“Some of you may be willing to die, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make” but unironically
Edit: The user has since apologised https://hexbear.net/comment/3848285
“Some of you may be willing to die, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make” but unironically
Edit: The user has since apologised https://hexbear.net/comment/3848285
I wish I could do 2 rounds of BJJ with someone like this and go really rough with them. The first one would tire them out and the second round would overwhelm them. I’d get real mean and shout at them the whole time. Having to deal with one, unarmed person who isn’t outstanding at combat sports whose intent isn’t even to injure you is more than enough to overwhelm you and be a horrible, awful experience. Having to deal with one person armed with a knife who is open, albeit hesitant, to injuring you for your money is more than enough to overwhelm you and be a horrible, awful experience. Having one person with a hand gun who is actively trying to destroy you defies the imagination in terms of terror and if you have experienced something like that then you have my condolences.
A squad of 5 trained militants with weapons of war and equipment looking to demolish a building because they know you’re in it is a fucking nightmare. Tens of thousands of people dying for a capitalist is a statistic. Your brain isn’t capable of calculating the horror of it all. I might be talking to myself when I say it’s just so tone deaf to be so unfamiliar with what overwhelming violence feels like and advocate for it. I see a whole lot of stories of people coming back from war who don’t exactly keep a philosophical agreement about 10,000+ people dying not even for a line on a map. Japan couldn’t even keep that energy for the emperor in WW2. 2 rounds of violent BJJ fucking sucks and it just gets worse and worse the bigger the weapons get and the more animosity your opponent has. Advocating for it as an arm chair general is unlimited cringe.
sometimes I just start explaining what a nuclear weapon does and how big the blast radius is when I’m arguing with someone about the Ukraine war and they think we should be more directly fighting Russia
I like thoughts like this. You take something understandable and scale it up to help people understand the enormity of something they otherwise couldn’t.
At the beginning of this thing you wrote I was thinking “whoa tough guy” but you really turned it around and made a beautiful and great point. I used to spar in some martial arts, but I never thought to connect that experience to the greater scale of violence enacted. It’s a fascinating way of making something more understandable. Very well put!
Ive had guns pointed at me a few times (only by police though) and it’s weird. My brain just locks up and refuses to acknowledge the situation. It’s only hours later it lets me realize how close I was to death. Knives make me freak out.