It’s not a total surprise to constantly see the glorification of conservatives and Trump in UFC events, but it’s nice to know I’m not the only one with a bad taste in my mouth. I enjoy MMA, have participated and been a fan for a while, and interestingly enough it’s one of the spaces where I think politics make everything worse, especially as polarized as people are these days.

  • qprimed
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    1 年前

    heh. I am currently in a somewhat conservative area, but I let my freak flag fly as needed - I think the highschool/college kids that stick around for sparring like to see the conservative monoculture challenged.

    as an aside, its pure cognative dissonance bliss for me when I am holding pads for someone that I know is pretty right-aligned and RATM comes up on the music queue. I literally tell them, “Listen. To. The. Words. Dude!” if they are experienced and I don’t have to call shots, I sing the lyrics for them to, you know, drive the point home.

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      Good for you that you can put yourself out there. I’m happy for you.

      As for Rage Against the Machine in the presence of conservatives, well, that’s just such a classic “bruh” moment for me. Where I grew up, we listened to a lot of hip hop despite being majority white and suburban, and it was always wild to me to hear acquaintances rapping along to socially-conscious stuff and then following it up with a conversation about how black people suck. It’s like, ayo, you literally just criticized yourself and don’t even realize it.