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Getting fit is great – but it could turn you into a rightwing jerk [Grauniad]
Manchester Guardian ^
| Mon 3 Jun 2024 10.02 EDT
| Zoe Williams
Posted on 06/07/2024 10:10:31 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: lee martell
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posted on
06/08/2024 3:15:13 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Never give up; never surrender!)
To: jdt1138
Deep States, plural, like their citizenry impaired, ignorant, and ill.
Don’t oblige.
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posted on
06/08/2024 3:16:54 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Never give up; never surrender!)
To: Olog-hai
“… pretty soon you think you are master of your own destiny. You’re still not, by the way…”
Wrongo. This phrase, which could only be written by a subject of the Crown, expresses the fundamental difference between European socialism and American individualism. We believe we are the masters of our own destinies, graced by Almighty G*d to pursue our happiness - it’s in our Declaration of Independence.
European socialists commonly brand individualism, self-reliance, and personal responsibility as “right-wing” ideals. Ignore this horse's *ss.
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posted on
06/08/2024 3:43:52 AM PDT
by
Apparatchik
(Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
To: Olog-hai
“...getting fit makes you more rightwing...”
So that’s why lefties are so out of shape, limp wristed punks. I always suspected they were unfit because of their slothfulness (and all the other deadly sins).
It also explains why most democrats are on welfare. Too lazy to work. /spit
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posted on
06/08/2024 4:04:28 AM PDT
by
Flavious_Maximus
(Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
To: Olog-hai
“If it feels good, do it”(?)...Being in good health feels pretty damned good. Don’t mind if I do!
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posted on
06/08/2024 4:08:22 AM PDT
by
equaviator
(If 60 is the new 40, then 35 must be the new 15.)
To: Olog-hai
Exercise improves blood flow to the brain. Zoe should try it.
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posted on
06/08/2024 4:36:38 AM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(They intend to kill us. Plan to avoid this.)
To: Olog-hai
Sounds like a meta culpa — it’s happened to her and she is shocked.
To: Olog-hai
...So now you’re almost your best self, except you could always be better, and this is when you start eating protein the whole time....
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Oh dear, not PROTEIN!
Because protein is the macronutrient of fascism.
To: lee martell
That puts it best. “You” peppers every sentence like a poorly written 7th grade paper. Miss Manners on her worst day in Composition 101 would have done better dead drunk.
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posted on
06/08/2024 5:07:08 AM PDT
by
healy61
(.)
To: Olog-hai
I had to check if this was from the Babylon Bee.
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posted on
06/08/2024 5:26:10 AM PDT
by
Bearshouse
(Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem. *Thomas Jefferson)
To: mewzilla
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posted on
06/08/2024 5:42:07 AM PDT
by
sauropod
("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
To: Olog-hai
"The more self-actualised you become, the higher you are on self-righteousness, blaming other people’s problems on their failure to be as healthy as you"No, it is the exact opposite of this.
The more self-actualised--or enlightened--one becomes, the more one understands other people and their struggles toward the realization that we are all at one with God and the more merciful, understanding, and supporting of others one becomes. One actually becomes less self-righteous, less inclined to blame others for their difficulties, less self-important, and more healthy in every way.
The pathway to enlightenment or self-actualization is the pathway to truth, love, joy, beauty, kindness, and understanding, viz. the pathway to God.
Enlightenment, or self-actualization, is the awareness of God. It's that simple.
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posted on
06/08/2024 5:51:59 AM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(If they can do it to him, they can do it to us.)
To: Olog-hai
No matter how good your argument, I am still not going to lift weights.
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posted on
06/08/2024 6:03:00 AM PDT
by
bray
(It's not racist to be racist against races you do not like.)
To: lee martell
Indeed. It seems doubtful that the fitness-freak, self-idolizing class (particularly the 18-30 somethings) is thinking much about socioeconomic issues.
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posted on
06/08/2024 6:03:59 AM PDT
by
Señor Presidente
(Tyranny deserves insurrection)
To: Olog-hai
"But there is a dark side to wellness, which I always, for shorthand, thought of as political: getting fit makes you more rightwing. The mechanism is incredibly simple: you embark on this voyage of self-improvement, and more or less immediately see results. You feel stronger and more energetic, probably your mood lifts, and pretty soon you think you are master of your own destiny."So wellness and getting fit equal rightwing? Self-improvement, strength, energy, mood elevation, and the mastering of one's own destiny are rightwing?
This seems to be a strong argument in favor of becoming rightwing.
It seems to me that the greatest expression of love is the encouragement to be the best person one can possibly be in every way, whether one's spouse, children, parents, friends or complete strangers.
What could possibly be more loving than to encourage everyone to be his or her very best?
What could be a greater aspiration than to struggle to be the very best person that you can possibly be, in every way?
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posted on
06/08/2024 6:13:28 AM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(If they can do it to him, they can do it to us.)
To: Olog-hai
"...You feel stronger and more energetic, probably your mood lifts, and pretty soon you think you are master of your own destiny..."
Can't have that kind of thing, in Leftistville. Because that goes against her religion that makes government the master of her destiny.
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posted on
06/08/2024 6:28:35 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
To: Dr. Sivana
"...Poor Zoe. For her, every day is a bad hair day..." Hahahahahaha!
Her last paragraph:
"...In the fullness of time, I realise it’s not really a question of an unwitting slide into fascism, hastened by a treadmill. It’s more that there is a fixed amount of excellence in any self, and the more you spend on your biceps, the less you have for your personality. Wellness could turn you into a bit of a jerk, is what I’m saying.
There is a cure for being out of shape, but there is no cure for ingrained stupidity.
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posted on
06/08/2024 6:32:22 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
To: Olog-hai
ISAIAH 5:20
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that count darkness as light, and light as darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
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posted on
06/08/2024 6:37:12 AM PDT
by
ViLaLuz
(2 Chronicles 7:14)
To: rlmorel
It’s more that there is a fixed amount of excellence in any self, and the more you spend on your biceps, the less you have for your personality.
That's also how they view the economy.
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posted on
06/08/2024 6:40:59 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(Stormy Daniels is a McGuffin)
To: rlmorel
and the more you spend on your biceps, the less you have for your personality.
Ah, the psychobabble, it just flows...
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posted on
06/08/2024 6:52:49 AM PDT
by
BikerJoe
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