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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.Look up "bolsonaro ufc fighters" to get a sense of what I'm talking about.
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.
I love when I have all the things and other people have none of the things and that makes them die. God I just fuckin LOVE that makes me feel like A REAL MAN
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
to be honest i'd love to punch a guy on national television before screaming about how everyone should read Blackshirts and Reds
Scott Steiner's math rant but it's me detailing every coup the USA has done and is doing now using percentages
THE MANS JOB IS TO GET KICKED IN THE HEAD WHY WOULD ANYONE LISTEN TO HIS IDEAS ON A JUST SOCIETY?!
I'm sure his worldview is just as cohesive as The Ultimate Warrior's theory of Destrucity
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.
This just isn't true. The fans, yes, but the fighters come from all over. There are fucktons of Russian, Dagestan, chechen, Thai, Brazilian, and African fighters. And that's just in the ufc. This doesn't count Russian, EU, and Southeast Asian promotions
The Brazilian MMA fighters are all the worst type of chuds and usually come from a middle class or richer background (if they even start as a kid, those Aldo gyms are filled to the brim with adults). Poor kids tend to practice tae-kwon-do or Jiu-Jitsu here.
Oh for sure, yeah the sport definitely has a worldwide chud vibe, I was just speaking on "rich white kid" kinda deal.
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
UFC fighters are famously an excellent barometer for the mainstream of political opinion
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.
Fight sports were cooler when Ali and Tyson were openly supporting communists.
You still get the occasional leftist in boxing. MMA is chud central though for whatever reason and UFC in particular is especially bad.
MMA always struck me as something that wasn't trying to determine who a "world champion" is but instead to put on a spectacle of brutality. Boxing on the other hand always seemed to be a proper "sport" in the sense that it wasn't just outright pursuing brutality.
I think MMA has mellowed a bit with time compared to its earlier days but it's still carrying that stuff. It's how it built up its early success and attracted people, it always seemed a lot like a no-rules fight pit.
Idk what he actually thinks but Andre Petroski has a hammer and sickle tatted on his side.
Tyson has Mao and Che Guevara tattoo'd on his body
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Ali was on NSA watchlists and actively spied on for his anti-vietnam stuff too.
The left doesn't talk about Tyson because of the rape though, obviously. But fighting sports never used to be dominated by the far right like today.
Muhammad Ali? I see? Tyson's strikes me more as an edgelord, considering he decided to endorse Trump tho...
Trump has personally helped Tyson and they're "friends" so I think he's compromised in that regard. I don't think his support back in the day was pretend or just edge though.
I think like a lot of boomers he's just aged and reached a point where he just chooses comfort over anything that might resemble struggle. Some of this misjudgement might also be coming from experiences when he was younger too, given that he says he's known him in personal capacity since he was 19 or 20 years old.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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.
