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  • masquenox@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldThe Circle of Life
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    3 hours ago

    elephants evolved without predation

    Really? They just jumped from rabbit-sized mammals to elephant-size with zero predation?

    Prey animals breed with the assumption

    This is the first time I’ve heard of a deer “assuming” anything.

    If this doesn’t happen then their population balloons until it consumes all available resources, then it collapses.

    Evolution doesn’t stop simply because predation stops. Yes, deer population will expand if predation stops, but that expansion will not result in some “Reindeer Apocalypse” as the colonialist brain-trust on here is trying to pretend it would. No, it will not result in the consumption of all available resources, as reindeer’s natural environment is vast frikken northern hemisphere continents. If that could be possible, you might as well try to prove that bison hoovered up all the world’s grasslands before humans even managed to become humans.

    Let nature be natural.

    We closed that door permanently about two centuries ago. We did…

    We’ve removed their natural predators,

    …this, remember?

    It’d be fascist to assume it’s our domain to conquer and dominate into submission.

    I’d say it’s pretty eco-fash to assume that this isn’t the exact thing we’ve already done.









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    14 hours ago

    absolutely wild that someone would assume someone’s political views based on their understanding of ecosystems-level biology,

    Lol!

    What did you think the (so-called) “Tragedy Of The Commons” right-wing myth was all about, eh? It’s literally the same argument as the one being peddled here.


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    Dude, this is the most uncontaversial take in conservation.

    So, again. Your Malthusian eco-fash hottake can literally be disproven by the simple fact that elephants exist. Animals can and will evolve to live within the means of their environments. Even humans have been thoroughly documented to be capable of such. So your pretensions that a “Reindeer Apocalypse” is imminent is… what, exactly?






  • The loud and proud fascists want shit like mass deportations.

    Keeping the expendable labor violently repressed is literally one of the main “services” fascism renders to the liberal (ie, capitalist) order. What did you think all this “immigrant” hysteria was really all about?

    No, they don’t want deportations - that’s just what they tell the rank-and-file goons in order to get them to do the dirty work. They want all the expendable labour appropriately terrorized, under constant threat of state brutality and violently prevented from integrating with US society. Ie, it’s literally as old as the Book Of Exodus.

    So no. This is good for business. And the Reagen-fascists knows this as well as the Trump-fascists do. It’s just the vile way in which capitalism has always used fascism to further it’s own ends.