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IMO cut the Karametra's Acolytes. You have a ton of ramp. Cut a few planeswalkers, IMO Domri Rade is the weakest of the three in this deck.

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You forgot the part with the Fedora.

Oh, sorry, I thought the fedora was implied :P

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{{Promise of Power}}

The Martian chronicles are awesome.

Personally, I love most genres of metal. Progressive, melodic, power, thrash, death, whatever. Only one I really couldn't stand was Nu.

Fur Elise by Beethoven

As I have tried to say about ten times, IT IS NOT SOCIALISM WHEN THERE IS A DICTATOR RULING IT, THAT IS CALLED A DICTATORSHIP!

Yes, but the implication was that socialism is a natural precondition for dictatorship, when this idea only incorporated a small portion of socialism as it has been applied throughout history.

Then we would lack all genetic diversity and would have been wiped out a while ago.

What if England had kept Piers Morgan?

Then I've died far more times in the real work than in the dream world.

What if sharks liked chocolate ice cream?

Struggle for Pleasure by Zatox

Ok, this is just dumb.

I beg your pardon?

That's right, take a small snippet out of context and just ignore all the content. I think we are done here.

Woohoo almost 1,000 views ;)

Storm Crow posted a picture of himself, it became the most popular picture, video, and meme on the Internet. It also won the Oscar for best documentary.

It does, so that's not really a hypothetical.

What if people found playing Magic to be sexy?

Never in the history of socialism people would flee from free countries to socialist country, always the other way round. This is especially visible in the examples of Germany and Korea. Socialism is bad for making people happy, but it is very good at controlling them and making them slaves.

No one in the history of socialism, since 1827 when socialism was first thought of, has ever fled from a "free" (I'm assuming you mean democracies and republics) to a socialist country? I also think that the "it is very good at controlling them and making them slaves." comment was uncalled for and untrue as true socialism's goal is equality. As I tried to point out in my last post, the main problem with socialism isn't the system, its the people who abuse it like Stalin.

When talking about economic systems you cannot look at individuals, only at statistics. I said many times before that socialism is good for greedy people with low morals, I'm sure you got that, didn you? When I talk about people who flee from socialism, I will not talk about the minority of oppressors, I will talk about the majority who are being oppressed.

The problem with socialism is the fact that it has nothing to protect itself from people like Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, PolPot and illegal benefit claimants. It is because it assumes that goal justifies the means and hence the traditional ethics must be replaced with anti-ethics. You don't deserve something because you made it, they say you deserve something when you NEED it. This is anti natural laws, anti common sense, anti all reasonable religions. The actual problem of socialism are not the tyrants, because it is indeed relatively easy to stop them (although tell that to over 100 million people murdered by socialists in power). You cannot stop the people who abuse the system because you will always always always run out of resources before you can change the human nature. That's why socialism always failed, is failing now in America under Obama, and will always fail unless you cure people from greed. It is in fact something socialists are trying to do, they are trying to turn you into cattle, to kill your natural greed.

Ok, this is just dumb. Socialism isn't about oppressing the majority for the minority. The USSR, the Eastern bloc, Maoist China, and North Korea represent one branch of Marxism that usurped the rest and have been the convenient boogeyman for the rigt for far too long.

Socialism is responsible for so much we take for granted, we simply forget anything prior to WWII. The forty hour work week, weekends, public education, social welfare, and other programs that benefit the cast majority at the expense of the minority who exploit are all causes championed by socialism. The problem with socialism is that it is thought of today as being subservient to a nation-state paradigm, when it functions best as international coalitions. It is being forced to go through the political process when it worked best as a tool for change through economic pressure. Any government may fall prey to a charismatic figure with less than noble intentions, even democracy. The key to stopping it is a vigilant public. So this nonsense about socialism being more susceptible is just that. It's no coincidence that the countries that became totalitarian had long histories of cultures that ruled absolutely, it takes time to break such a mindset. Ultimately, I would argue that these regimes were merely one autocratic regime replacing another with a shiny new dogma on the surface to hide the fact that little had really changed.

The there would be no smart people either, just people.

What if Chuck Norris was really a wimp and all these facts were a well oiled PR campaign.