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[Redzephyr01]

http://kotaku.com/im-not-sure-but-i-think-peta-is-upset-with-pokemon-1443910146
PETA, when will you understand that Pokemon aren't real? Why can't you just devote this much effort to helping actual animals instead of making violent flash-games and attempting to somehow connect Nintendo with McDonalds? Not to mention that Pokemon isn't even made by Nintendo, it's made by Game Freak, and Nintendo just licences it.

[Putnam]

Not to mention that Pokemon isn't even made by Nintendo, it's made by Game Freak, and Nintendo just licences it.

That's like saying that Smash Brothers isn't made by Nintendo...

(I.E technically true but pretty much entirely irrelevant)

[kaijyuu]

I usually find PETA's ironic games hilarious.

[Iceblaster]

I usually find PETA's ironic games hilarious.

My thoughts exactly.

I mean, Black and Blue was more funny in a 'We didn't play the game' sort of thing as

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Ghetsis wanted to enslave the pokemon

so in the sight of someone who beat the game, it's hilariously stupid.

[RedKing]

http://kotaku.com/im-not-sure-but-i-think-peta-is-upset-with-pokemon-1443910146
PETA, when will you understand that Pokemon aren't real? Why can't you just devote this much effort to helping actual animals instead of making violent flash-games and attempting to somehow connect Nintendo with McDonalds? Not to mention that Pokemon isn't even made by Nintendo, it's made by Game Freak, and Nintendo just licences it.

Wait, what?
Is McDonald's selling Pokeburgers now or something? Or Pika McNuggets? HOW DO YOU UNETHICALLY TREAT IMAGINARY QUASI-ANIMALS??
Next, they'll be suing Peter Jackson for the CGI oliphants and wargs harmed in the making of the Lord of the Rings movies.
Or coming after Bay12 because of the millions of slaughtered kittens.


I know it's impossible, but I'm beginning to think PETA is just a 4chan parody of what a vegan animal-rights group would be like.

[scrdest]

http://kotaku.com/im-not-sure-but-i-think-peta-is-upset-with-pokemon-1443910146
PETA, when will you understand that Pokemon aren't real? Why can't you just devote this much effort to helping actual animals instead of making violent flash-games and attempting to somehow connect Nintendo with McDonalds? Not to mention that Pokemon isn't even made by Nintendo, it's made by Game Freak, and Nintendo just licences it.

Wait, what?
Is McDonald's selling Pokeburgers now or something? Or Pika McNuggets? HOW DO YOU UNETHICALLY TREAT IMAGINARY QUASI-ANIMALS??
Next, they'll be suing Peter Jackson for the CGI oliphants and wargs harmed in the making of the Lord of the Rings movies.
Or coming after Bay12 because of the millions of slaughtered kittens.


I know it's impossible, but I'm beginning to think PETA is just a 4chan parody of what a vegan animal-rights group would be like.

McDonalds apparently has Happy Meal Pokemon toys now. And since McDonalds is evil, and McDonalds sales Pokemon toys, therefore McDonalds sells evil. Wait, no, Evil sells Pokemon toys. Or whatever.

Also, PETA totally-not-supports a totally-not-terrorist organization, so yeah, they smash into Poe's Law so hard they leave a permanent dent there.

Oh, and most of the animals they 'rescue' end up killed.

[Xantalos]

http://kotaku.com/im-not-sure-but-i-think-peta-is-upset-with-pokemon-1443910146
PETA, when will you understand that Pokemon aren't real? Why can't you just devote this much effort to helping actual animals instead of making violent flash-games and attempting to somehow connect Nintendo with McDonalds? Not to mention that Pokemon isn't even made by Nintendo, it's made by Game Freak, and Nintendo just licences it.

Wait, what?
Is McDonald's selling Pokeburgers now or something? Or Pika McNuggets? HOW DO YOU UNETHICALLY TREAT IMAGINARY QUASI-ANIMALS??
Next, they'll be suing Peter Jackson for the CGI oliphants and wargs harmed in the making of the Lord of the Rings movies.
Or coming after Bay12 because of the millions of slaughtered kittens.


I know it's impossible, but I'm beginning to think PETA is just a 4chan parody of what a vegan animal-rights group would be like.

*gets out radio*

He knows.

[Sheb]

Well, they actually accept mercy killings of animals. Their ideology is extreme, but it is at least internally consistent.

[Hanslanda]

My pets could 'escape' at pretty much any point they wish, except for the fish. The cats all go outside on a daily basis and return of their own free will ON A DAILY BASIS. The dogs don't want to leave because they get very frightened and confused when they aren't at home and not with one of my family. The two times our big dog has run off, we've found him wandering in circles many blocks away, whining and growling to himself in terror. The smaller dog KNOWS she doesn't want to run off, and she always sticks really close to me and obeys incredibly well. The rest of the time she's a brainless dink, but she listens crazy well if we're out of her territory.

[Vattic]

I can see where their problem with Pokemon comes from. If you agree that dog fighting and similar is wrong then pokemon fighting is not much different. If you assume media normalises behaviours then Pokemon is normalising animal abuse.

[Arx]

Johannesburg, South Africa is actually much more dangerous than Detroit, and one of the official languages of South Africa is English. Besides, Detroit is only really bad if you go hang out in the hood. There are a lot of lovely abandoned buildings and two very nice stadiums downtown. Also, the rest of Michigan is pretty nice, provided you stay out of Battle Creek, which is mini-Detroit.

Chiming in here to say, as a South African and ex-Joburgite, that it's also true that Johannesburg is also only dangerous in certain parts; my brief (possibly inaccurate) check of Wikipedia suggests that Detroit has a higher crime rate than Joburg. Way more dangerous is Mitchells Plain, Cape Town, where we've had ~16000 attempted murders this year (All violent crimes in Detroit annually: ~15500), and there is occasionally talk of calling in the army to curb gang warfare.

[RedKing]

http://kotaku.com/im-not-sure-but-i-think-peta-is-upset-with-pokemon-1443910146
PETA, when will you understand that Pokemon aren't real? Why can't you just devote this much effort to helping actual animals instead of making violent flash-games and attempting to somehow connect Nintendo with McDonalds? Not to mention that Pokemon isn't even made by Nintendo, it's made by Game Freak, and Nintendo just licences it.

Wait, what?
Is McDonald's selling Pokeburgers now or something? Or Pika McNuggets? HOW DO YOU UNETHICALLY TREAT IMAGINARY QUASI-ANIMALS??
Next, they'll be suing Peter Jackson for the CGI oliphants and wargs harmed in the making of the Lord of the Rings movies.
Or coming after Bay12 because of the millions of slaughtered kittens.


I know it's impossible, but I'm beginning to think PETA is just a 4chan parody of what a vegan animal-rights group would be like.

McDonalds apparently has Happy Meal Pokemon toys now. And since McDonalds is evil, and McDonalds sales Pokemon toys, therefore McDonalds sells evil. Wait, no, Evil sells Pokemon toys. Or whatever.

Also, PETA totally-not-supports a totally-not-terrorist organization, so yeah, they smash into Poe's Law so hard they leave a permanent dent there.

Oh, and most of the animals they 'rescue' end up killed.

IIRC, they believe that animals wouldn't enjoy being pets because it's demeaning or something. Which is funny, because most pets stay around voluntarily, and have plenty of opportunities to leg it.

IIRC, they equate animal domestication to slavery. Or at least indentured servitude.

Because those cats have it so fucking hard, what with all the sleeping they have to do, and the cat condo and free food. Seriously, if there's any pet whose life is the opposite of indentured servitude, it's a cat.

I can see where their problem with Pokemon comes from. If you agree that dog fighting and similar is wrong then pokemon fighting is not much different. If you assume media normalises behaviours then Pokemon is normalising animal abuse.

So they think Pokemon is a gateway to dogfighting/cockfighting/etc?

That's a rather extreme slippery slope argument, but one I could at least debate. But then WTF is with the McNugget weirdness and having a blood-drenched evil clown boss fight?


PETA is sort of adorable in the way that newly-minted anarchist teenagers can be. They have a bunch of valid concerns that they see as wrong in the world, but rather than find a coherent way to articulate them they just sort of mash it all together and provide a bizarre nihilist response that doesn't really relate to anything.

Teen who just discovered Black Flag and Dead Kennedys: "Capitalism and corporatism and war and racism and old white guys SUCK, so fuck the system! Let's get drunk and fuck and break shit!"

PETA: "Eating meat and wearing fur and abusing animals SUCK, so fuck the system! Let's show nude chicks wearing vegetables and throw blood on people!"

[LordSlowpoke]

you know what's a gateway to dog/cock/walrusfighting

motherfucking saltybet

i'm just going to find a peta contact email and shoot them a link it'll be hilarious

[GiglameshDespair]

I'm pretty sure not all the fighters are human iin saltybet
that means its animal abuse
saltybet is satan for animals

[RedKing]

Would furries count as animals or people? And what if you have furries who own pets?