It wouldn’t surprise me at all if the FBI had Epstein on their bankroll so they could blackmail people into becoming informants. The problem law enforcement runs into is eventually they have to cut their informants loose and informants have to be paid. Don’t have to do that if you have guaranteed life in prison to hang over someone’s head. Now you can use them for as long as you want.

We have a bunch of photos of Axis troops committing war crimes they took of themselves. Ranging from burying people in mass graves, posing with dead bodies, beheading contests, standing in front of prison camps, and literally killing infants.

You’d think people would figure out this never makes them look good, but the US did similar shit in Vietnam and Isreal is doing it today. You’re 100% right the Axis would have posted themselves all over social media with comments from Americans/British/etc. cheering them on, saying how those people deserved it.

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(Someone else came up with that one a few weeks ago when Trump’s stooges were doing a photo op)

The Germans tried doing the same thing after WWII when the whole country was complicit in the Holocaust. There were camps everywhere. The number of SS wasn’t high enough for them to round up every undesirable on their own, it required the participation of civilians and local law enforcement. They were more than happy to kill their neighbors because it meant they got to take their stuff for themselves.

So they’re totally going to take down all of the Clean Wehrmacht games to comply with German law, right?

Ooh I met a professional Japan hater once. He was a mathematics graduate student at my university. He was given another exchange student as a roommate, who happened to be Japanese. A shitshow ensued, I was asked by some white people what to do (“Aren’t you Asian too? Is this a racism?”), and I just kind of shook my head.

Was deeply unserious.

IIRC the leading hypothesis is humans discovered how to make fire before we were “human.” Or in other words, we were more like chimps and bonobos when we discovered fire. It may have been what led us down the path we are on.

I swear this happens every time I deal with chuds online. They will completely misunderstand entire paragraphs and I have to respond with “re-read what I wrote because you’re making up a thing and then getting mad at the thing you made up.”

The other day I was trying to explain what abolishing the police and prisons would look like, pointing specifically to police departments and the FBI here in the US. Some chud comes in and goes off about how with no laws, everything will fall apart. I have to redirect him to the part where I mention neighborhood watch groups, sequestered communities for people who break the law focused on rehabilitation, etc.

Chud comes back with “Yeah but there’s no cops or prisons so people can just do whatever?”

“No. We will have law enforcement, but different from the current institutions that exist who are little more than gangs themselves.”

“So how are you abolishing police by making police?”

“…the institution we think of as “the police” will be abolished and something else will take their place, like a community militia, conflict mediators, mental health professionals, etc.”

“But then who will be the police?”

“…the thing known as cops will cease to exist and laws will be enforced by other entities. We want this because police are currently corrupt. They all need to be fired and a new institution will be built from the ground-up focused on de-escalation and rehabilitation. We are going in circles.”

“How would escalators and animal habitats do anything to stop crime?”

I stopped engaging around this point (and this post itself is rambling), but here this guy was posting his whole ass with his real name and everything. He wasn’t doing a bit or sealioning. He was genuinely this incapable of following a conversation and comprehending information.

Do you really think somebody would do that? Just steal your apes while pretending to be from another country so they could easily get away? Surely there’s securities in place for crypto to prevent such a thing!

Remember when Blackwater did a bunch of war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan and all they had to do was change their name a few times to avoid any consequences? And by “avoid consequences,” I mean “get their executives and their families into the White House with congressional approval.”

I’d point to white flight as the primary reason for suburbs (like 90% lol). As Jim Crow ended and the Second Great Migration began, suburbs started to pop up as redlining went into effect or PoC were scammed.

One of the common rackets orchestrated by real estate agencies, city councils, banks, and development companies was to offer black first-time homeowners cheap deals on housing in cities. They would collect the down payment, let a family move in, then ambush them with bullshit inspections. Of course, they’d find something wrong not disclosed before the purchase, which was then used to deem the home unsafe or get it condemned. The black family would then be evicted and the scam would repeat.

Real estate agents would then go around to neighboring houses and say “Look what happened when those blacks moved in! They trashed their house! Your property values are at risk if another black family moves in. Sell your home to us and we’ll make sure you get a good deal.” They’d repeat the scam again with another house, so now you have multiple houses where black people are moved in, their money taken, then evicted.

Eventually, the whole neighborhood would be black and the homes sabotaged and flipped so many times the houses were no longer worth holding onto. Whoever was the most recent owner was left holding the bag. At this point, white families moved out of urban areas into newly developed suburbs. They created de-facto segregation while making money the entire time. City officials got kickbacks to look the other way as financial institutions ravaged neighborhoods.

This was one of the topics that comes up when discussing reparations. Most of these families may not be able to prove they’re descended from slaves, but they can prove how they were given bogus mortgages and had their entire life savings wiped out. Not to mention, redlining still occurs today, where PoC are denied home loans despite their good credit. And of course, the reactionaries obfuscate what these court cases are about, saying people are just looking for handouts based on being black.

Weird how it’s freedom of speech when nazis run people over at their Klan rally, but an existential threat when anyone left of Bush says we should maybe stop killing homeless people and children. Really makes you think 🤔🤔🤔🤔

They get paid like $0.10 / hour and most of it gets spent at the commissary where essentials (like toothpaste and soap) are sold at normal prices you see outside of prisons. It’s deliberate so the prison can make money off their inmates while making sure a black market exists they can use to justify cruelty.

I’m preaching to the choir, but it’s frustrating how liberals don’t understand the 13th. Ammendment.

Thr IRA did nothing wrong Br*tish cars deserved worse unlimited genocide upon the royal family and their collaborators.

And the lies about Iraq. The US will accuse you of building nukes, invade your country, kill a million people, and then the Secretary of State goes on TV and tells everyone they knew they were lying the whole time. If that’s going to happen, might as well start building nukes.

Reactionaries genuinely believe this. They think IQ isn’t a total meme, that it’s the greatest indicator of a person’s intellect. And of course, that some groups have higher IQ than others because of genetic superiority (IQ tests totally aren’t rigged/biased). They use this to explain why Europeans “built civilization” while everyone else are all stupid savages (instead of Europeans having resources others did not that allowed them to kill everyone).

Yeah weird how they can all of a sudden rally to remove Jill Stein off the ballot or prevent someone from becoming mayor of New York, but they can’t remove Trump from office for literally any reason 🤔

I thought the baby was a good addition, though I didn’t realize the mom was supposed to be 9 months pregnant (maybe the baby was premature since they’re under so much stress while being underfed?). Also, the baby deserved any winnings for immediately shutting the fuck up and sleeping through the night at 2 days old in a dorm of like 60 people. They had no right to even discuss killing her.

It ties into a similar plot point with The Platform. Spoilers for the first movie: a child is somehow in the prison, but nobody believes it. The director has said it’s an allegory of how people get trapped within a system, are abused, and no one thinks their suffering is real. Squid Game I thought went down a similar road. No one thinks a baby could compete in gladiatorial games, yet there a baby is, forced to entertain psychopathic billionaire sadists.

Sad to see no changes to Legacy or Modern. I really don’t want to drop $400 on a playset of The One Ring and Orcish Bowmasters when that same amount could be used to get Revised duals or something like Mox Diamond. Price isn’t a reason for banning a card, but those are newer cards seeing play across multiple formats due to their high power level. Urza’s Saga is another one and it’s prevented me from returning to Modern where Modern Horizons and LotR have jacked up the price and power level of the format.

maybe this finally wakes them up to tone the power of the format down

I doubt it, to be honest. There have been more bans in the last 8 years than the previous 23 years combined, including the creation of the initial Type 2 banlist, Urza’s block, and Mirrodin. Mark Rosewater often recites the story about how his job in R&D is the only time he’s been yelled at in a professional setting after an exec heard a joke at the Pro Tour over the speed of games. He also wrote an article when the Mirrodin bans happened about how bans negatively impact the game, since they frequently make players quit a format or Magic altogether.

Flash forward to today where similar bans are happening nearly every year, sometimes multiple times a year. Standard may be dead on paper, but it’s the most popular format on Arena alongside Brawl. They aren’t hemorrhaging numbers there, so there’s no reason for them to change their behavior. Nor have sales of sealed product declined. FIRE design is here to stay, I’m afraid.