Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[kaleidoscopium]

I watched Civil War the other night and I really question Era's media literacy. The all but named the president, and pretty explicitly told you he was a fascist.

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/just-watched-a-garlands-civil-war-how-fucked-would-the-world-be-if-the-u-s-ever-fell-into-one.882402/?post=123547338#post-123547338

It'd be pretty bad.

But nothing like in that both side nonsense movie.

Generally how I feel whenever I see any film above MCU standard fodder and reading their thoughts. Truly Reddit level retards on that site.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dusk-golem-resident-evil-zero-and-code-veronica-remake-are-in-development-right-now.882177/page-11?post=123547158#post-123547158

User Banned (1 Week): Antagonizing another, account in junior phase

I am begging this board to add "Dusk Golem" to the options of filtered prefixes so I can continue to pretend this attention desperate loser doesn't exist in peace.

Shitty “leaker” is a protected class seemingly

Gotta circle the wagons around a former forum cop too

[kaleidoscopium]

lol that guy pops up in every thread about Grummz. It's hard to tell which is the biggest loser, him or Kern

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gamergate-2-0-chuds-furious-about-a-consulting-company-named-“sweet-baby-inc”-which-overviews-scripts-to-make-sure-nothing-offensive-was-written.823731/page-68?post=123548808#post-123548808

Don’t think you should be wondering who’s the biggest loser Hecht, glass houses and all that. 

[kaleidoscopium]

Bonus, we just barely missed the 1 year anniversary for one of the funniest mod updates on resetera of all time: 

The gif of Bugs Bunny removing Florida is now banned from sensitive political threads concerning the state.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/resetera-policy-update-log-5-22-update-florida-gifs-are-banned-in-sensitive-political-threads.709904/?post=106038949#post-106038949

[AnnoyedCanadian]

The only way for Iran to protect itself from American and Israeli aggression is by getting nukes. Sad but that's the state of affairs.

Hey, guys. Iran is suddenly cool now.  

https://www.resetera.com/threads/iran-further-increases-its-stockpile-of-uranium-enriched-to-near-weapons-grade-levels-watchdog-says.882453/

Piece of shit forum.

What the fuck is Israel going to do aside from defend itself? Trump was the one who wanted war with Iran, not Biden.

For a forum that talks a lot about politics and world affairs they know shockingly little. Same with that Edmond fuck who is obsessed with Egypt and doesn't know shit. PlanetSmasher with games, Carl with women's issues (you're a man, liking the Last of Us 2 doesn't make you a woman), etc.

One of the dumbest forums that acts as a containment site thankfully. When they step outside the bubble people can search for their usernames on any engine and the majority of the time, its the same one. Big brain move right there.

[nobody of note]

This thread:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/richard-dreyfuss-takes-stage-at-massachusetts-‘jaws’-screening-wearing-dress-before-delivering-rant-described-as-transphobic-venue-apologizes.882480/

He apparently said a bunch of wild shit, and it's weird to me that only transphobia merits a mention.

[Boredfrom]

Put yourself in Iran's shoes

You made a deal with America and Europe to not develop nukes in exchange for normalisation

America reneges on the deal a few years later under Trump. Destroys Rouhani. Simultaneously you also see the treatment North Korea gets.

Biden gets in and there's no change. Simultaneously Ukraine gets invaded. It's possible Trump will come back.

What would you do?

Use terrorists for proxy wars, sell weapons to Russians and oppress my citizens.

[ClothedMac]

I don't think you can tangibly separate economic liberation from social liberation that cleanly because it is the economic state of the world that has created and reinforced the social state.

To me, a capitalist who is somehow for "equal rights for all" makes as much sense as an anti-monarchist who still wants to be ruled by a king or queen.

Thank you Nepenthe

Libertarianism is just capitalism without the existence of a state. Equal parts dangerous and stupid.

Nepenthe throwing out bangers today.

Isn't Nepenthe's perfect society just libertarianism and mob justice?

[ClothedMac]

Ban Watch countdown.  

Tina Fey told Donald Glover he was only there because they get extra money for a black writer on 30 rock

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cheyenne-lin-the-liberal-comedian-to-conservative-pipeline.881655/post-123543735

That "quote" is just today.com badly summarising the GQ interview. Nowhere in the GQ interview does he say anything about Fey giving him impostor syndrome etc.

Read the article youself and see

So again I ask where, if anywhere, did Donald Glover say Tina Fey told him he was a diversity hire and this "fucked him up"? Actual quotes from DG would be nice.

User Banned: Implying that Glover isn't so pure and leftist that receiving a confirmation he was a diversity hire didn't kill him


30 Rock had an entire episode about the subject. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1635824/

Meanwhile, Toofer quits his job when he discovers that he's just a product of Affirmative Action.

See the unbridled bigotry.  If you dare! . . . .




When will ERA realize Donald Glover is one of those that makes fun of them?

[Boredfrom]

Is funny how suddenly RE understands realpolitik in that Iran thread, but they demand the dissolution of Israel in the other threads. Like, isn’t Iran way worse than the Israel government?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-palestine-the-ongoing-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-icj-orders-halt-to-israeli-offensive-on-rafah-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-338?post=123543267#post-123543267

Maybe Trudeau can get off his ass and actually do something now.

What does he think Canada can do?

[benji]

If Trump wins and you don't vote for Biden, have fun and don't you dare fucking complain. 

Nope, not how we do things in free countries.

Some extra advice I would give is to focus on the pressure points and potential voters that actually matter, instead of raging about the people you may have lost. The horrific reality is that despite 4K images of what is going on in Gaza, most Americans still do not actually care about it in comparison to issues like the economy. I'm a bit contentious in some of my circles in the fact that I still don't think Biden will actually lose based on Gaza because it doesn't seem like the numbers are there this far out for that to be the case. Which makes sense. America doesn't care about Brown people. But they do care about being able to eat. We all do; hell, I'm hungry right now.

I love she presents the most obvious things as these profound statements nobody has ever thought before. (Which to be fair, look where she's posting them.) But also does it with some weird condemnation to it, like people elsewhere care about Nepenthe's suffering in America when they vote.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-palestine-the-ongoing-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-icj-orders-halt-to-israeli-offensive-on-rafah-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-337?post=123523650#post-123523650

I've said it before Israel needs to be dismantled top to bottom.

The genocidal maniacs don't just exist in top levels of government and in the idf,they exist amongst their civilians.

Tear it all down like nazi germany.

Begging these guys to learn what happened to Nazi Germany just once in their lives.

How can libertarianism promote the preservation and protection of individual rights and liberties if there is no state to determine what those rights and liberties are in the first place?

Libertarianism supports the state. Nepenthe, as typical, uses words without knowing what they mean or even what she means by them.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-palestine-the-ongoing-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-icj-orders-halt-to-israeli-offensive-on-rafah-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-337?post=123523650#post-123523650

I've said it before Israel needs to be dismantled top to bottom.

The genocidal maniacs don't just exist in top levels of government and in the idf,they exist amongst their civilians.

Tear it all down like nazi germany.

Begging these guys to learn what happened to Nazi Germany just once in their lives.

Actually, maybe I should consider that they do know. And they want a war and invasion of Israel. (But no posting of the victims on social media please!)

[ClothedMac]

Circle the wagons!  A white (jewy) lady attacked Childish Gambino!  How can we help?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.25newsnow.com/2024/05/23/not-guilty-plea-entered-arrested-isu-protesters/

https://www.wjbc.com/2024/05/23/protesters-arrested-on-isu-campus-plead-not-guilty/

Criminal trespass to state land is a class A misdemeanor, and if guilty, the protesters could face up to 1 year in prison and/or a $2,500 fine. Criminal trespass to a building is a class B misdemeanor, and if guilty, the protesters could face up to 6 months in prison and/or a $1,500 fine.

[kaleidoscopium]

Not really sure how the not guilty plea can fly, given there is video evidence of them in the building and being removed from the building after the stated closing time. But what do I know

[benji]

Libertarianism is just capitalism without the existence of a state. Equal parts dangerous and stupid.

Nepenthe throwing out bangers today.

Isn't Nepenthe's perfect society just libertarianism and mob justice?

No, Nepenthe's theorizing is typical of totalitarians and abstracts the state away while making it the only entity that exists. She redefines it as the "will" of the "community", "people", or "society" and so pretends it is not oppressive because it is itself policing itself. As is always shown when you get down to the specifics the state isn't what's abstracted away, the individual is. They no longer exist, or rather, they exist as traitors who are enemies of the state for deviating from the perfection the state has shaped all existence into.

To Fascism the world is not this material world which appears on the surface, in which man is an individual separated from all other men, standing by himself and subject to a natural law which instinctively impels him to lead a life of momentary and egoistic pleasure. In Fascism man is an individual who is the nation and the country. He is this by a moral law which embraces and binds together individuals and generations in an established tradition and mission, a moral law which suppresses the instinct to lead a life confined to a brief cycle of pleasure in order, instead, to replace it within the orbit of duty in a superior conception of life, free from the limits of time and space a life in which the individual by self-abnegation and by the sacrifice of his particular interests, even by death, realises the entirely spiritual existence in which his value as a man consists.

It is therefore a spiritual conception, itself also a result of the general reaction of the Century against the languid and materialistic positivism of the Eighteenth Century. Anti-positivist, but positive: neither sceptical nor agnostic, neither pessimistic nor passively optimistic, as are in general the doctrines (all of them negative) which place the centre of life outside of man, who by his free will can and should create his own world for himself.

Fascism wants a man to be active and to be absorbed in action with all his energies; it wants him to have a manly consciousness of the difficulties that exist and to be ready to face them. It conceives life as a struggle, thinking that it is the duty of man to conquer that life which is really worthy of him: creating in the first place within himself the (physical, moral, intellectual) instrument with which to build it.

...

And if liberty is to be the attribute of the real man, and not of the scarecrow invented by the individualistic Liberalism, then Fascism is for liberty. It is for the only kind of liberty that is serious—the liberty of the State and of the individual in the State. Because, for the Fascist, all is comprised in the State and nothing spiritual or human exists—much less has any value—outside the State. In this respect Fascism is a totalising concept, and the Fascist State—the unification and synthesis of every value—interprets, develops and potentiates the whole life of the people.

[Uncle]

Ban Watch countdown.  

Tina Fey told Donald Glover he was only there because they get extra money for a black writer on 30 rock

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cheyenne-lin-the-liberal-comedian-to-conservative-pipeline.881655/post-123543735

That "quote" is just today.com badly summarising the GQ interview. Nowhere in the GQ interview does he say anything about Fey giving him impostor syndrome etc.

Read the article youself and see

So again I ask where, if anywhere, did Donald Glover say Tina Fey told him he was a diversity hire and this "fucked him up"? Actual quotes from DG would be nice.

User Banned: Implying that Glover isn't so pure and leftist that receiving a confirmation he was a diversity hire didn't kill him


30 Rock had an entire episode about the subject. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1635824/

Meanwhile, Toofer quits his job when he discovers that he's just a product of Affirmative Action.

See the unbridled bigotry.  If you dare! . . . .




When will ERA realize Donald Glover is one of those that makes fun of them?

they need to stop supporting donald glover, he partnered up with google to promote their new ai shit, which literally steals from artists just trying to get by like nepenthe

[Garfield]

Not really sure how the not guilty plea can fly, given there is video evidence of them in the building and being removed from the building after the stated closing time. But what do I know

Pleas aren't under oath and "not guilty" just means the state hasn't proved its case yet.  That being said, noodle and his 6 friends aren't going to face any jail time even if they get convicted. If they get convicted it'll almost certainly be a fine and probation with any jail time fully suspended.

[Uncle]

If Trump wins and you don't vote for Biden, have fun and don't you dare fucking complain.

yeah I've never been a fan of this idea, you have every right to complain about things you didn't have a hand in making or causing

if I eat a sandwich I can say wow this tastes awful even though I didn't choose the chef, his ingredients, or his process...in fact, strangely enough if I DID have a hand in making the sandwich, I have LESS right to complain, because I had input every step of the way and could've chosen cheese that wasn't moldy or lettuce that wasn't wilted, like what the fuck was I doing that I made it myself and then still complain

if I watch a movie I didn't have any input in creating, I can say yeah that movie was shit

and if a bad president is chosen in an election I didn't vote in, I can say wow yeah this guy sucks

you can always complain

tons of people globally complain about each others' elected officials, does australia not get to complain about trump because they didn't vote for him? how would it be fair if literally everyone in the world got to complain about trump except the people who a) lived in the USA at voting age and b) didn't vote? what an oddly specific group

[benji]

It's also saying you can't complain about something you couldn't change. There's no logical reason it can't be turned around to say those who vote can't complain because they signed off on whatever resulted rather than refusing their consent.

It also promotes the harmful reductionist view that politics is nothing but occasional voting to choose representatives.

[Lonewulfeus]

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If Trump wins and you don't vote for Biden, have fun and don't you dare fucking complain.

yeah I've never been a fan of this idea, you have every right to complain about things you didn't have a hand in making or causing

if I eat a sandwich I can say wow this tastes awful even though I didn't choose the chef, his ingredients, or his process...in fact, strangely enough if I DID have a hand in making the sandwich, I have LESS right to complain, because I had input every step of the way and could've chosen cheese that wasn't moldy or lettuce that wasn't wilted, like what the fuck was I doing that I made it myself and then still complain

if I watch a movie I didn't have any input in creating, I can say yeah that movie was shit

and if a bad president is chosen in an election I didn't vote in, I can say wow yeah this guy sucks

you can always complain

tons of people globally complain about each others' elected officials, does australia not get to complain about trump because they didn't vote for him? how would it be fair if literally everyone in the world got to complain about trump except the people who a) lived in the USA at voting age and b) didn't vote? what an oddly specific group

The difference in those scenarios is you don’t really have an option of contributing, but voting is your contribution and if you choose to abstain you shouldn’t be allowed to whine when the results don’t go the way you want.

[benji]

The difference in those scenarios is you don’t really have an option of contributing, but voting is your contribution and if you choose to abstain you shouldn’t be allowed to whine when the results don’t go the way you want.

Why should people who voted be allowed to whine?

This is just making voting for a representative into some sacred ritual that reveals good souls or some shit.

[benji]

[Uncle]

The difference in those scenarios is you don’t really have an option of contributing, but voting is your contribution and if you choose to abstain you shouldn’t be allowed to whine when the results don’t go the way you want.

you always have an option of contributing, it's all dependent on how much effort you put into it

be like "oh I loved fury road so much, I want to make sure furiosa doesn't flop, if I don't have a hand in the movie then I won't have any right to complain about it so I'm driving down to where they're shooting and insisting on becoming an extra"

"well I could go to mcdonalds or whataburger but since I can't complain unless I have a hand in sandwich creation I'll go to subway instead where I can order the poor sandwich artist to choose specific cuts of meat and cheese that look best to me"



also voting is literally the least you can do and in many states is a pointless act

you're telling me that I could get involved in politics, go to rallies, go door to door bothering people with leaflets, be part of a cold call center, argue endlessly online trying to change hearts and minds, and through all that effort maybe contribute to causing a swing of 5-10 votes one way or the other...but if I don't personally spend my 1 vote, none of the rest of that matters at all?

[benji]

Game journalists against journalism and transparency update:

[benji]

also voting is literally the least you can do and in many states is a pointless act

you're telling me that I could get involved in politics, go to rallies, go door to door bothering people with leaflets, be part of a cold call center, argue endlessly online trying to change hearts and minds, and through all that effort maybe contribute to causing a swing of 5-10 votes one way or the other...but if I don't personally spend my 1 vote, none of the rest of that matters at all?

Change the scenario. You did all this in Michigan, then flew back to California and didn't vote. 

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

Also, you did it for the Party of Socialism and Liberation.

[Boredfrom]

Man the most powerful country in the world.....1 candidate is outright evil and has funded a genocide the other is an idiot who caged Children.

World if fucked.

Is that you, Slayven?

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

I'm going to laugh when Trump wins.

I'm going to laugh when Biden wins.

Live, laugh, love. 

[Boredfrom]

Imagine thinking that Biden is more “evil” than Trump. And doing this while carrying water for terrorist organizations and theocratic regimes.