• lennybird@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        A reflection of their constituents to boot.

        … Well, okay. Not all are psychopaths. Many are just naive, low-educated, and grifted.

          • thefartographer@lemm.ee
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            Why does this asylum keep putting all the cool people in the locked rooms?

            - People who vote R, probably

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                “Look I stand up for individual freedumb and small guv’mint and minding yer own beezwax… But I draw the line when I’m forced to see two men that ain’t me holdin’ hands or having to call someone a different name than they want, like Jon over Jonathan! The audacity!1!”

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    That you choose to kill a dog because you’re unequipped to train it doesn’t mean you are smart or tough, it means you’re stupid and reactionary. Today’s GQP.

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      Literally trained it to hunt pheasant and then shocked pikachu face when she takes it to visit the neighbor’s chickens. Blaming others for your own failures in the cruelest way possible.

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        Fucking hell, that article describes a 14 month old puppy acting like a puppy and this piece of shit just decides to shoot it because she can’t be bothered with training.

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    Commenters here sure are sheltered. In the country, it’s insane to try to accommodate a dog that kills livestock.

    You could try to get rid of it rather than kill it, but nobody is going to want it.

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      Fuck off, idiot. At best she is a failure as an animal owner. Yet here you a apologising for her. She deserves misery and if you think treating animals under your care the way she does is acceptable then so do you.

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      From the article:

      Then, on the way home after the hunt, as Noem stopped to talk to a local family, Cricket escaped Noem’s truck and attacked the family’s chickens, “grabb[ing] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another”.

      Cricket the untrainable dog, Noem writes, behaved like “a trained assassin”.

      When Noem finally grabbed Cricket, she says, the dog “whipped around to bite me”. Then, as the chickens’ owner wept, Noem repeatedly apologised, wrote the shocked family a check “for the price they asked, and helped them dispose of the carcasses littering the scene of the crime”.

      I’m not a Republican nor do I keep livestock, but I’m a biologist and death is part of life. People only seem to care when it’s a pet dog or cat, but we kill animals for various reasons very regularly.