79 points

love that this guy’s pivoting to just getting anti vegan brownie points by passing laws that effectively do nothing except inconvenience soy milk companies, really hitting all the boxes on the grifter arc bingo

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“Capitalism breeds innovation…unless your products are done to accomodate a certain unpopular moral lifestyle, then we will use the government to sabotage you to protect our already established capitalists!”

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They’ve done this in the UK. It’s all oat drink, and soy drink, because animal product consumers are so fragile they hate the thought of people enjoying things that don’t include animal products.

They tried to ban veggie sausages from being called sausages FFS…

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They tried to ban veggie sausages from being called sausages

It’s so wild that they can brand their mystery meat tubes whatever the fuck they want, like, in my country you can call a sausage a “veal liver sausage” if there is 0% actual baby cow liver inside, but the monent you call a sausage-shaped piece of soy with a common sausage spice mix that’s supposed to be prepared like a sausage anfd that tastes so similar to sausage that i don’t want to eat it a “veggie sausage”, you’ve crossed a red line and are “misleading the consumer” because they could accidentally buy murder-free treats.

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It’s so fuckin’ weird, just reminds me of how cheesemakers back in the day demanded that American cheese be referred to as embalmed cheese

Processed cheese was the compromise

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29 points

embalmed cheese

Idk seems pretty appropriate to me.

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18 points

When margarine was first introduced, dairy farmers lobbied against allowing it to be colored yellow to look like butter so the margarine manufacturers had to include a little packet of yellow food dye and you had to mix it in yourself.

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I agree with this. I understand why everything was branded as a meat replacement, but that just lead to the promise of meat taste and texture that I don’t think has ever been satisfyingly achieved. “Oat drink” tells you what you’re getting so your average meat-pilled flesh-maxxer doesn’t feel betrayed. It can be enjoyed on it’s own merits.

That was my experience when I was veggie for a few years; Meat substitutes weren’t good substitutes and I didn’t start to enjoy them until I learned to appreciate them on their own merits.

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If you buy oat milk and expect some sort of cow milk you should lose your driving license

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The trick to vegan cooking is to not focus on what is “missing”

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I’m all for product labelling being accurate and not misleading consumers but no person in their right mind is going to buy something that says “soy milk” on the label, expecting to get a dairy-based product.

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Veggie Sausages…I have some of those. Cheers!

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: “We are WASPs! We are the master race and genetically superior to you in every way! Sorry, but the Bell Curve sez Im a genius!”

Also : “Someone rename vegan sausages to something other than sausages! I’m too stupid to know they’re not made of meat and therefore that’s everyone’s problem!”

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This qualifies Fetterman as an offically cartoonish clown.

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/549/text?s=1&r=29

Defending Against Imitations and Replacements of Yogurt, milk, and cheese to Promote Regular Intake of Dairy Everyday

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You can’t just skip entire words for the sake of an acronym! I’m irrationally angry at this!

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nah, complete reddit backronym: it was only ever officially called the “Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal”, people just wanted to work it into ARMBAR because of Jericho’s list of 1004 holds

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Like it’s doubly stupid because it gives up the ghost that the only reason it’s being discussed is that the people making this bill have an axe to grind against vegan alternatives, and “promote regular intake of dairy”? For most of the world, that’s zero.

I’m tired of hearing sob stories about dairy company owners and how they need “our help” but it’s suddenly “handouts are for the weak” when I suggest that maybe we should look into making housing or education or medicine or even food NOT luxury goods.

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47 points

Congressional staffers must have degrees in backronyming.

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32 points

It’s one of the things chat gpt is quite good at. I wouldn’t be surprised if a staffer hasn’t figured that out as well

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Doing anything about abortion, trans rights or stopping a FUCKING GENOCIDE?!?

Nah, gotta rename “Oak Milk” to “Oak Milk-like product”

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17 points

Milk-like is my favourite game genre

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Currently playing through Dead Cows and having a hard time doing 1 boss star runs

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: Sorry, but doing the right thing makes the WhItE wOrKiNg ClAsS uncomfortable and will cost us big time on election day!

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16 points

Making Acronyms a punishable offense in the post-capitalist utopia.

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Noooo please let me keep my acronyms, I want to force every researcher to spend hours working through backronyms so they can give a cool name to their new type of wart removal cream or whatever.

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9 points

DAIRY PRIDE WORLDWIDE

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Comical

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The bill passes, soy milk rebrands itself as doujiang - a traditional nutritious drink from China, its popularity explodes, the dairy reign of terror ends

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26 points

give me all your east asian food

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The good ending. That also reminds me of ganmodoki (pseudo-goose). Just call vegan meat modoki and market it as a traditional Japanese health food and let the weebs do the rest. Vegan beef becomes Ushimodoki, any pork products becomes butamodoki, poultry is kakinmodoki, and finally seafood is Sakanamodoki.

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Ganmodoki runs into the same problem as vegan goose. It still uses the noun goose, and carnists don’t recognize the existence of adjectives.

Yes I know they're all being dishonest, Sartre

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

Although using Japanese words to refer to vegan meats would be interesting. English already uses French words to refer to meats instead of calling things animal-flesh. It wouldn’t be unprecedented.

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58 points

If you ever supported this guy, please raise your hand so we can publicly mock you. This is your penance.

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60 points

It’s okay to be fooled by his mesmerizingly large body, but we still gonna mock you

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20 points

Fool me once

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57 points

The trick is to be nakedly cynical towards everyone so that nobody can ever accuse you of having hope for a brighter future.

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Honestly, now that I think about it…

  • Liz Warren

  • Krysten Sinema

  • Kristen Gilibrand

and now this.

It increasingly feels like the more left-posturing candidates are deliberately rigged to explode in voters’ faces.

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11 points

Found the South Park creator’s account.

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10 points

Reject hope. Embrace planning.

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2 points

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21 points

\raises hand

I am so, so sorry. I just saw another giant and got excited.

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14 points

It’s understandable. When the Big Bois speak I listen

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Not in the primary, there was someone better, but I’m pretty sure I filled his circle on the general election ballot… it was this chucklefuck or Mehmet Oz.

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Yeah honestly voting for him to prevent one of the worst grifters of all time from winning a senate seat is understadable.

Who was the better candidate in the primary though? Just curious.

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Can I use the lib defense that I thought he’d be less awful than Dr. Oz?

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15 points

You may. We will still mock you for it but you still may use it.

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