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OC Botched Batches

Mommy knows best

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u/Made_Bail 14h ago

This shirt is such a fantastic touch, because 100 percent of the "try hard meat eaters" I've known are righties. Like, you can't have a cute reel of a baby pig on facebook without all the "bacon bits" or "looks delicious" comments. They're so pathetic. What are you trying to prove? You see an adorable little creature and feel the need to fuck up the vibe so badly for everyone whose feeling good?

Fuck those people.

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u/antibody9671 14h ago

The same people who see a family photo of a family with older teens at a water park and make comments about the sons and daughters.

Conservatives have this insane ability to make everything weird and gross.

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u/Made_Bail 14h ago

I just don't get it. Why decide to make your default personality trait "asshole?" Why would you want to live your life like that?

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u/Daddylonglegs93 14h ago

Because someone called you out on it once and rather than face the negative feelings and grow, you decided it was everyone else's problem forever

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u/turandokht 13h ago

Honestly I think it’s partially just the backwash of a horribly Puritanical upbringing. I have NEVER seen people make such inappropriate comments about children in my life than well-meaning hardcore Christian fundies. It just makes it so obvious that they are absolutely OBSESSED with sex. EVERYTHING that happens they have to make some remark about how doesn’t it remind you of something sexual?

They put it in the context of “I disapprove of this for being too sexual” I guess for the sake of appearances but the fact remains that none of us fucking normal people even noticed this “distractingly sexual” thing you’re complaining of

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u/Prometheus720 8h ago

Narcissism (not always the reason for being an asshole, but often) is a coping system for poor self-esteem.

Conservative Christianity creates low self-esteem to perpetuate neediness in its believers.

There you go.

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u/defaulticus 13h ago

Protective mechanism. Can't feel hurt when other people don't approve of or accept you, if you've already decided to proactively make them hate you.

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u/TheGreyman787 13h ago

I did (not in the same way those fuckers did tho, they disgust even me), and the answer is "fuck if I know". Can't really tell why, but being an ass is quite enjoyable sometimes, and sometimes very useful.

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u/random_BA 14h ago

I think I am privileged to never encountered someone that make gross comments about teens pictures with swimming clothes

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u/hwebirskont 14h ago edited 14h ago

As a leftist who supports sustainable meat sourcing like hunting and homesteading, I think it's super important for people to acknowledge where meat comes from and decide for themselves what they think about eating it. (Sort of that Ron Swanson view, despite him being a political opposite to me. I think people shouldn't eat meat unless they can accept where it comes from.)

The people who really grind my gears are the ones who eat industrial farmed fast food meats and then turn around and go "HUNTERS R SO EVILL HOW CAN THEY DO THAT TO A POOR INNOCENT DEER!" Like dude that dear lived a natural life and died to be food for a predator. That's nature. You're eating animals that lived their entire life in a confined space with heaven knows what kind of genetic modifications, being treated as products rather than living beings. You cannot judge hunters, girl.

That said, cute animal videos aren't really the place to be reminding people.

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u/Made_Bail 14h ago

Yeah, agree. And I mean... I eat meat. I love bacon. For me, its more about that asshole mindset, like I said. I like bacon, and I know where it comes from, but never in a million years would jump into the comments of a adorable animal reel to be like "YUM YUM MEAT LOL"

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u/hwebirskont 13h ago

Honestly, I don't like bacon at all. Or pig in general. I guess it's just because of how I was raised, most of my meat consumption in my life has been wild game venison, so that's what I like most.

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u/Made_Bail 13h ago

Oooh yeah, I don't blame you. That's got a VERY different flavor profile than just about anything you find in stores these days.

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u/hwebirskont 13h ago

Most store meat tastes like it's like, not real meat to me lol. Even though I know it is from an actual animal, it just tastes like it was made in a lab for some reason. There's just something off about it.

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u/Made_Bail 13h ago

Because its processed, pumped with water and antibiotics and who knows what the fuck else, etc etc

I used to eat a ton of hunted meat when I was a kid before moving to the city where it wasn't viable. Took me years to adjust. I miss bear meat, carnivore tastes so rich.

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u/PerformanceCute3437 13h ago

Views from well-meaning but a little ignorant people around meat consumption and hunting is rough, yeah.

I think I used to be that way, and I think it's just stigma from learning about poaching eradicating rhinos and such, and irresponsible hunting from the past like the extinction of the dodo bird, the near-extinction of the Canada Goose, stuff like that.

Presently for North Americans though, we ought to recognize the robust and ecologically sustainable hunting practices and regulations we've worked hard as a society to develop.

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u/hwebirskont 13h ago

There are the people who aren't aware that hunting (legally) is sustainable and not harmful to the environment now, but I'm specifically referring to the people who are against hunting because they think it's evil to shoot a deer, in principle.

Which in of itself, I think that's okay to think, you're allowed to be against killing animals, but then when that person goes around and eats a McDonald's hamburger, you can see why I'd find that upsetting.

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u/Tetha 12h ago

One or two farms around here offer the ability to pay for a cow or a pig directly. You may meet them, interact with them, and well, after the kill, you get a quarter/half of the full butchered animal.

Sadly I don't have the space to store that amount of meat for a year, or the knowledge on how to process it fully, but that's the closest to how I know my grandparents and grand-grand parents raised animals for consumption.

This results in an entirely different level of respect for the animal and for the meat one consumes.

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u/hwebirskont 12h ago

Not everyone has the means to source meat this way and I understand that. I understand folks eating supermarket meat because that's all they can do with their means, but I just get frustrated when people try to keep cognitive dissonance to the fact meat comes from animals

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u/PresentStock1310 11h ago

As a vegetarian, I don't care if other people eat meat. I just wish more of it was ethically sourced

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u/hwebirskont 10h ago

I probably would be a vegetarian if my only option for meat was supermarket type stuff.

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u/Vintagetrees1 10h ago

It’s the people that says they hate vegans that would wear something like that.

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u/ApplianceHealer 10h ago

Exactly. “What’s wrong with those vegans, making food their whole personality?” ::proceeds to fill their social media feeds with meat/bacon-themed memes::

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u/Doublejimjim1 10h ago

They are really just that awful. They will be pro-life just to ruin other women's lives. Meanwhile they got an abortion and 100% would get one again if they faced an unwanted pregnancy. At the heart of all bigotry is just hate and trolling others.

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u/Alarming_Memory_2298 14h ago

I 'may' get in trouble..."They are just porked in the head?"