Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cancer-is-not-a-%E2%80%98battle%E2%80%99-so-let%E2%80%99s-stop-with-all-the-war-analogies.1268517/page-3#post-143814345

If I could, I would punch you in the fucking face right now. Cancer is a fucking extreme battle of the body, the mind and the spirit. When you are staring down the barrel of losing your wife TWICE to different types of cancer, it is a wholly consuming war to put on a brave face, smile and do whatever you need to do to win. I can't even imagine how my wife felt both times. I can't imagine how my family felt when my grandfather died of non Hodgkin's lymphoma when I was ten or how my family felt when my grandmother died of melanoma when I was seventeen. I remember how I felt and how I still feel. Fuck cancer and fuck you.

 User Banned (2 Weeks): Threats and aggressive rhetoric towards another member in a sensitive thread, account in junior phase.

[benji]

Alright, I'll bite.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-were-the-warnings-that-trump-would-rule-like-a-dictator-ineffective-in-the-2024-election.1268571/page-3#post-143821485

America is a colonial empire that runs on the doctrine of neoliberal capitalism, which in plain terms argue that human well-being is a secondary effect, an afterthought, or even a hindrance with regards to the privatization of property and laissez-faire policies where corporations are allowed to do whatever they want.

Neither is meaningfully interested in leading us into a future that primarily prioritizes human well-being because they're neoliberals who, again, believe that human well-being is secondary to privatization of property.

Define "human well-being" without inserting your personal values. I'll save you the time, you can't. Hence, the necessity of not establishing a single monopoly corporation that only pursues its own interests and outlawing dissent. Since this is what you want you really shouldn't be complaining at all, you're getting what you want according to your own argument. So shutting the fuck up is free.

However, they have to pretend like they're not actually friends with each other in order to keep the charade up, and thus elections are advertised on these superstructural issues like immigration or queer rights or policing. (For everyone always wondering why Democrats don't fight back in a material manner; do you openly revolt against your coworkers over minor disagreements, especially when your paycheck is on the line? I thought so.)

This is an incredibly naive and ignorant belief system, that because people do not disagree on one thing (in this case, not abolishing capitalism) they must actually be not just friends but allies who manipulate the entire system and have no disagreements at all.

Also, I would argue that neither immigration or policing are superstructual issues. Freedom of movement directly threatens the central control of the means of production, which is why every socialist society has made it illegal.

So what you end up with is the current hellhole we now live in where life sucks in pretty much every metric imaginable for everyone but the most well off because, well, no one at the top genuinely cares for humanity.

Nah, life is fucking awesome. You're just upset that your life sucks because you don't do anything to make it better.

But they do not have the education nor emotional or psychological tools to pinpoint or elaborate on the problem, and that is by design because America has had strains of anti-intellectualism for about as long as it's been a colonial empire.

Again, projection. As well as believing that people can't pursue their own interests or self-improvement, that only outside forces can do anything for anyone.

Like, remember how neither party cares about human well-being? Improving education and media literacy skills sound suspiciously like you're trying to improve human well-being. If the people get smart enough, they might just revolutionize. No, no, no, none of that. We need sychophantic worker drones. Gut the education system, make college unaffordable

Is that why education spending and the industry itself has never stopped increasing in size to greater levels than ever before? Americans have never been more educated than this very moment. Arguably no other population has ever been more educated than the current American population.

allow the social media companies to run rampant with distracting apps and websites more addictive than heroin, allow the traditional media to refuse due diligence in the chase for ratings and for further distraction and editorialization.

Damn state not eliminating opposing views and controlling the flow of information.

We know that fascism runs in tandem with economic decay

Since when? Fascism arose a decade before the Great Depression.

and we also know that America's status as a colonial empire means that various bigotries- anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism, misogyny, xenophobia, etc.- are baked into its foundation.

What are the colonies?

The FBI killed Fred Hampton, probably the one person who got closest to synthesizing anti-bigotry with anti-capitalism into a real movement in this country

In a series of dumb things you've said this is incredibly stupid.

For example, a lot of y'all were dismissive of Biden shitting on Black people in order to big up the "rich and diverse political history" of Latino people

America is just a fundamentally cruel nation that prioritizes subservience to capital in every single facet of life to the detriment of humanity, from the pollution to the trash infrastructure to the lack of workers rights to the shitty movies, television, and music we consume to this goddamn fucking AI bullshit- all of it is tainted. This inevitably begets a population of unimaginative and cruel people.

Projection again, incredibly narcissistic.

It's just now running into a situation where the economics of it all are becoming too contradictory to keep these unimaginative and cruel masses satisfied, which historically has usually meant a descent into fascism.

Got a single example historically?

Like, I'm sorry, one of our Presidents openly genocided an Indigenous population (and the fact that you don't know which one I'm talking about says it all).

I assume you mean Jackson, who didn't. I'm not saying Jackson was not cruel to many different tribes, nor that he didn't assist in stealing their private property (something you approve of) but there was no tribe he "openly genocided", you think he did because you think all Native Americans are the same and you assume that the Five Civilized Tribes are all Native Americans. It's also hilarious that you're trying to lecture people about this when you don't understand any of the history. Indian removal was not the act of any President, it was Congress passing a law (that was opposed by half of it), so Jackson didn't "do it" especially since it happened across two decades. (IIRC, Jackson killed and displaced far more Creeks during the War of 1812. Maybe she means the waging of war with the Seminoles, except this wasn't genocide, he wasn't President and he got in trouble for it. Other Presidents also directly killed mass numbers of Native Americans, both Washington and Harrison immediately come to mind.)

But the history aside this is an asinine argument to begin with. You're arguing that all people of a population are "unimaginative and cruel" if a single person is cruel. Trump is unimaginative and cruel, which makes you unimaginative and cruel so why the fuck should I listen to you? Fred Hampton was cruel. Africans are cruel. Your argument is that all humans are cruel, which okay, so the fuck what, how is this your justification for being cruel? We shouldn't be cruel. You're attempting to lower everything to cruelty to justify your own cruelty because you're totally fucking unimaginative and cruel. You refuse to allow anyone to be imaginative or not cruel, which is why you call the greatest life has ever been a hellhole. Which is why you demand a return to unceasing poverty and tribal violence over everything as if that wouldn't be a hellhole. You're cruel but that doesn't make the rest of us cruel, your projection is your own problem. Fuck off.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-plans-military-%E2%80%9Creaction-force%E2%80%9D-to-use-against-americans.1268010/page-2#post-143800083

I'm from LATAM, the moment I saw the "shooting attempt" I recognized the dots because it is what has been happening in LATAM since United Fruit Company and the CIA helped destabilize my region.

This was a set up to elect a dictatorship. It may sound extreme and scary, but the faster you understand the situation where you are, the faster you can act. Learn from what happened to us.

I mean, normally the CIA and United Fruit actually did assassinate people or do coups instead of faking stuff and risking losing the election.

It's wild just how completely gender critical groups have captured damn near all institutions in the UK.

And for what? Bored, rich middle aged women deciding to do a genocide because they want to play at being feminists?
(The wads of christofascist money certainly sweetened the deal too)

Maybe they're critical of gender?



No, they must just want to play act and get a hand of benji's.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

This is something that's been on my mind lately. Maybe from seeing news of well-known people dying from Israel. Maybe from the fact that my dog was just diagnosed with osteosarcoma and probably won't live long. Israel fucking sucks. But I think we are doing people a disservice by using genocide metaphors to describe the deaths of Palestinian. It's very common and well-intentioned, but probably not helping people in the long run.

[benji]

DC gets electoral votes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election_in_the_District_of_Columbia


btw, Hecht, the Bookmark/Report/Quote/Reply buttons don't show on ResetERA.com unless you're logged into an account.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

uhm you better fucking vote. ClickyCal is part of the same Mafia your girlfriend is included in. Y'all need to stick together and stay on that Democrat plantation, ya hear?

[benji]

No, no, don't vote or participate at all in electoral politics and its parties, just wait for an armed uprising that overthrows the state. Any day now. Even though it's never happened in the world's economic power in recorded history. Any second, liberation is coming. (jk libs, whites and cis don't care and won't organize)

[Kyon1988]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-feel-empathy-for-people-easily.1268667/

I find it very hard to feel empathy most of the time unless I can understand what a specific person has been through. It sucks to be that way but yeah, that's just how I am.

Another classic from beach guy

[benji]

Incredible.  

Also nobody in any of the replies has pointed out yet that the OP is a tautology.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

shouldn't Baphomet be finger wagging in the wwe containment thread?

[jooseloose]

Its sad that the pole dance animation is probably smoother than 80% of the actual combat animations lol

It's highly likely given how stiff the punch and kick animations are for MK. They put all the effort in Jade's boobs bouncing I guess.

The many close ups ass shots highlight the detail they put for Cammy and Chun Li with these new outfits.

Why does Chun Li's ass need this much detail Capcom?



Is this why Outfit 4 took so long? Not on a unique new outfit but 4k cheeks

Jeeeesus this literally jump scared me lmao.

Holy fucking shit    Has that been modded or does the game actually look like that with the sweat and everything

[Nintex]

Thank you for bringing back booty sweat President Trump

[Cauliflower Of Love]

more like benjitriggered

[kaleidoscopium]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jeff-sneider-theinsneider-has-a-meltdown-over-james-gunn-debunking-his-scoops.1268676/#post-143824167

[Straight Edge]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-were-the-warnings-that-trump-would-rule-like-a-dictator-ineffective-in-the-2024-election.1268571/page-3#post-143821485

I don't see what the point of this thread is when we've had a million others asking why Trump got elected and all they do is come down to "everyone aside from liberals is stupid," but I'm going to assume you made this thread in good faith and not as a call to once again stir up reactionary drivel just because it feels good in the moment.

America is a colonial empire that runs on the doctrine of neoliberal capitalism, which in plain terms argue that human well-being is a secondary effect, an afterthought, or even a hindrance with regards to the privatization of property and laissez-faire policies where corporations are allowed to do whatever they want. Both parties are ultimately gung-ho for this but have their own interclass conflict at play: Republicans want an evil empire and Democrats also want an evil empire but for the good Black and queer people to run the ship sometimes. Neither is meaningfully interested in leading us into a future that primarily prioritizes human well-being because they're neoliberals who, again, believe that human well-being is secondary to privatization of property. However, they have to pretend like they're not actually friends with each other in order to keep the charade up, and thus elections are advertised on these superstructural issues like immigration or queer rights or policing. (For everyone always wondering why Democrats don't fight back in a material manner; do you openly revolt against your coworkers over minor disagreements, especially when your paycheck is on the line? I thought so.)

So what you end up with is the current hellhole we now live in where life sucks in pretty much every metric imaginable for everyone but the most well off because, well, no one at the top genuinely cares for humanity. And most people know the game is rigged against them, because they're living in the hellhole. They physically deal with it. But they do not have the education nor emotional or psychological tools to pinpoint or elaborate on the problem, and that is by design because America has had strains of anti-intellectualism for about as long as it's been a colonial empire. Like, remember how neither party cares about human well-being? Improving education and media literacy skills sound suspiciously like you're trying to improve human well-being. If the people get smart enough, they might just revolutionize. No, no, no, none of that. We need sychophantic worker drones. Gut the education system, make college unaffordable, allow the social media companies to run rampant with distracting apps and websites more addictive than heroin, allow the traditional media to refuse due diligence in the chase for ratings and for further distraction and editorialization.

Most people, when pressed, just want an honest and comfortable life. But they don't know how to achieve better with all of the barriers and limited tools to gain understanding of their own oppression in the way. So what do people do? They vote for the Party that seems more convincing to them that they understand their issues on a personal level. Sometimes that's Democrats. Sometimes that's Republicans. This time it just happened to be Republicans who were the better marketers.

Now, is this all to say that this is nothing but just sheer economics? Of course not. We know that fascism runs in tandem with economic decay, and we also know that America's status as a colonial empire means that various bigotries- anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism, misogyny, xenophobia, etc.- are baked into its foundation. Of course plenty of Trumpers voted for him just because they wanted to hurt people they're bigoted against. We also know plenty of people just didn't want to vote for a Black woman. But a bigoted society begets a bigot population. The FBI killed Fred Hampton, probably the one person who got closest to synthesizing anti-bigotry with anti-capitalism into a real movement in this country, and no one else has picked up the mantle for a whole host a reasons. This country is not actually serious about materially fighting bigotry, and I include like 99% people on this forum (me too). But yet you all get confused and shocked when bigots act like bigots. Hell, you engage in your own form of cruelty if you deem the target worthy enough with no sense of introspection or questioning of these carceral tendencies. For example, a lot of y'all were dismissive of Biden shitting on Black people in order to big up the "rich and diverse political history" of Latino people, until Latino men voted for Trump, at which point some of y'all were hoping they were deported and their families torn apart by the very Nazis you claim to hate, or at least shrugging at it happening.

America is just a fundamentally cruel nation that prioritizes subservience to capital in every single facet of life to the detriment of humanity, from the pollution to the trash infrastructure to the lack of workers rights to the shitty movies, television, and music we consume to this goddamn fucking AI bullshit- all of it is tainted. This inevitably begets a population of unimaginative and cruel people. It's just now running into a situation where the economics of it all are becoming too contradictory to keep these unimaginative and cruel masses satisfied, which historically has usually meant a descent into fascism. What is happening isn't really all that surprising if you proceed to have a basic understanding of this country's sheer barbarism as well as no actual standards that you hold the populous to. Trump won once, ergo him winning a second time is not unprecedented. Like, I'm sorry, one of our Presidents openly genocided an Indigenous population (and the fact that you don't know which one I'm talking about says it all).

Like, we're not a good country. I don't know what to tell you.

Didn't Read   .  Let me predict.  "I'm smarter than you, I do more for The Cause than you.  Just end capitalism."  


But post #2 seems like a call out to Nepenthe.  She warned us against Harris and also would dreams of a having a "good" dictator.  

Because people want a dictator on their side.

Wait, so “both sides” rhetoric is allowed?

[Alpacx]

Brb, buying an Xbox, street fighter, and a thousand dollars in bikini DLC to own the Libs

[Cauliflower Of Love]

It's kinda of funny to see what course nep is doing in real time. 

What is happening isn't really all that surprising if you proceed to have a basic understanding of this country's sheer barbarism as well as no actual standards that you hold the populous to.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Like, I'm sorry, one of our Presidents openly genocided an Indigenous population (and the fact that you don't know which one I'm talking about says it all).

Idiot course.

[DavidCroquet]

why does she just say “and the fact that you don’t know”? Did someone guess and get it wrong, or is she just shadowboxing again?

[kaleidoscopium]

If you know someone who has willingly applied to work for ICE, be they friend or family, I'd advise you cut things off with them. Whether they get the job or not.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ice-has-received-over-100-000-applications.1268949/#post-143833167

Reminder: this guy works IT for a PRISON 

[benji]

If you know someone who has willingly applied to work for ICE, be they friend or family, I'd advise you cut things off with them. Whether they get the job or not.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ice-has-received-over-100-000-applications.1268949/#post-143833167

Reminder: this guy works IT for a PRISON 

No, the local sheriff. Who sends immigrants to ICE when they're arrested.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

why does she just say “and the fact that you don’t know”? Did someone guess and get it wrong, or is she just shadowboxing again?

What I find humorous is the authority they project about things they're just learning about. 


Like girl, you don't even know yet.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/game-devs-say-that-itchs-adult-content-ban-is-targeting-lesbian-games-even-if-theyre-safe-for-work.1268283/#post-143828577

For these people, there's no line you can draw between offensive things and LGBT+ things. For them, a chaste kiss between two teenagers is just as bad as a sex dungeon, so start supporting the sex dungeon because if it falls, everything else falls.

[Nintex]

Support the sex dungeon 

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/game-devs-say-that-itchs-adult-content-ban-is-targeting-lesbian-games-even-if-theyre-safe-for-work.1268283/#post-143828577

I guarantee next year they'll go after GTA 6.

Depends on how much the investors/owners of Rockstar bend the knee/support Trump.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/game-developer-microsoft-has-no-place-being-accomplice-of-a-genocide-arkane-union-workers-demand-xbox-maker-sever-ties-with-israel.1268202/page-5#post-143824677

Good on them. Arkane is most probably fucked either way, so at least a subsection of them should go out with some dignity.

They should take up arms

[DavidCroquet]

In an expansive report from Trans News Network, numerous indie devs say that their work has been restricted or removed from Itch as part of the ban on adult content.
[…]
That latter point was highlighted by journalist and content creator Ana Valens, who has been reporting on the ongoing censorship of adult material in games extensively.

“lesbian” games delisted, trans most affected.

Maddie May (also known as Milkboy), who had both NSFW and SFW material restricted on Itch. “Me and my girlfriend have been on the verge of homelessness for a while, and we survive completely on her income.”

*checks calendar* is it already a day that ends in y again? how the time flies…

[Orange Juice Box]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-were-the-warnings-that-trump-would-rule-like-a-dictator-ineffective-in-the-2024-election.1268571/page-3#post-143821485

I don't see what the point of this thread is when we've had a million others asking why Trump got elected and all they do is come down to "everyone aside from liberals is stupid," but I'm going to assume you made this thread in good faith and not as a call to once again stir up reactionary drivel just because it feels good in the moment.

America is a colonial empire that runs on the doctrine of neoliberal capitalism, which in plain terms argue that human well-being is a secondary effect, an afterthought, or even a hindrance with regards to the privatization of property and laissez-faire policies where corporations are allowed to do whatever they want. Both parties are ultimately gung-ho for this but have their own interclass conflict at play: Republicans want an evil empire and Democrats also want an evil empire but for the good Black and queer people to run the ship sometimes. Neither is meaningfully interested in leading us into a future that primarily prioritizes human well-being because they're neoliberals who, again, believe that human well-being is secondary to privatization of property. However, they have to pretend like they're not actually friends with each other in order to keep the charade up, and thus elections are advertised on these superstructural issues like immigration or queer rights or policing. (For everyone always wondering why Democrats don't fight back in a material manner; do you openly revolt against your coworkers over minor disagreements, especially when your paycheck is on the line? I thought so.)

So what you end up with is the current hellhole we now live in where life sucks in pretty much every metric imaginable for everyone but the most well off because, well, no one at the top genuinely cares for humanity. And most people know the game is rigged against them, because they're living in the hellhole. They physically deal with it. But they do not have the education nor emotional or psychological tools to pinpoint or elaborate on the problem, and that is by design because America has had strains of anti-intellectualism for about as long as it's been a colonial empire. Like, remember how neither party cares about human well-being? Improving education and media literacy skills sound suspiciously like you're trying to improve human well-being. If the people get smart enough, they might just revolutionize. No, no, no, none of that. We need sychophantic worker drones. Gut the education system, make college unaffordable, are baked into its foundation. Of course plenty of Trumpers voted for him .

Didn't Read   .  Let me predict.  "I'm smarter than you, I do more for The Cause than you.  Just end capitalism."  


But post #2 seems like a call out to Nepenthe.  She warned us against Harris and also would dreams of a having a "good" dictator.  

Because people want a dictator on their side.

Wait, so “both sides” rhetoric is allowed?

Nep gets to post stuff that would get anyone else banned.

Also, the question was why did Trump win and nepenthe dismisses voting in the first sentence.  She goes on to remind us europeans killed indians, media literacy, and sycophantic worker drone, colonialism, etc; as the cause for trumps win. 

Did Trump win because the left tried to suppress the Harris vote?  Probably not.  But the fact she can't examine her own actions as wrong is amazing.  She can't be anything but the smartest most goodest of them all.

[benji]

Trump won because Americans haven't expurgated their Original Sin. That's why there's no point to voting, all those unrepentant sinners are sending us all to hell anyway.

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[JoeBoy101]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-feel-empathy-for-people-easily.1268667/

I find it very hard to feel empathy most of the time unless I can understand what a specific person has been through. It sucks to be that way but yeah, that's just how I am.

Another classic from beach guy

But… that’s what empathy is. Understanding what a person has been through and how it causes them to make the choices they make.

His statement is literally I find it hard to feel empathy unless I am empathetic.