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

[Snoopy]

Today will be a rough day for a lot of people in this world. If you need something to listen to in order to calm your anxieties and help bring down the tension for a bit so that you can breathe, whether it's at home or at work, then please enjoy. Take a moment to just step back and do something for yourself whether that's making a hot cup of tea/coffee or going outside for a bit.

Take time for yourself because there's only one of you in this world and you deserve to be here too. Don't let anyone tell you differently.

Feel free to also post more relaxing stuff and ideas as we all need to decompress sometimes.

[benji]

ERA mods: "Don't listen to this person, trans and enby friends, harm yourself!"

Resetera is legit harmful to trans people but we're the hate site.

Not the first time they've banned a queer person for going against the hive over the topic of suicide, incelsiorlef got one for daring to disagree about how people respond to and think about their own dysphoria.

[benji]

Background: My wife and I are both late 30s, professionals in medical and mental health fields respectively. She is a cis woman, I am a trans woman.

To cut a long story short, my wife has a potential job offer that would be a step up for her in her career. The position would most likely be in Portland, but possibly in Salem, or traveling to both. I can operate in private practice anywhere. We currently live in Minneapolis, and are both a bit worried about the future of MN in general regarding the fash potentially taking over.

Pretty awful actually. My dad died, I lost a job that meant a lot to me, marriage ended, had a major surgery that necessitated a very long and difficult recovery. I'm glad it's over. Hopefully it'll be the last one for me.

[HaughtyFrank]

Background: My wife and I are both late 30s, professionals in medical and mental health fields respectively. She is a cis woman, I am a trans woman.

To cut a long story short, my wife has a potential job offer that would be a step up for her in her career. The position would most likely be in Portland, but possibly in Salem, or traveling to both. I can operate in private practice anywhere. We currently live in Minneapolis, and are both a bit worried about the future of MN in general regarding the fash potentially taking over.

Pretty awful actually. My dad died, I lost a job that meant a lot to me, marriage ended, had a major surgery that necessitated a very long and difficult recovery. I'm glad it's over. Hopefully it'll be the last one for me.

Not a therapist myself, but I wonder if those suicidal thoughts are caused by something more than Trump, like for example your whole personal life going up in flames.
Not a therapist though

[DocWager]

Does Era not send reporting for wellness checks because they know these people are bluffing to E-Beg?

God, I wish I knew what that job loss reason was for, and why his wife left him. I’m guessing something inappropriate.

[Mask]

Now upgraded to permanent with the reason given "concern trolling"

Yep, you heard that right, someone writing "don't kill yourself because of Trump" gets hit with a permanent ban for concern trolling 

Ah man, Dubs...what a forum you've cultivated...

[benji]

White libs would rather unalive themselves than organize against capitalism, colonialism and white supremacy.

[Jansen]

We have now banned or warned multiple people for posting the tweet containing slurs aimed at the Kingdom Come 2 director. It should be obvious, but please think of your fellow Era members and how they can be affected by what you post, and know that openly posting content with hurtful hate speech is not something we are going to allow. Be conscious of the fact that we keep a barrier between what is allowed on other social media and Resetera, exactly because of the disgusting and abhorrent language seen in that tweet. The next time that tweet or anything like it is posted there will be SEVERE consequences for the culprit.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/anti-woke-grifters-have-found-a-new-unusual-target-kingdom-come-deliverance-ii.1085595/page-4#post-134488764

Aww poor gimp is upset. Probably sad he can't roundhouse kick his mom in the face ever again

[Jansen]

None of the usuals are bitching today, just these people:






Anyway, make sure to donate:

Spoiler: just don't look at Melody's retweets  (click to show)(click to hide)

Wow the plastic surgery doctor really fucked up them titties

[killamajig]

I like how even this place has to NSFW a prominent Resetera trans members off site posts because they are so inappropriate.

Good job, era

[HaughtyFrank]

They locked and then remade the Trump thread because people were upset about being called out for not voting

The thread is hopelessly derailed, everyone is attacking each other for either not voting or choosing to vote (something we've been telling everyone not to do for a year now), and has to be locked. If someone would like to reboot it without the derail, feel free.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-to-sign-orders-ending-diversity-programs-proclaim-there-are-only-two-sexes.1086957/post-134606379

Funny how you're allowed to derail every thread about Kingdom Come but when it comes to members having to justify a decision that actually matters it's time to shut up

[Eric Cartman]

No one is "defending TikTok." That is a deeply disingenuous way to blanket this situation.

Believing that TiKTok shouldn't be banned because thousands of people rely on it for their work/small businesses and because it was still one of the best apps for educating about the ongoing genocide is not "defending TikTok." Everyone understands it's another shit company. But reality is more complicated than that

people are dying thats quite bad

kill the jew, death to america

[Eric Cartman]

Real heroes delete their problematic tweets mere days after posting them

[Eric Cartman]

That partners name? Edward Snowden. Checkmate, atheists.

[Eric Cartman]

They cannot even consider that they’re wrong about Vavra after being so wrong already

I like the "Oh hey, era finally found their motto" bit, but their unofficial motto has always been "Needless to say, I was right all along" which is why any vague accusation of any sort will have someone jump in with the "I always knew ____" take

[Eric Cartman]

Era apparently is at "it's sinophobic to not want the CCP controlling your media and news" stage.

Bit weird everything sinophobic happens to align perfectly with censored talking points, innit?

[Eric Cartman]

Does Era not send reporting for wellness checks because they know these people are bluffing to E-Beg?

You'll never get the trans aaron bushnell they really want if you stop people Becoming An Hero

[Eric Cartman]

this is the post that will prevent from office

[Propagandhim]

White libs would rather unalive themselves than organize against capitalism, colonialism and white supremacy.

Every time Nepenthe sees some gay white dude on era post something like, "I have a great job, and me and my partner are doing well financially, but Trump's stance on lgbtq is genocidal and it's killing us"  she must absolutely seethe.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

You can have opted to not vote, or use your vote in protest, for the most honourable, well intentioned reasons. But when Trump wins on fewer votes than he received in 2020, while actively running a campaign that included policies attacking trans people, that means that a chunk of ambivalent voters calculated that the risk to trans people was an acceptable cost to avoid being seen as endorsing genocide.

Trans people have every right to express vocal exasperation at being seen as acceptable collateral damage in this calculation, the same way they have every right to express that same exasperation towards the democratic party for doing the exact same thing in the wake of the general and suggesting they should stop endorsing trans rights to make themselves more popular.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-to-sign-orders-ending-diversity-programs-proclaim-there-are-only-two-sexes.1086957/page-3#post-134603511

"Fuck the Palestinians, I'm the one that's important."

[Eric Cartman]

You can have opted to not vote, or use your vote in protest, for the most honourable, well intentioned reasons. But when Trump wins on fewer votes than he received in 2020, while actively running a campaign that included policies attacking trans people, that means that a chunk of ambivalent voters calculated that the risk to trans people was an acceptable cost to avoid being seen as endorsing genocide.

Trans people have every right to express vocal exasperation at being seen as acceptable collateral damage in this calculation, the same way they have every right to express that same exasperation towards the democratic party for doing the exact same thing in the wake of the general and suggesting they should stop endorsing trans rights to make themselves more popular.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-to-sign-orders-ending-diversity-programs-proclaim-there-are-only-two-sexes.1086957/page-3#post-134603511

"Fuck the Palestinians, I'm the one that's important."

Reminder that poster had an existential meltdown because they made Doctor Who a gay black man

[EaldNarche]

New crazy toma thread just dropped, love the little small print at the start of the thread:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-do-you-see-and-treat-poor-unemployed-people-do-you-see-them-as-equals-or-lesser-people-and-those-poor-yourselves-whats-your-experience-being.1087161/

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-do-you-see-and-treat-poor-unemployed-people-do-you-see-them-as-equals-or-lesser-people-and-those-poor-yourselves-whats-your-experience-being.1087161/

(Disclaimer: This thread has nothing to do with my recent ban. While it would still be nice if mods answered to the ticket ban appeal I opened weeks ago, this thread is separate from that. Just clarifying, because it could be seen as related.)


So I'm from Germany. I've been living off welfare for the past couple years due to a mix of physical and mental health issues. Because I studied at university for many years (without finishing due to aforementioned health issues), I never really had a regular salary, so for me welfare is almost acceptable for my lifestyle. I'm not demanding more or anything. But here's the thing that bothers me and bothers me more with time passing: Being poor, being unemployed, doesn't mean I'm less of a human. And yet that's what everybody around me makes me feel. And not just me. Looking at how people talk about poor/unemployed people, a shocking amount of people in Germany has no shame to outright spew hate against them.

To make matters short, welfare in Germany is called "Bürgergeld" (it's more complicated than that, but this is not the thread for that). This welfare is also the so-called "existence minimum", the amount of money that marks the lowest amount someone can live with here in Germany. If you're unemployed , this is what you'll get (ultimately. again, there's some steps before, but this isn't a thread about the intricacies of the German welfare system). So people who cannot work for WHATEVER reason (health reasons, raising children, no luck finding a job, etc.) will receive that welfare. And for some reason, this makes them also receive an enormous amount of hate.

Being called "lazy" and "leeches" are among the milder things poor people get called here. And all that hate, because we cannot work for one reason or another. Statistics and research have recently proven that only a miniscule amount of 16k people are receiving welfare and outrought refusing to work despite being able to. Because those 16k people exist, haters are shitting on the whole of 2.8 million unemployed people. Meanwhile, these hateful people spend a fraction of the same energy to condemn rich people, millionaires and billionaires, who are actually screwing over the system with their wealth and the ongoing corruption. Introduce a wealth tax? Keep the currently active so-called solidarity tax? Reform inheritance taxes? Reform taxes in general so that poor people are paying less, rich people more? NEVER. But let's shit on poor people, because … BECAUSE.

The reason given, of course, is that poor (and for the record, I'm using poor and unemployed together in this thread; talking about the poorest of the poor, really) people are "taking" the tax money of working people and having a "nice" and "easy" life with it. Which is SUCH bs, of course. Taking myself as an example (and I'm probably an unusual example), I'm in the "lucky" position where I can save up some of my welfare money thanks to getting food often for free. But that aside, I still have the REASONS why I'm unemployed to begin with, my shit health. Just the past two months, 2 new health-issues arose that I'm dealing with now (several of my upper teeth started hurting, and there's a weird clicking sound in my left earer whenever I swallow; doctors told me "can't find anything", great …). And those are minor issues compared to the big ones I don't wanna talk about here. The "paradise" I'm living in that society gives me all their hatred for is me spending all day every day in my room in front of a screen. Eating something. Going to bed very late. Then repeating the same. Only broken up by family events, wich isn't exactly the greatest break due to family issues, too. So, just going off my example, on top of having a shitty, lonely life with just enough money to "live", I also have to bear the permanent, daily hate that working people spew in my and people like mine's direction. Which is ironic, because those being the most hateful are those closest to my status: People who work, but don't earn that much. You'd think they'd direct their anger at rich people, but no, nothing gets them going better than some nice hate against poor people.

While the USA have to deal with Trump and Republicans now, it's very likely that Germany will have to deal with Friedrich Merz and the CDU/CSU in only a few months. And him and his party are very stern supporters of abolishing the current welfare system, lowering the amount of money paid to poor people, and raising all sorts of punishment methods against them. And people are celebrating these plans, hence him and his party likely winning the upcoming Election. And that really has me scared. Social welfare has been neglected and shit for many, many years in Germany. Only 2 years ago, it finally got an overdue, slightly more significant push in a better direction. Only to be followed by "omg, that was too much of a money raise! And not enough punishment! We need to instill fear in poor people so they get back to work!!1"-reaction from the general public, I kid you not. Which is funny when there's more than double as many unemployed people than open jobs, so even if you forced people to take any shit job, there'd still be millions without a job who would be punished for no fault of their own.

And then I look around online and I feel that … there's a lot of the same sentiment. Whether it's irl when people ask you "so what are you doing?" and then it gets all awkward when they cannot handle "Nothing. I'm unemployed" for an answer, on instagram where women say "I wouldn't date a man who doesn't make at least 6 digits", Twitter where people literally dehumanize poor people, or even sometimes Resetera where it feels like a lot of people have lost touch with reality when it comes to money (I want to add that my issues with Resetera in this regard absolutely pale in comparison with the other examples! Just sometimes … ). It really feels like a lot of people out there see poor people as some sort of different species to themselves. At least that's how it feels to me. Everybody has a lobby that fights for its cause. Except poor people. Sure, there are some social organizations, but they're so powerless compared to pretty much anything else that's fighting for a cause.

READ AT LEAST THE FOLLOWING 2 PARAGRAPHS PLS IF THE ABOVE WAS TOO MUCH WALL OF TEXT. THX:

So that's what I wanted to ask you guys, how it's for you. Whether you're poor/unemployed yourselves. And more interestingly, if you're not poor, how do you see and treat the poor people you meet irl and online? Do you see them as "lesser"? Will you still be friends with them or would you rather stay away from them? Would you date an unemployed person? Would you demand conditions a la "I will only interact with poor people who try to find a job"? I guess it all comes down to: Are poor people equals to you (assuming you're not poor) or do you think you're (ever so slightly) better than them?

I'd like to ask everyone (myself included) to keep any replies in this thread polite and civil. It's probably a touchy topic for some, but as someone who's afflicted, I'm interested to hear some real people's opinion on the matter. People who, by way of being part of Resetera, probably are generally less hateful people than elsewhere. Thanks for any feedback and please realize: This thread is not about me, it's about the general topic of poor/unemployed people and how you see them or what experience you've made as one of them. I just wanted to give a concrete example by telling about my situation here in Germany.

What kind of psychopath would view poor people as lesser or leeches? Did Ayn Rand write this OP?

You posted less than a minute after me posting the lengthy OP, calling me a psychopath for sharing my own experience. Thx.

[Eric Cartman]

[Averon]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tiktok-sponsors-maga-2024-inauguration-party.1087155/#post-134610312

I guess it's no longer sinophobic on ERA to hate TikTok again?

[Nintex]

So I'm from Germany. I've been living off welfare for the past couple years due to a mix of physical and mental health issues. Because I studied at university for many years (without finishing due to aforementioned health issues), I never really had a regular salary, so for me welfare is almost acceptable for my lifestyle. I'm not demanding more or anything. But here's the thing that bothers me and bothers me more with time passing: Being poor, being unemployed, doesn't mean I'm less of a human. And yet that's what everybody around me makes me feel. And not just me. Looking at how people talk about poor/unemployed people, a shocking amount of people in Germany has no shame to outright spew hate against them.

That's because you stupid fuck, someone had to flip burgers to pay for your shot at university and you decided to throw that opportunity into the trash and instead have them fund you for the rest of your miserable life.  

If you can write walls of text on a message board, you can work. Simple As.

Might not be the job you want, might not be the best paying job, might not be fulltime but there is literally no reason why you should be 100% unemployed.

[EaldNarche]

So I'm from Germany. I've been living off welfare for the past couple years due to a mix of physical and mental health issues. Because I studied at university for many years (without finishing due to aforementioned health issues), I never really had a regular salary, so for me welfare is almost acceptable for my lifestyle. I'm not demanding more or anything. But here's the thing that bothers me and bothers me more with time passing: Being poor, being unemployed, doesn't mean I'm less of a human. And yet that's what everybody around me makes me feel. And not just me. Looking at how people talk about poor/unemployed people, a shocking amount of people in Germany has no shame to outright spew hate against them.

That's because you stupid fuck, someone had to flip burgers to pay for your shot at university and you decided to throw that opportunity into the trash and instead have them fund you for the rest of your miserable life.  

If you can write walls of text on a message board, you can work. Simple As.

Might not be the job you want, might not be the best paying job but there is literally no reason why you should be unemployed.

If you really think about it, Toma is producing ad revenue for era at least. So can we really say he's unemployed? He's generating all this traffic from us alone. 

[Eric Cartman]

So I'm from Germany. I've been living off welfare for the past couple years due to a mix of physical and mental health issues. Because I studied at university for many years (without finishing due to aforementioned health issues), I never really had a regular salary, so for me welfare is almost acceptable for my lifestyle. I'm not demanding more or anything. But here's the thing that bothers me and bothers me more with time passing: Being poor, being unemployed, doesn't mean I'm less of a human. And yet that's what everybody around me makes me feel. And not just me. Looking at how people talk about poor/unemployed people, a shocking amount of people in Germany has no shame to outright spew hate against them.

That's because you stupid fuck, someone had to flip burgers to pay for your shot at university and you decided to throw that opportunity into the trash and instead have them fund you for the rest of your miserable life.  

If you can write walls of text on a message board, you can work. Simple As.

Might not be the job you want, might not be the best paying job, might not be fulltime but there is literally no reason why you should be 100% unemployed.

Hey c'mon, that's not fair, he already explained he has health issues:

Just the past two months, 2 new health-issues arose that I'm dealing with now (several of my upper teeth started hurting, and there's a weird clicking sound in my left earer whenever I swallow; doctors told me "can't find anything"

[Nintex]

The worst part is that Toma doesn't realize that he is making the situation worse for people that can't even type or put coherent thoughts together.

Some handicapped 30 year old guy that has the mental capacity of a 10 year old will have his meals cut and won't get new shoes not understanding why.
That's where those cuts happen because those people don't complain. It's fucking tragic really.

[Taco Bell Tower]

my guy's wearing openly Nazi band shirts, so no. Fuck him, fuck the studio, fuck KCD. He has been courting them right until they turned on him. He has _always_ defended his idiot gamergate views and didn't stop to think about it for a second, as long as the chuds were his posse. He's made outright racist, revisionist comments, had lot opinions about "wokeness" and the like, about "defunding cancel culture", supported literal Neonazis and is an all around bag of dicks. And now we're supposed to throw a party for him? Because there's one "historically correct" gay and black person each in his game? Fuck that noise.
The enemy of my enemy is not my friend.

edit lol that games' steam forum is 84 pages big, before even releasing, and it's literally ALL one topic. Oh sweet Jesus.

vavra also isn't even demonstrating any desire to redeem himself in light of this, so doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt here at all.

not sure what inspired him to make this development with the MC in spite of his views

https://www.resetera.com/threads/anti-woke-grifters-have-found-a-new-unusual-target-kingdom-come-deliverance-ii.1085595/page-8#post-134597082

They cannot even consider that they’re wrong about Vavra after being so wrong already

Morons, if he tried to redeem himself you wouldn't accept it at all.