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Re:Americans are increasingly afraid to express themselves h... by manicdee on Monday December 28, 2020 @01:20AM (#25557175)
Vegans are the butt of jokes not for their adherence to a clear and consistent moral code but because of their desire to coerce everyone around them to become vegan too.

I have not noticed as much militant veganism in the last few years, perhaps because the people I associate with are older and wiser, or maybe I am just going deaf.

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Re:Americans are increasingly afraid to express themselves h... by xref on Monday December 28, 2020 @05:02AM (#25558021)
Is this “the gay cabal are grooming our children to be homosexuals” thought train, but against vegans? What’s the point of such broad generalizations/conspiracies?
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Re:Americans are increasingly afraid to express themselves h... by manicdee on Saturday January 02, 2021 @07:18PM (#25618047)
No, this is the “every joke I have heard about vegans deals with their militant evangelism” thought train.

Eg: “if one of your dinner guests is a vegan crossfitter, which do they tell you about first?”

But thank you for your efforts in attempting to mock my argument rather than address it.

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Re:Americans are increasingly afraid to express themselves h... by kthejoker2 on Monday December 28, 2020 @08:16AM (#25558956)
More like the people who love to tell you they're "child-free" or "don't own a TV/smartphone" (or a thousand pro-gun bumper stickers or open-source laptop stickers or punk rock patches . . .

Virtue signaling is like tryinf to help people see in the dark by shining the flashlight you're carrying in their eyes.

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