• LeninWeave [none/use name, any]@hexbear.net
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    20,000 dead dogs.

    So here’s an AI photograph of what a small proportion of that might look like.

    “AI” photograph of a few dozen clearly alive dogs having a slumber party in the woods.

    lmao

  • what if instead of a pile of dead dogs in the woods, it was an even smaller pile of dead fox hunters.

    i mean, the overlap for people in the highest 1% cohort of ongoing contribution to global warming potential for large, luxury hire cars and extensive travel on private/charter flights is probably 100%, so we could be approaching a win-win for animals, domesticated and wild.

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      Every fox hunter owns multiple dogs so it’s just simple mathmatics, it’s faster and more efficient to kill them.

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    If trail hunts were banned they’d probably just move the fox hunting over to Ireland (which UK tourists are doing anyways) where it’s still completely legal, somehow. There was a big debate recently about this and the 3 largest parties all voted against a ban, which is suspicious.

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        I’ve been saying it was gonna happen since I moved here and all my hardcore sf friends were mad at me and then it got to a point some left the party and were crying because SF are the Democrats but worse now.

        I’m always right with my predictions

        It was so easy to predict sf becoming a rural reactionary farmers party

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          They still won’t win enough seats. But it’s a well paid job. They have also managed to make reunification so much more unappealing to voters. Giving into notions that we will have to capitulate to unionist dinosaurs - guaranteed senate seats, changing our flag and anthem or joining the commonwealth.

          If you can’t do away with the remnants of the monarchy and aristocracy like fox hunting then what is the point of a “new” united Ireland?

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    famously, the introduction of snowmobiles lead to the extermination of all sled dogs, which is why nobody has huskies anymore.

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    The Irish government shut down a bill to make Fox hunting illegal a week ago because le farmers

    That’s what our “left wing” party used as an excuse

    I think farmers should accept chickens and shit getting eaten from time to time

    IT IS NATURE

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      I fucking hate farmers. They’re almost all right wing cranks, yet they squeal like little piggies when anyone dares even mention the amount of subsidies they get. Poisoning water reservoirs. Exploiting immigrant workers. Bourgeoise dickheads, I hope they all rot

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      Fox hunting is illegal in the UK, so the work around is that they lay the scent trail to simulate the fox hunt and then accidentally go off the trail and accidentally end up killing foxes. This is a ruling class hobby so there’s no actual enforcement of this ban so often times fox hunters won’t even bother with the pretence of following these trails, the trail hunting excuse is just something that is used as part of leveraging the arm of the state against hunt saboteurs.

      As for why they’re so obsessed with this hyper specific form of animal cruelty:

      CW: implied beastiality

      They get some sorta sexual pleasure outta it. For example: former prime-minister, Boris Johnson once described the feeling of riding a horse during one of these hunts in an op-ed as “a semi-sexual relation with the horse”.

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        Oh I see, thank you, i was thinking if it’s just a simulated hunt and the dogs aren’t being abused then banning this is some real busybody shit from people who have nothing better to worry about but yeah if it’s just in effect a thinly veiled cover to allow for real fox hunting then yeah fuck them, ban this shit

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      There shouldn’t be a fox at the end of it. Fox hunting has been banned for ages in the UK. Now it’s possible that they do this man made trail to lead to a fox den but that’s already illegal.

      My guess would be that animal rights are campaigning because of the general cruelty involved in training a large pack of dogs and then having them run all round the countryside disturbing and possibly harming the animals.

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        My guess would be that animal rights are campaigning because of the general cruelty involved in training a large pack of dogs and then having them run all round the countryside disturbing and possibly harming the animals.

        Ain’t this a spin on I BARF my dog due to being opposed to animal cruelty

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Or maybe you removed don’t get to take your worthless barbaric “hobbies” out on innocent animals?

    “HeReS aN AI…”

    Virtue signalling little shit. No one cares you losers love the hippest flippest tech. How about you tech geeks put AI in a dildo and go shove your precious “innovoooshun” up your ass!!??!?’

    Can we stop doing conversion therapy on lgbt people and do it on these inbred fucks instead?!?!