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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

the staying power of outdoor cats is remarkable

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

Eradicate outdoor cats by adopting them and turning them into indoor cats meow-hug

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If you wanna start an old strugglesession, post about the Falklands

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

scrolling through island nations or provinces trying to find the best one to start struggle sessions over

Falklands, already done... Hawaii, we all agree... Taiwan also... how about... uh... Corsica?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

1200 hours of EU4 have prepared me for this moment.

Corsica obviously belongs to the Prusso-Mughal empire, and I'm backing it up with my total war CB.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Goddammit I thought I was gonna just scroll through Wikipedia to come up with some random bizarre historical claim about this peaceful little island, like saying we should re-establish Genoa and return it to them, but now you've got me actually going down a rabbit hole investigating the history of the FLNC.

I had no idea there was such a spicy group over there, or that there was even any conflict.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Give it to Niger as part of reparations. Aim some missiles at France and get Europe to stop fucking with Africa. Create the African Union and have some Soviet/Chinese-style turnaround.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Bold plan to give a landlocked country with no navy an overseas territory. At least consider Tunisia or Algeria first.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Exactly. They'll never see it coming. Keeps them on their toes.
Giving Long Island to Mali next.
Pray the deal isn't altered further.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

it seems like it would be more helpful to give them agriculture equipment and money than an island they never had and probably don't even want full of people who don't think they're nigerien

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Now Niger is getting Mayotte, Clipperton, Guiana, Polynesia, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Caledonia, Réunion, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, Saint Pierre and Miquelon and Wallis and Futuna. Keep pushing and they're getting more islands.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel like there's a good one available about the Soviet occupation of Bornholm maybe.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Dokdo/Takeshima struggle lets goo!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Dokdo is DPRK, get both those US vassal states outta there.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Lmfao I am seriously crying at work

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Gummo (1997)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

They've been a plague driving native birds here to extinction. Even controlling pollution doesn't remove the threat they pose. If thats what it takes, its what has to be done.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's cruel to kill all the outdoor cats, you're depriving the coyotes of a valuable food source.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

la chew-tha-cat-bruh :kelly:

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

just new american internet fads

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

what if instead of exterminating the outdoor cats we rounded them all up and kept them indoors from then on

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I hope this doesn't cause a struggle session. But animals shouldn't be bred for profit or a posh hobby when heaps of homeless cats and dogs exist.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

individuals adopting troubled animals isn't a good enough solution a lot of those animals have additional care requirements outside the capabilities of the average pet owner. What should be done is establish shelters with people actually trained to care for abused animals and make those shelters nice places.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

You're misunderstanding me. When people buy pets, they support an industry that creates homeless animals and destroys the pets once they're no longer young and cute.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

that's just a cat gulag

we need to respect the bird's agency in their own struggle and arm them against the cats

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

There's birds of prey that eat cats, but I think that'd be even worse for small bird populations.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

call in the owls

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Cats are really good at hiding from people when they want to.

I feel like we'd have to train some kind of GPS-collared judas cat or mountain lion that can smell if there's a cat in the area.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hello I’m from the department of agriculture wildlife service, may I indiscriminately seed your land with small poison bombs instead of shooting the cats? It would be more… cost effective.

Edit: my friends from Australia would like to offer up their small poison spraying robot as a fun alternative. The thing we have to emphasize here is that paying PEOPLE to do it is absolutely out of the question!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Cats act like they own the place.

Therefore outdoor cats act like they own the outdoors.

The outdoors is the commons and belong to everyone.

Trying to own common property is bourgeois.

Outdoor cats are landlords.

QED.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Cats are a part of the macro human organism. You can't have fields of grains and piles of trash without cats.

We maybe able organize differently and have less cats, but I don't see us getting to 0 cats. Die mad bird lovers! 🐈

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

The wrong side won the outdoor cats struggle session.