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@riotactbooks I'm also wanting to start a class. I've been doing MA for 30 years. A few tips. Your feet belong on the ground. No high kicks or BJJ/wrestling. Many of them have hidden weapons. If you go to the ground with them, it's over. Stand firm and aim your punches. Learn to punch in a straight line, not wild swings. No shame in running when outnumbered, and no shame in fighting dirty when you aren't.

If you're newly here from #Twitter please go back and put your Mastodon handle in your twitter bio, to enable the easy move of follows from Twitter to Masodon. Then, do this:

1. fedifinder.glitch.me/?fbclid=I
2. Download the CSV of M* handles.
3. At your M* server, go to Preferences..Import and Export..Import. (the CSV).
4. You're following them on M*!

Hello new people! 👋

If you need help getting started on here, have a look at:

➡️ fedi.tips

It's written in non-technical language, it's a beginner's guide.

If you can't find the answers you want on the site, @ me or message me.

I know that there is a lot going on in all directions right now demanding you attention, but please pay attention to and speak up about the human rights catastrophe unfolding in Iran. The world can't yet again be silent. 🇮🇷

RT @ianbremmer@twitter.com

tehran issues first death sentence to protester

top: banksy
bottom: iran’s siavash moghimi

🐦🔗: twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/

A narcissist is always either the hero or the victim, never the villain.

Trans Rights are Human Rights.

Please remember to be kind to our trans friends and family.

They're enduring so much these days; they need our help.

When someone says "Turn of the century" which do you think of first?

It's not just you. US healthcare, already a bureaucratic nightmare of buck-passing and price-gouging, has gotten *far* worse. Private equity firms have created regional health-care monopolies that don't just rip patients off - they're *killing* us.

Private equity is a scam. Fund managers raise gigantic sums by claiming to be able to "beat the market." In reality, they do worse for their investors than a boring old index fund:

pluralistic.net/2020/02/25/plu

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@pluralistic OMG, I knew it was bad, but I had no idea it was this bad. Thanks for bringing attention to this.

I think it's glorious that there's now a Mastodon server operated by people who used to work for Twitter (macaw.social). I could have never imagined it when I started in 2016.

Twitter: 

@wesmorgan1 I heard they were food for the extinct megafauna. Now there is nothing left that will eat them. Occasionally, the dried fruit can be found in the basements of old houses due to a superstition that they repel unwanted visitors.

Just a quick poll. #Boost ok.

Have you been infected with Covid-19?

@bonifartius NGL, the Right has an advantage as far as getting them all on the same page. That's why I'm focussing on causing suspicion and doubt among them, to even the playing field. The disadvantage they have is that they all use the exact same strategy and tactics. That's where we have the advantage. We have different people who can fight in different ways. If you are better at getting our side unified, then that's what you should do. Everybody should figure out what they do best, then go and do it.

@deadbeef I agree, Fox and the rest have to go. It takes constant reinforcement to continue to believe nonsense, and TV, radio, and FB are what's doing it. It's a battle with many fronts, and we need people working on different things.
There are psychological and rhetorical tools that can get through to some of them, if they aren't too far gone. For the rest, the best way to fight is to get them to fight each other. They are by nature gullible and suspicious. We just have to abandon "The High Road" and get our hands dirty.

@stopgopfox @igd_news They have the time and motivation to make multiple accounts for trolling, then they waste it by being obvious trolls. We are smarter and can do it much better. The best trolls don't look like trolls.There are some pro trolls on their side that are sneaky and hard to spot, but they are rare. Most of them just insult and make misogynistic, homophobic and anti-trans comments. We can be much more effective than that.

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