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Every human who crushes the worker ant, who slaughters them by water or by magnifying glass, is nothing but a fascist counterrevolutionary pig serving the fin-ants capitalist exploiters. They speak of “workers unity” and “international proletarian solidarity”, but betray their words with every action.

When we see an ant enter our “sacred homes”, what should we do? We must recognize this ant as a part of its colony, exploited as a slave by the monarchical regime. We must see that it is only the boundless thirst of the queen which the worker ant serves that brought them into your home, and that in stomping the ant out you are in actuality only weakening the workers’ struggle and therefore inviting the queen to elevate her tyranny, the further imperialist invasions of human homes in her cruel leb-ant-sraum.

We should take the words of Chairm-ant Mao to heart and proclaim with him that “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” Yet the level of development of the ant productive forces is low, and they have neither spear nor gun. What must be done? It was Stalin who, with regards to the national question, noted that we must go beyond the mere legal equality of nations to their real material equality, that more developed nations must aid in the development of those less developed nations. The ants do not have the level of development needed to produce firearms? Then we must take it upon ourselves to arm these ants to overthrow their oppressors! We must create barracks for them, and mini firearms as well, so that they may return, sword in hand (so to speak), and put the monarchy to rest, building a new workers’ state from its ashes.

Thank you for listening.

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We must see that it is only the boundless thirst of the queen which the worker ant serves that brought them into your home, and that in stomping the ant out you are in actuality only weakening the workers’ struggle and therefore inviting the queen to elevate her tyranny, the further imperialist invasions of human homes in her cruel leb-ant-sraum.

This bit is hilarious but it’s also entomologically inaccurate. It’s a eurocentric-anthropomorphic projection to even call ant queens “Queens.” Ants are big collectives that work together – the egg-laying queens do not at all rule tyrranically

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I fucking love bugs. When I was a kid I had this book called “The Bug Book” that covered many different bugs and even came with a little net and mini-terrarium to catch and put them inside.

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A lil ant was crawling on my leg and startled me so I swiped at it and injured it D’: I thought about crushing it in mercy because it was still moving about, but some ants clean wounds and perform amputations so I let it be. I hope they can get medical attention from a comrade.

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I really do sincerely appreciate this sentiment, especially as a vegan, but I’m always curious about the ecological environment it can exist in. It’s practically impossible to spend time in the Canadian wilderness in the spring or summer without murdering a few mosquitoes, ticks, horseflies, blackflies, deerflies, etc.

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They creep me out too, but I don’t kill them either. I actually ordered a tool online specifically for the purpose of catching them and releasing them outside. I got that after a sizable cockroach crawled on my foot one night when the lights were off. I freaked out so hard that it ended up escaping because it was overwhelmed by my reaction. I was crying, I felt very bad, and I was paranoid all night when I tried to sleep.

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