• Beaver (she/her)
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    2 months ago

    Every moral panic dies in the end. Vegans will be the next target.

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          2 months ago

          How can you be so depraved, what about children? Did you think about them?

          You probably meant: No animal products, only babies!

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                  2 months ago

                  Well same mechanisms work here as on reddit. If something has -1 points it will just start to accumulate more negative points because of the brain shortcuts and probability

                  That’s why I have them turned off to not influence my judgment if the comment is interesting or not while still benefitting from upvoting posts for visibility

                  The only con is that I don’t see my scores which is a double edged sword because some may upvote/downvote and move on instead of discussing but that is also true with scores.

                  I am only here for valuable discussion really. Getting validation from points stopped being fun a while ago. I could just stick to hacker news I guess and maybe I should

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                    2 months ago

                    Great way to look at it. The vote system is terrible, as you’re absolutely right, so many people will just keep down voting a comment to pile on and not even read anything.

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      They tried that a bit ago with Ted Cruz and the “taking our gas stoves and hamburgers” but it didn’t have much sticking power. It will come around in full strength eventually though.

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        2 months ago

        Republicans love their meat more than they hate transgender people.

        I would love to siphon republicans hate away towards something else. As vegans can fight back hard and will come out on top. Transgender people need to protected at all costs.