If you're a leftist, you need to be working out 4-5 days a week and learning self defense, along with organizing with neighbors & in your local community for defense, food sovereignty, & community defense.

There's no excuse not to do something to strengthen your body daily.

— 🇵🇸𓂆 kiran کرن فاطمہ We'll Remember Your Silence (@kiranfatimaopal) February 8, 2024

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Drama

The time for nihilism, self pity, and excuses is over. We are living in a fascist country - whichever country you're living in in the west. Our vulnerable neighbors and people of the global south, e.g. in Palestine, need us to step up.

If this is the kind of solidarity y'all think the global south needs from us you are either purposefully or sorely mistaken, eugenics is not going to help our neighbors

Dude really said you know how we fight against fascism? Ab crunches of course!

Are you going to CrossFit your way out of a right wingers AK47? Please be frickin serious right now

Yes there's a lot you cannot control in the world. What you can control is what food, drink, smoke etc. you put inside your body, and you can control for the most part, how you move your body and when and to what end.Use that. Focus on what you can control.

Leftism growing increasingly indistinguishable from rightism at one second per second, pt wev: this thread

Just putting this out there on behalf of the billions of people who in fact cannot control what they put inside their bodies. For fricks sake

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Find things you love to do. They don't have to be what others love to do and they can change over time too. Some things I love: boxing, muay thai, weight lifting (for muscle growth), racquetball, basketball, jogging, walking, calisthenics, dancing. Move something every day.

I danced yesterday and my city is still overfunding cops, what now

I used to work out daily and walk miles after for funsies. Then a virus struck me down. Over the years I learned anyone telling me I have to fight is saying this b/c they have no intention of being around after I fall. Disabled people don't exist in their leftist future.

The commie actually makes a good point with her final remarks

If you are still making excuses it's because you want somebody else to carry you. Instead, you could grow the frick up and do what you can do to help others. Stop acting like you are the center of the universe and you don't owe anybody anything. If you're a leftist, act like it.

"If you're a leftist, act like it"???? Idk maybe we have different ideas of what constitutes a leftist because referring to disabled people as a burden to be carried is straight-up right out of the fascist playbook.

saying this in a country where eugenics is so ingrained that disabled schoolchildren are STILL left abandoned at the top of the stairs during fire drills, waiting for someone to literally carry them to safety, is a truly bizarre mischaracterization of what fascism looks like

Neighbor how are you left behind just walk down the stairs r-slur lmao

this is fascist rhetoric. full stop. those of us with the capability to do more to strengthen our bodies absolutely should be doing so BECAUSE there are always going to be others who NEED us to carry them. if your leftist ideology isn't based in empathy it's fricking worthless.

>if your leftist ideology isn't based in empathy it's fricking worthless.

Yeah that's what makes it worthless

Idk, not everyone needs to be athletic, just like not everyone needs to be hacker imo.I'm in decent shape but I've always and will always be a a scrawny intellectual

That's fine i'm not going to join the olympics either. My point is, there is a culture of lethargy and wallowing in misery and nihilism in the western left that needs to go. If anything will change here it will change after we take some responsibility personally AND collectively.

Because Covid is airborne. It's damaging your immune system Don't raw dog the virus anymore, use a respirator indoors, get some quality air purifiers Stop ignoring this.

>"Intellectual" cant figure out a way to get big

It is unironically better to be strong and r-slurred than weak and "smart"

i already workout 5 days a week, which exercises would you recommend i start performing to make my body more resistant to teargas, skunk spray, and rubber bullets?

When did I say that's what you need to do?? Do you understand what community defense means or no?

historically it means armed & violent confrontation with state security & their deputized blackshirt paramilitaries, telling people that the petty bourgeois individualism & aestheticism of workout culture will help prepare them for fascism is misguided at best, dangerous at worst

That is not what I said. So if you want to read that into that that's up to you. It's a simple concept: workout get disciplined get healthy. You want to make a bigger deal out of it? Do it with somebody else. I don't have time for western leftist narcissist bullshit.

thinking that your personal fitness goals are protecting your community from fascism is the epitome of western leftist narcissism, actually

Then do absolutely nothing, surely that's much better

You don't have to try if you immediately give up

You sound rich

You sound white.

It's ok to be white

Why are you engaging with me on an uncontested point and not with the hundreds of people pointing out your ableism? You still haven't addressed the fact we are living through a mass disabling event which masks and vaccines can mitigate against.

Dog look at my socialists we never having a revolution

>You sound white

If you're leftism doesn't include disabled people then it's not leftism.

All leftists are disabled so makes sense

So true

The revolution will only occur after we're DONE with the pandemic

The irony is that once people start getting stronger and fitter and improving their bodies and learning self defense and getting armed and self sufficient they generally stop being leftists because they see how weak and pathetic the ideology is. Just some food for thought

Sauce

I'd really suggest wearing an N95 regularly and making spaces COVID-safe again if you believe this because many millions of people have Long COVID and can't do any of this now. Millions more are dead. If you want a physically strong movement, wear a mask.

the people most affected by Long COVID are Black, Native, trans, poor, disabled, and workers making under $45K per year.

Two ways to prevent coof:

1. Vaccines

2. Make above 45k a year

Better make it 6 months to play it safe