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[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-strikes-beirut.940548/page-3?post=126516918#post-126516918

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"moderator on break"

What a socialist-like move. 

[Straight Edge]

Guy, I need y'alls help. I just realized it's been 20 years since I lived in the South West and ate at an In and Out Burger. 
Can someone Uber Eats a Double Double combo to me? The closest one to Wisconsin is in Colorado. It's about a 1000 mile drive. I know that sounds expensive but if I don't get one soon I will have to un-alive myself. There is no other choice and I know y'all don't want my blood on your hands.

I have a fully stocked fridge and pantry but no Double Doubles. Need y'alls help before I starve.

Bro if you're in Wisconsin, just get Culver's

[benji]

Coincidence that Israel does this the day after there military is caught raping a Palestinian prisoner and its citizens are protesting for the soldiers release from custody?

they could literally attack the US and we'd still stand behind them and whatever they need lmao

Israel could bomb Nebraska and US politicians would still support them

Fucking Biden would let Israel bomb the US itself and somehow still say Israel has his full support. Genocidal maniacs the lot of them.

EDIT: Goddamn I'd forgotten about the USS Liberty incident. Insane we just let them do shit.

Israel is a rogue state.

The hypocrisy of the Western world on full display. Any other country acting like the state of Israel would have been rightly labelled a terrorist state and obliterated by joint western forces by now.

Israel bombs again in addition to on going genocide

IOC: this an Olympics for peace and israel is allowed to enter.

This is how it works with Israel. Create a pretext and blame the enemy, then you get license to do whatever you want.

This the dude you clapped for Mark Kelly

good job Dems giving this monster a standing ovation in congress

getting Trump elected so he can do whatever he wants.

Doesn't really need trump for that tbh.

Harris will also give them the go ahead to do whatever.

It's outrageous that Israel nor its vile Government will ever be held accountable for their actions because no one wants to upset papa USA.

Feels like he wants the US on the ground so they can completely clear Palestine and eliminate any other nearby opposition

they gave this man a standing ovation

It's all about Iran.

Netyanahu has a raging boner to start a conflict with them with US backing.

In a hypothetical where IDF is losing so badly that Israel's territory is under threat the international coalition will involve itself with almost 100% certainty. Bibi is destroying Israel's future but the short term strategy isn't as crazy as it may seem at the first glance.

The fuck are we doing here?? Reel this shit in America, holy fuck.

I'm pretty sure that if Israel ever came under risk of having its settler colonies cleansed from the West Bank the international coalition would move in to guarantee their "right to defend themselves". Unfortunately nothing will change until Israel is isolated internationally to the same extent as countries like Russia and Venezuela or Egypt/Turkey go all to punish the IDF. Of course, both of these scenarios are unlikely as hell so Palestinians are left off waiting for white USians to grow a conscience.

Yeah. If things go south too much it very well might grow into a global conflict, especially if there's an open war with Iran on the horizon.

It is frustrating that the immediate reaction to criticism of the Democratic Party is not introspection but to point at the Republicans and say "look, they are even worse". As if people here don't know that the GOP are irredeemable evil shitheads. How about we hold the supposedly reasonable politicians representing progressive values responsible for the genocide they are encouraging?

The ones that hold progressive values weren't there, which is why they used seat fillers.

Distinctions are important; we're in an election year and demoralizing people who need to vote is not going to reign in Israel and will not make the situation progress further, either inside the country in the West Bank and Gaza or outside of it in neighboring countries.

Israel is going to get their Lebanon war and Americans will pay for it with money and possibly lives of soldiers when things spiral out of control.

Really love that we have an iron clad commitment to these war mongering child killing genocidal fucks and cant say no to them for some reason.

[benji]

Hey, whatever happened with the Houthi's fight against fascism? Did we (the right side of history obv) win that one?

[Boredfrom]

Coincidence that Israel does this the day after there military is caught raping a Palestinian prisoner and its citizens are protesting for the soldiers release from custody?

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-ot-2-what-can-be-unburdened-by-what-has-been.933294/page-235?post=126515886#post-126515886

Huh wonder what is in the bill that would unfairly target LGBT members 

I wrote an autism spiel about this in the politics thread today, lol.

it's not about kids or what they're being denied, it's about yet another step in the long, slow erosion of freedom of speech

each new requirement makes the next one easier

this one adds requirements for larger websites...the next one will expand it to smaller ones too

if the language is legal to be posted online, it's fucking legal and should stay where it is for all to see, if you don't want your children to see it then take away their phone

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/us-version-kosa-still-censorship-bill

The internet has been reduced to a series of finite destinations for most users, rather than the infinite possibility space it once used to be, then it feels like a natural step. I think the ship has sailed and various internet portals will be treated more and more like physical locations (i.e. lots of things are legal, but you don't sell kratom at the rentable pre-k oriented party venue, or have strippers performing in walmart.)

The most popular destinations (Twitch, TikTok, etc.) love to play this "hide the minors" game with regulators: they've demonstrated they have no ability to or (more likely) interest in preventing bad shit from happening. I think even that would be fine IF they didn't also directly monetize and profit from the engagement of those very same minors that they bend over backwards to pretend don't exist on their platforms.

[Nintex]

I did say relative peace, the pogroms happened and there's no denying it. I wasn't even suggesting that the Ottoman empire was some perfect utopia either - like many empire prior to it there were massacres and the like happening under its watch in its later years as it collapsed. Plenty of Muslims faced persecution and death in the regression of the Ottoman empire as well so this isn't the gotcha you might think it is.

Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians? - Austrian Painter

[benji]

Fourth, and most importantly, it's an argument that doesn't actually engage with the material conditions I mentioned above. Solving fascism as it were is mainly about preventing people (namely white men, because it's usually you guys) from going down rabbit holes that provide easy answers for why their lives are so shitty, which is mainly due to the fact that we live in a capitalist hellhole that isn't interested in providing a dignified existence to most people, which in turn clashes with beliefs about American meritocracy and white superiority and thus produces a cognitive dissonance that is easily rectified with scapegoating minorities.

I agree, ResetERA.com is the result of capitalism.

[benji]

The internet has been reduced to a series of finite destinations for most users, rather than the infinite possibility space it once used to be, then it feels like a natural step. I think the ship has sailed and various internet portals will be treated more and more like physical locations (i.e. lots of things are legal, but you don't sell kratom at the rentable pre-k oriented party venue, or have strippers performing in walmart.)

The most popular destinations (Twitch, TikTok, etc.) love to play this "hide the minors" game with regulators: they've demonstrated they have no ability to or (more likely) interest in preventing bad shit from happening. I think even that would be fine IF they didn't also directly monetize and profit from the engagement of those very same minors that they bend over backwards to pretend don't exist on their platforms.

I should not be required to confirm my identity with the state just to use websites. If the First Amendment is gutted to require that then you best believe cancel culture is not going to be a thing. The state making lists of people and what they do can only ever be trusted.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-strikes-beirut.940548/page-3?post=126516918#post-126516918

Please, I'd love to hear the justification for the 1834 Safed massacre for example. I'm an avid collector of justification for killing Jews over the years.

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Thin skinned cunts

[Boredfrom]

As much as I loathe musk and can't really write what I wish upon him, at least he's overt, he's a known quantity as he keeps blasting he's a piece of shit billionaire white nationalist.

Meanwhile, Zuckerberg essentially got away with his shitty platform being involved in what should have been its downfall, and I can't even name off the top of my head whoever the fuck should be the face of YouTube and the constant damage its algorithm has wreaked over the past decade.

 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/elon-musk-takes-fire-for-posting-fake-video-of-kamala-harris.940080/page-5?post=126522849#post-126522849

I’m not a fan of either Musk or Zuckerberg but I don’t follow why the fuck you want them off to jail.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-strikes-beirut.940548/page-3?post=126516918#post-126516918

Please, I'd love to hear the justification for the 1834 Safed massacre for example. I'm an avid collector of justification for killing Jews over the years.

User threadbanned pending further review: inflammatory accusations toward other users

How was this an inflammatory accusation. What else are you supposed to garner from someone condescendingly remarking that there was a justified reason for riots?

[Nintex]

As much as I loathe musk and can't really write what I wish upon him, at least he's overt, he's a known quantity as he keeps blasting he's a piece of shit billionaire white nationalist.

Meanwhile, Zuckerberg essentially got away with his shitty platform being involved in what should have been its downfall, and I can't even name off the top of my head whoever the fuck should be the face of YouTube and the constant damage its algorithm has wreaked over the past decade.

 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/elon-musk-takes-fire-for-posting-fake-video-of-kamala-harris.940080/page-5?post=126522849#post-126522849

I’m not a fan of either Musk or Zuckerberg but I don’t follow why the fuck you want them off to jail.

Zuckerberg should be in jail for rigging an election

[Propagandhim]

Lets say someone wanted to go out in style on ResetEra, and in the knowledge that Hecht and co. read these pages (as per their admission) what is the best way to go out causing maximum damage?

Trying to Twitter use to an immoral support of fascism just isn't really a meaningful argument.

For one, it's still too big of a space for any given political faction to have meaningful curation over, left or right, meaning the presence of Nazis is less about direct gatekeeping and more tied to larger material conditions that is inevitably going to produce Nazis within a given population after a certain amount of time. It's the difference between a bar and a country- the bar owner can keep Nazis out, the President cannot.

Second, it ignores every other platform that has and- most importantly- continues to have a hand in bolstering fascism through donations, misinformation, horrible moderation, right-wing algorithms, etc., which in turn muddies the argument down into less of an honest concern with fascism and minority well-being and more of a problem with Musk himself, where the issue is more that he's just an embarrassing white person than any actual concern for the usual victims of fascism. More elaboration on this point in this video's intro here.

Third, it is a platform that people do seriously use for all kinds of communication, networking, and promotional work. It isn't just artists (although artists matter as well). Telling people inextricably tied to capitalism, in conditions where the price of living is going up, where jobs that actually are able to compensate for that are getting rarer and rarer, to essentially "get another job" by not using Twitter if it is part of their work is nonsense. It has the same pull as conservatives making fun of those on economic assitance, and it has the same pull as liberals telling coal miners to "just code" back in the day when they were pretending to give a shit.

Fourth, and most importantly, it's an argument that doesn't actually engage with the material conditions I mentioned above. Solving fascism as it were is mainly about preventing people (namely white men, because it's usually you guys) from going down rabbit holes that provide easy answers for why their lives are so shitty, which is mainly due to the fact that we live in a capitalist hellhole that isn't interested in providing a dignified existence to most people, which in turn clashes with beliefs about American meritocracy and white superiority and thus produces a cognitive dissonance that is easily rectified with scapegoating minorities. You can shut Twitter off right now and unfortunately MAGA will still be there.

Regardless, if you are seriously trying to get people off of Twitter, you need to actually provide an alternative that is functionally better and more convenient. Bluesky and Threads seem to simply be merely the same as Twitter but without the install base, which is not going to move people in the drove you want. Shaming people certainly isn't going to do it, especially when you can go to another thread on this very forum and see people seriously engaging with Democratic politicking and organization being done on Twitter.

"There is a need to address the systemic factors that enable fascism, including the role of influential social media platforms, but i can't make that commitment.  I'm an artist"

 

Solving fascism as it were is mainly about preventing people (namely white men, because it's usually you guys)from going down rabbit holes that provide easy answers for why their lives are so shitty, which is mainly due to the fact that we live in a capitalist hellhole

Regardless, if you are seriously trying to get people off of Twitter, you need to actually provide an alternative that is functionally better and more convenient.

No convictions about anything.  No values.  No acknowledgement that you're responsible for any of your actions or any outcomes in your life.  Every group, person, and system is to blame for everything at all times.  Someone even has to give her reasons to quit a website that she thinks is enabling, enriching, and is emblematic of every problem on earth.  She can't even do that herself.  One of the most loathsome people I've come across on the internet.

[Uncle]

As much as I loathe musk and can't really write what I wish upon him, at least he's overt, he's a known quantity as he keeps blasting he's a piece of shit billionaire white nationalist.

Meanwhile, Zuckerberg essentially got away with his shitty platform being involved in what should have been its downfall, and I can't even name off the top of my head whoever the fuck should be the face of YouTube and the constant damage its algorithm has wreaked over the past decade.

 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/elon-musk-takes-fire-for-posting-fake-video-of-kamala-harris.940080/page-5?post=126522849#post-126522849

I’m not a fan of either Musk or Zuckerberg but I don’t follow why the fuck you want them off to jail.

mostly because they're rich and imprison the rich is realistically the closest they'll get to eating them

also you know resetera's longstanding inherent trust of law enforcement and the rule of law

[benji]

Susan Wojcicki was the CEO of YouTube for nearly a decade until the end of last year. She's kinda famous! Can definitely trust this guys expert knowledge of the topic!

[Nintex]

The crimes of Mark Zuckerberg

- Illegally selling personal data of god knows how many people
- Allowing ISIS to recruit on Facebook
- Deleting the evidence of ISIS crimes from Facebook
- Allowing pedophiles to operate freely on Facebook
- Banning people that want to off themselves (instead of alerting the authorities)
- Helping Islamists overthrow secular regimes during the 'Arab Spring'
- Interfering in various elections in general
- Manipulating data on paid ad clicks and impressions, fraud on a massive global scale
- Not reporting various security breaches, hacks and security incidents
- Making Oculus lame

[Propagandhim]

Opensourcing LLama makes up for all of that tbh

[railGUN]

I mean this is the same Nepenthe who says “ACAB” but then immediately calls the cops when someone posts a picture of her house on the internet.

[Boredfrom]

I find it interesting as despite the title being a huge indie darling on XBLA, it feels like its legacy didn't withstand the test of time. As the original release was rather unchallenged in the space it released in at the time.

It's not this. Jonathan Blow makes genuinely good games… the problem is Blow has reprehensible views and the audience he once had is now avoiding it like the plague.

Is totally that, you idiot. Everyone knows the twist of the game and time travel platform mechanics has lost its novelty.

Also, the indie scene fawning for individual creators is kind of gone, or being few from mega popular games like Undertale. You could argue that Jonathan Blow becoming so toxic that journos rather not support him, but is probably more because the game has not aged well.

The Witness is better, in any case.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jblow-“braid-anniversary-has-sold-like-dog-shit”.940824/

Oh no, the chud's game bombed.

[Uncle]

there should be a sci fi villain named Zark Muckerberg

[ClothedMac]

Weekly shreds check in:

https://bsky.app/profile/melodyshreds.bsky.social/post/3kyilem5aqx2t

I'm gonna have to put the name change on hold, I need money for food and other essentials. 

I'd like to go grocery shopping so I don't order food delivery so often since that's expensive AF

This is followed up with posts assembling a new toy. A gift, I'm sure.

As always, I love this dude

I feel like looking up how much a name change costs just to pay her and end this discussion.

[Snoopy]

It's something ridiculous like 100 dollars but they'll only spend the money on Legos or pizza deliveries

[Uncle]

I feel like looking up how much a name change costs just to pay her and end this discussion.

legit oddly had the same impulse

"this money is earmarked for changing your name only, do it immediately"



obviously it's because it's a good grift to maintain, a "good cause" that hopefully is seen by different groups of people each time so they don't realize how long it's being strung out

it's interesting how important the name is to the trans self-image, yet for some reason Shreds just can't quite ever prioritize it...weird...

[books]

Imagine giving money to Sally Struthers back in the day to help out starving African kids and she goes and buys a Flying V guitar that she can't even play!

[kaleidoscopium]

I'm more sympathetic and open to the freedom of speech arguments against KOSA and bills like it, but they should lead with that instead of "we cant talk to kids about sex online, this is damaging for the LGBT community! Genocide!!!" bullshit they run with. 

Saying their quiet parts out loud and making everyone want to pass the bill just to keep these freaks away from children.

I feel like looking up how much a name change costs just to pay her and end this discussion.

May be different per county, but this first result says:

A person who wishes to attain a legal name change may file an application with the probate court where the person wishing to change names resides. The applicant must have resided in the county for the past 60 days.

The filing fee is $83.60 for adult name changes.

https://www.wayneprobateandjuvenile.org/name-changes/adult-name-changes

[Jansen]

Where i live you pay for a petition to change your name. My brother's filed for a name change 20 years ago to change their last name to my mother's maiden name and they had to hire a lawyer to get it done.

[Boredfrom]

It's always fun how people in these threads poke at Blow, but forget that there are around 20 people working at his studio at a given time.

I didn't force those people to work for a widely known shitbag. For eight years.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jblow-%E2%80%9Cbraid-anniversary-has-sold-like-dog-shit%E2%80%9D.940824/page-4?post=126528543#post-126528543



They care so much about job loses.

I don’t even remember what Blow did.

[LegendOfSwagda]

Musk is a divorced as fuck guy who has a lot of fucking money and time

his action do not surprise me in the least.

giving him and his antics any real attention only emboldens him honestly.

I have said it forever but Era and its type spend so much time and energy going "look at this thing that sucks" not realizing that even if you think you are pointing and laughing at said thing....you are still giving it the attention it wants regardless as they generally can just shrug it off as you are a hater or the ole jokes on you I was simply pretending to be retarded.

If they spent more time and energy on uplifting things they actually like (and by that I don't mean see this is what the chuds hate lolololol....as that is rather repellant IMO) , they'd be a lot happier. But they don't want to be happy they love being miserable and want everyone to join them. They enjoy complaining about the chuds and feeling superior.

[HaughtyFrank]

It's always fun how people in these threads poke at Blow, but forget that there are around 20 people working at his studio at a given time.

I didn't force those people to work for a widely known shitbag. For eight years.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jblow-%E2%80%9Cbraid-anniversary-has-sold-like-dog-shit%E2%80%9D.940824/page-4?post=126528543#post-126528543



They care so much about job loses.

I don’t even remember what Blow did.

I think 10 years ago or something he said that men are more naturally wired to become programmers than women