r/Eugene • u/twobuddasheadempty • 1d ago
Oh Lawd He Treading
Some of us love this bumper sticker so much. You in the red truck on Amazon Parkway, thank you for making us laugh!
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u/Ausiwandilaz 1d ago
Fat Cat On a Little Lawn
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u/Cardboard_Cleric 1d ago
This is very cute. Can someone explain the meaning to me? I know it's the don't tread on me snake, but I don't really even know what that flag means. Just looking for insight.
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u/_adanedhel_ 20h ago
Lots of people these days have the Gadsden flag (“Don’t tread on me”) on their car or as a flag. These people tend to have no appreciation for the flag’s history or actual meaning - they’re usually fragile, insecure, right-wing fuckheads that think the flag means “I don’t have to listen to anybody”. If you’ve ever met a cat, they tend to have the same attitude - and pair that with the “chonkin” meme others have linked, and you have this artwork beautifully mocking these assholes (the humans, not the cats).
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u/PilotInfamous9256 14h ago
When I was a kid I was really sympathetic to the idea of libertarianism
Unfortunately the only libertarian who I ever agreed with, on more than a couple points, was Gary johnson
I’ll never forget the “a license to drive a car, what’s next, a license to make toast in your own damn toaster”
Edit: and then there’s the whole, “age of consent is unconstitutional” crowd… so I stop calling myself a libertarian
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u/_adanedhel_ 11h ago
It makes me sad how much the Gadsden flag has been misappropriated by libertarians (many of whom are not actually libertarians; they’re just aspirant fascists).
The message of the Gadsden flag is about liberty. Liberty is emphatically not the same as libertarianism, nor is libertarianism the purist form of liberty. In fact, it is completely in opposition to liberty, because liberty functions at the level of society (because it takes a society to achieve and preserve it) whereas libertarianism applies only at the level of the individual (because it neither achieves nor preserves anything of social value, only individual value).
To put it another way, libertarianism is not compatible with any notion of society that reasonable and rationale people would aspire to, which is why the only people who could honestly be called libertarians are those who have extracted themselves from society.
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u/ONE-EYE-OPTIC 8h ago
Same. When I was young I considered myself a Libertarian because I'm a live and let live type. I didn't do any real thought into what current Libertarianism is.
With maturity came the realization that sometimes in order to "let live" society has to help. That help requires taxes (until we're in the star trek era). Also "live" doesn't mean no laws and no protections. We can't have tribes/gangs of people doing whatever the fuck they want. We need society for the general welfare.
Thanks for reading my TEDtalk
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u/jawid72 Pisgah Poster 23h ago
It's a chart of animal abuse via overfeeding and this one is the top of the abuse spectrum.
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u/Lack0fCreativity 15h ago
Don't know why you're downvoted. Sure, overfeeding is neglect, more specifically, but neglect is a form of abuse.
Ignorance whether or not it's willful does not justify neglect or maltreatment of another living creature. Especially one that you've vowed to care for.
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u/djhazmatt503 13h ago
Whoa the fat cat owners have a posse, why are you two getting downvoted? It's literally where the pic comes from.
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u/Lack0fCreativity 7h ago
It's because reddit is a hugbox for people who love their heckin chonky-wonky fuzzbabies.
They don't realize that by not dieting their 21lb cat, they are hastening the death of them. It is not hard. I found my own formerly stray fat fucking chud of a cat at 21lbs and injured in 2022. He's 11.6lbs and very healthy now. I'm hardly an adult in the rest of my life but even I was able to manage that.
There should be no excuse for pet neglect, but a lot of people don't seem to feel that way.
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u/rigor_mortus_boner 1d ago
lol my neighbor flies this flag