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Mosquitos can't help being what they are, landlordism is a choice

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[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

Male mosquitoes have an important ecological role as pollinators, and thus are useful

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

mosquitos are pollinators, landlords don't help at all

[–] WayeeCool@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)

mosquitos are a food source for fish, birds, bats, and dragonflys while landlords are not

[–] bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Landlords are not food for the working class.

not yet

[–] Hexbollah@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

TBF, Carrion birds and several apex predator fish (like muskies) could eat landlords. But the fish would need the landlords chopped up into small pieces.

[–] borlax@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They could be tho…

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Mosquitos would make terrible penal labor.

[–] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Mosquitos are also important to their ecosystems. So many things eat mosquitoes, they're essential to food supply of many ecosystems they reside in. Even parasites can be important in their ecosystems, standing host to all sorts of bacterias. Landlords do none of this.