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#15170626
QatzelOk wrote:Even pets who have tons of high-end squeaky toys, and who eat the best canned organic food you can buy... are still *kidnapped and imprisoned in a box*.

This goes against all their instincts and leads to *a life of neuroses*.

If this doesn't look like mistreatment to you, it's because we've been conditioned to accept and approve of mistreatment of nature in general. And this includes mistreating ourselves and living our lives enveloped within neuroses, just like *our animal possessions* do.

Domesticated animals have been bread through many generations to be adapted to domestication. It's why a border collie usually makes a better pet than a wolf.

Speaking of border collies, at the farm where I work live two boarder collies, and a German Shepard. I'll grant you the German Shepard is a little neurotic, but he is only 6 months old, still growing into his own, and still learning the rules of the road. You'll say that dog training is unhealthy for the dog and unnatural, and you may have an argument there, an argument which I disagree with, but sure, it can be debated. At the end of the day, these dogs all run around all day, and get to eat plenty. The main reason the German Sheppard is confined to the smaller yard is that he doesn't know better yet than to escape through the possibly left open gate and get hit by a car.

I just set my rabbit down to type this message. But my rabbit definitely enjoys absorbing my body heat and being petted. He greets me every time I drive up, but indeed, he is wanting carrots.

I'm going to have to give a hard no on this notion of keeping pets being evil. My rabbit is sort of a pet, but sort of livestock. I built his cage out of rough boards, I rived using steal and oak wedges (the latter which I carved, the trees which I cut down with axes and bow saws, and the roof is made of bark, which I stripped from a dead cedar tree I chopped down). Next, I figured, what's a rabbit hutch without a rabbit, so I went to my local farm store and bought a rabbit.

I treat him pretty well. I give him plenty of vegetables and wild leaves. And I take him out to chill. He seems pretty okay in his cage most the time. And I don't give him too many carrots, either.

I get where you were sorta going here, and there are grannuals of truth, but I pretty much disagree all in all.
#15170635
I just fed my rabbit some poison oak. He really liked it. Deer and goats eat poison oak. Rabbits probably do too, well, apparently they do.

Hopefully he doesn't have like a reaction to it.

I usually get poison oak until I stop getting it, I acquire immunity to it.

I don't fear poison oak, I do get it, but then I get immune, mostly at least, I still get little patches.

I didn't just abuse my rabbit by feeding him poison oak. He should be able to handle it. He devoured it.
#15170922
Crantag wrote:I just fed my rabbit some poison oak. He really liked it. Deer and goats eat poison oak. Rabbits probably do too, well, apparently they do.

It's like managing a major league team, isn't it. You actually "own and control" the destinies of other creatures.

"Which players are doing too much cocaine?" is a question a concerned owner of other humans might ask.

The pet owner worries about the flabbiness of his cat, or that his dog is always chewing the fur off his tail.

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Doha's central districts don't look like a city, so much as a pile of squeaky toy buildings that someone threw into a pile.

Are *mirrored-glass perfume bottle skyscrapers*... an example of a Late-Modern squeaky toy? Have skyscrapers always been primarily a squeaky toy?

Are cities like Dubai, Doha, Las Vegas, Orlando ... examples of "city as squeaky-toy?"
#15170929
QatzelOk wrote:Even pets who have tons of high-end squeaky toys, and who eat the best canned organic food you can buy... are still *kidnapped and imprisoned in a box*.

This goes against all their instincts and leads to *a life of neuroses*.

If this doesn't look like mistreatment to you, it's because we've been conditioned to accept and approve of mistreatment of nature in general. And this includes mistreating ourselves and living our lives enveloped within neuroses, just like *our animal possessions* do.


OK, so which dogs have the best life? Choose the best answer.
1. Stray dogs
2. Wild dogs
3. Pet dogs
4. Both 1 and 2 are correct.
#15170962
QatzelOk wrote:It's like managing a major league team, isn't it. You actually "own and control" the destinies of other creatures.

"Which players are doing too much cocaine?" is a question a concerned owner of other humans might ask.

The pet owner worries about the flabbiness of his cat, or that his dog is always chewing the fur off his tail.

...

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Doha's central districts don't look like a city, so much as a pile of squeaky toy buildings that someone threw into a pile.

Are *mirrored-glass perfume bottle skyscrapers*... an example of a Late-Modern squeaky toy? Have skyscrapers always been primarily a squeaky toy?

Are cities like Dubai, Doha, Las Vegas, Orlando ... examples of "city as squeaky-toy?"

I sorta agree in a way. Again, humans are obviously the most domesticated of all. I think it is terrible.

Like I said, humans in their quest to domesticate everything they could, domesticated themselves the most.

A cow is branded. A person is given a social security number. They are both chattel cattle of a sort.
#15171185
Julian658 wrote:OK, so which dogs have the best life? Choose the best answer.
1. Stray dogs
2. Wild dogs
3. Pet dogs
4. Both 1 and 2 are correct.


2. Wild dogs (otherwise known as wolves, coyotes, etc.)

The others - the domesticated breeds - are all the human product of forced canine incest.

You have to *kidnap and imprison* other canines in order to get them to *procreate through incest* exclusively.

And these centuries of incest have made them survival-retarded. Literally. They can't survive because the incest has made them too stupid.

Instead of living natural lives and working towards their own survival, they interact isolated from other dogs with squeaky toys.

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Crantag wrote:I sorta agree in a way. Again, humans are obviously the most domesticated of all.


With the most developed hierarchies of specialization and of squeaky toys.

When humans visit one another, they often show off their squeaky toys to their guests.

"Look, we repainted the pool and had the deck rebuilt out of Himalyan Pine." *squeak squeak*
#15171188
QatzelOk wrote:2. Wild dogs (otherwise known as wolves, coyotes, etc.)

The others - the domesticated breeds - are all the human product of forced canine incest.

You have to *kidnap and imprison* other canines in order to get them to *procreate through incest* exclusively.

And these centuries of incest have made them survival-retarded. Literally. They can't survive because the incest has made them too stupid.

Instead of living natural lives and working towards their own survival, they interact isolated from other dogs with squeaky toys.


Wow! I agree with you 100%!
Do you realize you sound like a capitalist? That would be allowing humans to fend for themselves instead of being in the care of the state.
Do you know what happens to animals in the zoo (or humans in a welfare state)? They lose the ability to survive on their own.
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#15171193
But yet, we ain't going to end domestication of animals, much less domestication of humans, by bitching about it, and I as I've said aren't one that thinks there is really anything wrong with keeping animals. It's good if the animal has some kind of use though. Also, domesticated animals really don't know any better. And we are all domesticated, us humans. Also, on the fact checking front, human bands in the woods are probably more inbred than humans in modern society.

And it may well be that bands of wolves and shit are often quite inbred, but I don't know.

We being born into this human society, my approach is to not dwell on it too much if I can help it, but I do dwell on it.

But next up, recognize that I am part of this human society, I also recognize that keeping animals is an indispensable part of human civilization. There would be no society without the initial nomadic sheep herders. And there'd be no society either without the settled agriculture and husbandry.

You can bitch about it, or just say fuck it.

However, there is also symbiosis between humans and the animals they keep.

And, I even think humans and dogs are perhaps symbiotic species. Dogs might have domesticated themselves, just like humans did.
#15171541
Julian658 wrote:Wow! I agree with you 100%!
Do you realize you sound like a capitalist?

No I don't.

Capitalism is a system that requires dog-like obedience to masters. Any system that breaks humanity down into specializations with different income levels and life expectancies... is creating dog species.

Crantag wrote:...keeping animals. ...It's good if the animal has some kind of use though. ...Also, domesticated animals really don't know any better. And we are all domesticated, us humans.

So "as long as the animal is being used" it's okay to kidnap and enslave animals? And "they are too stupid to know what it going on" makes this acceptable behavior to you?

Now THAT sounds like capitalism.

I think Jeffrey Dahmer - the famous human-resources-capitalist - might have agreed with you as he took care to "drill holes in his victims heads" so that they were "too stupid" to realize he was exploiting them (aka. "finding a use for his kidnap victims).

Their brain-tramau-induced stupidity made them more reliable "squeaky toys."
#15171551
QatzelOk wrote:No I don't.

Capitalism is a system that requires dog-like obedience to masters. Any system that breaks humanity down into specializations with different income levels and life expectancies... is creating dog species.



Socialism requires absolute obedience to collectivism. Individualism is much closer to freedom.
A hierarchy of income is much closer to freedom than a state that requires equality. The only instance where predator and prey are equal is in the zoo. And there is no freedom in the zoo.
#15171604
Julian658 wrote:Socialism requires absolute obedience to collectivism.

So does the capitalist system from which most socialist societies were birthed.

Dog-like obedience to a hierarchy is something that post-capitalist societies have a hard time eradicating, especially if these societies are addicted to *technologies that require crushing human nature.*

Squeaky toys are an attempt - by the top-layers in the hierarchy - to replace what was once "natural life fulfillment" with something plastic that you can make money off of.

Who needs the freedom to form a community, have many social contacts, and lots of time to spend with friends and family - when you can have a series of increasingly distracting squeaky toys.
#15173196
Qatz is right as usual. These town folk are fucking idiots. I had to quit my farm job. The intensity got too much, with the planting, and I wasn't in tip top physical and mental shape. It's all okay. The great farm owners even paid me severance. Capitalists are all shit and they are just rich pricks. But as they like to say under this capitalist regime, I left on good terms. They were Canadian by the way, and therefore kind. Canadians are very kind.

Since then I've been tending to my rabbits. My sister gave me a bunch of shit over it because she is the PETA type. One of my rabbits got out this morning and I mentioned about it in a text and she treated me like I am the dipshit (and not her). Guess what, I even caught the rabbit and returned him to his cage. But Qatz is right about so much shit.

If the rabbit had got away it doesn't fucking matter. He'll graze. And if something eats him, like a hawk or something, hawks got to eat.

And I'm planning to eat him myself anyway, probably.

I did get him a girlfriend today. I am sliding down that slippery slope into rabbit breading.

Qatz is totally right.

This fetishization of animals shits has to stop right now. Gotta be nipped in the bud as they say.

Oh wait, that ship has sailed I guess, as they say. As I say, townies are fucking nuts.

The last thing I have to say is, don't anyone ever tell me how to raise my rabbits. n

My sister had a cow on me because she is a PETA type. Fucking liberals. Fucking America.
#15173308
Gardener wrote:Thank you for that thoughtful exposition, @QatzelOk . After careful perusion of it, I am left in somewhat of a dilemma.

Part of me wants one thing, part of me another.
I don't think I can conflate them.
It's not possible to buy a Squeeky Ferrari !

Qatz is in reality, as usual, both right and wrong.

He makes many salient points.

The reality is this, without animal husbandry there would be no society.

Society sucks.

But also, humans keep animals. If they didn't, they wouldn't be humans. And, maybe that would be good.

But our condition is our condition. I was just born into this shit show. And I am largely just a spectator.

So at the end of the day, basically, I am no better than a rabbit.

This townie culture around animals though is stupid as hell, and I think Qatz was talking about the stupid ladies and men in Toronto with their boutique dogs that they try to pamper with squeaky toys. And pamper is my least favorite word, just worked it in to a sentence there though.
#15173313
My rabbits are in perfect shape and very healthy.

My sister wanted to steal my rabbit from me, really because her kids loved it, but also really because she is on this PETA bullshit liberal cult zone of thinking, America is so weird.

The reality is this. She doesn't even have a place for a rabbit and she would treat it worse than me, and it's my rabbit, I told her go pick one up at the farm store.

My rabbit also escaped while she was visiting, because I didn't latch the cage properly when I put it back after showing it around. You know? It fucking happens.

Guess what, I found him outside grazing 20 feet away, and he came up to me and sniffed me, and I grabbed him.

If he had got away it would be totally fine. He'd eat grass. Until he maybe got ate by a hawk. And hawks gotta eat.

This rabbit politics is too much.

At the end of the day, don't tell me how to raise my rabbits.

And if you want to come for my rabbits, you can pry them from my cold dead hands.


The Bad Ass Rabitry here is going good though.

I just got a new rabbit hutch which I found on the side of the road and refurbished. And I got my original rabbit a future girlfriend.

I'm going to wait until they are ready for a relationship though, once the reach the right age of rabbit consent.
#15173317
Gardener wrote:...a Squeeky Ferrari !


I've noticed that cars make more noise than they used to. This "increased squeakiness" is probably an attempt to delay the ultimate crash of car culture. But it won't work. A squeak can only get you so far.

Crantag wrote:And by the way. I am planning to eat the rabbits.

That's what rabbits are for, as far as I can see.


Squeaky toys are for making a squeaky noise, and rabbits certainly do make a squeaky sound when they attempt to discuss things. But do you think they are squeaking: "Kill me and eat my muscle tissue?"

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But I treat them very well. They are eating baby carrots and broccoli right now. That is like lobster tail and steak in human speak.

I give the diet you give "your" rabbits five hearty Squeaks up!

Carrots and broccoli as rabbit food rating: Squeak! Squeak! Squeak! Squeak! Squeak!

Meat is a dietary squeaky toy, and "animal husbandry" is an example of "too many squeaky toys making it hard to walk in the house."

Sure, you hear a lot of squeaks, but don't you want to walk around freely without worrying about stubbing your toes?
#15173334
I do keep a supply of rabbit pellets and that is their principal food source, probably. I give them fresh vegetables, fruit, and mostly foraged plants. If I have a bunch of bananas and I'm not getting to it and it's browning, I give it to the rabbits. And they love bananas.
#15173335
I just read the last of Qatz's post. My bad for missing it.

My only response is vegetables don't squeak.

The fuck you on about.

A vegetable for a rabbit is like the opposite of a squeeky toy.

Smart ass.

Why can't people just admit when they are wrong.

It's like I said. You spout a lot of truth. Your conclusions are usually wrong.

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