If you're yielding a bat it's helpful to put a sock on the front facing end. This way you'll get another swing when your opponent grabs your bat and all they get a hold of is an empty sock.
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This just has to be from personal experience 😅
It's a common self defense tip for women who live alone. A lot have a bat by the door.
A more important one is don't swing it like a bat, there's rarely room to get a good swing, and a burglar would just block it with an arm.
So what they should do is put the small end in their palm and thrust it like a spear, straight to the face putting all their body weight into it. Scream bloody murder the entire time, and don't just do it once and drop the bat.
That's my bat! I don't know you!
Just use a fucking machete. No one is grabbing that.
It was the sock tip specifically that sounded personal. Never heard of the sock move until now.
I’m pretty sure in the movie back to the future where Marty breaks in the house and the dad comes in with a bat it has a sock on the end
Just choke up on it. Spearing someone with a bat isn’t going to do shit. Why wouldn’t someone deflect a spear thrust all the same? Or just a common household item like a hammer.
Pro tip: throw the bat at them as a distraction while you pull the shotgun out of the umbrella stand.
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I believe it’s from https://theanarchistlibrary.org/
Oh, is this basically an extension of the Anarchists's Cookbook? Man, I used to love printing out pages of text from that back when I found it on a BBS
anarchist library is a big collection of anarchist literature, philosophy, pamphlets, stuff like that
Sounds like if you go that far just put some silicone or oil on it?
The... sexual implications are holding me back. Imagine justifying a lubed up bat at a violent protest in court.
That's for later 😏
The pro tips are always in the comments. Thanks Hank.
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Faschism is best cured with education, same with every other delusion or extremism in general.
If that doesn't work this is indeed a Reasonable solution.
Fascism is prevented with education...
Which is why that's always their first target.
The best cure is prevention through education.
But the second best cure is virtuous terror. Fascism is fundamentally at war with democracy - it's always good for fascists to learn 'Start shit, get hit'.
fascism is fundamentally a suicide cult.
there is always an enemy to be found to get rid of until there isn't..
So when they’re knocking on doors and taking your neighbours away to camps would you say that then is the time to be using baseball bats? Because I believe it’s too late by then.
They're saying the best way to beat fascism is showing would be-fascists a better path before they become fascists.
They also say the best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago, doesn't mean pounding them in today doesn't help the situation.
Depends!
Where the neighbors noisy after the quiet hour? Then thats a 100% justified reason for prison.
Sure are a lot of fascists these days for having been defeated in the 40s...
Like any infestation, they return if one is not vigilant. Like mold.
They also return if you never deal with the underlying infestation, and only smush them when they show their face.
They will in fact return even faster if you import half the brain trust of the last ones after the war and let them die peacefully of old age in Boca Raton. Sherman didn’t burn far enough and we were entirely too nice to the remainders of the third reich, before they’re all dead we’ll see the fourth.
Also true.
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Always remember that democracy was born from violence. Fascism attempts to appropriate all things and deny them to others.
Democracy was born from thought, it was enforced with violence.
Democracy doesn't just come from a single thing, it's comes from a combination of different ideas and actions.
Thought is the mommy, violence is the daddy. Let's not fight and be one big happy family
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We beat Hitler by engaging him in the free market of ideas....
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