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[–] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 81 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Many pet lovers do not love Earth and it's inhabitamts (including other humans) minus the specific pet they have emotionally latched onto.

[–] boiledfrog@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Most pet owners see their pet as nothing more but an object to own and control.

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[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 84 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 67 points 4 days ago (3 children)

If gaza was full of dogs instead of children then the west would have occupied Tel Aviv by now.

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 37 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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?

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 37 points 4 days ago (5 children)

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"...

[–] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Original: "I rescued this dog from the war."

Translation: "I participated in a genocide against someone and stole their dog."

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 16 points 4 days ago

Yep, he was a 20 something guy

"stole a dog from Palestinians"

[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ironic the Israeli flees to Argentina lol

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So your from down in that area? Ever been to Uruguay? In my search for areas to flee to from the US it is decently high up on the list. Kind of like my fallback if i can't get into an AES nation. From what I've seen it seems pretty demsoc but atleast stable, and not too likely to go full fash anytime soon from what i was seeing. But it's hard to know how much of what is available online is accurate.

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Uruguay is a financial cancer to the rest of the region, like Andorra for example, by giving citizenship to any rich dipshit who actually parasites on workers in Argentina or Brasil but they get to pay very low taxes in Uruguay. They should do something about it ~~or be annexed~~.

That said, it's a nice place, it's indistinguishable from many provinces of Argentina but they have different money and low inflation. And yeah they are the most progressive place in the region right now. Oh and their beaches are nice too.

[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Ah yeah i figured there must be something like that i wasnt hearing about. It seemed too weak to be so peaceful without some sort of international backing. So it being backed by elites globally as a tax haven makes sense.

I'm guessing that stability it enjoys wouldn't last long then in a global crisis.

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[–] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 17 points 4 days ago

one guy turned out to be an Israeli

cringe

I hope that one day he falls asleep too long infront of that dog

[–] SovietBeerTruckOperator@hexbear.net 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Thing is I'm sure the IOF have killed plenty of dogs, along with their owners.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 15 points 4 days ago

Cops kill how many dogs per year? Unfortunately, even that isn't enough to get libs on board with abolishing the police.

[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 4 days ago

Maybe we need to start posting those stories online and the libs might start to care.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 31 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] LaBellaLotta@hexbear.net 50 points 4 days ago

This is so fucking bleak

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 44 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

the western brainpan is only capable of caring about life they deem fit to be pets.

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 56 points 4 days ago

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

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 53 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] TommyBeans@hexbear.net 16 points 4 days ago

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.

10000-com

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”

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 41 points 4 days ago (6 children)

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?

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 46 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Never met a dog person who actively hated other non-human mammals, did met all kind of racists that loved their pets.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CharlieTheOctopus@hexbear.net 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

In my personal experience, the same people who say that they hate cats are people who do not grasp basic rules of consent.

[–] SovietBeerTruckOperator@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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).

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)
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[–] CharlieTheOctopus@hexbear.net 26 points 4 days ago

This seems like an extreme generalization.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 30 points 4 days ago

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

[–] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 28 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Euergetes@hexbear.net 20 points 4 days ago

nobody has ever decided not to have kids because they believed they couldn't be controlling over them, lol

[–] egg1918@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

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[–] SovietBeerTruckOperator@hexbear.net 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

oh boy, here come all the obnoxious dog hate comments under the post about obnoxious dog lovers.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SovietBeerTruckOperator@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oh no I agree, just feel like there's this anti-dog, pro-cat bias in leftist spaces that flairs up sometimes. Heck r/TrueAnon had a whole thread about how dog owners are reactionary (can't find it now for whatever reason). I agree a lot of dog owners are asshole but as a dog owner myself some of the dog-hate circle jerking I see here irks me slightly.

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 11 points 4 days ago

Heck r/TrueAnon had a whole thread about how dog owners are reactionary (can't find it now for whatever reason).

New struggle session just dropped.

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[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 35 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 33 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I've seen a couple videos of Zionists killing or torturing cats. I think some of them associate cats with Arabs/Muslims.

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[–] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

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.”

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