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

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/its-really-hard-to-go-about-every-day-life-right-now.1417177/

There's just this feeling of constant uneasiness, a feeling that it's probably wrong to be enjoying a moment of peace while our fellow citizens are being threatened, beaten, terrorized and wrongfully detained/imprisoned by the President of the United States' personal army.

Way to say you don't give a single shit about the immigrants suffering.  

Although I love them endlessly, I hate knowing how I've brought my children into such an unstable time period, where I don't know that I will always be able to guarantee that everything is going to be okay.

Would love to see the list of time periods where you could guarantee that.

I'm feeling the same way that I felt on January 6th, when I was begging my then fiancée to leave work because I was so afraid of what was coming. It feels like domino scene in V for Vendetta, like something major is inevitably about to happen.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/epstein-files-allege-trump-raped-children-at-calendar-girl-parties.1421164/page-14#post-150853399

While still less than men, the amount of women who are pedos is underestimated imo. Plus her obsession with trans people being predators could be projection/deflection, and it does seem obscene wealth fucks peoples brains.

And other things from her like this

Plus she wrote books about children for children, which doesn't mean anything in a vacuum but adds up here.

[benji]

@LadyWarmachine
3 weeks ago
Ah yes. Why would this clip of all clips show up in my feed in this year of our lord two thousand and twenty six? CURIOUS.

@UchihaKat
6 days ago
Algorithm pushing this in Jan 2026 for nooooo reason at all I'm sure.

@BurnByMoonlight
5 months ago
This movie was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual.

@WafflyNimb
8 days ago
The great tragedy of V for Vendetta was, that a lot of angry men watched it and believing they were V - then went out and voted for Sutler.

@GOsborn-o6x
7 days ago
As much as I love this movie, I enjoyed it more when it was fiction

@thelivingscarecrow
5 months ago
The fact this was recommended to me during the current time in the UK is very telling

@Langebaan
6 months ago (edited)
when i first watched this movie, i thought it was a bit cheesy when he said he saw everything as a perfect pattern, and that we were all part of it and trapped by it. but over the last couple years, i now completely understand what he meant. people will do what they will do, and we can see it unfold before our eyes, but be completely powerless to stop it. it will happen, and we are all a part of it.

@owengraziano7288
3 weeks ago (edited)
I’m happy to see I’m not the only person who came back here after what happened in Minneapolis. RIP Renee Nicole Good.

@theonefrancis696
2 weeks ago
Oh boy this was just a trailer for 2026 I guess.

@AutismBarbie
5 years ago
It’s scary how many of us knew to come back to this...

@russcastella
9 days ago
RIP Renee
RIP Alex

@redmondpeters6221
7 months ago
This film is COMPLETELY relevant today. Scary isn't it?

@muhammadaqil6467
6 months ago
how relevant this is today is crazy!

@PricefieldPunk
5 years ago
We living this moment now

@jameseclipse603
5 years ago
Today, this film is more relevant than ever.

@MrCombatmedic00
3 weeks ago
Remember and carry, the 7th of January

2026 America is looking bleak

@offbrandsoup2579
3 days ago
America needs a lot of Guy Fawkes masks right now

@Len0re348
3 weeks ago
I just... I hope people are ready. For what comes next.

It's gonna get ugly.

@roscojenkins7451
2 days ago
I'm Pretti sure I know why this Good clip was algorythmed to me today

@rezult7169
3 weeks ago
Jonathan Ross, the murderer. Remember the name

See, literally just like my animes.

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[Potato]

Five-head

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/epstein-files-allege-trump-raped-children-at-calendar-girl-parties.1421164/page-14#post-150853399

While still less than men, the amount of women who are pedos is underestimated imo. Plus her obsession with trans people being predators could be projection/deflection, and it does seem obscene wealth fucks peoples brains.

And other things from her like this

Plus she wrote books about children for children, which doesn't mean anything in a vacuum but adds up here.

Oh, absolutely.

The projection thing is the strongest argument I've seen for it - it's so true.

 

Billionaires really are the enemies of the people.

About as open and a shut statement as it gets. They'd stoke race wars to keep people away from the one that always mattered, class.

While forms of xenophobia always existed (i.e., disdain for outgroups / foreigners), the wealthy, powerful nobility of colonial Europe were the ones who created and formalized the concept of race / racist ideology to use it as a caste system with which to divide and conquer and easily extract free slave labor and pillage resources en masse in the first place.

 Why would they need to do that in a system where nobody objected to slavery or pillaging resources en masse? (And none of the slave labor was free.) Who was being divided and conquered? The disempowered masses of Europe who lived in the literal caste system of feudalism? The caste system in almost all colonial states (except America) was the existing one stapled on top of the local one.

[HaughtyFrank]

Congrats to Resetera for reaching Q-anon levels

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-2025-ot2-the-2025-elections-the-government-shutdown-and-the-redistricting-reckoning.1320466/page-214#post-150854728

People just found out the entirety of the ruling class is compromised by a group of pedophilic elites. I think decorum can take a backseat.

[HaughtyFrank]

@GOsborn-o6x
7 days ago
As much as I love this movie, I enjoyed it more when it was fiction

The movie where the government gained special powers during a pandemic and the big twist is that the virus was created by the government?

[benji]

@GOsborn-o6x
7 days ago
As much as I love this movie, I enjoyed it more when it was fiction

The movie where the government gained special powers during a pandemic and the big twist is that the virus was created by the government?

There was a circa 2020 comment that mentioned this but none of the recent ones did.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-2025-ot2-the-2025-elections-the-government-shutdown-and-the-redistricting-reckoning.1320466/page-214#post-150854728

People just found out the entirety of the ruling class is compromised by a group of pedophilic elites. I think decorum can take a backseat.

I know some guys who already knew about this years ago and didn't have to "just find out" this week.

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Congrats to Resetera for reaching Q-anon levels

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/drew-gooden-when-you-accidentally-ruin-your-show-stranger-things-final-season.1422043/page-7#post-150798424

 User Banned (1 Week): Hostility

Not really. Your two primary points are about half way into the video and have absolutely nothing to do with what was said about those things. It's less like you actually watched and more like you skimmed the timeline for an argument, found the part about the thing you saw in the thumbnail, maybe watched that part until about a minute after the ad, then had your talking points.

Talking points which aren't actually about what was in the actual video because


Is not the point. The point is the ending was disappointing enough to him that he almost bought into believing that maybe they were right. And


Isn't a criticism levied at the finale. It's an example of the threads that people were pulling at to justify their conspiracy theory framed in the context of all conspiracy theories being people's inability to cope with an explanation being as simple as "just a continuity error".


Driveby? Nonsense. I'm parked in here. Mostly just meant to provoke people into actually watching the work before making sweeping declarations about if for no other reason than to be able to tell me I'm wrong.

It's okay Drew, I'm sure plenty of other people will click your sponsor link, you're safe from the job centre for another few weeks.

Also I read your earlier posts in this thread and I'm sorry I even engaged with you, certified freak 😭😂

[benji]

Driveby? Nonsense. I'm parked in here

[BananaBlast]

link

This isn't against you specifically so much as a pushback on the idea that Granblue Fantasy should be rated higher than some other games. Granblue Fantasy isn't as much of a lost cause as say, NIKKE or ZZZ and the game has a huge roster as expected of a 10+ year old game, but it has never shied away from sexualizing its cast in gross ways. There's countless examples but here's a few:
One - Two - Three - Four - Five
There's a ton of fate episodes (think of them as character quests) that involve the women eventually sleeping with the silent protagonist.

Maybe I'm really out of touch, but these just look like pinups to me, I don't see how this is unusual or gross.

User Banned (2 Weeks): Dismissive Commentary in Sensitive Thread over a Series of Posts; Account in Junior Phase; Permanently Thread Banned

Banned. And permanently Threadbanned. For asking a question. Assimilate correctly, or DIE.  

[Jansen]

From Constructive 

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-2025-ot2-the-2025-elections-the-government-shutdown-and-the-redistricting-reckoning.1320466/page-214#post-150854728

People just found out the entirety of the ruling class is compromised by a group of pedophilic elites. I think decorum can take a backseat.

They really are having trouble understanding that the parties on the island were just a pretext to gather influence and there were many, many more reasons for people to be named in the files than a predilection for fucking kids, aren't they?

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-2025-ot2-the-2025-elections-the-government-shutdown-and-the-redistricting-reckoning.1320466/page-214#post-150854728

People just found out the entirety of the ruling class is compromised by a group of pedophilic elites. I think decorum can take a backseat.

I know some guys who already knew about this years ago and didn't have to "just find out" this week.

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Congrats to Resetera for reaching Q-anon levels

I could really go for some pizza right now. Just might have to open my gate and drive there.

[Jansen]

Constructive dump

This is a generalization comment with not a whole lot of examples on the top of my head and mostly going to be me rambling about something that frustrates me in my current drugged up sick self.



Was reading Thread thread and there's a few examples of something that really irks me here and I think it's something we need to be better about and push for people to be a little bit nicer



It never fails when someone posts a random "news" source, youtuber, personality, etc that is problematic, the first thing people do is quote and respond to that person with some asshole responses. "Aw hell nah, why you posting this trash", "Like the very first line of that video didn't clue you in to the trash you were consuming? Come on man" and those are on the tamer side compared to what we normally see.



We don't always have to grab our pitchforks and go after people who unknowingly post a problematic person or video or site. Not everyone is aware of everything that these people do, and they are a drop in the bucket of an onslaught of personalities and "news" and youtubers. It's hard to just know exactly who all is terrible. Or who is banned here, and going to check the ban list before every post you make isn't always idealz



We need to normalize not being a dick, and I think us as a community and hopefully as mods could get on board with holding assholes accountable. It's not hard to be kind and respond with "Hey, just so you're aware this person is problematic because of xyz." Not "Lol come on man"



We need to educate, not punch down because we may be more aware of what some people do online.

In general I think you're right that people are too quick to assume the worst intent. That example might not be the best case to highlight the phenomenon though as the YouTuber shows herself to be awful with her first hateful sentence.

Why was this thread locked?



[url unfurl=true]https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-says-us-will-have-very-substantial-response-if-canada-enacts-trade-deal-with-china.1423258[/url]

I get that, and agree the first sentence sucks and my post is more for generalization not exactly just that specific topic. I just also know that not everyone sees, understands, comprehends, and grasps everything the exact same way. It isn't going to always be so clear and obvious for everyone and we're not always textbook analyzing every sentence of these videos. We don't always know who is on the other side of the screen when we're going after people for something they may not know about.



The video posted in that thread was 100% problematic and needed removed, but it was also clear the poster didn't recognize it. It didn't come off at all like the poster knowingly posted it with ill intent. I just think being kinder and educating first is more ideal, and if they double down on it then we can grab the torches and pitchforks.

im not trying to be combative, but i think people should really be better about sourcing their material. i get sometimes if you do that, you may still miss something, but this case is a very not great example.

Indeed, I can't imagine posting a video or article/source without having seen it.

As I said in the thread, what we need to normalise is either not thoughtlessly linking to chud trash we're too dopey to recognise is chud trash, or not linking to chud trash we didn't even watch before linking it. We need to normalise not drive-by posting random youtube links in threads without watching and understanding them first.



Calling someone out for posting chud trash is not being a dick, it's upholding community standards. Perhaps the "correct" thing to do is report and not engage, but that's just allowing chud talking points to be broadcast unchallenged until a moderator happens by.



Surely an "innocent" poster would prefer rapid community correction, as occurred in this case with the poster immediately responding with the appropriate contrition, to a delayed ban?

You can correct without being a dick, is what Dante is saying.

Politeness has its place, and so does being blunt.



If a poster is posting chud content, knowingly or not, they're the one being a dick. It's anti-social behaviour, and it is rightfully called out. That's community self-policing.

Not that I think we're at all consistent about tone and how people are allowed to talk to each other and what the standard is.



I got in trouble for calling someone condescending.



But I think you're giving your response too much credit. Labeling someone or something they posted a chud or chud adjacent isn't a free pass to be as rude as the person you're criticizing.

It seems to me that there is a difference between a good person, perhaps lacking the level of media literacy that we would like them to have, posting something dumb as opposed to someone posting it knowingly. The former should be taught while the latter is being a dick.

You can inform and be blunt without being an asshole.



"hey, just so you know this youtuber is blah blah blah. You should find another source and avoid them going forward. You should edit the video out of your post so we don't give them traffic"



Versus…The actual replies that happened.



I dunno. This place has felt hostile for awhile now. Folks just lash out and assume the worst. Not everyone of course! But it happens enough that I do notice and it is a bummer. I went years without using my ignore list and now its like every other day I'm adding someone to it.

when it comes to gamergate/chud shit in particular, I think for the most part people are just exhausted with dealing with it/seeing it for so many years now and also seeing very bad faith arguments by people who are "just asking questions". People don't offer grace because, to be frank, for the most part the people sharing or platforming that kind of crap don't deserve it.

My two cents is that, yeah, if the source is a chud but the specific content linked doesn't have any red flags/chud content itself I can see extending some grace/benefit of the doubt to the person posting, depending on who the chud is (so, like, not someone widely known like Elon or Asmon), but in this case the start of the video itself was chud content, so I can understand people's lack of patience.

People have been using the moral high ground as an excuse to be an asshole for years here, sometimes even as mods. If you have an acceptable target, be it gamergaters, AI, Microsoft, or Democrats, that's a license to go wild against an acceptable target

I do agree that if people are posting content from problematic sources, knowingly or unknowingly, that I'm in full support of people being all over it swiftly and with a no-bullshit attitude. A little bit of grace can & should be shown towards the individual posting that content, however. Some of you have an encyclopedic knowledge of every alt-right chud loser on the internet, and quite often if I'm linking to a video or a take from an onli
ne personality, I'll throw a disclaimer in there if I'm not 100% sure about that person's character because of how people get a bit too personal with it sometimes.

Can't believe all this unchecked rudeness is getting push back

[benji]

Politeness has its place, and so does being blunt.

If a poster is posting chud content, knowingly or not, they're the one being a dick. It's anti-social behaviour, and it is rightfully called out.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/epstein-files-allege-trump-raped-children-at-calendar-girl-parties.1421164/page-14#post-150853399

While still less than men, the amount of women who are pedos is underestimated imo. Plus her obsession with trans people being predators could be projection/deflection, and it does seem obscene wealth fucks peoples brains.

And other things from her like this

Plus she wrote books about children for children, which doesn't mean anything in a vacuum but adds up here.

That's like saying creators of cartoon shows for kids are sus.

[HaughtyFrank]

Politeness has its place, and so does being blunt.

If a poster is posting chud content, knowingly or not, they're the one being a dick. It's anti-social behaviour, and it is rightfully called out.

How are they being a dick if they don't know it's "chud content"?

[Jansen]

Navigating the minefield is part of the fun for the uninitiated posting on reeeee

[Alpacx]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/epstein-files-allege-trump-raped-children-at-calendar-girl-parties.1421164/page-14#post-150853399

Plus she wrote books about children for children, which doesn't mean anything in a vacuum but adds up here.

That's like saying creators of cartoon shows for kids are sus.

Jazz Jennings' gender surgeon apparently went to the island and brought children with them but sure, whip up Qanon tier conspiracies about 

[Boredfrom]

People have been using the moral high ground as an excuse to be an asshole for years here, sometimes even as mods. If you have an acceptable target, be it gamergaters, Al, Microsoft, or
Democrats, that's a license to go wild against an acceptable target.

[filler]

[HaughtyFrank]

There was a time trans RE cared about news

https://www.resetera.com/threads/february-2-2026-ap-doctors-share-the-best-ways-to-get-the-most-from-a-bidet.1424656/

[HaughtyFrank]

No surprise, but the entire united response from the right is simply "She shouldn't have kicked his car, FAFO". They proudly and openly support the abuse of kids and women. And are calling for arrests of all the kids involved for harassment and skipping school
And saying "if kids are old enough to take hormones, they are old enough to get their ass beat."

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-maga-guy-got-out-of-his-truck-to-beat-up-a-bunch-of-kids-and-got-jumped-in-reverse.1423993/post-150855907

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

There was a time trans RE cared about news

https://www.resetera.com/threads/february-2-2026-ap-doctors-share-the-best-ways-to-get-the-most-from-a-bidet.1424656/

allyship only lasts until you're sued and lose

[HaughtyFrank]

allyship only lasts until you're sued and lose

[BananaBlast]

allyship only lasts until you're sued and lose

He hath returned! To save us!  

[BananaBlast]

OH SHIT, I MEAN SHE.... SHEE-

*shot*