i’m politically incorrect. i believe:
-the president is a motherfucker
-black lives matter
-people are the gender they say they are
-“willpower” is not a perfect solution to biological limitations or societal discrimination
-cringe culture is dead
-reproductive freedom is essential
-climate change is real, evolution is real, and vaccines work
and if this offends you snowflakes❄, you’re welcome to LEAVE!
Bonus Nick Offerman reminding people there actually is no such thing as “manly”:
Actually there is a thing called Manliness.
Manliness is the ability and willingness to fight.
In our dominant culture, the Consumer Culture, fighting is considered “aggressive” and “violent”.
However, in the Martial Culture, the culture of the fight gyms, Manliness is defined as fight skills (ability and willingness to fight), a trained and conditioned body and most importantly the Moral Virtues of Humility, Integrity, Selflessness, Self Control and always showing Respect.
Manliness is very moral.
In the Consumer Culture, Manliness is bought. It’s all about “appearing” Manly. The right clothes, car, house, partner, even the body (steroid muscles).
In the Martial Culture Manliness is earned. You train and you fight.
You learn to protect and defend yourself and those you love.
So there actually is such a thing as “Manly”!
Visit a fight gym and find out!
Train and fight!
Always seek Manliness!
WarriorMale
I think @warriormale just broke down that over indulgent Consumerism was the root of the fall of Manliness in America
Very true!
Today over 90% of Men can’t defend themselves because they don’t know how to fight.
Really tragic.
They look good - big muscles, great clothes, fast cars - but don’t know jack about how to defend and protect themselves.
This is a group of friends who know youre dating a bad dude so are willing to drop everything and lie if it means protecting you, not remotely “oh haha its because u cheatin”
And clearly they’re not far off the mark if he’s going through her phone and doing these kinds of “tests” to uncover and instigate shit
It’s sweet but then if her friends all react this way…yeah, it’s probably a red flag…
I hope you don’t mind, but I slowed the gif down because that is a FANTASTIC move.
The sword clearly cuts his wrist and waist. I mean he took the guys sword away, sure, but also fucked up his own ability to fight at the same time. It’d be one thing if he was wearing armor, but this is like a dueling thing.
I think you give too much credence to a Sword’s ability to cut. This is from the manual I practice, “Il Fior di Battaglia,” “The Flower of Battle,” by Fiore dei Liberi. I have performed this maneuver, and I’ve gotta say, when done right, it feels good.
Point being, if you do it right, when you pivot around your guard and bring the pommel around the blade, your wrist does come into contact with the edge, but there is no sliding motion, and it’s that sliding motion that causes a blade to slice. You pivot, pull against the blade, and it goes flying as your wrist pulls away from the edge.
I’ve never made a blade go flying so far as the guys in this video, but even if I did, the blade doesn’t have the right kind of leverage and power behind it to cut into his waist there. It would strike him, and he might feel it, but I doubt it would even scratch his clothes.
Yeah, @armthearmour has it right here. I’ve just finished a day of cutting with sharps, and honestly, without edge alignment, speed, and form, the sword isn’t cutting anything. As the sword is flying away, it touches against his waist, but it’s travelling away from him, so at most, if anything, he will feel a pinprick.
You also have to account for the clothing: medieval clothing was a lot thicker than today due to the medieval period co-inciding with a mini-ice age which means people wore around at least three layers. As someone said earlier when cutting: “Yeah it’s good, but stick an old tee-short on the mats and have a try.”
What he was getting at is even one layer of fabric over a target presents an issue, as the soft slippery material can make the edge alignment slip, at which point your sword might as well be slapping someone. Now imagine that with three layers, one of which is a quilted arming jacket as the Fiore person is wearing in the video, and a flicky, indirect touch of a sword against you is going to accomplish nothing.
Long story short: sword mechanics are difficult, and even people that regularly use them constantly practice cutting to be consistently good at cutting through layered targets.
You don’t have to be black, it just means you support us, you stand by us and you’re for us.
100%
200%
Someone who’s black or supports black people and their human rights. it literally says that in the description. “You don’t have to be black, it just means you support us, you stand by us and you’re for us.”
Why the fuck does this not have more notes wtf.
I support you.
Of course!!
🙏🏽✊🏽🤟🏽
not even a question. Support EVERYONE, no matter race, sexuality, religion, etc.
Okay but how is this our problem? What’s the context?
Thank you, like what does this have to do with me? I’m supposed to be considerate of what here, a lack of socialization?
You’re supposed to be aware that some people were raised to be tolerated and that transfers into their adult life. Always being alone as a child doesn’t help you grow into a social adult. It leads you to be friends with people you believe are your friends but are only tolerating you. It leads you to believe that the people who love you and are around you are only tolerating you because you’re around. It feels scary to ask people for anything because you’re afraid they’ll give you what you want only to get you away from them. It makes you feel unlovable, unsocial, and intolerable to the people you love and should know, love you.
This is also something that tends to happen to children of resentment; kids who were born to parents who had kids because they were expected to, or any other reason besides wanting kids unconditionally.
It’s a very lonely, loveless childhood. It’s a childhood full of you trying to tell your parents about problems and they brush you off, or wanting to talk about something you like and you get “thats nice honey but could you -insert excuse to get you away from them-”
You constantly second guess peoples motives. You don’t believe anyone could genuinely want to help you. You see yourself as a bother. You don’t trust people when they do nice things for you because you think theyre just trying to placate you and make you go away. Everyone is only doing nice things for you to be polite, not because theyre a nice person or they care about you.
And usually this kind of childhood is accompanied by emotional abuse. Your parents tolerate you, but they would really rather you not be around. And kids aren’t stupid. They know. And it hurts them. It hurt me so much.
You grow up believing no one would ever actually love you.
Some people really just don’t give a fuck about anyone but themselves to the point that they get offended when you ask them to be aware that many individuals had shitty childhoods.
