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Im suspicious of people that don't like animals and animals don't like.

(I guess what you're saying is we should make that more widely known. It is not well reported for sure)

It's like how ubiquitous camera phones made the general public more aware of police brutality. And ICE is unpopular enough to make some people who would otherwise support cops reconsider.

I have been in animal rescue for years and was first exposed to the rescue world because of a report of a family pet murdered by police at the wrong house. One of the issues that UNITES Red & Blue is stopping the abuse of companion animals & rescuing them.

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This is going to sound bizarre but I think stories of them striking or kicking dogs would serve the purpose better than murder. A dog getting shot dead is so far from normie experience, the mind recoils. Someone hitting Waffles? That's comprehensibly enraging and not too gory to spread on Facebook.

I think it demonstrates your point perfectly, though. People inherently care about animals and you can use it to energize them towards a cause.

I was about to say this. I mean, obviously it's not great that so many people aren't angrier about what ICE is doing to human beings, but you kinda have to meet them where they are.

I've genuinely wondered this often, but have never been able to phrase it in a way that couldn't be misinterpreted as purposely devaluing human lives

Well, I mean, their boss shot her dog, so I guess they feel they have to! Evil, the lot of them.

There is a Netflix documentary that perfectly illustrates how humans are far more likely to react to brutality to domesticated animals than to other people. Called "Don't F**k with Cats".

The Dog Murderer-in-Chief.

I think it is totally fine that some people just aren’t fans of pets and not a moral commentary on them one way or another, but when considered with all the OTHER horrific aspects of Donald Trump…

It’s a good warning sign though. Like having tarps, ropes, quicklime, shovel & an axe in the back of your car all the time.

Totally, and there’s a massive difference between “I don’t like pets” and “I’m gonna kill your pets”

This looks fucking *prescient* in respect of the Youth Republican chats released this morning by Politico.

I absolutely do not remember some of my neighbors names but I know the dogs. I have 2 dogs stop outside my house just in case I come out for scritches. I'm just way too slow most of the time bc my spine & chronic pain & illness. Literally give me pain killers so I can pet doggos.

Man, if you're gonna on purpose shoot a family dog, you have issues.

I still can't believe this wasn't career ending in the US. Even now it 100% would be in the UK.

Absolutely. Post that picture of the couple from Minnesota with their dog. It is a legitimately radicalizing thing for me and I’m sure thousands of others

The only pets Trump likes are his cabinet.

Yeah, this isn't is issue like taxes or even healthcare where people have strong opinions but not pillar of your identity principles. Killing or harming dogs or other pets is. I would vote for any candidate who promised maximum harm to any officer even in the proximity of the murder of a pet.

Someone in my town complained on the town FB page about an off-leash dog pissing on their lawn chair, and you’d think the chair owner had insulted their moms. It was full of people blaming him for letting his chair get peed on, for complaining about it, etc. And that guy hadn’t even done anything.

I always remember how harming animals is one of the signs of being a sociopath.

Is there any evidence to support the conjecture that Noem wasn’t the agent who shot the dog?

Hurt my dog and I’ll make John Wick look like John Waters.

ICE's Noem Protocol

The reason that far fewer dogs are shot by UK police than in the US is the same reason that far fewer *people* are shot by UK police: the typical police officer is not armed. We can have unarmed police because we have very tight firearms laws, so officers rarely face armed threats. This means 2/3

The only time my conservative side of the family got mad at the cops was when one of them killed a black bear. Even though we should care when the police kill any person, animal deaths cut through copaganda very effectively.

3 or 4 years ago the off duty cop who was married to the city manager of the tiny town I grew up killed some guys dog over a minor fight at a boat dock. To this day, ppl still have up signs in their yard honoring the dog, in a deep red town with lots of back the blue folks.

Really don't like the idea of courting those kind of people because more than likely they excuse racism but not animal cruelty

I watched a youtube about the Detroit pigs & the insane amount of dogs they shoot every year. They lie through their teeth about it constantly before video gets released. Every time I see some cop getting caught lying on video, all I think is how many lies they get away with without damning video.

It is, i think of myself as empathetic mostly, but something about someone hurting a dog or cat. in your next post you describe it as bloodlust. Its probably why John Wick as a story has its own place in our zeitgeist RIP Gilbert RIP Chop

How depressing.

This would make me (even more) motivated.

I've long joked that you can tell the police don't have a warrant because your dog is still alive, but I guess that's a bad metric now that they don't need a warrant to murder a family pet.

The locals threatened to shoot mine. She now has a massive hatred toward their uniforms.

We can disagree on a lot, but as soon as you hurt a dog, I know we're on the opposite side. Wild how that doesn't extend to women or minorities or disabled people or queer people. But I appreciate dogs performing their historical duty of warding against evil. 😍😭😍🙏😭🌋😭🙏

The single most successful political project of my lifetime has been the image rehabilitation of pit bulls, you can have the most suburb-brained conservatives in a foaming-mouth frenzy on this issue.