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imagine going to jail because you just couldn’t stand the thought of not having the “best goat,” whatever the fuck that means. and no, if you know what that means, don’t tell me–i refuse to have that information wasting space in my brain

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https://showgoatlife.com/

They have merch

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21 points

just as absurd as all the other bullshit animal contests that judge “contestants” based on completely arbitrary physical characteristics which lead to severely inbred, sick, miserable animals

people are so fucking stupid

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3 points

Why do I find out about these things just after Christmas? Birthday it is, then!

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31 points

Vanlandingham confessed to police that she deliberately poisoned the goat because she believed the animal’s owner was “a cheater”

How do you even cheat with a goat? The whole thing is ridiculous.

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being in america, it’s apparent that there are a large number of people (especially in red states) for whom part of the strategy is to accuse everyone else of cheating, all the time, no matter what.

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16 points

projection

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14 points

Steroids, perhaps? Do they judge how hard a goat can headbutt things? I don’t friggin’ know. Never mind.

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I’m not saying they’re all the same, but 100% of the Vanlandingham’s I have met in Texas have been rotten to the core. Real sociopaths. Smiling and friendly all while planting a knife in your back. And yes there’s more than one example in my weird little anecdote. They eat their own children! (figuratively)

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How do you even cheat with a goat?

Poisoning the opposition goats, I think

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9 points

I severely hope the best goat is the one that commits the most crimes at the fair.

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46 points

“best goat”

Goat Of All Time

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11 points

Rip in peace poisoned goat of all time goat.

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9 points

A GOAT goat, if you will?

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5 points

The best part is that it’s recursive, like GNU.

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6 points

Tell me you never attended a rural high school

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killed a 15 yo’s sweet lil animal friend over some stupid competition. i hope she gets at least the full two years. sick and twisted. makes me wonder what her parents are like.

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She’s a psychopath. Sadly, I don’t believe she’ll change.

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32 points

To hazard a guess: simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.

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farmers deserve better in this country. corporate takeovers, shitty media, and stripped education is making rural areas worse and worse each year

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Hypothetically I agree, but it’s also hard to feel a lot of sympathy knowing that farmers tend to enthusiastically vote for the politicians who then undermine farmers.

Roughly 1/3 of Farmers are also subsidized by the US government, but -to your point- they’re also pretty easily swayed by dangling some social issue that gets them to vote against or for whatever- mostly as a result of being unable to divest themselves from the social and cognitive conditioning that comes from organized religion, which is still dense as bricks, in farm country.

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She’ll never be able to get a job with this permanently on the internet. Who would ever trust her to do anything?

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6 points

New Game of Goats season is out, huh?

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the internet is deluged by news stories so please be careful with what you read about this. reports from the victim (girl)'s mother indicate the alleged killer was 2 years older than, and not friends with, the victim. it sounds like rivalry to me.

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Is there a point to your comment…? It’s only pretty rivalry, so let the sociopath walk? Is that what you’re saying?

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which of your questions do you want me to answer

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18 points

Let’s start with all.

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I can’t help but notice it says all that in the headline

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🤚

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it sounds like rivalry to me

No shit? Like that wasn’t patently obvious?

What point are you trying to make? This girl is a psychopath.

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Read my original comment - that’s the point I’m trying to make

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Your original comment is unclear or unnecessary, I think that’s why people are confused.

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One time, we all got hauled out to someone’s farm, for ag class, to watch pigs get castrated. A student was handling all the procedures until they got to the the likely prize show pig another student owned. The teachers husband took over and preformed the procedure. That likely prize pig, and only that pig, died that day. Rumor had it, that he purposefully botched the procedure so his own kid could win.

Im just sitting here wondering why this is making the rounds, except for this girl got caught. This is the par for the course and happens more often than one would think.

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Fucked up hillbillies poisoning each other’s animals is normal? Damn it america

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23 points

The show world can get super competitive. If you end up with a prize animal, you can bring home a good amount of money from auction.

Not to mention, for some, its very personal due to the time invested. These kids can put sometimes up to a year, if not more, into raising an animal for a show. They feed them special and care for them in very serious ways, to make them look perfect for a show. It’s like beauty pagent moms, but with kid brains.

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I feel like there is a line somewhere between sabotaging your competition to get ahead on this year competition and doing something to end the competition career of your adversaries.

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Damn Americans and their rolls dice corrupt show animal handling

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The number one reported crime shown on the public police blotter site in the small town I used to live in was motherfuckers shooting their dogs.

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