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if u figure out who I am irl then plz taunt me as much as possible with the suspicion that you know,, push me to my breaking point, enjoy the fear in my eyes
Mars the moon
Joined October 2020
I would like to thank my friends and family for keeping me grounded and humble despite my overwhelming success, impossible bone structure, and Spartan physique.
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Whenever it’s too hot or too cold inside, it’s always the people who are too hot that win and crank the AC so it’s fucking freezing
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Whenever something starts 7 mins late by default, I get a little nostalgic l
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@MainStreetChad @gently_now No it’s a perfect epistemic vacuum chamber
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Make sure your fear of epistemic contagion isn’t destroying all of the magic and poetry in your life
my own reluctance to ascribe validity to this reasoning modality stemmed in large part from concern over epistemic contagion; I was afraid that if I admitted into my mind constructions with invalid foundations, this would erode my very ability to matinain rigor, to reason clearly
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Whenever a guy starts describing stuff in terms of wolf pack social dynamics, you know he’s about to say the gayest most beta shit you’ve ever heard in your life
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I know none of you ever actually read atlas shrugged because nobody ever talks about the sex scenes
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You refuse to listen to anything that isn’t absolutely shrieking for your attention, so of course you’re incapable of imagining a love that grows gently, or wisdom that speaks softly, or beauty that refuses to beg.
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Just an editor’s aside but whenever I say the word “honestly” in my writing, it’s meant to be read in a lower-class British accent
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George Orwell would have written a killer essay making fun of these people
OMG They inverted Animal Farm
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But when you see a jiu-jitsu gym with “Gracie” in the name, that’s tracing back to Carlos, some dude in Brazil in the 1900s who had this insane vision and actually pulled it off across generations. very inspiring. A certified dilf
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So anyways, the Gracies dominate UFC because they figured out what nobody else had, which is how to win on the ground. The UFC took off and from there, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu became a global sensation.
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It’s interesting because in those early UFC episodes, you can really tell that the Gracie’s are channeling something deeper when they walk into the ring. They have this calm, terrifying focus, like they’ve done this a thousand times before, because they kind of have. Generations
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Early UFC was insane. You should watch it. There are rules, no weight classes, and no time limits. In the first couple of episodes, even the announcers were like “oh shit this is too hardcore. We need some rules.” I’m talking like… dude’s getting kicked in the back of the head
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Then he gets The Big Idea to create a tv show pitting different styles of martial arts against each other to see which one wins. So sumo wrestler vs. kickboxer. Boxer vs. Jiu-Jitsu master, etc. And to use the tv show as a marketing tool to show the world that Gracie Jiu-Jitsu is
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Fast forward to the 90s. Carlos’ son Rorion moves to the US. He starts giving jiu-jitsu lessons to actors and stunt people in Hollywood. He eventually becomes a fight choreographer the movie Lethal Weapon.
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From the 1950s-1980s, the Gracie’s trained successive generations, opened more gyms, and spread their influence around the world.
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Most biographies don’t like to talk about the eugenics stuff. But according to my research, Carlos picked his wives specifically to produce apex fighters, controlling what his family ate, how the kids trained, and who they married, when they banged, etc.More to learn about the
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It basically began as a eugenics project masterminded by this Brazilian dude in the 1900s named Carlos Gracie Sr, whose vision was to create a genetic dynasty of warriors by having as many kids as possible and training them all in jiu-jitsu. He had 21 kids. 13 of them become
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