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Who is this clown?
Sean Strickland.
MMA bozo, clearly took a lot of shots to the head given his inability to string a coherent sentence together
Hopefully he gets knocked the f out in his next fight. His t-shirt also says “A woman in every kitchen, a gun in every hand”. Ugh, what a waste of sperm and an egg
Annoying thing is he’s middleweight champion and beat Adesanya for that belt. If he was just some journeyman chump he’d have been booted immediately. Dana White probably agrees with everything he’s saying too.
In Strickland’s adolescence, he developed a close relationship with his grandfather who had ideologically neo-Nazi views. He adopted his grandfather’s views, which were further reinforced through his viewing of the film American History X. Strickland stated regarding the characters in the film, “I loved the life they lived, just dirty, white trash, to have respect, you know? When I was a kid, that was somebody I would hero-worship, that ideology.
He seems REALLY nice.
He seems REALLY nice.
I can't help but feel he somehow missed the actual point of that movie... did he stop watching halfway through? lol
He said he loved the life they lived.
I guess the gang rape scene hit a nerve with him.
Or possibly the consequences of actions at the end of the film.
Soz for spoilers, but the film is 25 years old.
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Little different than the hero worship of Gordon Gekko that sprung up on Wall Street during the late '90s, and alluded to by films like Boiler Room.
It can be a problem with charismatic, cinematic villains who come to bad ends. Adolescents see the positive, and think they can beat the consequences, because that's how they're wired.
Is UFC essentially a competition between white supremacists to see who can get the most supressed fanbase to make them rich? such an ugly sport.
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Isn't that just a result of audience fragmentation? Boxing was always a sport of the masses, where people across race and creed aspired to be the nouveau riche in the courtside seats. You wouldn't have caught, say, H.W. dead at a boxing match.
Now that there are so many ways to raise advertising revenue and so many ways to get airtime, the white supremacists have their own bloodsport.
I always found that UFC had the largest proportion of fans that had never particpated in the sport at any level, that lead to a wwf style fanbase without the self aware irony.
He well got thumb blasted by his nazi grandad.
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