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Im gonna go out on a limb and say that these two statements are not coming out of the same people, and that "the left" is being employed here as a uselessly broad umbrella term including both actual leftists and liberals, as usual
Class, see here where this same user defends a really weak carnist argument while impugning "internet vegans" for their rhetoric:
https://lemmy.ml/comment/27573904
Almost exactly what the OOP was referring to. A vegan-hating tankie. Whataya know, they do exist!
I dunno though, seems to me like they simply can't pick an opinion to hold with any consistency and simply enjoy stirring shit up for the little ego boost they get for talking down to people on the internet.
Lol cry harder halfwit
You're the only one who's crying
If you're gonna lie make it believable
You're losing and you know it.
It's genuinely satisfying for me knowing just how much my existence fucks you up
You're losing and you know it.
I'm doing just fine and you're coping poorly with that
What a sad existence, that such is how you derive satisfaction. I guess you don't have any real hobbies...
This shit takes up a small fraction of my day, easily discerned from my posting schedule, you're either too stupid to figure that out on your own or so desperate to feel important to me that you're willing to lie to yourself about it
I don't know how many times I've told you this, but you're not important to me. You're the one who can't seem to cope with that fact.
If you're going to lie make it believable
You recycle the same weak comebacks so often that I would think you were a bot, except that even a bot would seem more intelligent and creative than you do.
I give the morons and feds I am forced to deal with exactly what they/you deserve, why on earth would I waste time and effort on bespoke responses to every comment? You just want to chat, don't lie
Good question, why are you wasting your time? You know you don't have a snowball's chance in hell of coming out on top in this conversation, so why bother?
Learn to read halfwit
Is halfwit the language you're writing in? Why should I learn to read that?
This is the Internet loser nobody uses full punctuation, keep up
Oh finally, an insult that deviates from the three you usually rely on. I was starting to get bored...
No you weren't, youve got nothing better to do
You keep dishing out advice that you need to learn to take yourself
Your retorts are baby-school, you are like a baby
Hahahaha, it's so ironic to hear that from you 🤣
If you don't know what a word means you can try looking it up before using it in a sentence to avoid sounding stupid
It's exactly what the word means. You apparently don't know what it means. So again, ironic, isn't it?
Sure thing Alanis
You're losing and you know it.
You're my biggest fan