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

[Uncle]

Need a palate cleanser after that Nintex pisst.
 

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I mean, I prefer Frog, but who I am to judge a person’s favourite Chrono Trigger character?

I was going to go to all the effort to edit him onto the board but now there's no point 

and then I was going to make a joke about beating that ass up for 15 silver points 

[Nintex]

Guys that are in a very bad position and say it is only a tea spoon on average have never seen that guitar. 

[Jonsey]

Jeff has been bitter for years since his I think either girlfriend or fiancé left

[Jeff_at_the_laughfactory]

It's even funnier because Jeffy boy and Chet most likely agree on most things politically (I like Chet but he has a habit for sperging over politics), but the former couldn't prevent himself from alienating the latter because he can't disagree without being a colossal cunt about it. Dude unironically needs some serious therapy, I get that his long term cat died and that really sucks and I feel for him but he really needs to rein it in if he can't even get along with his supposed political allies.

[Uncle]

Jansen an hour from now: 

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Like this post if you like cum

[benji]

STAFF COMMUNICATION

[Uncle]

STAFF COMMUNICATION

[Snoopy]

I've been writing a lot since the start of the year. Talking about life, loss, and the deeply personal insanity of the last few years when my face inflated and my hair became factually incorrect.

[benji]

I actually looked it up, and first of all here's all of what Norm said:

And finally, in Falls City, Nebraska, John Lotter has been sentenced to death for attempting to kill three people in what prosecutors called a plot to silence a cross-dressing female who had accused him of rape. Now, this might strike some viewers as harsh, but I believe everyone involved in this story should die.

But we should go back further since we know Norm wasn't mocking just this, he clearly had all of the events in mind:

During a Christmas Eve party, Nissen and Lotter grabbed Teena and forced him to remove his pants, proving to Tisdel that Teena had a vulva. Tisdel looked only when forced to and said nothing. Lotter and Nissen later assaulted Teena and forced him into a car. They drove to an area by a meat-packing plant in Richardson County, where they assaulted and gang-raped him. They then returned to Nissen's home, where Teena was ordered to take a shower. Teena escaped from Nissen's bathroom by climbing out the window and going to Tisdel's house. He was convinced by Tisdel to file a police report, though Nissen and Lotter had warned Teena to "keep her mouth shut or they'd permanently shut it for her." Teena also went to the emergency room, where a standard rape kit was assembled but later lost. Sheriff Charles B. Laux questioned Teena about the rape. Reportedly, he seemed especially interested in Teena's transgender status, to the point that Teena found his questions rude and unnecessary and refused to answer. Nissen and Lotter were taken in for police questioning. Despite ample evidence, Laux neglected to arrest and charge Nissen and Lotter, and Laux told them both a rape had been reported.[18] Laux declined to have them arrested because, "What kind of a person was she? The first few times we arrested her, she was putting herself off as a guy."[14] Teena's mother later filed a wrongful death suit, where the Nebraska Supreme Court found Laux's inaction resulted in Teena's death (see § Cultural and legal legacy for more information).[14]

Around 1:00 a.m. on December 31, 1993, Nissen and Lotter drove to Lambert's house and broke in. They found Lambert in bed and demanded to know where Teena was. Lambert refused to tell them. Nissen searched and found Teena hiding under a blanket at the foot of the bed. The men asked Lambert if there was anyone else in the house, and she replied that Phillip DeVine, who at the time was dating Tisdel's sister, was staying with her. The duo then shot Teena in the stomach.[19] Nissen testified in court that he had noticed that Teena was twitching, and asked Lotter for a knife, with which Nissen stabbed Teena in the chest, to ensure that he was dead.[20][21] Nissen later testified that he shot Lambert in the stomach. After leaving the room to find DeVine, and then returning with him, Nissen shot Lambert a second time. The two men then took DeVine into the living room, sat him on the couch, and shot him twice. Nissen then returned to the bedroom where he shot Lambert a few more times. The two men then left, threw their weapons and gloves onto a frozen river, and returned to Falls City. They were arrested that afternoon, after which Nissen told deputies that he had witnessed John Lotter shoot three people to death in Humboldt. Police went to the river, where they retrieved the gloves and weapons, including the knife's sheath marked with Lotter's name, tying them to the crime.[19]

Now, you might be asking, why were they proving to Tisdel that Teena had a vulva?

In 1993, after some legal trouble, Teena moved to the Falls City region of Richardson County, Nebraska, where he presented as a man. He became friends with several residents.[7] After moving into the home of Lisa Lambert,[6][7] Teena began dating Lambert's friend, 19-year-old Lana Tisdel,[6][7][14] and began associating with ex-convicts John L. Lotter (born May 31, 1971) and Marvin Thomas "Tom" Nissen (born October 22, 1971).[6][7]

On December 19, 1993, Teena was arrested for forging checks; Tisdel used money from her father to pay Teena's bail.[15] Because Teena was in the female section of the jail, Tisdel learned that he was transgender. When Tisdel later questioned Teena about his gender, he told her he was a hermaphrodite pursuing a sex change operation, and they continued dating.[12][13] In a lawsuit regarding the film adaptation Boys Don't Cry, this was disputed by Tisdel.[16][17] Teena's arrest was posted in the local paper under his birth name and thereupon his acquaintances learned that he was assigned female at birth.[14]

Now, unlike Caraballo and most trans activists I believe that raping or murdering anyone for any reason is wrong. But also unlike them I also believe that dishonesty is wrong. (As well as forging checks just so we're clear.) Does this make Brandon at fault for their rape and murder? Of course not, but if we're trying to understand why something happened it's relevant information. (Also this is another case where a homosexual determined that homosexuality is wrong so they must be the wrong gender.)

Can I also note that two other people were shot in this story and they were also mentioned in Norm's joke? Why aren't we outraged that he said they should die too?

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

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I think it's important to ask if a woman wrote that skit or not.

[benji]

I think it's important to ask if a woman wrote that skit or not.

Probably some TERF bitch if that's the case.

[Nintex]

Somewhere out there Norm is chuckling that his joke worked so well they get worked up about it 30 years later.

[benji]

Give me the post. NOW. 

He is stepping back from Twitter (a site he pays $8 a month for) and moving his essential content to places he barely posts:

Nevermind I guess:

[benji]

My right to look at massive titties shall not be infringed!!

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Where was their panic about this bill that was already passed by the Senate versus this bill that died last term despite being what progressive and LGBTQIA2S+ bastion California already enacted?  
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/senate-passed-take-it-down-act-threatening-free-expression-and-due-process

[benji]

Shielding Children's Retinas from Egregious Exposure on the Net (SCREEN) Act

   

[Uncle]

reminder of who you're seeing every time you're accosted with a caraballo tweet:

[benji]

How do I get an Era thread about the Shielding Children's Retinas from Egregious Exposure on the Net (SCREEN) Act made so these waters can be churned?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cbs-tiktok-says-it-plans-to-shut-down-site-in-the-us-unless-supreme-court-strikes-down-law-forcing-it-to-sell.1078593/page-9#post-134083539

Yeah, because kids are kids and have developing minds. They're not prepared to be aware of, much less want to willingly fight against, the effects on attention spans that ALL social media- not just TikTok- but ALL social media was deliberately engineered to possess. This is not solved by banning a single platform. It is solved by heavy regulation of our Internet landscape, but methinks that some of the regulation that might actually be necessary is going to be fought against by my generation anyways. Like, I seriously think some level of anonymity has to eventually go away and that criminal prosecution must be allowed to be more easily leveled against users for things like harassment and bigotry. KiwiFarms shouldn't be a thing. I also think that all entertainment and algorithmic-based social media platforms should be heavily restricted to users under 18.

Nepenthe's not the only prominent member I can dig up with that position and neither is Melody Shreds the only TransEra (or CumEra) member I can dig up with the other.

[Uncle]

so what are the chances of it succeeding and not being immediately overturned? aren't some of these things kind of an undue imposition on the websites? they have to partner with some kind of third party to absolutely verify the identity of the visitor other than just by them inputting their age?

[benji]

He introduced it in the last Senate and it never got out of Committee. A number of states have already passed similar laws, including the far-right states of California and New York, and those are currently being litigated because typically in the past it has been considered a First Amendment violation to require adults to confirm their identity before accessing something legal.

KOSA/COPPA2 which these idiots briefly got upset about and then forgot they opposed, passed the Senate last year 91-3, it was the Republican House ignoring it that killed it. COPPA is only enforced against the biggest websites, and only after the FTC revised the interpretation of it (the government was afraid to enforce it under its original intent), Epic Games, YouTube and TikTok have all paid multi-million dollar violations for it. TikTok hilariously was being sued again by the FTC and DOJ for not complying with the terms of their previous settlement when all these people were rallying in support of it.

The feds would probably have more trouble with this than the states because there is no enforceable federal definition of pornography, but states have them. The Court is typically so skeptical of national obscenity definitions that it rather famously blocked the feds from prosecuting crush porn.

edit: I think that vendors thing mirrors COPPA, there's something like six recognized vendors. I don't know if anyone actually uses them until they get sued. I have no clue how it works for COPPA because the user doesn't enter any details just clicks "I agree" to claim they aren't under 13. Same for all those age verification gates that tell you how they don't store the data, that's because if they did they'd have to comply with COPPA. The feds made all these decisions back in 1998 or whatever and have been trying to update them for what the internet actually wound up looking like, so I imagine if KOSA or SCREEN or whatever else passed they'd get a chance to rewrite the regulations. But doing that is also what would allow people to challenge the laws which they couldn't before due to the lack of actual enforcement. You don't have standing if the feds aren't actually trying to prosecute you.

[Uncle]

well the bill doesn't just say "pornography," it defines it as appealing to the prurient interest in sex, nudity or excretion etc., unless you mean those terms would also then need to be better defined federally

what's crazier about the bill is that after everything else it lists "child pornography" which is already illegal, I assume the idea would just be to be able to punish such sites with even more fines?

just the idea that this bill says "if you profit from child porn on your website, you need to first make sure anyone who views it isn't a minor"

[Boredfrom]

Most people don't listen to explanations about how things really work when said explanation goes against their beliefs or preconceived notions.

 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/treasury-sec-bessent-says-that-tariffs-won’t-cause-inflation-“because-china-will-eat-any-tariffs-that-go-on”-mexico-also-matching-tariffs-on-china.1123317/#post-136500243

[benji]

I mean tariffs won't cause inflation because INFLATION 👏 IS 👏 ALWAYS 👏 AND 👏 EVERYWHERE 👏 A 👏 MONETARY 👏 PHENOMENON 👏 and tariffs are just taxes not an actual change in the cost of anything.

Ironically, he could be right by being wrong, since China owns so many treasuries.

[Uncle]

I notice the bill is named "C:\Users\RIL\AppData\Local\Temp\RIL25083.loc"

 

could this have come from -

Representative Mary Miller (R-IL) leads the companion bill in the House of Representatives.

[Ribosome]

If the consumer's Temu and Amazon crap becomes more expensive, does it really matter what a textbook calls it?

[benji]

If the consumer's Temu and Amazon crap becomes more expensive, does it really matter what a textbook calls it?

Thinking it's inflation won't provide the answer for stopping it.

It also falsifies any beliefs that the price of eggs will be coming down since Trump has no intention of deflation only more inflation.

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/former-commissioner-of-the-social-security-adminstration-expects-a-system-collapse-within-the-next-30-to-90-days-%E2%80%9Cpeople-should-start-saving-now.1123089/page-5#post-136499343

There are some things I'd like to say, but it would probably violate the terms of service here.

Battle cry of Era. "I would but....."

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/oscars-2025-ot-the-substance-has-oscars-nominations.1123146/page-43#post-136503249

So I just heard the movie that used the phrase "faggot ass bitch" between two straight people flirting, to feel edgy and real, won best picture. Neat

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/former-commissioner-of-the-social-security-adminstration-expects-a-system-collapse-within-the-next-30-to-90-days-%E2%80%9Cpeople-should-start-saving-now.1123089/page-5#post-136499343

There are some things I'd like to say, but it would probably violate the terms of service here.

These guys are really willing to throw down on the word of some Zionist who agrees with Genocide Joe and Genocide Kamala silencing Palestinian voices:

[Boredfrom]

No wonder why echoshifting feels threatened by AI, dude is one those “writers”, tumblr tv tropes trained retards.