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At some point my dad, who was a Political Science major with like 30+ hours in History, jumps in and starts arguing about how the history is everything and we need to abandon any kind of stylization, narrative, or even approachability; in the name of TRUE HISTORY™.

If a history-based work is good and inaccurate it’s because it’s a piece of art that sacrificed some points of accuracy for the sake of storytelling and conveying themes deeper and more important than a straightforward recounting of facts. If it’s bad and inaccurate then that’s just another reason why it sucks

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Got to digging thru the Old Lore and found this gem. She's in a boob- enhanced RTB01 armor, with a habit instead of a helmet.

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Wil, there were not "ten people who want to vote for them."

There were nine people who'd announced they were refusing to vote, mostly because Kamala couldn't promise to send the Marines into Gaza without getting branded an anti- Semite by the ADL, and one who planned on voting damage control. So Kamala's team started going for people who were going to vote.

I think that's the biggest thing everyone's misunderstanding here- Kamala could do *nothing* to get those nine people to vote. The ADL has the kind of bipartisan legitimacy that the SPLC has pipe dreams about, and undermining it would've taken a propaganda machine the Democratic party has never had, and probably doesn't want anyway.

I voted damage control, but nine other people decided their civil rights were an appropriate sacrifice for making a statement about Gaza.

“An Arizona man, citing the time Harris said, “you better thank a union member,” during a speech in Detroit, said “that was very disingenuous to me because I didn’t see an honest person that could be president.” “It seemed like a lot of what she came out and said wasn’t really off-the-cuff, wasn’t coming from her,” said another man who voted for Biden in 2020 and Trump in 2024. “Seemed like every interview, every time she came out and talked about something, it was planned out and never her thoughts, didn’t seem genuine to her thoughts, whereas, Trump, even though you never really knew what he was going to say, when he was going to say it, it was always him and genuine to what he thought, so that’s what swayed me.””

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New research shows the massive hole Dems are in

I mean … I don’t know how anyone worth electing is going to reach someone like this guy who basically says he’d rather vote for someone who rambles incoherently, with a clear track record of violence and corruption, because he didn’t like the way the scary Black lady talked.

Why is this guy even in this article? This guy is a lost cause. This guy is not the Democrats’ fault. This guy is a stupid fucking idiot who shouldn’t be allowed to be alone in any room with a sharp object.

And this is the guy the Democrats are going to throw the trans community under the bus for, the guy who says he didn’t like how prepared and articulate Kamala Harris was when she expressed her positions, when what we all know is that he didn’t like that she was a Black woman.

THAT is the real disgrace and failure of the party: chasing this guy at the expense of ten people who want to vote for them, because they listen to dipshit consultants who have lost all but two consequential elections for the last twenty years.

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Power Sink tried doing that, at least with land. It was incomparably bad- I seriously can't think of anything bad enough to compare it to.

Would a card that forces a player to take all actions they can work?

No. The rules don’t define that. The additional issue is certain things are contingent on others. Must I perform actions that will enable other actions?

For example, I have an activation that requires mana. I’m unable to activate it without mana in my pool. Am I obligated to tap mana?

What if I tap a dual land to produce the wrong color of mana. Am I obligated to tap it to produce the right color?

What if I have two different activations and can’t do both? Must I do one? Can I choose?

What if there are three activations and I can do two small ones or one big one? Must so do the two small ones because it would be doing more actions?

As you can see it’s a messy knot of unclear issues.

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let's hear it for the nonbinary folks who:

don't present androgynously

use "binary" pronouns in any capacity

identify partially with a binary gender

have a "gendered" name

don't experience body dysmorphia

don't experience gender dysphoria

DO experience gender dysphoria/body dysmorphia but aren't sure what gender or body would suit them

just experience body/gender apathy instead

can't be open about their gender identity yet

you're all absolutely valid.

don't ever feel like you're "not nonbinary enough" because you absolutely are! 💖

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I'd argue it's contingent to wearing a santa suit at the time, but this works.

Source

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You'd be surprised at how much Christian scholarship there was to theologically prove that not only did Jesus never have sex, but Mary didn't either. That having been said, I'm also told the title "Rabbi" in that era couldn't be conferred onto an unmarried man.

So...

really recommend getting a partner with a different religion than you and very little knowledge of your religion because the opportunities for explaining things to each other are just exquisite

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Propaganda. It's all propaganda. We stopped fighting the propaganda war and the other side didn't.

Every socialist policy we have was tirelessly fought for by the common people.

Every capitalist policy we have was lobbied for by rich people and enforced by police.

But for some strange reason, people still think socialism is big government tyranny and capitalism is small government freedom.

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Dafuq?

Hyundai Santa Cruz can carry a hay roll with no damage. There's a video somewhere of a guy testing one by carrying a hay roll to his yak, over pretty difficult terrain.

As a farmer.. homie thinking he is hot shit for hauling ONE BALE is so fucking funny let me put a rack on the back of my 02 dodge and i can haul fuckin 10 bales without needing the headers

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one of my father’s hindu colleagues was surprised that my family didn’t make everyone say a christian prayer before we sat down to eat dinner. we were like “….this is your house.” and she laughed and said that her christian friends “make” her pray all the time. like what the fuck. how fucking rude can you be to make the host pray to your god. you are in their fucking house.

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And there we are. The guy who accused Biden of bribery in the whole Burisma incident, was lying.

Boom. Case closed. The whole thing was false.

So why isn't this on the front page?

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Somebody wasn't given a couple of dollars in quarters and *ordered* to phone home every time you arrived or left somewhere, on threat of getting the cops called on you.

True freedom.

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Point of concurrence: Alpha had two splashable counterspells, and Legends added several more. They did *not* make the game more enjoyable- quite the opposite, especially with Winter Orb combos.

Counterspell effects are best requiring *at least* two colored mana.

why do three mana unconditional counterspells almost always require two colored mana, like refute and cancel from foundations? i wanna put counterspells in my three color decks and the double colored pips always make it more difficult

We don’t want counterspells easily splashed, so it’s working exactly as planned.

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Either this isn't Amtrak's largest, or some of the non- Amtrak railways would carry passengers as well, because my mom's hometown had a train station going back to the '50s or so. And I still remember seeing the old station building before it was moved across the street and then some meth heads burned it down.

As for why we cut it? Reaganomics, people wanting the privacy of cars, last mile issues. But mostly Reaganomics. And in the UK, Thatcher. We're still seeing the final gasps of it today with the spray- tanned buffon's DOGE cabal- government is inherently evil and must be replaced by an even less- accountable private sector; Ayn Rand, Vonnegut, Orwell, and Bradbury; government as a means for jealous incompetents to stop Idea Men™ from being able to rise above the masses; all that shit we were told in school would inevitably happen unless we did away with the government within our lifetimes.

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Rampage needed something like Lure, to *force* more available creatures to block the attacker, and in general most creatures with Rampage didn't have it high enough to stomp the big gribblies they were likely to get blocked by. I only count two creatures with Rampage 3 and one with Rampage 4 in Gatherer.

It looked good in theory- I think I still have Marhault Elsdragon in my old Red/Green burn deck, along with the obligatory Craw Giant- but at the end of the day I don't remember it ever kicking in.

...don't look at me like that, lol. I had enough mana ramp for the Craw Giant to get a surprising amount of battlefield time.

Was Rampage phased out because it was unintuitive or because people just didn't like the mechanic? I guess it could be both

It was both unintuitive and just didn’t matter enough. Two creatures block one creature more infrequently than most players assume.

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Also, just because it's sent to "nowhere" doesn't mean "nowhere" can't fill up and start expelling things. Where else do you think those damnable "It Hurts" mechs are coming from?!

...yes, I know the Sisterhood of Eternal Pennance *philosophically* could make them. The Sisterhood also has a design language, and those things do *not* match it.

Howdy, have you ever considered upscaling the Displacer? Being able to send an entire mech standard frame to nowhere would be a quite the problem solver.

Thank you for your question; Unfortunately, we regret to inform you that adding power and thus increasing the size of the Displacer would be a crime against humanity as deemed by Union's Department of Justice and Human Rights. Thus we will not be making an off-shoot of the Displacer in smaller or larger configurations.

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Purity culture, divine will, "blessed are they who have not seen yet have believed," "mark of the beast," any number of things really. These are the same people making efforts to trap children in rural communities so they can't go off to school.

I cannot imagine watching my child trying to hack its lungs out & knowing I could have prevented this pain with a shot

How do covidiot Antivaxxers live with themselves?