@JohnSmithjrm@sean_m10@ChampRDS I saw the clip, bad look for Usman, but it wasn’t malicious he pulled the elbow back as soon as he saw yong was minding his own business. Definitely shouldn’t have family at ringside.
@WadePlem If you consider DC wins Jones still the goat, if you don’t like the majority of fans I think arguments can be made for Islam, GSP, Jones but honestly I would personally give it to Islam.
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey may be the most pro-Western civilization film Hollywood has made in decades - not because it flatters the Greeks, but because it understands civilization as a moral achievement rather than an ethnic possession.
The identitarian far-left and far-right share a premise: that the Western canon is ethnic property. One side condemns it on that basis; the other guards it on the same basis. Nolan refuses the premise, populating Homer's world with various identities while treating the story with absolute seriousness. That’s not a repudiation of the canon but evidence of its triumph: Homer can be inhabited by, and speak to, anyone.
The film’s deepest commitment is to individual moral agency. Odysseus cannot hide behind Greece, military orders, or victory. His choices are his own, and so is his guilt. No collective cause dissolves individual moral responsibility; his final heroism lies not in conquest, but atonement.
That principle extends to hospitality: treat the stranger as you would wish to be treated. When the Greeks violate it, they become the barbarians they fear. Penelope's devastating realization - "You're the people from the sea" - underscores that the enemies of civilization are sometimes its self-appointed defenders, exempting themselves from the principles they claim to uphold.
This is Western civilization at its best - not an ethnicity or a triumphalist myth, but a tradition built around the dignity of the individual, moral responsibility, and atonement. And a civilization strong enough to preserve stories that judge its own heroes remains a civilization worth defending.
Belal Muhammad praises Ben Askren for stepping on the mat one final time at RAF Milwaukee after getting a double lung transplant 🙏❤️🩹
“He’s changing lives. I know he’s changed my life. I’m at home ready to quit, I’m tried, I’m sore, all my losses, but I look at Ben still fighting every single day…”
Incredible Egyptian goal is disallowed because of a foul far away, then same situation a few minutes later and goal for Argentina not disallowed! No VAR, nothing? FIFA again looks like a corrupt joke, playing favorites for stars.
🚨🚨 عــــاجــل - المقابلة الصحفية لـ مصطفى زيكو و هو يبكي بحرقة بعد المباراة.
🗣 " الحكم ظالم، حسبي الله و نعم الوكيل. بيضيع مجهود بلد كاملة."
" الكأس موجهة للأرجنتين."
🚨| UFC welterweight Themba Gorimbo has announced his retirement from MMA. 🇿🇼
The 35-year-old retires with a record of 14-7 (4-4 UFC).
“I dared to be someone and something and failed… My dream is to be a UFC champion, and if I cannot be that then I am going to walk away from the sport.”
(via Gorimbo’s IG)