• pulsewidth@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Kash Patel is a UFC fanboy.

    Just like everyone else on the admin payroll, he is just using the position as his personal entertainment budget and holiday fund

    Next he’ll pay George Lucas to come visit him to “advise on Star Wars defence systems” while he gets his collectibles signed.

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      2 months ago

      That’s already happened. Ronald Reagan was a big fan of SciFi and created a think tank of SciFi authors to advise him on potential threats of the future.

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      2 months ago

      It’s fucking wild that right after attacking the largest support of global terrorism, they’re holding this event at the WH and you know security will be a shitshow.

      I’ll be shocked if it’s not attacked

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          2 months ago

          I’m kind of hoping the rest of the world wakes up and realizes that sending teams to the US to compete right now us just as bad as sending teams to Russia. The world should boycott it, and let the US claim its trophy after the Saudis field the only other team.

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            2 months ago

            and the cherry on top would be FIFA losing their pants on this WC after boot licking the rapist pedophile so hard

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        2 months ago

        Largest supporter? I would have thought that was Saudi. Most of the groups US were fighting or dealing with originated from strict Sunni groups. Iran was working against many of those groups.

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          2 months ago

          If you want anyone to give you the benefit of the doubt that you’re authentically asking questions, you really need to switch off one of the largest troll instances.

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        2 months ago

        right after attacking the largest support of global terrorism

        We shot ourselves? Surely that was by accident.

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      2 months ago

      This gonna be the real “jumping the shark” moment.

      That was right after the peak of Happy Days, that was when it got so ridiculous that it was undeniably a shadow of it’s former self.

      Just like how they thought Fonzi jumping a shark would be cool, they think this will be cool.

      But they’re gonna fuck it up, and it’s gonna be a cringe fest.

      As disappointing as it is, this will have a significant effect right before midterms.

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    2 months ago

    Taxpayer money going to the UFC, historic opportunity to waste a bunch of fucking money, assholes.

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    2 months ago

    I’ve had MMA-trained dickheads have a go at me. I was working as a roadie, driving a van and loading equipment after club closing. That’s a job where you’re constantly surrounded by coked-up drunks who’ve just left the club at 2 AM and now they’re hanging around the backdoor. And being asked to please not sit in the open back doorway of the van while I’m trying to move a massive speaker cabinet into it seems to be interpreted by some knobheads as an invitation to fight. It’s not that, I just want to haul the equipment back to the lockup so I can go home. I always ask nicely, but that’s lost on people full of alcohol and Charlie Sheen.

    Guess what? The ground game’s different when you land on tarmac instead of a mat and someone then grinds your face into it.

    And you’re not going to be paying attention to getting your chokehold set up when someone’s got a thumb in your eye and the other hand crushing your nutscack. And with street situations, you don’t know how many opponents there are (I wasn’t the only person in the crew), you’re not matched by weight class or experience (I’m not a small guy and trained hard for a few decades), and (unlike any form of MMA) there really are no rules. Well, I have one rule: a fair fight is one in which I don’t get hurt.

    So hopefully this training will make these goons more inclined to do things that will get them into trouble, instead of just roughing up civilians.

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      Yeah anyone who knows anything about actual self defense fighting in my experience always pushes avoid and run more than anything else.

      Getting stabbed sucks, even if you win the fight.

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      Fights are are much more winnable when you treat them like an actual fight rather than the “manospheres” angry peacocking.

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    FBI future foot pursuits…
    “Agent Silva! The suspect went over the west corner Burger King wall towards the freeway!”

    Agent Silva: . . .

    “Sir, he’s getting away! Silva!! Agent Silva!! C’mon man.”

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    2 months ago

    Lol, I’m just picturing a bunch of middle-aged guys throwing their backs out trying to suplex each other.

    As ridiculous as everything with this guy is, going on free dates with his girlfriend and sending himself to a different sports fantasy camp every week is seeming much less damaging than what a lot of other cronies have been up to. I’ll take funding a manchild’s excursions over a pointless war any day.

    Send him up in one of Elon’s rockets next for his space camp adventure!

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    Lots of FBI agents gonna get their balls kicked in.

    I’m surprisingly okay with that.

    (Groin shots in UFC are illegal so they tend not to defend against them as well as one should in actual combat. This is the difference between combat sports and life-and-death combat.)

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    There are subsets of BJJ created specifically to help law enforcement subdue and cuff a suspect. But that’s not what MMA fighters know. It’s substantially different.

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      2 months ago

      Run for office! I finally know someone who decided they’d had enough and are just going for it.

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        here’s the problem with that… the salary for most offices is abysmally small. Like, poverty line. So, who can afford to run for office? People who already have wealth and a safe income. You can’t just quit your job to run for local office when it pays $15K yearly.