Shivam Bhatt

The idea that Iran would accept any Pahlavi to rule them is ridiculous to the point of absurdity.

To understand what's happening in Iran today, you have to know about the history of Western intervention in the country.

In the early 1900s, the British secured oil rights in the country until 1993, where they only agreed to pay Iran 16% of the total profits.

This was seen as an unfair deal. 🧵

that's not a bird that's princess peach in Mario 2 (North American release) you can't fool me

Man, I had not realized gdc was so close

A classic.

It’s always “whoops I didn’t know it was a Nazi tattoo” and never “I just thought a crescent moon and star looked cool” or “I have been a big fan of this trans streamer for years.”

I think the Nazi stuff is enough to be done with Plattner but this is as well

schools are never valid military targets, on or off base

if someone bombed a DoD school in Okinawa and killed a bunch of American 4th graders, that would be a war crime.

The murder of Iranian schoolchildren is a war crime.

Yup

I can't parse what you mean here, and the pictures arent helping

Thats wild. I've seen anywhere from 2-5 new players at every pre post ff, where I saw like 30 new players.

Here's a common scam that is going around that you should know about: Sometimes you'll have a cool idea and the DM will say "You can certainly try" Stay alert!

What's the catch?

Prerelease is different. Everyone comes to those regardless.

I want my lgs and my local community to thrive. I do not give a fig if the set sells or not.

There's this weird thing where folks have been conflating me being sad about low attendance prerelease for me being sad the set isn't doing good. No, dude. If the set tanks thats a wotc problem and I need them to eat shit a few times and rein in their print speed. Prerelease is an lgs problem.

I am trusting that you know you are arguing with a bot .

huge fan of Congresspeople all just telling us about the dirt they usually refuse to dish on their colleagues, most of whom are such trainwrecks they'd not be left alone at a kid's birthday party

Lotta ppl who spend hours freedomposting struggling with the concept that the ppl of a country want neither a theocrat nor a king

I hope you aren’t drunk and took your staff’s advice, Rashida and I don’t know this man and feel confident he didn’t care about us. Please restrain from drinking too much as you have been warned from your staff and stay off social media when you are drunk. I pray in his holy month you find peace and respect for your self,

uhhh oh my god

The Game Bakers motto, their design philosophy, is simple: “We make games like we cook.”

I've been using slow cooking as a metaphor all week because the urgency culture in the air is wild rn

That's the plan, and to the extent the Trump admin even wanted to help (they don't), they illegally dismantled the mechanisms for it, like USAID.

It would've served our strategic interests greatly for millions of Iranians to see boxes and crates of vital supplies with U.S. flags on them. Oh well.

Happy birthday friend

Pain Distributor {2}{R} Creature — Devil Citizen Menace Whenever a player casts their first spell each turn, they create a Treasure token. Whenever an artifact an opponent controls is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, this creature deals 1 damage to that player. 2/3

3/1 #scryfallrandom is a great way to punish greedy players

I love it

Sigh

hot take: if you're an American, this is not a nuanced issue. you do not need to "listen to Iranian voices" here. you need to tell your leaders to stop bombing a country and killing people. that's literally it.

For me Onward was the best of the lot by quite a bit

Again, it is interesting that a single generation was entrusted with the richest, most advanced empire the world had ever known and was just uninterested in keeping it going

if they were courageous they would quit. there's nothing brave about killing kids at the whim of an irrational old pedophile

Seems to be the pattern…