Brian Comer, a 64-year-old white man, was accused of illegally hunting geese at a golf course on the day Trump amplified racist lies about Haitian immigrants in the city.

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    IMMIGRANTS BAD

    “What have immigrants done wrong?”

    IMMIGRANTS BAD

    “But immigrants are propping up our society.”

    IMMIGRANTS BAD

    Bigotry is illogical, and there is no reasoning with it.

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      Bigotry is illogical

      Yet this isn’t even bigotry. It’s straight out xenophobia and hatred. The sanctimonious bullshit is just a fig leaf…

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        Yet this isn’t even bigotry. It’s straight out xenophobia and hatred.

        Bigotry is the broader category containing racism, xenophobia, and hatred based on perception of belonging to a group.

        Definition of bigotry: “obstinate or unreasonable attachment to a belief, opinion, or faction, in particular prejudice against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.”

        Bigotry isn’t ‘less bad than’ racism or xenophobia. Hating people for being from another country is one type of bigotry.

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          Bigotry is what Bostonians ask for when trying to find the perfect Christmas tree for their family

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    The thing that actually needs to happen here is make hunting geese legal.

    They are trash birds. And there are too many of them.

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        OK, here me out: an Iron Dome but instead of keeping missiles out it keeps geese out.

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          Sounds potentially messy if we don’t scale it down. Would feat the purpose for me. The actual geese I am fine with, it’s the insane amount of geese dumpage that I do not approve of.

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      Canada Geese are protected by the migratory birds act between Canada, US and Mexico. The only thing communities can legally do is take the eggs so they don’t hatch.

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        Well I wish they’d migrate once in a while, because they’re around here all year. They’re also mean if you happen to walk by one and they enjoy blocking traffic.

        I fucking hate geese.

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            Seriously. You can’t approach a pond at any of the parks around here unless you want to step in goose shit.

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          Oh, I agree. I have far too many memories of being chased around parks as a child in Regina by them. I’m not saying they are wonderful creatures, rather that their legal protections limit what we can actually do about them.

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            I grew up in Regina and remember my dad talking about not being able to swim in Wascana Lake because of the goose poo/cattle poo contamination.

            Fyi Regina is one of the only major cities in North America not built on a major natural water source.

            Wascana lake was created in 1883 by damming Wascana Creek, a low flow seasonal run-off stream, to serve as a reliable water reservoir for the town and railway (the railway used it as a watering hole for the cattle they transported)

            The lake continued for a time to be used as a domestic water supply and for stock watering; it also supplied the new legislative building. A longer term effect resulted, however, when lake water was used to cool machinery in the power plant (now the Powerhouse Museum) that was built in the eastern sector. Heated water returned to the lake, causing that sector to remain ice-free through the winter, and several species of migratory birds made it their year-round habitat.

            Canada geese are one of those, so Regina has a year-round population as well.

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wascana_Centre

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        And at this point, that act should be amended. The Geese are fine. There’s no reason to protect them now.

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        Only the ones that spend their time pooping on every grassy area in America they can find.

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      First Nations eat them birds. I’ve heard they’re fine eating. Of course, it depends where you hunt them. I met a guy who said they’d string a net over a beach at dawn or dusk during migration. He spoke highly of the event.

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        It’s like Canadians took all of their negative emotions, stuffed them into Canada geese and sent them south.

        Cobra Chickens are mean.