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

[Boredfrom]

To me part of why Cloud Strife is my favorite character IS because he is a mix of queer coded but also very important representation for mental health troubles to me.

It was throwaway animu joke in the original. 

“He can pass for a lady huehuehue.” 

You may have a case in the Remake trilogy… but I think he is just being awkward dude that is living as someone else, which is not necessarily just “queer coded”.

[Propagandhim]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-idea-that-hip-hop-can-only-truly-be-experienced-by-black-folks-is-puzzling-to-me.863466/page-2

Let's keep it a buck. Liking rap doesn't mean anything. Producing beats doesn't mean anything. Spinning some records doesn't mean anything. Collabing doesn't mean anything.

You are never going to have the full potential to truly empathize and understand the depths of Black art if you are not Black.

This does not mean you cannot enjoy and partake. What it means is you're not Black. Specifically, you are not Black in an anti-Black world, which means so long as we live in a world built on anti-Blackness, there is always going to be friction regarding the participation and claiming of any part of the culture by non-Black people. If you wanna claim that's not fair, tough. The conditions that Black people navigate are not fair, but you less worried about that than your rap cred? Okay.

Our art is for us first and foremost. Never get that twisted.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/too-many-holidays-orange-next-target.1223559/#post-141723732

I'm tired of people on here and elsewhere bitching about the presence of rap music.

I'm tired of white people liking our music.  I'm tired of white people not liking our music!

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-idea-that-hip-hop-can-only-truly-be-experienced-by-black-folks-is-puzzling-to-me.863466/page-2

Let's keep it a buck. Liking metal doesn't mean anything. Producing riffs doesn't mean anything. Spinning some records doesn't mean anything. Collabing doesn't mean anything.

You are never going to have the full potential to truly empathize and understand the depths of white art if you are not white.

This does not mean you cannot enjoy and partake. What it means is you're not white. Specifically, you are not white in an anti-white world, which means so long as we live in a world built on anti-whiteness, there is always going to be friction regarding the participation and claiming of any part of the culture by non-white people. If you wanna claim that's not fair, tough. The conditions that white people navigate are not fair, but you less worried about that than your metal cred? Okay.

Our art is for us first and foremost. Never get that twisted.

[Boredfrom]

You are never going to have the full potential to truly empathize and understand the depths of Black art if you are not Black.

Decades before, in highschool:

“lol Nep, you are not black. You live in the suburbs and like Disney cartoons. Go to your corner, you nerd.”

[HaughtyFrank]

You know what's my favorite part about art and music? How it divides and separates us

[Venice]

Meanwhile Visawife has joined a new website -

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-one-couple-unmasked-the-biggest-troll-on-the-internet-tattle-life.1224342/

Unsurprisingly Ree knows all about the place. I had a look around and it's your typical Facebook/YT comments section stuff. I don't know anything about influencers/social media stars so I didn't waste my time with all that. The other sections are your basic TERF stuff, anti Trump and surprisingly pro Kneecap.

From that same thread...

From ResetEra, 

i) a forum which has over a 100,000 posts raging on JK Rowling and calling anyone who likes Harry Potter a TERF who is supporting transgenocide

ii) a forum that still reminds you at every single possible opportunity about non-existent transphobia in Cyberpunk 2077

iii) a forum that constantly reminds you that Daniel Valvra is apparently a GamerGator because he wore a piss-taking T-shirt 10 years ago

iv) a forum that shits itself and gets threads shut down if someone is even remotely connected to Colin Moriarty (because of a single joke he tweeted, also 10 years ago)

v) a forum that launches relentless hatred campaigns against some random no-name developer because of some random tweet they liked...

Comes this absolute gem of a hypocritical post:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-one-couple-unmasked-the-biggest-troll-on-the-internet-tattle-life.1224342/#post-141753630

Discovered that site (Tattle Life) a few years ago, that is the most toxic loser area I've ever seen. People just obsessed with others in an extremely unhealthy way.

[Propagandhim]

They'll run that Skillup guy's reputation through the mud and make him persona non grata for some sentence his brother said 3 years ago, but will take Microsoft's genocide ad money all day and support and promote their consoles in threads. 
Also, they just did this yesterday:

I'm sure Colin Moriarty and the guy that said "Black people weren't in medieval bohemia so we didn't put them in the game" are a much bigger threat to their worldview, though.  That's ok, Messofanego has a "Micwosoft bad..hrmph!" sticker on his avatar.  Guys I hate capitalism so much!  That'll do it.

[DavidCroquet]

Openly dog pilling on someone alluding that Iran may be an awful place for gay people:

I will never understand the support for iran on a left oriented forum when is illegal being gay

i would suggest reading up a bit on what homonationalism is and its role as a propaganda tool

I suggest you going to Iran and live as a openly gay man.

'I'm against the United States dropping bunker busters on sovereign nations wherever and whenever it feels like it… but'

“I’m against sexualization of female characters and South Korea anti feminist stances… but…”

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-has-attacked-iran-and-declares-a-special-state-of-emergency-update-trump-bombs-iran-read-staff-post.1217310/page-124#post-141814686

Protip: Preferring country A over country B because it offers greater freedoms and rights protections to its citizens is not “homonationalism”. It’s called “having a brain”.

Also, aren’t you people being genocided? Suddenly you’re caping for the leopards because it’s “the right thing to do”?

[Uncle]

Are those people constantly complaining about ai still buying CDs, Newspapers or printed magazines?

I do if I can. Is a losing battle and I still use streaming stuff… but still

printed newspapers and magazines aren't worth it to me because they're already printed cheaply and are intended to be disposable, usually ending up lying around shredded or in the trash anyway, but things that can last like CDs and switch cartridges I still try to get

[benji]

The term "homonationalism" was coined by gender studies scholar Jasbir K. Puar in her 2007 book Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times.[1] The term refers to how, in the context of Western modernity, liberal power structures co-opt certain LGBTQ+ rights discourses to construct a national identity that is portrayed as progressive and tolerant, while simultaneously justifying racist, xenophobic and aporophobic policies, particularly against Muslim communities.[1] As a result, sexual diversity and LGBTQ+ rights are sometimes used to support political positions opposing immigration, a strategy that has become increasingly common among far-right parties.[1][2]

Homonationalist narratives often rely on orientalist and homophobic stereotypes that depict immigrants, especially those from Muslim-majority countries, as inherently intolerant and regressive, thereby reinforcing notions of a morally superior Western society.[1][3][4] By that, these portrayals can be used to legitimize exclusionary practices, such as increased border security, surveillance and anti-immigration legislation.[5][6] Puar describes the association between sexual rights with such (homo)nationalist aims as "form of sexual exceptionalism [dependent on the] segregation and disqualification of racial and sexual others" , a framework wherein only selected LGBTQ+ are incorporated into the national imaginary, while others are excluded or made invisible.[1]

This dynamic has also been explored further by philosopher Judith Butler who in 2008 referred to it as a form of sexual politics.[7] Butler argues that the promotion of progressive rights, such as same-sex marriage, is often used to cement national identity by contrastring liberal, secular, European norms with the perceived conservatism of migrant or Muslim populations.[7]

The concept of homonationalism was developed to analyze and critique how LGBTQ+ movements have been incorporated into nationalist discourses, often alongside increasing anti-immigrant sentiment, while overlooking the continued presence of homophobia within Western societies.[8] This critique includes how LGBTQ+ rights are frequently defined in terms of access to heteronormative institutions, e.g. military service and legal marriage while structural inequalities and ongoing homophobia within Western societies are often minimized.[1][9] Claims of social equality in Western societies are often contrasted with countries that criminalize homosexuality or do not legally recognize same-sex marriages, particularly Muslim-majority nations, with such comparisons frequently used to reinforce civilizational hierarchies.[3]

In her 2013 article, "Rethinking Homonationalism", Puar emphasizes that the concept should not be reduced to a critique of individual political actors, policies or solely as a description of "bad politics".[9] Rather, she presents homonationalism not as an isolated phenomenon, but as a feature of modernity, embedded within broader systems of neoliberal governance, security frameworks, and (global) capitalism, aligned with dominant Western societal constructions to uphold existing power structures.[9]

In Terrorist Assemblages, Jasbir Puar argues that queerness is deployed within post-9/11 counterterrorism narratives in the United States and other Western contexts. [1] Some queer people, especially white, cisgender and nationally assimilated people, are praised as modern, patriotic citizens, representative of liberal democracy. On the other hand, Muslim and racialized bodies, queer or not, are portrayed as abnormal, backward, or pro-terrorist. [1] She writes that "sexual deviance is linked to the process of discerning, othering, and quarantining terrorist bodies, but these racially and sexually perverse figures also labor in the service of disciplining and normalizing subjects worthy of rehabilitation away from these bodies, in other words, signaling and enforcing the mandatory terms of patriotism".[19] According to Puar, the binary logic of inclusion and exclusion, which is produced through both the securitization of Muslim bodies during the War on Terror and the marginalization of queer bodies, has led to the conditional inclusion of certain LGBTQ+ individuals into the "U.S. national citizenship within a spatial-temporal domain" a process which she refers to as homonationalism, "short for 'homonormative nationalism.'"[1]

Abu Ghraib was a U.S. military prison in Iraq which was closed following citations of human rights violations committed against the detained. Pictures of some of the violations were sent to CBS news, creating a nationwide scandal in 2004. The photos taken depict sexual abuse, rape, and torture of the detainees. Much of the sexual abuse taking place simulated homosexual acts in a "culturally specific [...] matrix of torture".[20] The inclusion of homosexuality into an American national identity, homonationalism, was specifically employed in Abu Ghraib to torture and sexually and racially other the detainees. According to Puar, during this scandal, queer liberal news medias continued to other Muslim sexuality and identity.[1]

But Iran literally is homophobic to nearly the maximum extent possible. There's like no situation in which you could argue they're even theoretically equal to liberal nations.

Rahul Rao highlights the risk of blindly transplanting homonationalism to the Global South, where queer politics may function according to distinct political and historical logics. He cautions that such uses run the risk of repeating Western theoretical domination and erasing local agency. [51]

Intersectional and decolonial scholars have emphasized the need to integrate analyses of race, class and settler colonialism into critiques of homonationalism. These scholars argue that queer subjects of color are often simultaneously included and excluded through neoliberal multiculturalism and securitization, a dynamic that is called "queer necropolitics."[52]

Together, these critiques call for a more grounded and context-sensitive queer politics, one that is not grounded in nationalist, securitized, or neoliberal agendas.[49][50][51][52]

Look at all this meaningless gibberish.

[benji]

The term refers to how, in the context of Western modernity, liberal power structures co-opt certain LGBTQ+ rights discourses to construct a national identity that is portrayed as progressive and tolerant, while simultaneously justifying racist, xenophobic and aporophobic policies, particularly against Muslim communities.[1]

Aporophobia (from the Spanish aporofobia, and this from the Ancient Greek ἄπορος (áporos), 'without resources, indigent, poor,' and φόβος (phobos), 'hatred' or 'aversion')[1][2] are negative attitudes and feelings towards poverty and poor people. It is the disgust and hostility toward poor people, those without resources or who are helpless.[3]

Incredible.

[who is ted danson?]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mindseye-ot-the-game-that-hasnt-been-everywhere.1213086/page-37#post-141695391

WHAT THE FUCK

[Boredfrom]

The term refers to how, in the context of Western modernity, liberal power structures co-opt certain LGBTQ+ rights discourses to construct a national identity that is portrayed as progressive and tolerant, while simultaneously justifying racist, xenophobic and aporophobic policies, particularly against Muslim communities.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_savage

[HaughtyFrank]

But Iran literally is homophobic to nearly the maximum extent possible. There's like no situation in which you could argue they're even theoretically equal to liberal nations.

I really don't get it. We're not even talking about queer acceptance here or same sex marriage, we're talking about people being literally killed for homosexuality, not by random people on the street but by the state. How can you feasibly claim that this is something you shouldn't judge a foreign state for? 

Let's say instead of homophobia it would be something like Slavery. Would we then have people musing about "abolition nationalism" and how countries really shouldn't judge other countries that still practice slavery?

[Propagandhim]

Are those people constantly complaining about ai still buying CDs, Newspapers or printed magazines?

I do if I can. Is a losing battle and I still use streaming stuff… but still

printed newspapers and magazines aren't worth it to me because they're already printed cheaply and are intended to be disposable, usually ending up lying around shredded or in the trash anyway, but things that can last like CDs and switch cartridges I still try to get

Insane levels of aporophobia here.  Oh, the newspaper is too cheap for your rich ass?   Wow.  I'd say get some low-cost therapy, but you'd probably hate crime me for even suggesting it.

[benji]

Let's say instead of homophobia it would be something like Slavery. Would we then have people musing about "abolition nationalism" and how countries really shouldn't judge other countries that still practice slavery?

Oof, yikes. You did a racism. You did an imperialism. You did a nationalism. You did a xenophobia. You did a white fragility. You did a weak apology. You did no growth. This makes it abundantly clear you don't understand the intersectional nature of the multiplicity of your offenses:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_21st-century_jihadism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Sudan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_contemporary_Africa#Slavery_by_country
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1399583/prevalence-modern-slavery-arab-states-country/

A bad look for you to bring this up to try and downplay wage slavery by retail workers in the neoliberal West and the genocide that people like Melody Shreds face daily just to eat. Not to mention the cultural appropriation of rap by non-Black fans.

[benji]

Decades before, in highschool:

“lol Nep, you are not black. You live in the suburbs and like Disney cartoons. Go to your corner, you nerd.”

FACT CHECK: It was Sonic the Hedgehog.

[Boredfrom]

I just saw yesterday a teenager with a Shadow The Hedgehog backpack…

The colonialism never ended. 

[Potato]

I get the feeling Sakurai is the kind of person who'd refused to properly train protégés or effectively delegate tasks because he believes he's so obscenely talented that they could never match up to him, so yeah, this checks out.

Yeah that's why his ninja village was destroyed in the fourth age 

Guy made a whole video series on his philosophy and process for making games and released it on YouTube.

What the fuck is this retard taking about?

[clockwork5]

Y’all can’t understand Nep in an anti-Nep world if you ain’t Nep.

[Potato]

The term refers to how, in the context of Western modernity, liberal power structures co-opt certain LGBTQ+ rights discourses to construct a national identity that is portrayed as progressive and tolerant, while simultaneously justifying racist, xenophobic and aporophobic policies, particularly against Muslim communities.[1]

Aporophobia (from the Spanish aporofobia, and this from the Ancient Greek ἄπορος (áporos), 'without resources, indigent, poor,' and φόβος (phobos), 'hatred' or 'aversion')[1][2] are negative attitudes and feelings towards poverty and poor people. It is the disgust and hostility toward poor people, those without resources or who are helpless.[3]

Incredible.

Cool. Now I have an interesting way to describe my hatred of lazy, unproductive people who mooch off society. 

I'm proudly aporophobic.

[Potato]

t minus 6 months until fat4all comes out as a fat trans woman, mark it

I bookmarked this to see if the prediction was true.

Almost to the day. 

Well done kaleidoscopium.

[Uncle]

You know what's my favorite part about art and music? How it divides and separates us

we really need a norm emoji

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/was-suddenly-fired-on-friday-while-waiting-to-hear-back-from-another-potential-job.1225239/

Just asking you guys for some luck to come my way because I got terminated from a job last Friday. I am currently waiting to hear back from another employer to see if I get an offer and tomorrow is likely the day of that news.

I don't want to spare too many details, but essentially, tomorrows direction likely decides the direction of my life in general so... it's kinda big. It's not just about the potential job, it's more than that.

So please, send good vibes and good luck.

Edit for a little more context:
Why was I fired? Absolutely BS reasons. I was working there for only 2 months and was repeatedly told that they love the way I've been training and glad that I've been picking up on things as well as I did.

But I've been trying to leave because it is the most toxic work environment I've ever been around. The most openly racist, sexist, homophobic and crass team I have ever been apart of. If you can imagine it, IT HAPPENED. Believe me. I heard and saw things I've never seen before in a professional work environment.

I once had to take a week off because I had covid. That's all the time I ever took off. It was unpaid as I had no PTO as well, so it sucked. I'm sure that was a contributor to their ire even though I was following company policy.

But since I needed to interview elsewhere, I took half a day off when I had no PTO and even offered to come into work asap. Boss was very angry about that. I claimed I had a family emergency I could not abandon. Next day I come in, they fired me.

So here I am, waiting to hear back from the other employer as to whether I got the job. I actually have a history of over 5 years of working at that employer and have a good reputation so my chances are good at landing the job and landing on my feet BUT, anything could happen and if they don't hire me, I'm really out here on my own in the rat race.

[Boredfrom]

So he wanted to leave anyway but he is pissed off that he was fired while trying to get a job behind his employer back? He also lied about having a family emergency?

[imsotired]

"They fired me for poor attendance after I was absent without time to cover it while I was interviewing for another job."

This is truly the most horrifying exploitation by late-stage capitalism. Two months in, already missed at least a week without time to cover it and they won't let him call out more?

[Boredfrom]

Wishing you well OP, I dont like the timing but it is what is. I truly hope your new job is less bullshit and your last job burns

You should remember that the OP admitted lying about a family emergency, he is mad that he got fired by a job he hated  and his work ethic being abysmal.

Maybe he is lying about working with toxic bigots and he was the one that people hated.

[Boredfrom]

ERA: 

Some idiots (including veteran posters) believed stuff like loco “fireworks for bombing Iran”.

[DavidCroquet]

“I believe that countries that shoot women in the head for not dressing correctly are worse places with inferior governments than places that…don’t do that.”

“WOW. Feminationalist, much?”

[Alpacx]

“I believe that countries that shoot women in the head for not dressing correctly are worse places with inferior governments than places that…don’t do that.”

“WOW. Feminationalist, much?”

That's racist