Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[Boredfrom]

The outrage over this will fix nothing because of who is in power. Not saying there shouldn't be outrage, but that's the way it is.

Why even comment then?  

https://www.resetera.com/threads/immigration-agents-told-a-teenage-us-citizen-‘you’ve-got-no-rights-’-he-secretly-recorded-his-brutal-arrest.1253676/#post-143098920

[Boredfrom]

Some Republicans I work with laughed at the idea of him pardoning Maxwell. As in, they don't think he would actually do it and would be appalled if he did. For what it's worth

Not worth much considering he's done far more appalling shit and plenty of republicans looked past it.

Worse than pardoning a child sex trafficker?

[Boredfrom]

Man, sure hope they can make it happen. I need more Invincible.

Who knows. I feel all these tech companies are obsessed with AI research and development.

 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/invincible-season-4s-dinosaurus-has-a-voice-actor-robert-kirkman-says-7-9-seasons-needed-to-do-the-complete-comic-arc.1253784/

Evil Superman shtick is already tired of , I would say they better deal up any loose ends and finish up the story imo dont think this series would see 7-9 seaons.

You know that Omniman is not the only plot thread going on?

[Propagandhim]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pluribus-teaser-from-the-creator-of-breaking-bad-premieres-november-7th-on-apple-tv.1253499/#post-143098959

Already picked up for a second season, Apple described the drama series as "a genre-bending original in which the most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness." Seehorn will be joined by Karolina Wydra ("Sneaky Pete") and Carlos-Manuel Vesga ("Donde Tú Quieras") as series regulars, with Miriam Shor and Samba Schutte appearing as guest stars.

what an utterly nothing teaser

i trust VInce but uh, an attractive white woman is the most miserable person on Earth?

what does physical appearance or race have to do with being miserable

When I look at this woman, I think to myself: "There's no way this human could ever be sad"

[Chudder Barbarity]

Fiona Lali from the Revolutionary Communist Party lended her support and argued for this new party at GB News.

Is that really an endorsement you'd want Messy?

Remember when Corbyn was endorsed by neo-nazis way back? REE should be thrilled to have a guy willing to solve the Jewish question.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pluribus-teaser-from-the-creator-of-breaking-bad-premieres-november-7th-on-apple-tv.1253499/#post-143098959

Already picked up for a second season, Apple described the drama series as "a genre-bending original in which the most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness." Seehorn will be joined by Karolina Wydra ("Sneaky Pete") and Carlos-Manuel Vesga ("Donde Tú Quieras") as series regulars, with Miriam Shor and Samba Schutte appearing as guest stars.

what an utterly nothing teaser

i trust VInce but uh, an attractive white woman is the most miserable person on Earth?

what does physical appearance or race have to do with being miserable

When I look at this woman, I think to myself: "There's no way this human could ever be sad"

Imagine all the great PR if Vince went on stage and said that they were looking for the most miserable person possible so they naturally arrived at a black woman
"It would have been wrong to cast a white woman, really"

[Boredfrom]

He'll say she was unfairly prosecuted, she was brave in outing all of the people involved (spoiler, it will not have his name on it, but he'll throw a few Republicans in the grinder to make her appear impartial) and she will be pardoned for her bravery and unfair treatment.

Don't forget the cool part now where the DoJ will accept that they wronged Ghislaine, and millions of taxpayer dollars will be given to her as a settlement.

I fucking *hate* these people so much.

[DavidCroquet]

nepenthe cosplaying as a hoodrat 

in her defense, she initially thought it meant an anthropomorphic rat wearing a hoodie.

[Besticus Maximus]

The revolutionary communist party are neither revolutionary nor communist, it’s quite odd, they’re basically just goths

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hockey-canada-2018-junior-team-trial-all-5-players-found-not-guilty-of-sexual-assault.1252710/page-2#post-143100261

That was the first thing I thought when I read the judgement: "she judged with what she had". And that made her side with the status quo.
Imma be honnest, when I came into this thread, I was afraid to voice that.
I'm always afraid of saying my opinion on Era of fear of getting banned.

So the irony here is that your initial post was 100x more likely to get you banned whatever else you hesitated to post. I know this because you've already been reported for "Just saying: the judge is a woman as well..." which is frankly an extremely poor thing to say in a thread like this without making sure ydu are fully articulating your thoughts. That can be read the same as "a woman judged then not guilty of SA so it has to be okay", right? Fortunately you replied to a person who responded negatively before we huddled over the flagged post or it would've been pretty easy to ban on that read.

Don't take this as a call out to discourage you from posting, I'm trying to save yourself and others from needless pain in the future when you had no ill intentions. Too many people get reported then banned for short drive bys in sensitive threads like this, then explain what they really meant in a ban appeal ticket after the fact, when it was avoidable if they put the fleshed-out thoughts from the tickets on the forum instead.

[DavidCroquet]

“you say you are afraid of being banned. I am here to tell you: you should be.”

[nachobro]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pluribus-teaser-from-the-creator-of-breaking-bad-premieres-november-7th-on-apple-tv.1253499/#post-143098959

Already picked up for a second season, Apple described the drama series as "a genre-bending original in which the most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness." Seehorn will be joined by Karolina Wydra ("Sneaky Pete") and Carlos-Manuel Vesga ("Donde Tú Quieras") as series regulars, with Miriam Shor and Samba Schutte appearing as guest stars.

starring planetsmasher

[BIONIC]

Constructive:

I'm genuinely curious - what does it take to get actioned for abuse of the reporting system? This has nothing to do with the ongoing convo, fwiw. I've just wondered about this for a while.

You've got to be spamming dozens of nonsense reports, sending in bigoted reports, using the report system to engage in targeted harassment against specific users, or just straight up insulting staff. Banning someone for abusing the report system is something we do try not to do as we don't want people to feel like they shouldn't send in reports, we actively want people to send in reports.

I do want to take this moment to point this out: one of the most common reasons people get reported and then banned is for dropping 5 word posts that don't sound great in threads about serious issues. What generally winds up happening is we talk it over and they either expand later on, so we reject the report, or they don't and we ban. At which point we get a ticket explaining what they meant and we wind up unbanning them.

The easiest way to avoid getting banned remains to just say what you mean, type it all out and don't expect anyone to read your mind, to treat Era like an internet forum instead of like it's Twitter or Bluesky. If more people did that, way less people would wind up getting banned.

Sounds like a new cop talking point has dropped.

[Boredfrom]

I do want to take this moment to point this out: one of the most common reasons people get reported and then banned is for dropping 5 word posts that don't sound great in threads about serious issues. What generally winds up happening is we talk it over and they either expand later on, so we reject the report, or they don't and we ban. At which point we get a ticket explaining what they meant and we wind up unbanning them.

Fuck off with that reason, if that was the case you post “drive-by post” as the reason for the ban.

[Taco Bell Tower]

Nigga, you in the Discord. When have I ever laid my head down in Buckhead???

I a poor CSRA negro, I don't know how you ATL house negros do

Well, I suppose that they are okay with this.  

Oh, but when benji does it it's doxxing 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-2025-ot-taco-trump-and-the-big-beautiful-bullshit.1236576/page-8#post-142965912

 User banned (3 months): antagonizing other users, an incredibly long history of the same behavior

Cool, so the pro-Palestine protests and protestors are generally anti-semitic because some members of the protests/leadership have made extreme anti-semitic statements? Are all leftists russian stooges because some prominent ones tried to blame the invasion of Ukraine and Russia's attempted genocide there on the US? Are all socialists idiots become some socialist idiots decided that inflation wasn't a real thing and tried to get everyone to buy into MMT right before the second-largest inflation shock in our economy's history? Is that how we're doing this now?

I've somewhat normalized the insane position we're in - where the hard left hates the center-left more than the hard right - but this is just profoundly unserious, and this kind of rage-bait has become the only way the bulk of the party is discussed in this thread, recently.

Just gonna point out the irony of you getting really worked up about people conflating individual behavior as being representative of a whole group then in the very next breath doing the same thing but about the left......

That said, Rahm's statements do seem to be objectively in line with a number of other centrist Democrats and representative of a broader trend within the party to distance or disavow certain social justice fights like trans rights, concede on certain culture war issues like trans people in sports specifically, and use that as a Third Way triangulation to appeal to the mythical moderate swing voters as an electoral strategy.

One of the underlying thesis arguments of the whole Abundance agenda is that "the groups" are becoming a hindrance to winning and getting stuff done. which is defined by them as social and environmental justice NGO's, which force these well meaning centrists into radical positions that are unpopular or handicapping like trans rights or demanding projects use pesky things like union labor.

Sure, you are right, this is not all centrists/liberals, but unlike your interesting choice of a logical comparison, it is a intentional and well represented view within that wing of the party to distance and soften themselves on this issue.

"an incredibly long history of the same behavior"

[Boredfrom]

That said, Rahm's statements do seem to be objectively in line with a number of other centrist Democrats and representative of a broader trend within the party to distance or disavow certain social justice fights like trans rights, concede on certain culture war issues like trans people in sports specifically, and use that as a Third Way triangulation to appeal to the mythical moderate swing voters as an electoral strategy.

Nola, how the hell you think that Trump won the presidency?

[Boredfrom]

I don't think he's gonna be able pardon himself out of this. But I'm sympathetic to those thinking he's gonna wriggle out of this or it'll so just go away. He's done that so many times for so many years about so many despicable things it's almost hard to imagine any kind of reckoning for him. It's like trying to imagine infinity at this point. But I think he's kinda toast. His idiot mind control tricks aren't working.

 

Is not that, asshole. Is that you guys cannot even count your victories because anything short of him getting arrested or being death is “getting away with it”.

I get it, no one want to burn themselves with other Mueller, but you guys don’t even try or want to.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wsj-jeffrey-epsteins-friends-sent-him-bawdy-letters-for-a-50th-birthday-album-one-was-from-donald-trump-update-trump-suing-wsj-and-murdoch.1246782/page-43#post-143106999

Is like those assholes that say “electing Biden/Kamala would have been as bad as Trump”  . Is just bitching for the sake of it.

[Boredfrom]

He might have tanked the 2018 midterms and a bunch of special elections, and then gave the Dems a solid majority in 2020. But he still slid right to victory in 2024 despite being under multiple criminal indictments and convictions.

“Wait.. what was my point?”

[Snoopy]

Some Republicans I work with laughed at the idea of him pardoning Maxwell. As in, they don't think he would actually do it and would be appalled if he did. For what it's worth

Not worth much considering he's done far more appalling shit and plenty of republicans looked past it.

Worse than pardoning a child sex trafficker?

Child sex trafficker. Please. Always with the dramatics. She was a child travel agent. Maybe she got over enthusiastic sometimes, but she was no worse than any Disney rep.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-2025-ot-taco-trump-and-the-big-beautiful-bullshit.1236576/page-9#post-143108340

They moved us out of Hangouts into EtCetEra's Politics forum.

Is this a promotion?!?

Hopefully thread picks up, it's currently dead. Used to be my main source of political news.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/south-park-takes-a-shot-at-trump-in-season-27-premiere-and-wow-nsfw.1252362/page-4#post-143052054

 User banned (1 month): dismissive commentary concerning transphobia, antagonizing other members

Okay funny but where were they for the past 8 years?

This is peak Left.

Southpark just made a deep fake of trump being a jackass on the desert and having a small penis during the Epstein shit and Colbert getting fucked and....

YES BUT?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?



Good lord.

[Boredfrom]

If our governments actually cared about genocide, they would be doing way more to stop it. We'd see boots on the ground in Palestine, we would see official boots on the ground in Ukraine.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jeremy-corbyn-and-zara-sultana-launching-new-left-wing-uk-political-party.1253094/page-4#post-143106282

 User banned (permanent): Inflammatory accusations and hostility towards staff

Yeah, and guess what country has been literally funding fascist groups across Europe and North America for the last decade or so?

Seriously, be less gross.

Laughable considering the poster. Is this your way of trying to apologize after your terrible handling of Gaza? Also did you ever unban that trans poster that called you out on your islamophobia on Blue Sky? Also did you unban all those people when you had a fit when they said your response was shit?

Don't call anyone gross LOL.

[Boredfrom]

You're right the position is horrific, I don't disagree. The other position is to keep going with a war (killing Russians and Ukrainians) and ending up with a worse deal for Ukraine. This isn't black and white, and there really isn't a good position for them. The best position for them was in 2022 when they could have made smaller concessions. And it's not just a popular position amongst Russians. The writing is on the wall, and has been. When you say "Peace through strength", that's just propaganda. Anyway, my opinion is tied mostly to Chomsky and John Mearsheimer. Not Russian agents by any means, and very smart people.

Is that you, Trump?

[benji]

And he would have absolutely zero impact on any of that apart from maybe the trans part, and even that isn't guaranteed - all polling suggests the public is quite transphobic, so can't see any of that rolled back anytime soon

Ah I see. If the public was racist would you just throw up your hands and say, "nothing anyone can do, just have to accept it". To me a good politician has principles they fight for no matter how unpopular they may be. The opportunity Labour had after over a decade of awful Tory austerity has been completely squandered by this ineffectual genocide loving transphobe known as Keir Starmer. I have no idea why you're madder at the possibility of Corbyn than you are about that.

...and that is why you will never engage with real world politics in any meaningful way and will continue to act betrayed and bewildered that your elected officials don't stamp their feet and throw a tantrum like spoilt children when they don't get everything their own way.

To me a good politician is someone who will draft, debate, evaluate and implement legislature that benefits society as a whole.
If they do have guiding principles, they will accept incremental progress towards those goals is still progress, and will also change those principles if compelling arguments or evidence is provided as to why that priciniple could in fact be wrong.

My idea of a good politician is someone voting on bills and amendments and trying to get more through than they get blocked.
Yours is refusing to engage because the fucking sellout amoral shitbags who agreed with you on every single agenda point you raised wrote the minutes in 11pt Calibri when you wanted 12 pt Roboto, the absolute shower of cunts, fuck them to death and let the world burn

I think it's just as important to point out that all of the "trans rights" in the UK were won without any kind of political campaign on its behalf. Labour and the Tories implemented all that without ever winning an election on the issue or even there being a debate about it. This stuff just pushed up through the bureaucracy or Cabinet into existence. Self-ID, prosecuting people for misgendering, everything the Cass Report talked about, when was there ever any kind of debate, even Parliamentary, on this stuff? There wasn't! 

In other words, shut the fuck up and then do it once you win seems to be a far better strategy. Since they used the racism example, I'd note that LBJ probably only got away with passing all that stuff (Civil Rights Act of 64, Voting Rights Act) in the US because it wasn't a campaign issue. The Democrats were the party with the chunk of the base against that, but in Congress he could take the GOP + the other half of the Democrats and pass that while sidelining the southern Democrats. Something he couldn't have done if he was out of office. Or how about another thing they're upset about, where the Evangelicals and other pro-lifers looked the other way about Trump because his winning mean they got the Justices that overturned Roe. If they had picked any of the infinite reasons not to support Trump and he lost, Hillary would have made the Supreme Court majority.

They're pretty much fundamentally opposed to central concepts of democracy like compromise and not getting only what you want while everyone else obeys. Zero conception that coalition building means you're constantly watering down positions and not bringing up others to bring together a large enough group to obtain power and then having endless transactions within it. They think you just have some ultimate battle forever with evil and then immediately do everything you want and everyone just agrees forever. In other words, their concept of democracy is like Stalin's: one man, one vote, one time.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/invincible-season-4s-dinosaurus-has-a-voice-actor-robert-kirkman-says-7-9-seasons-needed-to-do-the-complete-comic-arc.1253784/

Evil Superman shtick is already tired of , I would say they better deal up any loose ends and finish up the story imo dont think this series would see 7-9 seaons.

The comic plus its spin-offs is 150+ issues. The show is almost to the halfway mark. I can see why Kirkman thinks it could go longer than matching the timeline because the latter part of the comic does a bunch of skips and rushes through stuff he'd probably like to redo.

Don't forget the cool part now where the DoJ will accept that they wronged Ghislaine, and millions of taxpayer dollars will be given to her as a settlement.

I fucking *hate* these people so much.

Because the DoJ is so well known for paying millions to people wrongfully prosecuted and convicted.

That said, Rahm's statements do seem to be objectively in line with a number of other centrist Democrats and representative of a broader trend within the party to distance or disavow certain social justice fights like trans rights, concede on certain culture war issues like trans people in sports specifically, and use that as a Third Way triangulation to appeal to the mythical moderate swing voters as an electoral strategy.

One of the underlying thesis arguments of the whole Abundance agenda is that "the groups" are becoming a hindrance to winning and getting stuff done. which is defined by them as social and environmental justice NGO's, which force these well meaning centrists into radical positions that are unpopular or handicapping like trans rights or demanding projects use pesky things like union labor.

See above where I talked about their fundamentally not accepting certain aspects of democracy. This is a common one you see especially in people like Nepenthe but all over that forum. The belief that a "coalition" that is nothing but various groups pursuing their agenda to the maximum will not lead to breaking up the coalition because some kind of solidarity is possible rather than that these groups have fundamentally opposed positions.

The trans stuff is a perfect example because it inherently demands women accede to males in not only their spaces but their roles. Look at the gender quotas where women are given half of positions and then trans women are allowed to take them. This is a fundamental conflict where both sides cannot win. Only if women accept that men can claim to be women, which instantly means the quotas aren't really creating positions for women. This is why it's mandatory for this view to be accepted by women and more important than everything else in the agenda. If people do not accept that men can be women and vice versa then the "trans rights" plank immediately collapses. And "trans rights" will be ignored because women as a group are half of everyone. Hence, chanting "trans women are women" and demanding everyone obey.

But this isn't the only group, we can find examples everywhere because interest group politics inherently differ from the interests of everyone as a whole or else they wouldn't be interest groups. These guys get that when it comes to Zionists, but pretty much nothing else. Since he mentioned unions, unions are inherently opposed to everyone else. They raise the prices for everyone else, especially when they're public sector unions like police unions who these guys recognize as a problem but can't seek to depower because they have to support unions uber alles even when they thwart other agenda items. "Defund the police!" Oh, you mean, harm and fire union workers? They're so tunnel visioned with their own positions that they can never see all the many angles against their own, which is especially dumb when you're constantly taking positions that maybe only 10% of the population at most support.

[benji]

If our governments actually cared about genocide, they would be doing way more to stop it. We'd see boots on the ground in Palestine, we would see official boots on the ground in Ukraine.

 

Remember when they used to scream about America being global police? Now you've got guys like Occam wanting occupations of the Amazon and this guy is far from the first poster on there to demand the US launch an war against Israel. Not to mention a real serious war with Russia.

Underrated is the part where he doesn't stop to ask if Hamas wants American troops in Gaza. I also wonder if he'd want boots on the ground in Xinjiang.

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-fantastic-four-first-steps-ot-the-four-of-us-now-25-more-fantastic-open-spoilers.1250556/page-5#post-143076153

Jeff working overtime to factually correct people that have any criticism of his Marvel slop.

Well, this wasn't middle-of-the-road MCU so I'm not sure that works here.

But no, I am of course amenable to criticism. As I already mentioned, I had a couple issues with the film as well — could have used more time with Ben, not enough stretchy Reed, their initial plan to lure Galactus was pretty dumb (though it led to Sue having a GOAT-level MCU moment, so that balanced it out). But the cast chemistry isn't one of them and it seems to be one of the things most praised about the movie from critics, so that specifically is a criticism I just can't begin to understand.

This movie lives and dies on the terrific chemistry between the cast. The outlandish comic book-ness and silly sci-fi doesn't work without their chemistry.

Jeff's must be upset he has to take time away from posting on X. It's like he's not getting his money's worth paying Musk to get his hidden check mark.

To be honest I'm just jealous. I don't think I've ever loved something as much as Jeffrey loves Marvel Entertainment LLC. I pray for anyone that hooks up with him. I hope he's honest and let's his date know right away they'll always be his second love. We can all picture him sitting upright in bed telling his partner he can't fuck them till he factually corrects some chuds talking shit about his favorite franchise.

[Boredfrom]

And he says stuff like "the publisher owns the IP, they should be able to do whatever they want. If people don't like it, they should vote with their wallets" which has proven to not work at all. Publishers are incredibly greedy and will exploit people in every way possible for money. And people have extremely poor self-control so voting with their money does not work.

   

If anything, voting with your wallet should be a reason to preserve online games, as there is a reason why people don’t even try new multiplayer games if they think they are gonna die in a week.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/stop-killing-games-has-officially-reached-1-000-000-required-signatures-100-for-the-european-citizens-initiative.1235325/page-10#post-143104194

[Snoopy]

Meanwhile ole White Power Ted's been doing some community building --

https://www.resetera.com/threads/inside-a-whites-only-community-in-arkansas.1253871/