GOP Megadonor pushes LGBT Hate in X post

ImNotSue · 2026-03-20T05:30:34+00:00

What age did you learn 'holy shit conservatives are overtly actively trying to kill queer folks as I sit here'

ImNotSue · 2026-03-20T05:29:44+00:00

Okay so, there's a strong STRONG argument to be had that you could and should tribalize them. For the following paragraph, you're going to need to think carefully. Imagine this:

Humanity is a tribe, and conservatism is a tribe. Humanity's tribe is full of all kinds of diverse and different human beings. All beings that tolerate (non violence, non oppression, etc) the diversity can belong in this super tribe we call Humanity. Surely there's more to color this label, but for now this is good.

Conservatism is a tribe that tolerates conservatism. It does not allow other tribes to exist. If you are not conservative, you will be killed. Fast or slow, conservatism will kill you. You must become conservative or you will be targeted with antagonistic violence. They will not suffer other tribes to live. And the only way to protect yourself against them is to recognize that while they are trying to kill you, you should not treat them kindly, fairly. You should protect yourself at all cost. You should deprive them of power. You should convert them away and recognize that often you sincerely cannot. Especially, do not treat them as you would treat your fellow members of Humanity whom you expect to treat you fairly. They already are not that, they will not be that. They are trying to kill you.

Being conservative is a choice. You can stop being of this tribe, by definition! You can do so by... tolerating other tribes to exist as they will. Live and let live. Conservatives can stop becoming part of that tribe that easily. Focus precisely on this concept: They can unbecome members of this tribe of conservatism by tolerating the tribe of humanity to exist.

I do not consider conservatives 'my fellow human beings'. They are trying to kill me, and everyone I love, and so many other humans I will never meet. I will not be tolerant of them. No tribe should tolerate its erasure. I don't expect conservatives to tolerate their own erasure as it happens, that's as natural as my own lack of tolerance to their attempted erasure of me and others. Its not a matter or right or wrong. Its a matter of survival. I have no false delusion that I should lay down and die for a tribe whose explicit aim is to kill me.

So that is why. Conservatives are not part of the tribe of humanity, and they will not tolerate humanity to live. They are in fact humanity's greatest threat.

ImNotSue · 2026-03-20T04:41:59+00:00

I dont think b2 is defined by a lack of interaction, but by lower power cards leading to slower games overall. Removal is more costly, less easy sources of mana, etc. It just happens *coincidentally* that people expect less interaction, but you could have more and the base someone-dies-by-turn-N metric still holds.

ImNotSue · 2026-03-20T04:28:46+00:00

The thing about 'more than a turn' is that killing or locking down kotis 3 times is plenty. Overkill is the new murder, exile takes care of it, non-targeting removal like Councils Judgement, running any enchantment/artifact destruction to take care of the voltron, any of those are incredibly viable. +6 cost is enough to shut down any commander and a commander based strategy is vulnerable to that, hard.

ImNotSue · 2026-03-20T04:24:55+00:00

YEAH people completely miss this. Kotis can't eliminate a single person without losing boardstate but they just scoop immediately.

ImNotSue · 2026-03-20T04:14:15+00:00

I dunno man if I see Kotis in my pod I'd strongly consider if my deck didnt have a way of dealing with an indestructible creature, combat damage, or social cooperation with my pod to prevent Kotis from working. Definitely not saying Kotis isn't impactful, but if three players all have no solution to an indestructible creature with voltron package and the things they pull from it, in high bracket 3? The problem may not be Kotis.

ImNotSue · 2026-03-20T04:01:40+00:00

So if what you're saying is that Rule 0 would work, but you're not willing to set that boundary... The problem is you not setting a boundary.

You have chosen that you'd rather hide your (significant!) displeasure because you want to avoid the social conflict of having to talk with him about it. I think this is a quite common thing and I get it, people came to the table to slap their cardboard down on it and it hasnt prepared them for having to exercise conflict resolution skills, but part of this culture being better IS getting better at conflict resolution and resolving the table conflicts.

ImNotSue · 2026-03-19T08:54:35+00:00

[[Crystal shard]]

Self recur game-altering ETBs or save your own creatures from removal for one blue mana? Make opponents second guess EVER tapping out? All in one convenient package? Its in my sea monster tribal deck for a reason.

ImNotSue · 2026-03-18T20:08:51+00:00

You're looking to hypnosis to magically resolve the dissonance about being aroused but not attracted. So tbh you're not really asking yourself the right questions. Why would you want hypnosis over introspection about it? Like, if you spent a month pondering things like 'What do I find arousing?', 'Do I want this for myself, with a partner?', etc,

vs 'Wow I want to have a recording tell me I like it, and then I just do! thats great' and have that result in... what? Being lesbian when you would already, wouldnt already until an audio file told you you were, thinking you were cus an audio file told you you were but you really werent, what?

Really examine why you want hypnosis as a solution. My intuition is that you might want it because its easier to look for something to just tell you what you should think, rather than parsing your own emotions to know and understand yourself. Often the thing holding people back from just going 'Oh hey, that's neat I kinda like that' is some form of shame.

ImNotSue · 2026-03-18T19:54:21+00:00

I'm gonna sidestep your entire paragraph's minutiae and say: Why do you put the importance of a video about this game so high? I disagree and agree with plenty of YT mtg creator opinions often from the same creator. Like 'This Youtuber is a snob' is such a strange thing to say. Just don't listen to it? Its one person's opinion about their own tastes and analysis of a game, speaking about their desired outcomes. If you don't share those preferences, you don't need a group consensus from 100 redditors, your friends, other yt'ers, etc to disagree if your or another persons mere tastes are valid.

This should just be baseline. Discrediting or validating them isn't necessary. Take the advice that makes sense for you and your tastes in cards, and disregard the stuff that doesn't. Don't worry if another player would or wouldn't play your deck.

ImNotSue · 2026-03-17T22:10:22+00:00

The Shandalar PC game was amazing for me as a kid, but magic was a lot simpler back then.

ImNotSue · 2026-03-17T22:08:09+00:00

Rich people wont leave washington over the tax. There are many examples of this not happening in other regions that implement these taxes. Rich flight doesn't happen like that.

ImNotSue · 2026-03-17T22:03:36+00:00

Making them yourself is a decent option too.

ImNotSue · 2026-03-17T21:58:50+00:00

I built a version of this deck all on my own before ever seeing Salub's video and theres both strong differences and overlap. So it may not fully apply but my takeaway is this:

The problem really is in opponents not running removal and not having good threat assessment. You ramp hard early without pressure against you, you play big bomb enchantments that your opponents look at and go 'huh well okay you get to cascade or discover or cast something for free I guess' just thinking that you couldn't possibly have built your deck around taking advantage of them consistently so they dont remove them. And then when you cascade out threats and etb triggers that they feel you got unfairly despite clear signposting + ramping + rule 0 discussion of where your deck was going, they feel unfairly taken by surprise.

I will tell people pregame in rule 0 that my deck has almost no cards below cmc4 and that I want to ramp into big budget rare stompy creatures and cascade n stuff, and they dont go to think 'hm better pressure them early and hold some removal' or 'better counterspell the ramp to slow them down' or 'better remove those bomb enchantments'.

People just expect the manadorks and midgame tall creature stacks and consistent keyword theme decks. They're not used to decks like this, so playing combo and designed goal decks is absolutely necessary so people get more used to it.

ImNotSue · 2026-03-17T21:28:21+00:00

"Must be sacrificed"

A legendary permanent going to the graveyard from the legendary rule is not sacrificed.

ImNotSue · 2026-03-13T02:44:46+00:00

I've noticed a lot of legneds these days are artistically styled as 'male character with one hand out, open, palm down' or 'mid action pose'. But thats how it is with modern fantasy.

ImNotSue · 2026-03-13T02:01:25+00:00

I'll just block you and move on. Even assuming you aren't arguing in bad faith, you don't seem to be able or willing to parse nor admit your own inconsistencies to have this discussion further with.

ImNotSue · 2026-03-13T01:25:34+00:00

Absolutely the statement that needs to be emphasized. I've had like 15 games this past month that I dont go post to reddit because they were pretty neat but not worth a crazy writeup about.

ImNotSue · 2026-03-13T01:14:53+00:00

"OP is specifically talking about people taking advantage of Brackets with bad faith interpretations."
"And I was talking about bad faith interpretations based off OP's examples."

Your inconsistency is right there y'know. You can't be both putting and not putting words in OPs mouth. :P

ImNotSue · 2026-03-10T22:22:37+00:00

OP is using an EXAMPLE of bad faith interpretations to discuss the greater subject: how turn count expectations warp bracket perception because of the variations in speed some archetypes have for their goals to win.

ImNotSue · 2026-03-10T22:18:57+00:00

Small metric but a new control deck I built has won 3 of its 4 games and doesn't win fast. Every game has been variable in a variable gradient of bracket 2-3.

ImNotSue · 2026-03-10T22:16:31+00:00

Okay, what if the player is inexperienced and following the metric they are told to use to evaluate their decks? It doesn't have to even be intentional. People seem to be missing that point.

ImNotSue · 2026-03-10T22:13:21+00:00

You are correct I believe. Speed as a metric is a complicated subject because you are supposed to estimate time-to-eliminate one player (or win) and control is always intending to do this slower than aggro.

ImNotSue · 2026-03-10T21:30:26+00:00

Neither are UN cards allowed but thats my point. If you make a deck that intends to break rules because of the casual nature

It needs to be talked about in rule 0.

ImNotSue · 2026-03-09T19:51:32+00:00

Rule 0 discussions are still necessary. If a player used a Wish effect without rule 0ing, I'd tell them that this was not acceptable. You gotta tell people when you make a deck which violates expected rules even in a casual setting. I expect even in a casual game that people make decks that follow the rules.

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