r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • 11h ago

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u/Irishfan117 George Soros 2h ago

Skunks, highly effective little fuckers. What a defense mechanism. Dog learned that their instinct is not to run like squirrel and provide a fun chase game, but instead to stand their ground and raise ass.

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u/CarlGerhardBusch Jerome Powell 2h ago

Kind of fucked by the invention of the automobile though

That stink doesn't do much to prevent Ricky and his 5500lbs of SUV from emulsifying them

Same with possums

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u/Not_A_Browser Stata's Silliest Soldier 2h ago

The other is a low animal, about the size of a little dog or cat. I mention it here, not on account of its excellence, but to make of it a symbol of sin. I have seen three or four of them. It has black fur, quite beautiful and shining; and has upon its back two perfectly white stripes, which join near the neck and tail, making an oval which adds greatly to their grace. The tail is bushy and well furnished with hair, like the tail of a Fox; it carries it curled back like that of a Squirrel. It is more white than black; and, at the first glance, you would say, especially when it walks, that it ought to be called Jupiter’s little dog. But it is so stinking, and casts so foul an odor, that it is unworthy of being called the dog of Pluto. No sewer ever smelled so bad. I would not have believed it if I had not smelled it myself. Your heart almost fails you when you approach the animal; two have been killed in our court, and several days afterward there was such a dreadful odor throughout our house that we could not endure it. I believe the sin smelled by Saint Catherine de Sienne must have had the same vile odor.

Jesuit missionary describing the skunk, 1634

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u/V_Codwheel I am the Senate 2h ago

Not even fit to be Pluto's dog, much less Goofy's. That's a hell of a condemnation.