/r/freemagic screed

https://old.reddit.com/r/freemagic/comments/18nyzjf/hasbro_now_offers_gender_affirming_care_to_all

The hospital is named that because the charity drive that built it was started by the Has Bros. Its actually the childrens wing of a uni hospital. but its more fun to think the packs you buy fund cutting off little billy's peepee

actual link

https://www.lifespan.org/locations/hasbro-childrens-hospital/about-hasbro-childrens-hospital/transgender-and-gender-diverse

Celeste is also a doctor at Hasbros

Terese Nielsen is legitimately insane, like far down the qanon hole, but of course on reddit her worse crime is being a terf.

She's an unapoligetic terf. Got her fired from ever doing artwork for magic again. Just an awful person, and she owns it.

She's also done a shitload of iconic Magic art over the years so she really makes the tarditors seethe.

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.

Zeea said:

In twenty years, the United States killed about twenty times more Afghan civilians than civilians who died in 9/11, and that was an atrocity and no amount of American safety was worth that. In just a few weeks, Netanyahu has already killed ten times as many Palestinian civilians as Israeli civilians who died on Oct 7th and he seems determined to increase that multiplier as much as possible.

How many civilians are you willing to support being killed by your government so you can feel safe? My safety isn't worth 20 innocent Afghan lives and your safety isn't worth 10 innocent Palestinian lives.

As is often the case with angry posts, the problem is the last paragraph. Weighing the lives of civilians against each other is enough for a threadban, while weighing them against that of a specific RPGnet poster is one of the more awful kinds of personal attack.

However, the post you were responding to specifically made that comparison, so I can see the cause and effect. If someone makes a post like that, don't respond, report.

I'm suspending you for one day. When you return, do not reply to this thread.

(Note: Because Zeea is a mod, it took me longer than normal to get all of this together. The suspension took effect at 11:30 AM on December 9th, and expired 24 hours later on December 10th.)

the only thing keeping hasbro alive is wizards of the coast and they're doing everything they can to drive that ship straight into the ground

decently designed card tbh