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[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 66 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Cool bro, nice definitely real data about animals existing in nature you paid to put on that billboard. Now do cars

Incidentally, I was curious what this number actually is, but apparently no one is even attempting to keep track of how many deer are injured/killed by cars, despite frequently involving a police report and/or insurance claim

The actual number of animals killed in deer-vehicle collisions is not known because no such database exists.

[–] MarxGuns@hexbear.net 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can literally see a dead deer every few miles in some places. I imagine a portion of them are hit by larger trucks where an insurance claim isn't necessary.

[–] fox@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

It'd be a special kind of hell world if cars did a better job of deer population control than hunters given how much hunters lobby to shoot more deer

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 65 points 2 years ago (2 children)

...that's...good? My brother in Christ what do you expect a carnivore to eat?

[–] Pili@hexbear.net 68 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would like them to eat hunters.

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

inshallah-script

The only kind of shocking "gore-style" videos I ever enjoyed when I was young were animals fucking up humans who were hunting or tormenting them. Honestly that shit never gets old for me. When those pics of that matador with a bull horn going in his neck and out his mouth my only reaction was nicholson-yes

[–] Othello@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago

i love when elephants freak out and kill their abusers.

[–] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

That sounds like one of the good subreddits

[–] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

New kind of guy: advocates veganism but only for obligate carnivores

[–] DoghouseCharlie@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

New kind of guy that uses the word obligate as a slur for cats.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

Sadly that is not a new kind of guy.

[–] Nationalgoatism@hexbear.net 51 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah this is so messed up, we need to stop these wolves from killing so many deer... Checks notes... so that we can kill them instead

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is the actual message of the sign.

"Isn't it terrible what those wolves due to deer" says person who is mad he only gets one tag this year because wolves actually naturally control deer populations.

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are there other things to hunt?

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

Yea lots of things but nothing you're going to get as much high quality meat from as a single deer (not sure what the status on moose tags in Minnesota is). They probably get bear tags too but the quality of near meat is really dependant on age and what their diet was.

There's also bird hunting, both waterfowl and land based game birds but that's a bunch of specialized equipment including trained dogs.

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You've got to have a fucked up baby brain to think that this emotional blackmail would fucking work.

What are they even trying to do?

It's either:

Wolves kill so many baby deers, so what difference does it make if we kill some too?

Wolves kill so many baby deers, let us kill the wolves to save the baby deers.

Haha, veggie, you love nature so much, what about wolves who kill so many baby deers, checkmate!

[–] sloth@hexbear.net 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think they want to hunt wolves again. IIRC, Minnesota was the only state you could hunt wolves for a couple years, and I guess some folks miss it.

From 2019 - https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/04/19/minnesota-house-votes-to-ban-recreational-wolf-hunting

From 2023 - https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/minnesota-wolf-hunting/

Pretty funny seeing pro-life billboards but for deer.

[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Minnesota was the only state you could hunt wolves for a couple years

Idaho, Montana and Wyoming exist

[–] sloth@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

My mistake, I thought I had read in an article Minnesota was the only state, maybe it was just a certain time frame. I'm probably just incorrect.

So does Alaska

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Odd to pay for an add that says an animal is doing your thing but for free. we should release more wolves

[–] ZapataCadabra@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

Specifically into the homes of ranchers after we take their guns.

[–] Sandinband@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Unironically we should in areas where they're native but their numbers have been decimated

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

:gulag: for all of them. Ranchers, whiny ass deer hunters, all of them. Deer are so absurdly overpopulated that they've all got covid and zombie prions and they're destroying native plant life causing serious ecological problems and some asshole paid for a billboardz?

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

hot take: deer hunting is good as a substitute to fill an ecological niche while predators rebound, but whiny ass deer hunting is snowflakish and must be re-educated

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just allow predators (animals) to exist. Hunters are the worst.

Did you read the post you responded to? You can't just let them exist, when the predator species you're talking about still actively needs help to rebound. In the meantime, human deer hunting, for all of the garbage culture that surrounds it, fills the lacking ecological niche that was historically filled by predators who's habitat we've largely destroyed

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

Where are the vegan wolves? 😔

[–] xXthrowawayXx@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is this supposed to convince people who hate deer so much they shoot them with high powered rifles that wolves are their friends?

The tone and composition seems off for that but idk.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"The wolves are killstealing"

[–] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Wolves are butting in on our territory!

[–] DanComrd@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

tHEY TOOk our joBS rage-cry

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

Pweese let us shoot all the wolves? Fences are reeeally expensive and it's haaard. Look at the cute baby deer! What if we had to kill all the wolves?

[–] OgdenTO@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do the wolves kill so many fawns because the hunters are out there shooting all of their parents that might be able to protect them? The bucks have those antlers for a reason

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bucks have antlers to fight other bucks to fuck during the rut bucks don't even stick around for the birth let alone defend fawns from wolves lol

[–] OgdenTO@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, it was just an idea. But wait, if you know so much about deer family dynamics, then how come you don't have any friends that are deers?

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Cus they're a bunch of deadbeat dads.

[–] OgdenTO@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, good. Ok.

[–] xXthrowawayXx@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

Let’s juice that up a little, those are rookie numbers!

[–] Elon_Musk@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Shouldn't they be hunting wolves then?

[–] Sandinband@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Unfortunately a lot of hunters want to hunt wolves because they see them as "taking their kills" whether that be elk or deer. Its fucking awful for the ecosystem and actually makes the deer population worse not to mention our Indigenous people are against it

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

Yeah the slowly rotting and festering countries in northern europe are doing this now. The conservative government in sweden is selling hunting licenses (trophy hunting) for (locally) endangered species like wolves and lynxes. Norway is doing something similar. I wish every trophy hunter a very naked-in-the-snow-and-pursued-by-wolves winter season

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[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Where can I get some wolves

[–] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

The same hunters: hunting is necessary for culling the population

True, because we destroyed the predator population out of ignorant fear mongering and by destroying habitats