Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/question-for-all-would-you-hug-pet-your-favourite-wild-animals-if-you-could-so-so-ethically.1180536/

Hi all!!! Pretty much what the thread title says, if you had the opportunity to pet or hug your favourite animals in an ethical way that didn't due stress or harm to the animal (because their care and freedoms should always be above our wants to pet them)? Whether they be mammals, reptiles, birds etc etc?

If so, what species are they and what do you think it's like (:

For me (:

Favourite Feline: Cheetah, oh god yes!!!!
Favourite Non-Feline Mammal: Highland Cows, YES AND I HAVE MANY TIMES!!!! THEIR LOVELY BOVINE!!!!! 
Favourite Reptile: Komodo Dragons, Yes, the calm actually be very calm around humans once they are you to use.
Favourite Bird: Jackdaws, Yes and I have done so in the past, they were tamed Jackdaw (though my local ones actually do gather around outside when I'm sitting in the garden and wait for me in the morning, they don't fear me and know I'll give them food (: )
Favourite Amphibian: The Poisonous Golden Dart Frog, Yes and I have (though that one wasn't poisonous because they didn't have the formicine ants that makes them poisonous in the wild)
Favourite Fish: Puffer Fish, Yes but only wearing gloves and with a safer species
Favourite Insect: Wasps, Yes and have done so (delicately)
Favourite Arachnid: Daddy Long-Legs/Common Harvestmen, No as I don't want to hurt or scare the poor things.
Favourite Land Mollusc: Snails and Slugs, Yes and I have, beautiful giant African Snails (:
Favourite Other land Invertebrate: Millipedes, Yes and I have, a beautiful giant African Millipede (:
Favourite Sea Mollusc: Sea Angels, No I don't wont to hurt them.
Favourite Sea Cucumber: Sea Pigs, No humans are horrible to them, leave them alone!
Favourite other Maine invertebrate: Bloodybelly Comb jellies, No, I think I would explode from trying, also they should be left alone.

A few years ago I would say mountain lions but they keep eating the pets in our neighborhood. My neighbor's Pomeranian sadly was eaten a few months ago and the fucker had the audacity to leave its head and collar in their backyard

[Boredfrom]

Some people arent ready to accept that the Biden era democrats enabled a genocide.

Some people don’t want to admit that they made stuff much worse by they clueless activism and refusing to compromise when they could. Tell me, how is Gaza better with Trump than with Kamala?

[Bootsthecat]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-am-normally-able-to-dismiss-stupid-as-just-that-however-these-flat-earth-people-somehow-make-me-mad-when-i-hear-them-speak.1180410/

Related: "Men can magically turn into biological women through feelings and estrogen shots" ..discuss

[almostheathen]

She was a Birette, I was quiet, very gentle and gentle pet her once before slowly moving back so she didn't consider me a threat.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/question-for-all-would-you-hug-pet-your-favourite-wild-animals-if-you-could-so-so-ethically.1180536/

A few years ago I would say mountain lions but they keep eating the pets in our neighborhood. My neighbor's Pomeranian sadly was eaten a few months ago and the fucker had the audacity to leave its head and collar in their backyard

Indigenous animal assassinating a colonizer.

[Boredfrom]

If people weren't ignoring Gaza outright, they were insisting it was not that bad, constantly citing numbers that were way too low with current standards at the time. At the same time they were trying to insist protestors and sympathizers were all unequivocal bigots and terrorism apologists.  

It kills me how nobody is going to point out her Twitter post about the Jews or how B Dubs killed PoliEra just to protect her ass.

The bigot and terrorist sympathizer bitchs about being perceived that way.

[HaughtyFrank]

The fact is socialist candidates do best in areas dominated by 20-40 year old college educated, largely white, Millennials. That is why Astoria in Queens has turned into such a socialist stronghold, because college-educated 30 something renters moved there and are the people who turn out to vote. Socialist candidates, including Zohran in all available polling, struggle the most with trying to reach out to working class black and Hispanic voters. A recent poll had Zohran not even breaking double digits in The Bronx against Cuomo.

I'm aware of how American socialism on the electoral front has an extremely white-centric problem. I was calling out these whites before y'all finally stopped watching them on Twitch because I'm Black and can parse basic information. What does this have to do with anything I've said in general?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pro-palestine-protestor-calls-aoc-a-war-criminal-regarding-gaza-and-is-escorted-out-of-queens-townhall.1180425/post-139468446

So when only college educated whites are interested in socialism Nepnep concludes its the fault of the whities?

[Potato]

Nep is an absolute failure of a human being whose greatest achievement in life is becoming an unpaid Resetera admin.

How those idiots can handle being spoken down to by her every single day is so mind-blowing to me. 

[Boredfrom]

I was calling out these whites before y'all finally stopped watching them on Twitch because I'm Black and can parse basic information.

I think he is telling you that PoC socialists are in reality not that common and often comes from privilege (hey Nep!  ) to have meaningful political power, and that AOC is an exception as she appeals to to a wider demographic ( for better or worse  ).

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

people care about AOC and her crocodile tears in front of a detention center while wearing thousands of dollars worth of clothes?

She's a stooge just like the rest of them and part of the capitalist problem.

[Besticus Maximus]

Problem is she isn't a socialism, none of her goals or understanding of policy or anything really are aligned with basic fundamental principles of any kind of socialsim, let alone communism. She is, in fact, just a racist reactionary nativist.

[Boredfrom]

I don’t care for AOC but the dinosaurs in the Democratic Party seem to think that is business as usual with Trump and just need to wait and will become magically desirable.

[Boredfrom]

Problem is she isn't a socialism, none of her goals or understanding of policy or anything really are aligned with basic fundamental principles of any kind of socialsim, let alone communism. She is, in fact, just a racist reactionary nativist.

But a useful idiot for tankie ERA. They were able to kill their mortal enemy, PoliERA, just by involving Nepenthe in the fraught.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pro-palestine-protestor-calls-aoc-a-war-criminal-regarding-gaza-and-is-escorted-out-of-queens-townhall.1180425/page-6#post-139472007

For the liberals reading this, this does not mean the Israelis should be killed or even expelled, because believe it or not most marginalized groups wouldn't do to white people what whites have done to them.

This is a weird thing to say in reference to Israeli Jews when the majority aren't "white", they're Mizrahi.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Sorry but if you don't pass my perfect purity test you support genocide.

[Boredfrom]

Iori is such a retard.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Iori is such a retard.

You're being pedantic. Whiteness isn't a real race to begin with, it is a social construct formed by America to stop slaves from getting out via conversion to Christianity as well as justify their genocide of the natives. Certain groups assimilate into this quite well even though they weren't considered such prior, as the in-groups change over time. Israel's alignment and power as a proxy state for western interests means it is functionally "white."

Iranians look rather "white" for example, but they'd never be treated as such or given the protections a white aligned group would be.

That was also in reference to people claiming that no Israel = all Israelis get killed. The same type of argument was raised in regards to why we shouldn't free the slaves and why apartheid South Africa has to stay... In those cases, it is much easier for someone like you to understand, I'm sure.

[Alpacx]

Even better:

This is a weird thing to say in reference to Israeli Jews when the majority aren't "white", they're Mizrahi.

It's a weird narrative that endlessly gets posted here and on social media. Genetic studies have shown that Palestinians and Israelis are very similar when compared to others.

Lori responds:

You're being pedantic. Whiteness isn't a real race to begin with, it is a social construct formed by America to stop slaves from getting out via conversion to Christianity as well as justify their genocide of the natives. Certain groups assimilate into this quite well even though they weren't considered such prior, as the in-groups change over time. Israel's alignment and power as a proxy state for western interests means it is functionally "white."

That was also in reference to people claiming that no Israel = all Israelis get killed. The same type of argument was raised in regards to why we shouldn't free the slaves and why apartheid South Africa has to stay... In those cases, it is much easier for someone like you to understand, I'm sure.

Someone else chimes in:

You do realize that Israeli jews discriminate on what Jewish tribe you are part of? It's why Mizrahi jews end up being reactionary because they need to "prove" themselves. It's why Ethiopian jews were/are discriminated against in Israel.

[Alpacx]

Do you think B-Dubs regrets purging PoliEra? He agrees with them on most things and compared to the rest of Era they were sane.

Is that the dumbest thing he's done?

Edit: more Word Salad for Benji to eat:

I don't think we can achieve succinctness in strategy without actually figuring out our demands first. Part of the issue you correctly point to is the nebulousness and relational context of political terms like "left," which is why I'm always saying I'm confused by people including people like me in the in-fighting because "in-fighting" implies that I am in the same political headspace as most of the people on Era. I'm not. And frankly I don't know why that delineation engenders resentment; my side is small. You'd do better to be honest and ignore my side than try to lie to me to say "we're all in this together."

We're not all in this together.

Many people on the "left" want the continuance of capitalism but just want select minorities- namely queer folks and standard ethnic minorities lucky enough to be born in the West- to be beneficiaries of its upward flow of wealth and relative stability, but they never say that and instead just continue to engage in shallow idpol and contrarianism to Republicans as the baseline of their politics because aesthetics and culture war drivel are how we've been indoctrinated to engage in politics.

We've never actually had a true reckoning to define what system we want, what our relationship should be to a system, what are the basic principles that should be upheld, none of that. We've resigned ourselves to different flavors of capitalism and insist having a different flavor means it's not fundamentally the same dessert. Liberals just keep grabbing me by the shoulder and pulling me in for a group photo without my consent, and when I say "Yo, I'm not part of this family reunion," they get mad at me and keep saying I'm the one ruining the picture! Like I didn't ask to be included in the first place, but you keep talking about the left!

We should define terms! We should discuss and debate about meaning and context! We should increase our vocabulary! We should educate ourselves about the conditions of the world, past and present! We should literally seek to gain as much knowledge as possible instead of resting our laurels on vague assumptions and ill-defined beliefs and movements, because when you can define the problem then you can define the solution. It's why for example I always tell people to define "human nature" when they're resigning themselves to capitalist realism, to get them to actually think critically about why they are reflexively assuming that all humans actually think like capitalists and are thus assuming this system is all biologically-driven.

So before we even decide what the plan is, we need to decide not only what the problems are by how we individually align ourselves in the pursuit of solutions to those problems. You can't plan for a problem you don't know about. This vagueness and lack of clarity on what "leftism" is is part of the problem and is why liberals are always playing defense against Republican framing. They don't actually know what they believe, or they do but are scared to say it because their beliefs are shit and they don't want to engage in the work of deconstructing shitty beliefs to attain better ones.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Jews = White

Deal with it.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/race-incident-in-rochester-involving-slurs-against-little-boy-goes-viral-alleged-offender-has-raised-250k-to-relocate.1179825/page-5#post-139472448

I think the most stupid is the asinine comparison with Karmelo, how the fuck do you compare that to a shitty woman saying the N-Word to a 5 year old kid just because the kid took something, which is basically like what every single kid does

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

people got mad about that black teen who killed someone getting a shit ton of money so they're donating to the racist lady to spite it.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pro-palestine-protestor-calls-aoc-a-war-criminal-regarding-gaza-and-is-escorted-out-of-queens-townhall.1180425/page-6#post-139472007

For the liberals reading this, this does not mean the Israelis should be killed or even expelled, because believe it or not most marginalized groups wouldn't do to white people what whites have done to them.

This is a weird thing to say in reference to Israeli Jews when the majority aren't "white", they're Mizrahi.

Also ignores how Jews were expelled from all the Arab countries surrounding Israel and how Israelis have obviously been killed too, so what the fuck is he even talking about?

[Potato]

Iori is such a retard.

You're being pedantic. Whiteness isn't a real race to begin with, it is a social construct formed by America to stop slaves from getting out via conversion to Christianity as well as justify their genocide of the natives. Certain groups assimilate into this quite well even though they weren't considered such prior, as the in-groups change over time. Israel's alignment and power as a proxy state for western interests means it is functionally "white."

Iranians look rather "white" for example, but they'd never be treated as such or given the protections a white aligned group would be.

That was also in reference to people claiming that no Israel = all Israelis get killed. The same type of argument was raised in regards to why we shouldn't free the slaves and why apartheid South Africa has to stay... In those cases, it is much easier for someone like you to understand, I'm sure.

Ok, who hacked Gameboy's account? Benji, that ain't funny. 

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Cum

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Asmongold/comments/1kdww59/its_official_shiloh_raised_more_money_than/

these replies are a goldmine of culture warriors. 

[Propagandhim]

Do you think B-Dubs regrets purging PoliEra? He agrees with them on most things and compared to the rest of Era they were sane.

Is that the dumbest thing he's done?

Edit: more Word Salad for Benji to eat:

I don't think we can achieve succinctness in strategy without actually figuring out our demands first. Part of the issue you correctly point to is the nebulousness and relational context of political terms like "left," which is why I'm always saying I'm confused by people including people like me in the in-fighting because "in-fighting" implies that I am in the same political headspace as most of the people on Era. I'm not. And frankly I don't know why that delineation engenders resentment; my side is small. You'd do better to be honest and ignore my side than try to lie to me to say "we're all in this together."

We're not all in this together.

Many people on the "left" want the continuance of capitalism but just want select minorities- namely queer folks and standard ethnic minorities lucky enough to be born in the West- to be beneficiaries of its upward flow of wealth and relative stability, but they never say that and instead just continue to engage in shallow idpol and contrarianism to Republicans as the baseline of their politics because aesthetics and culture war drivel are how we've been indoctrinated to engage in politics.

We've never actually had a true reckoning to define what system we want, what our relationship should be to a system, what are the basic principles that should be upheld, none of that. We've resigned ourselves to different flavors of capitalism and insist having a different flavor means it's not fundamentally the same dessert. Liberals just keep grabbing me by the shoulder and pulling me in for a group photo without my consent, and when I say "Yo, I'm not part of this family reunion," they get mad at me and keep saying I'm the one ruining the picture! Like I didn't ask to be included in the first place, but you keep talking about the left!

We should define terms! We should discuss and debate about meaning and context! We should increase our vocabulary! We should educate ourselves about the conditions of the world, past and present! We should literally seek to gain as much knowledge as possible instead of resting our laurels on vague assumptions and ill-defined beliefs and movements, because when you can define the problem then you can define the solution. It's why for example I always tell people to define "human nature" when they're resigning themselves to capitalist realism, to get them to actually think critically about why they are reflexively assuming that all humans actually think like capitalists and are thus assuming this system is all biologically-driven.

So before we even decide what the plan is, we need to decide not only what the problems are by how we individually align ourselves in the pursuit of solutions to those problems. You can't plan for a problem you don't know about. This vagueness and lack of clarity on what "leftism" is is part of the problem and is why liberals are always playing defense against Republican framing. They don't actually know what they believe, or they do but are scared to say it because their beliefs are shit and they don't want to engage in the work of deconstructing shitty beliefs to attain better ones.

"And thus concludes my report on why I deliver sandwiches to my community"

[BananaBlast]

Wait, hold the phone, did a bunch of racist fucks really crowdfound over 500k just to support a completely random white woman calling a black 5 year old child the N-word?

😐

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Wait, hold the phone, did a bunch of racist fucks really crowdfound over 500k just to support a completely random white woman calling a black 5 year old child the N-word?

😐

Yes.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Asmongold/comments/1kdww59/its_official_shiloh_raised_more_money_than/

these replies are a goldmine of culture warriors. 

What?

[Boredfrom]

Wait, hold the phone, did a bunch of racist fucks really crowdfound over 500k just to support a completely random white woman calling a black 5 year old child the N-word?

😐

Yes.

 
asmongold just prove his critics right about him and his fanbase?