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

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nyt-attention-men-books-are-sexy-but-staring-into-a-phone-is-not.1261158/#post-143462508 
 

Gotta be honest, I'm guilty of reading less myself. When I was in my 20s I used to take a train daily to work and finished 3-5 books a week. Now it's...less. Much less.

 
 
said reading: 

I swear to God, wasn't reading books considered right-wing coded by these lunatics? Now it's a good thing?

Yes because the Fahrenheit 451 book.  Pretty sure benji has the thread saved.

[Snoopy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-your-most-disliked-type-of-threads-on-era.1260804/page-2#post-143431137

Meanwhile in the Constructive Community thread EchoesOfTheCreepyFetish writes:

Don't know where to post this, I just noticed the closed, "What's your most disliked type of threads on Era?" and I need to ask, are my threads considered a waste of space and annoying? Specifically my "So you're now..." Isekai-like threads since I noticed they got targeted by a couple of people in those threads. Do the mods just want me to stop doing those?

What a dry snitching prag.  "Officers, when they took my dessert should i be mad or something?"

These people would be murdered in a county lockup they are such squeelers.

High Femme and his goons have been busy -

I made the comment about these type of threads and I'm very sorry that I made you feel like that.
Please just disregard my opinion on that - it was not ok of me to post something like this without taking into account that it could impact you or other posters negatively.
Don't stop with your threads - many people do like them and they can be fun thought experiments or lead to interesting discussions.

[Taco Bell Tower]

I seriously can't believe Echos went crying to the constructive community thread that has absolute no reason to be there 

[simiansmarts]

When is Echoes getting mod privileges so his retarded threads become unblockable like Slayven?

[Boredfrom]

His lesbians thread should have been an automatic permaban. But TransEra are like cops and will protect their own (as long they don’t talk like when Android Sophia tried   )

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

wow you dont like wlw content?

[benji]

Please just disregard my opinion on that - it was not ok of me to post something like this without taking into account that it could impact you or other posters negatively.

Finally there's someone I can say it about: this person should unalive themselves.

[PogiJones]

Hey man this is a free speech forum. If I were to post incest porn you'd have to just deal with it because this is not era. We can post what we want. Including incest porn.

I hate this comic. One of xkcd's biggest misses. It conflates the principle of free speech with the First Amdt, which is one codified manifestation of that principle as it pertains to the US Gov't. It's been a while since I've wanted to write a carepost this badly. 

But the like economy is a little too recessed for careposts these days.

[benji]

Progressives don't believe in property rights (except for themselves) so they don't recognize that they're invoking a right they otherwise usually consistently oppose: the right to exclude others you don't wish to associate with.

Unlike them we're we try to be honest so it's no problem for me to say I never promised this property to be a "free speech" forum. Nor did I write a contract of rules I claim you agreed to only to then enforce arbitrary and hidden ones instead.

[Potato]

Don’t mistake a couple of people being negative in a thread designed for people to be negative, with the moderation staff not wanting you to make the threads you make. Your threads are harmless fun that people appreciate either for their presence or for participating in. If they don’t, the ignore button is right there and they can solve their personal hang-up themselves. This place can be relentlessly dour at times, don’t let it weigh on you or change you. Keep bringing your energy to it ☀️

The whole fucking forum is filled with people being negative!  

Did you miss all the trans joy on the forum?

[KillRideMedley]

[Potato]

Benji and Blueballs are my favorite Bire couple.

Blueballs comes in fluffing Benji's nutsack for two seconds and you're all shipping them like one of your animes...

Seriously, do I need to fuck boredfrom on stream to get us some recognition and respect around here?

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nyt-attention-men-books-are-sexy-but-staring-into-a-phone-is-not.1261158/#post-143462508 
 

Gotta be honest, I'm guilty of reading less myself. When I was in my 20s I used to take a train daily to work and finished 3-5 books a week. Now it's...less. Much less.

 
 
said reading: 

Motherfucker, Bluey picture books are still books! 

[Boredfrom]

wow you dont like wlw content?

Weeb shit alert:

Is funny that you are commenting this because currently there is drama with the Horsegirl game fans as yuri fans fight with the waifu Gacha fans. It got so bad that a usual yuri gooner artist started to post hetero Uma fanart  just to spite them.  

Is so fucking stupid either way, but that is both weeb and Yuri fan brain rot for you.

[Potato]

[benji]

Yes because the Fahrenheit 451 book.  Pretty sure benji has the thread saved.

I'm pretty sure it's a joke post because he was later permabanned but the Sydney Sweeney thread this week alone should convince you people on there would be willing to believe it legitimately:


This was next Era picture in the folder that was in:

                                                                                                                            

[PogiJones]

Progressives don't believe in property rights (except for themselves) so they don't recognize that they're invoking a right they otherwise usually consistently oppose: the right to exclude others you don't wish to associate with.

Unlike them we're we try to be honest so it's no problem for me to say I never promised this property to be a "free speech" forum. Nor did I write a contract of rules I claim you agreed to only to then enforce arbitrary and hidden ones instead.

Various rights and principles often come into conflict with one another, and when that happens, a winner must be chosen. The winner will depend on the context. You generally have a right to swing your hand around however you want, but not if it involves punching someone. You generally have a right not to be punched, unless you attack them, at which point they do have a right to punch you. Etc.

The principle of free speech is a guiding principle that was conceived to prevent powerful entities from punishing dissent, and the 1A is just one manifestation of that as it pertains to the US Gov't, but the principle itself is far more broadly applicable. More basically, as a strong guiding principle, it says that you should need a really good reason to overcome that right to free speech. When that principle comes into conflict with an individual's property rights, the property rights are generally agreed to be a good enough reason. You do not need to tolerate speech you disagree with entering your home. Every small forum owner has a right to set up their rules for what they will and won't tolerate.

Where things get gray is when the "forum" becomes so large that it essentially becomes the public sphere. In public spaces, the right to free speech and free association are best summed up as: You have a right to walk away from someone's speech, but you don't have a right to throw tomatoes. They do not have a right to an audience, but they do have a right to their audience. No one is forced to listen, but you also can't prevent those who do want to hear him from hearing him.

So when a forum gets as large as, say, Twitter, this is no longer just a matter of you personally walking away. It's you throwing tomatoes. It's making sure his audience has a hard time hearing him. And so this spectrum from "personal forum and personal club space" to "essentially the public sphere" is gradual. And thus, it's gonna be gradual how much property rights and rights of association give way to rights of free speech. Something like RE is (thankfully) still quite small, so while I think they're losers for how they run their forum, they certainly have the right to run it that way. But I would say that, given their size and given how they run it, they're also not, in my eyes, giving sufficient deference--or even any deference at all--to the principle of free speech. They're very much an authoritarian forum.

Meanwhile, you run a much smaller forum, and give much more deference to the principle of free speech. But it's also much more akin to a private club than theirs is. It's far from what people consider the public sphere. So I think your deference to free speech is just about right for the size of forum you're running. You don't have to tolerate anything you don't like, but you do for the most part, and it does make for a much, much better forum. Because the principle of free speech isn't just about asserting rights. It's a guiding principle to make things run better, as things tend to run better when people can be honest with each other.

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

[Potato]

CumGPT

[benji]

You can't just occupy a public corner for whatever purpose you want. The owner, the state, can evict you even if you're using it for speech. That's why you tend to need to get permits to use public spaces.

Similarly, with Twitter or Era or here, you're drifting towards arguing that others have a right to use someone else's property even if the owner doesn't want them to and the reason why this needs to be the case is because they wish to use the property for their own purposes. This simply isn't a free speech issue at all, your free speech is not limited because the Sulzberger's don't let you use their presses or the Murdoch's don't put you on the air. Maybe takings are for the greater good, I have yet to see the argument why, but they're still takings.

[Uncle]

It isn’t worth wasting your ChatGPT tokens on replying to benji man.

imagine this guy carefully copying and pasting and typing "hello my friend chatgpt, please construct a response to this comic which disagrees with it in a respectful way"

and then he doesn't like the first result so he rerolls it again and again until "ah ha, this is the perfect reply to that benji guy!"

and then he pastes it over on the bire and wave of satisfaction flushes over him, his mission at last complete, one more chuddy put in his place

[Boredfrom]

Sir, the Street Fighter VI swimsuits trailer just dropped:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/street-fighter-6-costume-4-trailer.1261239/

[Boredfrom]

Cammy's SF5 bikini was legit more modest than this and Chun Li and Manon have their whole ass out here lmao.

The whole point of this is gooner money and it's sexist as hell when they can't even give only the 2 male costumes anything skintight or showing some ass.

[Tektonic]

Why do communists drink herbal tea?
Because Proper-Tea is theft.

Thank you and good night

[Uncle]

Hey man this is a free speech forum. If I were to post incest porn you'd have to just deal with it because this is not era. We can post what we want. Including incest porn.

I hate this comic. One of xkcd's biggest misses. It conflates the principle of free speech with the First Amdt, which is one codified manifestation of that principle as it pertains to the US Gov't. It's been a while since I've wanted to write a carepost this badly. 

But the like economy is a little too recessed for careposts these days.

https://medium.com/@epiphanyaweek/the-10-most-society-damaging-xkcd-comics-1282089de03b

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

And there you have it. This is what you have all been waiting for. The worst and most notorious XKCD comic. I get livid whenever I stare directly at it. It measures up with this one and this one and this one among the most harmful comics. Huh, maybe I should write about those ones too.

 holy shit this quad-fecta

[Boredfrom]

Shameless between this and Viper boob window

[Taco Bell Tower]

Sir, the Street Fighter VI swimsuits trailer just dropped:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/street-fighter-6-costume-4-trailer.1261239/

4th post

Kimberly and Chun, Jesus.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-familiar-are-you-with-non-white-american-cultures.1260609/
NepNep no where in sight 

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/brock-lesnar-returns-to-wwe-after-being-named-in-sex-trafficking-lawsuit.1261233/
Can we ban WWE now?

[Boredfrom]

When games hit swimsuit skins that's about time in the live service cycle where I bounce.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-eagle-sparks-backlash-for-touting-sydney-sweeneys-great-jeans.1255467/#post-143197752

 User Banned (3 Months): Dismissing Concerns of Racism, Previous Ban For Racist Dogwhistling

Does not seem unreasonable to see a dogwhistle here. Dunno if it is one or if it's intentional…but ya

Nah, you can go and look for things to get upset about and find those things everyhwere if you look hard enough with the goal of getting upset.

Gotta find something to get outraged about in everything

https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-eagle-sparks-backlash-for-touting-sydney-sweeneys-great-jeans.1255467/page-3#post-143200197

 User Banned (1 Month): Misogynist Commentary, Dismissing Concerns of Racism; Prior Ban for Dismissive Commentary

Yeah, she just happens to be white. Like, let's not mince words: they would not be making this ad with a hot brown or black woman in 2025. Are there bigger issues? Yep, totally. But it's not like I'm ignoring all of those to think about why this ad sucks for 30 fucking seconds. It's not that complex.

I am not and never will be sorry for being "outraged" that a company is fucking wink-winking to Nazis.

It's not winking to Nazis to reference a hot chick being hot. They can do another shoot of the ad with Nicki Minaj or something and just run them both if that would alleviate people drawing these conclusions I guess though getting one world class hottie was probably expensive (and effective) enough

https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-eagle-sparks-backlash-for-touting-sydney-sweeneys-great-jeans.1255467/page-15#post-143316720

 User Banned (2 Weeks): Trolling in a sensitive thread

I see you frequent a lot of Nintendo threads. Post quite a bit. I really wish you put all that energy into something like climate instead.

OR maybe you can manage two things at once? Possibly more? Iunno.

Lmfao.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-eagle-sparks-backlash-for-touting-sydney-sweeneys-great-jeans.1255467/page-16#post-143395875

 User Banned (3 Months): Dismissing Concerns of Racism, Previous Ban For Being Dismissive Towards Transphobia

This is dumb internet controversy. It's a pun.

The first reply to this entire thread nailed it and 16 pages later people are still seriously going at it. It's ironic to see Dems act like this is a made up controversy because it's actually embarrassing only to come here and see people still stewing in it.

AE shouldn't have given any comment at all. This entire thing is absurd. Folks have lost the plot.