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

[Potato]

Visawife is going to have an absolute shit fit

Long story short. I learned the hard way that therapy isnt taken as seriously as most medicine. What I mean is therapists are held to almost no standards. Like, I saw one and then another and told the other what the previous one said and they were wild eyed and filed an ethics complaint. Nothing ever came from it.

Considering how Wild West therapy is I don't recommend it. At all.

This is a straight up lie. How would they know when these sorts of complaints are usually handled confidentially?

[Jansen]

Visawife is going to have an absolute shit fit

Don't bottle up your feelings dude, get therapy if you can

Long story short. I learned the hard way that therapy isnt taken as seriously as most medicine. What I mean is therapists are held to almost no standards. Like, I saw one and then another and told the other what the previous one said and they were wild eyed and filed an ethics complaint. Nothing ever came from it.

Considering how Wild West therapy is I don't recommend it. At all.

Therapy doesn't work. Don't suggest it to anyone.

I don't get how telling your problems to a paid stranger is supposed to make you feel better either, but it works for some people.

It's not a paid stranger, it's a medical professional.

There are clinical mental health disorders that can be diagnosed and treated and/or mitigated through tested treatment methods. There are also non-clinical symptoms that can be lessened through good therapeutic methods.

The latter can often be helped even via conversations with friends and family. But some people don't have that network or the privilege of feeling comfortable expressing themselves outside of a professional environment.

I'm a bit perplexed at the hostility towards therapy in a thread intended to check in on people.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-is-your-mental-health-right-now.1222827/

Given how accessible therapy is to everyone there's really no excuse for being depressed

[Besticus Maximus]

So the goal is for the second bomb to go down the same hole the first bomb drilled? A really simple, cheap way to deflect the bomb a few degrees (and thus force it to drill through a different path) would be if they placed a thick angled piece of steel. A 10 degree deflection would place it about 35 feet out of the way.

The question is if there is enough time between the first and second bomb to place something to deflect it.

[HaughtyFrank]

Right before seeing this thread I was watching a BBC video article titled 'Protect the world or avoid war? Americans divided on Iran conflict'

'protect the world' would be to stay the fuck out of it and not enable the conflict expanding. it would be to use diplomacy not bombs.

But this disgraceful headline shows how the media in the west is framing it, like WW3 is gonna happen so get your propaganda lined up now.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/axios-the-u-s-could-join-israel%E2%80%99s-war-with-iran-to-deploy-a-30-000-pound-bomb-most-powerful-non-nuclear-bomb-in-the-world.1222701/post-141680652

The video title is referencing the opinions of the people in the video, ya moran

[Jansen]

The lack of likes is seriously starting to fucking disturb me 

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

Knifeissosharp 🔪 

[Taco Bell Tower]

How's Give Trans People Money Day any different than the e-begging they do everyday?

[Boredfrom]

Right before seeing this thread I was watching a BBC video article titled 'Protect the world or avoid war? Americans divided on Iran conflict'

'protect the world' would be to stay the fuck out of it and not enable the conflict expanding. it would be to use diplomacy not bombs.

But this disgraceful headline shows how the media in the west is framing it, like WW3 is gonna happen so get your propaganda lined up now.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/axios-the-u-s-could-join-israel%E2%80%99s-war-with-iran-to-deploy-a-30-000-pound-bomb-most-powerful-non-nuclear-bomb-in-the-world.1222701/post-141680652

The video title is referencing the opinions of the people in the video, ya moran

Neither the press or the public is allowed to have opinions I don’t like.  

If anything, it shows that the public general perception of Iran is low. People are not going to bat for them like with Palestine.

[Ethan]

Sarah, when has being "one of the good ones" ever worked out? Like ever?

Wonder what her favorability rating is because this can't possibly be what the people who worked to get her in office wanted.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sarah-mcbride-in-an-nyt-interview-w-ezra-klein-declares-that-the-trans-left-has-overstepped-on-everything-from-trans-youth-care-to-the-word-cisgender.1222614/#post-141673641

Well she was elected to Congress while you gals are screaming into the void on Bluesky and Ree. 

She is both an idiot and a coward.
I just don't get it. Her constituents elected her for a reason and she's not even fighting for the right for marginalized citizens to just fucking exist.

It's so exhausting.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sarah-mcbride-in-an-nyt-interview-w-ezra-klein-declares-that-the-trans-left-has-overstepped-on-everything-from-trans-youth-care-to-the-word-cisgender.1222614/page-2#post-141678318

She was elected in Delaware because she was gonna push for trans women in sports? Or because she was the dem on the ballot?

Lol play with fire and what not, bsky is not hear to make polis feel good about their inadequacy

Oh no, she's been branded...

[Cauliflower Of Love]

My overall argument was questioning whether the closet-release narrative alone can account for the rapid rise in reported transgender identification.   I don't think it can - It seems unlikely every closeted teen left zero clues in diaries, autopsies, or friend testimony that gender dysphoria drove them to suicide in the past.  But there is clearly a rise in transgender-identified people.   Where can it come from if transgenderism is purely an innate phenomenon and the past doesn't indicate the same proportion of population of transgenderism?  Something must account for the rise of it - whether undiagnosed mental illness, or personality disorder, or some other environmental explanation?  I don't know!

I think your understanding of how transgender people come out is faulty.  There is this idea between you and a whole bunch of people here that gender dysphoria is a mental illness, or something innately negative. 

You're right, you don't know.

You're not understanding what I'm saying.  I'll do it step by step.  My skepticism is aimed at the data, not the individual people.   The share of U.S. adults who identify as transgender has nearly doubled since 2017 , and among Gen Z it is more than five times higher than among boomers.  Because gender identity is presented as innate, I struggle to understand how the underlying prevalence could shift so sharply in just a few years without any agreed-upon environmental explanation.  The standard answer, like the one you used is “they were all in the closet and now can express themselves” or something to that effect.  It seems like an incomplete answer when records on teen suicide do not (or rarely) mention hidden gender dysphoria, even though transgender youth have the highest documented suicide-attempt rate today.    Are you following me?  If stigma alone explained everything, we should have found at least some historical diaries, autopsies, friend accounts, notes, whatever, indicating that closeted trans feelings were a suicide driver in the past when the rates of trans-identified people were lower, yet the evidence isn't there.  What accounts for the rise?  You suggest my view treats gender dysphoria as a mental illness, but the DSM-5 classifies it as a clinical condition so people can receive care for the condition!  That's the point of the diagnosis - it's not a moral judgement i have!  I just want an explanatory factor for the rise that satisfies the issues I have with understanding it.    And until we can reconcile those unsatisfying conflicts - the rising prevalence, the innate biological explanation, and the incomplete historical trace of the past explanation - I will keep struggling with this question about where the rising rate comes from (which has implications in using guilt of suicide as a cudgel for these discussions).

Again, you absolutely do not know. 

You will keep struggling with the question because you don't want to accept the realities of people struggling.

[Jansen]

How's Give Trans People Money Day any different than the e-begging they do everyday?

At least 3 of those accounts are Melody 😆

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-knew-the-position-i-was-applying-for-had-already-been-filled-2-minutes-into-the-interview.1222899/

I interviewed for a position I was interested in. Mind you, this was the third round, and I was feeling pretty confident about what I could do, but it was probably one of the most uncomfortable experience I've been through.

So, how did I know the position had already been filled? Easy. There were supposed to be 3 people interviewing me, but only 2 of them showed up. Both of them looked like they didn't want to be there; in fact, one of them didn't even speak and was introduced by the other person. Their introductions? 5 second at best. They also asked me in a "yes or no" fashion whether I wanted to introduce myself or not. That really fucked me up right there. I tried to salvage it by taking a little longer to introduce myself and see if I could get the interviewer to comment on my experience. Nothing.

So yeah, I knew 2 minutes in I was already out and I wish I could've asked them right there. As for how the interview continued, the questions felt more like a checklist they had to go through to get the interview done as soon as possible. I was so uncomfortable I couldn't even do the technical part properly, so from that point onwards I simply stopped thinking and my answers were shit.

I feel bad, but I guess I feel more surprised at how different the three interviews were. The first two were a conversation about my past experiences and skills, but the third one felt the opposite of that. I guess my mistake was rescheduling the interview because I couldn't do it on the date they'd proposed at first. Lesson learned.

When I think about the technical problem I had to solve, it was so easy. So extremely easy. I did it a few hours after the interview had finished and couldn't believe I couldn't do it during the interview, but I guess my nerves got the best out of me. Wife is telling me not to feel too bad about it and take it as a learning experience, but damn I wish things could've turned out differently.

"Can you believe these interviewers? They gave me a FAKE interview and wasted my time. Obviously I can't get a job that's already filled, that's fucked up!"

"Did they say it was already filled?"

"No, but I could just tell immediately!"

"Well at least you put forth your best effort."

"Actually I fucked up the entire interview...."

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-looked-at-the-%E2%80%98just-announced%E2%80%99-tab-on-playstation-store-and-lmao-c%E2%80%99mon-bruh.1222968/

Holy shit @ refugee simulator

[Disco55]

AI Slop shouldn't be on any of the console stores i will agree to that.

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sarah-mcbride-in-an-nyt-interview-w-ezra-klein-declares-that-the-trans-left-has-overstepped-on-everything-from-trans-youth-care-to-the-word-cisgender.1222614/page-2#post-141677133

I really appreciate your contribution here.

I've said in other contexts, that leftist movements really need to remember the joy. The joy of being Black. The joy of being Queer. The joy of being Trans.

Well it's hard to "remember the joy" when the entire online conversation is grievance, harm, and genocide.

"but what about the JOY!" in a thread where the OP is a massive, enraged Excel screed is deeply ironic.

[Boredfrom]

I think your understanding of how transgender people come out is faulty.  There is this idea between you and a whole bunch of people here that gender dysphoria is a mental illness, or something innately negative. 

You're right, you don't know.

You're not understanding what I'm saying.  I'll do it step by step.  My skepticism is aimed at the data, not the individual people.   The share of U.S. adults who identify as transgender has nearly doubled since 2017 , and among Gen Z it is more than five times higher than among boomers.  Because gender identity is presented as innate, I struggle to understand how the underlying prevalence could shift so sharply in just a few years without any agreed-upon environmental explanation.  The standard answer, like the one you used is “they were all in the closet and now can express themselves” or something to that effect.  It seems like an incomplete answer when records on teen suicide do not (or rarely) mention hidden gender dysphoria, even though transgender youth have the highest documented suicide-attempt rate today.    Are you following me?  If stigma alone explained everything, we should have found at least some historical diaries, autopsies, friend accounts, notes, whatever, indicating that closeted trans feelings were a suicide driver in the past when the rates of trans-identified people were lower, yet the evidence isn't there.  What accounts for the rise?  You suggest my view treats gender dysphoria as a mental illness, but the DSM-5 classifies it as a clinical condition so people can receive care for the condition!  That's the point of the diagnosis - it's not a moral judgement i have!  I just want an explanatory factor for the rise that satisfies the issues I have with understanding it.    And until we can reconcile those unsatisfying conflicts - the rising prevalence, the innate biological explanation, and the incomplete historical trace of the past explanation - I will keep struggling with this question about where the rising rate comes from (which has implications in using guilt of suicide as a cudgel for these discussions).

Again, you absolutely do not know. 

You will keep struggling with the question because you don't want to accept the realities of people struggling.

You are going to donate to Malds?

[Tucker's Law]

I think your understanding of how transgender people come out is faulty.  There is this idea between you and a whole bunch of people here that gender dysphoria is a mental illness, or something innately negative. 

You're right, you don't know.

You're not understanding what I'm saying.  I'll do it step by step.  My skepticism is aimed at the data, not the individual people.   The share of U.S. adults who identify as transgender has nearly doubled since 2017 , and among Gen Z it is more than five times higher than among boomers.  Because gender identity is presented as innate, I struggle to understand how the underlying prevalence could shift so sharply in just a few years without any agreed-upon environmental explanation.  The standard answer, like the one you used is “they were all in the closet and now can express themselves” or something to that effect.  It seems like an incomplete answer when records on teen suicide do not (or rarely) mention hidden gender dysphoria, even though transgender youth have the highest documented suicide-attempt rate today.    Are you following me?  If stigma alone explained everything, we should have found at least some historical diaries, autopsies, friend accounts, notes, whatever, indicating that closeted trans feelings were a suicide driver in the past when the rates of trans-identified people were lower, yet the evidence isn't there.  What accounts for the rise?  You suggest my view treats gender dysphoria as a mental illness, but the DSM-5 classifies it as a clinical condition so people can receive care for the condition!  That's the point of the diagnosis - it's not a moral judgement i have!  I just want an explanatory factor for the rise that satisfies the issues I have with understanding it.    And until we can reconcile those unsatisfying conflicts - the rising prevalence, the innate biological explanation, and the incomplete historical trace of the past explanation - I will keep struggling with this question about where the rising rate comes from (which has implications in using guilt of suicide as a cudgel for these discussions).

Again, you absolutely do not know. 

You will keep struggling with the question because you don't want to accept the realities of people struggling.

A struggle against reality seems to be the binding trait amongst that "community", unfortunately.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

You're not understanding what I'm saying.  I'll do it step by step.  My skepticism is aimed at the data, not the individual people.   The share of U.S. adults who identify as transgender has nearly doubled since 2017 , and among Gen Z it is more than five times higher than among boomers.  Because gender identity is presented as innate, I struggle to understand how the underlying prevalence could shift so sharply in just a few years without any agreed-upon environmental explanation.  The standard answer, like the one you used is “they were all in the closet and now can express themselves” or something to that effect.  It seems like an incomplete answer when records on teen suicide do not (or rarely) mention hidden gender dysphoria, even though transgender youth have the highest documented suicide-attempt rate today.    Are you following me?  If stigma alone explained everything, we should have found at least some historical diaries, autopsies, friend accounts, notes, whatever, indicating that closeted trans feelings were a suicide driver in the past when the rates of trans-identified people were lower, yet the evidence isn't there.  What accounts for the rise?  You suggest my view treats gender dysphoria as a mental illness, but the DSM-5 classifies it as a clinical condition so people can receive care for the condition!  That's the point of the diagnosis - it's not a moral judgement i have!  I just want an explanatory factor for the rise that satisfies the issues I have with understanding it.    And until we can reconcile those unsatisfying conflicts - the rising prevalence, the innate biological explanation, and the incomplete historical trace of the past explanation - I will keep struggling with this question about where the rising rate comes from (which has implications in using guilt of suicide as a cudgel for these discussions).

Again, you absolutely do not know. 

You will keep struggling with the question because you don't want to accept the realities of people struggling.

You are going to donate to Malds?

Didn't we have a whole thing about not giving to pan handlers?

[Cauliflower Of Love]

You're not understanding what I'm saying.  I'll do it step by step.  My skepticism is aimed at the data, not the individual people.   The share of U.S. adults who identify as transgender has nearly doubled since 2017 , and among Gen Z it is more than five times higher than among boomers.  Because gender identity is presented as innate, I struggle to understand how the underlying prevalence could shift so sharply in just a few years without any agreed-upon environmental explanation.  The standard answer, like the one you used is “they were all in the closet and now can express themselves” or something to that effect.  It seems like an incomplete answer when records on teen suicide do not (or rarely) mention hidden gender dysphoria, even though transgender youth have the highest documented suicide-attempt rate today.    Are you following me?  If stigma alone explained everything, we should have found at least some historical diaries, autopsies, friend accounts, notes, whatever, indicating that closeted trans feelings were a suicide driver in the past when the rates of trans-identified people were lower, yet the evidence isn't there.  What accounts for the rise?  You suggest my view treats gender dysphoria as a mental illness, but the DSM-5 classifies it as a clinical condition so people can receive care for the condition!  That's the point of the diagnosis - it's not a moral judgement i have!  I just want an explanatory factor for the rise that satisfies the issues I have with understanding it.    And until we can reconcile those unsatisfying conflicts - the rising prevalence, the innate biological explanation, and the incomplete historical trace of the past explanation - I will keep struggling with this question about where the rising rate comes from (which has implications in using guilt of suicide as a cudgel for these discussions).

Again, you absolutely do not know. 

You will keep struggling with the question because you don't want to accept the realities of people struggling.

A struggle against reality seems to be the binding trait amongst that "community", unfortunately.

lol, fuck off

[Besticus Maximus]

I prefer to be nice about things but fat4all is a fat bloke with serious mental Health issues and arrested development and that’s the top and bottom of it tbh 

Fascinating to watch in real time mind

[Snoopy]

Some CEO said something stupid which got the typical ree response but then -

I think he should get the guillotine.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/lowes-ceo-says-young-workers-should-stay-away-from-the-corporate-office-and-close-to-the-cash-register-because-ai-is-taking-entry-level-roles.1223187/#post-141699486

I noticed that and thought I bet he's got a lot of spicy opinions -

I hope she gets sick and dies a slow horrible death. Eat fuckin shit if the laws of the land weren't so id kill you myself. I'm sick and tired of these wretches existing.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gop-senator-joni-ernst-says-in-response-to-people-dying-if-they-are-kicked-off-medicaid-well-we-all-are-going-to-die.1202766/page-3#post-140717502

Fuck the entirety of Israel.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/may-28-2025-yes-to-transfer-82-of-jewish-israelis-back-expelling-gazans-haaretz.1203363/page-2#post-140694504

I legit wish death upon her and everyone who donated to her. Fuck all of them.

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-3#post-139430490

Fuck those Zionist motherfuckers.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/report-biden-officials-admit-they-never-pressured-israel-for-ceasefire-as-israeli-leaders-boast-of-playing-washington.1175892/page-3#post-139221327

How did this nutter slip through the net?

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-knew-the-position-i-was-applying-for-had-already-been-filled-2-minutes-into-the-interview.1222899/#post-141700272

I had an interview at a cool locally owned art house theater and bar that I was really excited about. I wanted to nail it so I went out and got a nice blazer and slacks to look professional but also trendy/chill to fit the vibe of the place. I get there 15 minutes early and the door is locked. I knock and there's no answer. It's before business hours and my interview is right when they open the doors, so I figure I'll wait a bit. 5 minutes until open, I try knocking again and get no answer, so I call my contact and tell them I'm there. She tells me she had a personal errand to run but she'll call someone to let me in and she'll be about 15 minutes late.

A bartender lets me in and gives me an awkward "Killing time" tour. Then eventually the interviewer calls again and apologizes and says the bartender can just do the interview. The bartender is clearly flippant about it. At some point more lower level workers come in and just kind of sit in and they all start having a casual conversation around me and it hits me that I'm not getting a an actual shot. The "interview" devolves into them talking amongst themselves about tasks they need to do that night and occasionally asking me a question unrelated to the job. It feels especially alienating because I'm in these fancy clothes and they're in branded t-shirts and shorts/jeans. Shit sucked. They eventually thank me for coming and I walk outside into the rain and start getting excited texts from my wife asking how it went.

Then, any time that place had an event I was excited about, I had flashbacks about that interview and wound up not going because it was such a bummer.

Turns out that the staff at Cool Guy Warehouse are not wearing blazers and slacks to work every day. Who knew?

[Snoopy]

[Alpacx]

cry for court abolition one year when the republicans hold power
cry for expanding the court the next when the dems hold power

what the fuck do they even want. :

I'm sure they would love Congressional supremacy.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I prefer to be nice about things but fat4all is a fat bloke with serious mental Health issues and arrested development and that’s the top and bottom of it tbh 

Fascinating to watch in real time mind

They still have a right to be who they want.

[MJBarret]

Sure, just like furries. 

But they don't get to force everyone else to treat them like they're actual wolves or whatever.

[Blueball]

The white male gooner pipeline.

Vanilla Porn becomes not good enough after the brain experiences it too much, and if you're cranking it 5 times day it will no longer get you off.. so you move onto more taboo things, anal sex, but that doesn't fix your itch after a while and you start looking at the cocks more in the film, so why not try shemale porn? It's not gay, it's still feminine. So you watch a trans person fuck a woman, it then leads into two trans people fucking, and finally a man fucking a trans woman.

But the itch starts getting worse and how do you solve it? Hentai only helps a little and looking at anime lolis only does so much when you need something more taboo. It's then the anime porn discord you joined makes you start to think: what if I become a girl? I'm no longer a white male loser who sits at home cranking my cock, I'm a woman now. It's the next drug to chase that pleasure high you need and you start gooning even more.

That's why all the online transbians love anime and can do nothing but post porn and talk about sex. They're druggies who are chasing a high.

Yeah we get you have a fetish.

[Bootsthecat]

I prefer to be nice about things but fat4all is a fat bloke with serious mental Health issues and arrested development and that’s the top and bottom of it tbh 

Fascinating to watch in real time mind

They still have a right to be who they want.

And we have the right to laugh at their retarded asses, since they put said retardedness out there in the first place.

Anyway, who's trying to stop someone like that from living their best life? There is zero evidence of that. Supreme court saying 'kewl' to states regulating gender therapy for minors has fucking zero to do with wat that tard is going through

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I prefer to be nice about things but fat4all is a fat bloke with serious mental Health issues and arrested development and that’s the top and bottom of it tbh 

Fascinating to watch in real time mind

They still have a right to be who they want.

And we have the right to laugh at their retarded asses, since they put said retardedness out there in the first place.

Anyway, who's trying to stop someone like that from living their best life? There is zero evidence of that. Supreme court saying 'kewl' to states regulating gender therapy for minors has fucking zero to do with wat that tard is going through

States aren't "regulating" gender therapy. Let's be real fucking clear that gender therapy is a way to tell transgered people they are wrong. The same way gay people were told they were wrong through conversion therapy.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I will laugh at stupid people all day long and still respect them.

[Boredfrom]

I have less sympathy for people like Fat4all than Melds or Echoes because it’s clear he is cognizant enough to understand the social dynamics of these communities and the fact he is promoting a grifter like Melds. 

I understand that not all trans people are like them and they just want to live their lives… that’s why defending MeldsFat4All likes is destructive. How many people defended the likes of Brianna Wu for years? Remember when Chloe Sagan tried to scam people to get her sex change surgery and TransGAF blamed the reporter for leaking this out?