"We're completely surrounded by an invasion of sharks!"
We can quite fairly blame Great White sharks for many things including not respecting personal boundaries, turning my once halcyon North County San Diego into a wretched Gehenna, murder and sexism but did you know the man-eating beasts are also very much contributing to our current toxic and divisive political tone? Oh it’s true, and are you even able to remember a time when two consenting adults with differing political views could discuss healthcare, election fraud, immigration or killing seals without resorting to hurtful name-calling?
I can’t and Great Whites are to blame, partially.
Now, this issue is notably prevalent in New England’s traditionally liberal Cape Cod where a shark population boom has put residents on edge and pitted them against one another. The “environmental extremists” against the “cullers.”
Both sides rail against the other on talk radio, and beyond, where saber-rattling hosts get their listeners worked into a fever pitch, ripping the community apart. Politicians, eager to exploit the issue for ballot box gain, harness “tough on sharks and/or seals” talk seeing that seals are the Great Whites’ favorite snack. County Commissioner Ronald Beatty Jr. has called for a pre-emptive strike, claiming the Cape Cod is “completely surrounded” by “an invasion of sharks” and “If another person – especially if it’s a child – gets mangled and mauled and destroyed and killed again, then politics be damned!”
When Cape Cod’s residents aren’t fighting bitterly about sharks they are mostly nauseated. New Statesmen interviewed Captain Darren Saletta who owns a sport fishing operation for local color.
Saletta started working fishing boats at 16, earned a degree in marine science, and spent thousands of hours surfing the Cape. He now refrained from surfing – “a huge part of my life, and soul” – between June and October. “We’re a community of watermen,” he said. “We swim, we fish, we sail, we dive, we surf.” It was “absolutely nauseating” to him to think that his son would not inherit his way of life. “But nobody gives a shit. I keep hearing that it’s their habitat – but humans came from the ocean, too.”
We did?
More as the story develops.
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Amazing …… Did you just splash me ? John the Baptist just laughed his head off ……. well he would have had it not already been chopped off and served to Salome on a plate ……..
That was better than mine
Is very simple, do not go in the ocean unless your in a big boat , would you walk
around in the savannah with hungry lion’s and pissed of hippo’s? Only stupid people swim in the ocean and take there chance.
Here in Aussie all animals want to kill us ok, stop being pussy’s and get smart🤗🇦🇺
Count our lucky stars so far:
https://www.theguardian.com…
Imagine not even getting down to the beach safely.
Fukin humans again!
Can’t they just all die all ready?
No wonder Chazz M2 has been extra salty lately.
Chas needs to have Chazz pen a new article. It’s time.
That’d be great
But I can’t stand japanese curry
It took me a few minutes.
I took a tour of the Australian parliament on Sunday — they had a whole exhibit on sharks versus human rights… I was riveted, but my colleagues were more distracted by the disappointment that the magna carta was replaced by a fax.
Real Sharks or Political Sharks ?
Political sharks on behalf and against sharks. But given it was Canberra on a Sunday, the place was free of both types.
White Shark privilege is the real issue.
Don’t forget the INCELS.
Involuntary Can’t Eat Live Surfers
These sharks are tired of being shut out of the eating pool, they have manifestos….
Jane Fonda on the screen today
Convinced the liberals it’s okay
So let’s get dressed and dance away the night
While they kill kill kill kill kill the poor shark
Bex , what did Barbarella actually say ?
Boom Boom, pull me a beer
No pretty drinks, I’m a guy out here
Rollin’ rollin’ rollin’ rollin’ money like a pimp.
My B I T C H’s on my dick like this
I can do Ho chi Minh like a dude
Watch out that Ho Chi Minh doesn’t trail you all the way to Miss Saigon …… ?
She probly hardened them up for the win!
You’re really attacking this angle.
Was reading about different angles of attack….
“Unprovoked attacks” are defined as incidents where an attack on a live human occurs in the shark’s natural habitat ( salt water, like in our human cells ,sweat and tears ) with no human provocation of the shark. ( not sure if the human is not live , still fits in the same category )
“Provoked attacks” occur when a human initiates interaction with a shark in some way. These include instances when divers are bitten after harassing or trying to touch sharks, attacks on spearfishers, attacks on people attempting to feed sharks, bites occurring while unhooking or removing a shark from a fishing net, etc.
It’s the BeachGrit way! Also want to see when algorithm shark finally sniffs me out.
There’s a big difference between attacking this angle and supporting this angler.
There is a sign at my local waterfront which says ANGELN VERBOTEN and silly me , at the time having limited skills in German thought it meant that Angels were forbidden .
How many shark attack angles can dance on the head of a pin?
Hypothetical Questions …..
As a member of the congregation of The Church of the Open Sky , I am wondering if Large Protected Fish are impeding certain amongst us from utilizing our religious freedom …… by terrorizing us at our place of worship ? Do Surfers also have a right to life given that the definition is :The right to life is a moral principle based on the belief that a human being has the right to live and, in particular, should not be killed by another entity including government……?
Not at all. Sharks are pro-choice. You can choose to enter the foodchain or choose to stay on the beach as your method of worship.
If one was to worship in a wave pool for example , would this be seen as heretically dancing with the devil ……?
And the devils amoebas
I’m just wondering if evil amoebas are incarcerated in single-cell prisons …… ? And do soft cell single amoebas whistle along to tainted love , wear leather wrist bands and dream of collaborating with Bronski Beat …. ?
Marc Almoebaond? Still others listen to Adolescents
Great Whites are not mindless creatures. Proven to be capable of formulating a basic situational awareness. Cull a few and sooner than later the rest of the local GW population will cue in to their risk adversion instincts and leave. Research has shown they exhibit risk adversion all the time. They will learn. Just like culling a seal colony. Wildlife management is good environmental action.
Good common sense, thanks Otto.