MTG Salvation

There's an old Jewish joke about that: "better to have not been born at all; but who has that kind of luck?"

Less cynically, meditation and other philosophies seek to elevate and escape sufferings to reach a synthesis of living with peace.

This will be a mutli-format player.

In Modern, look for an eggs reboot that uses it: it can fetch Lotus Bloom at parity, and they have artifacts to tap it up to search for things. In Legacy, it's not impossible to see it in a funky brew: with Transmute Artifact and this, mono-blue (or heavy blue, thanks to duals) artifact toolbox could be a thing.

The only real question is: will this be good enough for vintage? My gut says no, but it pitches to Force of Will and fetches combo pieces at instant speed.

I'm pleasantly surprised as the smart, careful, and cordial posts on this, so let me add my two cents.

I'm a Leftist, and I've had good discussions with Trump voters. I love them, and I understand their emotions. I also believe they're being terribly conned at best, and, at worst, accessories to the greatest evil our country has ever seen in the form of an authoritarian, evil, and Neo Nazi adjacent cultural force.

But! I listen to them. I talk with them. I try to understand them, and, now and then, I change my mind on certain issues.

I'm a little religious, and I truly believe in loving all of humanity. I also believe in rejecting evil, forcefully.

You know that phrase, "kill them with kindness?" I believe that. I seek to "kill" the evil inside them with love, knowledge, care etc. They are our brothers in Christ, in country, in blood and in love, even as they are misled. Love the sinner, but hate the sin.

But one must hate the sin. One cannot fake moral equivalency that maybe Neo Nazis deserve legitimacy, or that racial slurs should be ignored. A peace built on injustice is immoral.

I will fight evil with whatever tools I can. Most of those tools are peaceful, and love-centric. God help us the day they aren't. But I will not let evil triumph.

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[/quote]It doesn't matter. It's Trump and Clinton right now. If Gary Johnson or another third party candidate become relevant, we'll see. But for now, it's down to those two. And yes, I prefer Trump to Clinton. He's a businessman, he's intelligent, and quite frankly, people said it was absurd Reagan was an actor and became president, or Arnold becoming governor of California. For all her "experience", Clinton failed and considering her sabotage of Sanders, and the present division in the DNC, I'd question how qualified she is to even have the nomination, let alone the presidency.[/quote]

Decent answer: I too would consider Gary Johnson or a third-party candidate in a pinch, but here we are. That said,

*"He's a businessman." How do we know Trump's financial success without his tax returns that he's weirdly refusing to give? What about the contractors he's screwed over? Also, he succeeded by leveraging his father's fortune and a "small loan" way higher than one million: depending how you count it, it's about $40 or $50 Million in 2016 dollars. Impressive, but not exactly "starting from the bottom."

*"He's intelligent." I disagree. He's charismatic, amoral, and wealthy. I don't think he's *stupid* but intelligent may be a stretch: do you believe Kim Kardashian is intelligent? As long as we're retroactively giving credit to intelligence rather than luck .

*"It's absurd...". We agree there. Arnold was a pretty great Governor, and Reagan was a pretty solid president. But they both ran on united, centrist platforms. If Trump was a true centrist, I'd be a lot less worried TBH.

And lastly, re: "everything I don't like is a Nazi." I get it: it must be frustrating to be told that your political disagreement boils down to a quick slur implying that you're straight-up evil. That sucks, and I hope you didn't think I meant it regarding you in specific, or any Trump supporters here or elsewhere. We are allowed our disagreements. But I remain deadly serious when I say that segments of Donald Trump's enthusiastic support correlates strongly to Neo Nazis. Google it. Check out "The Daily Stormer" or the Alt Right on Twitter. See the swastikas and Jew Caricatures there and their glorious Trump who they *glowingly compare to Hitler.* It's ugly. Hopefully its small. But it's there. And if you don't support it, consider rebuking it rather than pithily denying it matters.

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I can't believe this is even a debate.

Trump is an unqualified con artist on trial for fraud.

I wonder if his opponent was recently on trial for anything?

Not the old "Everyone I disagree with is Hitler" argument. The internet is tired.

Okay, so clearly you don't care about that. So, besides having no experience, an unstable temperament, authoritarian-leaning policies, and a history of flip-flops or outright lies, why exactly do you support Trump? Follow-up: would you prefer Trump to, say, John Kasich or Mitt Romney?

I can't believe this is even a debate.

Trump is an unqualified con artist on trial for fraud. He has only his own interests at heart. He is an unstable, lying fool with no experience. And his most enthusiastic supporters are the "alt right" Neo Nazis: "The Daily Stormer," David Duke, and more. His son was on a White Supremacist radio show and his media team's "Sheriff Star" tweet was sourced IN FULL from a racist-leaning image-board.

Personally, I'm Jewish. I've gotten swastikas and threats online (with my real name, not here) over Trump criticism: something that *never* has happened when I've criticized Romney, McCain, etcetera. His most rabid supporters online are Neo Nazis. I'm a **** to these people, somebody who's family should be exterminated and gassed in the Holocaust they don't even believe happened. And that's not a coincidence. Julia Ioffe, Dana Schwartz, Laura Silverman: see what Trump supporting, actively eager Nazis harass them. Pretty easy to Google.

This is somebody who's most excited supporters joyfully compare to Hitler. Count me out.

I've never had a presidential candidate in my lifetime terrify me. If he gets elected, I will get a gun and pray.

(Side-note: I'm not calling any of *you* Nazis for supporting Trump: I know good people, even Jewish people, who support him. But if you support Trump, maybe take a moment to repudiate Neo Nazis, y'know? I'd appreciate it.)

Here's what drives me bonkers: we all share obvious common ground, but the Republican nominee is in no position to act like a reasonable adult capable of leading this great country of ours.

Everybody is against illegal immigrants: that's why it's illegal! Democrats, Republicans, Centrists etc...the differences stem around the "what now?" issue. Democrats favor a complex web of social policies while the Republican nominee wants a big wall that Mexico is somehow going to pay for.

That's not a serious answer, because he's not a serious nominee. The problems in the world are enormous. But the only full-throttled praise I hear for Trump is by Neo Nazis. Seriously. Check the "Alt Right" on Twitter. Check "The Daily Stormer." Check David Duke, former KKK head. Only these people want Trump. I cannot be a part of such a movement of proud, vile monsters.

I'd vote a Romney or a Kasich. I wouldn't hate a Rubio, or even a Bush. But this no-nothing bully, this thin-skinned ignorant heel, the patron saint of the most evil forces in our culture? No thank you. Hard pass. I'll trust a mediocre career politician over that any day.

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Okay so to you it is worse for a person to be careless with classified data than for a person to ask another country to hack into it? I am correct in thinking that? Because that is what you are saying.

Not just "a person" but the secretary of state, now running for president. And not just classified data, but compromising national security in a time of terror attacks. I do consider actions worse than sarcastic words. If Russia wanted this information, they weren't waiting on Trump's approval either. And by confirming that you agree the information Trump sarcastically asked Russia to hack was "classified data" then you admit to Hillary lying about it being personal emails about yoga and weddings to evade the FBI.

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Wow. It's kinda ridiculous the state of the political media right now. Both sides are absolutely hellbent on twisting everything the opponent says into ultimate, conclusive proof that said candidate is a lying, corrupt douche-bag. Not that they're not, but it feels like a politician can't sneeze these days without getting accused of treason or fraud or murder. So sad.

See what I mean? Is anyone actually paying attention to what everyone else is saying, or are they just trying to insist that "No, you support my candidate too!"? This is exasperating.