Texas is one of the mostly severely gerrymandered places in the country, with openly hostile voter restrictions targeting democratic voters

And republicans still only barely win

It’s also OP’s own video, so a bit of self promotion. Puts people off

Probably because it’s been posted across several communities back to back

Lol I was given the same advice.

“Go home, rest up for two weeks, the bust as much as you can before you come back and get tested”

I do not want someone in their 20s running the country personally

To answer in parts:

What’s your opinion on a lay person carrying a knife? What if they have basic training?

That circles back to two of my original points:

1. A technique is only realistically useful to you if you’ve drilled it over, and over, and over
2. The only way to win a knife fight is to run away from a knife fight

“Basic training” for blade combat is “dont”

What would you recommend to people who want to know self defense for purely practical reasons? Follow some kind of workshop or take classes for a few weeks?

Find a local martial arts gym that specializes in Jiu Jitsu and Krav Maga. Go for at least six months, and accept that if you stop going your skillset and abilities will begin to fade almost immediately.

Remember: A technique is only realistically useful to you if you’ve drilled it over, and over, and over

what do you think of self defense spray paint that doesn’t wash off, and or a personal alarm? At least over here real weapons are illegal.

Pepper spray and other irritants are the closest youre going to get to a catch all self defense tool that can be practically, consistently applied without training. Thing to note about that, youre not using an irritant spray to fight, youre using it to buy yourself time to run away. It also has to distinct disadvantage of affected you just as much as your opponent in the event it gets you.**

Overtly far right?

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Hey look there it is!

Nowhere in the USA will you be taxed 40% of your income, I’m amazed such a blatantly obvious statement is being so heavily upvoted

And that really highlights the absolute absurdity of billionaires existing at all

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Unless trump wins.

Hmmm possibly. I will check it out, thank you

I mean it can take decades to learn any given martial art completely, but sure some more broad stroke stuff

Don’t under estimate anyone or over estimate yourself

A technique is only realistically useful to you if you’ve drilled it over, and over, and over. You have to be able to act on muscle memory alone.

Counterintuitively, the most talented and dangerous fighters will almost always use the simplest, day one kind of moves- but perfectly, every time because of the above.

If you haven’t trained to kick don’t kick, you’re just giving up your balance

The only way to win a knife fight is to run away from a knife fight

With grappling in particular, most techniques will revolve around position yourself so that your larger muscles-thing legs, core, shoulders-are working against your opponents smaller muscles- arms, calves/ankles, hands, neck, etc. that’s why technique can make all the difference if you’re at a size disadvantage

But size is still an advantage. If someone has got 150lbs on you, be faster

I’m not saying aggregated feeds like that be the default, just an option available for someone like me who is neutral about what instance are community that content surrounding a given subject comes from. It would be a handy way to put them in one feed and interact with all of those communities

Uhhh, I mean the only tool I’ve used have been indeed and LinkedIn. I have a baller resume though- not in the sense that it has lotsa good qualifications and work history on it, it does have some, but the automated filters and shit love it

Yeah, I wonder if there would be a way to combine the duplicate posts into like a thread type of thing? Idk. Tough challenge to deal with, smarter people than I haven’t found a solution yet

Flip flop 🩴

What will be great is if/when there’s a multi-Reddit style feature that will aggregate similar communities across instances into one feed. Not sure how you’d deal with duplicate posts though.

And that water wars are looming…

I wonder if that has to do with them demographically having a ton of kids on average? I can see how taking a big group to the movies would be better than trying to wrangle everyone in the living room