Magic the Gathering Player does a little Trolling

Alright. Thread time.

Joe Brennan wears his MAGA hat to every tournament, knowing it irritates people. It’s a combination of obnoxious virtue signaling and bush league psyop. It’s a pretty open secret that everyone that isn’t actively his friend despises him

— 𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖊𝖘𝖔𝖓 🏴‍☠️ (@likethe_whiskey) December 12, 2023

So there's a MtG player named Joe Brennan, who decided to wear his MAGA hat to a tournament. Now, for those of you who don't know, MtG is a game that panders to the kind of people who think that orcs are a racist stereotype of black people and the term, “tribal” is offensive. Naturally, his decision was not received well, and inspired one of the funnier Twitter rants I've seen in a while, from a Magic tournament judge, no less. Some of the highlights include:

Having shared a space with him as both a player and a judge, I've never witnessed him behave in a confrontational way. That's what he's going for, of course. “I'm just a regular guy with different opinions ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ you crazy leftists need to calm down”

“Yeah, he doesn't confront anyone, but he's just trying to make me look crazy!”

I've also gone out of my way to never have any direct interaction with him. Because I know nothing good will come of it. Doesn't do much good to get DQ'd or fired from event staff.

“If I interact with him, I will sperg out and get myself fired!”

I will say this: frick Joe Brennan, frick everything he stands for, and frick his little MAGA hat stunt. I firmly believe that if you willingly identify as a Republican in the current day, you cannot be a good person.

This once again proves a red hat is one of the most powerful tool to cause seethe even to this day

MAGA represents:

• “White Lives Matter” aka Black Lives Don't Matter

• letting immigrants rot in open air prison cells

• direct, targeted, hateful oppression of trans people

• denying women equal rights

• antivax conspiracy BS

• oh yeah, insurrection!

Darn, when did Trump worship become so cool?

The comments under this rant are also quite unhinged. A number of people start a witch hunt for some well liked MtG player who invited Joe to a dinner with a bunch of people, because you know what they say about 40 people at a table with one nazi…

Also, someone makes an accusation that Joe was at January 6th, but this could also be someone making a joke.

There's also a /r/freemagic post about this, but it's pretty much all just dunking on the guy tweeting the rant:

https://old.reddit.com/r/freemagic/comments/18iijhf/another_twitter_meltdown

Anyway, assuming Joe keeps this up, I'm sure there will be plenty more seethe coming his way. Maybe Wizards will have to make an official statement on it. That would be funny.