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funny post on the neoliberal sub /r/DogFree: "Lunatic childfree couple worship their dog" (old.reddit.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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childfree vs dogfree...let them fight sicko-crab

neoliberal

Margaret Thatcher: "there is no such thing as society, there are only individuals and families"

/r/DogFree:

"It's so wholesome to see a family without a pet dog...The whole family is talking with each other and, well, being a family.

The ideal family doesn't need a dog. A dog is a living parasite of a burden.

I notice family units are usually stronger when they don't have a dog.

That’s what it looks like at my house. Peace, quiet, chatting with each other. We can come and go in and out of the house without a "shadow"

Without a shadow? new type of vampire ghoul just dropped

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Turning a dog into a surrogate child is a form of depravity. I don't get it. I never will. Help me understand the appeal.

Gotta be honest here I agree with that. Pets are cool, but they're not furbabies or whatever.

I am expecting the comments on the dogfree subreddit to be terrible though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I like dogs and think that a lot of people who own dogs probably shouldn't. Especially when people own the completely wrong kind of dog for their life/climate.

Basically no one should own a husky unless you have a dogsled team because the only way to get energy out of them in a comfortable environment for them is to have them pull something in the snow for a while.

A lot of people have dogs with way too much energy. Or social needs that aren't being met because the dog doesn't have that much time interacting with other dogs because dog park might be far away. I feel bad for all those lonely dogs spending hours a day on their own.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait this isn't a satire sub?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why would it be?

I have a dislike of dogs driven by fear personally, and prefer to not be in the vicinity of the ones large enough to do serious harm if I got attacked. Thus, you have a bunch of people with even stronger fixations and a misanthropic view coming together and creating a subreddit or other community.

From this, say a strong fear of walking by fences where you know dogs are, charging at you from behind the fence and barking at loud volumes, you have a self-strengthening echo-chamber with some added reddit-brand smugness to it.

"I don't like/fear dogs/other phobia commonly faced in the wild" can for example turn to "I hate people who are likely to own a dog" or whatever. Or it could not and stay as pointless and bizarre posting like this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't trust people who don't like dogs, let alone the type of dog disliker who posts in places like that. What miserable people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't go that far, because I know some people that had for example bad childhood experiences with aggressive dogs and I kinda get it for them. I assume it's the case for some users of this sub, but there are also clearly some people there that just have weird brainworms.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same, I’ve never been let down by trusting my dog if somebody is giving them bad vibes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

These people are bad but i'll take them over anti-natalists. Alot of anti-natalists will actively argue against child welfare and education spending because its public money that isn't being spent on the virtous child-free couples who are trying to go r/leanfire. At least this is partially taking the shit out of these people even if it has it's own anti-social bent to it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

counterpoint: doggo-matapacos