• @[email protected]
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    952 years ago

    Im Icelandic and I can confirm this. This massive asshole (Kristjan Loftson) has plenty of money and one hobby, killing whales. He as lost aprox. 20m€ on whaling in the years he has been hunting them.

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      462 years ago

      …kill him?

      I mean, or watch hundreds, thousands of whales die.

      Just one dude, man. I dunno, not Icelandic so it isn’t really an opportunity I’d have but, um. If all else fails, right?

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        122 years ago

        He will probably kill 10-20 finback whales so we are not talking about very large numbers. Also it would not be good for Icelandic politics if someone would kill him, he could become somekind if whale killer martyr and Iceland would continue to kill whales after his death.

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          he could become somekind if whale killer martyr

          Well that’s just as easily solved by more killing. There can’t be more than like 20 people in the country that have a massive boner for murdering whales.

          • @[email protected]
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            52 years ago

            The rise of far right politicians and fascists is directly related to the dramatic drop in assassinations of political figures.

            The solution? Start murdering fascist and far right politicians that exploit the working class and the environment to add to their already endless coffers. This is the only viable answer.

            Change my mind.

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          142 years ago

          Would it be more whales? Less?

          There’s a minimum whale population before genetic defects start having impact between mates…

          I’m not advocating direct violence, but mixing sand into the hunting boat’s engine oil and other more peaceful methods should be considered if the government won’t listen to reason by its people.

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                32 years ago

                One that seems to have fallen out of favor the last few decades with these ultra rich fascist assholes being more prominent all over the globe the last decade or two

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                  12 years ago

                  I’m sure we can find volunteers willing to kill themselves once they’re done with the killing. 🤷‍♂️

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                    22 years ago

                    Unless you subscribe to any one of most of the worlds’ belief systems. Or unless your parents did and some of it sort of rubbed off on you. Or if you think law and order is important. But outside of that, yeah, of course, killing is completely neutral moral gray area. /s

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          02 years ago

          Then someone should kill them for their stupidity. Cancer doesn’t go away unless you cut it all out.

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      122 years ago

      If he’s doing this for profit, there has to be a consumer… Who are the consumers and what are they buying?

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        Sadly, there is whale meat in our supermarkets and restaurants. The only reason they can sell it is because some of the whale is “necessary” for “research”, and the meat is a “byproduct”.

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      12 years ago

      Why are you government or judges so shady when it comes to this? Like, what is the actual reasson, that this is not forbidden and nobody is in jail? You have a democracy in iceland, right?