(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . "When it's a crime to own a murder dinosaur, only criminals will have murder dinosaurs." [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-04-02 One of those things that popped up on my Twitter feed (Yes, I still look at it from time to time) was a link to a thread that tweeted out an essay taken from a Substack account by one A.R. Moxon. Titled “A Good Guy With A Dinosaur”, it’s an exercise in black humor satirizing the tortured logic used to justify — well you can figure it out. Reasoning by analogy is sometimes suspect — but it can provide useful perspective. Warning — serious trigger imagery ahead. Here’s the lead-off It wasn’t long before everyone knew that dinosaurs were being released into the city. Nobody debated about that part—not at first. Everyone agreed; dinosaurs were being released into the city. It would have been a hard thing to deny. The screams were in everyone’s ears. You’d hear about it in the news, and you’d see the footage on social media, or, if you were unlucky, you’d see it yourself. Almost every day, sometimes more than once a day, one or more dinosaurs—about six feet tall, all corded muscle and metallic shiny feathers, talons like scimitars and beaks full of teeth, nightmarishly fast—would come dashing out of nowhere and grab people, landing on them with the full weight of a football linebacker, piercing their torsos with claws the size of steel plantains, tearing their human prey apart into chunks and gibbets in a horrifying instant. They’d do this again and again, until nobody remained in the area, then they’d return to their kill to eat. Some of the things were free-range, left over from previous releases, but clearly they were being released from vans and semi trucks and rented U-Hauls—there was often footage corroborating it, and usually there was a body. The people who released the dinosaurs were sometimes caught by authorities, but usually by the time the authorities arrived, the perpetrator had been (as one might expect) eaten by their own dinosaurs. Dying in the act of creating a massacre appeared to be a big part of the plan of the person releasing his dinosaurs. Almost every day, new dinosaurs were being released by somebody or other into some public place or another, to tear human beings apart until someone could be summoned to put the beasts down. No public place in the city was immune from dinosaur attack: a church, a synagogue, a grocery, a dance club. Public schools were most popular... [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/2/2161739/--When-it-s-a-crime-to-own-a-murder-dinosaur-only-criminals-will-have-murder-dinosaurs Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/