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16 hours agoYeah but it’s gotten better. When I was a kid in the 70s/80s almost everyone just locked their dogs outside in the back yard and didn’t consider them family like they do now. I mean, it was their dog, yes, like sorta family, but these days almost everyone literally considering their dogs actual family, and most probably think of them in terms of being akin to children and best friends. They used to be just property and tools to a lot of people. That applies to lots of animals now, people are getting more compassionate and evolved with their theory of mind in animals. Insects, reptiles and fish are starting to sneak into that evolution as well.
And hate groups know there’s a loneliness epidemic and that humans have a lizard brain problem where our brains literally panic and sense impending doom if we feel like the human groups have ostracized us, kicked us out into the Savanah to survive on our own, so they utilize that to recruit with propaganda and in grievances that speak to the lonely and then welcome them with hateful ingroup “jokes” and repetitive beliefs that lead to radicalization.