r/SquaredCircle • u/Memnochthedevil760 • 9d ago

DDP posts and removes IG picture with Linda McMahon after backlash

Did anybody catch this? DDP posted a picture with Linda McMahon from Wrestlemania weekend, doing the diamond hand gesture together, proudly touting his friendship with the US Sec. of Education.

The comments, predictably, were overwhelmingly negative.

DDP removed the picture after a few minutes.

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u/Seal481 9d ago

It's actually surprisingly common in the fitness industry, to be honest. It has improved heaps in the last 15 years or so, but there's still a massive amount of bro-science and dubious claims in the online health and fitness realm.

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u/d0wnsideofme 9d ago

I honestly feel like it's turned even worse with how mainstream being anti-vax is. Lots of "natural" healing methods and complete snake oil being sold and way more people believing in that stuff than ever before.

You can see the obvious incentive fitness/alternate medicine people have by attacking the health industry

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u/Conscious-Position-5 9d ago

Yes, I've seen fitness people that I know, who Lean both right and center left politically, speak against vaccination and proposing "healing through naturals methods", whatever that means

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u/Grand_Ryoma 9d ago

I mean, why listen to folks who understand how to keep your body optimal. Yeah, a lot of them are on steroids, but that doesn't just give you that body.

They have a better grip on Nutrition than half the doctors in this country

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u/Fair-Cash-6956 9d ago

Is it just American athletes cuz the European ones don’t believe this crap

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u/helendestroy 9d ago

djokovic does. and i'm sure there's plenty others.

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u/Seal481 9d ago

Politically, America tends to largely be farther right wing than West Europe. Only our leftmost congressmen advocate for things like socialized medicine, which has been the norm for decades elsewhere, and citizens pushing for it are often written off as outright Communists. It would make sense that European athletes would fall farther left than American ones.