not in the sense of animals that organize their society in a communist style.

fashies have eagles, libertarians have snakes, what’s the communist animal?

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    Well we have a bear (USSR/Russia) and a dragon (China), but I would argue the ant. Ants are tiny in size but huge in numbers, they work together as a community to maintain a massive society, they aren’t afraid of hard work even becoming bridges or ropes for the colony to progress in it’s united goals, and the heart of a single ant is ginormous as a single ant can lift something between 10 and 100x it’s own weight. Highly admirable! 😍

    Check out these ant facts: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/facts/ants

    • There are 2.5m ants for every human on earth

    • Invasive ants destroy capital costing the world economy $51b between 1930 and 2021. (don’t worry, we [our class] can reorganize society so this isn’t a problem without killing the ants)

    • Ants are “enthusiastically social insects that live in highly structured nest communities” 😍

    • “Ant colonies are so tightly knit and efficient, they can pass useful knowledge between generations, which some experts believe constitutes a colony “memory.” This kind of communal knowledge is essential for defense, so ants can easily differentiate friendly and hostile forces.”

    • Ants are diverse much like we are: “Within the many thousands of known ant species, there are many that fill unique ecological roles, resulting in the development of special physical characteristics and interesting behavior.”

    …Ants 😁👍

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      How do I avoid them eating my food though, that looks like petit bourgeois adventurist terrorism, destroying the personal property of a prole

      Alzo love ants, they have the most communist society

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        That was actually the funniest communist joke I’ve read today, and I visited the pickup lines thread. Good on you.

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          Some ants are based commies but some of them are zinovievites trying to coup my house by killing foodkirov

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      You ever seen the movie antz? I remember it having some marxist themes iirc.

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        Yes! People talk about this a lot. Well they say “positive life lessons to be learned” but those things they reference overlap they just see things not through a Marxist lens.

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      Ants are also haplodiploid. Male ants have half the number of chromosomes as the female ones. And there is no crossing over during gamete formation so all siblings of the same sex have the same genetic sequence.

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        So they’re all like brothers…or, even more so. Neat! No wonder they bond so well