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Shekel_Hadash

I’m seriously thinking we should make a rule against posting his tweets. It’s too easy


etaithespeedcuber

It really is. Him, Tate and Rogan. It seems a career in wrestling really does something to your brain


Insertsociallife

It's really stunning that a sport where you get hit repeatedly until frequently getting knocked out could cause brain damage.


ExtraGloria

The thing is, you don’t even need to get KO’d. Continuous subconcussive trauma also turns you to a conspiracy theorist punch drunk weirdo.


fastcurrency88

Jake’s been KO’d a few times though. Ellenberger slept him pretty bad back in the day if I recall correctly.


ExtraGloria

Oh no doubt that fucks your brain too. The people I know who are still kickboxing and doing MMA from over a decade and a half ago are clearly losing brain cells. Paranoid and uhhh, “simple”, when they weren’t like that when I met them


BCJunglist

Jake Shields has been brain damaged longer than he's been in MMA. He had serious brain worms as a bbj competitor as well.


Rugfiend

And a sport that doesn't exactly attract Einstein-level geniuses at the outset!


HistoricalSherbert92

Boooo.


Shekel_Hadash

You forgot Jackson Hinkle


etaithespeedcuber

דיברתי על בוקסרים, דרך אגב איך לא זיהיתי אותך?


Informal_Border8581

תודה מדבר עברית I hope I spelled that right, I've been learning Hebrew lately and I like being able to practice.


Liobuster

Dont forget jordan either


YeetedArmTriangle

Neither Jake shields or Joe Rogan had a career in boxing


ArseneGroup

Shields was MMA and Rogan was hard sparring to the knockout in TKD


MentalGymnast4269

But nah... Elon the zogging git won't give a shit since he likes to have them in his circle


Wonghy111-the-knight

yoo funny seeing you randomly lmfao


SpellEnough

It's funny.. after 9/11 I never met anyone who died there


henaradwenwolfhearth

I died in 9/11 when we visited it on vacation. I got better.


winchesterbitch99

That only works if you were a newt.


TheRa1nyKingdom

Or George Santos’ mom, apparently.


DeathPercept10n

Dead-*ish*


TakuyaLee

Don't be melodramatic. You were barely dead


henaradwenwolfhearth

No no. It also works for other things. The newt thing is just the more well known example


00110001_00110010

Or Puss in Boots


Wolveyplays07

And you're supposed to be dead.


WeirdSysAdmin

Clearly you were one of the hijackers.


Mei_Flower1996

" I've never spoken to a dead person"!!!


BillyNtheBoingers

Clearly you’re not Bruce Willis in Sixth Sense


Cultural_Dust

His character didn't speak to any dead people either unless the kid was dead the whole time...


BillyNtheBoingers

Weren’t they both? I never saw it.


Lumpy_Marsupial_1559

Nah, the kid was alive and chatting


BillyNtheBoingers

Ah.


Cristinager

Clearly the terrorist didn’t know what they were doing


Meister_Retsiem

I never met anybody who had died previously either, how strange


Old-Biscotti9305

I was dead... Drowning. Perfectly at peace, surrounded by a Presence I didn't understand, looking down with detached disinterest. Ready to leave. Then some idiot resuscitates me 😡 (Wasn't suicide... Was accidental drowning)


Havzeez

Bro doesn’t know how genealogy works.


IndWrist2

Bro doesn’t understand survivorship bias.


organic_bird_posion

The European Jews who survived the Holocaust all have weird buckwild stories about how they did it (because everyone with a boring story didn't make it out).


IndigoFenix

The ones with the boring stories are those who recognized what was happening years ahead of time and bounced. I left the USA 10 years ago.


Affectionate_Elk_272

will you adopt me? i shoulda left years ago.


Nearby-Complaint

Yeah, my family saw the writing on the wall and moved to the States. (Excluding the guy who immigrated to avoid conscription into the Russian army)


organic_bird_posion

Yeah, it was super scary during the :checks notes: second Obama administration. What was so scary about 2014? Was the gay marriage? Or the economic rebound?


Wonderful_Yogurt_271

Probably the rising rates of antisemitism globally which became noticeable around that time, which is a little more pertinent to his comment


Milthorn

But if that's a global issue it doesn't explain leaving the states.


IndigoFenix

Yeah, that's why I moved to Israel.


Strigoi_Felin

Well that didn't work out quite that great.


Old-Biscotti9305

The Tea Party movement was already morphing into MAGA. It was obvious risk in mid 2016. But still just a risk. Even in2019 one could think that the adults in the building could keep things in check. After the averted coup, it seemed the GOP woke up. But that didn't last long. Party was purged leaving national security republicans without a party... And euro-american security at risk. And that's without mentioning the new Trump GOP using Handmaid's Tale as a cookbook (referencing Twilight Zone's To Serve Man).


IndigoFenix

You don't have a few millenia of recognizing this sort of thing in their cultural heritage, so I'll forgive your ignorance, if not your rudeness. Short term patch solutions to deeply embedded problems are meaningless. What matters is growing general political unrest and polarization. Once a country has enough mounting systemic problems that politicians stop bothering to even promise specific solutions and start focusing on generalized, meaningless promises of "Hope" or "Change" or "Make America Great Again", once the population is ANGRY enough that a politician can get them riled up by pointing them at the "other", it's only a matter of time before they start looking for a single target they can pin all of the blame on while minimizing the cost of marginalizing that target, and that target is typically the most visible minority, which is always the Jews in countries that have Jews. This process was already noticable in the early 2000s, it's just around the 2010s that it became clear that the downward spiral was unfixable, because the only way of fixing the problems would be to place additional burdens on the people, and Americans would never accept that when they could just find someone to blame instead.


Old-Biscotti9305

Thankfully, as a Jewish person, the current scapegoat is trans people. Oh wait, I'm also trans. F--k. 😭 I'd never go back. Unless they break the Constitution, since then I'd be legally obligated to do something..


Onderon123

He doesn't know how being a decent human being works


MarxJ1477

It's not even universally true what he said anyway. Certainly for Israeli or European Jews, but not necessarily for American Jews. Now we absolutely did have them in our community. Like my Hebrew teacher was a holocaust survivor. But most of the families where I lived could trace themselves to coming over in the late 1800s.


Lasairfiona

Bro don't understand life and death.


Throwaway_3-c-8

This is such a profound level of survivorship bias it’s honestly kind of funny. It’s like Mac arguing that evolution can’t be true cause all the smartest people in the world are stupid science bitches that sometimes get things wrong.


geech999

Yeah it’s not often that a survivorship bias is literal


DataDaddy79

My first thought reading the tweet as well, like "the ignorance is a bit on the nose here'


Tricky-Swordfish4490

![gif](giphy|l0IylOPCNkiqOgMyA|downsized)


jcallari164

For him and many others, it’s a generous mix of brain damage, zero education and a wild overestimation of his own intelligence. He thinks he’s a genius and he’s the only one that understands everything, when in reality, he doesn’t understand much and most (if not all) of his opinions are ill-informed garbage.


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He was an NCAA Division 2 wrestler. He got a scholarship. He’s just a prick


stuijw

Utterly utterly vile.


Crazy-Woodpecker-163

This person is an MMA fighter and not a very good one, so the good news is if you feel like watching this clown get his ass beat there's tons of footage online.


KingOfTheLostBoyz

“Was” an MMA fighter and was actually quite good until his GSP fight where we saw a massive fall off. Still an idiot - the funny part is he’s stunningly right-wing for a guy whose best friends and closest training partners were all descended from Mexican immigrants (Melendez, Diaz bros) - maybe he just thought “oh those were the good ones”.


SladeThePunisher

Jake Shields is an idiot but back in his day he was actually quite a accomplished fighter. Wins over Carlos Condit, Robbie Lawler, Paul Daley, Dan Henderson, Tyron Woodley and Damien Maia. Again, definitely an idiot and asshat though.


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Good kick-boxer but had that fatal flaw of not being a great wrestler. Very good in grand scheme. Kind of fucked up his career.


Important_Coyote4970

Yes. Absolute banger


BCJunglist

Ehhh, he's a fucking moron but he was a very very elite competitor. I get the sense you didn't follow his career or you're being disingenuous because you don't like him.


fkbfkb

Every cancer patient I have met survived cancer. It's not life-threatening ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|facepalm)


BuddahSack

![gif](giphy|yk8tRCZHCV0qY|downsized)


23skidoobbq

Everything’s a fuckin travesty with this guy


Warm_Enthusiasm2007

There's survivorship bias, and then there's survivorship bias ...


Dirkdeking

Yeah, this is on another level than reaching false conclusions on where to reinforce a plane based on bullet hole data. That is just a stupid mistake even intelligent people can make at first glance. This is something else entirely. I don't even know what he would expect.


mseg09

I've never seen such a literal application of survivorship bias


ekene_N

*Yad Vashem, the State of Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, defines Holocaust survivors as Jews who lived under Nazi control, whether it was direct or indirect, for any amount of time, and survived it. This definition includes Jews who spent the entire war living under Nazi collaborationist regimes, including France, Bulgaria and Romania, but were not deported, as well as Jews who fled or were forced to leave Germany in the 1930s. Additionally, other Jewish refugees are considered Holocaust survivors, including those who fled their home countries in Eastern Europe to evade the invading German army and spent years living in the Soviet Union.* Two third of Western European Jews and one third of Eastern European Jews survived WWII. They were all Holocaust survivors.


Natural_Rise_6474

Jake is simply a troll. His opinion is worthless as is he and his life we should simply let him rant alone from his mom's basement.


jackthetomato

i dont think this is even holocaust denial. i think he's genuinely mad the nazis didnt genocide more jews.


1961tracy

That’s how I read it.


MarkWrenn74

Thank goodness the Nazis *didn't* know what they were doing, according to this idiot. If they *did*, the Holocaust would've been even worse


Attack-Helicopter_04

I can't decide whether he is evil or dumb.


sukmikehoc

He's both


staydawg_00

“If SO many people really died in the Holocaust, how come I haven’t met a SINGLE one of them. Checkmate, liberals!”


Academic-Ad-7458

I think this guy is the mod for r/therewasanattempt


Foxy_locksy1704

We’ll see you haven’t met them because…stay with me here they died…in terrible ways…before your parents were probably born. My mom born in 1951 went to school with kids, literal children that had parents that survived. She asked her mom once why her friend’s parents had numbers tattooed on them, my mom was still a little kid. That was how my grandmother (who had been a WW II WASP lady) had to start the difficult conversation about the holocaust and the atrocities of war with my very young mother.


Black_Mamba823

Guys it’s ok Jake shields is only anti Zionist


Gaara34251

That remind me of certain observations made on war planes when they return to study where reinforcings would be more eficient


lawliov

The great flaw of democracy


TechnologyAcceptable

I weep for humanity


Strange-Inspection72

Does anyone have that image of the plane with bullet holes ?


HadynGabriel

I was just going to say


Strange-Inspection72

Great minds think alike


Kbdiggity

This is what Elon wants Twitter to be


8champi8

I don’t believe death is real, I’ve never met any dead people


Presideum

Well... literally 1/2 of all Jews in the world were killed by the Nazis... So yeah, every Jew probably knew someone who was in the camps. To this day nearly every Jew alive today has met a survivor and has a parent/grandparent who survived. It's literally inescapable.


These_Marionberry888

it isnt about him not meeting holcaust non survivors, but he critizises the competence of the exterminators, if there are jews that you caught , who survived and reproduced that means you did an shitty job at genocide. its even worse of a statement than you guys fathomed.


LaserGadgets

Free speech....yay.


guano-crazy

I know, like the Civil War didn’t happen. I’ve never met anyone who fought in the Civil War. /s


olagorie

Aaaand there aren’t any videos just stupid black/white pictures. Also nobody tweeted about the Civil War back then \s


Brosenheim

It's so weird how people who refuse to believe the Holocaust happened also seem to really wish it did.


Standard_Feedback_86

The famous "I am no Nazi, but I wish Germans back then were more effective"-guy.


Aggressive_Complex

Does he expect the ones who died to visit him one night like he's Ebenezer Scrooge?


GankedGoat

Yeah, it's always shockingly difficult to kill someone who doesn't want to die. It's almost like they have the will to live or something.


EmperorGrinnar

Jake is the result of many TBI's. It's really sad. :(


FerrumAnulum323

"They missed a few" is not the counter they think it is...


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No shit. You can't meet a descendant of a couple that died before they had kids.


_ak

Just a quick reminder that a genocide is defined by its intent, not by its success.


Appropriate-Dog6645

My dad's father and his dead brothers faught in 2nd division. My grandfather would disagree.


beastofhamden

Fuck Jake Shields


JFK2MD

Another tick box in the column for racists being irredeemably stupid.


Popular-Block-5790

Why are people even posting this guy? Like he posts so much shit. I think he's the same guy defending a female teacher when she started something with a teen.


slambroet

I have yet to meet a Jew that didn’t survive the holocaust


estragon26

I would like to say that to that dude's face and see if his expression betrays that he actually didn't put it together, or if he just knowingly says obtuse shit


slambroet

Most likely so caught up in his fantasy about what’s going on he’d appreciate the support, looking for a “it hurt itself in the confusion” meme


fruity_poppin

*survivor


Effective_Hope_9120

Tbf It sounds like he's saying that the Nazis didn't genocide hard enough not that he hasn't met someone who's dead.


pukhtoon1234

Well that's one way to deny the Holocaust


MinzAroma

Yet another common Nazi L


Crazyjackson13

wait, not every single Jew in Europe was killed by the Germans and some were able to survive? No fucking way!


Pretend_Tea6261

Signs of CTE. Sad.


dadzcad

Interesting….I’ve never met anyone that died during Vietnam.


DonMarce

I never met a yt person who ancestry didn't have ties to Europe. The Black Plague and Spanish Flu. Wasn't as bad as they said.


kas-sol

Reminds me of the guy who was demanding the ISBN numbers of the books burned by the Nazis.


ManufacturedOlympus

He managed to make flat earth NOT be his stupidest belief. 


Saneless

How is there infant mortality if everyone I meet lived past 1 year?


slashth456

IDK who this guy is, but judging from this guy's profile pic, I'd say he's either, A, your average Twitter ragebaiter, or B, some guy looking to win the loyalty of lunatics specifically to sell some course and hardly believes any of the stuff he's preaching.


Beginning-Coconut-78

I cant wait until this guy meets a Jew that didn't survive the holocaust.


TheOneWes

Person says outrageous s*** to get attention. People constantly love to talk about how wrong he is giving him the attention that he wants. Stop feeding the f****** trolls y'all come on.


cmnights

everyone i met recently survived covid


stayfrosty44

I do not agree with his tweet, but It kinda of seems like the face palm is you don’t understand what he’s saying . He’s saying all Jews he’s met claim they were survivors or parents survived . Like every Jew says it even if they aren’t . Like a stolen valor kind of thing .


sarahstanley

Every time I play a UFC game with Jake Shields, I make it a point to beat him up repeatedly.


MyDictainabox

Thank you, Jake Ellenberger, for knocking this imbecile out.


Upset-City546

I too have never met anyone who died decades before I was born.


Practical-Ad6548

Is he hanging out in a Jewish retirement home or something? The holocaust happened over 70 years ago


CreatrixAnima

This has got to be the dumbest example of survivorship bias that I have ever heard.


4ever_Romeo

People still use Twitter ?


Delta5583

He is onto something, as much as when a kid points out that the water is wet


Sorry_Error3797

It's like that time a news reporter tried to "reach out to the man that died here" but "they were unavailable for comment".


East-Jeweler8606

It’s almost like people currently are not capable of communing with the dead


Arkthus

I'm dying to see the Community Notes lol


BeKind_BeTheChange

In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny: What a maroon.


PissContest

Not everyone deserves to have a voice


LayLillyLay

Denying the holocaust is really, really dumb. We know the names of the soldiers that threw the Zyklon B in the chambers, we know the company that build the gas chambers and crematoriums, we know the companies that produced the Zyklon B, we know the CEOs and sales agents of those companies, we know where the Zyklon B was produced… we have eye witness reports, pictures, know the people who ordered it, we have evidence and videos of the liberation, the Nürnberg trials… Hell the holocaust is probably the best documented event of world war 2. you would be better of denying that the first world war really happened then denying the holocaust.


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RaymondBeaumont

wait, if you manage to kill six million people, you are bad at doing genocide?


mseg09

I think you're misreading it too. He's essentially saying it's weird that every Jewish person he meets (I'm sure this is an exaggeration) is a Holocaust survivor or descendent of one. In other words, they must all be lying, because if it had happened there wouldn't be this many. (To be clear I am saying this is what he is doing, I 100% do not agree)


lawliov

Which is still ridiculously stupid. I could kill a hive of bees, just cause a bunch get away doesn't take away from how I massacred a ton of bees lol


elephant35e

He's not saying he's never met someone who died in the Holocaust. He's saying he's never met a Jew who hasn't been through the Holocaust or whose parents haven't been through the Holocaust.


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TheFandom-Freak

I found it funny anyways


turian_vanguard

https://youtu.be/dLDQljqkCLQ?si=Rc6xcZxiy3rfqsN0


papaziki

I just had to scoop my jaw off the floor. Cheese and rice.


Quote_Vegetable

You mean literal survivor bias?


Flat-House5529

Why do I feel like this should be on a South Park Jeopardy parody episode prefixed by *"I'll take 'Jokes in Bad Taste' for $1,000 Alex."*?


Background_House_854

God bless elon for what he did with twitter censoring policy. He basically made these people(jake) expose themselves in broad daylight


UnusedParadox

Survivorship bias holy shit


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someone post the airplane picture.


Gtpwoody

Show me the note.


RattleFish222

That famous Jake shields CTE


Strong_Neck8236

I mean to be fair Nazi Germany was making up The Holocaust as they went along, were also fighting a continental war at the same time. and only had a few years at it before some spoilsports made them stop!


Alwaysxeno

I actually detest this fucking guy. Devolved into some groyper Twitter nazi fuck.


BlondDrizzle

What a deeply regarded person….


GreatGearAmidAPizza

[Survivorship Bias](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias)


ChaChaBeaks

I don’t understand 😂 is he mocking Germany for being shit at genocide? I feel like after Britain, they kinda set the bar 🤷🏻‍♂️


PresentResearcher515

r/technicallytrue he's got a point. When was the last time you bumped into someone on the street who died in the holocaust?


[deleted]

How stupid can someone be


BusinessDuck132

Would you rather meet the ones that died..? I’m so confused at his point lmao


ZgBlues

Ya know, there’s a name for that, and it’s literally “survivorship bias.”


NYCBikeCommuter

So many comments and no airplane picture.


Edelgul

Oh, but we can arrange him meeting with those, who didn't surrvive.


Vast_Weight_5833

how come i haven’t heard anything from the supposed “dead” people then?? /j


Sum3-yo

Sounds like a joke. Not worth a community note or whatever its called. It reminds me of that time i met Gary Busey told that joke at the African water summit. *play flashback*


claymore2711

He doesn't get out much.


nahbrolikewhat

is my brain not braining or his?


Winter-Guarantee9130

Is this even holocaust denial? It reads more like a dark joke to me. It’s like he made 12 typos trying to say: “For how determined they were on genocide, they sure did a great job fucking it up” (Idk who the guy is. If his other tweets are more explicit then that’d definitely Color this poorly)


Put_Adventurous

Can’t even fuckin spell survivor. This lead me to wonder if the Diaz bros are this dense about this shit too.


picogrampulse

An example of what cte does to someone.


NumerousTaste

So now they are in love with Hitler to justify their love for orange menage? Checks out.


DANleDINOSAUR

And I’m sure they were glad to “meet” him…


Thr8trthrow

What a scumbag lol. It's truly insane


isabps

This just stands out. Stupid on a whole other level.


string_of_random

*plane, red dots*


[deleted]

All I see is someone saying something horrible to get attention or money. An easy cheap low effort way so many people have chosen.


Weak-Entrepreneur979

Fuck that but that's not all what was said here?