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Thinking about it, it is strange that such extremist behavior seems so prevalent around here. In the real world, I haven’t heard much like this since the Australian couple that malnourished their puppies years ago. They displayed the same level of smugness the whole time.

On the fediverse, however, it seems like I see someone yelling “carnist rapist murderer” every couple of days. I’m honestly starting to think that there actually might be some kind of corpo-backed false-flag going on here, it’s so extreme and constant. There are people in this thread alone who are so extreme it reaches the point of parody.

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papertowels@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Let’s be honest, Lemmy is not a good sample of the general population. We’re all atypical in one way or another, it makes sense that niche extremism concentrates here.

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MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Ah yes, Big Tomato is funding an anti-meat lobby on Lemmy.

The actual logical explanation you’re missing is that you’ve been propagandized so you think murder is normal, and being against murder is extremist.

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- Ganbat@lemmyonline.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Aaaaand you’ve willfully ignored what I’ve said so you can do more grandstanding. This is precisely what I’m referring to. Your first sentence shows that you didn’t even grasp what I said in the slightest.
  
  For context, I was saying that meat corporations were paying trolls to make vegans look like loons and idiots, the exact opposite of what you’ve claimed.
  
  I can think of two possible reasons for your complete failure at a response.
  First, because you felt the slightest opposition to your position, even if the opposition is only to your methods, was a personal attack, or second, because I nailed it, called you out, and you felt you needed to cover your ass. And based on the complete disconnect between my comment actually said and the ignorant content of your own, I’d say the latter is entirely possible.
  
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  - MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Damn, you caught me. Yep, I’m a paid shill for the meat industry. I’m trying to trick you into eating lots of meat. Please don’t go vegan, it would be so bad for our shareholder value.
    
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    Ganbat@lemmyonline.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    
    Making my point
    
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spujb@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I agree with your first paragraph 🧡

Second paragraph is a reach. I think it’s just a symptom of online toxicity, as in people feel enabled to do verbal abuse when they can’t see the person on the other side of the screen. You don’t need to stoop to the false flag accusations to see the cause, it’s literally just the same setting that brings about all uniquely online abuse.

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tomi000@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Ive been thinking about that and I have a theory that most of those “extremist vegans” are people trying to make others hate vegans. Im not positive this is true but it makes more and more sense to me.

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