Have I just spent an hour or so watching bare knuckle and wing chun and 52 blocks videos, uhhhhhh. Well this isn't like an anthropological study or anything but I'm gonna say that in general I'm sticking to my guns on 52 blocks etc. but some things I thought were useless are indeed useful.

A lot more people should know about the bravery Marimar Martinez displayed in the midst of Chicago’s occupation and the murder of two observers in MSP. They tried to kill her, shooting her 5 times, and it’s a miracle she’s alive to push for transparency like this after being persecuted by the DOJ.

Another weird encounter with racism... I'm adding in brawlers/no rules fighters into Fire Pro so I'm just doing some cursory looks into different fighting styles, so I was looking into jailhouse rock right. And I gotta say... it seems fake, which this racist blog I found agrees with, but...

Sorry I'm gonna go into drama mode but these are all relatively famous people: Gianmarco and Russell just released a video going back over the Tenacious D thing cause I guess Kyle Gass just had an interview and I'm so glad they said it was fucked up because I remember when it happened...

How is "nothingburger" the shit that people are still saying? One of the times I've been most wrong in my life, I was like surely, this shit sounds so fuckin stupid, surely people aren't gonna keep saying this

Doctors without Borders is very likely going to give up the names of Palestinians working with them in order to stay in Isreal. That decision is rooted in the difference between solidarity and charity.

Everything they learned in Minnesota they’re applying in Maine from day one. They started off doing fast-moving snatch and grabs on the street, recording and using facial id on observers, and threatening observers directly. They’ll do it all where you live too.

Honestly, no, they're not human anymore. You can trade your humanity for power. You could suddenly punch your best friend in the face or a stranger in the grocery store, but you don't do that because you understand your shared humanity. But you can trade that away for the power of brutality.

I immediately started flexing and going "YEAH!!" can I explain this reaction NO!!

The Feds never left Los Angeles. Don’t forget us. Solidarity with Minneapolis and all communities under siege by federal pigs. Keep fighting. Hold the line.

It's so funny that all the shit Nietzsche based his ideas on were like explicitly wrong. "This book has been sheepishly left aside by Darwinians" yeah probably cause it was fuckin wrong dipshit.

I don't wanna jump on someone else's post so this is unlinked but like, while I do think that Pat Patterson (his crimes aside) was the real booker of WWF up until Russo, I'm just stating that as a historical fact. Very strange thing to bring up as a criticism of Tony Khan, really reaching hard here

drawing of naruto and his boywife michaelangelo ninja turtle making passionate love: we must marshall the full power of the state to destroy this sadists turning photos of your real actual children into violent terror images in order to psychologically damage you: um whos to say if its good or bad

according to bluesky, working for ice is a protected class against discrimination lol

A frightful hobgoblin is haunting Europe... it is the frightful hobgoblin of KARL MARX.

Look man I don't think it's appropriate to say that Zizek is indulging in "homoerotic fantasy" when he's talking about Deleuze's buggery quote, Deleuze did it first, don't be like "leaving aside Zizek's descent into juvenile homoeroticism"

Israel didn't only kill Palestinian poet and educator Refaat Alareer after incitement from Bari Weiss, it also killed nine of his relatives. Remember this.

I think I'm realizing that there is something I want in Anti-Oedipus that I'm not quite getting. I wish I was an academic philosopher so people would pay me to do this kinda stuff. And when I say not getting I don't mean not understanding, I mean something I am not being provided.

Please donate if you can and help Mona and her family survive. chuffed.org/project/mona...

The thing about it is, if you release a ragebait video where you say judo/BJJ is useless but then make it clear that you're acting like people are going to use the sport version on the street, I'm not going to trust your opinions anymore. You're a dishonest person.

this is a fake problem. no one is saying this to regular, offline people who are coming around. they’re saying it to people who are engaged in professional political analysis who committed professional malpractice by scolding people who saw what was coming. no, those people shouldn’t get a break.

Car dealers (is that what they're called?) are never beating the fascism allegations

Chicago! The Bob Loquercio Auto Group's executive VP says the murder of Alex Pretti "is EXACTLY what I voted for." Please take your business elsewhere and let them know that you are doing so. www.blautogroup.com/

You could tell some wine mom "Grief is the culmination of love" and she would cry and like get a custom stencil art of it for her wall and then someone would be like "aww who said that" and they look it up and it's this guy with a health bar

I've said before that we all have to deal with the fact that a bunch of poignant lines we know will come from video games. That's just a thing that happens these days.

A move only sticks around if it works. What's that Redguard saying, "The best techniques are passed on by the survivors." The Irish whip sticks around because it works. Not at being a realistic move, it works as an exciting thing in pro wrestling. If it wasn't exciting, nobody would do it.

My hypothesis is that the Irish whip and shooting off of the ropes comes from a spot out of the original Irish whip judo type throw. Someone would do the initial "drag-around" by the wrist and the grip would be broken so the opponent was loose to keep running. In my mind, originally the guy...

So he didn't get what I would say, and I'm gonna just give my hypothesis about the Irish whip cause I don't think the work has been done and if/when I write this up it's not going to be primarily about wrestling history so I don't really mind if someone "scoops" me on this.

Anyway I have to digest these lectures which means after I read them I need to do something with them. I don't know what it will be but I can't do more with the Ellul commentary until this is done.

I also love being where I am as a philosophy reader cause to like 90% of people Deleuze & Guattari is hopelessly esoteric and to 10% it's like "oh Anti-Oedipus huh are you moving on to See Spot Run next"

I love when I do a joke post that's doing okay and next I do a post about something I really care about, then I look up at 9 notifications and I'm like "whoa a bunch of people suddenly give a shit about Deleuze & Guattari"

Got up ready to work on Ellul but quickly realized I needed to better grasp D&G's flow>break>break-flow stuff better and helpfully there's a bunch of lectures online

No one outside of the government knows when the agents who killed Silverio Villegas González went back into the field because no one outside of the government knows who they are.

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I'm a big believer in the value of history but it isn't true that you're gonna run into disaster by not knowing everything. The direct one I saw was saying you shouldn't just call ICE the Gestapo without recognizing they come from slave catchers and like no I think just saying Gestapo is fine

Comfortables: "The left's predictions were 0.00001% off what they claimed. They are clearly all unserious, mentally ill children who should be exiled from public life." Also Comfortables: "So my every action for decades has empowered fascism. Isn't the important thing now to forgive me?"

i say this as someone with at least a mild background in cybersecurity — tiktok is now trump/fedgov spyware. you need to delete your account and app ASAP. just because the app isn‘t open doesn’t mean they won’t be harvesting your personal data to target you. queer folx get the fuck off that app

Way too many people in this country asking how Germany deNazified are going to be very unhappy when they learn they kinda didn't, we paid for a bunch of their Nazis to come over here and do shit like run our space program.

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As a guy who used to do BJJ, the most annoying shit is when people are like "BJJ doesn't work, you wouldn't pull guard in the street". It doesn't teach you to do that. If you think you should do that, you're an idiot. It's effective because lots of fights already do end up on the ground.

Never forget that the reason they are so convinced you’re all getting paid is that they are all getting paid.

ICE took the flower man in Echo Park 40 minutes ago. He’s at this corner every day. I’ve bought flowers from the man and woman here for anniversaries and birthdays. Lemmy loves to smell them whenever we walk by in the mornings. I was just at the street corner 15 minutes before it happened. Fuck.

To all porn bots: you can just reply with the porn, you don't have to pretend that you thought my post about Fire Pro wrestling was really sick, I'm not gonna fall for that. But I *will* believe you want me to look at porn.

Watching a vale tudo fight (research for Fire Pro) and one guy shoots a double leg on the other and ends up in guard, and the commentator goes "whoa he's hugging him! ... which is a normal move!!"

I hate Barack Obama so much.

One of the popular lines from conservatives has been that it must be something about agitators in Minneapolis because it’s not happening elsewhere. Of course it is also happening elsewhere.

It's why the rent is always rising. You can't get enough money to just live on cause shit will always jump up in expense. Can't have "fuck you money" anymore, you have to have capital, and that capital has to be working all the time.

Please keep Mona and her children if you can. This is a worldwide resistance and helping those in need is part of it. chuffed.org/project/mona...

Remember when MET police violently shoved Ian Tomlinson in the back as he walked from work and he died? Remember when Jean Charles de Menezes was shot by cops who then lied and said photos of police running and jumping turnstiles were actually of him. Remember Northern Ireland?

Apparently there's an ancient image of a centaur doing a heel hook on somebody, 1) why were you kicking a centaur, what did you think you were gonna gain, 2) why does a centaur need to know joint locks, just kick him with your four hooves