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LMAO that was my post and genuinely I had no idea it would go like that. I thought it would be a piece of insight most people didn’t have.
Me, somebody who has studied buffalo for almost my entire life and career: “If you kill a Buffalo, this is what will happen: it will die. This sentence describes the impact of a dead buffalo. Buffalo are endangered and easier to kill than you may realize, so be careful!“
The response: “Some Native Americans’ material conditions absolutely required that they kill buffalo, so I get to do it for fun, for some reason”
Like… be so serious right now and just tell me you like stacking rocks. I’m literally a geologist, I get the appeal so much more than you realize lol. The presentation of facts were obviously not intended as a personal attack on anybody, but it’s telling that some people invoked the victims of literal genocide, whose land they occupy currently, to defend their objectively harmful actions to the commons, especially over a matter so small in scale and easy to not do. :thinking-about-it:
I knew it was going to get someone bigmad because every time there’s a thread on :reddit-logo: about not stacking rocks a ton of redditors get bigmad that someone is telling them not to do something that they want to do if they ever left their desk, and, like it or not, we’ve got a lot of redditors here who get mad when you tell them to wash their anus periodically.
I loved the argument of “telling people what to do does not give communism an endearing look”
You know what else isn’t an endearing look for a communist? Ruining the COMMONS for funsies
