I am gong to make a broad, sweeping statement that will ignore lots of individual cases.

Main reason is Improper Socialisation. Those dogs have learned to understand and trust humans but had limited, and in the cases where they quickly get aggressive, often negative contact to other dogs.

They have lived their whole life with humans. Humans are safe, predictable and understandable. They learned to read humans. This is in fact the main trait we bred dogs for this last ca. 40.000 years.

But because they have not really learned to interact with other dogs they get insecure, because these unpredictable things are running around. They are sometimes loud, oftentimes hectic. This insecurity can then change to aggression if the dogs see no other way out of the situation.

I am ignoring personality right now, as individual dogs will react differently under the same circumstances, but the first reaction of most dogs will be to get out of a perceived threat. First by signaling via posture, eyes, ears and tail then by running or warning it of. It takes a lot of training, known or unknown by the owner, to get a dog to the point where it reacts violently as a first choice.

but how can I achieve this smug feeling of superiority and self-satisfaction if I can not gatekeep stuff?

Nah, he is just gaslighting overwhelming everyone. Tons of insane and insulting shit to occupy the media and people, so that he can pull all the stunts he he wants. Drowning everything in noise so that no one knows what to focus on anymore.

Don’t get me wrong, he is batshit insane bud there is a certain method to his madness.

Edit: Looks like I was using ‘gaslighting’ incorrectly.

I’m not so certain. I doubt that AI would get the motion blur of the chicken pecking the ground right.

Edit: Looks like I was late to the discussion

That’s actually great. Now it can watch what it eats.

Grafiti can be art, but even when skillfully executed it is still vandalism if the owner of the facade did not aquiesce.