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AnarchoTaoist - I read and play Magic in my free time. He/Them
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A lot of excellent ones already here, so I'll go with one from Tarkir
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Yeah, genuinely one of the best card concepting jobs in all of Magic
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To walk this out fully: this is why you can’t just try to pick already popular positions and hope for the best. You have to pitch a worldview to people whose votes are up for grabs. Their perception of reality is highly fungible, and you bring them to your side by actually doing politics
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Well, if I've learned anything from Mark's podcast, this is a foolproof plan
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like, Ds don't really have trouble winning elections; they win elections regularly.
but the focus on winning always, or the idea that the only way to beat fascism is to always win, is horribly flawed, and I think actually prevents us from holding fascists accountable.
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to some degree, though, it's all academic, not because it's over so much as because "winning every election ever" simply is not actually a strategy for defeating fascism. you're not going to win every election. that's not how democracies work.
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the point of Andor isn't "only anarchists are right" or "only terrorism works" or "only liberals defeat fascism" it's that birthing a movement that can destroy an imperial regime requires a diversity of tactics and people all willing to throw their lives away for the cause
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I don't know if that was the first one specifically, but that column started in early 2002. Most of his earlier columns were in The Duelist until 99, and then it took a bit for the website to find its feet.
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i read this entire thread and i think the author really should contend with the fact that *actual enslaved people in 1776* read that declaration, thought it applied to them, and used it as the grounds for political action
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Let's go Arlinn this time^^