Mark Winkelman (he/him)

sorta feel like the core central division in conservatism is "hierarchy is inevitable, so it must be made just and virtuous" and "hierarchy is inevitable, so all it does is just and virtuous"

MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ Awarded To Inventor Of Eatin’ Shirt ‘It’s A Big Ol’ Shirt I Put On Before Supper So My Good Shirts Don’t Get Dirty,’ Says Recipient

MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ Awarded To Inventor Of Eatin’ Shirt https://theonion.com/macarthur-genius-grant-awarded-to-inventor-of-eatin-shirt/

That response fits perfectly with her fascist views.

A social media post by a user named Glenn Tunes shows a satirical image resembling a Fox News broadcast. The tweet reads, “As a Norwegian I can confirm that this is what we see when we watch US media today.” Below the text, an edited news graphic features a blonde female anchor wearing a pink and black hanbok, holding a large gold cross. Beside her is a framed portrait of Donald Trump styled in a North Korean propaganda aesthetic. The lower caption mimics a news chyron and reads: “DEAR LEADER WAS GREETED BY 68 MILLION PEOPLE IN LONDON WHO CHEERED AND THREW STREET PARTIES.” The image mocks authoritarian propaganda and suggests U.S. media’s tone of idolization.

At a time when we should be guaranteeing health care to all Americans as a human right, President Trump and his Republican colleagues are threatening to make our broken system even worse by doubling premiums for more than 20 million Americans.

The Plot to Enslave America

Republican voters are those who repeatedly buy the “Punch Myself in the Face Machine”, run it 24-7, and then wonder why they keep getting punched in the face.

Team @immdef has spent all morning desperately searching for Juli, a mom of 3 US citizens who has lived in LA for 21 years. 3 nights ago Juli was on her way to work when she was forcibly taken at gunpoint by men who in a short call to family she described as “bounty hunters.” 🧵

Juli called family from blocked # last night & said she was initially taken with others from LA by bounty hunters to CBP near San Ysidro where officers demanded they sign papers to be deported. CBP said she was brought there because she had agreed to a voluntary deportation. When she & others in group asked for lawyers & to see a judge, CBP returned all who refused to sign to bounty hunters’ van. They were then taken by the unknown armed men to a warehouse in a remote, unknown location. She is still there. We can’t find her in online detainee locator Juli described to family that men & women are being held together in the remote warehouse. There are no beds, no blankets and no showers. There is no food and the only water source is the sink. Juli has not seen any uniformed ICE or CBP officers since arriving at the warehouse.

Per this lawyer, the mother of 3 US citizens, among others, has been abducted by “bounty hunters” at gunpoint, brought to CBP, where they demanded she sign deportation papers without seeing a judge.

When she refused, she was literally disappeared by the armed “bounty hunters” at the behest of CBP.

This is 100% true, just as the press spent ZERO time on the attempted mass assassination of the entirety of democratic leadership through pipe bombs just a few years ago. It’s literally never even discussed! A MAGA terrorist tried to kill all of the leading dems!

Correct unbombed rhetoric

Paurñfeyndt’s hanging parry from his 1516 treatise: #hema #sword #martialarts #fencing

We feed you.
They hunt us.

No lies detected.

There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

A classic.

I can’t even. Pass the glitter, pls.

Trump Is Turning America Into its Opposite and a Threat to the World A French politician issues a stark warning

This is the best short speech about Trump's desecration of our democracy since he's re-entered office.

Read it, absorb it, share it.

Which transphobic misogynistic asshole? I think I know, but there’s a few to pick from.

Conservatives are losing their excessively tiny minds over the idea of the Liberals, NDP, and Greens etc. forming a single party, saying that’s “undemocratic”, while forgetting the CPC is a merger of the Progressive Conservative and the Canadian Alliance parties.

The same mentality that brought us flat-earthers, anti-vaccine idiocy, TERFs, moon-landing deniers, etc. is a huge component of what allowed Trump to get elected. It’s a companion idea to Voltaire: Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you vote against your own best interests.

i recently learned of a neat little theory of fascism that basically says its what happens when the earnestly duped petite bourgeoisie take over from the clear-eyed bourgeoisie and try to govern capitalism according to the conservative myths that the latter told the former to keep them in line

Oh wow. 😲

As a clinician with ADHD, the simplest description of it I can think of is that it makes essentially everything in your life a monumental pain in the ass.

Another video from the archives. This time showcasing some of our Modern Combatives curriculum. Here's Tim demonstrating some knife defence techniques on @winkelmansword.bsky.social

#yyc #calgary #throwback #martialarts #selfdefence #selfdefense #combatives

The power of being forklift certified knows no bounds

Quick reminder:

Very cool! ⚔️ 😎

Looks awesome! Where's it from?