• Abbysimons@lemmy.world
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    47 minutes ago

    I mean, if the package includes a Velociraptor that actually cuddles instead of opening doors and hunting me, then sign me up.

  • rayyy@piefed.social
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    Why does the right wing spend so much time worrying about what other people are doing? Is it because they have so much guilt in their own lives?

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      Yeah and TBF I’m pretty sure a lot of “right wing” folks would love to have a pet dino.

      But they’d get a Tyrannosaurus to go with their Rottweilers and then tell people “don’t worry, he’s friendly” just before it bites some kid’s head off

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      I mean, the meme here is satire, no idea what it originally was supposed to be, someone slapped on the message about atheists for a joke.

      But yeah, broadly it IS accurate to how conservatives feel about the kinds of families we want, the kinds of pets we want, the kinds of food we eat, the clothes we wear, etc. Every change to that normalized order terrifies them, it’s in the name.

      Feeling afraid of change is fine. Most of us have those kinds of feelings, most of us are going to have wary responses to the unfamiliar. But the conservative base in the US in particular have the worst combination in the world, which is fear of change plus stupidity, so they fall prey to any story supplied to them about what exactly they’re scared of and give it no actual thought. All feelings, no thinking.

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      “Conservatism has exactly one proposition, to wit: there is an in-group group in which the law protects but does not bind, and there is an out-group in which the law binds but does not protect.”

      I’m sure I didn’t quote that properly, but you get the point.

      When viewing reality through the lens of life being zero-sum, if one is not policing others, they are being policed. Add xenophobia and fear of others who are noncomforming and you end up with someone who feels the need to judge everyone around them.

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      Yeah. But not on the bed.

      Except some times on a lazy Saturday morning and they’re being annoying because they know it’s normally breakfast time now, but letting them up on the bed is a super special thing to take their mind off it. But they know it’s not a “You just get to do this whenever you want” kind of deal now, it’s invite only still. And they can’t take up all the room or start to clean themselves, shaking the mattress while the humans are trying to sleep in.

      Farts are an instant kicking off too.

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    9 hours ago

    I would also like feathers on my pet dromaeosaurid please

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    That’s clearly the raptor priest, coming to tell his church kids to stop sleeping in, but then he just gets so excited by seeing them sleep that he forgets himself and joins in the cuddles.