I subscribe to a channel called “Mr. Ballen” on Youtube where he basically narrates stories that are often horrific and relating to murder, rape, torture, etc.
But today he posted a video that was about a circus animal in the early 1900s that killed its handler, and was subsequently put down in a public fashion (hanged)… and people in the comments absolutely FLIPPED, and even got angry to the point that they say they “lost respect” for Mr. Ballen for not putting a “trigger warning” because animal abuse is apparently soooo much worse than everything else he’s posted about. Comments are also sprinkled with nihilism and “I hate people” as if people don’t treat animals WAY BETTER than any other animal treats themselves or other species.
Here are some examples of the outlandishly bleeding-heart comments
I’ve noticed this more and more in modern society, where people hate humanity but have an unhealthy obsession with both their pets and any other wild animals. These animals will never think, love, reflect, invent, talk back to you, and yet you value them over your own fellow man.
Is this a symptom of Clown World or am I looking too deeply into it??
One thing to also take note of is that in the story Mr. Ballen told, the general 1900s audience actually got mad at the ELEPHANT, and wanted it killed. Today, it’s the total opposite.
It's a sign for loneliness.
These people substitute animals for the missing positive interaction they ought to have with other people. Unfortunately they're batshit insane and normal people will avoid them - so they get animals as substitutes.
See all the dumbfucks who call their cats/dogs their "babies".
This is why despite living alone for now I refuse to get an animal which weirdos have suggested to me before in my own family. To me that's just giving up on human interaction which is yet again making me realise I'm actually one of the normal ones compared to a lot of people I know. Don't know how that fucking happened, but yeah.
Online you also see them making this bullshit argument that it's better for the environment or whatever bollocks but in reality you have to put in a lot of effort into raising and caring for an animal. One person I was talking to who did have kids had pointed it out and I completely agree lol it is just a replacement for the children they never had and they are coping hard. They're also clearly trying to drag everyone else down with them into the fuzzy hug box lie that is keeping pets. I actually like animals, don't have a problem with them but yeah I know psychological problems when I see them. I'm definitely not keeping a fucking dog as well because the work looking after that animal would be endless.
I am familiar with this type, and also see another sort of animal cultist--that of the "service dog" or "emotional support dog" which makes some people feel entitled to drag their curs into public spaces where they are entirely out of place.
I went to a ballgame yesterday--at an indoor domed stadium, not the local public park--and there were dozens of people with dogs there--in the stands--and these things were yapping, lunging, acting like dogs.
It really irritated the hell out of me, but of course all the women present were just gushing, and they even made the jumbotron camera between innings.
The cult of the dog is real. It is, as you say, unfulfilled maternal instinct on sickening public display.
Yeah, I'm seeing that all over the place now. People are bringing their dogs everywhere and it's fucking weird.
And, in women, it's a palliative substitute for the babies they don't have. They take all of their mothering energy and pour it into a cat or a dog.
I think all young adults with pets do this to some degree. It's crazy how your relationship to animals changes once you have children. I still love our pets, but they certainly aren't children. There is a dollar amount that will let every one of them die over.
Hangings used to be public spectacles akin to festivals so it was probably an excuse to hawk wares
It's an element of clown world and the neopaganism/gaia worship ecocult.
Both the malthusian hatred for humans, and the pedestaling and worship of animals and nature.
You're not going crazy, your grandparents and their grandparents had a different morality to this. This is an aberration.
Send_it has a good point about animals and 'fur babies' being surrogate 'children' for the perpetually online, sterile and lonely too.
I grew up on a small farm and yeah, my parents had a very different attitude toward animals. We loved them, but they were animals. We didn't spend thousands of dollars at the vet if they were badly injured, we put them down.
It depends as in terms of who I have sympathy the most, kids are number one, then dogs, then cats and list a bunch if animals. Adult humans are somewhere in the 30s on the list.
The reason is a lot of animals, especially those bred and raised for a purpose by use, are very unguarded and trusting to us so when we misuse that trust and maliciously abuse them, it's as egregious as child abuse for the exact same behavioural pattern.
Adults don't get those privileges as their experience should have taught them self reliance and judgement, if they don't have that then there is little hope for them in the future.
That goes double for this bit about the fucking elephant. You take a wild animal and give it the 1900s circus treatment, and it kills you? That's on you. Getting mad at the elephant is insane and retarded. What, if I go out and fuck with a cougar, and it mauls me to death, are they gonna build a cougar-sized harness to fit it to the electric chair?
Yeah I have sympathy for children and rhe elderly. If you fall between that then I don't care much unless your dying
I love animals.
Especially with BBQ sauce.
Basically anything that isn't a pet belongs on a grill.
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I see it a programming the idea that all animals deserve the same rights as humans without the same responsibility. If believe that, then it is easier to believe that all humans deserve the same rights without the same responsibilities.
/why pet the mouse that brings you diseases?
I don't buy this one. Abortion is the glaring example where human life takes a backseat to animal life.
Any normal person would be horrified at knocking a bird's nest out of a tree and stomping on the eggs, but when it comes to a human life gestating in a womb, more than half the population demands the mother be allowed to kill it if it so much as inconveniences her day.
Another good example of that is videos showing puppies being de-tailed. The universal revulsion you see in comments is understandable, but I wonder how many of those people are fine with late-term abortions?
This is going to lead to normalized bestiality. They'll re-work the idea of "consent" so that, in their system of logic, it's possible for animals to grant it to humans.
Yes I think so. I've seen a few things recently. Birds nest destroyed by a hailstorm and someone was all distraught. It's fucking nature, get over it. Bleeding hearts for feral cats like I'm supposed to give a shit about wild nuisance animals.
Then you have the hypocritical ones, where I saw someone being explained their Husky dog cooped up in a tiny yard wasn't abused but was howling all damn day because it was "letting everyone know it was happy and ready to play." How about because some dumbass thought a sled dog would be a good pet for a small suburban yard because they thought it looked cool.
I dunno man, have our fellow humans done much to deserve special regard lately beyond a minimum standard of simply not going out of one’s way to hurt them? It wasn’t cats and dogs, or elephants and orangutans, who set up our current culture of one-way shame and alienation (the one-way being down the progressive stack, obviously). In this zeitgeist, I’d rather walk my dog.
The modern west is a low trust culture run by freaks, deviants and Satan himself.
There are millions of ugly, lonely women who spend all day commenting on animal videos.
There are endless fake animal rescue channels because of these women.
It's such an obvious symptom of late-stage civilization. There are accounts of the same kinds of weird fads in the Roman Empire right before the end. You have to laugh at it.
The worst one I saw was a guy who supposedly found a cat that was thrown in a dumpster.
The cat was in one of those see-through backpacks.
Nobody abandons a cat by zipping it in a backpack and throwing it in a dumpster ffs
It was obviously staged, but sure enough all the comments were like, "You saved that sweet baby!! How can people be so cruel!! I love you so much for saving that poor fur baby! ❤️😍❤️."
I think a lot of it has to do with how we tend to give animals something of a free pass, ethically speaking, since they typically lack the same kinds of mental faculties and capabilities as humans.
Which is somewhat understandable, albeit a little naive. Just because an animal might not be able to fully understand if it's done something we value as wrong, doesn't mean they were totally devoid of the many same driving forces that sometimes motivate people into killing people too.
And what's worse in some ways is that because animals lack the mental capacity to understand or process any of this, there is almost nothing to guarantee that they won't make the same mistake again when presented with the same circumstances.
People getting upset at a public spectacle hanging of an animal instead of just putting it down is normal. The ones hanging it are just exploiting the animal for their own benefit.
What's clown world is demanding a "trigger warning" because they are so fragile they can't handle accidentally being exposed to anything they don't like. Downvote it and move on with your life.
Frankly, if you're not being hyperbolic with this "animals don't have minds" shit, you're probably more brain-rotted than the average "pet parent." They may be coping poorly with clown world, but that's a level of autistic that's hard to beat.
The only seriously concerning trend is where pet obsession overlaps with the whole pibble thing. You can see the parallels between it and prog racial fetishism, in part because they frequently compare blacks and pits unironically. Even then, the concerning part is less that parallel (it's too many layers deep to work on directly) and more how it's directly responsible for most dog attacks, particularly against children.
Despite being only 6% of American dogs,
NIGGpitbulls commit 66% of fatal dog bites.I would temper this take. Yes, some people are fucking crazy. I've volunteered at local animal shelters, and I've donated to a local wildlife rescue organization (and used them several times when I found some abandoned baby bunnies, a wounded songbird, etc.). I also am a big meat eater, but I try to buy meat from local farmers where I know the conditions are reasonable, and the slaughter was humane. I'm just saying, there can be a balance, and you can love animal life while also being a meat eater.
Man's bonds to his animals are ancient and deep. Think about Odysseus and his dog Argos, who remained faithful to his master for all those years of absence, dying happy knowing that his master made it home. Think about Alexander the Great and his war horse, Bucephalus, who was loyal to Alexander throughout countless battles. Alexander named a city after Bucephalus when he died.
Don't disparage the connection between man and beast.
Kindness towards animals is an inherently White trait, when you go down this rabbit hole you find stories of Indians raping and eating monitor lizards, blacks throwing dogs into dryers and turning the machine on, horrible and inhumane violence because they're just animals so who cares right?
I'm with you, lol.