• JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca
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    18 hours ago

    Horses are like the ultimate fascist’s enemy, powerful and fragile at the same time.

    They really are glass cannons though. When I was young I watched a bird land on the paddock rail, a horse who was standing right there didn’t notice, turned a little and saw it, JUMPED WITH ALL 4 LEGS straight up and broke one when it landed. What the fuck!?

    • SalamiDommie@lemmus.org
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      9 hours ago

      What is your brain that you had to contort horses in “the ultimate fascist’s enemy”.

      Fascinating

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        7 hours ago

        In fascist ideology, “the enemy” is simultaneously very strong and powerful but also very weak and incompetent. It’s how they get you to hate the outgroup. Immigrants are strong and powerful because they take all of our jobs but are also weak and incompetent because they dont speak English. How can they take all the jobs if they don’t even speak English? It makes sense to a fascist.

        Horses, in a roundabout way, are also strong and powerful but also kinda fragile. I believe this is the line of thought OP had.

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          5 hours ago

          I’ll also say. As I think about it, it makes sense of something I have been struggling with about MAGA Trump. And makes me way more sympathetic to them and conservatives.

          Thanks for explaining.

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          5 hours ago

          I want to applaud you for explaining in a good faith way befitting of one person to another.

          Big updoots to you

    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
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      13 hours ago

      Got it.

      Sneak up on cats with cucumbers and on horses with birds.

      What do we do for dogs?