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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.

Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.


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Vegans being banned and comments being deleted from [email protected] for being fake vegans.

From my perspective, the comments were in no way insulting and just part of completely normal interaction. If this decision reflects the general opinion of the mod team, then from my perspective, the biggest vegan community on Lemmy wants to be an elitist cycle of hardcore vegans only, not allowing any slightly different opinion. Which would be very unfortunate.

PS: In contrast to the name of this community, I don't want to insult anyone here being a 'bastard'. I just want to post this somewhere on neutral ground. I would really appreciate an open discussion without bashing anyone.

PPS: Some instances or clients seem to compress the screenshots in a way they're unreadable. Find the full resolution here: https://imgur.com/a/8XdexTm

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

If the world went vegan, deforestation would drop by 94%, which by itself would achieve 23% of the climate mitigation over a 15 year period.

Global farmland would also be reduced by 75%, returned an area the size of China back to forest.

Meat alone accounts for 15% of the entire planets greenhouse gas emissions, and 75% of all food emissions.

It's literally the best thing a single person can do for the climate, so what's stopping you?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

returned an area the size of China back to forest.

there is no reason to believe the land would be reforested

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm going to start replying in bad faith like you do, single lines that don't further the conversation, ready?

"Petition governments and farm owners to have it reforested".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Global farmland would also be reduced by 75%,

I doubt it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

Imagine you were on a debate stage and someone cited a stat and your debate reply was quietly going up to the mic and going "doubt it".

You're not pithy or glib, just lazy and boring.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have no interest in debate. I'm just looking for the truth

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

this is just another accusation of bad faith, made in bad faith

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Nope it isn't, you're wrong. Go vegan.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

this relies on poore-nemecek 2018, which misuses it's source data, didn't even disclose this, and drew hyperbolic conclusions. but even if we could rely on that, there is still no reason to believe the land would not continue to be farmed

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How does it misuse it's source data?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

LCAs are not transferable between studies. they compiled thousands of disparately methodized studies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's called meta analysis, you're wrong.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Reading the source papers will show that I'm right.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I just read the source papers, they prove I'm right.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

If the world went vegan, deforestation would drop by 94%,

I doubt it

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's literally the best thing a single person can do for the climate

I doubt it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

without evidence, everyone should doubt it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nope, they shouldn't. There's boundless evidence.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

if that were true you could present some

edit: I have been politely asked not to engage in the off topic discussion in this community.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

The burden of proof is on you. Provide evidence to the contrary.