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I've checked out the Oatmeal a few times and recognized it for what it is, self fellating bullshit with a tinge of humor. As for the author of the site, Matthew Inman, he is the crotch fruit of California liberal parents who moved to my state, (Idaho) more precisely, infected my state some years back. Therefore his views are null and void at best.
Always remember boys and girls, opinions are like assholes, everyone has them and every now and then they spew nonsensical bullshit over a much flawed medium such as the internet. Therefore it's best to not pay attention to such drivel and encourage others not to. |
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Until they eat the first toddler or little old lady, then it's pitchforks and rifles. Honestly, do you really believe that reintroducing large predators will somehow lead to those poor animals dying in a quicker and more humane manner? The end result is the same: dead animals. But I guess it makes people feel better when a big cat drags an animal down and kills it by clamping it's throat in its jaws until it dies. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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How do all of you people who decry "sport hunting" propose we effectively and efficiently control animal populations? You'll gladly float your emotional opinion about poor animals dying and the psychopaths that perpetrate that killing, but I rarely see suggestions for effective conservation and management efforts. I guess it's just easier and more popular to sound high and mighty... The re-introduction of large predators would help. I have no problem with the re-introduction of red wolves and eastern cougars back in to the Blue Ridge. IMBY. Until they eat the first toddler or little old lady, then it's pitchforks and rifles. Honestly, do you really believe that reintroducing large predators will somehow lead to those poor animals dying in a quicker and more humane manner? The end result is the same: dead animals. But I guess it makes people feel better when a big cat drags an animal down and kills it by clamping it's throat in its jaws until it dies. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Is it a more humane death? Of course not, they're predatory animals and don't share our humanistic values. To some extent, this divests us from part of the management equation. We have designated extensive swaths of land as wild, so I say we should let it be more so. For those who can't handle the responsibility and stress involved in living in areas adjacent to wild lands, I would suggest they move back to the DC suburbs, preferably on the Maryland side. |
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Is it a more humane death? Of course not, they're predatory animals and don't share our humanistic values. To some extent, this divests us from part of the management equation. We have designated extensive swaths of land as wild, so I say we should let it be more so. For those who can't handle the responsibility and stress involved in living in areas adjacent to wild lands, I would suggest they move back to the DC suburbs, preferably on the Maryland side. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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How do all of you people who decry "sport hunting" propose we effectively and efficiently control animal populations? You'll gladly float your emotional opinion about poor animals dying and the psychopaths that perpetrate that killing, but I rarely see suggestions for effective conservation and management efforts. I guess it's just easier and more popular to sound high and mighty... The re-introduction of large predators would help. I have no problem with the re-introduction of red wolves and eastern cougars back in to the Blue Ridge. IMBY. Until they eat the first toddler or little old lady, then it's pitchforks and rifles. Honestly, do you really believe that reintroducing large predators will somehow lead to those poor animals dying in a quicker and more humane manner? The end result is the same: dead animals. But I guess it makes people feel better when a big cat drags an animal down and kills it by clamping it's throat in its jaws until it dies. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Is it a more humane death? Of course not, they're predatory animals and don't share our humanistic values. To some extent, this divests us from part of the management equation. We have designated extensive swaths of land as wild, so I say we should let it be more so. For those who can't handle the responsibility and stress involved in living in areas adjacent to wild lands, I would suggest they move back to the DC suburbs, preferably on the Maryland side. So you're for reintroduction of Wolves? |
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I think they made a good point. The rule now is to blame someone, not to recognize that people are responsible for their actions. The cry of "violence in media" is as wrong and intolerable as the cry of "guns kill people" View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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[PA sucks] http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/i-dXBjSvG/0/950x10000/i-dXBjSvG-950x10000.jpg I think they made a good point. The rule now is to blame someone, not to recognize that people are responsible for their actions. The cry of "violence in media" is as wrong and intolerable as the cry of "guns kill people" I agree with notso: unjustly throwing someone else under the bus is not the moral way to make your case. I also think the NRA should have kept its trap shut during the whole Ice-T/Body Count "Cop Killer" controversy, not that I agree with Ice's sentiment but that frankly I prefer it when assholes make their stupid ideas public. |
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Is it a more humane death? Of course not, they're predatory animals and don't share our humanistic values. To some extent, this divests us from part of the management equation. We have designated extensive swaths of land as wild, so I say we should let it be more so. For those who can't handle the responsibility and stress involved in living in areas adjacent to wild lands, I would suggest they move back to the DC suburbs, preferably on the Maryland side. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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How do all of you people who decry "sport hunting" propose we effectively and efficiently control animal populations? You'll gladly float your emotional opinion about poor animals dying and the psychopaths that perpetrate that killing, but I rarely see suggestions for effective conservation and management efforts. I guess it's just easier and more popular to sound high and mighty... The re-introduction of large predators would help. I have no problem with the re-introduction of red wolves and eastern cougars back in to the Blue Ridge. IMBY. Until they eat the first toddler or little old lady, then it's pitchforks and rifles. Honestly, do you really believe that reintroducing large predators will somehow lead to those poor animals dying in a quicker and more humane manner? The end result is the same: dead animals. But I guess it makes people feel better when a big cat drags an animal down and kills it by clamping it's throat in its jaws until it dies. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Is it a more humane death? Of course not, they're predatory animals and don't share our humanistic values. To some extent, this divests us from part of the management equation. We have designated extensive swaths of land as wild, so I say we should let it be more so. For those who can't handle the responsibility and stress involved in living in areas adjacent to wild lands, I would suggest they move back to the DC suburbs, preferably on the Maryland side. So it's just a manner of who does the killing and using what tools? Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Wonder how many villagers and/or livestock the lion had killed? Maybe none. That said, many times, the trophy animals are 'problem' animals that need to be culled. Other times, their population is reaching a critical point and are, adversely affecting other populations that are also, endangered. It's, usually, a balancing act, as a whole. View Quote None. The lion was shot inside of a fenced game preserve. This was a captively raised lion, and raised in an area that's not natural lion habitat. |
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The Oatmeal guy is entitled to his opinion just as we are entitled to ours. He has also shown in the past (at least from what I've seen) that he can be incredibly immature and prone to knee-jerk reactionary and emotional retorts, particularly when he is egged on by the same. He definitely falls into the camp of "disagree with me so fuck you", which one should be careful not to fall into ourselves.
I predict he will make or is already in the process of making a minimalist, observational inflammatory comic with lots of middle school playground language about this issue which will only spin the argument further into middle school playground antics. The Oatmeal knows clickbait and he knows how to play to his audience with saccharine melodrama and condescending podium steeping. I still read Penny Arcade because they are funny. I rarely read the Oatmeal because his one trick pony show got old a long time ago. |
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So it's just a manner of who does the killing and using what tools? Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Is it a more humane death? Of course not, they're predatory animals and don't share our humanistic values. To some extent, this divests us from part of the management equation. We have designated extensive swaths of land as wild, so I say we should let it be more so. For those who can't handle the responsibility and stress involved in living in areas adjacent to wild lands, I would suggest they move back to the DC suburbs, preferably on the Maryland side. So it's just a manner of who does the killing and using what tools? Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile To any extent that it makes man less of the equation, and it's a predator once common to the area, then I have no problem with it. With respect to red wolves and cougars, I would put up my own money to see their re-introduction. |
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He's always been a fucking retard. I'll never understand all the people tripping overthemselves to slobber on his cock "oh did you see the oatmeal today so funny hahaha" Bunch of fucking pikers. View Quote The oatmeal has always been liberal trash. Sometimes funny liberal trash, but liberal trash nonetheless. |
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He's entitled to his opinion. Certainly nobody should be threatening him for it. He's quite funny about a lot of things. Hopefully he gets an education about hunting and conservation, and the negative messages don't turn him off. I fear the latter will happen. View Quote it doesn't matter he's a left wing loon from Seattle. |
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The Oatmeal guy is entitled to his opinion just as we are entitled to ours. He has also shown in the past (at least from what I've seen) that he can be incredibly immature and prone to knee-jerk reactionary and emotional retorts, <cut> View Quote As is the case here. That lion was farm raised, farm killed, and not substantially different from the hamburger Inman ate last week. Better living conditions, and a less stressful death, sure, but aside from that, not much different. So, Mr. Inman (that's the guy's name), you going to put away that meatloaf long enough to put together a more coherent argument? Yeah, I'm not holding my breath. I'm not a fan of hunting preserves, but I'm less of a fan of poachers and irate villagers, and such, so I'm not going to be overly distraught by the practice. I'd prefer some sort of anti-poaching safari, but I couldn't afford one, even if they did exist. Africa isn't some museum that exists solely for our enjoyment. People live there. People struggle to live there. These people have every right to pacify their environment in the same manner that we pacified ours, though I believe that would be a tragic mistake, perhaps irreversibly so. To the end of their existence and improved standard of life, these game preserves are a means. |
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He's a libtard. He's also done some good things, used his site to raise shitloads of money for good causes.
I'll read his stuff...but I guess I won't take him hunting. |
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Commented By wganz on that FB page:
And how do you dumbshits think that they get the money to manage those herds? It isn't from you sending thousands of dollars over there. It is from people that pay for managed hunts that take select excess population out to balance the herd/pride/pack/whatever. You claim to 'Love the Earth' and want to 'Save the Planet' but you know so little about how it works. Butbutbutbutbutbut there's got to be a better waaaaaaay! It just doesn't feel right to shoot an animal in the face! Some of his shit is funny. A lot of it leaves me saying "OK." |
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To any extent that it makes man less of the equation, and it's a predator once common to the area, then I have no problem with it. With respect to red wolves and cougars, I would put up my own money to see their re-introduction. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Is it a more humane death? Of course not, they're predatory animals and don't share our humanistic values. To some extent, this divests us from part of the management equation. We have designated extensive swaths of land as wild, so I say we should let it be more so. For those who can't handle the responsibility and stress involved in living in areas adjacent to wild lands, I would suggest they move back to the DC suburbs, preferably on the Maryland side. So it's just a manner of who does the killing and using what tools? Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile To any extent that it makes man less of the equation, and it's a predator once common to the area, then I have no problem with it. With respect to red wolves and cougars, I would put up my own money to see their re-introduction. Man is THE apex predator and you want to take him out of the equation. How very thoughtful of you. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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I unfollowed him on FB. voting with my clicks, I suppose.
He really came across as childish and petulant. Loser. |
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She obviously did not shoot a wild lion. Simba was farm raised in an enclosure, then trucked to the fenced in hunting area, where he wandered about lost for a day, until Bachmann stalked him to with in 60 yards and shot him. Wow, that's all kinds of fucked up. Must make those hunters feel really macho to bag a lion that's basically been raised as a house cat.
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She obviously did not shoot a wild lion. Simba was farm raised in an enclosure, then trucked to the fenced in hunting area, where he wandered about lost for a day, until Bachmann stalked him to with in 60 yards and shot him. Wow, that's all kinds of fucked up. Must make those hunters feel really macho to bag a lion that's basically been raised as a house cat. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
She obviously did not shoot a wild lion. Simba was farm raised in an enclosure, then trucked to the fenced in hunting area, where he wandered about lost for a day, until Bachmann stalked him to with in 60 yards and shot him. Wow, that's all kinds of fucked up. Must make those hunters feel really macho to bag a lion that's basically been raised as a house cat. It's their money. And it goes to conservation. Personally, I'm more interested in the hunting water buffalo in vietnam with a grenade launcher thing. I've never fired a grenade launcher or killed a water buffalo (or been to vietnam), so I figured combining the 3 activities into one trip would be a real time/money saver. |
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https://www.facebook.com/theoatmeal "Based on the mass amounts of vitriolic messages I've received in the past 24 hours, I feel like I'm alone in the notion that I don't think it's fun to shoot animals in the face. Either that or every junior-high-school-educated-gun-toting-inbred beer belly in the United States took time out of their day to send me hate mail." View Quote He lives in Seattle... Corrected. He doesn't live in Seattle. I thought it was fairly common knowledge that he's a libtard? You really can't swing a dead cat in the entertainment industry without hitting a few, anyways. Fucks given = 0 Books bought = 0 |
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Man is THE apex predator and you want to take him out of the equation. How very thoughtful of you. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile View Quote You asked for some suggestions on controlling the animal population, and I put an idea out there that would help and be workable in some areas. At no time did I say anything about removing man from the equation, because we can't; I merely said that we could reduce our part of the equation in certain areas. |
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Couldn't they just donate that money and then go kayaking instead? It's way cheaper, you don't have to kill things, and you get a pretty sweet tan. View Quote He's a double-breasted idiot. |
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Quoted: I am. Nothing would make me happier than roaming packs of wolves to take down all the fucking deer in this part of MI. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: So you're for reintroduction of Wolves? I am. Nothing would make me happier than roaming packs of wolves to take down all the fucking deer in this part of MI. At least roaming packs of wolves wouldn't damage vehicles quite as bad. |
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That's a shame but I guess I shouldn't be surprised.. he's an artist after all.
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I am. Nothing would make me happier than roaming packs of wolves to take down all the fucking deer in this part of MI. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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So you're for reintroduction of Wolves? I am. Nothing would make me happier than roaming packs of wolves to take down all the fucking deer in this part of MI. Poke would be fucking ecstatic about that. |
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damn...thought he was a smart guy, he certainly nailed customer service and tech support....then well...guess I should not be surprised.
It is funny how intelligent people can suffer from acute onset ignorance when addressing 2A and hunting, is there a part of the brain that no one knows about ? maybe something that just shuts off when it is in the proximity of a gun? So much disappoint will not be buying greeting cards from him anymore.... |
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Quoted: Exactly. I never go on the Oatmeal but I know of their hipster style ideology. Don't know why people think this is a surprise. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: If Reddit had a son... Exactly. I never go on the Oatmeal but I know of their hipster style ideology. Don't know why people think this is a surprise. They're too earnest and upbeat to be hipsters, though. Reddit, Oatmeal, etc. are like the Glee Club/Student Council of the internet. |
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Quoted: At least roaming packs of wolves wouldn't damage vehicles quite as bad. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: So you're for reintroduction of Wolves? I am. Nothing would make me happier than roaming packs of wolves to take down all the fucking deer in this part of MI. At least roaming packs of wolves wouldn't damage vehicles quite as bad. So, so fucking true. |
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I just got back from South Africa and did a 30 day Anti-Poaching gig. Chasing those little fuckers(Africans) through the bush is no joke. When I heard AK fire coming my direction, I knew that I was home.
So, what this woman did was go inside a private "game reserve" and shoot a tame animal that is accustomed to humans. People buy large swatches of land and then put animals on there purely to be shot at a later date. This lion is used to being fed by humans, the sound of the motor usually means food or visitors to take pictures. Americans come over and pay quite a bit of money to kill one of them, with the most money being spent on the males. There is nothing brave or cool about this at all. It's pathetic. |
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So you're for reintroduction of Wolves? I am. Nothing would make me happier than roaming packs of wolves to take down all the fucking deer in this part of MI. good luck asking them to stop after the deer numbers are back down. lol |
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So you're for reintroduction of Wolves? I am. Nothing would make me happier than roaming packs of wolves to take down all the fucking deer in this part of MI. good luck asking them to stop after the deer numbers are back down. lol They could move on to eating unarmed liberals, so it does have that potential benefit. |
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Reading his comic about almost being raped by a horse (because rape is a humorous subject, right), I couldn't help but think "Wow, these people have absolutely no idea what the hell they are doing or how to behave towards these animals".
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He is a smart guy, he's just waaaaay out of his lane on this one. And the emails he's getting from mouth breathers are making it worse. It's just solidifying his errant opinion. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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damn...thought he was a smart guy, he certainly nailed customer service and tech support....then well...guess I should not be surprised. It is funny how intelligent people can suffer from acute onset ignorance when addressing 2A and hunting, is there a part of the brain that no one knows about ? maybe something that just shuts off when it is in the proximity of a gun? So much disappoint will not be buying greeting cards from him anymore.... I think you mean funnier. If stupid people can make him double down on his stupidity, I'm all for it. I really don't like the way he's turned Tesla into a saint at the expense of alot of other pioneers in electricity. |
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