fictitious before, existent now, welcome to reality the comically-misinformed absurd heuristic of viewing things that an average chud describes as communism from skimming the cliffnotes of Animal Farm (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by WhyEssEff@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

37 comments fedilink hide all child comments

adopting the worldview of "if you have literally any inherent advantage over the average competitor you should be disqualified because it's just not fair" with regards to a friendly entertainment-first competition that is fundamentally about showing the peak of human athletics. because of woke pronouns

chuds will literally say that this description with a straight face is exactly what communism represents and then throw a tantrum the second someone who is not a cishet WASP kicks their shit in. what happened to your little haplogroups and calipers big dawg you're supposed to be taking this shit on the chin oh wait it's literally just racial main character syndrome cool cool

top 37 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[-] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 62 points 3 months ago

Just about every single person who wins anything in the Olympics is a genetic mutant with huge "unfair" advantages over everyone else. I don't remember anybody sobbing over Michael Phelps' weird arms.

[-] flan@hexbear.net 39 points 3 months ago

they cried about his weed smoking instead.

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 29 points 3 months ago

The weed has made him too powerful

[-] newmou@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

And he’s a total chud now lmao it’s like the weed backlash pushed him right

[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

He is? i mean, it doesn't surprise me because he literally is a freak of nature who is inherently superior to most humans in one very specific thing, so chud ideology fits him like a glove. Growing up being someone special in the US definitely doesn't help.

[-] HotAtForty@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

I’m a leftist because I am cool with gay people and I want weed to be legal but if you can’t afford to feed your kids then you should have made better life choices. Cut my taxes.

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

What

[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

I hope they're being ironic, because this pretty much describes a large majority of online "leftists/libertarians" who have literally zero class consciousness, and by extension no concept of intersectionality or systemic oppression. They just want legal weed, lower taxes, and to pay lip service to marginalized peoples.

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 31 points 3 months ago

Reactionaries just want participation trophies and blame communists for winning too much

[-] newmou@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago

How I yearn for that flag to be raised in a crowd that large

[-] miz@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

if you're willing to remove the star and round the handle of the sickle a bit...

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 30 points 3 months ago

As far as sympathy garnering headlines go, "I got punched in the face! Sobs professional competitive face-puncher" is not a great one.

[-] flan@hexbear.net 29 points 3 months ago

she got cranked in the nose and she had to stop the fight to save her life? A broken nose fuckin hurts but you're not gonna die.

[-] Jenniferrr@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

I saw someone explain this - in a boxing tournament if you break your nose right at the beginning of a multi fight series, you're going to not only have a bad time, you might get like permenant damage and you'll also lose because you'll be focused on protecting your nose.

[-] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago

I saw someone explain this - in a boxing tournament if you break your nose right at the beginning of a multi fight series, you're going to not only have a bad time, you might get like permenant damage and you'll also lose because you'll be focused on protecting your nose.

sounds like good boxers should really protect their nose

[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

something that's not touched upon is that apparently there was a significant weight difference between the two, despite being in the same weightclass. Getting punched by someone 30% heavier than you is gonna hurt, no matter how good you are at guarding.

[-] flan@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

wait people will compete near the bottom of a weight class? that sounds like an awful idea.

[-] Jenniferrr@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

I mean yeah, apparently she came in with a recently broken nose. I don't really get the hate for this lady though I haven't seen her imply that the Algerian lady is trans? It's just other transphobes

[-] Llituro@hexbear.net 25 points 3 months ago

got punched so hard she got instant mental illness, that's pretty cool. the main character syndrome has never been more evident among very unwell online chuds

[-] pooberbee@lemmy.ml 21 points 3 months ago

Boxing is a dumb sport.

[-] GladimirLenin@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

Let's try and punch each other and see which one gets brain damage first.

[-] hypercracker@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

nerd

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

Channeling black-mold-futures

[-] Andrzej@lemmy.myserv.one 9 points 3 months ago

So you're telling me you're a woman, and yet you can throw a punch? Interesting! Interesting...

[-] NuraShiny@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

Something something Harrison Bergeron

[-] Pili@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

I'm out of the loop, can someone provide context please?

[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Italian AFAB boxer fought against Algerian AFAB (who looks pretty masc, whatever that means) boxer in the olympics, but the Algerian was significantly stronger, not to mention heavier than the Italian, so after 2 punches she tapped out.

The picture is of the Italian fighter crying because they were, paraphrasing, 'the strongest punches i've felt in my life'. Chuds and transphobes everywhere are using this as an opportunity to cry about the swarthy hordes of men dressing up as women to beat up their white women, despite the fact that the famously transphobic olympic committee gave the greenlight for the Algerian athlete to compete, after a bunch of exams they do for all athletes came out normal.

All in all, a manufactured outrage that combines chuds' favorite thing: racism and transphobia, along with 'defend muh white women'

[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 3 months ago

there's no proof of her being intersex

[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

My bad, I was misled by a news article. I'll edit, thanks.

[-] Pili@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

This all sounds super weird and I don't know what to make of it.

Even when two cis people are competing, trans people are still catching strays.

Now what?

bear-despair

Thank you for the explanation.

[-] JayTreeman@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

I read the Wikipedia article yesterday, so I'm obviously an expert... There's been no proof that she's intersex. She's also lost to women before. 9 times.

[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah I saw that too, i thought her being intersex was confirmed, my b.

[-] TechnoUnionTypeBeat@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

who looks pretty masc, afaik because of being intersex

So a few posters have mentioned she's not intersex but I want to elaborate a little on that

The only "proof" or claim that she's intersex comes from an official of the IBA who, in a random Telegram post, said she had XY chromosomes. She was disqualified from an IBA event along with a couple other boxers due to failing some sort of hormonal test before the match, but the IBA has so far refused to disclose what the test even tested for let alone what the results actually were, so there's no corroborating what the official said on Telegram and therefore makes it entirely unreliable

Imane Khelif has boxed in the Olympics before and has never shown signs of being intersex or having any elevated levels of T. It literally hasn't been an issue until this Italian boxer conceded and the chuds went wild with it

[-] psivchaz@reddthat.com 3 points 3 months ago

Is the Italian boxer actively fanning the flames? The only things I saw were basically that she was upset about losing, but it seemed like all the hatred was coming from conservative talking heads, not from her.

[-] TechnoUnionTypeBeat@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

I'll be entirely honest, I don't know. The waters are muddy at the moment and I didn't see that particular match

To my understanding the Italian boxer left the field pretty steamed and refused to even acknowledge her opponent or shake hands, which could be frustration on her part or could be a legitimate snub, it's impossible to know, and the media shoving cameras and microphones into her face seconds later didn't help either

It is admittedly poor wording on my part, and I'll fix that