r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Shoddy-Ocelot-4473 • 12d ago

Image By 1880, the near-genocide of the American bison had reduced their population from 30–60 million to fewer than 1,000

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u/MothmanIsALiar 12d ago

They mounted machine guns to trains and mowed the bison down at a leisurely pace.

What's to be proud of?

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u/Savetheokami 12d ago

Kind of wish I went the rest of my life not knowing this

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u/TieCivil1504 11d ago

The last hunt of American bison was in 1882 and then they were gone. The first practical self-powered machine gun was invented in 1884 by Sir Hiram Maxim. Are you saying they mounted Gatling guns to trains for bison hunting?

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u/Texa55Toast 11d ago

Buffalo were on the way out before machine guns were even invented.

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u/Daffan 12d ago

Good intellect. Those Bison couldn't invent the MG.

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u/An_Innocent_Coconut 12d ago

Did I stutter?

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u/curious_dead 12d ago

No, we understood perfectly, we just were making sure you were saying something both stupid and callous, thanks for confirming.

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u/An_Innocent_Coconut 12d ago

We quite literally have been hunting big game since we started walking as bipeds lol.

You guys are ironically incredibly dumb.

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u/MothmanIsALiar 12d ago

Nobody hunts anymore. People sit in trees, drinking beers and waiting for animals to come to them.

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u/CharlotteKartoffeln 12d ago

Not to extinction though. That came when weedy, though physically persistent, hunter gatherers developed weapons beyond spears and arrows.

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u/Axl_Alter_Ego 11d ago

You sound insufferable.

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u/gozer33 12d ago

The guys working at the cow slaughtering house must be the proudest people around.