Reclamation!

Still think Y. P. Pull aren’t oppressed?

knock knock VOLCEL POLICE, OPEN UP!

I genuinely wish I could transfer the amount of rizz I have to other people.

I just wanna grill (vegetables) for God’s sake!

I pick a subject, I think of what words will go well with the melody that I have laid out, and I try to use clever wordplay if I can, but I never push myself too hard. Another thing that helps me is that I will play the vocal melody on an instrument, as it helps me to have a clearer idea of what the lyrics will sound like when put into practice, especially since my vocal techniques aren’t the best right now but I’m teaching myself.

My music project, which I hope to expand into a full band later on, involves me writing lyrics that pertain to my own viewpoints, such as Marxism, veganism, and broader anti-reactionary themes.

I also think of how I want to structure the song, e.g., if I want it to be a typical verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus type of structure or something a bit more unconventional.

That’s how it started.

It is! I effectively used it as a pulled p*rk substitute here. I got some canned chili beans that already come in a sauce, but I added some extra stuff to give it more of a kick, and that includes barbecue sauce, agave, sriracha, dijon mustard, nutritional yeast, garlic salt, and soy sauce. It sounds salty, and it is, but if you just keep adding barbecue sauce and/or agave until it doesn’t taste too damn salty, you’ll be good.

funniest shit i’ve ever seen

“That’s it! I’m drawing the line here!”

OtG transition

And I know who is to be done

This type of conversation can occur in multiple forms, where even refraining from directly mentioning that you’re vegan can still elicit these kinds of responses. For instance, if a person talks about a tofu recipe that they enjoy making, just the mention of tofu alone can often lead to a conversation of this variety. The hypothetical in particular was just used as one example to serve the point that I was trying to make with the post, but I could’ve used many other examples.

One that occurred to me in real life is when I actually had to take a rideshare from a vegan restaurant because of bad weather and the driver directly asked me, “Are you vegan?” when she saw the name of the restaurant and then proceeded to actually do some of the damage control that the post is referring to once I said “Yes.” I didn’t even say anything about ethics to this Uber driver because why would I?

And regardless, carnists don’t need to do all of this damage control upon hearing any mention of veganism. They themselves can simply be decent people. Someone bringing up the fact that they’re vegan in and of itself shouldn’t be something that automatically leads to people pissing out tons of excuses as to why they are not vegan and/or goofy statements about how they “respect” veganism as a “personal choice.” If it triggers that kind of response, then at that point, that carnist needs to look from within.

With that in mind, are you vegan?

I misread the “Linux” on her shirt as “Ligma” multiple times. Deadass. I keep having to double check.

Send Prager to the grave, please

Metallica concert audience when they’re playing Creeping Death be like:

The amount of conservatives, both black and non-black, in the comment section not realizing that he’s making a point that Democrats and Republicans are on the same side of evil rather than arguing that “Liberal Democrats are evil and conservative Republicans are based” is concerning.

It’s exactly why I made this meme that I keep, keep, keep having to go back to.

Ah, the “crop deaths” argument is their new fancy, fangled “gotcha” that was popularized by losers like Piers Morgan and Joe Rogan. I’ve heard it a billion times.

They also love to bring up grass-fed cattle if you mention the fact that most crops are actually eaten by livestock, but grass-fed cattle still eat more than just the grass on the pasture land, especially during dry seasons and winter time, and you still have to account for so many other things like the bugs they trample, the fact that the cattle are sprayed with pesticides as a protective measure, the immense extra deforestation that raising grass-fed cattle requires, ocean dead zones, predators that get shot to protect the cattle, zoonotic diseases, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Even if the stuff about grass-fed cattle were true, it would be totally unsustainable for the world’s population to survive off of grass-fed cattle alone, as that requires way more resources. It’s also nutritionally inadequate.

If we lived in a vegan world and had vegan farmers, we could just switch to veganic farming systems that ensure minimal to no animal deaths in the process of crop production.

I literally told a friend of mine this morning that there seems to be this “law” in arguing with carnists: “Every dragged-out conversation with an ignorant non-vegan will involve them bringing up crop deaths at one point or another.”

I said this to her because she was going back-and-forth with this carnist on social media who exhausted every other argument like “lions tho,” “it’s legal tho,” and “we’ve been doing it for thousands of years tho.” Once she shot all of that down, of course, he had to resort to this awful -type argument that they use every 5 seconds nowadays.

It’s also entirely disingenuous because, even if plant-based diets caused literally zero deaths, these people still wouldn’t go vegan, so it’s just a cheap-ass tu quoque that they think should yield them a free pass to exploit animals.

Don’t forget, “If vegans love animals so much, then why do they eat their food?” or some variation of that shit.