I've never been able to square these attitudes with the way America functions. Do people just never think about how many of the people getting evicted, thrown into poverty, discriminated against and everything else also own dogs? Do they not think about how gearing the entire infrastructure towards highways also killed a ton of dogs? Or even that all these bombing campaigns kill a ton of pets along with the humans,. It's fucked up to not value the people in the first place, but even the selective empathy is so hollow it throws me for a loop.

I was thinking about this with Glenn Greenwald's post gloating about courts shooting down an effort to compensate black farmers that were discriminated against and then a moment later he's complaining that nobody is taking care of all the shelter dogs. It's like, what the fuck do you expect the end result of your politics to be? If the people are not taken care of why do you expect the animals to be?