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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 privatized_sun@hexbear.net to c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net
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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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[–] wahwahwah@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sorry, but the subreddit isn't all that bad. Dog culture can be super misanthropic. It creeps me out whenever pet owners brag completely unprompted about how they'd save their "fur baby" over a homeless person or any person at all if they had to chose. Same with people who blame toddlers and old people for getting mauled to death.

Also, r/childfree is way worse. Reddit eugenicists ruined it with their countless posts and comments actively advocating for the forcible sterilization of poor and disabled people.

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

all valid points, but what's the fourth word in your comment there?

[–] Tofu_Lewis@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

"Dog culture can be wack" as I chuckle at the twentieth daily picture of my cat and think of Lenin.

[–] duderium@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“Hmm, yeah, dogs can be annoying sometimes, and I’ve had plenty of run-ins with irresponsible dog owners, but it’s part of greater societal problems, like people are so alienated and lonely they can’t find meaningful companionship any other way. Maybe I’ll check out this subreddit.”

five seconds later:

jesus-christ

[–] InternetLefty@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

People are just obsessive and think ruminating on their dislike (or abject hatred) of dogs or kids or bad drivers or fat people or Russians or whatever will make the bad thoughts go away, but actually they're just picking at the scab. We are trained by media to behave this way as it drives engagement numbers on social media platforms and keeps us coming back for more.

[–] Albanian_Lil_Pump@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I can understand not liking dogs or children, but the hatred of them as a personality traits just seems psychopathic. I recently read a BBC article about Americans paying Indonesians to torture and kill monkeys and record it, and the language they use is very similar to these child/dog free comments

[–] TheWorldSpins@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

I recently read a BBC article about Americans paying Indonesians to torture and kill monkeys and record it, and the language they use is very similar to these child/dog free comments

gui

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Americans paying Indonesians to torture and kill monkeys and record it,

what the fuck why would you do that

yeah I'm going to stop reading that it's too distressing. Everyone involved should be in prison if only because these people seem like they might be genuinely dangerous. Never trust anyone that tortures animals for fun

What the fuck happens to a person that they do this

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i get the vibe from /r/dogfree that it like started as a parody of /r/childfree, but then the posters started to take it seriously

[–] Vladimir_Slipknotchenko@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It just keeps happening. Reddit needs a sitewide rule that sarcasm requires a content warning.

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, I can imagine how it happened. The forum morphed to suit a need. I'm a dog lover, but it's not that unusual for someone to hate dogs. They often don't understand boundaries, and they can be loud and smelly. But when you express it through the apocalyptic fury of the childfree identity, it becomes deranged and self-destructive.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait this isn't a satire sub?

[–] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 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.

[–] OrionsMask@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 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.

[–] newcru@hexbear.net 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.