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It isn't a snarky remark, just a factual one.

The collective psychosis of the left around Floyd coalesced into a pseudo religious frenzy, with clear sectarian dynamics.

Which doesn't surprise anyone who understood since long ago how Marxism is in fact a millenarian cult.

Ofc you guys in the left can only offend people who expose the delirious, incompatible with civility behavior in your big tent.

On the right the smart, savvy people never deny for a single second that the low iq christians, the uneducated nativists and so on are utter trash that is needed to win elections, and that you keep happy with cheap bones from the table of power from time to time. I mean maybe they do deny it on the public stage at large for obvious optic reasons. But everyone among them tells their friends that.

Why can't you accept the same on your side? Why pretend it's well meaning, decent people that do this?

He became a martyr because our peers in the list of “countries whose police kill people” include Philippines, Brazil, Venezuela, Syria, or Salvador, Nigeria, and Afghanistan. Really exceptional company. Just one more thing you wouldn’t understand because you can’t get past that he was black

My gf got into birding and now has a clear bird feeder attached to her window and a bird call app that tracks all the birds shes seen and heard

In general when I'm hiking I try to spot different wild life. I look for moose a lot. Its calf season right now

This is Lunchbox with his dogs and thinks it's totally fine.

countdowns are a very good training method, but most dog owners wouldn't want to see what happens when you get to 0 the first few times during training

I met a guy at the beach who had a shock collar on his husky and he said he's only had to use it once because it also has warning tones it can give and I've considered getting one.

I also did rattlesnake aversion training for her and that uses a shock collar and we came across one about a month ago while she was off leash and she wanted nothing to do with it.

There are zero legitimate training regiments that use countdown training

Police dogs, service dogs, military dogs. Zero

I'm generally looking for spiders to make sure they don't land on me.

to be clear - you don't physically hurt the dog, but you do make the dog think you will

shock collars are also super helpful, especially if you have a strong and aggressive breed like a pitbull - brother has mutt that is part pit and they sent it to obedience school, even got a lifetime training package for 1:1 training with a cesar type and everyone said "your dog won't respond to regular stuff, you need a shock collar" and the difference is night and day

beforehand his in-laws weren't allowed to walk the dog because they were legit worried she'd drag them on the sidewalk

You guys can debate training methods, but the point is that dog isn't ready to be leashless and if she didn't jump in front of the dog, he may have shredded the dog across the street and she'd be saying, "Oh, I'm sorry. He never does that."

It sure seems a lot easier to get a non-vicious breed of dog.

To be clear huskies are not a vicious breed so any comparison to pitbulls is completely unwarranted at least as it pertains to my situation.

like one of the worst things you can do for a dog is use the harness instead of attaching the leash to the collar

if they do not pull then they don't need the harness so it's a waste of time to put on and then take off

if they do pull then giving them a harness is like saying "hey i know you love pulling so we're going to make it easier" - so the biggest mistake you can do is harnessing a dog that starts to pull, instead just keep them on the collar and as they stop being an idiotic puppy exploring the world for the first time and responding to each and every new stimuli with great excitement they'll realize "hey when i pull this thing squeezes my neck so maybe that's a bad idea"

the dog i'm dog sitting now has a vest, when i take her out with it she pulls the entire time despite any attempts at saying heel etc, and if stop to look at my phone for a minute she'll literally start pulling really hard going backwards to take the vest off and then get free

so despite being told to use the vest, i stopped, just attach leash directly to her collar now and immediately all pulling stopped and i don't need to worry about a loose dog any time time i pause for a minute to respond to a text or check a score

I take her out with both a harness and a collar but generally just use the harness.

If she is acting up or not wanting to listen I can switch to the collar but because I'm typically using a 15 or 30 ft lead (when I'm not just letting her run free) then having her on a collar wouldn't be the safest. Lately I've been finding that the collar really just isn't necessary though.

I don’t read continental philosophy yaps. None of these words translate to anything to me except “I don’t like it and I’m going to signal I don’t like it with lots of words”. Don’t care.

Edit: by the way, the above is not a pithy rejoinder. I’d have to ask you what you mean by almost every other word because they’re just all personally defined. So I just don’t know if what you mean by “cult” applies because it’s not being used in a way anyone who studies cults uses the word.

the same way that whenever you have a partner who is always paranoid about fidelity it's usually because they themselves are unfaithful, i think this belief of yours is more about you imagining they are thinking/acting the same as you than anything else

i know these people very well, they include my close family and some of my best friends - by and large they are absolutely well meaning to the point that they equate their political positions not as political preference but rather good vs evil and they are obviously on the good side

there's a few here that i feel use their left politics as a tool to attack others more than anything else, but the majority are genuine in their beliefs and steadfast in that they are doing the right thing

the right doesn't have that perspective, for them it's more coldly calculated so when they disagree strongly, it's not because they view the other side as evil but rather brainwashed fools

hence why most criticism here on the left is more of "lol woke idiots" variety and the criticism of the right is more of the "you disgusting bigot"

That post was in response to the rickroll story, not anything about you or your dog.

You can train any dog to do most anything. In this case, to not do something or, at the very least, immediately stop doing it and return to you. But that's not the issue here. You, being a human and presumably having higher brain functions, should be able to figure out when it is appropriate or not to have you dog off lead. Thank god you don't have a pit bull - "It wasn't my fault! Everyone knows pit bulls love to bite the faces off of children."

I would think being in the middle of the woods is an appropriate spot to have a dog off a leash. That some crazy lady decided to walk several minutes and cross over two locked gates to harass me because she saw my dog chase a deer is not a reflection on me.

why

Because there is no danger of them getting hit by a car

Maybe if you can control it. (Hint: allowing it to chase deer is not controlling it.)

What about wildlife and other hikers?

My dog is fine with hikers but there wouldn't have been any where I was yesterday.

As for wildlife-- I certainly don't want my dog to kill things but her success rate in getting squirrels is still quite low, she can't kill a deer, she has never gotten a rabbit although they wouldn't be where I was, she has never gotten a lizard, or a turkey, or a skunk, or a raccoon. Is it your opinion that the squirrels need protection?