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That's an impressively incorrect reading of the comment.
Can't see any other point they were making then. Unless they are just trying to call hypocrisy towards folks thinking animals having lots of babies is cute while humans doing the same is bad. Because if that is the point that's missing so much fucken context that if it was a physical object it'd be a fucken mountain range, mostly because most animal babies die pretty fucken often. From experience chicks alone have like a 60 percent mortality rating if humans aren't directly involved in taking care of them, roosters apparently love to eat chicks.
They're saying that "more babies = more success" is a funny and cute idea when expressed by a cartoon duck, but is extremely harmful when expressed by humans in the real world. I honestly can't imagine how you reached your interpretation of the comment because it seems to have very little in common with anything they said.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, because it looks like the duck had 1 baby, then adopted 20 others.
Obviously ducks are cuter than humans.
Not sure why you think someone hates ducks.
Because the way they wrote their comment is often times used to draw direct comparison and critique between two different things. It's basically the meme of the two castles fighting each other with text like "our glorious leader" vs "their ignoble tyrant". But then again I am very much in favor of death of the author so two different interpretations of a single work can exist once published, I think that can apply to a comment.
I see where you’re coming from but no, I’m very much not pronatalist, and my opinion of them is literally what I put in the comment.
I was going for “amusing juxtaposition” but the vote balance on my comment shows you were not the only one who didn’t take it that way, my bad!
Edit: I also do not hate ducks
I have never heard of this meme format, thanks for the education!