[-] ToastedPlanet 39 points 1 month ago

I already knew that there were plenty of awful people in the US since I studied the civil rights movement in school. Watching white people use fire hoses against Black people and white people being ok with that was a clue. For me the worst part has been watching my friends and family be brainwashed by the MAGA movement. People who I know to be otherwise wonderful people.

For me it's the answer to the zombie question. Do zombies have some part of their former personality still inside? The answer is definitely yes, and not some part, but 100% of their former selves.

I'll be talking to my Mom and she'll be her old self again for a whole conversation. Like the last decade never happened. Then something political will come up and she'll be gone again. And I'm stuck arguing with this zombie.

Fox News has taken multiple family members and I'm sure many more friends. Unlike zombies there was no attack or infection. The brainwashing happened through radio, television, and social media. And unlike zombies there is hope, because people do get out of cults.

[-] ToastedPlanet 41 points 4 months ago

This is tragic. We can expect more of this over the next four years at least.

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With such a focus on in-person, competitive play, it’s curious to see a different trend just on the horizon. TCGs are starting to embrace solo or cooperative play more and more, and I’m intrigued to see where it goes through 2025.

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From remains an unabashed centrist who believes that economic growth, not the economic populism of Sanders or Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is the answer. “It’s important the critical mass in the Democratic party show that it’s the party of opportunity, responsibility and community but not the party of the left,” he insists.

He also argues that the party should not be afraid to talk about law enforcement and developing a system of community policing rather than urging “defund the police”. Likewise it should embrace the idea of legal immigration and a border that is under control. From applauds governors who have made jobs available to people without college degrees.

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Disney Lorcana doesn't have a digital version - outside the fan-created Pixelborn - and that is a genuine shame. Mobile versions of TCGs especially tend to do extremely well from both a commercial standpoint and as a streamlined onboarding process for new players. A free-to-play version of an already extremely expensive hobby allows those who aren't willing to splash a lot of cash on a TCG they may not like to give it a try.

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Ravensburger has revealed the next set of releases for the Disney Lorcana Trading Card Game: the pet-themed Archazia’s Island, available in Starter Displays, Booster Boxes, and the Illumineer’s Trove starting March 22.

The Disney Lorcana TCG: Archazia’s Island Starter Display will include eight Starter Decks, each deck having 60 game cards and 11 tokens along with a single Booster Pack.

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With the release of Azurite Sea in November 2024, there are currently six Lorcana sets. The current gap between sets is about three or four months. While not as breakneck a pace as games like the Pokémon Trading Card Game - which this year released eight main series expansion sets and four special expansion sets - Lorcana still has a healthy amount of new cards to keep players interested. As of now, 2025 will be giving players two full new sets and some additional releases to go along with them.

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If you’re cracking packs to find the most valuable cards in the set, you’re going to want to know what to look for. While there are plenty of high-value enchanted cards in the set, they’re pretty rare compared to most other cards, which is why we took a look at everything that’s in the non-enchanted rarities to find the slightly more obtainable cards that will still fetch a pretty penny.

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[-] ToastedPlanet 45 points 7 months ago

America was a democracy, but we had late-stage capitalism that was terminal. Neoliberalism was the scam that conned generations of Americans into clinging to flawed political institutions and capitalism long after they had demonstrated themselves to be ineffective.

Neoliberalism was so deeply rooted in the minds of the American people that they rejected socialism, the means of their liberation, without learning what it was and allowed fascism to flourish in their minds instead.

But we aren't all dead yet. So as long as people are still alive we can organize against fascism. It may even be possible to take our democracy back. A good place to start is to tell people how great socialism and democracy are.

[-] ToastedPlanet 42 points 7 months ago

As a trans woman and a Jew there's a ton of direct ways that I could be killed, but it's really not worth worrying about them. =)

[-] ToastedPlanet 46 points 8 months ago

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And this is the beholder so stop worrying about what the beholder thinks.

[-] ToastedPlanet 48 points 11 months ago

Biden endorsed Kamala. =)

[-] ToastedPlanet 37 points 1 year ago

Voting for Biden to prevent Israel's genocide from killing millions of people is not a comprise on supporting genocide. Accelerationism calls for allowing the fascists to successfully takeover the US government and thus accelerationism and anti-fascism are mutually exclusive.

[-] ToastedPlanet 41 points 1 year ago

And saves millions of lives at home and abroad.

[-] ToastedPlanet 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This isn’t harm reduction.

It is harm reduction. Fewer people will be harmed if we elect the candidate that will do the least harm.

Stop co-opting real leftist terms for this crap.

I am a social democrat which is a leftist political position. This is a real leftist term. Gatekeeping won't get rid of this idea. Internalize it.

edit: To be clear, I'm referring to: There are no ethical choices under FPTP voting. I hope that clears up any confusion.

The USA has always been fascist and will always be so until it is destroyed.

There has been a fascist movement in the United States since the 30's. Hitler and the Nazis copied off of the US's Jim Crow era laws. But the US as a nation state has never been fascist. If Republicans win this November then the US will become a christo-fascist authoritarian dictatorship for the first time and probably for a long time.

You people won’t learn till you get all of us killed for the little bit of privilege afforded to you thru this colonist imperial hellhole

The people who are going to get us all killed are the privileged accelerationists who think they stand to benefit from sacrificing us all to fascism. They think they going to accelerate social change, but there won't be anyone left to benefit from it.

[-] ToastedPlanet 39 points 1 year ago

He's not being sarcastic. He's artificially injecting sarcasm into his voice so he can say what he really believes. He wants to jail Democrats and pardon the insurrectionists. He defines everything that is beneficial about our society as evil. He's talks like he lives in alternate reality. He wants to tear down our liberal democracy and replace it with a christofascist dictatorship. It's not a joke.

It's time to stop giving these guys a free pass when they say they're just joking or speak in a sarcastic way. These people are unironically telling you what they want to do. Believe them when they say they want to destroy our democracy.

[-] ToastedPlanet 45 points 1 year ago

As a Republican media consultant, I made hundreds of ads about the high cost of prescription drugs.

Stuart Stevens, one of the people who brought us to the brink of fascism desperately wants us prevent the dystopian future he helped to create. Unfortunately, Stevens has no idea who the people on the left that he's been demonizing over the years actually are. As a result, he assumes we might be authentic Republicans who call ourselves Democrats.

Maybe you’re a Democrat who actually cares about the federal deficit, unlike the Republicans who fake concern.

Maybe if Republicans had spent the last 55 years listening to what people on the left wanted instead of engaging in bad faith with the political process, he would actually be able to write this article with some certainty.

Regardless, Vote Blue! We can make fun of this person all we want if we aren't killed in death camp in the following years.

[-] ToastedPlanet 38 points 1 year ago

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/find-the-trans-person

This is going to be awkward at the next social event I go to if people jokingly ask me this. I do not have the energy to lie to people about myself. I will point at myself and say 'done'. Hopefully it stays online. At an event I went to, a friend asked the group if we were all straight and I was like, "I am attracted to woman." It's such a generic response that people don't even register it, but I don't have to lie.

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