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About a year ago, communism. This is what I’d say was the tipping point in which I began to see the world differently.

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Damn, and you almost picked the cool, not tankie kind of communism too.

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I’d like to throw in social-democracy, too… It’s more popular to go for one of the extremes while forming a strong opinion… But caring for the people and more for the workers than for the rich is a possibility whithout going to the extreme.

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My issue with social democracy is that it still relies on the exploitation of the global south. I can’t care for only the workers of my nation. You should watch the video, it has a lot to do with that.

There was once a time when I too idolozed the nordic model

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16:42 extremely interesting quote. Thanks for linking

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Always made fun of vegans but then I actually looked into nutrition and how we don’t need to eat animals to be healthy. Yeah… So if I only eat them for taste, why the fuck would I want to kill them? Was a pretty big but also instant switch in my head.

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I don’t have a problem with veganism. I love eating vegetables, and enjoy plenty of meals without any animal products. What I could do without is the vegan products that imitate animal products. I am so much happier with a vegetable “burger” that embraces the taste of vegetables instead of one that tries to mimic the taste, texture and appearance of beef.

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Well good news, you don’t need to buy them :] and these products just existing shouldn’t be a problem to you, right?

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Their existence actually does inconvenience me. They have taken space at the grocery store that used to be used for things I purchased, and some restaurants that used to have pretty good veggie burgers changed to impossible/beyond which I prefer less and also disagrees with my stomach.

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For the most part, you are right, and I’ll acknowledge that how I worded that it sounded more complain-y than I really meant to. If anything I was trying to say that I thought it seems silly that things like that exist, and not that I have a big problem with it.

That said, I don’t buy those products, but they still work their way into my life. If you have a vegan in your circle of friends or go out with one you’ll eventually find yourself at a vegan pizza place, or being offered vegan “bacon” with breakfast.

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I changed my mind about arguing with vegans on the internet. enjoy your vegetables.

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Veganism. I went vegetarian and stayed there for a long time, and I assumed taking the extra step to being vegan would be too difficult relative to what I thought at the time was a marginal benefit. A couple years back, I watched the documentary Dominion (NSFL) and realized pretty quickly that I’d been mistaken. Of course it was more than just Dominion, but it’s such an acutely traumatizing kick in the teeth that it was definitely the last straw.

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Trump almost getting shot. I used to think the cia where experts in heigh level assassinations. Now im concerned they couldn’t afford a second shooter.

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An expert can only go by what they can observe. The suspect kept things rather vague up until the incident. Also, he wasn’t a professional, which what an agency fears a step above anyone else.

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you get the muntedcrocodile is making fun by implying that it was a cia plot, yeah?

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Oh… I thought they were saying the CIA weren’t experts in finding potential assassins.

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