Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!

[NoReturn]

These videos are so triggering, almost none of this shit is actual food.

Do you like how that last one says "Vegan products" not vegan "food"? Here's more of that:

"Nutrients, whatever."

Also that top video woman is apparently my age and a "registered dietician" but she looks ten years older even with all that filler. Eat real food, people.

Abbey Sharp is someone we could discuss in any of the vegan threads, but she's also a clickbait influencer if you want to go down that rabbit hole.

 

[Yaks]

These videos are so triggering, almost none of this shit is actual food. Also that top video woman is apparently my age and a "registered dietician" but she looks ten years older even with all that filler. Eat real food, people.

I wonder how many of these people know how to cook aside from heating something up in the oven/microwave, eggs, or prepackaged mixes.

Do you like how that last one says "Vegan products" not vegan "food"? Here's more of that:
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"Nutrients, whatever."

Veganhackspod gives me a new social media presenter voice to hate.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

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"i discovered a product so artificial that it is accidentally vegan"

The whole goyslop industry in a nutshell

 

[NoReturn]

Veganhackspod gives me a new social media presenter voice to hate.

"i discovered a product so artificial that it is accidentally vegan"

"Accidentally vegan" is a whole mini-meme when it comes to junk food

They seem to view it as more "We tricked the big corporations into doing something good! Score one for the little guy! Look how easy it is to consume a vegan diet!"

 

[Yaks]

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"Ethical and sustainable" is always the most bullshit line I hear. See Palm Oil, the labor shortage on farms in the US and immigrant problem, Vegan Alternatives made out of plastic and oil, etc. Also I hate him so much.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

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"Accidentally vegan" is a whole mini-meme when it comes to junk food
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They seem to view it as more "We tricked the big corporations into doing something good! Score one for the little guy! Look how easy it is to consume a vegan diet!"
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Bread with garlic is vegan? no waay, wooow, thank you, Domino's! blew my mind. Bonus points if its accidentally real bread and not just some reconstitued wood paste resembling bread.

 

[Cumroad]

I don't tiktok. Some of the shit I've seen in this thread has blown my mind. Veganism, or just eating responsibly has great merits. Whatever in season and as close to local as you can get. But I didn't realize the bizarre connection influencers make with veganism/environmentally conscious eating and the discovery and consumption of unhealthy overly processed slop. Food items with internationally sourced ingredients wrapped in disposable waste are not responsible products. And you record it and promote it (for free) to your audience? Do vegan influences have a moral reason to be vegan? No, it's mostly for social points, and they promote a bullshit variation of it to their easily encouraged viewers.

But, plenty of us, even some in this thread, in one way or another enjoy conveniences of consumer culture. Do the initiated have any advice on maintaining a lifestyle as far away from whatever the fuck is contained in this thread?

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

But I didn't realize the bizarre connection influencers make with veganism/environmentally

Another insane rabbit hole is the supplement bussiness. Vegans have a pretty big industry of them. Often is not just a scam but they do need it to not get sick from their shitty nutrition so they are perfect costumers.

Then there's the Liver Kings and Alex Jones types selling snake oil to become an apex predator or some shit, it honestly drives me mad how much Grifters love to sell supplements that it inmediatly clocks them as bullshit peddlers. There must be a factory in china making placebos and they just separate the labels from right to left wing at the end and both are marketed as "going back to nature"

Do the initiated have any advice on maintaining a lifestyle as far away from whatever the fuck is contained in this thread?

Living within or below your means and not participating in social media would be my main takeaway. Propaganda and advertising have become one of the same and this is bad for the psyche, if you can't win a game the other best option is to not participate, at least in so much as it is still possible.

 

[Spud]

Look I don't want to be that guy, but Ukraine is a genuine nazi state. This isn't really a matter of "Oh they're just mostly conservative" like no. Straight up goose stepping, hand waving Nazis.

So what?

 

[Yaks]

Do the initiated have any advice on maintaining a lifestyle as far away from whatever the fuck is contained in this thread?

It depends on how far you want to take it, really. You'll always be "consuming" in some way, that's how capitalism works. Even the Amish are consumers.

For the food portion: Learn to fucking cook. It doesn't need to be time consuming or complicated. You'll save a shit ton of money tho and eat a lot better.

Spoiler

I like to take one day a week to just mass cook stuff in big batches, then separate them out by portion size to put in the freezer. I've done this enough now that I've got my own mini freezer section that I can pick and choose on a whim. I've felt way more satiated for longer and physically better, plus I save a shit ton of money for just a few hours at most of work a week.

Don't become beholden to BRAND. Learn to see through the shill and look at alternatives.
Ignore ads. Go search it out yourself and compare products when you need something. At most an ad should make you aware something exists, take everything they say as a grain of salt. (This warning is brought to you by NordVPN)
Don't turn a hobby into part of your personality or a "lifestyle". This is how you end up with $12,000 in Funko Pops because you're the Funko Pop Guy to the people around you.

The most important one, if you are male, is never open your mouth to hoot like an angry gorilla when you receive a nerd product. It's called social contagion and it will send you down a spiral of misery.

 

[Alouatta Simia Belzebul]

Ukraine's adjacent nazism and the co-opt of the flag / cause by gay men aren't a coincidence; gay men (collectively) love fascism or at least fascist aesthetics, and just as exploitation of ukraine refugee women has become a recent popular porn trend for straight men, I bet there's been similar developments in gay porn. Gay men do publicly acknowledge it sometimes:

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I can also recommend meal prepping / batch cooking.

 

[NoReturn]

Bread with garlic is vegan? no waay, wooow, thank you, Domino's! blew my mind. Bonus points if its accidentally real bread and not just some reconstitued wood paste resembling bread.

It's never bread. Third ingredient in the "garlic bread"-bread is palm oil and it also contains "dough conditioners".
The "butter" is called "Garlic Oil Blend" and is made with "liquid and hydrogenated soybean oil, palm oil, sunflower and soy lecithin".

I don't tiktok. Some of the shit I've seen in this thread has blown my mind. Veganism, or just eating responsibly has great merits. Whatever in season and as close to local as you can get. But I didn't realize the bizarre connection influencers make with veganism/environmentally conscious eating and the discovery and consumption of unhealthy overly processed slop. Food items with internationally sourced ingredients wrapped in disposable waste are not responsible products. And you record it and promote it (for free) to your audience? Do vegan influences have a moral reason to be vegan? No, it's mostly for social points, and they promote a bullshit variation of it to their easily encouraged viewers.

@Yaks and @LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV] gave some good advice already, because yeah, it's not just vegans who do this kind of weird "It's ok if I consoom product because it's ___________." and fill in the blank with whatever they're using to enable those purchases.

E.g. Some more "virtuous"/"cost-saving" consumption
"Eco friendly"

"Dupes"

"Dollar store"

"Small business"

"Black owned business"
(Yes, this lady claims her cream will give you bbl-butt, and it's vegan!)

(You can find this shit by searching any trendy term + the word "haul")

But, plenty of us, even some in this thread, in one way or another enjoy conveniences of consumer culture. Do the initiated have any advice on maintaining a lifestyle as far away from whatever the fuck is contained in this thread?

Convenience is its own thing, and nobody's perfect, but I think as a general rule the 3 Rs the Anglosphere learned growing up hold true + 1: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Refuse.
The 4 Rs tend to be a good guideline not just for avoiding literal waste, but it helps save money, time, space, and other resources in your personal life as well.

E.g.

• If you buy something on sale that you weren't originally going to buy at all, you aren't saving money.
• Using a limited number of hygiene and cosmetic products ensures you use them up instead of having them clutter up the place or expire because you forgot you had five different types of lotion or whatever.
• Having a set shopping list of things you know you'll use and/or actually need reduces mental load and frees up your time.

 

[Shig O'nella]

5 Rs.

Repair. Which is pretty much designed to be impossible now, unless you pick carefully.

 

[glass_houses]

5 Rs.

Repair. Which is pretty much designed to be impossible now, unless you pick carefully.

I have one of these in my kitchen cupboard:



For those of you unfamiliar with this device, it is a Depression era glass lemon squeezer. Yes, I do use it. Not regularly because I'm a lazy cook, but on occasion I'll pull it out and put it to use. I've had a number of people comment on it and ask me why I don't buy a modern version. This is because most affordably priced lemon squeezers are made of plastic, which degrades and eventually breaks. There are metal versions around, but they're expensive and go rusty if you don't maintain them properly. The hundred year old glass squeezer is surprisingly sturdy and survives bumps, jolts and taps, and yet squeezes on. You could leave it outside for twenty years and it'd still be perfectly fine for use after a good clean and sterilisation. There is absolutely no reason why it won't be still around and perfectly fine for use after another hundred years.

Old tools- be they shed tools or kitchen tools- are worth examining and seeing if they can still be used. Without electricity cords or plastic, they are usually sturdier, amenable to repair and, if your house is damaged and the power grid offline for an extended length of time due to natural disaster, a lifesaver.

 

[Dieter Laser]

Old tools- be they shed tools or kitchen tools- are worth examining and seeing if they can still be used. Without electricity cords or plastic, they are usually sturdier, amenable to repair and, if your house is damaged and the power grid offline for an extended length of time due to natural disaster, a lifesaver.

So much this. I inherited all of my grandfather’s and great grandfather’s tools and I use them instead of modern versions 99% of the time. Even stuff like hand drills are amazing still and completely usable. They’ll outlast us all.

 

[Maldavius Figtree]

they do need it to not get sick from their shitty nutrition

Don’t you basically only need B12 if you don’t eat meat? And afaik that is only in meat because the lifestock is fed B12 themselves, since none of the meat we eat has ever seen real grass in its life.

 

[Christopher Robin]

none of the meat we eat has ever seen real grass in its life.

>American moment

 

[Yaks]

5 Rs.

Repair. Which is pretty much designed to be impossible now, unless you pick carefully.

Unless it's an iphone or a really complicated electronic, most things can still be repaired now thankfully. Unfortunately we've gotten so deep into consumerism that people don't even know where to start and they'd rather just buy a new one anyway.

Recycle

I want to add to this that majority of things can't be recycled at a plant, like most plastics. The recycling industry is a lie. Recycling old materials, fabrics, wood, etc at home is a great way to keep using stuff that's broken or worn out.

if your house is damaged and the power grid offline for an extended length of time due to natural disaster, a lifesaver.

That reminded me of this doomsday prepper in Texas that bought an electric can opener for one of their preps then couldn't use it when the grid goes down. Which then brings me on to the topic of preppers, because they're some of the most complicated super consumers I've ever seen. They have an advanced form of FOMO, because their fear of missing out means they think they will be dead. Emergency preparedness is never a bad thing, but there is an entire growing niche industry based around these people and majority of them are super bad at what they're planning to do.

My favorite is the Jim Bakker Buckets

But then you have more run of the mill preppers, who mass stockpile foods that, when you look at their piles, aren't really that great for long term survival and nutrition. They usually go for some sort of prepper food bucket of some kind too. They have the consoomer mindset of convenience in mind. I don't think this particular fella will starve any time soon or be a lot of use in a survival situation given his.. physique. Nutrient Survival brand is a new one for me. He'd be much better off raising some chickens or rabbits and making his own garden.

Prepper Gadgets

Don't forget the prepper ladies. Their hauls look a lot like the vegan stuff, super processed shitty food.

And one of my favorites.. the $3mil a floor prepper condo missile silo.

 

[NoReturn]

For those of you unfamiliar with this device, it is a Depression era glass lemon squeezer. Yes, I do use it. Not regularly because I'm a lazy cook, but on occasion I'll pull it out and put it to use. I've had a number of people comment on it and ask me why I don't buy a modern version.

Those people are retarded. Why would you buy a cheap piece of plasticrap when you can just use a solid piece of glass that isn't going to break or wear down for centuries? I don't get it. It's like the perfect version of a lemon juicer.

Other "perfect" things:

• Cast iron pan
• Solid-piece-of-something tools and knives
• Real blue jeans
• Leather goods

What else can we add?

Don’t you basically only need B12 if you don’t eat meat? And afaik that is only in meat because the lifestock is fed B12 themselves, since none of the meat we eat has ever seen real grass in its life.

Holy fuck, dude.

Don't forget the prepper ladies. Their hauls look a lot like the vegan stuff, super processed shitty food.

Maybe I should upgrade my home defense in case prepper-Patty here comes a-raiding.

 

[Yaks]

Maybe I should upgrade my home defense in case prepper-Patty here comes a-raiding.

She's coming for you with her tactical conceal carry leggings and She-wee