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Unfortunately, this unusual tameness was used to their disadvantage: as Darwin notes, men "frequently killed them in the evening, by holding out a piece of meat in one hand, and in the other a knife ready to stick them."

https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Dusicyon_australis/

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[–] tocopherol@hexbear.net 78 points 1 week ago (3 children)

A part of the Christian imperialist worldview, the idea that 'Man is above animal and they were created by God to be used as Man sees fit', has been the cause of endless horrors. Without this human-supremacist view they would treat other people better too, even if their enemies were 'subhuman', if they had compassion for animals.

It makes me think of the connection between 'masculinity' and eating meat in the West. It's seen as effeminate to eat vegetables or be vegan, this idea helps reinforce a worldview centered on violence and exploitation.

[–] Saeculum@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

While it's true that Christian imperialism is environmentally destructive, hunting species to extinction predates both Christianity and white people. Every continent suffered mass extinctions pretty much the moment the humans set foot there for the first time.

The invention of agriculture provided a huge material impetus to destroy predator populations and as far back as the neolithic revolution humans conducted the mass burning of forests and wild habitat to clear room for farms.

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[–] Carl@hexbear.net 64 points 1 week ago

a whole fukken species of cool friends but the kkkolonizers couldn't help themselves

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 61 points 1 week ago (1 children)

the link between imperialism and environmental damage will forever remain strong

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[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 58 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You see the ridge here in the white skull? That makes them predisposed to murdering defenseless creatures.

[–] XxFemboy_Stalin_420_69xX@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

this but ironically. "whites are genetically predisposed to violence and barbarism" is the simplest yet truest explanation of the course of world history since 1492, if not before

i'm white

[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 54 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Milo on trashfuture has a bit about the falkland islands being almost made in a lab to make the brits seem not entirely evil; an island that was genuinely terra nullius. Of course they would still somehow find a way to do a genocide anyways.

[–] Chertstone@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago

an island that was genuinely terra nullius

The island was visited by native Patagonians who likely introduced said wolf to the islands. The Yahgan people who were renowned seafarers might also have temporarily lived on the islands. The french & spanish were there before the british. The chauvinism is off the charts.

[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago

lot of chauvinist brainworms on there between him, Nova and Hussein

I finally unsubbed after Hussein's reaction to the GHF was 'now bad countries like Russia will do genocide!'

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 49 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Poor guys, they looked so cute.

Same thing almost happened with the Kakapo, a flightless parrot that has no natural predators and was very docile and friendly.

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

yeah but the kakopo got its revenge eventually

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[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 38 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I wonder if there's still people on this site who think the Malvinas belong to Perfidious Albion

[–] Chertstone@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago (17 children)

There was a struggle sessions last year about it. I think something along the lines of Argentine chauvinism and how the islands were "empty". They kinda forgot that the UK will use these islands to colonize Antarctica.

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 35 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The thing I would've focused more on is how the islands have a military installation of a NATO country right on the doorstep of Latin America, I'd honestly never even considered the possibility of colonizing Antarctica.

[–] Chertstone@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That too. In fact it was actually used as a base to neo-colonize the newly independent Argentine confederation. I think almost all latin american countries have semi-legal claims on Antarctica through spanish colonization or something.

[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

Treaty of Tordesilla still applies!

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I could be wrong, but only Chile and Argentina have claims on Antarctica, the other LatAm countries just have bases inside these areas.

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Same with French Guyana, which is literally a colony of France and should probably gain independence.

[–] Chertstone@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It used to be the place were they would send prisoners to die basically.

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[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago

I'd honestly never even considered the possibility of colonizing Antarctica.

NY TIMES headline: Investments you can make to stay ahead of Climate Change!

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago

While the war was a huge mistake and the Junta didn't started it out of some anti-imperialism feeling (They kept the best troops along the border with Chile, and sent out 18 year old conscripts to die in the Falklands). Literally everyone in Latin America, but Chile, supported Argentina.

Even to this day, all South American countries refuse to sell stuff to people who lives in the Falklands since most LatAm countries sees it as occupied territory.

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[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

since they apparently didn't displace indigenous people i struggle to justify it not being up to the people who live there.

but i also think ukkk shouldn't get any claim to territorial waters or whatever from it.

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No Natives on the islands, no, but insofar as the status quo upholds imperialism in Latin America, it also screws over the Natives of Latin America, too.

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

since they apparently didn't displace indigenous people i struggle to justify it not being up to the people who live there.

If one day the UK ever grant them independece they will 100% be forced to join Argentina, no one in the Global South cares about them and most countries in Latin America have organized a boycott of doing business with the islands. It's going to be just like the Panama Canal, with the Zonians returning to the US and the Panama goverment replacing the empty colony with locals.

I would say this is somewhat similar to the Guayana Essequibo Conflict, but Venezuela actually granted citizenship to everyone that lives in the Essequibo region (probably because unlike the Falklands, 100k people live there and have nowhere to go).

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

They belong to the penguins

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[–] BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nearly happened to the Galapagos tortoise too, but they were saved just in the nick of time when conservation efforts got serious in the 1970s. They used to be a favorite of English sailors who would stack them upside-down in their ships because they would stay alive for months and provide a ready freshly killed meal whenever they were hungry. The "Age of Discovery" is basically European colonialists committing unspeakable crimes upon every new habitat and population they stumbled across.

[–] userofnames@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

o damn that is quite recently, for the dodo it was done at the end of the 17th century. it only took about 30 years for the dutch to destroy such a magnificent bird

And apparently they didn't even enjoy it; the taste of the meat was bad.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 34 points 1 week ago

Real, "ITS COMMING RIGHT FOR US", hours.

[–] principalkohoutek@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago

Also the steller's sea cow

Within 27 years of its discovery by Europeans, the slow-moving and easily-caught mammal was hunted into extinction for its meat, fat, and hide.

[–] inTheShadowOf@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

It really is sad. There are animals I would have loved to see that were driven to extinction by entirely man made forces. It's heinous. I want to give that nice wolf pets 😟

Also, non-vegans shouldn't be allowed to get mad over this tbh.

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[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

you know they were putting mayo on those dog sandwiches

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