The whole "you get half a century in prison for shooting a dog that was bred, raised and trained for the purpose of maiming you and undermining your humanity" thing is why the emotional manipulation of TLOU2 had zero impact on me
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you guys know I fucking love dogs I also think that dogs who hate Black people should be treated with the same kindness as humans who hate Black people
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
Police dogs are, unfortunately, basically biological weapons, and their training makes them dangerous until retired. I mean, the Nazis had brutal dogs too.
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It's funny that one of the reasons the original Wolfenstein 3D was "controversial" is that you have to kill Rottweilers while sneaking out of prison (which the remakes faithfully reproduced) PETA went after them for it back in the day
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It's not like you don't have to kill wolves in a bunch of games.
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The thing being a trained attack dog is much more dangerous to you than an actual wild animal would be, in most situations That's the whole thing about dogs, they're generically engineered weapons
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It's a pure gut thing. And it's kind of perverse, really - there's a huge stigma against a number of dogs which are basically no more harmful than any other, so the cops perhaps pointedly don't use them...and instead parade out less stigmatized dogs.
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And much as in any conversation of law enforcement, there is some theoretical place for sniffer dogs to like, detect explosions or other dangerous compounds, but that's NOT the dominant reason the cops use dogs any more than what cops primarily do is what police are "supposed to"
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I saw a post from a Black dude whose avocation was breeding mastiffs about how this was an act of reclamation, that there's still a lot of generational trauma in the Black community about hunting dogs and what they represent
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Just like a lot of communities still have a lot of reasons not to feel super positive about the imagery of people mounted on horseback
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Like that brutal comic "What Airshows Are Like for Brown People" "So this is what it looks and sounds like seconds before you die" *Northrup B-2 streaks overhead with a sonic THWOOOOOOOM*
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"And now for a brief change of pace to our classic aircraft showcase This is what it was like to die in the 1940s" *several prop planes abreast going whhhhhhhrrrrr*
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I'm a little more ambivalent about that one because, you know, Japan's actions in the Pacific War don't seem remotely seem equivalent to the suffering of Black people in chattel slavery.
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