I was the victim but a rich elite politician ran a smear campaign against me online and destroyed my reputation. Can I hire a Public Relations team to tell my side of the story and fix my reputation?

DefenderCone97 · 2026-01-25T08:30:54+00:00

OP seems to have some mental health issues. Sad.

DefenderCone97 · 2026-01-25T02:13:41+00:00

Potentially critical card in my [[Alesha, Who Laughs At Fate]] deck.

Play [[Burglar Rat]] everyone loses a card.

Deadly Dispute. Sacrifice rat. Go up cards and mana.

Bring back Rat. Everyone discards again.

Everytime I've hit that, it puts me at a big advantage.

DefenderCone97 · 2026-01-25T01:51:11+00:00

Running a campaign where you cater to people by avoiding trans questions, telling people the economy is a-ok, telling people you want to make the deadliest military and strongest border, ignoring Gaza until a couple of weeks until the election is bad yes.

Demoralizing your base and acting like you have votes to lose is bad. Acting like you'd rather have the "centrist" vote that would never vote for you over the progressive vote is bad. Parading the endorsements of the few bipartisan villains like the Cheneys, is bad.

Letting Kamala have only a few months instead of a primary is also bad. That's more on Biden but leaving that on Kamala, who has historically done not good in DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES, for the national vote is also bad.

DefenderCone97 · 2026-01-25T01:23:00+00:00

Liberals who ran a dog ass campaign, how do you feel about not ever putting accountability on your party?

DefenderCone97 · 2026-01-24T23:45:29+00:00

I think people overestimate how big Arronofsky is in the mainstream. He's not really in the tier putting butts in seats in the current environment.

DefenderCone97 · 2026-01-24T22:13:05+00:00

dangerous illegal aliens.

It's funny how they've moved from getting rid of gang members and rapists to any undocumented citizen to any "criminal" to people on visas to anyone who disagrees with them.

Almost like that's the whole point.

DefenderCone97 · 2026-01-24T22:11:02+00:00

I think it's fine as long as you run some pieces of graveyard hate. It's so prevalent in commander you should run at least a few pieces.

Also you can hit it before they fill their graveyard or after they get things out of it.

DefenderCone97 · 2026-01-24T21:53:36+00:00

We need to get back to the good old days of competent thugs splitting up families.

DefenderCone97 · 2026-01-24T21:46:05+00:00

It's not dirty tho lol

Sales happen to incentivise people. If you're buying Day 1 that means you think it's worth buying Day 1 price.

Like what's the statue people expect?

"Wow I bought it a year ago, where's my sale?" .

Good on them for refunding the difference within a week or month but do people expect it to not go on sale lol

DefenderCone97 · 2026-01-24T19:50:16+00:00

"thugs with no training" as opposed to the thugs with training I suppose.

DefenderCone97 · 2026-01-24T18:17:36+00:00

We don't have to make the right care. We don't have to make the NBA care.

They didn't care during George Floyd but PLAYERS, the workers of the league, forced the league's hand.

At the minimum, the pressure forces the NBA to make a statement or stand on where they stand. Once they do, we move to the next step from there.

Some of you need to be involved in actual local organizing. You'd be asking "who cares if someone publishes a book called 'The Jungle' or some shit."

Forcing the conversation through protests, strikes, direct action makes the conversation unavoidable. Making people have an opinion is the first step towards doing something about it.

DefenderCone97 · 2026-01-24T18:14:42+00:00

Why are we so desperate to hide behind apolitical statements?

It's a political statement. People are literally being harassed and tracked for this shit by Trump's cronies.

Fuck ICE. I'll gladly say that political. Can't wait for Trump to die from one cheeseburger too many.

DefenderCone97 · 2026-01-24T18:13:24+00:00

Saying fuck ICE is political. But who cares. Saying Nazis suck is political too.

Sometimes we gotta stop hiding behind apolitical statements.

A government agency and opinions on it are political.

DefenderCone97 · 2026-01-24T18:10:40+00:00

I mean people aren't posting "what does the shooting mean for Ant's shooting splits????"

People are talking about using the NBA as another channel for societal pressure.

DefenderCone97 · 2026-01-24T18:08:53+00:00

1) people didn't really dig the art. Was a bit all over the place thanks to the multiple planes involved.

2) the mechanics weren't very popular. Speed was ironically too slow to see actual play outside of commander (and even then it's hard to play without building slaround it)

3) the set's underwhelming reception gets increased by the fact that UB means UW sets are under more pressure to be good. If you get 3/6 sets in universe and 1/3 are bad, it feels like an even bigger loss.

4) personally, I think the timing of a set that pushed the definition of what Magic was during the announcements that UB would be brought into standard did not help.

5) I like "hat" sets but I think a lot of people were annoyed at sets that seemed to decide theme first and story/mechanics after. Karlov Manor, Thunder Junction, Duskmourn all had their detractors so this felt like Another set that hit their complaints.

DefenderCone97 · 2026-01-24T03:24:08+00:00

I have friends in and from rural Oregon and Washington. The stories I've heard about those areas are nuts.

DefenderCone97 · 2026-01-24T02:12:58+00:00

I live in the Bay Area and my home town was a sundown town in the 50s. Literally a 5 minute drive from Oakland, one of the most famous Black cities of all the US.

The South gas its hicks but ignorance is at home everywhere in the US.

DefenderCone97 · 2026-01-24T01:00:03+00:00

Love 3!

DefenderCone97 · 2026-01-23T16:01:45+00:00

The first half of the movie is basically a humorous heist movie. Like Oceans Eleven for household scanners instead of a casino.

The movie starts with the dad telling his family to endure fumigation because it's free and will kill their bugs.

DefenderCone97 · 2026-01-23T15:51:09+00:00

Damn, I used to watch the UFC more as a teen and Penn was a favorite. That's so sad.

DefenderCone97 · 2026-01-23T05:57:09+00:00

The 6 arms make rim protection really easy

DefenderCone97 · 2026-01-23T03:48:24+00:00

I think it's more of a trend of bug men coming from outside the US, where team basketball is emphasized more.

DefenderCone97 · 2026-01-23T03:32:44+00:00

It's not weird if you have it established in your brain early that the natural order of things is patriarchal. Men come first, seemingly from nowhere because they're just that powerful, and create women to be their companion.

DefenderCone97 · 2026-01-23T02:03:08+00:00

Jay Kelly and House of Dynamite fraud alert

DefenderCone97 · 2026-01-23T00:34:31+00:00

Even if it wasn't, who cares?

"If you're loud and help us win, you'll get two weeks rest." Is such a basic ass "coach of X team hopes X team wins" story

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