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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

America and its "wars against...."

America hasn't won any war since WWII, and that includes wars against drugs, countries, people, religions, etc. I highly doubt they won this one. I remember "mission accomplished"

[–] LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world 2 points 49 minutes ago

armed conflicts

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world -1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

sucks that Canadians can't win wars either, eh?

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 minutes ago

We don't start or lose them either.

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

Whew. Looks like the feds didn't find the colony of buzzy buddies I've been nurturing in the suburbs.

Can't wait for spring!

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 20 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 hours ago

Supportive Emu noises

[–] voldage@lemmy.world 26 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah sure "murder hornets". Like "murder japs", "murder communists", "murder vietnamese", "murder gays", "murder blacks" or "murder arabs" before. I think I'll hold off celebrating until I know how much oil those hornets had in stock.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

why so mad bro? did a murder hornet kill your family and now you're pissed because the farmers of America didn't kill them faster?

[–] Prethoryn@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Hey man, I don't disagree with you.

However, I think if you take every article you read and turn it into, "meanwhile I am waiting for someone to fix the planer." You are not really doing much. All of us, including myself, want what you want but those are things that are irrelevant to this article and we should take to things that are relevant.

Fuck fascism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and anything else that is down right degrading to any human being who is just trying to be happy

In the same vain though, fuck hornets, fuck those little murderous monstrosities.

[–] voldage@lemmy.world 16 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That was a joke about USA assigning threatening labels to anything it threatens or exploits to make public afraid of it instead of being supportive of it. As most jokes, it based on the subversion of expectations, which in this case was the suggestion that hornets are good and misunderstood. Comparing them and what they're doing to bees to gay or black people was intended as a sprinkle of dark humor, implying their (hornets!) destructive nature finds parrarels with the multitude of oppressed kinds of people.

Way to tell me I'm unfunny and my sense of humor sucks, man (jk)

[–] kchr@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

For what it's worth, I chuckled at your comment. :-)

[–] voldage@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

I appreciate that, thank you.

[–] telllos@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Same kind of win as with the war in Afghanistan ?

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 14 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Now you gotta send help to Australia. Those damned emus are a worthy adversary.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 10 points 5 hours ago

Who to help? Australia is run by emus. They won in war.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 40 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Would have been solved much quicker if they where ceo killing hornets

[–] exploitedamerican@lemm.ee 4 points 9 hours ago

LMAO. Its sad that this is so funny because its true.

[–] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 31 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

(camera focuses on the news playing on a TV in a home in the countryside, slowly pulling back away from the monitor)

"...thanks to their efforts, experts have now stated with certainty that this threat has been eradicated..."

(the camera has pulled back enough that the screen is framed by an outside window with a tree trunk coming into frame from the right)

"...and many communities in the northwest united states can breathe easier knowing that these dreaded hornets are no longer found on our shores. Reporting from Seattle..."

(focus shifts to the tree bark. Buzzing is heard, getting louder and louder until a single murder hornet queen lands on the tree. Cut to black. Roll credits)

[–] superkret@feddit.org 9 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Coming Soon...

MURDER H4NET

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

Snakes On A Plane 4: This Time It's Hornets- A film by Chat GPT

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 9 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Murd3r Horn3t: The Buzz3ning

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

finally some good fucking food...

Anybody know where i can get some murder hornets from? (i jest, ofc)

shitposting aside, how rare is it that invasive species are eradicated before becoming a problem? Can't be that common.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Pretty uncommon but it has happened. Especially with agricultural pests where there is a large industry that can push for a proper response. I’m guessing beekeepers were the industry in question this time.

If it only affects nature and not industry then it’s usually ignored.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 14 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Never. Cause the definition of "Invasive species" includes it being a problem. Otherwise they're called "Introduced species".

[–] exploitedamerican@lemm.ee 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah they are probably lying. They can not know with 100% certainty that these giant asian hornets have all been eradicated in the us. They couldn't get rid of something as benign as the spotted lantern fly or the marmorated stink bug but sure lets believe they got rid of a hornet as big as a humming bird that has facial recognition capabilities and can unalive people with a swarm no larger than 50 to 100 of the fuckers

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Right? Have we all forgotten about killer bees all of the sudden?

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 48 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] kchr@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Ladies and gentlemen, we got'em.

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

*breakcore starts blasting*

[–] droporain@lemmynsfw.com 35 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Article written by Dr. M. Horneté

[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 132 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (19 children)

[✓] Small Pox

[✓] Murder Hornets

[ ] Twitter

We're almost there, humanity!

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[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 38 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

Uhh, first win since WW2. Congrats.

[–] yeather@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 hours ago
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[–] dellish@lemmy.world 33 points 19 hours ago

Hey hey, the US actually won a war! Been a long time coming..

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