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I had a Wendys Spicy Chicken for the first time in years the other day.

They fucked it up.

It used to be the one closest to being like a legit breaded chicken breast, and now its almost McChicken-tier.

Like still good, but so far below its pinnacle, just an absolute tragedy.

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DeepsPraw posted...

oh ok I get it. Your saying the dems are trying to win over gusano voters by being tough on Cuba, right?
Yeah I'll admit I read that wrong

Precisely.

I was going to say gusano, but I decided against it to avoid an argument.

of course it happened anyway, but lol yeah

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DeepsPraw posted...

This is such a baffling takeaway. Like how can you misunderstand Cuban/American politics this badly?
Like I'm halfway convinced I'm somehow reading your post wrong

I see how youre reading it wrong (because of how I said it), and I mean Cuban-Americans (not Cubans in Cuba) are Republicans.

I read an article that the administrations position on Cuba is in response to Republicans having basically all of the Florida Cubans in 2020

edited this like 10 times to clarify lol

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I cant read that article even incognito, but yeah those are objectively better things.

Let it be known hes not worse on all aspects.

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Suprak the Stud posted...

Blinken is worse than Pompeo in totality is such an insanely hyperbolic statement that it draws all the focus away from the very legitimate point you had before it.

Im still waiting for someone to show me a state department policy Blinken supports that is better or wouldnt be supported by Pompeo, anyone is free to chime in.

Im not unwilling to change my position, but Iran, Israel, Cuba, Bolivia, all the same or worse than Pompeo.

Please, guys, you know I love good news, give me some.

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Phantom Dust.
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kevwaffles posted...

Also, this is an example of "not what you said before but acting like it was", just so we're clear.

My position never changed, that comment is me adding support to my position, something youve yet to do.

Show me how hes better, dude! Im fucking waiting.

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Phantom Dust.
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kevwaffles posted...

You constantly choose words to bait a response and then act like it wasn't what you said when you get one. That's not the same as offending anyone. It's just literally being antagonistic.

Yes, Im posting exactly how I always post to bait a response from the annoying person who literally only snipes at me, yeah thats it.

Have you considered that when you literally always respond to me with salt, Im going to respond to you with vinegar?


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kevwaffles posted...

I'm more referring to you constantly putting what could otherwise be valid points, removing any sort of nuance to make them sound as ridiculous as possible

Which part is ridiculous my guy? What nuance did I remove? This is worse policy on Cuba than Pompeo, so I am once again asking for you to post literally any discussion other than Tony bad to make your point.

kevwaffles posted...

and then acting like the wronged party as if you didn't lead with that.

See above. Lead with what? Im sorry that me being mean to the Secretary of State offended you somehow.

TotallyNotMI posted...

And for the record I wasn't being antagonistic I was genuinely trying to figure out why saying "don't assault protestors" is a bad thing.

If this is true, Im sorry, but the situation is wayyyy more complex than saying dont assault protestors.

Lets set aside our domestic hypocrisy for a second.

If dont assault protesters was actually a foreign policy position the US cared about, Blinken would be saying shit to the government of Colombia, where police literally sexually assaulted a dozen protestors, physically abused thousands more, and disappeared an unknown number of others.

How many people in this topic even knew about it/read the one post I made about it awhile ago? Thats the type of situation were dealing with right now, and its why this position on Cuba is literally no different/worse than Pompeo.

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Oh my bad for antagonizing Secretary Blinken, didnt realize he posted in this topic.

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TotallyNotMI posted...

I'm confused are we now pro police attacking protestors?

Youre not actually confused, youre being antagonistic like usual.

Why are we sanctioning other countries for doing exactly what we do in ours?

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https://twitter.com/rob_sheridan/status/1421638027760128001?s=21

Dems are responding to Cubans being Republican by going further on Cuba than Trump did, neat.

Sec Blinken is objectively worse than Pompeo at this point

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Jakyl25 posted...

Hey guys, kids still cant get vaccinated

Kids have a lower rate of hospitalizations AND lower mortality rate from COVID.

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pyresword posted...

Winota is a scam and I love that it's apparently the deck of choice right now.

I have been absolutely mollywopped by Winona multiple times and can confirm she is a scam.

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I was close-ish, lol.

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https://youtu.be/TOAm_8U3uf8

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Im guessing Swords to Plowshares

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ChichiriMuyo posted...

So two of the new digital only cards are already banned in Historic Brawl. The new Davriel and Davriel's Withering are pre-booted for reasons that seem obvious once you think about it. The possibility to permanently give a commander 0 toughness sucks.

why cant they just make the new permanent effects not permanent on Commanders? Seems like a pretty reasonable rule to me, Commanders are treated specially already.

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lol Sinema is so cartoonishly offensive at this point that Im led to two conclusions: Shes intentionally taking heat for the rest of the party, or shes deadass and the Democrats big tent includes genuine monsters stopping progress on a whim, and I want no part of it.

I dont think these things are exclusive.

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https://twitter.com/elisestefanik/status/1421115026300186634?s=21



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Yeah I googled Forsaken and he apparently won like every major Guitar Hero tournament in the mid 2000s? Holy shit.

Also for Peridiam, if you just type Big Brother into YouTube, hes multiple of the first 10 results. So cool, good for him.

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Post from a Libertarian/Republican friend, thinking on it more, with that comment Pelosi has 100% killed any future student loan forgiveness for the foreseeable future, no Republican is going to go against this.


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Yeah I was in Silver and played against someone with slip covers that literally said Magic Arena 2019, meanwhile I didnt start playing until it came out on iOS lol.

Still kicking myself I didnt start sooner, should have known progression would carry over.

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My Arena Avatar

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Today in cursed photos with no context

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Id like Outer Wilds 900% more if you removed the goddamn anglers

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When they had that mode awhile back with no restrictions, I went up against person who was flickering Yorion, another card that flickered, and then that blue rogue that takes ownership of an opponents permanent, and they just took everything I had and never attacked until I decked out the hard way.

It was awful.

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Did you come across his TikTok by total chance?

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kevwaffles posted...

Just now?!

Shhhh.

Blaziken posted...

Yeah, the Dems lost seats in the House in 2020, barely managed to get a 50/50 Senate split due to a pair of runoffs in Georgia, and won the presidency by fewer votes than Trump did in 2016, despite winning a massive electoral vote margin. But sure, the Dems got a massive mandate to pull the country hard to the left. Okay.

I didnt ask for hard left, I asked for not right and/or doing the things they specifically ran on.

Blaziken posted...

You know why the GOP win? Because they suffer no consequences for their actions.

Objectively incorrect, they win because they dont just talk the talk, when they get power they literally DO the awful shit they promised. The only thing that ever stops them is laws and procedure, they NEVER consider the political capital, they just DO what they said they would.

Blaziken posted...

That's just how things are. You don't like it, change the hearts and minds of the moderate majority of voters in the Democratic Party, who you seem more than content to b**** about by trashing their proxies in Congress and the White House, rather than retooling your message to appeal to them.

lol you dont get it both ways.

Inviso posted...

You and I understand. We at least grasp the idea that a rising tide raises all boats, and having more well-educated students means a more intelligent and effective work force across all fields (particularly the ones like medicine or the law, which require a great deal of intellect). We grasp that police budgets are bloated and dedicated to the wrong things, and they're especially ineffective once your melanin levels reach a certain point. But most Americans are not us. Most Americans are f***ing idiots. And unfortunately, they hold a lot more political power than we do.

It cant be both MY fault for not convincing people WHILE you and I agree but its the fucking idiots who are to blame.

The correct answer is that progressive policy is popular, Democrats run on progressive policies that draw votes, and then they dont DO the shit.

Sorry, but Im not playing this game again. Joe (and Pelosi, et al) have a play clock until the refs kick them off the field, its time for them to score the points, not me.


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You already know youve GOT this

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Dancedreamer posted...

Yeah, cause 2016 really taught the Dems a lesson! They sure learned.

On one hand 2016 gave us the resistance, as opposed to Dems now, blissfully unaware (or apathetic) that were sliding off the cliff?

Maybe next time someone with a vision and the will to follow-through will run, who knows?

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masterplum posted...

12. Stone Forge Mystic



Honestly for a card this high up on the list, I don't have much to say about it. I just really like the design of the card, I like that it is both extremely powerful and has high deckbuilding cost, and I like that it has blink synergies.

I dont think Ive ever seen this card, which is wild because I play heavy white AND equipment

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DoomTheGyarados posted...

Mind you everyone should still vote because this shit is still much better than cartoon villainy. Even if sad

Dancedreamer posted...

Yeah, it's important to stop the dumpster fire party from destroying everything.

Reductively speaking, voting for Joe has still somehow brought us to the right of Obama, even after the Dems specifically promised us things Bernie proposed.

At a certain point if we keep eating shit, theyre going to keep serving us shit. This Pelosi saying literal Libertarian talking points shit has fully black-pilled me.

I think I might be done.

Dancedreamer posted...

I've given up on the idea though that if Dems keep winning elections, eventually the right will move to the left. No. At this point I realize they'll only keep moving further right. I suspect in 8 years, we'll have a Republican presidential candidate who's views are basically the american taliban.

Like this is totally true, and Blue-no-matter-who isnt stopping this. We fucking WON and theyre still repeating right wing shit to tell us JK!

Until Dems learn how to do things, were totally fucked.


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masterplum posted...

Because you spend political capital every time you do anything and this isn't a dictatorship

Like a family of 4 spending $300 on groceries and then going on vacation, Dems love to load up on political capital by promising things, winning elections based on those promises, and then never even trying to follow through.

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Inviso posted...

Tony, I get that you're idealistic and all, but I'm sorry to have to break this to you...

The majority of people in America would much rather shut down all public schools than eliminate every police department. People in this country and f***ing stupid and selfish, and a functioning school system is far less important to a random individual than a functioning police department.

What are you breaking to me exactly? Where did I say something contrary to any of this/what are you responding to?

The topic is Democrats running a campaign to accuse Republicans of actually wanting to defund the police.

Who does this convince? Are there really people out there who care enough about police for it to influence their vote but ALSO are somehow totally unaware of Republican support for police funding? It just doesnt make sense.

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Maniac64 posted...

I think the belief is that they arent ambivalent about police but are in fact supportive of police and funding the police.

Those people already definitely know the GOP wants to defund schools and give that money to the cops lol, the accusation is feckless

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Jakyl25 posted...

https://twitter.com/mstratford/status/1420422062431215621?s=21

AUGHHHHHHHH

LOL were so fucked, Democrats suck so bad. I cant believe people are happy to support these clowns.

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masterplum posted...

Independents

Independent in what way? If theyre ambivalent about the police, I dont see how this affects them at all either.

Yesmar_ posted...

The goal is to have Republicans waste time by having them defend the attack.

See: Pretty much every Republican attack made against Democrats.

lol yeah so its a bad plan.

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Phantom Dust.
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The point isnt about the phrase, its that literally who is this for?

If youre a diehard cop supporter, youre not going to all of a sudden think the defund the police goals are actually from the Republicans.

If youre NOT a fan of the cops, this is the Dems going Look its the GOP who want to defund them, obviously we want to fund them even more.

What type of person is this for?

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Scary

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Absolver is fucking awesome though.

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HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

https://twitter.com/akela_lacy/status/1420354909090852865?s=19

Now, I'm not posting this to relitigate defund as a campaign slogan so let's not do that. But as for this actual campaign sloganeering: who is this for? Cause all I can think of is liberals that already vote D. Is this a sad attempt to energize the base? What conservative would actually to buy this?

I came here to post this exact tweet.

This is fucking insane, its like they want to get destroyed in the midterms.

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Oh yeah, great card. Sagas are so good.

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Im gonna guess Baneslayer Angel

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https://twitter.com/iboudreau/status/1420111384604549122?s=21

lol

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When did you know it wasnt working? And who initiated?

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Yeah, a bubble narrative implies theyre oblivious and can be snapped out of it.

Its a choice. They will never snap out of it until it stops working.

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Phantom Dust.
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Love love love Crystaline giant, its one of those cards I feel comfortable dropping in basically any deck.

Edit: Inspired by this, whats one card thats not GREAT, but you stick in probably more decks than you should?

In basically any deck with some lifelink, I put Cosmos Elixer. When youre facing weenies or rush, that 2 life per turn is awesome, and artifact destruction is rare enough that it often runs unopposed the whole game.

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lol this is not even worth it

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Its about a Congressional candidate.

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