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  • I think it's natural that people hate me. #Socmas
    2025/12/11

    Socrates died for your sins, and unlike Jesus or Santa Claus or whatever, he had the good taste and refinement to stay dead, so that we could all keep on sinning. #vegan #vegans #veganism #veganmovement #veganfuture


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    AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

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    12 分
  • Bimbo Logic: Earthling Ed and the Smothering of the Vegan Movement by Bimbos
    2025/12/10

    Some people are vegan for the lies, and some people are vegan for the truth.


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    AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

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  • Freelee Killed Charlie Kirk.
    2025/12/07

    It has been more than ten years since Freelee's video dared to ask the question of whether or not meat eaters deserved to live, with the reciprocal (more blunt) implication being that all non-vegans should be compelled to be vegan or else (in her words, not mine) deserved to die. Within the vegan movement, people still talk about this video as if it were yesterday, but it was many yesterdays ago, and I'd have to presume that people under 25 would now have no memory of it at all. Of course, it must live on through satire. #satire #comedy #satireisnotcomedy #vegan #vegans #veganism #charliekirk #erikakirk


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    AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

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    6 分
  • Everything you're saying is a lie: political science, how not why.
    2025/12/06

    "I'm making a statement about a type of danger that doesn't arise from false facts. It doesn't arise from factually incorrect information. It's a more profound problem in our attitude." A fifty minute lecture on how to think about politics, in ways both shallow and profound. And, yes, it just happens to include a critique of Colleen Patrick-Goudreau.


    "The problem is not that you believe the wrong things, but that you blame the wrong things: this is an error in the precedence of your reasoning."


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    AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel

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    50 分
  • Ecology and Ego: Veganism and False Humility.
    2025/11/11

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    AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

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    8 分
  • Defining Vegan: Negative, Positive, Passive & Active Definitions.
    2025/11/08

    "For me, the difference between 'vegan' and 'plant based' is not the difference between 'ethical veganism' and 'health based veganism'. Veganism proper: it's never going to be satisfied with a merely personal decision to be vegan."


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    AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

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    15 分
  • Youtube is dead: the lost avant garde of intellectual dissent on the internet.
    2025/10/11

    Implicitly, this is a significant contrast to my old "manifesto" titled On Community, although it does not address the thesis of that video, directly, in any way: if you regard this as a manifesto, it is addressed to the youtuber (or podcaster) as a solitary intellectual dissident, cultural critic, commentator and comedian --not as the center of an incipient community, pulling together like-minded people (as per "the spirit season one") with an ambition to accomplish something more than they could ever attempt alone.


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    AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

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    47 分
  • What if Shame Gets Results? #vegan #vegans #veganism
    2025/09/29

    This is a crucial question for the future of the vegan movement, and for how we talk to our own closest friends and relatives: can we have a positive attitude toward shame as a motivating factor in personal and political change? It's a question that comes uncomfortably close to the overlap between religion and psychology... and that's exactly where we're gonna go in finding an answer.


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    AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

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    18 分