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this is going too damn far 😤

feels highly unprofessional

@foggy hope this kinda matches your mind image

so

the two genders

@andi a tale as old as time

remember that time mi6 took some of the plot from the film the rock and put it in a dossier about iraq's weapons capabilities

I've come to the conclusion that Lancer isn't real, it's a front for everyone here who is an fbi plant

@esvrld my personal favorite example of this phenomenon is capoiera, a martial art that is purposefully designed to look like dancing because it could be practiced by African slaves on Brazilian plantations who were otherwise obviously forbidden to learn any combat techniques. It focuses on sweeping and evasiveness because the expectation is that the fighter will be outnumbered. It evolved from Engolo, an Angolan ritual combat, that was brought over by people who had been enslaved. Eventually after Brazil abolished slavery capoiera was banned because the white upper classes caught on; it was basically driven underground, until the upper class decided that they could turn it into a sport/performance and make money off of it, which more or less brings us to the modern day

if there's a lesson to any of this, i think it's that leftists should start organising martial arts clubs

this is v interesting on the class dynamics of martial arts. of note is that modern mixed martial arts developed from the gracie school of brazilian jiu jitsu

when the monopoly of force is working as advertised, martial arts are not useful, as superiority in numbers and materiel can be leveraged much more efficiently than trying to train individual enforcers — this is why cops are so bad at fighting, for example. when it starts to break down, the lumpens will start coming up with ways to counteract that superiority

very roughly i think formalised martial arts arise in two circumstances: among marginalised underclasses denied the ability to wage symmetric combat (okinawan empty-handed techniques were developed in response to peasants being denied weapons, savate was invented b/c fistfighting carried heavy penalties), or among privileged warrior classes at low level endemic warfare

i think what mass warfare with firearms did to martial arts, urban insurrections are going, and have already begun, to reverse

saw someone say that aikido makes a lot more sense when you realise the techniques were originally developed to be used against armoured enemies, but there aren't many of those around anymore; and the first part is debatably true, but for the latter, riot cops do in fact exist

[opens profile] oh, this guy's kinda cute

[swipes one selfie right] well, he's a juggalo, but that's not a disqualifie—

[swipes one selfie right] military, nevermind, THAT is

Alan Moore voice Owl grayt magicians know that in odah to obtayn maygickal consciousness, owl wizads such as moyself must get sloppie toppie from a femboy, and one may presume a Moxist femboy at that--baddie.

I'm very sorry to Grant Morrison, who is nonbinary and cool and NOT Alan Moore, who is a bigot and a creep, for mixing the two up so much