Post #1882873
2026-04-24 20:44 UTC
No, but...
“Although many disagree with big-game hunting, all Ernie’s hunts were strictly licensed and above board and were registered as conservation in culling animal numbers.
Ernie was a very well-known and popular hunter in the U.S. and in Africa, and a very keen conservationist, and he did a hell of a lot of charity work and was a really good guy.
The reporter Harry Thompson is contradicting himself in the headline, so either the headline is a lie, or that passage is a lie. Let me just...
Aha. This photo I found from the Daily Mail shows a rhinocerous on his trophy wall, so fuck him. Definitely get that guy and all his ilk trampled into a pulp.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15761595/Millionaire-US-big-game-hunter-75-trampled-death-five-elephants-hunting-antelope-central-Africa.html
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@swelljoe@mas.to 2026-04-24 20:46
@cy @zalasur I don't see the contradiction? Clearly says he hunted elephants: "Over the decades, he has hunted elephants, leopard, rhino, buffalo and lion across Africa and back home in the US, he has hunted almost every species of wild deer."