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What does it say about a person that the best defense they can come up with for their attitude is "name calling is worse than being an actual racist"?
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Apr 1, 20212
FlossedBeaver posted a message on Wizards statement on Crux of fatePosted in: The Rumor Mill
What does it say about a person that the best defense they can come up with for their attitude is "name calling is worse than being an actual racist"? -
Apr 1, 2021
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FlossedBeaver posted a message on Wizards statement on Crux of fatePosted in: The Rumor MillQuote from Istredd »Quote from TheOnlyOne652089 »You can donate to anything, you do not have to support anything behind that cause.
Right, basically funding something is not supporting it in any way, shape or form. Right.
Bear in mind that you're responding to someone who firmly believes, and has posted here in no uncertain terms, that "racism doesn't exist anymore but calling someone racist is horrible and divisive." -
Apr 1, 20212
Flamebuster posted a message on Wizards statement on Crux of fate"Sure, conservatives are all about reducing movement of non-white voters and restricting access to care for LGBTQ people but by golly I love their business agenda!"Posted in: The Rumor Mill
You're subject to the widespread association aspect here. Unless you're a declared moderate, you're pretty much affiliated with whatever the said party/mentality stands for on all regards.
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Apr 1, 20213
LordOrgodemir posted a message on Wizards statement on Crux of fatePosted in: The Rumor MillQuote from TheOnlyOne652089 »Quote from FlossedBeaver »
I think this has already been mentioned, but it's really hard to coexist with other people who don't want you to exist at all. There are some attitudes, opinions, and behaviors that don't get a pass under the auspices of tolerance (or free speech), and bigotry might be at the very top of that list.
The extremist sees only extremists.
Terese Nielsen never sought the destruction of anybody, but plenty of people jumped on the hate train against her, blindly following the blood track of the stabbing against her character.
Then they celebrate to demolished a beloved community member, and go out for the next victim.
At some point people realize that, sadly its most of the time when the finger is pointed at them and its too late ...
Imagine going this hard for someone who supports Neo Nazis, follows, likes and listens to Neo Nazis, donates their work to Neo Nazis and doesn't disparage Neo Nazis, and then getting touchy and semantic when she gets called a neo nazi. You can play word games all day until this thread, inevitably, gets locked, but at the end of the day, you defending someone who is a QAnon supporter and donates work to Neo Nazis. Again, what does that make you? -
Apr 1, 2021
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FlossedBeaver posted a message on Wizards statement on Crux of fatePosted in: The Rumor MillQuote from TheOnlyOne652089 »Quote from Istredd »
Right, basically funding something is not supporting it in any way, shape or form. Right.
You can donate to any political cause or any organization.
The chances you agree with ALL of their points on the agenda are practically zero.
To then pick a hand full of points and pretend that person "must 'clearly' agree with it" is pretentious and to make that claims is a agenda to undermine and harm a persons character ... a very disgusting practice, as people will go to great lengths to seek the misery of others, just to make them feel slightly better about themselves, till they fall back and realize how pathetic that attempt was (which results in an endless loop of finding more people to brandish).
I like chicken sandwiches, but I refuse to eat at Chik-fil-A. It's actually pretty easy to a) be mindful of what other people do with your money, and b) withhold it altogether if you take issue with any one thing they do with it. Sometimes what a person is willing to tolerate says as much about them as what they overtly agree with. -
Apr 1, 2021
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Istredd posted a message on Wizards statement on Crux of fatePosted in: The Rumor MillQuote from TheOnlyOne652089 »You can donate to anything, you do not have to support anything behind that cause.
Right, basically funding something is not supporting it in any way, shape or form. Right. -
Apr 1, 2021
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FlossedBeaver posted a message on Wizards statement on Crux of fatePosted in: The Rumor MillQuote from TheOnlyOne652089 »
Then again, coexisting means being exposed to things you might not necessarily agree with.
Exactly.
I think this has already been mentioned, but it's really hard to coexist with other people who don't want you to exist at all. There are some attitudes, opinions, and behaviors that don't get a pass under the auspices of tolerance (or free speech), and bigotry might be at the very top of that list.
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Mar 31, 20214
lookingupanddown posted a message on [STX] Mothership 3/31— Zimone, Manifestation Sage, Strixhaven Stadium, and morePosted in: The Rumor Mill
You're missing the point. Are these three UNIQUE to Harry Potter? No. Hell, these aren't unique to the genre. These are also all general school tropes (specifically college), even outside of fiction.Quote from WarMachinePrime »Quote from lookingupanddown »
Almost every magic school in fiction (heck, most real-life colleges) has a stadium, Codie and the Sorting Hat are both supposed to be mascots, and Zimone is one of the oldest tropes around. Please, please read more than just Harry Potter.Quote from WarMachinePrime »Quote from user-11102155 »didnt they say no H.P. stuff ? the stadium looks kinda "inspired" by that
Yes Maro said it wasn't HP inspired but you can see card after card they had planned for crossover versions, so he is blowing smoke. This card is the Quiddich Pitch, the new UG Prodigal Student is Hermione, Codie is the Sorting Hat and there are a slew of others. Its obvious it was designed with HP in mind then they didn't get (or didn't want) to get the property rights for those.
I have and that's why I know many cards are a blatant copy. -
Dec 22, 20192
Sam_Eldristein posted a message on No story/lore for TherosPosted in: The Rumor Mill
Yeah. Maro doesn't deserve it, especially when people want to vent their frustrations and the only name-to-a-face they can find most of the time is his. Especially when he is essentially the doorman to a lot of the questions that get asked, only letting approved ones through. Be glad he keeps it up at all, most companies wouldn't keep this up and would rather close shop than deal with irate customers.Quote from Xeruh »I really feel bad for Maro, lot of people give him flak for things that are really out of his control. There are things he says I don't agree with, but a lot of it is really out of his hands. -
Dec 19, 2019
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ilovesaprolings posted a message on No story/lore for TherosPosted in: The Rumor MillQuote from Tiro of Meletis »snip
Sorry but you think that a big corporate cares more about your feeling or artistic integrity or something like that instead of profits? Where have you been in the last 20-30 years?
The Eldraine novel wasn't cancelled because it was probably already written and ready to be published. Simple as that.
Chandra may have sounded like a terrible bigot. I don't get how this translate into "spam the secret lair announcement page".
The moment the businessmen saw that other products' popularity was harmed by a novel is the moment they decided to cut the novels. Again, simple as that.
Quote from H3RAC71TU5 »I would like to state again that deep lore enriches fan culture. When that declines, other IPs become more competitive.
Sure, except it happened exacty the opposite thanks to the Forsaken novel. Good luck convincing the corporates to still put money and effort in potential harming new novels instead of just cutting it, wait a little and focus on the cards, like the did during Innistrad. And during Innistrad it worked.
Now guys don't me wrong i'm as Vorthos as you and it sucks to see mtg's lore department always get the short straw, but we need to be realist and not delusional. It was clear that something was bound to happen and businessmen always go for the easiest route. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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You don’t mess with grandma.
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Transforming flip cards, it’s about time.
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Eh, Beaver already told me all I need to know about you. You're severely out of touch with reality, zero reason in attempting to reason with you. And I'm not broadly using it as an insult, it's being used for specific people because the alt-right is that. But you also think racism is over and no doubt other insane things so I doubt you'll get the point being made.
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It looks like the Spirit.
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And the ones she's defending are people who violently oppose that. You can't live together with people who want to kill you for your differences, no matter how accepting of them you are.
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