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I get this meme is funny but like, if horses really were that fragile then they would not have been domesticated into the work machines we had before combustion engines. They were our automobiles, they plowed our fields and fought in our wars. Yes evolution is a messy ordeal, but it can produce beings that have wild amounts of endurance and horses are near the top of that list.

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JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Horses are like the ultimate fascist’s enemy, powerful and fragile at the same time.

They really are glass cannons though. When I was young I watched a bird land on the paddock rail, a horse who was standing right there didn’t notice, turned a little and saw it, JUMPED WITH ALL 4 LEGS straight up and broke one when it landed. What the fuck!?

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- SalamiDommie@lemmus.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  What is your brain that you had to contort horses in “the ultimate fascist’s enemy”.
  
  Fascinating
  
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  - Aremel@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    In fascist ideology, “the enemy” is simultaneously very strong and powerful but also very weak and incompetent. It’s how they get you to hate the outgroup. Immigrants are strong and powerful because they take all of our jobs but are also weak and incompetent because they dont speak English. How can they take all the jobs if they don’t even speak English? It makes sense to a fascist.
    
    Horses, in a roundabout way, are also strong and powerful but also kinda fragile. I believe this is the line of thought OP had.
    
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    SalamiDommie@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    I’ll also say. As I think about it, it makes sense of something I have been struggling with about MAGA Trump. And makes me way more sympathetic to them and conservatives.
    
    Thanks for explaining.
    
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    SalamiDommie@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    I want to applaud you for explaining in a good faith way befitting of one person to another.
    
    Big updoots to you
    
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- ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Got it.
  
  Sneak up on cats with cucumbers and on horses with birds.
  
  What do we do for dogs?
  
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  - prenatal_confusion@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Sneak up to them with a broken horse leg and club them.
    
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- senseamidmadness@lemmygrad.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Horses are scared of two things. Things that move, and things that don’t
  
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metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
If you consider Przewalski’s horse as being closer to the original lineage than what we’ve bred them to be, I’d imagine they didn’t have as many issues, in the same way Przewalski’s horse doesn’t. They’re smaller but stockier, so they can hold themselves up on three limbs, their skin isn’t as tight so it can heal from wounds better, and their soles are thicker so they can run on rough terrain without as much risk of injury. We bred horses to work, to carry us, and to be shiny, and I think that ruined much of their resilience.

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