You, if you would get up off your fat ass and go to the gym

 

It’s Wednesday. Are you at the gym? Are you going to the gym? Go to the gym. You should go to the gym. But since you’re not going to go to the gym, here are some links to waste the time you should spend at the gym.

 

Ah shit, never mind, going to the gym is a fascisms.

The intersection of extremism and fitness leans into a shared obsession with the male body, training, masculinity, testosterone, strength and competition. Physical fitness training, especially in combat sports, appeals to the far right for many reasons: fighters are trained to accept significant physical pain, to be “warriors,” and to embrace messaging around solidarity, heroism, and brotherhood.

 

If you are not aware, seed oils are one of the things the government has used to poison the food supply in order to make us weak, fat, diseased, stupid, diabetic, easily sunburned, and gay. If you eat them, you’re NGMI, bro. Vice responds with seething, coping, and racism accusations.

As for Shanahan, her work is often referenced in wellness, paleo and anti-seed oil spaces, with mixed reviews. While a number of wellness bloggers seem to credit her book with shaping their understanding of vegetable oils, critics say her work is at best contradictory and confusing, and at worst, harmful in its promotion of eurocentric beauty standards by tying food consumption to adherence to certain facial structures. The book compares images of face shapes—including white and Black people—in a way that some readers note feels eerily similar to phrenology, a pseudoscience that involved measuring skull shapes that was used to justify slavery and has been compared to eugenics.

 

Eddie Hall and Hafþór Björnsson had a tussle. Remember, kids: winners take drugs and steroids are awesome.

 

Some rage porn for my fellow rageaholics.

“How can we be the cause of it, if no drug activity happens in the store, for 35 years we have never gotten in trouble with the police,” Husien said. “So they don’t want any drug activity, which I don’t blame them, we don’t want no drug activity around here either, but we can’t control that. We can control what’s inside the store, we can’t control what’s outside the store.”

Prosecutor Michael O’Malley said the city and the county need to more often use Cleveland’s nuisance law to address problem businesses across the city.

 

Here is a story which is totally real, is not at all fake, but also very real and extremely not fake.

The infographic released by the Ministry of Defense shows that the official Soviet army losses in Afghanistan amounted to 15,051 personnel, whereas the losses currently suffered by the Russian army in Ukraine amount to around 15,300 personnel, according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

 

Burn in hell, demon.

Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price–we think the price is worth it.

60 Minutes (5/12/96)

 

Pot doubles down on kettle.

The official US declaration that Moscow has violated the laws of conflict comes after Blinken, President Joe Biden and Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman all said it was their personal opinion that war crimes have taken place.

 

And now for a real man-bites-dog story. I promise I’m not shitting you: a government has broken a promise.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers unexpectedly decided against reopening schools Wednesday to girls above the sixth grade, reneging on a promise and opting to appease their hard-line base at the expense of further alienating the international community.

 

That’s all you get. Go to the gym.