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Resist: It's Time

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We are still in this together, but "this" is going to be real different in the very near future. This demands a different kind of "we."

The French Resistance during Nazi occupation played important roles delivering downed Allied airmen back to safety, supplying military intelligence, and acts of sabotage.

The Underground Railroad is estimated to have brought 100,000 freedom seekers to safety between 1810 and 1850.

It's time.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So many sportball options. Hockey. Golf. Lacrosse. Tennis. Target shooting. Cricket. Billiards. Skiing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's almost as if a huge number of sports evolved from military training...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

We could keep going; pankration, hoplidromos...

There's a whole section of the Aeneid that talks about their impromptu sporting matches (the description of the boxing gauntlets is particularly spicy).

"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has multiple instances where generals arrange for games among their troops.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

… javelin, pole vault, darts…

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fencing, skeet, caber toss...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

caber

A sign on a whole tree trunk would be both the least and most threatening sign of the lot.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Kinda high potential for an own-goal though. As a Canadian adjacent dude, I’m picking hockey stick. I have an old carbon one that’s light, strong, and keeps assholes at 2+ arms length.