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

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-does-emancipation-for-the-palestinian-people-look-like-to-you.1266783/page-3#post-143776392

Arguing for the existence of an apartheid state, especially after Al-Jazeera's Palestine crew has been systematically killed by them, is pretty crazy no matter how you spin it. It must be reiterated that those who practice Judaism are not the only ones who are indigenous to these lands and even those who follow Judaism are being killed indiscriminately in Gaza, the West Bank, and around the Levant by the Zionist entity just merely off of criticism. We have millions dead, injured, traumatized, and displaced from Israel. There is no other answer outside of complete disbandment and disarming Israel and the complete international rejection of Zionism and Western imperialism by association.

I'm sure a whole lot of "israelis" would voluntaerily leave anyway if they no longer get to benefit from apartheid.

the entire post is, frankly, dripping in dogwhistles. why is it up to 'any western country' to 'enforce' local democracy? palestinians understand local democracy just fine. as zionists love to repeat, they 'elected' hamas. they've elected plenty of leaders in both gaza and the west bank. israel keeps killing them. palestinians are not strange little people living in huts who need to be sat on the lap of a benevolent western culture to teach them and hit on the knuckles with a ruler if they don't do it exactly the way they're told. this is why the two-state solution leaves such a bad fucking taste in my mouth because half the time, the people who coach it in terms of 'realism' a) rely entirely on magical thinking anyways and b) treats palestinians like they shouldn't be trusted with their own state to begin with.

The elections Hamas "won" were the only contested elections in Palestinian history, the "local elections" have not been allowed in Gaza since Hamas took over and the West Bank ones barely count for anything.  

This thread makes it very clear who doesn't want freedom for Palestinians.

two-state is an unserious solution proposed by unserious people

The dissolution of the ethnostate that is Israel, recognition of Palestine as a sovereign state, Zionism fizzling out as a failed political movement, and (as an environmentalist) land back initiatives gaining momentum with other Indigenous groups worldwide.

I wonder if you reported all these posts for violating that rule if they'd bitch that someone was abusing the ticket system.  

Israel has to collapse from within, first step is sanctions and arms embargo, without being propped up by the west and the rest of the world trading with them, Israel falls apart quickly.

I can see that happening but it might not be garenteed? North Korea is pretty isolated and it hasn't fallen apart yet after decades.

North Korea isn't constantly invading, bombing and occupying other countries and people. Also it's not an arm of the United States and western hegemony, so by default it's on the back foot.

Totally different scenarios.

 no really wut

"One of the world's fifty biggest economies would fall apart quickly!"
"What about North Korea, which has been totally sanctioned and cut off from global trade, where people literally eat tree bark and the Juche regime is still in power."
"It's not an arm of the US and Western hegemony so that's totally different!"

[Boredfrom]

Booshka, you don’t need to bat for everything ProChinese communism.

[Boredfrom]

the reason why Karl had such support in his lawsuit originally is that Billy has been a known asshole for decades

 

To be fair, the most I heard about Billy was because of Karl so I'm starting to think it's less of a Billy pb and more of a Karl one.

[Averon]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-make-her-look-more-corpulent-more-stuffed-where-the-eyes-cant-escape.275780/page-480#post-143771319

Thank you for that. This is one of the most important threads on the site, IMO, and reporting trolls like that helps us get them out as quickly as possible.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-make-her-look-more-corpulent-more-stuffed-where-the-eyes-cant-escape.275780/page-480#post-143771319

I think we don't talk enough about who violence in videogames tends to be targeted towards and how it impacts people's biases, but generally speaking, you aren't going to run into a random person who thinks driving over people or mass shootings like in GTA are ok. You'll definitely run into misogyny every day though. I mean, look at the US right now and tell me people care about women beyond making children and looking good. Why would I want that reminder in my entertainment when I have to deal with people who hate that I don't exist just for their benefit everyday?

I agree with this. Misogyny is far more deeply entrenched into modern society than violence, which is typically seen as "acceptable" when portrayed in (mostly action-focused or horror-centric) media but not nearly as much in day to day life. If you have a coworker who walks around the office talking about wanting to shoot a bunch of people, you'd probably call the cops on them. But in a lot of companies you'll have dudes just openly talking about sex or casually objectifying women and nobody bats an eye about it.

I know you're banned and all, so this isn't really so much a response to you but the post itself.

Criticising art is not the same as censorship, I don't think that's something that really needs to be stated though, especially not to anyone who's engaging in genuine good faith.

In a more ideal world, one where women aren't viewed and treated as less than, but as fully formed human beings with agency, there likely wouldn't be degrading depictions of women in media to begin with, or at least nowhere nearly as prevalent and ubiquitous as it is in our reality. The fact we even have such character designs and depictions is a reflection of the real world we live in. As PaperSparrow said, why should we want to be reminded of this in our entertainment when we have to deal with it daily in real life? Why should we not criticise it? Why should we not want better?

Theres just one thread on era where this behavior is unacceptable. Just one.

And yet still, the dickheads can't help themselves.

That should be an obvious tell to anyone in good faith that flies over a lot of men's heads on here unfortunately. If even a forum that is anti-sexism needs a heavily moderated thread just so women can talk about these things, we are rock bottom on taking women's issues in gaming seriously. Which is better than the below rock bottom it was at before, but still far from the existential threat people make it out to be. And to be frank, it's light-skinned cis women who have their foot in the door at all.

Lately people feel a lot more comfortable going mask off with their sexism and misogyny whether they're trolling, randomly using abandoned account or talking down on people with more disdain to downplay issues.

Hey gals, long time reader, first time poster, I have a question: what are your guys thoughts on men depicting women only through porn or media stereotypes especially such things as being "sluts" or "holes" and so on, obsessing over lesbianism to excuse their sexual interest in women, regularly posting pornography that is quite explicit and fetishistic, demanding inclusion in women's spaces, demanding priority over women's designated places, demanding to speak over women, demanding the right to define the meaning of being a woman, doing that defining purely through misogynistic stereotypes, etc. Like this is all bad and shouldn't be rewarded, right? And should be called out not just by women when it's men but by anyone of any gender when it's done by anyone of any gender, right?

I won't wait on the line for the answer.

[Garfield]

Holy cow look at all the projection in that thread.

[BIONIC]

User banned (2 weeks): concern trolling; permanent threadban

Telling Trump to kill himself, just black humor bro
Telling a user to kill themselves, thats just a ban (even though it could be a jest)

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

ugh... jews..

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

I'm still sad we didn't have a Blueballs sighting this weekend. 

[FUME5]

Quickest way for my old ass to get an image to post here.  Not using a vpn, still fucked on firefox across all my devices.

Use thebire.com instead of thebore.net. I don't think I can get to the SSL for the other one because of the redirect. But I'll take a look since this has come up before.

edit: I've switched how the redirect works, because the domains and certificates were mismatched, this may avoid it now as thebore.net urls redirect to thebire.com versions. (Which is actually how I intended it to work before but could not get it to.)

Yup, that did the trick

[Orange Juice Box]

Did anyone ask the Palestinians if they want a two-state solution?  I think we should at least pretend we care what they think.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/gazans-back-two-state-solution-rcna144183

Gazans increasingly back a two-state solution, as support for Hamas drops
Support for a two-state solution nearly doubled in Gaza, as fewer back “armed struggle” for an independent Palestinian state.

March 2024

[benji]

I'm still sad we didn't have a Blueballs sighting this weekend. 

Some people have to provide mutual aid through their neighborhood pods instead of owning chuds all day long.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-make-her-look-more-corpulent-more-stuffed-where-the-eyes-cant-escape.275780/page-480#post-143771319

Thank you for that. This is one of the most important threads on the site, IMO, and reporting trolls like that helps us get them out as quickly as possible.

Yeah, to goon that is 

[Besticus Maximus]

People in an office openly talking about having sex like it's fine or normal or something 

[Tektonic]

Ok, Benji can we have a special Bire Amnesty - any poster that gets money from AIPAC speak up now. 
Also if you have a poster of old Mileikowsky on your wall, you may also admit your fetishes in a safe space without fear of punishment (just judgement)

also: RE being inconsistent? Say it ain't so.

[Polident]

I'm still sad we didn't have a Blueballs sighting this weekend. 

Are you not reading Nintex’s online dating stories?

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-puts-washington-d-c-police-under-federal-control-national-guard-to-be-deployed-to-d-c.1267119/#post-143759946

Wow, that seems really bad. Personally, I wish Americans had not elected this guy, who is doing lots of bad things.

[Snoopy]

Serious question that I know is hard to answer, how do I join the uprising? Because I'm about ready. Would seriously like to know if anyone wants to dm me or something. Knocking on doors ain't gonna fix this.

[Daffy Duck]

This is all over twitter and it’s annoying, who knows f they are actually cheating or not (x account is sus as fuck) but them jumping in front of them just because they’re trans is annoying.

[who is ted danson?]

https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1mo0j3p/never_touching_cursor_again/

[kaleidoscopium]

I was more thinking more on an interpersonal level. The messiness of a romantic relationship, dealing with another actual person on that intimate level, not some chat bot that will just tell you what you want to hear.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/over-21-days-of-talking-with-chatgpt-an-otherwise-perfectly-sane-man-became-convinced-that-he-was-a-real-life-superhero.1265991/page-8#post-143787045

Yes, instead of a ChatGPT relationship get yourself a discord polycule, where everyone hugboxes each other, and Malds will threaten suicide if you don’t donate a few measly bucks for hood burgers. He will starve without that money you know!

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

This is all over twitter and it’s annoying, who knows f they are actually cheating or not (x account is sus as fuck) but them jumping in front of them just because they’re trans is annoying.

From now on I'm going to say "This is because I post on thebire dot com, isn't it" whenever someone questions me about my crimes.

[Eric Cartman]

Saw this pop up on Reddit and apparently reports said the shooter was wearing a Hawaiian shirt and thus might be associated with the Boogaloo Boys. Which is just fucking scary if true.

I wear Hawaiian shirts all the time, who the fuck are the Boogaloo Boys?

You are extremely lucky to not know and might want to not wear such shirts during any sort of protest or political action. They are a white supremacist terrorist organization and use Hawaiian shirts as one of their uniforms.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/north-austin-mass-shooting-at-target-3-dead-4-injured-8-11-25.1267479/#post-143771883

era: "Wearing hawaian shirts is such a nazi dogwhistle"
also era: "The Jews control the media"

[Eric Cartman]

are you aware that the vast majority of israel's population does not come from europe or the west, but from the middle-east itself? they came from iraq, iran, afghanistan, egypt, etc. not sure exactly where you want to evict these people to? they left those countries because they faced oppression there. only ~1/4 of israeli jews are of european descent and most of that is from USA/Russia, not sure exact figures but majority of its population have always been from the region..

[quote=Heisenberg726]

You conveniently ignore the push factors and don't seem to lay any blame on the persecution of others in those middle eastern countries. I personally know someone who is Bahai from Iran whose family was threatened and they made it to the US on asylum, many went to Israel. How you flipped that on Israel is interesting.

you have to look at timeline — most of these push factors didn't exist until the issuance of the Balfour Declaration and the rejection of the McMahon-Hussein correspondence

like, this is genuinely just basic history man, I understand that Bahais fled Iran (hell, I know because I have Bahai family), but that persecution happened…after the Iranian revolution…well after the establishment of Israel

this is just hasbara at this point

german name 726
7*2 = 14
14-6 = 8
number of operations = 2
8 twice

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

I guess the era numerologists on their day off

[Eric Cartman]

That's the joke. It's a humorous callout to the fact that it's such a rare occurrence while also celebrating that Blade (and Wesley) are cool as shit. The absurdity of 'racial inequality is a major issue that's irrevocably affected our community, so just let us have Blade, bruh' is the point.

@chatgpt, please explain how my racism isn't actually racist but a funny joke

[DavidCroquet]

“just basic history” = So, the jewish cabal…

[Eric Cartman]

Did anyone ask the Palestinians if they want a two-state solution?  I think we should at least pretend we care what they think.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/gazans-back-two-state-solution-rcna144183

Gazans increasingly back a two-state solution, as support for Hamas drops
Support for a two-state solution nearly doubled in Gaza, as fewer back “armed struggle” for an independent Palestinian state.

March 2024

mossad hasbara

[HaughtyFrank]

you have to look at timeline — most of these push factors didn't exist until the issuance of the Balfour Declaration and the rejection of the McMahon-Hussein correspondence

like, this is genuinely just basic history man, I understand that Bahais fled Iran (hell, I know because I have Bahai family), but that persecution happened…after the Iranian revolution…well after the establishment of Israel

this is just hasbara at this point

german name 726
7*2 = 14
14-6 = 8
number of operations = 2
8 twice

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

I guess the era numerologists on their day off

You could actually make it straightforward, Werner Heisenberg had a leading role on the Nazi uranium project.

[Eric Cartman]

The MCU died with Chadwick Boseman's heartbreaking passing. He would've been a fantastic lead of the Avengers alongside Captain Marvel going forward.

Should've just brought back MBJ as Killmonger and made him Black Panther. Or M'Baku. With the soft reboot happening after Secret Wars or Doomsday or whenever it's supposed to be, they should definitely look at bringing in Damson Idris now though.

[Eric Cartman]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-u-s-marches-toward-state-capitalism-with-american-characteristics.1267110/#post-143759148

A generation ago conventional wisdom held that as China liberalized, its economy would come to resemble America's. Instead, capitalism in America is starting to look like China.

Recent examples include President Trump's demand that Intel's chief executive resign; the 15% of certain chip sales to China that Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices will share with Washington; the "golden share" Washington will get in U.S. Steel as a condition of Nippon Steel's takeover; and the $1.5 trillion of promised investment from trading partners Trump plans to personally direct.

This isn't socialism, in which the state owns the means of production. It is more like state capitalism, a hybrid between socialism and capitalism in which the state guides the decisions of nominally private enterprises.
China calls its hybrid "socialism with Chinese characteristics." The U.S. hasn't gone as far as China or even milder practitioners of state capitalism such as Russia, Brazil and, at times, France. So call this variant "state capitalism with American characteristics." It is still a sea change from the free market ethos the U.S. once embodied.

first reply:

Ah yes, fascism.