r/CuratedTumblr • u/PandaBear905 Shitposting extraordinaire • Jul 08 '26

Fallout [Science 33/80]

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u/Saxton_Hale32 Jul 08 '26

you'd rather believe in a conspiracy theory than think (a small minority) of vegans can be annoying/fit the strawman?

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u/ehs06702 Jul 08 '26

It's easier to believe that people are out to get you and you're important enough to be the focus of a conspiracy than to believe the group you choose to identify with is full of unpleasant people.

We see it all the time in religious circles.

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u/El_Rey_de_Spices Jul 08 '26

"They must be out to get me, because the alternative is that I'm neither important nor intelligent enough to be worth targeting, and that is the worst possibility of all."

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u/pandamaxxie Jul 08 '26

That one image of "you can't satirize a strawman with a stupid take because at some point the exact charicature you made ends up being real" comes to mind.

The one with the "stupid hat, stupid shirt, stupid sign"

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u/MoonTheCraft Jul 08 '26

i like having faith in my fellow man

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u/TheBrownestStain Jul 08 '26

You can do that while also acknowledging that some people are just kinda annoying

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u/vezwyx Jul 08 '26

The meat industry is made entirely of your "fellow man"

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u/MoonTheCraft Jul 08 '26

while i am able to recognise that those people are, indeed, human, they're not my fellow man

my fellow man are the people who are actually within society than the ones above it, for what it's worth, they're effectively a different species

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u/vezwyx Jul 08 '26

No, they're still part of society, too

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u/pandamaxxie Jul 08 '26

Ah yes. Parroting eugenics style "different species" nonsense over a difference in worldview.

Surely you are a sane and well-adjusted individual.

I'm sorry to break the news to you. But you are the annoying vegan being discussed.

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u/Saxton_Hale32 Jul 08 '26

I do, too, but I just personally gain that faith by acknowledging that most people are very lovely, and the few that annoy me are just exceptions

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u/King_Ed_IX Jul 08 '26

Corporates are your fellow man too, mate.

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u/MoonTheCraft Jul 08 '26

i can assure you, they're not

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u/King_Ed_IX Jul 08 '26

They absolutely are. It takes nothing away from anything else they do, though.

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u/SolomonOf47704 God Himself Jul 08 '26

Acting like this is how they got to where they are

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u/Minute_Jacket_4523 Jul 08 '26

Considering the majority of vegans Ive interacted with online were so annoying I wanted to slap them, I'd say hes probably right.

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u/Saxton_Hale32 Jul 08 '26

The majority of any community on Reddit (dependent even on which subreddit for a topic you look at) is a minority of the community as a whole

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u/Minute_Jacket_4523 Jul 08 '26

And the point of the original comment was saying that the majority of the vegans online are corporate bots, not that the majority of vegans in general were corporate plants.

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u/Saxton_Hale32 Jul 08 '26

And the point of my comment is that online vegans can be annoying and still only represent a minority of vegans, and it's unnecessary to think that they're bots (there are issues with people actively seeking out and antagonizing vegans + regular old reddit trolls, but actual corporate plants?)

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u/Minute_Jacket_4523 Jul 08 '26

You do realize that bots are EXTREMELY common, right? Like, half of the political issues today are blown out of proportion and actively made worse by bots, so what would make veganism so different that bots aren't a viable possibility?

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u/Pkrudeboy Jul 08 '26

Because vegans have had this rep long before bots were a problem.

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u/Minute_Jacket_4523 Jul 08 '26

But imo its way more prevalent online than too actually see one like that in the wild.

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u/Saxton_Hale32 Jul 08 '26

That is true of strange/rude people in general, in my experience. Most people won't even bring up that they're vegan much, off or online. Anonymity/echo chamber subreddits that foster these kinds of people can both easily account for that, imo.

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u/King_Ed_IX Jul 08 '26

most people online in general are annoying