RedRook1917 [he/him]

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  • Even if you take the THREE use cases at face value (which I don’t) that is not a large enough sample size to be legitimate. Yet I’m the illiterate one here.

    Nothing you or anyone else (including the video) has said have addressed the ‘no live contact’ problem. You can’t learn anything without practice and experience. You can’t learn the piano by not playing the piano. You can’t learn to paint without actually painting. You can’t be a communist without study and practice. You can’t fight people without fighting people. Do you understand? MA is not an exception to this rule! Practicing on a log like the guy in the video is not a live opponent. Not sure if you’re aware of this but logs can’t fight back.

    Any dumbass can use weapons/dick kicks. There is nothing novel at all about this, it isn’t the cheat code you think it is. A real martial artist isn’t just going to throw a knife away lol. I’d also bet the guy who kicks REAL opponents (aka not logs) for a living will be better at dick kicks.

    He never said anything about cardio, he said nothing about movement, and noise is irrelevant. Did you watch the video?

    Now all I want to do is promote REAL self defense for comrades, because I don’t want them to get their ass beat. You and a couple others seem pretty upset about that and decided to take personal shots at me instead of rebutting my critiques. Sounds like a personal issue you should investigate.

    Really the only two people who fall for this crap are the most gullible people on the planet who are looking for a quick solution that doesn’t exist, and actual children. I’ve said what’s needed to be said on the subject. I don’t have time to argue with fools and children.


  • I did, 3 random articles in a language I can’t read flashing across the screen isn’t exactly hard evidence of this working. IDF trains in Krav Maga, Spetznaz train in Systema, this does not change the fact these are woo-woo bullshit fake MA.

    You need to be able to practice on live opponents. You can’t practice these things on live opponents. If you can’t practice you can’t use it in a critical situation. There’s nothing special about dirty fighting, someone who does real MA can do it better because of the live experience. This guy is selling you nonsense that’ll get you killed. Go ahead and try out his open scissor punch technique on a log, you’re going to break your hand doing that.

    I have a right to speak because I’ve done both real MA and scam shit this guy’s selling. One works one doesn’t. If people don’t want to believe me that’s cool. Go ahead and chop down the forest with your badass scissor punches. If you try that against anyone with any experience at all you’re going to get hospitalized.


















  • I’m aware of this practice and have posted about it regarding the recent NFLPA scandals. As far as I’m aware this isn’t the case here.

    It angers me because those folks fought hard to win those concessions. They were out there for a week in 100 degree weather, sun blazing down, no shade, no water, picketing. Dealing with reactionaries, Karen’s, and their management. Their management wouldn’t even negotiate at first, but due to the workers pressure was forced to come to the table.

    Labor organizing is a very rare thing in this country. I’ve worked plenty of shit jobs and never even came close to unionization in any of them. For them to both organize, strike like they did, AND win is something that the left should be praising/encouraging.

    Instead this ‘Anti-Capitalist Pro Workers Rights journalist’ wants to do the exact opposite.

    -First they try to fool the reader by mixing up three different strikes/labor negotiations into one as if they’re the same thing (they are not).

    -Then they try to make it seem like the union wanted to rush negotiations so they could have them go back in for the 4th. Wrong, they were picketing on the 4th, through slight of hand the writer mixes up different situations as the same to fool the reader.

    -Not to mention the wreckless speculation taken as fact and the ‘anonymous source’ issue I’ve talked about already.

    -Lastly the writer wants to poo-poo even modest wage gains. Like of course they should get more, but that’s going to take a lot more struggle and time. Does the writer think these corporations are spineless cowards that’ll just cave into all demands? Absolutely not the workers are going to have to force out concessions a penny at a time. It’s idealistic to think otherwise.

    Labor unions themselves won’t get us across the finish line. However with the flaccid, unorganized, weak state of the western left we need to take what we can get. These workers risked a lot doing this, through sacrifice and collective struggle got a win for workers rights. Any self-respecting leftist should platform these things as a victory and should be encouraging more of this in the future.


  • Bull fucking shit. An anonymous single worker’s post on social media holds as much weight as a Radio Free Asia anonymous source, in other words next to worthless. This article is pure speculation and anonymous sources all the way down. Straight up fedposting ‘unions are bad kids don’t you dare try to organize’ dogshit. The workers on the ground I have contact with have said the exact opposite of this articles claims. I question the integrity of everyone who had anything to do with the writing or sharing of this trash.