Anarcho-something, Buddhist, Vegan. I use Arch, btw.
Most vegans don’t value animals over humans either. If they had to choose which one to save from the train tracks, it’s barely a question. There’s not a ton of situations where stopping animal suffering leads to greater human suffering is all.
We just had a tiny discussion about this https://hexbear.net/comment/3972622, but it’s been talked about a lot in vegan circles. There’s a Colorado vegans group that is very large on Facebook and their rule is to not talk about what you feed your cat and don’t ask anyone about it either.
Wild animal suffering is something people tend not to touch either because it’s very complicated and underexplored. It’s also less of a focus than on what we’re currently doing to them, since that’s such a pressing issue.
I don’t know where you’re getting the idea that they don’t feel pain or that they’re like meat zombies. We’re not at that level of dystopia yet. Most vegans wouldn’t advocate for the release of all farm animals everywhere either, but to take care of as many as possible and transition current workers into sanctuary caretakers, stop breeding them, or slaughter one last generation in the worst case.
I’m new so I was never a part of that, but I thought it was weird that meat posting had content warnings, even though 
I kind of like that it gets spoilered and blurred because seeing casual cruelty does get exhausting tbh but I’m not at risk of a panic attack or something if someone posts their dinner. Maybe some people are, but I haven’t met them.
I just don’t like to hurt things if I don’t have to and that seems the most reasonable position to have 
Will I get banned if I admit I still watch NCIS clips on YouTube…
Beyond the goth girl memes, it isn’t even a good show, but it falls right in there with the rest of those you mentioned. Yet I tuned in every day.
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Reminds me of this clip
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Are you learning for the first time? I’m an adult who never learned to drive because my parents didn’t teach me and it’s impossible to get any support in the US once you’re past 18. Good luck finding friends or someone consistent enough to ride with you while you’re using your permit. Driving school? Not in my area and private lessons are super expensive. Only an hour away (by car lol). Appreciate any advice you might have though since I’m honestly terrified every time I get in the driver’s seat. Also just be interested to know your experience.
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Work with animals is a source of suffering to all of us. We treat them like babies who cannot speak. The more time passes, the more I’m sorry about it. We shouldn’t have done it … We did not learn enough from this mission to justify the death of the dog.
Every year me and some friends have a 9/11 gaming tournament with random games on Fightcade like Street Hoop and Neo Turf Masters. Winner gets Steambux and inevitably there’s a new commemorative “never forget” image based on the days events.
I would never admit this outside the internet cuz it sounds hella edgy but I look forward to it every year…
Sup. I’m a new transplant from lemm.ee expecting them to defederate in the future, so figured I’d pop in. How does someone request to start a new community on Hexbear? I have a pitch and I have no idea where best to post it.
I don’t plan on doing this right away since I haven’t really interacted much yet, but I’m tossing around the idea of spinning up a parallel to /r/goldenswastika, which is a Buddhist subreddit/Discord with a purposefully transgressive name consisting of broadly ‘Asian’ posters tired of their religion being called into question by secular American teenagers. The subreddit is staunchly against Western appropriation of Buddhist ideas and aggressively moderates “dude im so high its like im enlightened” and “your beliefs are all cultural baggage” content that took over /r/Buddhism. Considering the political slant, the rules against bigotry and imperialism, and the intended goal of giving a space to heritage Buddhists a place to congregate without being questioned by folks whose only exposure to Buddhism is through Sam Harris, it seems the perfect instance to host a similar kind of community, even if I’m to assume a large percentage of users are atheists.
The other Buddhism instances outside of Hexbear are also pretty inactive, so while lofty, it’d be neat if it became the de facto instance for that type of content on Lemmy. It looks like religious communities are some of those unwilling to migrate off of Reddit.
Personally, I’m inclined toward the idea that it’s our responsibility to create an artificial Buddhist pure land in our human realms by establishing a society that is based on mutual aid. This would alleviate several kinds of suffering that come from living in poor economic conditions, freeing people to pursue meditation, textual study, or generating good karma by helping their fellow humans, which then leads to the more traditional form of Buddhist enlightenment. Despite the Buddhist precepts against harming other beings, I also believe there is a strong justification for self-defense in the case of our capitalist society that could be used to justify greater forms of direct action than one may typically think. Self-defense is permitted, it’s just messy, because it’s the same excuse Japanese Buddhists used in World War II to justify some of their heinous actions. But if done out of a pure desire to create a better world with less suffering, as long as its also backed by strong logical justifications and understanding of potential consequences instead of imperialist propaganda, it can be permissible.
Also, and /r/Buddhism is full of carnist justifications for buying meat because “i didn’t kill it myself”, which always makes me want to 
when there are Tibetan masters from hundreds of years ago saying “if you didn’t buy it, nobody would kill it”, so the rules against anti-vegan posting is a nice bonus.
Anyway, I’ve been lurking for the last month or so and ya’ll seem cool. We might need to talk about the Deportation of the Kalmyks though.
There’s always going to be some level of preferring to help your own species over others. It’s more about dismantling the idea that humans are superior and therefore should be able to do whatever they want. “Dominion over the Earth” stuff. It’s more extending moral considerations to animals that you already do to humans. That they deserve food, shelter, happiness, and to not be exploited (specifically by us). If there were aliens or something who treated us like we do animals because they considered themselves supreme intelligent beings, we’d have a greater capacity to understand what’s happening, but it’d still be pretty close to the hellish condition we subject animals to right now and we definitely wouldn’t be okay with it.