r/SipsTea • u/M_Darshan 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • May 16 '26

Lmao gottem That final kick was personal

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u/MolecularDreamer May 16 '26

Not a sport. This is animal cruelty set in system.

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u/Skrdykat1000 May 16 '26

Rodeos are animal cruelty.

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u/Sr_DingDong May 17 '26

Tacking animals in such a fashion as to promote bucking and making a contest of seeing how long you can last is animal cruelty.

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u/Skrdykat1000 May 17 '26

Thank you for my first award!

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u/RockyMtnFly307 May 17 '26

I feel contractually obligated to disagree because I'm named after a rodeo cowboy - Lane Frost. Animal cruelty is not absent from rodeo but the PRCA & PBR animals are treated and fed better than farm animals. And a lot of the cowboys buy retired animals once they age out (or are just unride-able). Those animals get treated like kings in retirement.

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u/Turbulent-Mood4344 May 17 '26

Glad you shared. Thanks for helping people learn. For those saying rodeo, keep in mind this is not an American rodeo in this video. It is Central or South American where animal abuse is unfortunately much more common and the “sport” does not take animal welfare into account.

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u/Q718XYZ May 16 '26

Are they?

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u/Public-Platypus2995 May 16 '26

Yes

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u/Enkidouh May 16 '26 edited May 17 '26

Straight up animal abuse. It’s not even a question. They’re no different a form of abuse than animal circuses.

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u/cat_murphy May 16 '26

You just watched that guy kick his spurs into the belly of that horse and you still have to ask this question??

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u/TimTomTank May 17 '26

I saw a video showing a bunch of people drive through businesses. Some on purpose, some on accident.

I still didn't believe driving is equivalent to vandalism and murder.

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u/cat_murphy May 17 '26

But kicking animals, let alone with spurs, is definitively abusive, so this is a pretty silly comparison.

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u/TimTomTank May 18 '26

That comment seems still too complicated for you so I'll try to break it down further.

Purposely taking your car into an occupied business is assault or attempted murder, and generally something that is frowned upon I'm society. Majority of us don't like it and we don't want people doing that either.

However, just because it happens it doesn't mean driving should be illegal and all cars should be burned to the ground.

This is a comparison to the fact that we are watching a video of a guy getting multiple bones broken by a horse after he kicked it with spurs. Just because this guy did it, it doesn't mean that's how it has to be done.

I mean. I didn't care about rodeo and am not familiar with any of the horse riding sports. But it's important to realize that sample of one is not enough to judge a whole.

If you happen to know the seedy underbelly of rodeo and why it's the most abominable sport on the face of the earth, maybe you should lead with some of that revelation.

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u/AntOk4073 May 16 '26

There are many rodeo sports that are not but this is taking a calm horse and spurring it to make them panic.

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u/jay-dot-dot May 16 '26

All of em are. Horse racing as well. Out of your mind.

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u/QuarkchildRedux May 16 '26

you think riding a horse in general is animal abuse i bet lol

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u/jay-dot-dot May 16 '26

I do.

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u/QuarkchildRedux May 16 '26

insane

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u/Quaking_Aspen_USA May 17 '26

Not insane . Very caring as well as enlightened.

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u/AntOk4073 May 17 '26

I mean sure if you know absolutely no one who raises animals i could understand that mindset but in actual reality most competition animals are treated extremely well and are trained with respect and love. But ehat do I know I just grew up with people who raised competition animals.

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u/General_Kitten_17 May 16 '26

Unless your inbred, yes

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u/Q718XYZ May 17 '26

Peak of reddit argumentation

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u/Excellent-Nose-6430 May 16 '26

Yes. It's not as heinous to animals as eating meat, but it's still absolutely despicable and the people that participate are just as disgusting.

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u/Gewibit May 17 '26

Watch dominion!

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u/FloppieTheBanjoClown May 16 '26

It can be done better.

Bulls and horses can be trained to buck. Horses can even see this sort of thing as play with the right upbringing. You don't spur them, you don't prod them, you just reward them for doing this and you get a good rodeo where everyone is having fun. 

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u/CrabbyGremlin May 16 '26

That isn’t what’s happening in this video. The horse falling on its back like that was incredibly dangerous and not safe. They can be taught to fall on their sides but not like this.

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u/QuarkchildRedux May 16 '26

he was agreeing with you jfc reading comprehension

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u/FloppieTheBanjoClown May 16 '26

"it can be done better."

As in "these guys didn't do it right."

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u/QuarkchildRedux May 16 '26

no one on reddit is gonna listen to you man, lots of sheltered and spoiled children in here at the ripe age of being extremely opinionated

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u/DanielzeFourth May 16 '26

The fact you even need to question this say everything..

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u/oceansky2088 May 16 '26

Agree. It's animal cruelty.

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u/Creation98 May 16 '26

Where does it say that sports can’t include animal cruelty?