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PaperclipPerfector  21hr ago (text post)   569 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for April 5, 2026

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How many female victims of bears have there been since April of 2024?

I cannot think or comprehend of anything more cucked than having a daughter. Honestly, think about it rationally. You were feeding, clothing, raising and rearing a girl for at least 18 years solely so she could hike off into the woods and get eaten by a bear. All the hard work you put into your beautiful little girl - reading her stories at bedtime, making her go to sports practice, making sure she had a healthy diet, educating her, playing with her. All of it had one simple result: her body was more enjoyable for the bear who would eventually feast on her every limb.

Raised the perfect girl? Great. Who benefits? If you're lucky, a random bear who had nothing to do with the way she grew up, who eats her. He gets to chow down on her tight juicy body. He gets the benefits of her wholesome and nutritious organs that came from the way you raised her.

As a man who has a daughter, you are LITERALLY dedicating at least 20 years of your life simply to produce bear feed. It is the ULTIMATE AND FINAL cuck. Think about it logically.

Bears kill an average of 2 people per year in North America, so without googling, I'm gonna go with 'less than five'.

You aren't doing the men of America any favours here by quoting the stats. We need a malinformation suppression team in here stat!

Let's do a natural experiment by dropping a quarter million bears into Baltimore and see what happens.

Please no!

Won’t someone think of the bears!

There aren’t that many grizzly bears in the world, so it won’t be that dangerous.

There are a lot of kinds of bears. We don't have to be picky. The experiment could probably bear a little variance.

(I appreciate your forebearance on the puns. They're what make my life bearable)

Yeah, a quarter million American black bears wouldn’t be that dangerous.

Can we drop them into DC instead?

That would be a cruel and unusual punishment for the bears.

They usually predate (or are preyed on) by twinks. Most of the time, it doesn't come to police attention as the damage is limited to the psyche.

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