I have been trying to avoid this conclusion, as angry as this all makes me, but it's fucking undeniable at this point that in Esther Ghey's view the real tragedy of Brianna's life is that she was trans at all, which made her a target. Her advocacy smacks of railing against "social contagion".

queer activist types will complain about discord being used to organize things & then use instagram, which is kind of like if you were scornful of having a conversation over SMS but not for normal reasons, more because it's competing with your preferred format, "singing telegram delivered by cop"

this is like asking how someone can be a good novelist if they're unfamiliar with the tropes and vernacular of contemporary sonnets

the parliamentary labour party don't want to learn from this -- the current leadership sabotaged corbyn in 2017 because they prefer losing to winning with popular policies that help people

"The party of the proletariat must learn to catch every liberal just at the moment when he is prepared to move forward an inch, and make him move forward a yard. If he is obdurate, we will go forward without him and over him."

that's not how hybrid cards are designed. a hybrid card that's out of pie for one of its colors is just a blatant color pie break, the hypothetical U/R treasure cruise is just as much of a break as if they printed a mono R treasure cruise and just as likely

i don't really think this argument holds together... it rests on wotc printing a bunch of strong and egregious color pie breaks, but if that's what they want to do surely they don't need hybrid mana—couldn't one just as well argue to ban monocolor cards in case they print mana tithe 2: tithe harder?

this is a hard question to answer because the other two players have a strong gameplay incentive to act like it is regardless of whether it is or not... commander being a social format means badgering the other players becomes an important part of the optimal counterplay to rhystic