The human, of course, flies anyway, because it does not care what dragons think is impossible.

wait, does this mean that dragons think about dragon/human romances the same way we think about bee movie???

i… i need a minute,

no one is saying this, are they?

Go snort copium, liberal.

Looks like you’re snorting enough for the both of us. Thanks for offering to share yours, but I’ll pass. Later, loser!

Pshh, you’re not a leftist. You just use the same words they use and think it’s the same. You ain’t fooling nobody but yourself.

For a start, my name’s not Clyde, it’s Vincent. It’s in my username. Thought you’d’ve figured that out. Second, it’s an argument about why letting a bunch of individuals who have no incentive to care what happens to the group go wild with no previously-agreed-upon restrictions about how much they should use is bad, and that’s not true of any socialist movements I’m aware of. Thirdly, the photo on the Wikipedia page for tragedy of the commons is of pollution.

There are statements about ecology that don’t. Also, you didn’t answer my question.

Are you absolutely positive you’re a leftist? Because people who are left of center don’t typically call each other “eco-fascists” for pointing out easily verifiable facts about ecology that do not involve human interference in any way.

The tragedy of the commons, an argument as to why unfettered capitalism is bad, is right wing (i.e. pro-capitalist) propaganda.

I’ve officially heard it all now.

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absolutely wild that someone would assume someone’s political views based on their understanding of ecosystems-level biology, but on lemmy, somehow, i’m no longer surprised

all i know is that you wrote almost 1500 words about why voting is pointless and then did not provide any alternatives

you advocated for voting in local elections, but not before saying that voting in local elections is pointless because local politicians can be easily bribed. you advocated for joining unions, but not before saying one should be wary of doing so because unions can be captured by the institution, however that’s supposed to happen.

all there is in that thread is 1500 words of doomerism. fuck doomerism, ima vote.

by the way, stop putting your own words on a pedestal just because you wrote them when you were slightly less sleep deprived. i’ve tried it before. it rarely works out well.

Not really.

The defining characteristic of the furry fandom is a fascination with anthropomorphic (= walks on two legs and can talk) animals, whether in a sexual context or not. The sexual side of the fandom is the side that gets the most attention (and, admittedly, it is pretty big), but it is by no means the only side. The appeal is in creating a character that represents you to the wider world without revealing anything about your real life identity beyond your aesthetic choices, and along with it a persona that you can adopt for a while that has none of the responsibilities of being a human and a cool animal tail to boot. Dogs don’t have jobs. They don’t worry about bills. They just run around and play and be dumb and boop each other’s noses. And sometimes, after a long day as a software engineer, vaccine researcher, or brain surgeon, that’s exactly what you need.

With regard to the sexual side, every individual furry has different places where they draw the line with regard to resemblance to actual animals. Some stay away from sexualizing anthropomorphic characters altogether, most draw the line when a creature stops walking on two legs, some are okay with characters that look like actual wolves and cheetahs as long as they talk and think like humans, a few only draw the line when it stops being fictional, but the one thing they all have in common is a strong condemnation for actual, real-life bestiality. Zoophilia is not tolerated, anywhere. Most furries view it as morally equivalent to pedophilia.

(from Tom Fischbach, creator of Twokinds)

what message am i supposed to take away from this?

other than that OP takes an offensively bleak view of what life in africa is like?

…either an empty string, a single character, or the same sequence of characters repeated more than once?

tl;dr “nothing matters, everyone except me is an idiot”

truly i bow to your vast intellect

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1. There are two choices in the United States 2024 election. No third party stands a ghost of a chance of winning. No, not even if the 30,000 people you can reach on Lemmy all vote for Timothy Greenparty.
2. A Trump victory in 2024 would not only be just as bad if not worse for the citizens of Gaza than Harris would (Harris has at least said she wants Israel to stop. Trump wants them to finish the job), but would also pose an existential threat to a large number of vulnerable Americans (trans people, immigrants, women seeking abortions).
3. Given the margins of victory in 2016 and 2020, Kamala might not win if leftists don’t vote for her.
4. Snoozing fascism for four years is better than inviting it through the door now, and buys us time to build our defenses for when it comes back.
5. Regardless of whether you do anything else to fight fascism or not, if you don’t vote, or you vote third party, you raise the chances that a Hitler admirer will enter the white house.

I’d like to focus my counterargument. Which of these statements do you disagree with?

but then, spider-man making love to goku (which is what it was in the original) is art too

…like…like the whole country of japan? was the emperor?