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[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 year ago (5 children)

god can we not bring pitbull discourse here

[–] kogasa 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love all dogs but I can still appreciate a good pitbull eating kids joke. He just looks so happy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It's just got as a sidedish the face of its owner.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

You mean the literal dog whistle for racists? Because a large portion of pit owners are POC so they get to spew their hate without saying it out loud. Ever wonder why they get all bloodthirsty about killing those dogs? There ya go.

I was mauled by a German Shepard with shitty owners when I was a kid. They're literally trained for military and police work, yet where are the GSD hate groups? It's almost like the people who hate pits, are the same who bootlick LEO and have thin blue line stickers. It's almost like breeds don't matter, it's the training by the owners.

Even despite that experience, I don't hate GSD, I hate shit owners. Shit owners make shit dogs. It's either that or Patrick Stewart is secretly pulling the veil over all of us.

But it's not really the dog they hate... so yeah let's not have them here.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Has anyone even mentioned the ethnicity of the owners though?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

That's why it would be a dogwhistle

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pitbulls account for 70% of fatal dog attacks, while only being 6% of dogs. It's not a dog whistle, pitbulls are a violent and dangerous breed, and everyone I know with a pitbull is white as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Nope, pitbulls are a violent and dangerous breed. Labradors vastly outnumber them, yet never kill anyone. And there's plenty of shitty Labrador owners out there.

Breeds do matter, and shit breeds make for shit dogs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You know, I've never thought of it from that angle before... You appear to be correct based on my preliminary fact checking:

https://law.lclark.edu/live/files/32171-25-1-third-articlepdf#:~:text=3%20Strong%20cultural%20ties%20exist,of%20this%20breed%20of%20dog.

I haven't read this entire study, to be fair. But it does go into detail on this topic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

… GSDs are just as common on banned breed lists as pitties.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What discourse? A bunch of people spewing debunked myths that align with their personal beliefs yelling at a bunch of people with thought out positions based on research?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lol both sides will read this comment and think you're talking about the other one

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Thank you Gaylord_fartmaster. You recognizing the joke is the highest praise a poster can desire.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's pretty funny winding up pitbull owners though.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Not my pibble

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This poor doggo did nothing wrong.

Look at his smiley face.

I wanna hug him and tell him he is a good boy.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I guess /r/banpitbulls is starting on Lemmy. I'm ok w/ that...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I want to make it but i just don't want to be a mod...

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same. Only thing worse than an a angry pit is an angry pit owner

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Someone I know just got attacked by their pit Bull, they are justifying it by saying the dog had brain cancer and didn’t know what it was doing. I personally don’t get the mental gymnastics that you have to go through to say that they are perfectly safe dogs that just get a bad rap when you literally just got your arms flayed off by one.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Apparently almost all Pit Bulls are predestined to get Dementia at an early age, which causes them to basically "snap".

It isn't technically the dogs fault, but akin to French Bulldogs I can't help but advocate for a ban on breeding them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

We need to bring r/banpitbulls to Lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel you, I was a reddit mod for a bunch of subs. Its not worth it.

They nuked me for being a flag bearer for Aaron and highly critical of the direction they were going pre API chaos. 6 accounts perm banned even though I only used two to mod w/ and get mouthy. Now IP banned, I wear that as a badge of honor.

But in seriousness we need to ban pit bulls and my dumbass will mod the sub to get people to see they are a bad breed.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There are no bad dogs only bad owners

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

This is true, but the damage a badly raised pit bull can do is far worse than other breeds.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

No, like with people there are indeed straight up bad dogs. It's not just nature versus nurture, it's nature and nurture, and pits have a bad nature.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Okay but can they make their own community so the rest of us don't have to see it, please and thank you.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You people have worms in your brains.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

No, that's pit apologists. The dog breed that accounts for 70% of fatal attacks should be banned, and guess what, that's pits.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh now you've stepped in it, those pitty owners are relentless.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Kind of like a dog with a child sized bone?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Anyone else old enough to remember when dobermans and rottweilers were the killer breed of the day? I wonder what the next one will be.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That scale is pretty interesting, trying to make 295 seem like it's more than 500.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It would really funny if black folk decided to make it something stupid.

Bunch of rap videos with blinged out Pomeranians. Stock footage of a flock of them running and barking.
🎵 come around, imma get you with my pomeraptors 🎵

3 months later, a slew of news reports from Sinclair owned news stations about small dogs and behavior issues. Some crying church lady with dry wispy blonde hair, talking about how Jesus only loves golden doodles.
Then a flood of memes calling Pomeranians finger guillotines, a stream of repeated news articles about the same few attacks, repeated to false consensus.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some people just love to hate things. These types almost always haven't met many of the creatures/people they hate. They hear about them second-hand, and/or have a few bad experiences, and nothing will ever change their minds after that.

In nine out of ten cases, it's just textbook indoctrination. These types tend to be allergic to critical thinking.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rottweilers still do have a poor reputation though.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Pit: I want my baby back baby back baby back baby back... Ribs

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Would go toddler hunting for that sweet face, 10/10 good boy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Completely unrelated to the post but I've just started using Lemmy and I'm so happy 196 is on here

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