Combat sports in general feel like they’re in a strange place. Like, boxing and MMA seem simultaneously bigger and more popular than they’ve been in a while (which I attribute to the various high-profile celebrity boxing matches as well as hard times generally creating interest in fighting), but the general quality is just the drizzling shits right now.

I’m way more of an MMA viewer than a boxing viewer, but it seems like various combat sports “promotions” don’t actually do a lot of promoting of their fights and fighters. I’ve thought this for a while now, but it’s so pronounced at this point. UFC’s Dana White clearly doesn’t give a fuck anymore, most fighters have been expected to get themselves out there with self-promotion for years now. I don’t understand why they aren’t pushing the hell out of people like Aspinall and Pantoja and especially Topuria.

As far as the future trajectory, I think it’s only going to get worse, especially in heavier weight classes where they have to compete with stick-and-ball sports for talent (the only way they could compete is by paying way more, and fuck no they won’t do that).

Most of the joy I derive from combat sports right now is going back and watching old stuff, learning about fighters I wasn’t around for, etc.

It was in that moment that scientists discovered the least surprising thing on earth.

I hope the pro-genocide streamers someday get executed like the Dur Sturmer guy. I fucking hate these annoying creeps and their toady piece-of-shit fanbases.

Zero interest in a Street Fighter movie that isn’t animated.

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israelis are some of the worst people our species has ever produced. Anything bad that happens to israelis, I am unable to feel bad about in the slightest.

Hope he sues the absolute shit out of them for medical discrimination. I don’t know why, but some nurses are the biggest fucking chuds.

The line I hear is that organized crime is likely to follow the money, and since the capitalists have more money, they could be too easily bought off and used as a contra-like force against a revolutionary movement.

I’ve wondered if something like that might be done to Mexico at some point with their cartels.

Firefox has an add-on called Blocktube which has an option to block shorts. I think the add-on is also available on other browsers, and possibly for stuff on mobile devices if that’s how you watch.

Indie horror video-games have a whole sub-genre that is basically just horror about having shitty minimum wage jobs and shitty, unsafe living arrangements due to poverty.

I’ve seen a few people say that closing the Straight of Hormuz would possibly be a bigger issue for China than it would be for the US, or at least that it would be strongly against China’s economic interests for that to happen. My question then: isn’t it especially important for China to keep their ally in power and prevent pro-US regime change so that the US-western block couldn’t deliberately close the Straight to harm them in economic warfare?

If I understand correctly from what I’ve read throughout this thread, Iran hasn’t shown proper urgency in asking China for weapons (in comparison with Pakistan’s relationship with China, for example), but I’m surprised China hasn’t urged them more? Perhaps they have privately and Iran’s leadership was doofy enough to actively refuse them (I could certainly buy it at this point), but it seems like China would benefit from chatting them up again after all this and talking them into being smart before they end up in western hands.

Iran’s gonna bring up the fucking parliamentarian next.

(you’re supposed to look at the sandals)

I’m looking at how the shortest woman’s arm looks longer than her fucking legs? What is happening? Is this some optical illusion type-shit or are zios cross-breeding with orangutans now? And it’s not just the way her shoulders are tilted.

Any state without nukes does not have sovereignty, that’s what I get from this.

I assume they’re alluding to the “nazis lost the war but won the peace” adage.

Man, you really do gotta ruthlessly purge all the compradors and dumbass moderates from positions of power, huh?

“Babe, don’t replace the culture war with class war, you’re so beautiful, please babe …”

They can aspire to be in an advertisement for the Wounded Warrior Project.

That doesn’t seem like effective training for skills that are not archery.

Letting the gusanos live and flee to USia is Castro’s biggest L at this point.