The vegan to ecofascist pipeline

[magnetothemagnificent]

Actually I'm going to expand on the steps of the pipeline.

It starts with:

"I want to do something to better the environment". A noble pursuit.

Then, "Large scale animal agriculture is bad for the environment". Accurate statement.

Then, "Therefore, I am going to stop consuming all animal products and biproducts." A lofty goal, but still reasonable. It's not something that's for everyone, but if that's what you want to do to do your part, more power to you.

Then, "If I can do it, so can you." Inaccurate. The human body is suited ideally for an omnivorous lifestyle. While the human body is very adaptable, its adaptability varies from person to person, and not everyone is able to subsist off of a vegan lifestyle.

Then, "People who don't follow my lifestyle are maliciously contributing to climate change." We're going into dangerous 'us vs. them' territory now. Now everyone who consumes animal products and biproducts even utilyzes large-scale animal agriculture, and there are myriad of reasons for someone to not be vegan. Personal lifestyle choices are also a distraction from the larger issue at hand, which is that corporations contribute the most to climate change, and blaming yourself and other individuals is a distraction.

Then, "Human beings are responsible for climate change. Humans are inherently destructive." False. Corporations and industrialization is responsible for climate change. Humans are inherently neutral, and for the most part are actually good.

Then, "If there were less people on this Earth, we would have less climate change and pollution." And there we are. At the ecofascism finish line.

Not every vegan ends up at the ecofascist finish line. Many vegans stay comfortably on the third rung of the ladder, focusing on their own personal boundaries and lifestyle choices. However, as soon as you dip your toes into the "if I can do it, so can you" mentality, that's when the ball begins rolling down the slippery slope of ecofascism.

As soon as you begin forcing your lifestyle onto other people, that's when it becomes dangerous.

[wellwaterhysteria]

i'm an expert opinion haver when it comes to films by the way. for instance when i see a bad movie i tend to shake my head and think like. well why didn't they make a good movie instead. but not everyone is smart enough to think like this.

[anexperimentallife]

[grox]

[parkchanwoohoo]

Tobacco propaganda worked so well on me, I think smoking is so hot. This is easily one of the top 7 most cringe things I find sexy, just totally manufactured by some dipshit Marlboro ad exec in a dipshit lab somewhere. My only saving grace is that abs do nothing for me

[scripps]

many are asking this

[engulfes]

HATE when you’re inserting your email somewhere and literally from the first letter the website is like “invalid email address” like yes i know. I’m typing it right now. My email address is obviously not just the letter ‘m’. Stop

[joshpeck]

obsessed

[captoring]

[namcoarcade]

[shiny-ebooksremade35p06787-blog]

i want a relationship like this 

[girlmostlikely]

[pathologising]

[spleen9000]

I think one thing I really didn't get when I was like 20 is that "small talk" is often a way for people to hint at the bigger deeper things that are going on with them without overloading someone. like it can be an invitation and a chance to test the waters before launching into things that it may or may not be the appropriate time/place/person to talk about those things with.

like when someone asks "how are you," you don't have to respond with "good," but it also isn't necessarily a good context to go straight to "I keep flipping my shit at people I love because I can't regulate my emotions and I'm afraid of them dying or abandoning me," plus if someone isn't used to broaching that kind of topic at the beginning of an interaction it gives them a chance to develop the kind of comfortability to be able to talk about that stuff. some people will reach that point sooner than others, whether it's over 10 minutes or multiple years.

also, I've realized that it's a shame to dismiss talking about things besides our deepest troubles as being meaningless. human connection is meaningful even if it is just about the weather or how our family or our favorite sports team is doing, and knowing how someone feels about these supposedly surface topics tells us a lot about eachother that can be applied to topics you may consider more personal or impactful, and forming that foundation with someone is absolutely not something to be pushed aside as trivial.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Small talk is social calibration. You calibrate a system before you use it for intense or precise work.

[anotherknifeinmyhands]

"EVERYONE IS BEAUTIFUL TO THE POINT OF STERILE UNFUCKABILITY. " 1 . // 2. // 3. // 4.

[dimir-charmer]

Girls will be like Idk why im so unproductive recently and then you ask whats going on in their life and they list eight lifestopping crisies and then say 'yeah but i should be fine :/ '

[lizzibennet]

honestly really hate how most of the people i follow on social media now “act” like influencers. how my friends will pose in the most outlandish poses i know they didn’t come up with and how they will film their hotel stays and beach vacation days and post it to their stories with some shitty dubstep over it like they’re filming an ad or something. how one of my friend groups gathered at this bar instead of the other because “this one will give us better pics” honestly just hate all of it

[lizzibennet]

not to sound like a boomer but i miss the pictures in vacations where people would just go \o/ you know? like they literally just went “yay i’m here!” i miss that. i miss seeing the kind of pics like shitty pics my mom took of the inside of her hostel when she backpacked through europe not because she wanted to show anyone but because she wanted to remember it or the random shots of chairs and posters she just thought looked cool. i miss taking pictures with people and not thinking about my angles. i miss just doing things without performing them

[lizzibennet]

to be clear this isn’t me dunking on any my friends or anyone that does this, it’s not the people that bother me it’s the cultural phenomenon. i just hate that it feels like there is one “right” way to experience things now and if you don’t do it then your experiences aren’t as valid

[guccixcucci]

Blaming random African aunties just feeding their families and not the billionaires literally setting the world on fire sure is something

[guccixcucci]

Yeah alright