Many pet lovers do not love Earth and it's inhabitamts (including other humans) minus the specific pet they have emotionally latched onto.
Most pet owners see their pet as nothing more but an object to own and control.
I genuinely wonder how pet owners reconcile pedigrees/breeds and eugenics in their heads. "Aww he's a labrador pure-breed goodboy!"
Don't get me started on pedigree purebreed shit, it's like cosmic levels of torture and cruelty.
My stepgrandparents had a king Charles spaniel, and the poor thing had eye infections all the time, probably headaches (their skull is too small for their brain, giving them "ghost headaches" iirc) and epilepsy when it got older. I just cannot understand it and I don't want to.
the western brainpan is only capable of caring about life they deem fit to be pets.
Not surprised, it's kind of like first world feminism bleeding into terf shit, animal welfare groups putting the dog above the human. It's sad because you can want animal liberation while also looking out for people too, but I guess they missed the memo.
If gaza was full of dogs instead of children then the west would have occupied Tel Aviv by now.
I'm generally distrustful already, but I'm especially distrustful of White people who claim to be big 'animal lovers'.
I had an ex who visited my home country with me. Some areas are dirty and very poor, lots of people working, walking, and kids begging for money. She was fine with all of it until she saw some puppies in the street, then she cried and became critical of how unsafe it was for puppies to be in that environment. Accused my family and I about being heartless because we didn't mind the dogs. Oh, but fuck the kids, right? Needless to say, it didn't go over well.
It amazes me sometimes how normalized it is in the minds of white people to see human beings as sub-human and not worthy of their empathy. Like I've had white people get mad at me for saying that I care about people in the global south. Or even just for bringing up their suffering. They'll be like, "Well what do you want me to do about it??" Uh idk maybe not dismiss it? Maybe give a shit? Is that so hard to do?
Some months ago I went to Buenos Aires, we were chilling in a square with many dogs and their owners, one guy turned out to be an Israeli who had "rescued this dog from the war"...
Original: "I rescued this dog from the war."
Translation: "I participated in a genocide against someone and stole their dog."
Yep, he was a 20 something guy
"stole a dog from Palestinians"
Ironic the Israeli flees to Argentina lol
Heh, yea, but the explanation is the jewish diaspora here is one of the biggest since the 1890, mostly eastern europeans. Sadly most of it is zionist IIRC.
Also, among all the assasinated by the last dictatorship jewish people were way overrepresented, and it was probably THE most number of jews assasinated by a government (wars included) after 1945 but Isntreal never said anything about it IIRC.
Anyways, Buenos Aires has a lot of ultraorthodox dudes that wear those funny furry hats
one guy turned out to be an Israeli
I hope that one day he falls asleep too long infront of that dog
Thing is I'm sure the IOF have killed plenty of dogs, along with their owners.
Cops kill how many dogs per year? Unfortunately, even that isn't enough to get libs on board with abolishing the police.
Maybe we need to start posting those stories online and the libs might start to care.
I've ran into (liberal) animal rights activists who really fit the stereotype of being misanthropes who would kill hundreds to save one animal. It just feels so... Wrong.
This is so fucking bleak
I think it's unexamined ideology. there's a project to indoctrinate us to not have empathy for humans in distress, to see their circumstances, generally, as a product of their choices.
there is something similar at work for animals, but it's less acute and relies a lot on "out of sight, out of mind" and speciesism. animals in the built environment are pretty tightly controlled in the US. shit, imagine the amount of effort it would take to overcome the outcry over the number of loose, feral dogs getting blasted by cars we would have to see here.
guarantee most people who wanted to save this dog and ignores the human passively assumed this guy could "take care of himself" in a way they felt the dog could not.
I think it's unexamined ideology. there's a project to indoctrinate us to not have empathy for humans in distress, to see their circumstances, generally, as a product of their choices.
guarantee most people who wanted to save this dog and ignores the human passively assumed this guy could "take care of himself" in a way they felt the dog could not.
Yup. It’s rationalized (if at all) as “this person is in this situation because of their choices and they can choose something else” vs “this poor dog didn’t choose to be here we need to rescue it”
These kinds of misanthropic liberals don't deserve to consume feel-good-bittersweet stories about animals surviving hardship
Send them the dozens of videos of animals in Gaza with their limbs snapped off by IOF bombs, that's all these fuckers deserve to witness
Dog people are some of the worst psychopaths JFC. I don't get how you can love dogs, but then have nothing but contempt for cats, humans (especially children), and non-mammals. What causes this? It's probably sadists are drawn to dogs over other living things, right?
Never met a dog person who actively hated other non-human mammals, did met all kind of racists that loved their pets.
I've known just a few loves-dogs, hates-cats people. I would've said it's like a "manly" affection, but I've totally known women who were the same.
it's super weird and I do not respect it lol.
In my personal experience, the same people who say that they hate cats are people who do not grasp basic rules of consent.
I wouldn't say I hate cats, but my mom's cats piss me off cuz they keep killing my house plants (can't wait to move out).
This seems like an extreme generalization.
It's a distinctly reactionary angle, because these are also people who do not actually respect their dogs
They like their dogs, but their dogs are their property
This is why they have such contempt about other animals, because they view them as invaders or detritus
because dogs are obedient, humans cats and other animals don't take a few treats and pets to become subservient, a dog is so domesticated it isn't an animal anymore, it's a tool, an animal bred and trained for the sole purpose of being a police dog doesn't have choice and doesn't say no. I haven't slept in a while and I don't know if I'm saying nonsense but dogs are the last socially acceptable minions, I've noticed that the moment westerners stopped making it socially acceptable to make their kids minions they had a decline in wanting to have kids.
nobody has ever decided not to have kids because they believed they couldn't be controlling over them, lol
I've noticed that the moment westerners stopped making it socially acceptable to make their kids minions they had a decline in wanting to have kids.
Would this happen to be at the same time that the cost of everything, especially raising kids, began to skyrocket while wages stagnated/fell? That really would be some coincidence
oh boy, here come all the obnoxious dog hate comments under the post about obnoxious dog lovers.
I don't hate or dislike dogs. And there's a bazillion dog owners who aren't a problem. I'm just wondering who the fuck thinks getting a dog out of Palestine is a priority over the dog's human companion.
...dog people and authoritarians have a large overlap: in-group / out-group, it's all a thing...
Oh.
Yeah.. that is just bullshit. I want to be mad but I'm just sad. Offering to take away his companion to appease your own idea of morals.
I question if western cultures have real empathy for other humans.
The dog wouldn't want to die without him. Dogs are almost like our symbiotes.
Even though I’d set up the cat tree on her insistence, Donut jumped straight onto my neck and settled in.
“Goodnight, Carl,” she said.
“Goodnight, Donut,” I said, patting her head.
“Promise me you won’t let me die alone like GumGum’s mom,” she said. “Or GumGum. I guess she died alone, too. She was probably really scared.”
“Don’t worry, Donut,” I said. “We’ll find out who’s responsible, and we’ll make them pay.”
I'm just reading the "Dungeon Crawler Carl" series (which includes "The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook") and he sort of inherits his ex-girlfriends cat Donut. Then the earth is flattened by aliens because we failed to file and appeal 50 years after first content and Carl is forced into a Running Man style dungeon for the alien's entertainment. Luckily his cat Donut evolves and becomes intelligent and can shoot magic missiles out of her eyes. She later says:
“You promised me that I wouldn’t die alone,” she said. “You can’t keep that promise if you die before me. We do this together.”
If the internet had been overflowing with pictures of zionist stormtroopers torturing cats and dogs and bombing pet hospitals the way we have seen them do to human beings, the "state of Israel" would have been nuked off the map by now.
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
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