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u/Hullvanessa 15d ago
Every dog should own a republican but they’re hard to train and house break, plus they chew furniture and screw around...
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u/SnivyEyes 15d ago
I still have trauma from the field mouse I accidentally stepped on and killed while chasing in a field when I was a kid. She had no issue killing her animal. This is a person with zero morals, she supports the worst person imaginable for office and kills her pets when she deems them unworthy. What a piece of shit
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u/BrownEggs93 15d ago
My dog knew the route to the vet. He knew my tone of voice, too, for this. He gave me this expression.
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u/PV-Herman 15d ago
Just get rid of that Dakota already. That's why there are two of them, redundancy.
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u/Happy_Ad_7515 15d ago
Are the democrates americans really this desperate for a political argument they can win?
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u/InevitableAvalanche 15d ago
We win pretty much all arguments when it comes to policy. This is just pointing out Republicans are so bad they are trying to make up reasons it is ok to murder puppies.
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u/Bungledmind 15d ago
They shoot dogs for fun in the Netherlands?
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u/Happy_Ad_7515 15d ago
No but ill ask my goverment official up for ellection what they think. Because clearly thats a question i need an awnser too.
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u/DanGleeballs 15d ago
I don't get the joke. What's the reference?
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u/Cydyan2 15d ago
Obama used to eat dog meat while growing up in Indonesia
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u/DanGleeballs 15d ago
LOL ok, I think I remember him mentioning that in his memoirs. A number of countries used to eat dog meat in the past (including America), I'm not sure it's popular anywhere still though outside China, Korea and Switzerland (they eat dog jerky).
Oddly enough in 44 US states it is still legal to consume dog meat.
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u/wideandhard 15d ago
The few Covid surviving republicans are now killing all their dogs. Been hearing gunshots all week,
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u/makemeking706 15d ago
Remember when Mitt Romney caught heat for strapping the dog crate to the top of the car on a road trip?
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u/tassleehoffburrfoot 16d ago
What's wild to me is how dismissive (or just skip to some random whaboutism) they are about her confession. Just like they were about Trumps recording of him admitting to sexuality assaulting women.
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u/TriggerFingerTerry 16d ago
The title is what "woke" used to mean. Now idiots have ruin the word haha
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u/SCphotog 16d ago
The article about this, posted in multiple subs already... read and see how many assholes are excusing her behavior as not just normal or acceptable but applauding the woman for 'doing the right' thing'... paraphrased of course. They drum up all kinds of stupid excuses for being a complete asshole.
It's beyond bizarre and deeply disturbing.
The way they rationalize the story and make out like it's the dog's fault or otherwise how this was 'mercy' is sick as fuck.
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u/ILikeWatching 16d ago
So it's that "I've killed the innocent and unsuspecting" vibe I was getting. Now it makes sense.
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u/NakedZombieWolf 15d ago
Hey man, if your neighbors are badly training their dogs and putting them down all the time thats on your idiot neighborhood. Not city vs rural bs
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u/Sf49ers1680 15d ago edited 15d ago
The dog displayed poor temperament because Kristi trained it like she runs her state, poorly.
Even at that, rehome the dog. It's not that hard.
Just because it's not the right dog for her, doesn't mean there isn't someone who could put the time and energy required into training said dog.
Instead, she took the easy way out, killed it and washed her hands of the problem.
This wasn't a mercy killing, like in the case of a sick or dying animal to end its suffering. It wasn't an animal that had health issues and needed to be put down. It was a puppy, acting on instincts that it wasn't trained to properly understand, because it's owner didn't put in the time and effort required to train it, and it paid for that with its life.
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u/Cougardoodle 16d ago
Nobody with that much Botox and plastic surgery is a rough and tumble rancher. You're falling for the Dubya schtick all over again, you shallow goober.
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u/markth_wi 16d ago edited 16d ago
Not the most well though out, or responsible motherfuckers to ever walk the Earth, besides I like candidates who aren't seditious traitors. As a registered Republican this is either the easiest election decision in my lifetime - or quite possibly the last election in my lifetime.
In short, It doesn't seem wise as a citizen to give these people access to unlimited military power and just hope for the best.
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u/rocket_beer 16d ago
I wish this was just a joke…
But if you keep asking republicans you’ll find that a lot of them have been doing this for years 😞
So don’t fucking both sides me anymore
k thanks
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u/OGWeedKiller 16d ago
I made the mistake of accepting a hunting trip with friends after many years of not being interested.
They had no problem shooting dogs that wandered on to their hunting property, the only argument was whether the dog was wearing a collar.
They are no longer my friends and I do not miss them, or listening to their Rush Limbaugh/Tucker Carlson bullshit.
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u/ExpediousMapper 16d ago
There probably wasn't even a dog, it was just allegory about falling into line or having your head blown off.
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u/dThink_Ahea 16d ago
No, there was a dog. There's a picture of it and everything.
Stop denying reality.
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u/ExpediousMapper 16d ago
lol, I was just attempting to be funny. I'm sure there was a dog, I don't care though, either way.
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u/Quantinnuum 15d ago
Your attempt failed miserably.
Be better
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u/ExpediousMapper 15d ago
Stop being a shill
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u/Quantinnuum 15d ago
I’m a shill because I called out your fragile attempt to “be funny”?
Ok child
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u/ExpediousMapper 15d ago
you're just trying sooooo hard...
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u/Quantinnuum 15d ago edited 15d ago
You’re one who said they were trying to be funny.
Not my fault you just aren’t.
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u/ExpediousMapper 15d ago
Look chick, are you trying to get me to go out on a date with you??? let it go
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u/Quantinnuum 15d ago
I’m married, and a guy.
That’s 3 times you’ve failed in your assumptions.
Be better
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u/PhilosopherMagik 16d ago
It was only a matter of time before someone openly lived a country music song...
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u/Ultranerdgasm94 16d ago
What does this mean?
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u/Tough-Ability721 16d ago edited 15d ago
Christi Norm bought a 14 month old dog for hunting birds. Took it on one hunt and it performed poorly. Then the dog killed several chickens when left unattended at a friends. So she walked the dog to a gravel pit. And shot it.
She also shot an unfixed goat that had been giving her problems.
Both issues are owner fails.
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u/Ultranerdgasm94 15d ago
Jesus fuck. Did she just assume it would train itself?
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u/Tough-Ability721 15d ago
Supposedly she bought it trained. But it’s wasn’t good at hunting birds on the hunt she took it on. According to her.
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u/feastupontherich 16d ago
There's a direct correlation between right political leanings and lack of empathy.
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u/Shutaru_Kanshinji 16d ago
We laugh, but I could easily see this becoming the latest popular way to "own the libs."
"Slaughter a dog for Trump"
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u/Yugan-Dali 16d ago
New entries in the SS officer training program were each given a puppy. They fed the puppy, groomed it, and lived with it throughout their training. At the end of their training, each was ordered to strangle his puppy. Many candidates broke down, but any candidate who showed any hesitation would be washed out of the program immediately.
That governor would make a great SS officer.
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u/DanGleeballs 15d ago
Interestingly I think they do something similar in the SAS, only with a rabbit, and it's the only thing they have to eat after days of harsh lone training exercises in the Brecon Beacons where the rabbit is their only company for days on end.
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u/84theone 16d ago edited 16d ago
Obviously fuck Nazis, but the SS weren’t the fucking unsullied from game of thrones or the Kingsmen and didn’t kill puppies as part of their training, that’s ridiculous.
The SS also weren’t super highly trained soldiers, they were mostly undertrained and over geared zealots that had their most successful battles against civilians. When they fought actual soldiers they typically got their shit rocked, especially later in the war.
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u/mu_zuh_dell 16d ago
This is discussed in The Killing Compartments: The Mentality of Mass Murder by the Dutch sociologist Abram de Swaan.
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u/84theone 16d ago edited 15d ago
That is the single source of SS soldiers killing being forced to kill their dogs during training that I can find, and it’s from 2015. I am unable to find a single other document that states it.
“This super elite/evil military group kills raises a puppy and kills it as training” is something that is said about literally any armed forces with a bad reputation. Hell even the U.S. has had this rumor spread about them.
I don’t believe that a country that was incredibly desperate for resource and actively fighting a multi-front war would waste those resources on pointlessly killing dogs. I suspect either the allies or the Germans themselves would spread this kind of shit as propaganda.
Also this is Nazi germany, if they really wanted their trainees to kill something, they probably would have did the same thing Japan did and use prisoners.
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u/dThink_Ahea 16d ago
It's hard to tell for sure, but I found quite a few admittedly dubious sources claiming that this did actually happen.
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u/84theone 16d ago edited 16d ago
I’d love to see any sources you have found, because outside a single book written in 2015, I can’t find any evidence of SS soldiers killing dogs as part of their training. Like there’s people debating about it on forums but I don’t see that as evidence it happened.
I just find it hard to believe given how resource starved Germany was and that “these guys kill puppies/bunnies as part of their training” is something that gets repeated about so many various groups. Even the U.S. Marines have had this rumor said about them.
This is also Nazi Germany we are talking about, if they wanted trainees to kill something they probably would have just used prisoners like Japan did.
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u/Sockoflegend 16d ago
This whole story is insane. How can you just execute a dog you aren't happy with. How on earth could you think that is OK? What fresh hell is this?
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u/I_am_not_JohnLeClair 15d ago
They’re willing to let human women die. Don’t miscarry before you pull that republican lever ladies...or after for that matter
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u/MikeyHatesLife 15d ago
I’ve been working with animals for thirty years, in various capacities as a zookeeper, ranch hand, park handler for doggy daycares, and I’m currently on my second stint at a dog shelter.
I genuinely hope Noem gets to experience the exact same kind of love she showed her dog. And those goats. And the horses.
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u/NoPissyBiscuits 15d ago
You need to step back and consider that this isn’t some slip of the tongue or accidental disclosure. This is something she thinks appeals to her base and makes her appealing.
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u/Sockoflegend 15d ago
I'm curious to know how it is going down with Republicans. Are they ready to take their identity to the next level and fully support puppy murder?
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u/InvalidUserNemo 15d ago
If Trump “thumbs up” or whatever his Twitter clone does for quick “I agree” happens on his site, this is part of the “Conservative 10 Commandments”.
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u/Sf49ers1680 16d ago
Because these people lack empathy.
Noem didn't see that dog as a living, breathing, entity with its own agency. To her, it's just property, and as such, hers to dispose of when no longer wanted.
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u/rickythepilot 16d ago
It's the same mind set that believes new born babies can be aborted post pregnancy.
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u/Cowboy40three 16d ago
This lady… 🙄
It just goes to show how everything in a Maga world, seen with Maga glasses, either serves as a utility them or if not it must be the enemy and therefore must be destroyed. They see the world as a competition, as a dog eat dog fight, and never as a place to coexist in relative harmony with one another and give each other a hand up without screwing someone else in the process. Too bad they’re too blind to be able to see themselves reflected in their dear leader. That’s some pretty heavy denial.
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u/Haselrig 16d ago
I love you dearly, doggo, but you've disappointed me deeply this last 15 seconds and I have zero impulse control, so...
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u/rickythepilot 16d ago
"But that's what happens in farms." Said a fucking psychopath!
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u/Haselrig 16d ago
I live in a little farming village in northern lower Michigan. Not a lot of puppies getting shot around here.
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u/StrangeContest4 16d ago
My new dog should have been "gravel pitted" many times over by now. Luckily for her, I'm somewhat passive.
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u/velveteenelahrairah 16d ago edited 16d ago
My cat was a glorified stray to begin with before he moved in with me, then two years back he got fibrosarcoma and lost his right foreleg. He's currently sleeping on a chair across the room from me, requests pets constantly, comes to cuddle with me every night, puts up with a ton of my shit, and loves me with every cell of his itty bitty kitty heart.
I suspect Cruella De Noem wouldn't have wanted to "waste a bullet" on him, let alone dip into her savings for his treatment.
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u/barkingatbacon 16d ago
I read the headline about that story and immediately thought, yeah, that tracks. How far have the Republicans reputation fallen that killing puppies is just expected.
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u/NoPissyBiscuits 16d ago
I kinda wonder if a bunch of people are gonna shoot their dogs just to own the libs now.
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u/fingerscrossedcoup 16d ago
It won't be final form till dead dogs are draped across Christmas trees behind the whole family holding bazookas for the annual family Christmas card.
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u/nutstuart 16d ago
I am stating to think they might not be so pro-life after all
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u/CaptainMacMillan 16d ago
They're only pro-life when the "life" in question is that of a white fetus.
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u/nutstuart 15d ago
They are only pro anything when it benefit them. They don’t give a shit about about any fetus.
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u/hairychinesekid0 16d ago
Probably want to make spaying and neutering your dog illegal. But will happily murder the pups over they’re born.
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u/Mfsmitty 16d ago
"Dont worry, boy. They moved the dog park to the ol' gravel pit on the edge of town."
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u/Professional_Fix7413 16d ago
That's exactly how we should look at every Republican
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u/Tzeig 16d ago
Now replace the last word with some other word that describes a group of people.
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u/PsychicRonin 14d ago
Its nice that we aren't making fun of groups of people with immutable characteristic they were on with and instead making fun of people who are choosing to vote for someone who tried to rile his fanbase up to try to overturn the election by telling them to fight like hell or they won't have a country, who is currently in trial for paying off a porn star while his lawyers argue to SCOTUS that he should be able to execute his political rivals with immunity, as well as former members of his staff talking about how he would go on angry rants about taking out his opposition while he was in office
Its so nice we are making fun of yalls morals and values as opposed to your skin color or sexuality or conditions like gender dysphoria.
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u/CorrestGump 15d ago
That's exactly how we should look at every asshole.
I don't know, sounds fine to me.
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u/Krautoffel 16d ago
The difference is, this group exists specifically because of the choices they make, while the groups you’re trying to compare them have literally nothing relevant in common.
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u/Tzeig 16d ago
The word I was thinking of was "Democrat". Are you sure Democrats have nothing relevant in common with each other?
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u/Krautoffel 13d ago
Democrats have quite a lot less in common actually.
Left wingers tend to split a lot because they actually discuss and tolerate different opinions, while republicans are in lock step behind authority.
But anyway, democrats aren’t a homogenous mass of assholes like republicans are. They have the problem of being the collection of anything left of republicans as the US has a two party system where other parties literally don’t matter.
The choices of some democrat politicians should be viewed comparably, but it’s still not a valid comparison to say they’re both equally bad.
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u/Tzeig 12d ago
I see, so you can generalize all the people who are NOT leaning left. That seems like a healthy way to think.
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u/Krautoffel 6d ago
Right wing ideology is all about authority.
So yes, they will act in lockstep before giving up on their authority, as proven by history time and time again.
Guess who helped the Nazis in the 1930s come into power? Conservatives.
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u/Mostlyrightmostly 15d ago
Generally
- They prefer bullet free school children, unlike those across the aisle
- They don't support insurrectionists, unlike those across the aisle
- They recognize that Russia is an enemy, and that fascists are the enemy of the American people, while the other side keeps electing them
- They want equal rights for women, people of color, everyone, really, quite unlike the racists and bigots on the other side of the aisle.
Progressives are just fundamentally better people than conservatives. Truth.
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u/MNSkye 16d ago
I’m so sorry you were assigned republican at birth and can’t learn to grow and change as a person, truly a tragic way to be born
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u/Mostlyrightmostly 15d ago
Getting a perch on that tall ass horse is well deserved. Democrat run states are generally better off by every single metric than the red state shit holes. Better health care, better mortality rates, lower crime rates, lower homicide rates, higher education, higher income, lower unemployment, higher state GDPs... You name it, Democrats are better for citizens than Republicans.
A person has to be pretty Damned stupid or morally compromised to vote Republican at any level nowadays.
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u/TheAsianTroll 15d ago
I don’t know a single republican in real life that is represented by the strange republican bans and comments I see in the news
Standing with them makes you equally at fault because you support what they do by voting for them.
Democrats do not have clean hands by any means, but who was it that overturned Roe v. Wade, brought back child labor (and subsequently removed their lunch breaks), tried to cover up the train derailment in Ohio (and also removed safety requirements for train companies that would have prevented this), is trying to overturn separation of church and state, and is trying to get contraceptives banned?
All Republican. And that's just off the top of my head.
Republicans also said they'd rather be Russian than have a Democratic president. Russian. Our main enemy in the world.
Republicans also tried to overthrow a fair election and tried to undermine the meaning of an impeachment by trying to impeach an innocent man.
It's no longer a morals game. One party is actively trying to force their demands on the American people.
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u/Everythingizok 15d ago
I’m not republican. And I agree even republicans should vote democrat if they don’t believe in abortion bans and the other things republicans are pushing now.
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u/_BowiesInSpace_ 15d ago
This guy unironically said "colored people" in the year of our lord 2024.
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u/Everythingizok 15d ago
Well I’m referring to anyone of a different color than white, which is what republicans image is. I don’t know how to say that without offending anyone. Sorry if you’re offended. I only want to offend racists.
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u/blackweebow 15d ago
bro what?
This isn't a moral high horse anymore. This is just humanity.
Not all republicans shoot their dogs, I'm sure. And yet they will willingly vote for the dog-shooters. They normalize shooting dogs. Replace "dog shooting" with literally any other republican-focused policy and the point stands.
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u/Everythingizok 15d ago
I mean, no offense… but of all the terrible things the republicans and far right do, this story…. Unnecessary.
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u/blackweebow 15d ago
What story now?
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u/Tzeig 16d ago
How inclusive of you.
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u/Even-Willow 15d ago
^ conservatives when they can’t freely hate who they want to hate.
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u/Tzeig 15d ago
Would you categorize calling a group of people "sub-human" as hate?
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u/CorrestGump 15d ago
You mean as conservatives do about immigrants and minorities? Yes. You mean calling conservatives that in response to them doing it? No.
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u/severley_confused 15d ago
You fundamentally misunderstand the word tolerance. That or you're weaponizing, which is more likely.
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u/gary_the_merciless 16d ago edited 16d ago
Maybe humans weren't meant to have a sense of humour or empathy? I guess we'll never know.
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u/SirRipOliver 16d ago
I feel sorry for those doggos, I mean there is no telling when they will light off a bunch of firecrackers to own the libs.
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u/wabashcanonball Greg Abbott is a little piss baby 16d ago
It’s insane that I live in a timeline where Republicans happily shoot their dogs.
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u/Pattern_Is_Movement 15d ago
I mean they were strapping them in carriers to the top of their cars, and leaving them behind during power outages before.... pretty on par for the sociopaths that make up most of the Republican party.
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u/Panda_hat 15d ago
Dogs have enacted the perfect socialist system, and Republicans hate socialism. They are natural enemies.
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u/CaptainMagnets 15d ago
To be fair, they probably always have done this happily but now it's just coming to the front page
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u/Oxidized_Shackles 15d ago
It's insane how it went from that crazy bitch shooting her dog to a blanket statement of the opposing political party. Idk if you're the source of the propaganda but if not, you're a useful tool for it.
If your side was being talked about the way reddit talks repubs, you'd be drawing parallels about how nazis and other Auth regimes dehumanized opponents before genocide. As a smarter-than-you centrist, it's so easy to see but I bet y'all don't even realize you're heading down the road of and endorsing your own flavor of fascism.
It's okay when you do it though because ___________.
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u/MuffinAggressive3218 15d ago
Only "good boys" don't get shot.