Thread smells like masculine insecurity today.
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Hopefully I improved the smell a little.
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Show any sign of weakness and I guarantee you that your older brother is going to come in and itāll be a fight.
My brother both ran cross country and wrestled. Freak and weird dude confirmed.
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This is some cynical hack stuff
In a strikingly cynical move, the justice argued that laws curtailing mail voting may be justified without proof of fraud to prevent āthe appearance of corruption.ā He drew this standard from the campaign finance context, in which the court has upheld limits on political spending to bolster public confidence that lawmakers are not corrupt. According to Thomas, that doctrine also allows states to crack down on vote by mail even āwhere allegationsā of fraud are āincorrect.ā Why? To guard against the mere āappearance of corruption.ā
In other words, the fact that election officials uncovered virtually no fraud in 2020 does not prove that no fraud existed. It might just mean that fraud is difficult to detect. If this line sounds familiar, thatās because it is what Trump and his allies argued when seeking to undermine public confidence in the election results.
Somehow, this concern about fraud only applies to elections in Thomasā world. The justice actually rejects the argument that campaign finance reforms may be justified to prevent the āappearance of corruption.ā He is transplanting a doctrine that he does not support into a new context to shore up the legality of voter suppression laws.
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Also in the never been in a fight as an adult club. Had some times when it coulda happened in college, but after that nothing even really close tbh. De-escalating works the vast vast majority of the time, just gotta be able to swallow your pride sometimes. Fortunately never been in a must-fight spot where somewhere or myself got cold clocked or whatever. Also I usually hang out in yuppy parts of town with yuppy friends, so that helps.
Most of the people I know who have been in lots of fights are pretty douchey, or were in their 20ās anyway.
I suppose breaking up a fight between kids would be the exception to me just trying to kill someone.
My belief is that I canāt outrun most people, so I need to incapacitate my opponent somehow if I wish to get away. This has led me to think a lot about strikes to the knee as part of my self-defense strategy. If they canāt walk, they canāt chase after me. But also, if theyāre unconscious, they canāt chase me.
Iāve also decided that a single punch thrown against me isnāt going to be enough to get me to fight back in a routine scuffle. That may be a mistake, letting someone take 2-3 shots at me before I decide to fight back.
Four years of MAGA-world has gotten me thinking a lot about what I will do if someone attacks me or someone around me. Maybe Iām paranoid, but I feel like I need to game-plan about various what-if scenarios. Maybe Iām too obsessive in thinking about low-probability branches of lifeās decision tree.
Have been in a fight as an adult, and dont feel the need to talk about it here
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Wrestler are like the weird meat heads that suck at (or are too small for) the traditional meat head sports.
Cross country runners are usually introvert nerdy types who couldnāt make any cut sports in HS, but wanted to challenge themselves.
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When someone mentions cross country, I eventually think of this:
Anyways, my high school sport was swimming. Curious about the reputation of swimmers at your high schools.
Now we need pants pooping cross runner.jpg
donāt think I knew any swimmers, my dad was one though and heās pretty cool
Can confirm. I did cross-country one year. No pressure since if youāre not in the top 5 you just donāt count. And I wasnāt in the top 5. I was ok at sports, but not varsity level anything.
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Iāve been punched in the face 3 times at ages 13, 19 and 25. Each time my reaction was basically likeā¦hey if thatās all the power youāre packing in your punches you should probably go mess with someone else. Maybe I just have a good jaw though. Iāve never punched anyone myself.
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I did cross country all of highschool and nothing weird really but introverted nerds is pretty spot on for most on the team, track and field had some jock types
Also correct on the no pressure, I was no better than average for sure but our team won some things especially when I was younger because we had a phenom on the team the first couple years.
I got punched in the jaw when I was like 14/15 years old. Iād gone to a house party with some school friends and got completely drunk for the first time in my life. On the way home I was with one of my friends and for some reason I will never understand I flipped off a couple of guys across the street. They came marching over and one of them lamped me in the jaw and the other one hit my friend. It was definitely a solid punch but I didnāt feel a thing at the time or ever since. Puked on the tube home too, good times. Still feel guilty sometimes about my mate though, he said he his cheek never felt quite right since.
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Standard approach to avoid fights as a girl at my school was to always go to the bathroom with multiple friends, at least 1 but preferably 2, as that was the main place shit went down. Also avoiding eye contact and if necessary try and talk your way out of it. I had an older girl accuse me of liking/going for her bf and I had no idea who her bf was. That was a reasonably hairy situation as she had her best mate with her whose nickname was Razorback. Not quite sure how I talked my way out of that one. I did go to a disadvantaged school though in a pretty rough area. I saw some pretty amazing fights there.
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As an adult, I got into one.
I got into one fight at a bar while an undergrad. Saw a guy grope a girl I was with as I was coming back from the bathroom. For the brief time it lasted, I went over the top and it wasnāt a fight much as it was me blindsiding the guy with an elbow to the side of his head before proceeding to attack him while he was on the ground.
It didnāt last much longer than 5-10 seconds until I was stopped by a few people and not so kindly escorted out of the bar. Got up off the floor, made my way home and the girl never spoke to me again. I never found out what happened to either of them afterwards.
Iāve been able to avoid them mostly because I donāt go to places where theyāre more likely to occur.
As a teen, I defended myself against a school bully and thatās it.
As a kid, for some reason we just like getting into fights with each other. Sort of a school of hard knocks thing that occurs in shitty city public schools. I remember moving away and coming back only for my classmates to tell me about all the times they beat each other up. Like fight club for little kids.
We had a typical bully in our HS class who relentlessly targeted a very quiet Asian kid who was super socially awkward. Like for years this went on, then one day in 10th grade or so the victim just out of absolutely nowhere kicked the ever loving shit out of the bully. We had no idea but his dad had played in the NHL (white guy who married an Asian woman), and he had been in karate for years. Probably not appropriate but the school administration had a universal response of āgood.ā
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