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A Boring Dystopia

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Nothing is more American than the Opossum! They only reside in North America.

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I love this and yet sadly when it comes down to who is best at playing dead in response to threats, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries clearly take gold medals, so I think that muddles it a bit if you are trying to make a new party.

[–] epicthundercat@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

How about we replace the bald eagle then? Opossums are more North American imho.

P.S. What if I just wanted an excuse to post a cute animal image for everyone in the middle of this stressful time in history? Lol

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago

P.S. What if I just wanted an excuse to post a cute animal image for everyone in the middle of this stressful time in history? Lol

Stop that MEOW!

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Welcome to the club! The club of opossum posting because the world is bleak and life is short and opossums be opossuming.

If you aren’t subscribed to !opossums@lemmy.world you should be ☺️

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I want to start the Crow party. Crows are smart, they work together, and they will fuck you up if you screw them over. Ideal icon.

[–] epicthundercat@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

That's a good one!!

[–] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Eh it's basically already taken by Ravenclaw party

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago

Fuck that. Make a corvid-inspired political party that isn’t an ad for the world’s richest TERF.

[–] qualia@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What do you have against placental mammals?!

[–] epicthundercat@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

They basic it's all about that pouch

[–] qualia@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The joeys' waste situation in the pouch is... hooo.

Edit: Oops that's not the right video, still good tho. Basically the joeys

nsfwpiss and shit in the pouch and the mama licks out the waste to keep it clean.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 5 points 5 months ago

The worst thing about opossums is having a wild animal that you can almost trip over. Their thing about staying completely still rather than running away.

[–] UnrefinedChihuahua@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I vote no parties at all after the collapse; possum or otherwise.

[–] MJKee9@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Why can't we all be possums? Just one party with 30 separate primaries resulting in 22 candidates that have to eat ticks an lay still in the middle of a busy highway. If you survive and don't get lime disease you get to move on to the lightning round.... That's the round where you have to get struck by lightning while sleeping in a tree.