Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don’t come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don’t really get upset by it IRL

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    6 months ago

    Except you don’t see atheists throwing a tantrum. So not like atheism at all.

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      6 months ago

      if you think internet atheists can’t be just as obnoxious as internet vegans you clearly haven’t been around enough of them.

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        6 months ago

        To be pendantic, the vocal atheists are more specifically antitheists as in they are opposed to theism, not just someone who doesn’t believe.

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        6 months ago

        The common denominator is the internet part though. The last obnoxious atheist I saw was 14, and I have yet to see an obnoxious vegan IRL

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            6 months ago

            That’s your example? A sub being the default on Reddit? That’s equal to protests in the streets by vegans to you?

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              6 months ago

              As an example of internet atheists being as obnoxious as internet vegans, yes that’s my example.

              Edit: with regards to the content it was posting back when it was a default, not the fact that it was a default

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                Atheists highlighting religious atrocities is very annoying, yes. Imagine just doing you thing, raping kids and murdering people for not believing in your religion and someone posting on Reddit about it. So annoying!

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      6 months ago

      Get real. Every single group that lives outside the heteronormative, christian nationalist banner has fit-throwers. Saying that there aren’t those atheists but certainly are those vegans is as dumb as any other half-baked argument out there.

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              6 months ago

              You know if you do the same for “atheists protest” tons of shit pops up too. Even ones without Megan Kelly. You position is so flimsy and yet you still are digging in. You are a reply away from “do your own research”. Embattled ideology always comes with protest. The absolute unmitigated smugness that one group of people are more annoying than another based on their ideology is problematic at best and at worst, you are a pube away from wearing a red hat and diapers.

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                6 months ago

                You make me reconsider if I am on the right side of this, you are such an asshole that you drive people away from thinking of using trump as an insult

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                  6 months ago

                  Looking at your comment history I’m right. You cheesy fuck. Do you have a red hat? I think you might. Hope you enjoy your meat lovers pizza as you try to wax on about vegan and atheist activism. That’s some real alpha shit.

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                    There’s nothing wrong with being a vegan or an atheist, no one has a problem with 99.9% of them and they are entitled to their life choices.

                    The alpha theory was disproven years ago and the ones that need to be alphas have their own issues to handle.

                    The pizza was delicious though, thank you!

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          6 months ago

          Opposition to religious monuments on public grounds. They are low key and the only violence, vandalism, or public disturbances come from religious folks.