EDIT: Disappointed in both the direction of discussions in this thread and also by that fact so many didn't even bother watching the video before responding.

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[–] 22 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Some people are straight up fascists towards certain pets. Pitbulls? Poc ghetto child mauling dog that should be killed. Cats? Bird killing plague spreading vermin that should be killed. None of these genocidal malthusian nazis ever have any better ideas beside culling animals instead of making sure these animals dont do these things by neutering populations and rehoming them if possible. I genuinely was mortified on reddit back a while ago when I saw literal pitbull hating subreddits using literal fascist language towards pitbulls like they see them as literal pests that should be mass murdered to prevent child maulings or whatever dog whistle metric they wanna go by.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    Keep your cats indoors. Your neighbors' yards aren't a free litter box and many people enjoy having birds and critters around.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Lol if any of my neighbors can actually find where my cat buried his poop, if they dig it up and bring it back to me I'll do them a solid and rebury it on the property line lmao

    If it's a choice between cats being able to lay under the sun and breathe fresh air pitted against the lives and freedom of birds and rodents, I'm sorry, I'm naturally selecting the cats all day. Little critters never stood a chance

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  • [–] 18 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    If it's a choice between cats being able to lay under the sun and breathe fresh air pitted against the lives and freedom of birds and rodents, I'm sorry, I'm naturally selecting the cats all day. Little critters never stood a chance

    Never expected to see this level of individualistic contempt for the commons on Hexbear.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Feral cats are absolutely a pest

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  • [–] 20 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I fucking hate these dogs. In my country they’re largely owned by annoying right-wingers who don’t make any effort to train them and will frequently encourage their aggressive behavior. There have been too many incidents with them attacking people in streets and even the indigenous (who are often the victim of these attacks) have resorted to hunting them down.

    I wish we would ban them because people have shown for too long that they won’t be making any effort to properly train them.

    Also I find it funny how dumb fucks like Matt Walsh still associate them with minorities. That’s a dated stereotype that isn’t even true anymore. My recent stays at the US have had me witness far more poc owning Chihuahuas and Yorkies nowadays. The people with pitbull are more often suburbanite white women who can never keep them under control on a leash.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 week ago* (18 children)

    stop comparing animals to humans, and no I'm not gonna watch the 1 hr youtube video. Dogs have been selectively bred for thousands of years for specific traits to perform certain tasks (herding, hunting, companionship etc..). Unlike cats, dog breeds are real. Weather you want to believe or not, pitbulls are fighting dogs, why else would they be the dog of choice for dogmen (professional dog fighters) when it was a legal "sport" and still the dog of choice for illegal dog fighting rings now? Joseph L Colby, a pioneer of the pitbull breed, wrote a comprehensive book on American Pit bull Terriers, mostly about dog fighting (when it was legal) (CW: extreme animal cruelty):

    https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.%24b28129&seq=1

    Pitbulls are strong powerful dogs, it's a zero mistake dog, because they will cause severe injury or death if they snap.

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  • [–] 53 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (12 children)

    No investigation, no right to speak. Nobody is saying discriminating against the breed is racist to the dogs - the vilifying of pit bulls specifically is part of a longstanding and pernicious campaign of racial stereotyping of the dogs in association with their owners. The image of these dogs is intrinsically linked in rotten American society and popular consciousness to black and latino people, and that is indeed part of a racist crusade.

    edit: also, seriously? you're just going to come in to the thread, start out by saying "I'm not watching that" and then "whatever it's about, there's no racism get over it"? fuck off

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  • [–] 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Exactly. German Shepherds are as dangerous as a shotgun on the coffee table but see how much traction you can get to ban them. It's never been about the dogs themselves.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Ooh, could we pretty please ban German Shepherds?

    Nazis and Cops would be so mad, and they make up certainly at least the plurality of GSD "owners".

    Inb4 same-picture

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  • [–] 17 points 1 week ago*

    Can we ban beagles but only the one old beagle that’s always passed out at the bar I go to and never available for petting? And by ban I mean can he live in my house headpat

    God, I fucking love him

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  • [–] 23 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    Are you really doing the "if you change the word, the meaning of the sentence changes - feel owned yet?" shit? Goddamn you're dense

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  • [–] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Are you really going the "it's not my job to educate you shit? Goddam you're dense

    If you're too stupid to come to your own conclusions let me spell it out for you. Do not push for animal liberation (although the pitbull defense is not about animal liberation or pro environmental in any way, because pet ownership is intrinsically terrible for the environment) by relating it to relating it to racism please

    Oh piss off already you fragile little fuckhead - like actually what is wrong with you? Are you seriously claiming there is no, not any, racial stereotyping and prejudice around the image of the pit bull terrier? Because you're on some "don't believe your lying eyes" shit.

    And I don't know where you got the sense that I'm pushing for animal liberation by relating it to racism - well I do know, because you evidently can't read for meaning - but the racism around the breed (and others) is just a fact of American society. I advocate for animal liberation without the racial connotation, because it aligns with my principles broadly you fuck.

    Absolutely staggered by the caucasity

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago* (1 child)

    Lmao. Keep insulting me. Youre argument is absolutely clownish in the extreme

    I should expand. Since you did respond I guess. But the point is that defending pitbulls because pitbulls are used as a vector for racism is absolutely brandead because the data does show the dogs are violent af. I mean they were literally the types of dogs bread for the native genocide and chasing runaway slaves. Like what the fuck are we doing here lmao

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    No, I think you really might just be dense. Christ.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Westerners using racism to defend their unethical ownership of a violent animal is such a vibe. Absolutely peak

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  • [–] 22 points 1 week ago

    Westerners using racism to defend their unethical ownership of a violent animal is such a vibe. Absolutely peak

    It's not defending the ownership goddamn! It would be best for everyone if the animals were treated humanely and, you know, not fucking bred for the purposes of fighting! Are you incapable of grasping the fact that this is also a highly racialized animal at the same time?

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  • [–] 36 points 1 week ago*

    Sorry I don't think "I'm gonna not asses the argument and just dump a rant based on the headline I misinterpreted" is a valuable contribution to the discussion.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    comparing animals to humans

    This is a liberal rebrand. One has to ask how is it not racism to be comparing the treatment of a violent breed of a non sentient species to whatever subgroup of humanity is being racially targeted. As an example, we all know how the biggest asmongold aka roach man type losers love to bring up FBI crime stastics on how African American supposedly do the most crimes and ignore that a serial pedophileremoved white man can be president. We all know this statistics are bullshit. Meanwhile pitbulls along with other violent breeds are vastly more dangerous than others and comparing these cases is a massive disservice to Africa Americans and a cynical use of a real issue by western leftists.

    I will watch the video but I am already so out off by this braindead title

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  • [–] 17 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Fair enough, but im-vegan and https://aeon.co/essays/why-keeping-a-pet-is-fundamentally-unethical. Pitbulls are so domesticated that they cannot even breathe properly, so maybe no one should have them?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    This is the real answer to all arguments about dog breeds and whether cats should be kept indoors. People are not ready to the end of pet ownership.

    I wish they weren't our pets but instead our friends 😿

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  • [–] 15 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Nah dog pitbulls need to go extinct. As do pugs, boxers, king charles spaniels, and every other dog bred to suffer. Pits suffer from being bred to be aggressive.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago

    It's pretty wild how even after like 1 or 2 generations of not being "purebred" they just become really sweet and playful. Maybe still have a bit more prey drive than other dogs, but it really wouldn't be hard to "kill the Pit" by just shutting down the breeders and letting them become normal dogs.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    All I'm saying is that the movie Plague Dogs would have went completely differently if one of the dogs was a pitbull. All I'm sayin'. Also Dead Domain is a liberal zionist, as per BadEmpanada's critiques of her (maybe someone better critiqued her on this, but he's the first I know of).

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    "but my Binky was always such a good doggo! He never hurt a fly before he killed/disabled your loved one!" maybe-later-kiddo

    Like clockwork

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    I'm sorry, but my sweat little dog has been bit 4 times. Each time by a pitbull. No other breed has ever come close to biting her.

    They can be sweet dogs. But they have very strong prey drives, and resource guarding. They will bite before they've even figured out what's going on. I believe it's been the resource guarding that caused each incident with my dog, but I saw one of the pitbulls that bit her kill a neighbors cat, and that was absolute prey drive. The cat was killed on its own property too, the dog was wondering by.

    Not a single one of these pitbulls was a "problem animal", by and human standare. It's just how they react in certain situations and how powerful they are that make them incredibly dangerous.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    Pit bulls and similar breeds are outright banned in large Chinese cities.

    There is no debate. Either you agree they should be eliminated as a breed as humanely as possible, or you are reactionary.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    Plenty of shitbag dog racists in this thread spewing debunked bullshit.

    Colleen the Karen Queen (founder of the website that originated all of this bullshit) has done more damage to society than just about any other single individual who isn't a politician or Billionaire.

    Supporters of BSL are just mad they can't be openly racist against the types of humans they don't like, so they settle for open prejudice against the type of dogs they believe the humans they don't like have.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I have heard the Reddit left leaning hive mind going crazy about pitbulls as well. It's not just the right.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 1 week ago

    I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

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