If I may bring up my experience being a vegan: people don’t like being wrong on a subject. If someone is made to feel like an evil person, even if I explicitly never said anything close to that, their rage metre goes to 100%. I’m sure plenty of non-vegan leftists have similar reactions with other modes of oppression. I’m guessing people get pretty illogical when called a racist or misogynist?

As someone who is also vegan and anti-COVID/anti-letting-pandemics-spread-in-perpetuity, yeah, I think some liberals and even self-identifying leftists feel offended and maybe experience some kind of cognitive dissonance when someone around them is doing an action that is reducing harm more than their own action (assuming they have the capacity to do so, I know masks can be expensive and not in everyone’s budget, and maybe not everyone has access to a local mask bloc, but I digress). And sometimes resort to whataboutisms that are annoying as fuck to justify their own behavior (“You say we should all veganize our lifestyles as much as we practically can, but what about the Inuit, or people with food insensitivities, or people who rely on others for meals?” or “You say we should all be masking, but how do you expect deaf people to understand you with a mask on?”) Acting as though there aren’t alternatives (like speech-to-text apps or even learning ASL) for the latter, and as if I’m specifically asking those specific groups of people to go vegan in the former (emphasis on the “as far as practical” part applies).

Anyways, I’m sorry you’re going through all of that bullshit.

It’s just the seasonal summer flu, trust me bro

COVID is back? I thought it went away? First time I’m hearing this

But seriously, solidarity with anyone out there still trying to protect themself and/or their community, especially if you are surrounded by a bunch of reactionaries who have profound mask trauma from not being able to drink inside a Starbucks for like four weeks in 2020.

Hmm yeah I might need to look into that, thanks

Hell yeah, I salute you, fellow bidet enjoyer

Good advice, will look into the wipes. More fiber is also good advice for all the westerners who eat the standard American diet (or similar), my shits were way worse before I went vegan and started eating all the

Edit: hmm wait I don’t think wipes are considered flushable generally

Despite the knowledge I have of the superior shitting experience, it is apparent I have failed to do the praxis and I do deeply apologize.

I pledge to dedicate my life to making sure every single public toilet has a bidet, thereby making bidets accessible for all in the western world–yes, even for the chuds who can no longer poop properly from their carnivore diets.

It’s just too bad no one has invented a thing that can significantly reduce the transmission of viruses and the likelihood of hospital-acquired infections. Maybe a piece of cloth that can be worn over the face and mandated in medical facilities, for instance.

As long as such a thing doesn’t exist in the present, best to continue open-mouth toddler coughing in public when feeling under the weather, I suppose.

Yep: https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2022/04/13/eating-meat-is-less-morally-acceptable-for-kids-than-adults-finds-study

I went through something similar when I was 10. I stopped eating meat once it fully set in that the chicken on my plate was once a living animal that didn’t have to die. Stayed vegetarian for many years until I went vegan.