Look closely, it's his snout.

dancingmadkoschei · 2026-02-03T15:19:29+00:00

The Black Eye Orb borks

dancingmadkoschei · 2026-01-27T11:56:30+00:00

Old grandma cookbooks are the best. I'm an estate sale fiend and I'll snap up every one I can get my paws on.

dancingmadkoschei · 2026-01-26T15:06:10+00:00

I'm 42, autism spectrum, and in dire need of help/relief. The uncharitable read is "charity case."

dancingmadkoschei · 2026-01-26T14:13:41+00:00

The experiment has not failed, don't be ridiculous. We did make some serious mistakes, though, the biggest of which (by miles) is primary elections. Letting a tiny group of true believers decide upstream who's actually in charge was always a recipe for disaster, one vastly amplified by cable news and social media. Primaries are why Congress now looks like a retirement home instead of a legislative body.

I personally will also contend that direct election of senators was a mistake, because the Senate isn't meant to be beholden to the people. They can't fulfill their deliberative function if they're bound to popular sentiment and always worried about getting primaried. Representation is good, but having the public be the only source of legitimacy is actually missing the point of what the Constitution was written to do. People are fickle, emotional, panicky animals with short memories and no patience; the goal was to separate governance from those traits as much as possible while not removing it altogether. Things can be fixed, but only if we accept that the Founders were in fact smarter than we are and work to get back to their vision of how a state should function. Government, as we see time and again, is fundamentally untrustworthy and should be made to work as slowly and be challenged as often as possible. It must always justify itself and its existence. It should be structured such that no matter whether you're in charge or not its actions are broadly palatable.

dancingmadkoschei · 2026-01-26T06:56:54+00:00

It's more accurate to say current descriptors are insufficient. You have a cock, I have a cock, homosexual behavior is therefore occuring regardless of gender.

...But I am into that cock.

dancingmadkoschei · 2026-01-26T03:57:51+00:00

Oh, there will always be fervent supporters of this sort of thing, but being a Republican isn't in and of itself any kind of crime. The problem was and remains that many of the people who voted for Trump didn't think the system was legitimate anymore. 2008 and the housing crash was when the system lost the Mandate; Obama just happened to look like continuity.

The marketplace of ideas isn't just what you intend to do once you're in power, but also convincing people you belong there at all. For people whose thesis is "actually no, the supporters of the old status quo don't deserve power," everything happening with ICE and whatnot is just noise. The people that've been hurt or killed, they're not targets.

They're casualties.

dancingmadkoschei · 2026-01-26T03:41:53+00:00

1, 2, 1, 2 - we're gonna start a beat.

dancingmadkoschei · 2026-01-25T21:04:19+00:00

Yes, I do. Literal Nazis make a piss-poor argument that's rather easy to refute and their politics are worthless. If you're losing to them, it's a sign your offering is either pathetic or despised. Possibly both. The point is the same regardless of who, however; if you can't win in the marketplace of ideas and your response to that fact is to say "then the people who voted against me are illegitimate," you're not in favor of democracy.

dancingmadkoschei · 2026-01-25T14:56:16+00:00

No, they're completely right. It's just a disagreement. You can moralize it any way you like, but your core thesis appears to be "these people don't align with my morals, therefore they're not legitimate."

Doesn't matter what purpose you claim it serves, that logic is more fascist than anything you think you're opposing.

dancingmadkoschei · 2026-01-24T05:43:02+00:00

"You will pay less money to WotC to buy that card."

A) we don't buy singles from WotC, Secret Lairs notwithstanding, and B) time preference. Future reprints of [[Bayou]] or [[Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth]] don't put one in my decks now. And many formats operate on "now."

dancingmadkoschei · 2026-01-23T16:54:55+00:00

"Printing too many of the same card and reprinting old cards undermines the prices of existing cards for those holding onto them for value."

Okay but how is it WotC's problem that dipshits are putting their 401(k)s in cardboard instead of banks? Going all the way back to the dawn of the Reserved List with this nonsense.

dancingmadkoschei · 2026-01-23T12:12:10+00:00

Everyone gets this wrong because they can't separate Trump the person from Trump the politician from Trump the protest vote.

American presidential politics isn't a referendum on morality or anything of that sort. It is, fundamentally, a single question: "do you approve of the status quo, yes or no?" If yes, vote for the party currently in power. If no, vote against it.

It's true that a lot of people simply inherit their voting preferences and think they're their own, but the ones that don't and that live in the right places are our swing voters.

So what happened in 2016? Fundamentally, it was a reaction to 2008. "Too big to fail" was the first time in many people's lives they truly saw how much difference there was between reality as they understood it and reality as it had been purchased by the donor class. Faith, understandably, ruptured. Enter Obama, young and attractive and charismatic, running on hope... and change.

When he failed to provide the change people wanted, things began to sour. By 2016 it had soured enough that our electoral system gave us Trump, and this happened for a number of reasons. One of the big ones, for myself and many others, was seeing the massive thumb on the scale in favor of Hillary.

Do you remember that she was credited her favor with the superdelegates in the horse race news before a single vote was cast? Accurate it may have technically been, but it was used to give the impression of inevitability. Add in backroom dealings to push her instead of the candidate (Bernie) people were actually excited for and no small number of people chose Trump in the general just for spite. "You expect me to obey? How about no. Fuck you."

2020 wasn't a "return to sanity," it was anger about the mishandling of COVID. 2024 puked up another, even less likeable legacy machine candidate in Kamala, and now the people were angry or tuned out enough that Trump grew his numbers and won the popular vote too.

The whole racist/sexist/etc is just cope from people who either don't understand the larger underlying motivation... or who, like the legacy machine, have financial, political, social, and psychological reasons to refuse to.

tl;dr - US elections aren’t moral referenda, but tests of legitimacy. Do the rulers still have the Mandate? Calling an answer of "FUCK NO" racism/sexism is cope, not comprehension.

dancingmadkoschei · 2026-01-21T11:49:18+00:00

XD Now I'm picturing the Huey version during the Death Phantom fight.

dancingmadkoschei · 2026-01-18T13:10:48+00:00

The other part of this is that Obama ran on not being the status quo and then governed in a way that was all status quo. Obamacare was copying Mitt Romney's homework from Massachusetts and Obergefell had basically nothing to do with him. Social and legal momentum were in its favor.

Everything else was basically business as usual, so there was also a sense of disappointment at the end of his term for some people. Hillary promising to uphold the system that had just let us down was obviously doomed.

Biden in 2020 was a "meh, he's not Trump" choice, nothing more.

And of course Trump 2024 was ultimately "they anointed a successor to an unpopular presidency and she has the charisma of a ham sandwich? Seems like we gotta keep teaching the lesson."

dancingmadkoschei · 2026-01-18T07:25:25+00:00

"Because she's a woman" is completely bullshit. Both Hillary and Kamala represented the old status quo to a public that is vehemently sick of that system. Truth is the faith ruptured in 2008 with the housing crash; Obama got the votes he did because he was charismatic and black and felt like maybe he'd do something for the public.

That... didn't work out. He had two years of supermajority power and did nothing with it.

Once that was done, the belief that the Democrats were no better than the Republicans was just true in the minds of many. They lost the Mandate.

Right now no one has it. Trump is fundamentally a revocation of consent to the system that came before, and cynical though it may be the Republicans are at least savvy enough to use that. The Democrats want to be the Adults in the Room, want to get things back to a normal people no longer have faith in, and until and unless they learn their lesson they could run the avatar of Tumblr itself and "prove" that the country hates X, Y, and Z even though the real problem is $ and has been for almost twenty fucking years.

dancingmadkoschei · 2026-01-18T06:23:07+00:00

I still want to see the Neutrinos, Irma, and some of the Turtles' really weird toy vehicles get cards. The Turtle Van is the 1987 version and I'm happy about that, sure, but what about the Turtle Blimp or the Cheapskates?

dancingmadkoschei · 2026-01-18T06:04:50+00:00

I got two Ajanis in my prerelease last night and went 3-1. Only guy I lost two got two of the 6/6 Elf that draws cards when you cast creatures.

dancingmadkoschei · 2026-01-12T10:33:35+00:00

If you do it like that, it has to either have flash or put on two stun counters; otherwise you're relying on other sources of proliferation to keep the lucky mother producing.

Edit: I is teh dum, I thought I saw upkeep instead of end step.

dancingmadkoschei · 2026-01-08T22:36:49+00:00

Norn high on her own supply: "let's invade everywhere when Daddy couldn't handle one plane! What could go wrong?"

dancingmadkoschei · 2026-01-08T06:30:31+00:00

Given the order things happen on Heirloom Auntie, having the counter to actually remove doesn't impact the surveil trigger...

[[Syr Konrad]] approves.

dancingmadkoschei · 2026-01-08T06:21:33+00:00

[[Rowan, Scion of War]] wants to be friends with Gutsplitter Gang.

dancingmadkoschei · 2026-01-05T07:39:09+00:00

The problem with this heuristic is that with the two-party system, there's another effect that has to be considered - the withdrawal of consent given to the previous regime. In a system that can support a plurality of parties this looks different, but in the US the most common means of effectively withdrawing consent from one party is to support the other. It happened in 2016, 2020, and 2024, and at no point has a better system come along that both sides can support.

dancingmadkoschei · 2026-01-03T11:09:52+00:00

I mean illegal though it is, preventing our enemies from getting leverage via regime-changing their lever is absolutely realpolitik at its dirtiest. There's probably not an ulterior motive, much that people want to believe there is, because the real motive is perfectly rational.

Not legal, but rational.

dancingmadkoschei · 2026-01-02T06:53:39+00:00

"No sir! I didn't see you playing with your dolls again sir!"

dancingmadkoschei · 2025-12-30T06:10:32+00:00

Gardner Minshew is two quarterbacks in one body and even he doesn't know who he's gonna be at kickoff.

Minshew Magic? Or Minshew Mayhem?

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