You dingbats sure do jump to a lot of conclusions. There really is no good side to take in the “holy war”. Religious fanatics just suck in general. Sounds like Matt had a problem client who’s gone to great lengths to drag his name through the mud. Hopefully Matt sues the dirtbag, piece of trash for slander and gets a chance to meet him in person for some justice.
You dingbats sure do jump to a lot of conclusions. There really is no good side to take in the “holy war”. Religious fanatics just suck in general. Sounds like Matt had a problem client who’s gone to great lengths to drag his name through the mud. Hopefully Matt sues the dirtbag, piece of trash for slander and gets a chance to meet him in person for some justice.
You dingbats sure do jump to a lot of conclusions. There really is no good side to take in the “holy war”. Religious fanatics just suck in general. Sounds like Matt had a problem client who’s gone to great lengths to drag his name through the mud. Hopefully Matt sues the dirtbag, piece of trash for slander and gets a chance to meet him in person for some justice.
To add insult to injury, Matt clearly knows nothing about this war. He keeps citing al jazeera as some kind of gospel. They're owned by the qatari government. They were caught fabricating a story about IDF soldiers raping women in a hospital which they took down after it became apparent that it was BS. In addition, there was an al jazeera contributor named Abdallah Al-jamal who was caught holding israeli hostages taken during the october 7th attacks. Propaganda machine with no journalistic integrity. Also, Israel doesn't order the killing of aid workers. Instead, hamas uses humanitarian zones as cover in order to make it harder to fight them. Kinda dishonest to frame this as a genocide considering hamas' geurilla tactics and the fact that they started this. The difference between the 2 sides is pretty stark. Matt's bad takes seem pretty in line with his behavior
A friend has forwarded me this thread and I thought I’d share the true story as many here seem interested. Warning: There is a deep political issue at bay here; up until very recently I never paid attention to politics much but I do have several people very close to me who are Palestinian who have had people close to them (and I) extremely effected by the War in Gaza and this does “drama” does revolve closely around that, so I do apologise in advance but context is required.
Before I continue, I’d genuinely like to apologise to people who visit this page who’ve taken a true hate to the effort and content I’ve put out over the years. I never set out to create content people would hate and at least personally, if I come across a content creator I don’t enjoy, I simply stop watching/listening and find something I do enjoy. I guess I’m a little confused as to why there seems to be a love for hating on people and the effort to ruin their entire career/image without understanding a true situation even comes to mind, it’s not something I subscribe to. It sounds like a simple suggestion but maybe search for something you enjoy watching and support them; it’s a waste of time hating on people.
Story: Several months ago we had a client at our coaching company named Itai. Upon receiving news that a close connection had been placed in Israeli prison and was being tortured for absolutely no reason, I began sharing some instagram stories displaying my distaste for the IDF (Israel Defense Force) and the Israel Government who were ordering these actions. Itai has recently worked with (unclear if he still do) the Israel Defense Force. It’s worth noting, in case you haven’t paid attention, that the IDF and Israeli Gov have ordered the killing of Aid Workers, United Nations Staff, They’ve pretended to be aid workers entering Gaza reading to hand out desperately needed aid (food/water) and instead began spraying the desparate displaced crowd with bullets killing hundreds at a time. The IDF have continually forcibly displaced thousands of innocent Palestinians and told them to head to ‘safe zones” that they shortly after heavily bomb (this happens almost weekly) so I do feel like my distaste is warranted. I never shared any true issue with Jews. (I did warn you there is a political twist to this “drama”).
Itai abruptly quit our coaching group, which is understandable but he then began accusing staff of supporting a terrorist organisation and refused to abide by our 1 month notice cancellation policy. Itai was very agressive, assumed me of using ChatGPT to make training plans and I my response included the quotes “You may be able to make up the rules where you live, but you don’t make up the rules in our business.” and “Yes we do use Chat GPT to improve our grammar/structure language with group emails.
Randomly, 2 months later Itai has edited my email in an extraordinary fashion and sent it to some Israeli athletes who have not only shared my edited email (it takes a few strokes of a keyboard to edit an email) but has then photoshopped a bunch of conversation that never occurred. Itai works in IT and is, from what I understand, familiar with AI tools and there are many AI tools now where you can create a fake conversation. These fake conversations have been shared and dumped into this google drive folder in an attempt to cancel me and Sweat Elite. I have requested with the owner of the google drive doc and with Itai if I can add in screenshots of the actual email and share the DM threads (mostly entirely empty) of what’s been shared here - but they have not accepted the request.
I welcome anyone to email us: for the original emails/threads if you would like to see them, it’s quite a different story.
So to be clear- yes I’ve expressed quite strong opinions against the IDF and the Israeli Government; it’s a true shame some people have immediately linked with with hating jews. It’s bizarre to me honestly. Especially given it’s quite easy to read Aljazeera and notice how many people have been displaced and killed by the IDF, not only since October last year but for years prior. The most bizarre thing to me though is people will seemingly get so offended by some WORDS (true or not) but ignore not care for the murdering of tens of thousands of innocent human beings.
I’ve never understand this random hate for people in this sport that have a voice, I know a few other small media companies like us have had severe hate directed at them before to the point that they’ve quit- what’s the point of this? I know this message won’t change this trajectory of cancel culture but it’s really damaging for any sport. If people are putting in effort to create content people can learn from, why have such an issue with them? Just watch something else.
"Guys, guys, guys, hold up. You're getting this all wrong, there's CONTEXT here that none of you haters realise. The person I was communicating with was JEWISH FROM ISRAEL. That allows me to be completely deranged and racist when I'm supposed to be providing a professional coaching service and representing reputable brands. And anyway, in spite of me just justifying my actions, I'm now weirdly going to say it was all faked by Bing Image Creator, it's amazing what AI can do these days. If you want proof of that, rather than me just posting it here, I'm going to ask that you email me. I promise not to start abusing you via email- I usually use chatgpt for all my personal emails anyway so as long as you don't mind me referring to you by the wrong name we shouldn't have a problem (unless you turn out to be Jewish from Israel, lol). But hey, if you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best. All I'm trying to do is create content you can learn from and you ingrates keep banging on about the times where I've been unhinged and massively racist. Where does this random hate come from?"
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