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

[simiansmarts]

I mean, people stopped talking about it because Musk decided to remain silent after Wisconsin election flopping. Is also not secret that the Tesla brand was severely damaged because of his political adventure.

But to me there is a world of difference between vandalizing a car dealership over a military base, so I suspect the UK government will try to make an example of them.

fwiw don’t think it’s really true. More a testament to how nonsense the stock market is, it’s recovered from the dips when all that was happening. And partly why the dips looked catastrophic was coming off an extremely overvalued period post election. Because of the association with Trump. Also saw sizable dips when Musk was feuding with Trump, and recovered when he shut up. Everybody sort of forget that happened already.

The Chinese gains came largely at the expense of Tesla, which recorded a steep drop in sales partly because European buyers were offended by the behavior of Elon Musk, the company’s chief executive. Mr. Musk has supported far-right political parties in Germany, France and Britain.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/business/china-byd-cars-europe.html

“No brand damage.”

European countries generally don't fuck with Musk's far-right pandering compared to Americans.

[DavidCroquet]

It’s DavidCroquet…one word.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/thanos-came-to-earth-saw-wealth-inequalities-and-decided-to-snap-the-wealthy-but-how-much.1224084/#post-141743715

I chose 10% which unfortunately means this forum will become a ghost town.

One thing I don't get about tankies is how they use this kind of sentence structure to imply--without fully committing--that they are somehow not part of the object to which they refer.

Booshka and his High Yield Savings Accounts would get vaporized as part of the top 10%. But he doesn't say "I chose 10% which unfortunately means I will die". Instead he gestures non-specifically away from himself, at "this forum".

It's so common, I just wonder where it comes from.

I've said it many times. Resetera thinks "the rich" is anyone who earns $1 a year more than them.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

elon will never colonize mars 

[Uncle]

86% are white

...empathy isn't a black trait...?

[Boredfrom]

My therapist is mexican.

[killamajig]

Now that loonie is banned, guess who..

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-youve-been-hired-to-be-a-zookeeper-at-the-secret-fantasy-park-with-real-fantasy-mythical-creatures.1224552/

[Boredfrom]

Even those who would *critique* capital end up *reinforcing* it instead.

Gee, I wonder why, specially when is about video games. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/capital-has-the-ability-to-subsume-all-critiques-into-itself-disco-elsyium-mobile-for-android-trailer-available-aug-5th.1224588/

As I am sure most are aware, the original creators of this beautiful game were squeezed out of the very collective/company they established to make it. Any and all future revenue isn't in any way supporting the original creators behind the game.

Seems they were terrible project managers themselves.

[Jansen]

I barely have a connection where I'm at I don't even know where I am. In the wilderness in a cabin

[Jansen]

Send help

[Taco Bell Tower]

It’s DavidCroquet…one word.

[Boredfrom]

Now that loonie is banned, guess who..

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-youve-been-hired-to-be-a-zookeeper-at-the-secret-fantasy-park-with-real-fantasy-mythical-creatures.1224552/

Nah, Echoes was not him. They just share being on the spectrum, but loonie interests were focused on other stuff.

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-you-died-and-have-been-reborn-as-the-protagonist-player-character-of-the-last-game-you-played-2025-edition.1219998/#post-141564810

So, you're in a Echos autism thread. What do you do?

What's the criteria for getting banned for spamming threads? It's the same shit every day 

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-you-died-and-have-been-reborn-as-the-protagonist-player-character-of-the-last-game-you-played-2025-edition.1219998/#post-141564810

So, you're in a Echos autism thread. What do you do?

What's the criteria for getting banned for spamming threads? It's the same shit every day 

Annoy mods or privileged members. Echos has the “protection from TransERA” buff.

[Uncle]

I don't think anyone should be killed. 

I think anyone should be killed

[Uncle]

My therapist is mexican.

I think you mean hispanic, chuddie

[Potato]

Very amusing how both of the era offshoots, installbase and famiboards, use the same modding techniques as era.

"READ STAFF POST BEFORE POSTING!"

"User banned for dismissing concerns of X. History of same behavior"

Guess they just wanted to be the ones in charge of their own little asylum

A little harsh on installbase. They tend to have less insanity and more logic in their moderation. Fami is full retard.

[Taco Bell Tower]

My therapist is mexican.

I think you mean hispanic, chuddie

Latinx!  
Oh lord, I cringed so hard for typing that 

[Straight Edge]

My therapist is mexican.

I think you mean hispanic, chuddie

Ok fine. The rapist is hispanic.

[benji]

At what point she is going to say “terrorism is okay”?

Months ago:

Or if you have little to nothing to lose, direct action and sabotage of fossil fuel infrastructure.

[benji]

Generational poverty...?  I can't tell if she's talking personally about her own life or if she's doing that thing where she feels the need to transpose every black person's life on hers, like how she's as funny as RDCWorld because RDCWorld is her and she created RDCWorld and every other funny and creative thing some black person somewhere in the world made.   Either way, it's probably because I knew my parents didn't have a nice big house in the suburbs for me to inherit that I actually took my life choices seriously.  Now everybody has to pay for Nepenthe's mistakes by paying off her debts.

I know - it doesn't make sense.  Instead of herself, she must be talking about all black people, I guess?  In which case, why?  Why would you inherit the world's problems, and decide to speak for all black people on earth, when you work at fucking Walgreens.  Fix your life first, put your own house in order first (after you fucking get your own), then worry about transposing yourself in the body of an entire race of people and draping yourself in their collective burdens like you're Black Jesus.

[benji]

They're talking about "Earth" so killing the 50% richest people on the planet is anyone making above, what, $15 a day?


 

In practice, the global bottom 50% captures a very small share of global income, just 8.5%. This means that, on average, the bottom 50% earns slightly less than one fifth of the global average, i.e. just €2,800 per year or €230 per month. 

edit: even lower (unless they're talking about the percentage of people who have the largest share of total wealth of the world, then it's a bit more optimistic for everyone outside of 1st world countries)

Only Malds will survive Thanos' wrath to post about the evils of capitalism on resetera.  Not even the dude from Baltimore who lives off the gov't would make it.

While your critique is fine and something that's necessary because they don't realize they'd be snapping themselves, I want to approach it on its own terms.

1. Snapping the wealthy won't redistribute their assets equally to everyone else.
2. Snapping the wealthy eliminates massive amounts of knowledge capital, and for what people like that like, cultural capital. Every major artist/celebrity is going too, everyone in the MCU is gone.
3. That capital is priced into the assets, everyone is instantly poorer due to this snap. (And I'm assuming we still have the capital to use the assets, we might not, see Nepenthe's fantasies where we'd lose that for example.)

This is just wanting to mass murder people for being successful and making us all wealthier and better off out of spite that they don't include us (although they do, see above) without us having to make any effort. Not even 10% refused to do mass murder. As they always tell us, every accusation is a confession, the cruelty is the point.

[Polident]

Is the movie glove like comic glove where you could just do anything? Like you could make infinite resources and not kill anybody?

There has just killed half of everything to impress a skeleton lady with tits. No deeper motive.

[benji]

Is the movie glove like comic glove where you could just do anything? Like you could make infinite resources and not kill anybody?

There has just killed half of everything to impress a skeleton lady with tits. No deeper motive.

FACT CHECK:

Ever since Infinity war came out, the internet has relentlessly been picking apart or in some cases praising Thanos of what he did. Most of these people have stated why Thanos was wrong, but one of the most popular arguments that I’ve heard is “why didn’t Thanos double the resources?” and I’m sorry, but while what Thanos did was wrong, I’m here to tell you that not only can Thanos not double the resources, but he probably shouldn’t because that would be just as bad as killing half of everything.

Let’s start off with why Thanos isn’t able to double the resources, and it all comes down to one simple reason: science. What many people don’t know about the MCU is that the creative team behind it is trying to ground a lot of the characters abilities in real world science or at least make it seem that way. Thor and the rest of Asgard aren’t magical gods, they’re highly advanced aliens. Ant man shrink? Pym particles. Captain America? Super soldier serum. Even the Infinity stones are a product of the Big Bang rather than remnants of a dying deity, which if you ask me is somehow even more ridiculous but that’s not what I’m here to talk to you about.

According to this, the intent was Thanos is Nepenthe:

“People have asked us why Thanos didn’t just use the stones to double the resources in the universe, and clearly he is not interested,” Anthony Russo said during the commentary.

“No, it’s about free will,” McFeely added. “That doesn’t solve the problem. We’re just going to get there millions of years from now. This is an opportunity for people to get it right. He trusts them, you know?”

“Well, he was told ‘no’ to an idea that he had that he felt was the only solution, and then was proved right to himself when that solution was not acted upon,” Joe Russo said. “So his messianic complex — he is now committed to following through on the idea he had many many years ago. He is not a stable — although he appears stable at times, he is not a stable individual.”

The filmmakers also point out how abusive and manipulative Thanos is to Gamora, and his ruthlessness is on display throughout the movie — he’s not a nice guy. As McFeely explains it, though, Thanos is almost “rebooting” various populations, galvanizing them to take care of one another through their suffering, and heading off the destruction they would face like Titan did. The Russos added that Thanos also is coming from the flawed starting point of a guy who thinks he’s a messiah, and is also fully okay with mass murder, so long as it’s random (because otherwise it would be genocide, and genocide is wrong, under Thanos’ logic).

This shows how dumb McFeely is that he thinks this makes sense.  

Others seem to think it makes sense as well:

Sure it sounds like the easiest and most humane answer but if you think about it there could be overarching long term problems. If Thanos just wanted to save 1 world then this would be a great way to help them. Give them the food and resources they need to provide for a rapidly expanding population. Only problem is at some time the people of this world will run out of space to grow into, overcrowding becomes a huge issue. Not to mention the destruction of nature and decreased quality of life that would come as a cost to provide housing.

Well the answer to this is that this population could travel to space and habitate a new world. Two problems here, one is that this requires this civilization to develop space travel and world migration technology before they hit some overpopulation point (which may happen very rarely across the races of the galaxy, we dont know for sure).

And the other problem brings us back to if Thanos only wanted to save 1 species. If we consider the entire universe then we realize that there would be countless areas where 2 species start colonizing the galaxy too close and too quickly to each other. This may end up with massive wars, slavery, extinction, etc. Who knows, maybe the net result of this scenario is an overall decrease in the quality of life across the entire universe? Thanos would end up having to manually balance and fine tune each civilization and their unique scenario in order to make sure each world has enough space to colonize their galaxy. Even with the infinity gauntlet this is an infinitely time consuming quest.

So giving unlimited resources throughout the universe is merely a short term solution that prolongs the inevitable with a chance of greater net decrease in quality of life for the average population and would require an impossible amount of effort on Thanos's part. As opposed to snapping his fingers every couple hundred years or so.

TLDR; Unlimited resources doesnt solve the overpopulation problem on a universal scale.

But it's all just a justification for mass murder, there's no actual logic to it about the supposed problem. The only reason it seems like a debate is how deep Malthusianism is ingrained in our culture. People think everything needs to be controlled relentlessly by a single power (aka themselves), so they think it makes sense to have random people murder others until resource usage is "perfect" as defined by those random dudes. It's Bastiat's problem of the seen and the unseen. You can see it in that second Reddit link. The guy argues against increasing resources because of potential problems, never does he weigh the potential problems of killing half of everyone in one blip and never does he place any value on all those lives lost. He's trying to justify the murder ("we have to do something, this is something so we should do this"), not address the problem of resources.

This is why Darkseid is superior, no delusions about what is to be. All will be one within Darkseid. Darkseid is.

[BIONIC]

[Taco Bell Tower]

Wait, NepNep was bullied?  No wonder she's a bully online.

[benji]

Wait, NepNep was bullied?  No wonder she's a bully online.

Strange, I thought she went to a Black school. Doesn't she know there are low costs options available for therapy? Maybe that explains why she's so well adjusted and doesn't write fantasies about mass murder until she no longer is ostracized for her behavior.

[Boredfrom]

That’s probably why her early furpersona was a small dog (?) with bravado. Is not subtle.

I bet you that she was bullied by black peers because she was “not black enough”.

[Daffy Duck]

Now that loonie is banned, guess who..

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-youve-been-hired-to-be-a-zookeeper-at-the-secret-fantasy-park-with-real-fantasy-mythical-creatures.1224552/

Why did they ban loomie?

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/would-the-mario-movie-be-handled-better-by-sony-animation.1221375/page-5#post-141642618
Someone calls out Loo

This is a troll thread and the OP is a genius and legendary era member. Bow before your new king

OK, this has gone on long enough

LoomianDev
 User banned (2 weeks): Spamming. Prior ban for the same.

Now that loonie is banned, guess who..

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-youve-been-hired-to-be-a-zookeeper-at-the-secret-fantasy-park-with-real-fantasy-mythical-creatures.1224552/

Why did they ban loomie?