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America Is Backsliding Toward Its Most Polluted Era

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150 points pmags | 3 comments | 10 Apr 25 12:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.631s | source
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RajT88 ◴[10 Apr 25 13:12 UTC] No.43643433[source]▶
I've observed this weird cognitive dissonance with outdoorsmen, since I am quite fond of fishing.

They tend to be a pretty hardcore MAGA bunch, but also don't like pollution because it messes up their sport. When you ask them about stuff like this (how can you support someone who pretty openly wants to mess up your pastime?), they get mad or change the subject.

I get it - people are complicated and can care about many things at once. Nobody likes it when someone is seemingly poking at their belief systems. Still - you'd think it'd give them some kind of pause.

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1. skeeter2020 ◴[10 Apr 25 13:43 UTC] No.43643697[source]▶
Maybe it's because you're not really asking a question but making an insulting statement intended to ellict exactly this reaction. Even if this sort of "question" was genuine it's predicated on a huge set of assumptions and systems interactions that makes it worthless as a question, but great as a campaign gotcha!

Also, fishing is most definitely not a "sport".

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2. rideontime ◴[10 Apr 25 13:47 UTC] No.43643731[source]▶
Fishing for non-commercial/sustenance purposes is quite literally referred to as "sport fishing." Perhaps you should save the condescending tone for topics you're more familiar with.
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3. RajT88 ◴[10 Apr 25 13:55 UTC] No.43643805[source]▶
Welcome to the fishing forum flame wars.

Many divisive topics, such as catch and release or eating young fish ("bucket heads"), barbless hooks, etc. Hell, even fly fishermen get into internet slap fights over certain kinds of flies.