I say let’s keep it unbanned, but matadores now have to go into the ring empty fisted and no picadores are allowed so that they can’t whittle down at the Bull’s capabilities. Just a 1 on 1 match to the death with both “athletes” at peak performance
Yes, exactly. Because this has never been about “fairness” or “fighting a worthy fight” as supporters of corridas like to pretend. it’s just about slowly torturing to death an animal in front of a live audience.
Weird, I see no mention of this “US”, how are we supposed to know?
Of course it’s “technically” correct, but I’m a bit tired of Spain being known for bullfighting and people not realizing that it’s actually very unpopular here.
Like also tourist shops in Barcelona still sell bullfighting related articles, even if corridas were actually legally banned for many years in Catalonia (ban reversed by the conservative constitutional court years later). It just shows that this shit is still something people think about when thinking of Spain
It’s just a phrase. For positive stuff you say “couldn’t have happened to a better/nicer person” so that’s the opposite. I can think of quite few worse people that’d deserve to be gored by a bull
Are you in Canarias? Because in Catalonia, where it was banned, the constitutional court reversed the ban as punishment for the independence movement (while leaving the canaries ban standing, clear double standard). So it’s sadly not officially banned in Catalonia any more, but of course no corridas actually happen as they’d get no money from the Generalitat.
Not really, that’s only if they survive and are pardoned, which is very rare. The normal thing is for the Bull’s bloodline to be ended
Well, the traditional thing is the opposite, his whole bloodline is ended
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Sorry but no. Bullfighting is actually very unpopular in Spain. It’s a relic of the past that’s kept on life support by conservative politics.
Very happy to hear he has been gored by the bull. Couldn’t have happened to a worse person. And this is always the reaction of pretty much everyone I know whenever this happens
ETA killed innocent people, and that is bad of course, and those victims and their families deserve all the support they get.
But sometimes right wing politicians try to make us feel bad about some of the earlier victims of ETA by putting them all in the same bag as the innocents. Francoist pieces of shit like Meliton Manzanas, one of the main torturers for the regime and Gestapo collaborator. Or Spain’s first astronaut. Those do not belong alongside the real innocent victims, because they were the furthest away from being innocent.