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neotrup asked:

Happy International Men's Day! Do you know why there wasn't a secret lair for the occasion? Was it just too close to another charity lair, or no acceptable charity could be identified?

markrosewater answered:

When you become a parent, you start celebrating Mother’s Day and Father’s Day with your kids. At some point you get asked the question, “When’s Kids’ Day?” The proper answer that most parents give is “Every day is Kids’ Day”. When you’re from a group that gets catered to every day, it’s not necessary to have your own special day to be catered to.

[orphanfight]

Ah yes, I remember the special days for black men who are grossly overrepresent the prison population, bi and gay men who are persecuted against in countries even today and trans men, who are told they aren’t real men by bigots in america. Thanks for being a beacon of morality Maro!

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[island-delver-go]

Check out this amazing alter titled, "What if Oko stole the wrong crown?"

Found on the Facebook alters group and has already sold

[island-delver-go]

I just found out that @sumomocards is the artist for this!

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[affinityforanime]

So we’ve got new basic snow lands in Modern Horizons. How would you feel about the “sixth basic land” wastes getting its own snow land?

(art source)

[orphanfight]

I feel like it would enable more degenerate decks in modern

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Anonymous asked:

what would you do to stop chinese influence in the USA?

thespectacularspider-girl answered:

I’m not familiar with the legalities of US law, but take this as an “in spirit” or “general intent” rather than hard strategy.

• Impose tariffs and sanctions on China like what was done to Cuba
• Make it illegal for US companies to sell their products in China
• Make it illegal for US companies to partner with companies that sell to China
• Make it illegal to have Chinese companies or Chinese subsidiaries possess stocks in your company

Basically, make an economic wall around China.  Nobody who does business in the USA can cross that wall into the Chinese market.

[concentrated-sunshine]

Didn’t they do this with Japan in the 1930′s and it pushed them deeper into expansionism?

[thespectacularspider-girl]

No clue.  Didn’t really work out for 1930′s/40′s Japan in the end though, did it?

[eldritchgentleman]

Japan didn’t have the population of Europe and North America combined though… An issue here is that economic ties is what keeps a potential war away. So long as lots of people are making money they will try to prevent a war because it’s bad for business. The moment that stops being an issue we might have World War 3 on our hands. To be fair I think we’ll have it on our hands sooner or later because China is feeling very Imperialistic.

[thespectacularspider-girl]

If China’s response to people sanctioning them economically is military takeovers of other nations, then all this is right now is appeasement. 

You’re feeding the alligator so it won’t eat you now.  Unfortunately, it’s getting bigger and stronger with every meal you give it, until either you run out of food and it eats you, or it gets big enough that it thinks about eating you (and the leftover food you have) anyway.

The Chinese system is a machine that only works when outside money from the west greases the gears. It requires outside investment to keep expanding, all while keeping it’s people at a minimal level of subsistence. Without western money, the system grinds to a halt, China can’t expand continue investing and factories start to crumble.

[eldritchgentleman]

Very much so, but when you stop feeding it, it get aggressive and starts attacking, with a bit of luck we might get Only a second Cold War. It’s a damned if you do, damned if you don’t kind of situation. The big question is Can the West even win this war if it starts?

[thespectacularspider-girl]

If it’s damned if you do, damned if you don’t, I’d rather stand on the side attempting to stop a government that’s harvesting ethnic minorities for their organs.

[ricwulf]

Harvesting organs. Full stop. I don’t care if it’s ethnic minorities having their organs harvested, I care that organs are being harvested at all. Any prisoner within China is subject to this. It’s been known for a while. Their status as an ethnic minority doesn’t matter. The human rights abuse is enough on its own.

[thespectacularspider-girl]

I mentioned ethnic minorities because that’s what I read about, where people are being put into camps and, in the case of Falun Gong, being targeted specifically to harvest their organs.

I wasn’t aware that everyone was being targeted for live organ harvesting.  Thank you for the correction.

[orphanfight]

I think you mean they generously donated their organs willingly for the greater good of the Chinese people. China would never do that to the citizens of Chinese Taipei.

/s

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the biggest questions detective pikachu answered

[angelcroc]

no one but professional trainers has a full team of 6 in the pokemon universe because it would be a fucking gigantic hassle to deal with 6 animals, let alone different types that need different things

some people don’t evolve their pokemon because imagine having a fucking cat and then you can choose to make the cat five times as big and strong. would you do this if you weren’t battling.

[sindri42]

Technically if your cat isn’t battling it doesn’t evolve.

That does however give cat owners a strong incentive to not let their cat outside, because realistically any cat that is allowed to roam free is gonna rack up exp until it evolves.

[such-justice-wow]

I let my litten out one day and a week later incineroar rips my door off and demands wet food only

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[sheepytina]

Halo 3: ODST was released 9 years ago on September 22, 2009.

September 22, 2019 will fall on a Sunday.

Halo 3: ODST’s 10 year anniversary will fall on Energy Sword Sunday.

[noblemanswerve]

Fellas

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[catnippackets]

ppl make fun of creepypasta titles being too descriptive like “I went hiking with my class, it didnt end well” or “something’s living in my grandma’s basement” or “I’m never taking a job on craigslist again” but for someone with zero attention span, descriptive titles like that are a hell of a lot more eye catching and attention grabbing than some poetic one or two word title that doesnt even hint at what the story is about

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creepypasta title: red curtains

me: what does that even mean, Im so bored *immediately scrolls past*

creepypasta title: every house on my block got a new antenna last night

me, immediately riveted, needs to know what happened or else I will die: oh my god who put them there what are they doing where did they come from wh

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DOES THIS NOT STRIKE INSTANT CURIOSITY INTO YOUR HEART

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[supersoftly]

all 5k bots are out in full swing I see :^)

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[siryouarebeingmocked]

I guarantee you that any man who hates radical feminism — who hates & derides the ideas radical feminists put forth — hates women. - Radfem Meghan Murphy

[zanthador64]

That awkward moment a rad-fem interchanges radical feminist and woman even though less than 10% of women identify as feminists, let alone radical ones. Drink a shot.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

To be fair, regular feminists do this exact same thing all the time.

[lesdeuxanes]

Have you guys ever heard of a thing called projection?

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Yes.

[seed-of-impurity]

One radical feminist put forward the idea that men, upon reaching 15 years of age, should be removed from society and forced to live alone. They were not to be allowed to congregate in numbers greater than 3 and not to interact with women unless the woman explicitly allowed them to look at, speak to, and touch them. They were not to be allowed to live in urban areas and were to be relegated to distant, subsistence-only farms. They were not under any circumstances to have any contact with children, theirs included.

Apparently, to have issue with this idea is to have issue with all women everywhere. Who knew?

[feminismisahatemovement]

“If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males“ - Mary Daly

“The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race” - Sally Miller Gearhart

“Rape is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear” -  Susan Brownmiller

“I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig” - Andrea Dworkin

“Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage” - Sheila Cronin

“The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist” - Ti-Grace Atkinson

“When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, eroticizing her own oppression” - Sheila Jeffrys

Anyone who takes issue with any of the above radical feminist teachings just hates women.

[rainbowloliofjustice]

Many prolific radfems literally advocate for treating males like they’re subhuman. 

And they’re too damn self-unaware to actually realize “Wow! When we advocate for treating someone like animals, they hate us!”

[orphanfight]