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fool, fucker, fantasist
counterpoint fools are cool
if dehumanization is game, dog and creature are preferred for general use, stubbornly foolish is a donkey. bottom-feeder is inspecific but transparent
I try to avoid dehumanization outright, barring some very extreme edge cases.
Like cops.
i go back and forth on animal comparisons, it can be really vile sometimes but people also do it very casually
i personally think dog is very mean, but donkey/ass a lot less rude for some reason
I like starting an animal-comparison, then reversing half way to say that the noble rat or pig or jackal has done nothing so awful as to deserve being compared to the person I'm insulting.
dog can backfire though
come here and say that you dog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VawSftR4ek
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bit contextual but you'd associate it with gullibility & servility for an insult
if someone called me a dog i would just say "
"
Sometimes with libs I'll say something like "even a dog will turn and bite if it's been abused long enough, but you never will!'