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

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

What's wrong with being a cuck? 

what if I like standing in a closet watching someone rail my partner?! WHY IS THIS A PROBLEM?!  

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/justin-baldoni%E2%80%99s-live-action-pac-man%E2%80%99-movie-in-doubt-amid-blake-lively-legal-battle-hollywood-reporter.1095600/

Got time to make a thread but not enough time to bump the Trump signs EO banning under 19 gender affirming care thread back to the first page? 

Y'all wonder why Era doesn't care about Trans issues when even their trans members stop caring. So tiring, I guess us trans folks should just lay down and die.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kamalas-late-campaign-rally-in-texas-with-beyonce-was-to-get-on-rogans-show-but-rogans-people-moved-goal-posts-according-to-new-book.1095591/

The newest crime against Kamala and umpteenth reason why she lost has been posted.

The tone is different, Flaherty thought. The vice president of the United States is offering to come to your f—ing show, and you keep putting up more hoops. Harris's team still wanted to make it work, but a new wariness set in.

The vice president of a genocide supporting regime. 

Is this the stage people are at? "Rogan was unfair to Kamala" or something?

But I do confess it's a shame we couldn't get the worst podcast episode ever recorded out of this.

Rogan's bait and switch aside, this is still quite possibly the most botched campaign I might ever see in my lifetime. There were 3-4 states that were way more pivotal during that crunch period than fucking Texas.

She was literally knocking on doors in Pennsylvania the night before the election, what you're saying is absolutely ridiculous.

"Most botched campaign"?!

I don't even have the words anymore…

There were plenty of people begging to talk to Kamala that were most certainly not Trump voters but she spent all this effort going for Rogan and got scammed by him, which isn't surprising, he's a chud.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kamalas-late-campaign-rally-in-texas-with-beyonce-was-to-get-on-rogans-show-but-rogans-people-moved-goal-posts-according-to-new-book.1095591/

Rogan's bait and switch aside, this is still quite possibly the most botched campaign I might ever see in my lifetime. There were 3-4 states that were way more pivotal during that crunch period than fucking Texas.

She was literally knocking on doors in Pennsylvania the night before the election, what you're saying is absolutely ridiculous.

"Most botched campaign"?!

I don't even have the words anymore…

So she was wasting her time going door to door?

[HaughtyFrank]

Coincidentally who was being written about in the thing I stole for 4:

This breed of performative male feminism can take many forms, but implicit in it is the same sensibility that animated the conspicuously low-maintenance Cool Girl. When one of these guys says men are trash, he doesn’t mean himself. Even if he nominally claims to still be “unlearning” his own bad ideological habits, he’s not like those other guys, not one of the bad men. He’s “half woke,” a step above the rest, one of the good ones, or—on certain curious occasions—not actually a man at all. Last year, Peter Coffin, a bearded, male-presenting feminist, came out publicly as nonbinary because “I am physically happy with myself but severely dislike my place in the gender dynamic.” In fact, Coffin wrote, “it just felt like the dynamic didn’t apply to me.” Ignoring the fact that Coffin still reads as male to the world at large (and will continue to reap the accompanying benefits of such, whatever they might be), it’s not hard to see the reasoning: Men are Bad. I am Not Bad. Hence, I am Not a Man.

Either way—whether he’s disavowing masculinity entirely or only distancing himself from it—the Cool Guy’s performance inches him incrementally closer to the new nexus of cultural power. And yes, it sometimes puts him in contact with women who find his posturing attractive, but here the analogy frays: Cool Guys are not, above all, hot, nor is that their primary intention. Where Amy Dunne imagines grabbing an enraptured man by the lapels and telling him what’s what—“Nobody likes chili dogs that much!”—many women, and particularly the longtime feminists from whom the Cool Guy borrows his talking points, find him insincere and obnoxious. Even the women who date these men describe being attracted not to the behavior itself, but to the appearance of allyship, a guy they won’t have to explain male privilege to because he already gets it. It’s not that this self-flagellating male feminism is sexy, but it does seem safe. Surely, that guy won’t mistreat a woman the way a less-enlightened man might.

Except, of course, that they do. Scratch the surface of the Cool Guy’s self-conscious cheerleading, and there’s often something ugly underneath. You need only look at the way these men, who claim to respect and revere women, react when challenged by one—or at how they treat their girlfriends. The exposure of prominent male feminists as hypocritical jerks in their private lives happens so often that it’s not just a familiar narrative, but an SNL punchline.

So what defines the Cool Guy? It might be that Cool Guys are, above all, useless. It’s not just the convenient impossibility of their proposed solutions (it’s easy to make noise about dragging men into the sea or establishing a worldwide matriarchy when you’re utterly secure in the knowledge that neither of these things would ever happen.) It’s not even the way they abdicate a unique opportunity to address these issues in male spaces, choosing instead to indulge in empty self-promotional misandry that other men find either pathetic or alienating. These men push their way into the spotlight, making their self-aggrandizing martyrdom the main event, making a naked play for influence at the expense of women’s voices, and condescending to them in the process. The narrative they push, of women oppressed and in need of rescuing, is inherently disempowering. And when they bash the members of their sex as terrible or predatory by nature, they’re hardly telling the truth about men in general; too often, they’re just telling on themselves. That Cool Guys keep turning out to be bad guys follows a certain logic, what Tablet’s Phoebe Maltz Bovy identifies as “that gut sense … that a dude so proud of publicly checking his male privilege and so aware of why women might fear men, was a man women have reason to fear.”

Spoiler: the SNL sketch (click to show)(click to hide)

Non binary is the kind of thing is just can't accept as anything but purely performative. I mean what else could it be, they can't even define what it means after all. It seems like the kind of thing that could have only emerged from the recent gender discourse. It also conveniently comes with zero requirements to change your own behavior, hell, don't even have to change your pronouns, just do a "he/they"

As suspect as trans people can be at times at least they can define what they want to be (well somewhat, let's not get into the whole "what is a woman")

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

 That fucking video. Perfect representation.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kamalas-late-campaign-rally-in-texas-with-beyonce-was-to-get-on-rogans-show-but-rogans-people-moved-goal-posts-according-to-new-book.1095591/

There were plenty of people begging to talk to Kamala that were most certainly not Trump voters but she spent all this effort going for Rogan and got scammed by him, which isn't surprising, he's a chud.

How were they scammed?  

She authorized her negotiating team to give Rogan what he demanded—an in-studio interview in Austin—on October 25.

...

Flaherty had called his Rogan contacts on October 18, before the rally was set.

“We could do Friday, the 25th,” Flaherty said.

“Wish we had known about this sooner, because he has the 25th blocked out as a personal day,” one of Rogan’s reps said.

“What about Saturday morning?” Flaherty countered.

“Only if it’s before 8:30 a.m.,” came the tough reply.

...

For many Democratic operatives outside the campaign, the October 22 announcement that Harris would hold a Houston rally felt like a palm-to-face moment. She was going to lose Texas, by a lot, and a visit would not force Trump to spend his limited campaign money there.

Her aides scheduled the rally for a Friday night in the fall — October 25 — in Texas!

One person in the thread noticed:

This seems entirely CYA. They should have locked down a time before doing planning for a rally in Houston. They didn't, and are trying to blame it on Rogan.

Incompetent campaign managers.

What was the scam here?

The teams spoke on October 10.
The Harris Campaign planned a trip to Texas, didn't confirm with Rogan until 7 days before when they found out that Rogan had reserved that date for someone else (Trump?)

And then they announced the Texas rally a few days later?

They didn't confirm the date and Trump got there first. And they got mad that Rogan wasn't bending over backwards for Harris.

To be sure, I am not defending Rogan here. He's a massive idiot and an apologist for billionaire fascists. He's promoted multiple far right people.

It's just obvious that the top campaign staff is trying to cover their asses from deflection. I refuse to allow them to rehabilitate themselves. They shouldn't work on a campaign of consequence ever again.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Put it in your back pocket for the next time

=

Meanwhile, things not going great in the Politics OT:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-ot-4-5-intermission-keys-more-like-uhhmmm-i-got-nothing-today.962805/page-1665#post-134968548


A bunch of suicide ideation, edited out, very helpfully quoted for history by another user. 

Their whole (short) post history is about unaliving themselves because era is driving them to it

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[benji]

 

All podcasts are right-wing:

I don't think there's a podcast with significant reach she could have got on. They're all right wing cesspools.

The podcasters and influencers are not slaves to the right. They actively and intentionally sell the messaging of the right.

He's a racist white supremacist and always has been

The guy that had Alex Jones on to talk about how they have cured cancer but big pharma doesn't want you to know about it might be into right-wing politics?

Rogan is and has always been compromised.

Just a reminder that Spotify pays this dangerous lunatic hundreds of millions of dollars for his podcast. Plenty of apps exist to move your playlists to other services. 🤷

No shit. Rogan is Limbaugh for people too stupid to recognize it.

Rogan is an overt racist who's spent 5 years stewing in the Texas conservative political bubble.

Not sure if going on Rogan to try to reach his audience that hates women and black people to begin with would've done much

There are Rogan listeners who listen just because it's a popular podcast, I don't know why they listen but they do

They listen because they're basic and they don't want to be challenged. Listening to an unapologetic dumbass doesn't challenge them.

Hearing any message that amounted to "don't vote for Strong White Daddy" would have challenged them.

Going on that show would have just sunk her even more.

The information age was supposed to be the best time to be on this planet, but people like Elon Musk and Joe Rogan have utterly destroyed that potential. This species isn't worth saving.

[Joe Rogan's] supporters know he's a coward. They know this because they know THEY are cowards.

Stop assuming virtue of MAGA. Y'all give white supremacists way too much credit. They bend the knee for their godking because they know they're weak.

Fatty going through his daddy issues in this thread.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kamalas-late-campaign-rally-in-texas-with-beyonce-was-to-get-on-rogans-show-but-rogans-people-moved-goal-posts-according-to-new-book.1095591/

The newest crime against Kamala and umpteenth reason why she lost has been posted.

The tone is different, Flaherty thought. The vice president of the United States is offering to come to your f—ing show, and you keep putting up more hoops. Harris's team still wanted to make it work, but a new wariness set in.

The vice president of a genocide supporting regime. 

Is this the stage people are at? "Rogan was unfair to Kamala" or something?

But I do confess it's a shame we couldn't get the worst podcast episode ever recorded out of this.

Rogan's bait and switch aside, this is still quite possibly the most botched campaign I might ever see in my lifetime. There were 3-4 states that were way more pivotal during that crunch period than fucking Texas.

She was literally knocking on doors in Pennsylvania the night before the election, what you're saying is absolutely ridiculous.

"Most botched campaign"?!

I don't even have the words anymore…

There were plenty of people begging to talk to Kamala that were most certainly not Trump voters but she spent all this effort going for Rogan and got scammed by him, which isn't surprising, he's a chud.

Being fair, Rogan should just said he didn’t wanted in his show because he wanted to suck Trump’s cock. He has no obligation to accept her as a guest but sure as hell he didn’t want to burn a bridge just in case.

Imagine debasing yourself for Trump.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

I need to know what blueball thinks of Kyuuji actually being a hulking ginger incel

Excuse me, that's hulking ginger high femme incel.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Nola banned somewhere.

[Alpacx]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kamalas-late-campaign-rally-in-texas-with-beyonce-was-to-get-on-rogans-show-but-rogans-people-moved-goal-posts-according-to-new-book.1095591/

The newest crime against Kamala and umpteenth reason why she lost has been posted.

There were plenty of people begging to talk to Kamala that were most certainly not Trump voters but she spent all this effort going for Rogan and got scammed by him, which isn't surprising, he's a chud.

B-Cucks quoting that Booshka post

What effort? They did ONE rally to try and make the times line up, that's it. You make it sound like they moved heaven and earth.

More:

I would imagine a rally in Houston with Beyoncé at the end of a presidential campaign requires a lot of effort. That's all I was saying.

It's one rally.

I'm with this dude. I want to know the sports podcasts they tried to get her on. We talking Bill Simmons or more like a Barstool?

I want more reporting about sports podcasts turning her down

[benji]

Being fair, Rogan should just said he didn’t wanted in his show because he wanted to suck Trump’s cock. He has no obligation to accept her as a guest but sure as hell he didn’t want to burn a bridge just in case.

The article doesn't support this though. Harris' team asked about October 25th, Rogan's team told them it wasn't available. So they scheduled a rally for October 25th in Texas anyway. At no point does it establish that they ever agreed to even do the podcast. The Harris team apparently just turned around and decided not to after learning he did it with Trump. 

[killamajig]

Supporters of immigration point to research that shows immigrants commit fewer crimes than those born in the U.S

I always hate these little weasely passages that sneak into reporting.

Are you talking about legal residents, or people without legal status? If its the latter, the crime commission rate is something near 100%…cuz yknow, the illegal immigration part.

It’s just one of those typical left wing owngoals. I don’t know who taught these people that they strengthen their point when they draw obfuscating equivalences between <benign thing> and <controversial if not illegal thing>, but it is always transparent and makes them seen mentally damaged.

https://crimeresearch.org/2025/01/after-removing-immigration-related-crimes-the-percent-of-foreign-citizens-in-federal-prison-is-46-6-higher-their-share-of-the-us-population/

As of 2023, approximately 14.3% of people living in the United States were born outside the country. 49% were naturalized U.S. citizens, so 51% of the foreign-born population were not U.S. citizens as of 2022 (this includes lawful permanent residents, legal temporary residents, and illegal aliens). Applying this percentage to the 2023 foreign-born population estimate, around 7.3% of the total U.S. population were non-citizens at that time. By contrast, 15.3% of prisoners in federal prison in January 2025 were citizens of a foreign country — 110% higher than their share of the U.S. population. These numbers don’t differentiate between legal and illegal aliens. Part of this high rate may be due to the types of crimes that the federal government covers. For example, 4.6% of the prisoners are there for immigration offenses. Subtracting 4.6% from 15.3% will give 10.7%, which is still 46.6% higher than their share of the U.S. population. But some of the immigrations may involve fraud by U.S. citizens.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

One rally that was a waste of time and resources in a state that isn't going Blue for Harris.

[Boredfrom]

His supporters know he's a coward.

[ClothedMac]

Nepenthe 3  

You don't have to pretend to have an answer, because black and brown people have done the thinking for you. There's tons of written and video content out there. In general, all white people have to do is implement the solutions that have been sitting there free of charge.

Watch YouTubes, save the world.  That sounds about right for her.

But that would mean admitting there is a problem and checking your ego at the door, instead of obfuscating the point and kicking the can down the road since the status quo is just so darn cozy.

  insert picture of cozy house 

blaming Trump on minorities not outvoting 60% of the population, leaning into the falsehood the this is an American-centric problem, asking why I didn't put Latinos and Asians on blast

He, were only blaming minorities that voted for trump or didn't vote.  And Nep, babe, we know your thoughts on asians and light skinned laninx.  You've made it quite clear. 


4

I teach my kids about world issues, we relish the opportunities for our kids to visit other countries or experience their culture locally but I still have to check my ego at the door? Why because I tell you we're not racist because we do those things?

it's because it's obvious that you're upset.  You literally aren't understanding that this defensive behavior- right here- is part of that "spectrum" of behaviors I talked about earlier

And she busts out a classic.  A hit dog do holler, aroooooo! 

5

The notion that you can't say "all" of white people in any context is silly for two reasons, those two reasons being metonymy and heritability.

Let's start with the first one because it's simple: Metonymy is just a fancy way of saying "using an encompassing concept to describe a wide spread phenomenon." 

For example, take the statement "America has an obesity problem." No one is going to really balk at this.

"America?! You're saying ALL Americans are obese?! You can't say that! I'M skinny!"

But you aren't saying, "America has a racism problem."  You are literally saying, "all white people are racist."  If you said, "all americans are obese," then that is a untrue statement, stupid statement. 
And you got the word wrong.  
Definition: "Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a word is substituted for another word that it is closely associated with. For example, “the White House” is often used as a metonymy for the presidential administration."
Definition: "the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing."

Who could have seen that coming.  Nepenthe using a word she heard but not really grasping what it means.  Like White Fragility.  She uses that as a way to say white people fragile or weak.  I would love to see some of those college essays and red ink spilled. 

That's why racism is so bad! How can you apply this concept of metonymy to race?!

Easily, because of heritability. Shaun of Shaun and Jen talks about this at length in his episode about The Bell Curve, but if you don't want to watch two hours of video to get to the pertinent bit

No, I don't.  I don't use youtube or podcasts of two grad students sitting on a couch, pretending to be sages and interesting and rambling about something they just learned last week.  And I certainly don't then try to explain what I second hand learned and pretend it's academic.  such as below

Heritability is not the passing of traits down between parents and off-spring. It is the rate of occurrence of a trait in any given population. That rate of occurrence can be due to anything, including social factors, and indeed heritability doesn't actually remark on the source for why a trait is the way it is. All it says is "this is a pattern in this population."

For example, if you have five of the same plant, and give all of them equal access to what they need to grow to 10 feet, (food, water, sunlight, etc.) and you see an equal distribution of this trait, tallness hitting 10 feet has 100% heritability. If you were to have taken one of the plants and given it shitty conditions, and it only grows to 5 feet, then heritability drops, not because of the biological potential of that plant to grow, but because of its worse environment.

If you're not a science denier and understand that heritability is a just a thing

I'm sure Shaun and Jen probably learned something interesting and wanted to share it and then Nep hears and and says, "yep, I'm a bio-sociologist now. I'm probably smarter than their professor. " 

And I can hear it now, because conversations about white culture (can we take a moment to recognize the irony of people from markedly different cultures and perspectives can still somehow consider themselves "white?" Huh. Odd how that works.) I know you're going to ask:

"Are you saying then it's fair for me to start talking about black criminals and smart Asians? These things can be heritable too!"

I'm sure a few of you are salivating at the chance to FINALLY "tell it like it is."

But I sure indeedly am not giving you that green light. You know why?

Because you'll explain what you think about asians before whites have a chance? 

By way of white supremacy, ethnic minorities possess a remarkable clarity to critique caste-based systems from a sociopolitical context, because to fight white supremacy you inevitably have to start with the notion that it doesn't exist as a scientific principle, if only to embolden your self-worth in a society that is always saying you're worth less than.

A perfect Nepenthe sentence.  

Indeed, if you think I'm being harsh, you should try taking the advice of Urban Scholar and looking in on a typical dinner a politically-minded black family might have on a Sunday night. Content Warning before you do: It ain't pretty.

Another youtube professor I assume.  That's three mentions that white people just need to sit and and stream vtubers.  

And once again she's the smartest, her attitude and actions are justified because of her intelligence.  If only we were smart enough to make her a dictator society would be perfect.  If only the parasites didn't hold back the producers.

BUT the most bizarre thing is that she says, "you all," 19 times and "y'all," just once?  Was that when she got bonked the head and supported Trump?

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

You gave a rightwing grifter the benefit of the doubt?

 Purity test time.

[Alpacx]

Being fair, Rogan should just said he didn’t wanted in his show because he wanted to suck Trump’s cock. He has no obligation to accept her as a guest but sure as hell he didn’t want to burn a bridge just in case.

The article doesn't support this though. Harris' team asked about October 25th, Rogan's team told them it wasn't available. So they scheduled a rally for October 25th in Texas anyway. At no point does it establish that they ever agreed to even do the podcast. The Harris team apparently just turned around and decided not to after learning he did it with Trump. 

I don't get the Harris campaign thinking "before 8:30am" on the Saturday is a "tough reply." That works perfectly for them!

You have your rally the night before, fly into Austin and sleep there, wake up for a podcast at 8am, fly off to an actual swing state for the rest of the day.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Being fair, Rogan should just said he didn’t wanted in his show because he wanted to suck Trump’s cock. He has no obligation to accept her as a guest but sure as hell he didn’t want to burn a bridge just in case.

The article doesn't support this though. Harris' team asked about October 25th, Rogan's team told them it wasn't available. So they scheduled a rally for October 25th in Texas anyway. At no point does it establish that they ever agreed to even do the podcast. The Harris team apparently just turned around and decided not to after learning he did it with Trump. 

I don't get the Harris campaign thinking "before 8:30am" on the Saturday is a "tough reply." That works perfectly for them!

You have your rally the night before, fly into Austin and sleep there, wake up for a podcast at 8am, fly off to an actual swing state for the rest of the day.

No, chud. They should have bent over backwards for Queen Kamala. 

[Boredfrom]

You gave a rightwing grifter the benefit of the doubt?

 Purity test time.

We also forgot the Covid years at the bore.

Dude deserves a good kick in the nuts.

[benji]

I don't get the Harris campaign thinking "before 8:30am" on the Saturday is a "tough reply." That works perfectly for them!

You have your rally the night before, fly into Austin and sleep there, wake up for a podcast at 8am, fly off to an actual swing state for the rest of the day.

The wording in the story is so weird because it never actually says who cancelled on Saturday if they agreed to it which it also doesn't establish they did. If anything it makes it sound like they thought the Beyonce rally would scare Rogan into giving them better terms for Saturday which they still hadn't agreed to yet.

It'd make complete sense if Rogan said "nah, I'm endorsing Trump and won't interview Harris" but why doesn't the story say he did that then? And then why did the Harris team go back to try and get a last day of the campaign interview but the only stickler was Rogan refusing to leave Texas?

[Superstar]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kamalas-late-campaign-rally-in-texas-with-beyonce-was-to-get-on-rogans-show-but-rogans-people-moved-goal-posts-according-to-new-book.1095591/

The newest crime against Kamala and umpteenth reason why she lost has been posted.

The tone is different, Flaherty thought. The vice president of the United States is offering to come to your f—ing show, and you keep putting up more hoops. Harris's team still wanted to make it work, but a new wariness set in.

The vice president of a genocide supporting regime. 

Is this the stage people are at? "Rogan was unfair to Kamala" or something?

But I do confess it's a shame we couldn't get the worst podcast episode ever recorded out of this.

Rogan's bait and switch aside, this is still quite possibly the most botched campaign I might ever see in my lifetime. There were 3-4 states that were way more pivotal during that crunch period than fucking Texas.

She was literally knocking on doors in Pennsylvania the night before the election, what you're saying is absolutely ridiculous.

"Most botched campaign"?!

I don't even have the words anymore…

There were plenty of people begging to talk to Kamala that were most certainly not Trump voters but she spent all this effort going for Rogan and got scammed by him, which isn't surprising, he's a chud.

That whole thread is retarded. The story just confirms that the Kamala campaign was retarded enough to skip Rogan, as everyone already knew. They try and pick the one day Trump goes on there. Okay, pick another day. But nope, once trump went on there it was apparently off limits.

[benji]

Indeed, if you think I'm being harsh, you should try taking the advice of Urban Scholar and looking in on a typical dinner a politically-minded black family might have on a Sunday night. Content Warning before you do: It ain't pretty.

Another youtube professor I assume.  That's three mentions that white people just need to sit and and stream vtubers.  

Even better, it's a ResetERA.com poster: https://www.resetera.com/members/urban-scholar.26952/

[Boredfrom]

Is YouTuber, not VTuber.

[benji]

Love these posts in a row:

If Rogan was lying about such basic things as scheduling, there's no way he could be trusted to not edit clips together to put Kamala in a bad light. I don't blame Kamala's team for not trusting him.

We knew it at the time. I called it out at the time and you still Rogan chuckleheads defending the obvious ploy.

Doesn't mean it would've swung the election by any means, but Rogan's a rightwing dittohead and not a clever one by any stretch of the imagination.

But the article says before that that they had first talked on the 11th. Shouldn't that have been where possible dates were discussed? They could've saved themselves a lot of grief right there. How were the goal posts moved when they never had a concrete date to begin with?

Rogan is a pos, but I do not understand the OP's framing. Seems that Trump was scheduled first, Kamala team tried to get on and were told that date is not good - and it was not since Rogan was already booked?

Great thread for the people rushing in to comment their pre-existing beliefs in response to the title and people who actually read even just the OP.

[benji]

The damned Nazi tricked us by saying the date wasn't available and then it turned out not to be!!!

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

woah woah, clockwork! Take it easy on the new member. Look at how he has adopted the local custom as his own!

We must mentor him with kindness and patience. 😌

You better not complain that I didn't like this post about a video not available in my country.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/aircraft-crash-reported-near-national-airport.1095579/page-3#post-135058728

What a tragedy that should have assuredly been prevented. Rest in peace to all the people who lost their lives in this tragic accident damn, and thoughts go to all the people who are directly impacted too.

Have to think the societal decay is only getting started sadly and it's hard not to view this in light of the heavy handed governmental interference/destruction that's going on.

I can't help but keep thinking about Breaking Bad. As it aired, I thought both the airplane collision and the turn to the Neo Nazis at the end of the show's run were the two "weak" things that kind of went beyond my suspension of disbelief. That they were too "cartoonish" and "over the top" as to be a bit too unbelievable for the show's context.

But no, not really. In hindsight, those things that happen in the show make total, perfect sense. Especially when you view Breaking Bad through the lens of it being a larger parable about the collapse of the United States. Not just Walter White is Breaking Bad, everything surrounding us is.