• realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip
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    5 days ago

    I would like to take every big game hunter, take away their weapon and put them in an arena with the last thing they shot. Nobody of these ballless losers would survive.

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      5 days ago

      I mean, I don’t disagree with the sentiment, but usually the last thing they shot is dead by this point. I think they’d do ok.

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      5 days ago

      They usually payhuge amounts of money to support conservation efforts, killing animals that specifically need to be culled. Generally they aren’t poaching

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        5 days ago

        Sorry, you fell for billionaire propaganda.

        Lions (which is the animal in the above picture) and most other big game like elephants, tigers, any large cats etc (so all the animals that are poached by billionaires) never need to be culled. Most of them are actually endangered species and poaching them is highly illegal. Even stuff like antelopes, water buffalos or some zebra specias are endangered.

        Stuff that needs to be culled are animals like deer in europe because we have completely eradicated their natural predators and not culling them would completely destroy the ecosystem as they eat young trees which kills the forest. And even that is only done if you have a license and with strict reporting duties. But shooting a deer is probably not cool enough for mister milionaire who needs a lions head above his fireplace.

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          oh yea and elephants are pretty much endangered right now as are the cats in africa. despite the “hunting” it seems like culling is a justification to continue hunting it. when they slaughtered all the old male elephants the younger male ones started to attack and kill other big game, without the larger males controlling them.