lets just say I am a proudly liberal artist blacksmith that is pretty sick with the worlds love of knives and swords. Pathetic waste of human effort they represent. yep Knife sluttery is for people that want to play Thor and impress the local kids. No weapons made here. Also Nazi's told to f**k off withourt remorse. Unlike the worlds blacksmithing organisations that tend to prefer the numbers they
get from fascists over trying to promote the trade to all in an inclusive manner. Much talk and little reality. One of the most racist professional classes there is, in the USA that is. UK, Well they are just apathetic and had little realisation of the effects of allowing fascit trolls to fill their ranks. Allowing years of Islamaphobic contect and people that were obvious troll accounts to proliferate. Like many pages Admin was woefully self blinded by those numbers ticking up."Reach". well they reached a generation of youth with that hate show"forged in fire" where adults teach kids that glorification of the annatomical details of a blade cutting through flesh is normal abnd cool. A sick manipulation of what was origionally a great idea. One that I have a little say in given the origins at the table in the conference up north when i said "we need to do like robo wars for smithing" get on TV with fire and sparks" (Mike Neely, Dean Monk, Ken Mermelstein and a pipe)
Make beautiful objects in collaborative efforts to make public sculpture. Basically what goes on in the UK all the time.Just they haven't managed to get a TV show to show interest. TV Missed a big opportunity with the BABA Bath bandstand deal. Blacksmithing was and should be about an inclusive world of helping create art. Not exclusionary stabber shiv makers using it to promote hate groups and racism. As always you can see within the organisations the same issues and problems with society on the whole. Ignoring the real danger because someone called the danger a sh*t or wanker or Brexsh*tter. OH F**K PUTIN'S BREXSH*T FOLKS. F**K PUTINS tRUMPutina, F**K PUTIN. Nuff said
