"someone (Jeremy) had the audacity to criticize someone (Christine)and Criticism is Not Harassment no matter how some people wish to construe it as such."
Jeremy went far beyond objective criticism and publicly persecuted Christine for nearly a year. He may not have personally hounded her with hateful private messages, but his actions directly resulted in months of direct online harassment from his fan base. You can't seriously look at all the crap Jeremy said and not call it harassment. When you hold that much influence over such a large congregation of people, you have a basic responsibility to not give them the idea that these sorts of heinous actions are socially acceptable. He could have easily criticized Christine without his plethora of disparaging personal remarks against her, and without encouraging thousands of his followers to constantly flame her. The fact that he did do these things, and unapologetically so, is what makes it harassment.
"The protests, mobs, riots all a sign that someone is incapable of accepting the opinion of others."
You mean accepting the opinion that bullying, harassing, and dehumanizing innocent human beings is okay? Yeah no, that sort of mentality has no place in our society, and entertaining that line of thinking will only hold us back as a species.
"someone who disagreed with the Nazi party during there rain ended up at best in a concentration camp at worst with a bullet in there head."
If you think the experience of a Nazi concentration camp is the best case scenario compared to a quick and painless death, then I can't even fathom how detached you are from reality. I encourage you to quantum-leap into the body of an emaciated Jewish concentration camp prisoner circa 1944 and ask yourself, "Is this better than not suffering at all?"
"but the moment you stop respecting the opinion of others and start attacking, harassing them, posting there personal info and calling for a public lynching joust because thy sad something you don't agree with, that is the point I stop respecting you, that is the point you have become a Nazi"
Is that not exactly what Jeremy did?
"people can not differentiate between Nazi and centre right"
Actually, as the years have progressed, our Overton Window has been shifting steadily to the right. Democratic socialism (a mild leftist ideology) has become regarded as far-left, and centrism has become regarded as center-left. On the other side, traditional conservatism has shifted to the center of America's political spectrum, with semi-fascist ideologies occupying the moderate- to far-right.
In other words, the more that neo-Nazi ideologies become normalized and accepted as a valid political platform, the closer the center right drifts toward Nazism.
I don't call right-thinkers Nazis. I call Nazis Nazis. I know a lot of Trump voters with opinions that I strongly disagree with, and I don't call them Nazis because they're not Nazis. They don't believe in things like a one-party government or ethnic cleansing or the removal of basic human rights (except maybe health care, but that's an entirely different can of worms), so I can't in good conscience call them Nazis.
Do I think Jeremy is a Nazi? Not at the moment, because he hasn't shown me any reason to think he's a Nazi. But I do think he's a scumbag with a startling lack of empathy for other humans, and that his career as a psychologically abusive and hate-mongering content creator should be completely and utterly destroyed.
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I can't tell if you're implying that I fall under the group of players that you just described. If so, I'm anything but overcompetitive, and I certainly don't think too highly of myself.
I'm actually quite casual, myself; it's just that I am of the mind that if you're going to do something, do it well. If those Gaea's Cradles had been in a deck that got more than two or three creatures out per game, then I wouldn't have minded.
So I guess I fall under "casual-competitive."
As for Jace and Stoneforge... Haaaaaaa!
Super-casual players who own really expensive cards, and play them in janky decks.
I know one guy who can barely play at all with Sword of Fire and Ice and Sword of Light and Shadow in a 4-colored Samurai deck that exceeds 100 cards.
Even worse, one player at my school has two Gaea's Cradles (one regular and one Judge promo), and he uses them in his casual Defense of the Heart deck.
It... It just breaks my heart...
I'm probably overlooking something due to my lack of sleep, but how is each player taking 12 damage per creature? Shouldn't they only be taking 6?
Someone at my high school once stole it (along with a few other cards, like an Angel of Despair, Garza Zol, Plague Queen, etc.), and had the gall to come to school the next day with it and the Angel in a deck, claiming that he had conveniently bought them the day before.
I managed to get those two back, but I never saw the others again.
He had unsleeved them too, so the Dark Depths had been damaged a bit. That really irked me.
Back story:
I was playing my Extended Tezzerator combo deck against a mono-black Extended Rogue deck.
I get hit on turn 3, and he prowls out an Earwig Squad, taking all three copies of Tezzeret from my deck.
Left with no possible win conditions, I scoop.
An example:
Player A casts a black spell.
Player B counters it.
Player C controls a 9th Edition Demon's Horn, and asks if she still gains 1 life.
I tell her yes, because Player A cast a black spell, even though it didn't resolve.
Player A interjects, saying that the card says "Whenever a player plays a black spell," meaning that the card has to come into play.
I respond by saying that "play a spell" has been errata'd to "cast a spell," and that playing something is different than something coming into play.
Player A disagrees, and I try to explain it again. Repeat this process two more times.
Player A finally says, "Well, why don't we check it online?"
I say, "Or you could trust the guy who actually knows the rules."
I have to deal with these two on a regular basis.
Yeah, what gives with that?
Hey, if it's an important match, nothing wrong with being smart about information presented to you.
Finally, red has tuck! RED HAS TUCK!
I agree. Innistrad's tagline ("Horrors Lurk Within") definitely makes it sound like a place where plenty of illusory creatures reside.
The Mimeoplasm is a "build around me" general. If you're building a deck around The Mimeoplasm, then a bad card like Blighted Agent turns into a fairly good card. Casting Buried Alive for Blighted Agent, Phyrexian Dreadnought, and whatever else you want and following it with The Mimeoplasm next turn can end games pretty quickly.
Hermit Druid combo is susceptible to graveyard hate too, but it's still one of the best decks in the format.
How do you get 2-for-1'd when you don't lose more than one permanent...?
You have black to remove threats and tutor for what you need, green to ramp into your big stuff and have large finishers, and blue to control the game and keep your hand full.
Also, I hear that Damia and Forbid work beautifully together.
Isn't B/G/x just as good at getting its creatures into the graveyard? It has dredge, Buried Alive, Entomb, Hermit Druid... It's even easier with the inclusion of blue. (Careful Study, Ideas Unbound, Cephalid Coliseum, just to name a few of the non-milling cards.)
And as I recently learned in the Crazy Plays thread, turning The Mimeoplasm into a 13/13 Blighted Agent is nothing to scoff at.
Now with twice the time!
AND twice the stretch!
Tooth and Nail!
Now with twice the tooth!
AND twice the nail!
Warp World!
Now with twice the warp!
AND twice the world!
Don't forget Intruder Alarm~!
For yours, I would probably put in Phyrexian Devourer. It's a lot like Duplicant, and copying it with Riku is awesome.
(Imprinting it on Mimic Vat is even more awesome.)
If you didn't have a strict copying theme, I would recommend Coiling Oracle. It's just really good.