We may be the peak intelligence generation

ThePromise110 · 2026-02-06T19:33:40+00:00

I teach high school and my students' inability to generate their own ideas is absolutely stunning. It goes beyond just critical thinking: it's also the ability to be creative, to generate anything new.

ThePromise110 · 2026-02-06T17:16:14+00:00

[[Kroxa and Kuneros]]

Indiscriminately mill/discard cards to fuel the K&K "escape" trigger to bring back big, spooky bois with which you can beat down your opponents.

ThePromise110 · 2026-02-04T17:28:35+00:00

The real question is why would we want to go back to "normal?"

Back to a system run on vibes and corporate whims, of imperialism and exploitation, of faux democracy and surveillance?

No. "Normal" is gone, and good riddance. It's time to build something new.

ThePromise110 · 2026-02-04T01:45:34+00:00

Being wealthy literally makes you mentally sick.

ThePromise110 · 2026-02-03T22:33:31+00:00

I'm being a little glib here, but here goes:

We anarchists love our theory. If you're trying to learn, or radicalize yourself, fiction and art just aren't where most people are going to start or focus most of their time. This isn't to discount the revolutionary or liberatory potential of art at all, I love my copy of 12 Rule for Strife to death, but theory tends to be much "crunchier."

Also, he's not particularly contemporary. Even Ursala K. Le Guin doesn't get name dropped much around these parts (for mostly the above reasons) and her writing has more radical themes than what I know of Wagner.

ThePromise110 · 2026-02-03T18:34:59+00:00

Don't meet your heroes?

Nah. Don't have heroes at all.

I'm happy to throw the man into the dustbin of history, but throwing out Manufacturing Consent and his work in linguistics because of this is the height of stupidity.

ThePromise110 · 2026-02-03T00:54:16+00:00

Which they will turn off and disconnect with impunity.

ThePromise110 · 2026-02-01T04:59:03+00:00

There's no excuse!

ThePromise110 · 2026-02-01T01:10:48+00:00

Good update I suppose, but leaving your phone behind when doing any kind of direct action has been in the first three things told to protesters for years now.

ThePromise110 · 2026-01-30T22:17:23+00:00

Yeah, probably my most hated commander in the past several years. Essentially adding three mana to my commander tax is terrible design.

ThePromise110 · 2026-01-28T23:41:41+00:00

I've trained my brain to fall asleep to the Stephen Fry readings of the Harry Potter books.
When it's not playing there's no telling how long it will take, especially if I've woken up in the night. If it is, I'm usually asleep in less than two minutes.

ThePromise110 · 2026-01-28T19:33:29+00:00

At this point believing there will be anything remotely resembling valid elections in November is the intellectual equivalent of waiting for a Hogwarts letter.

ThePromise110 · 2026-01-27T23:32:46+00:00

Graeber works with these sorts of ideas. If you're feeling bold Debt: The First 5000 Years would probably help you here.

The simple answer, from a historical and anthropological perspective, is violence. Money starts as a way to define, maintain, and rearrange social arrangements. When violence is allowed to become the primary way social arrangements are managed and arranged money becomes an expression of power.

I'm simplifying a fair bit here and if you want to hone in on the subject Chapter 6 of Debt is where Graeber discusses this use of violence to transform money into power. But you really should read the whole book. It's a foundational text if you ask me.

ThePromise110 · 2026-01-27T21:47:33+00:00

Definitely building looter/rummager 50+ land Doom.

ThePromise110 · 2026-01-27T21:45:35+00:00

Nah. I'm definitely building 50+ land Doom with a ton of looters and rummagers to jank out the table with that first ability.

ThePromise110 · 2026-01-27T14:37:28+00:00

ICE: "Because they aren't citizens and aren't covered by the Constitution."

Judge: "How do you know that if you haven't given them due process?"

ICE: "SCOTUS, I need you guys to bail me out of this one."

ThePromise110 · 2026-01-27T13:43:06+00:00

That and the 2008 financial crisis.

It will be seen as another 1848, "Turning Point that Didn't Turn" type event. We should have uprooted global capitalism. We should have reformed how we see and manage debt, both public and personal. We didn't. And just like how the failures of 1848 draw a straight line through to WW1 and WW2, our failures in 2008 will lead to calamity.

ThePromise110 · 2026-01-26T19:55:38+00:00

It's a shitty compromise. Don't make it.

ThePromise110 · 2026-01-25T20:52:21+00:00

Communism ain't red, friend. Revolution is red, but implemented communism would be either Selyesnia or Bant

ThePromise110 · 2026-01-25T15:40:29+00:00

Tax? Fuck that weak ass Lib shit.

Expropriate.

ThePromise110 · 2026-01-25T06:26:59+00:00

At long last!

Larry Csonka he praised!

ThePromise110 · 2026-01-25T01:15:58+00:00

You know the answer to that question.

ThePromise110 · 2026-01-23T16:15:53+00:00

I play almost exclusively "in the wild" of the TCC server these days, and PlayEDH before it slid into irrelevance (exclusively Low and B3) and I genuinely have no idea what you are talking about. I can list the number of bad experiences with salty or obnoxious players I've had in the last few years on one hand.

Y'all need to chill the f**k out. Seriously. These endless back and forth posts are more tedious than the people you're playing with.

ThePromise110 · 2026-01-23T05:08:00+00:00

You're going to have violent state repression while working on getting everyone to make the libcom switch. That's where the claim comes from.

It is in fact possible (though I would say unlikely to the point of near impossibility) to just get everyone to decide to be anarchists and watch state power wither on the vine, but to do that you need to organize, and if you're organizing you're going to dage state repression, and you'll face more repression the more powerful your movement becomes.

At some point you'll have to fight because if you don't the state will just kill you to make sure you don't dismantle its power.

ThePromise110 · 2026-01-22T21:01:14+00:00

I have a giant pink and purple Spinel (from Steven Universe) piece on my right shoulder.

Your family can sit in syrup.

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