The Old Four Are At It Again

Is vegantheoryclub auth? No one answered this question
Edit: To anyone who may consider wasting their time telling me animal agriculture doesn't necessarily involve rape, slavery, and murder, or that dogs can't eat a plant based diet, please don't bother

Vegantheoryclub is tankie? How unfortunate.
- There’s a reason why it felt like walking on glass when I was part of it.
- Yeah, I can't keep up with these instance-based politics either. I know it doesn't make sense but I wish instances overall would be more just 'federated but more of the same' and communities within the political furry factions or whatever.

Wait, what? What's that first one? Is there some context I'm missing?
- As a dramatic oversimplification: how dare you tell us that forcing domestic pets into a vegan diet is animal cruelty! We're going to make our own instance, with blackjack and hookers!
  There was some stuff about vegan users being harassed after the "vegan pets" debacle too, but they're effectively "We need our own space where we can be as dramatically vegan as we want to be with no opposition".
  
  are they as bad as the vegan subreddit was? It straight up put me off becoming a vegan because they are just such fucking assholes. I was trying to see if they had any good studies for health benifits because I don't find ethical veganism convincing personally. And they came up with what amounted to a slur to discuss non vegans (no it is not an actual slur but they sure used it like one) and it was fucking hilarious because carnist sounds way more badass than omnivore.
  
  Or you could actually read the science. Recent studies in the last 3 years point to the contrary. That is misrepresenting the situation as synthetic taurine, B12 and vitamin A can be provided in a plant-based diet through the form of reputable kibble brands.
  Sources: https://bmcvetres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12917-021-02754-8
  https://www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/abs/10.12968/vetn.2022.13.6.252
  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0253292
  https://www.mdpi.com/2306-7381/10/1/52
  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0284132
  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240584402411609X
  https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/6/9/57
  https://sustainablepetfood.info/
  https://www.benevo.com/vegan-cat-food-from-benevo/

Are they back on their putin shit? I haven't seen a tankie outright shill for Russia in a while and I thought they were actually backing off that point.
- They are getting big into the "US bad therefore China good" recently.
  China is not some extra evil empire it is however an empire in every way that matters.

I haven't even seen a hexbear post (on 'All') since their DNS debacle. Maybe @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com defederated them or their new url isn't getting picked up?
I can't say I've seen a particular uptick in pro-putin content but I'll be paranoid about it now!
- I think their DNS situation is causing federation issues. We didn't do anything on our end.
  
  Def their DNS issues. I can't see them on lemm.ee and its blocked like 4 instances.