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2 men charged in 'killing spree' of over 3,000 birds, including bald eagles, in Montana
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this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2023
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It’s not enough to destroy the earth. The ruling class needs hunting trophies of the species they’re driving extinct.
Our world is ruled by evil sociopaths. That’s the unifying theory that explains everything. Ruthless sociopaths with infinite money have declared war on the planet and everything that lives here.
These guys are not part of "the ruling class." I live in this region and there is a backwards group of local asshats who feel entitled to hunt and kill protected creatures for profit or hunt using illegal methods and leave carcasses to waste for the sheer fun of it. These people are typically working class and this black market hunting would provide them with income they probably would not be able to get otherwise. We have a LOT of wild lands out here, it's a very rural area.
Question is what class are the buyers part of.
As the other person said, who do you think is buying them?
Hicks are everywhere. These fuckers need to lose their freedom for a long time.
I don't think that's what they intended - these scumfucks enrich themselves by supplying the ruling class with these grisly trophies.
Are those people part of the ruling class? Never heard of them nor did a brief search bring anything up (I'm not American though).
Anyway, instead of calling it a "war" by the ruling class I prefer to explain stuff with Hanlon's Razor which fits here, too.
I do see what you mean, but I do have to disagree on that point.
Someone involved in illegal bird killing or other acts of environmental destruction (oil, gas, producing garbage, ...) most surely knows what the effects of their actions are, but their want for personal gain is bigger.
And the moral difference between doing something terrible out of mallice or greed is very small, if it even exists.
Slavery isn't better when it's done just for the money.
You're right about this specific case. Those guys were probably just greedy to the point of evil.
However, the comment I replied to made a pretty universal claim about rulers. And at least looking at our rulers in Europe I see more incompetence than malice.
Yeah, universal statements tend to lack nuance.
But especially with the right-wing parties I see quite a bit of malice for the point of personal gain.
And at least in Austria, Germany and the UK the conservatives are so deep into working for personal gain, that they completely forget what would benefit the country and the people.
(I don't have enough deep enough insight into the governments of other countries in Europe to say anything about that, but from what I read, Hungary and Italy are not better off)
"So you see, that is why Evil will always triumph: because Good is dumb."
Bald Eagles are not endangered.
Niether are filthy rich sociopaths. Maybe we should do something about that.
What do the filthy rich have to do with this?
Who do you think is paying these chucklefucks to murder birds? It's not poor people with no money...