Me after being hit in the head fifty times
lol "Overton window shifting." The average Brazillian MMA fighter would be somewhere on the political spectrum between January 6th rioters and Civil War reenactors who only play Confederate soldiers.
When I look at ufc.com/rankings and pontificate (i.e. smell my own farts)
Charles Olivera - Fucking LOVES Jesus. Is a divorced dad. Trains very hard
Alex Pereira - Fucking loves kickboxing. Scariest looking man on planet Earth.
Paulo Costa - 4chan's pick. Silly guy.
Gilbert Burns - Top 10 most violent people ever but has his family
Vicente Luque - don't know much about him
Rafael Dos Anjos - Christian father
Edson Barboza - Fucking loves kicking
Pedro Munhoz - Who knows
Deiveson Figueiredo - Wrestled like his father before joining team Alpha Male. Hard to imagine him as a comrade
Jéssica Andrade - Has a wife. Who knows?
Mackenzie Dern (counting her) - Instagram influencer, mother. Who knows?
Marina Rodriguez - Who knows?
Natália Silva - Who knows?
In conclusion I have no idea and they don't often espouse political beliefs. I think Renzo Gracie liked
the sickly Brazilian presidentBolsonaro. They're probably not leftists.
the overton window is when guys who take hits to the head all day think your economic system is viable
Its a highly effective form of propaganda.
Take some guys who have had their bells rung time after time after time. Sit them down in a room with some bespeckled nerd and have the nerd tell them that all the secrets of economics are in six simple rules that even you can understand. If the guy says he agrees with you, start sponsoring his fights. Do this with enough guys and one of them is going to come out talking like this after the title fight.
The Saudis have been aggressively investing in MMA for similar reasons. These fight club events are great venues for attracting young people with chips on their shoulders. And when they're old enough to think twice about what they're being told, who cares? They're too old to be used in the coming Water Wars as cannon fodder anyway.
Did the Saudi investments precede the dominance of the Dagestani fighters? Because I had never heard of MMA (or anyone in Denmark giving a shit about MMA) prior to the big title fight between Connor McGregor and Khabib. And Khabib was obviously such a great front figure that every fucking mosque here was talking about the fight after he won against McGregor, simply because Khabib was both likeable, cool and genuinely very religious.
Unironically Joe Rogan.
Why do sports guys think we care what they think? I don't watch them but I imagine if I did, it'd be because I want to watch his teeth get kicked in, not to learn his philosophy about life
THE MANS JOB IS TO GET KICKED IN THE HEAD WHY WOULD ANYONE LISTEN TO HIS IDEAS ON A JUST SOCIETY?!
Because people keep putting mics in their faces, I imagine
I'm sure his worldview is just as cohesive as The Ultimate Warrior's theory of Destrucity
There are too many people that get influenced by sportspeople.
It seems it take years of being beaten in the head to start to see some sense in Mises and the austrian cult.
Wrestling and boxing've always kind of been a shitshow for politics, and I assume that carries over to MMA
MMA was always ripe for rightwing politics, much more than boxing. Boxing is still mostly made up of Blacks and Mexicans from impoverished backgrounds. MMA attracts a lot of white boys from middle class backgrounds.
I watched how the MMA start showing up in Poland. It's like the 90's US wrestling but while the US wrestling was at least entertainingly cringy, MMA is just boringly cringy and gravitate around washed up steroid celebrities who alternate it with participating in reality shows and weird far right political sects.
Listen, I don't care how how good you are taking a sweaty man down to the mat
You can't punch a bullet in the groin until it gives up
Punch Drunk Love :kelly:
UFC fighters are famously an excellent barometer for the mainstream of political opinion
No, the Overton window has stayed the exact same ffs
Hahaha Wow. I can't believe this wasn't just a meme.
I actually watched this live as I sat at an empty bar with my friend but the sound was down and we were chatting so I missed it, but I would've been convinced I was incredibly drunk if I thought I heard this shit coming from the TV during an MMA fight. Also fired shots at Rogan about starting a new podcast which will be the best podcast.
This is literal conservative virtual signalling...
MMA flyweights like Mighty Mouse are the only tolerable people in the sport. They get more chuddy the heavier the weight class gets because they think they’re all alpha males at the peak of masculinity.
Unless you're Jeff Monson, in which case you're
levels of politics.wasn't Francis Ngannou one of the main exceptions to that rule? I don't think I ever heard any real chuddyness from him, but that might be a language barrier thing.
In English for maximal effect. mises.org: Renato Moicano: "If You Care About Your...Country, Read Ludwig von Mises."
TIL that von Mises mentored Hayek at the University of Vienna.
Needless to say, the doctors on site were alerted and treated the brain damage just in time.
This is the perfect thread to explain an extremely dumb joke between me and my friends. We are large fight fans, especially me.
We got a set of 10 shot glasses made with the silhouette of Jeff Monson on them and then put "Arm Bar Amerika" above him in a vaguely Persian-esque font to express "marg bar amrika".
It is probably the funniest shit in the world to me but most likely nobody else.
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I take all of my economic beliefs from people who get concussions professionally
"I love America, so you should be more like Austria!" lmao what? Fucking Limey turncoat bastard.
