Comment on The term carrot and stick doesn't sit well with me. If you hit a donkey with a stick then it's likely it won't trust you enough to accept a carrot later.

• nexas_XIII@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  People were trying to gently educate you on a metaphor and you decided anything pre-internet is a requirement. Then you keep talking about your lived experience when you got it wrong. Then you attack people when they said they’re not going to do work for you and if you want info you can look it up yourself. You got some real boomer energy my guy/gal.

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You don’t use a stick on a donkey or a horse, unless you want your face kicked in and trampled to death.

    Have any of you ever heard of a horse whip? When used correctly, they exceed the speed of sound, and keep trainers and riders at a safe distance from them.

    I don’t give a fuck about some stupid metaphor that probably came from republican propaganda when they have no experience on a farm.

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    • nexas_XIII@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you don’t care about the metaphor what the heck are you doing in this conversation

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      • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Because I have no experience with said stupid ‘metaphor’, I’ve never heard it as a metaphor before today.

        Coming from over 10 years on a horse/donkey ranch, I speak from real life experience. I didn’t realize that people were so dumb as to think you whip such a large animal with a stick, that’s just fucking stupid and asking to die by the animal’s hooves.

        So once again, there’s a reason they make horse/donkey whips, and if you don’t know what that is, well go spend a few days on a large animal farm and learn how dangerous the untrained can be.

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    • matengor@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Don’t feed the troll.

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• irmoz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The metaphor is not about how to ride horses or donkeys.

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Here is a story from a ranch

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Funny you think you are.

    You don’t hit a donkey or a horse with a stick, unless you want your face kicked in. Which actually happened on our ranch, thankfully not to me though.

    You ever heard of a horse whip? Do you know how to use them? They’re usually over 8 feet long, and when swung, aimed and popped correctly, that pop exceeds the speed of sound, keeping the trainers at a safe distance with a safe advantage.

    Wanna try again troll? I literally grew up on a horse ranch, and the proper tools of training horses and donkeys would rip your flesh open.

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Did your ranch ever become under siege?

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