The whole question of double standards is in a sense, asking about common unhealthy traits

It’s not entirely on you. Accusing you of mansplaining is not cool, she should’ve just said something like “i’m sharing this because I’m looking for emotional support, not solutions, so please stop trying to solve my problems when I’m just venting”.

In a sense, how people react to having problems shared with them is a cultural difference, neither is right or wrong but they can be jarring and confusing when you’re used to one culture but interact with a different one. But it’s not fair to just assume the other culture is acting in bad faith

Is it dihydrogen monoxide?

If you didn’t realize the importance of privacy after the patriot act and seeing the continuation of right wing authoritarianism, it’s definitely time to get on board asap. Get yourself and your community on signal instead of texts and tuta or proton instead of regular email, use a vpn (mullvad or proton are solid), and depending on what kinds of actions you may or may not be interested in, learn how to use tails os and tor (try to find a copy of the darknetmarket bible for a good intro)

Edit: simplex is a good alternative to signal too, and if you have a google pixel, grapheneos is solid. Next time you’re getting a new phone, get a used pixel and install it. On your computer, there’s a lot of telemetry and sketchy stuff windows does, either research and disable that or switch to linux if you can

Taking a life for pleasure is abuse, and I’d bet a lot of money that nobody reading this actually needs to eat animals to survive

If we’re only allowing people who don’t abuse animals at the olympics, does that mean it’ll be all vegan this year?? 🤞

Most people “making a funny” about vegans are at the same level of humor as conservatives joking about lgbt+ folks. There’re like 5 “jokes” that get parroted which weren’t even funny in the first place. If you’re gonna joke about it at least be actually funny

Yeah same can be said of the military industrial complex. Welcome to lemmy, most people here hate the government

Yo control your router lol (freshtomato or openwrt or something might be good options)

What are you even saying? The meme isn’t comparing being vegan to watching dog fights, and the reason I used that analogy is because a lot of ethical vegans see not being vegan as similarly bad to watching dog fights, since both support unnecessary cruelty to other animals. Since most people are against watching dog fights, the analogy helps people see the meme from the perspective an ethical vegan sees it.

Your lack of ability to understand what’s being said would be easier to dunk on lol also this meme isn’t really targeted at changing minds I don’t think 🤷

the “but…” implies they have started doing the gross thing again. Imo it’s worse if someone recognizes something is bad, stops, then starts doing it again, they’re no longer ignorant but they still choose to do the bad thing

Imagine instead of vegan, the caption was like “my daughter tells me you watch dog fights on the weekend” and the guy says “well I stopped going to them but…”

It’s a huge red flag if someone saw how fucked up animal agriculture is and understood why animal exploitation is wrong, stopped supporting it, and then went back to supporting it. So the logic makes sense, that’s something that’s actually worth not wanting someone to date your child for, and it’s funny cause it’s not the stereotype of “parent vetoing childs partner” at all

If one boot has poison tipped cleats and the other doesn’t, and you can choose between the two without impeding other efforts to get rid of the boots altogether, yeah 🤷

Being vegan is the “just sane” response to learning what we do to animals and the impact animal agriculture has on the environment 🤷

i’d bet a lot of money that the Standard American Diet (SAD) is a lot less healthy than the standard vegan diet