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

[Potato]

Shreds actually moving in with Fats would be a glorious train wreck worthy of a reality TV show.

We would certainly find out how much shreds actually believes trans women are real women once Fats tries to blow him.

[BananaBlast]

Lol this reply made them so mad they immediately went to the resetera mods to get their name changed. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/peta-takes-time-out-of-their-busy-schedule-killing-animals-to-complain-about-the-mario-kart-world-cows-nose-ring.1271460/#post-143924757



Name was jitteryzeitgeist 

Good catch. The fact that this dweeb immediately changed his steam username (from "jitteryzeitgeist" to "MM Navlaan") and seemingly deleted some reddit posts (username "jitteryzeitgiest_") is sus.

Probably didn't want those creepy screenshots of female characters leaking out. But hey... wouldn't be the first time a burka thread member was outed as a hypocritical coomer.

[kaleidoscopium]

Shreds actually moving in with Fats would be a glorious train wreck worthy of a reality TV show.

Gonna be the funniest shit since noodlesoup went to prison for the weekend

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-you-now-have-access-to-a-sentai-tokusatsu-superhero-suit-and-mech-to-do-with-as-you-please.1271958/

On the 24th of October 2017, a great powerful group known only as the Admins created thousands of super gems for when the human race needed them most and now, on the 16th of August 2025, they do just that, sending them to the thousands of people around the world they chose as their champions (you) to save the world!... Or conquer it! Or just raise hell! Do what you want!

You receive from a mysterious angelic stranger your gem (that changes to your favourite colour) and a transformation device to enter your gem into.

You now can transform into a Tokusatsu superhero (the suit's primarily colour is your favourite colour and designed to look your favourite animal or hobby) which gives you greater endurance, increased strength, faster, jump higher and more aware of your surroundings. You won't instantly know martial arts though, you'll have to learn that yourself. You also now have a weapon, melee or ranged in your favourite colour that matches your theme, whether that be a trident, an electric guitar cannon, car iron knuckles etc.

Additionally, you can now summon a transformable mech, it's base-form based on your favourite animal (so for me a Cheetah, Wasp or a Komodo Dragon) that is coloured in your favourite colour and has weapon attachments. They can also transform into a humanoid robot for battles with large monsters you may or may not face... Or against other people with these powers (yes I know what you're all like).

So... WHAT HAPPENS... And WHAT IS YOUR SUIT AND MECH LIKE!?!?!?

I'll be off in my Cyan Tokusatsu Wasp themed suit with my Wasp lance riding my Cyan Wasp mech that can fly, fire lasers from their eyes and fire stinger missiles. I'm going to save Britain from corruption and make it a progressive paradise!

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-youre-now-wearing-the-costume-clothes-outfit-of-the-last-video-game-character-you-played-as.1271949

So a worker at the clerical office of the Universe is bored and decides to mess with some mortals living there and either decides to reward you (or punish you, depending on what it was) by suddenly transfiguring your clothes into the clothing of the last video game character you played as.

To keep this 12A, if the last video game character you were playing as didn't have clothes (like if you were playing Kirby), you instead default to last one you played  that did.

The clothes have automatically changed size to fit you. If you're character had accessories with them like a backpack, weapons, phone etc, you also get those as well.

I'm suddenly wearing Jin's alt costume from Tekken 4 as I just finished his story arcade run. He changes clothes automatically in fight 8 so I'm now topless which is a bit awkward, though the only people in the home is my cats so they don't care.

So what are you now wearing and... WHAT HAPPENS!?!?

[Lonewulfeus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-do-many-rich-and-privileged-people-appropriate-struggle.1271889/

No Nepenthe posts, curious

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/your-controversial-gaming-opinions.938/page-501#post-143928033

This is commodity fetishism/reification, where consumer products are magical items that appear on our shelves without being produced by physical beings. It is an intentional (or at least, preferred) aspect of modern capitalism.

I would definitely say intentional haha. The fetishism and the resulting alienation borne from it are necessary to maintaining class divisions.

[Boredfrom]

The sheer lack of knowledge on part of the gaming community on how games are physically and creatively made underneath our capitalistic paradigm not only inevitably leads to bad analysis of individual games and the industry as a whole, but also to an inevitable dehumanization of the developers themselves who are called stupid and incompetent by the very people who know the least about the product they're engaging in. It's become very magnefied in the era of life service games and these massive industry layoffs, and it's made the online gaming community that much more annoying even to read, much less to interact with.

You are stupid and incompetent because you wasted your time in a MyLittlePony fan game.

[clockwork5]

and it's made the online gaming community that much more annoying even to read, much less to interact with.

Then why are you the admin of a gaming message board?

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-you-now-have-access-to-a-sentai-tokusatsu-superhero-suit-and-mech-to-do-with-as-you-please.1271958/

On the 24th of October 2017, a great powerful group known only as the Admins created thousands of super gems for when the human race needed them most and now, on the 16th of August 2025, they do just that, sending them to the thousands of people around the world they chose as their champions (you) to save the world!... Or conquer it! Or just raise hell! Do what you want!

You receive from a mysterious angelic stranger your gem (that changes to your favourite colour) and a transformation device to enter your gem into.

You now can transform into a Tokusatsu superhero (the suit's primarily colour is your favourite colour and designed to look your favourite animal or hobby) which gives you greater endurance, increased strength, faster, jump higher and more aware of your surroundings. You won't instantly know martial arts though, you'll have to learn that yourself. You also now have a weapon, melee or ranged in your favourite colour that matches your theme, whether that be a trident, an electric guitar cannon, car iron knuckles etc.

Additionally, you can now summon a transformable mech, it's base-form based on your favourite animal (so for me a Cheetah, Wasp or a Komodo Dragon) that is coloured in your favourite colour and has weapon attachments. They can also transform into a humanoid robot for battles with large monsters you may or may not face... Or against other people with these powers (yes I know what you're all like).

So... WHAT HAPPENS... And WHAT IS YOUR SUIT AND MECH LIKE!?!?!?

I'll be off in my Cyan Tokusatsu Wasp themed suit with my Wasp lance riding my Cyan Wasp mech that can fly, fire lasers from their eyes and fire stinger missiles. I'm going to save Britain from corruption and make it a progressive paradise!

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-youre-now-wearing-the-costume-clothes-outfit-of-the-last-video-game-character-you-played-as.1271949

So a worker at the clerical office of the Universe is bored and decides to mess with some mortals living there and either decides to reward you (or punish you, depending on what it was) by suddenly transfiguring your clothes into the clothing of the last video game character you played as.

To keep this 12A, if the last video game character you were playing as didn't have clothes (like if you were playing Kirby), you instead default to last one you played  that did.

The clothes have automatically changed size to fit you. If you're character had accessories with them like a backpack, weapons, phone etc, you also get those as well.

I'm suddenly wearing Jin's alt costume from Tekken 4 as I just finished his story arcade run. He changes clothes automatically in fight 8 so I'm now topless which is a bit awkward, though the only people in the home is my cats so they don't care.

So what are you now wearing and... WHAT HAPPENS!?!?

This is what happens when you're chronically unemployed and hate yourself so much that you need to keep thinking about the most inane shit imaginable to stop yourself from confronting the reality of your fucked up existence.

[Potato]

The sheer lack of knowledge on part of the gaming community on how games are physically and creatively made underneath our capitalistic paradigm not only inevitably leads to bad analysis of individual games and the industry as a whole, but also to an inevitable dehumanization of the developers themselves who are called stupid and incompetent by the very people who know the least about the product they're engaging in. It's become very magnefied in the era of life service games and these massive industry layoffs, and it's made the online gaming community that much more annoying even to read, much less to interact with.

You are stupid and incompetent because you wasted your time in a MyLittlePony fan game.

Couldn't even get halfway through that drivel, but this stupid cunt realises that video games are one of the most capitalistic art forms ever made and have the least artistic value of all the art forms, right?

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/your-controversial-gaming-opinions.938/page-501#post-143928033

This is commodity fetishism/reification, where consumer products are magical items that appear on our shelves without being produced by physical beings. It is an intentional (or at least, preferred) aspect of modern capitalism.

I would definitely say intentional haha. The fetishism and the resulting alienation borne from it are necessary to maintaining class divisions.

The sheer lack of knowledge on part of the gaming community on how games are physically and creatively made underneath our capitalistic paradigm not only inevitably leads to bad analysis of individual games and the industry as a whole, but also to an inevitable dehumanization of the developers themselves who are called stupid and incompetent by the very people who know the least about the product they're engaging in. It's become very magnefied in the era of life service games and these massive industry layoffs, and it's made the online gaming community that much more annoying even to read, much less to interact with.

Says the person who whose utopian "sketch" never once asked "where does the stuff come from?" and so presupposed a supply of carrots that appear from nowhere.

Also, you're using fetishism and alienation wrong, video games can't be anything but alienated labor. They can't be produced for use. A free-to-play game like Overwatch almost literally refutes Marxist economics.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/man-fleeing-ice-raid-at-monrovia-ca-home-depot-struck-and-killed-by-car-on-freeway.1270734/#post-143911671

Abolisment alone is not enough....there needs to be retribution.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/its-wild-to-me-trump-was-allowed-to-run-again-after-january-6th.1271907/#post-143953749

In an alternate better universe, all the Jan 6rs that breached the capital would have been shot on sight and trump and the maga enablers in the republican party would have ended up with their heads on pikes in front of the Lincoln Memorial.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-puts-washington-d-c-police-under-federal-control-national-guard-to-be-deployed-to-d-c.1267119/page-7#post-143955012

Like I have said in other threads, these government "agents" cannot be allowed to just melt back into society. We need strong leaders that are ready to hold people accountable, assuming we even have elections moving forward. It would be the same fucking mistake that was made after the civil war.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-you-now-have-access-to-a-sentai-tokusatsu-superhero-suit-and-mech-to-do-with-as-you-please.1271958/

On the 24th of October 2017, a great powerful group known only as the Admins created thousands of super gems for when the human race needed them most and now, on the 16th of August 2025, they do just that, sending them to the thousands of people around the world they chose as their champions (you) to save the world!... Or conquer it! Or just raise hell! Do what you want!

You receive from a mysterious angelic stranger your gem (that changes to your favourite colour) and a transformation device to enter your gem into.

You now can transform into a Tokusatsu superhero (the suit's primarily colour is your favourite colour and designed to look your favourite animal or hobby) which gives you greater endurance, increased strength, faster, jump higher and more aware of your surroundings. You won't instantly know martial arts though, you'll have to learn that yourself. You also now have a weapon, melee or ranged in your favourite colour that matches your theme, whether that be a trident, an electric guitar cannon, car iron knuckles etc.

Additionally, you can now summon a transformable mech, it's base-form based on your favourite animal (so for me a Cheetah, Wasp or a Komodo Dragon) that is coloured in your favourite colour and has weapon attachments. They can also transform into a humanoid robot for battles with large monsters you may or may not face... Or against other people with these powers (yes I know what you're all like).

So... WHAT HAPPENS... And WHAT IS YOUR SUIT AND MECH LIKE!?!?!?

I'll be off in my Cyan Tokusatsu Wasp themed suit with my Wasp lance riding my Cyan Wasp mech that can fly, fire lasers from their eyes and fire stinger missiles. I'm going to save Britain from corruption and make it a progressive paradise!

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-youre-now-wearing-the-costume-clothes-outfit-of-the-last-video-game-character-you-played-as.1271949

So a worker at the clerical office of the Universe is bored and decides to mess with some mortals living there and either decides to reward you (or punish you, depending on what it was) by suddenly transfiguring your clothes into the clothing of the last video game character you played as.

To keep this 12A, if the last video game character you were playing as didn't have clothes (like if you were playing Kirby), you instead default to last one you played  that did.

The clothes have automatically changed size to fit you. If you're character had accessories with them like a backpack, weapons, phone etc, you also get those as well.

I'm suddenly wearing Jin's alt costume from Tekken 4 as I just finished his story arcade run. He changes clothes automatically in fight 8 so I'm now topless which is a bit awkward, though the only people in the home is my cats so they don't care.

So what are you now wearing and... WHAT HAPPENS!?!?

[Lonewulfeus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-do-many-rich-and-privileged-people-appropriate-struggle.1271889/

No Nepenthe posts, curious

She literally couldn’t resist.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-do-many-rich-and-privileged-people-appropriate-struggle.1271889/page-2#post-143960553

Part of it is sheer myopia. Most people are only ever immersed alongside people and opportunities relevant to their own class and thus do not actually have significant amounts of direct experience with those several tiers lower than them to reasonably gain perspective. So the things they struggle with are struggles inasmuch as they present friction between their current lifestyle and whatever theoretical state of "success" they have in their mind is. Your friend being "broke" despite being in a condo paid for by his family could be technically true in that he has poor spending habits or high bills or whatever, and this is a "struggle," but he doesn't know any better to understand that this issue doesn't actually put him in a position of precarity because he doesn't know what "precarity" even means without anything to actually compare it to.

The other part is Westerners' general inability to recognize and analyze contradictions. We live in a sea of competing and contradictory myths, motivators, and moral outlooks that persist for the sake of maintaining the state of imperialism and class unconsciousness, and a lot of people either don't question any of them or lack the skills and emotional maturity to do so with a reasonable analytical framework. Like, people want to be seen as having "earned" their lot in life due to the capitalistic myth of meritocracy and the moral value of a "work ethic"- that humans who work hard are fundamentally better human beings than those that don't (which, lol) without ever acknowledging that the very country they live in in only exists on the back of rampant imperialism and theft that traps billions of human beings in a state of destitution they will likely never experience, that people who work much harder than they ever have, even those who escaped Western impoverishment, will never achieve even that level of a pittance of an income.

For those who are well-off or rich, this contradiction is even more blatant. You not only outpace most of the world, but you outpace most of the people around you who in turn outpace most of the world. This is inherently isolating and painful to deal with when your moral fabric is shaped by a society that insists on the meritocracy myth. If you really didn't earn your lot in life, how can you then justify being well-off or rich? Why do you deserve to live better than most of the people on planet? Well, you have to find something to justify it, right? You can't just admit you were one of the lucky ones; even if it required some level of "sacrifice" like going to school, or networking, or dropping all of the distracting consumption like video games to focus on the hustle...is that truly enough? I mean, how do you begin to even quantify being "deserving" of anything material within a system fundamentally built on exploitation? How do you balance these meager acts of working hard against all of the other factors that had to have gone your way, such that you weren't born in a lot in life where you had to do fucking sweatshop work?

You can't, if you're honest with yourself. Hence, the appropriation of struggle.

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

I did not read one word of this drivel

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/man-fleeing-ice-raid-at-monrovia-ca-home-depot-struck-and-killed-by-car-on-freeway.1270734/#post-143911671

Abolisment alone is not enough....there needs to be retribution.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/its-wild-to-me-trump-was-allowed-to-run-again-after-january-6th.1271907/#post-143953749

In an alternate better universe, all the Jan 6rs that breached the capital would have been shot on sight and trump and the maga enablers in the republican party would have ended up with their heads on pikes in front of the Lincoln Memorial.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-puts-washington-d-c-police-under-federal-control-national-guard-to-be-deployed-to-d-c.1267119/page-7#post-143955012

Like I have said in other threads, these government "agents" cannot be allowed to just melt back into society. We need strong leaders that are ready to hold people accountable, assuming we even have elections moving forward. It would be the same fucking mistake that was made after the civil war.

in an alternate better universe marvel movies would have been shelved after endgame.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-do-many-rich-and-privileged-people-appropriate-struggle.1271889/

No Nepenthe posts, curious

She literally couldn’t resist.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-do-many-rich-and-privileged-people-appropriate-struggle.1271889/page-2#post-143960553

Part of it is sheer myopia. Most people are only ever immersed alongside people and opportunities relevant to their own class and thus do not actually have significant amounts of direct experience with those several tiers lower than them to reasonably gain perspective. So the things they struggle with are struggles inasmuch as they present friction between their current lifestyle and whatever theoretical state of "success" they have in their mind is. Your friend being "broke" despite being in a condo paid for by his family could be technically true in that he has poor spending habits or high bills or whatever, and this is a "struggle," but he doesn't know any better to understand that this issue doesn't actually put him in a position of precarity because he doesn't know what "precarity" even means without anything to actually compare it to.

The other part is Westerners' general inability to recognize and analyze contradictions. We live in a sea of competing and contradictory myths, motivators, and moral outlooks that persist for the sake of maintaining the state of imperialism and class unconsciousness, and a lot of people either don't question any of them or lack the skills and emotional maturity to do so with a reasonable analytical framework. Like, people want to be seen as having "earned" their lot in life due to the capitalistic myth of meritocracy and the moral value of a "work ethic"- that humans who work hard are fundamentally better human beings than those that don't (which, lol) without ever acknowledging that the very country they live in in only exists on the back of rampant imperialism and theft that traps billions of human beings in a state of destitution they will likely never experience, that people who work much harder than they ever have, even those who escaped Western impoverishment, will never achieve even that level of a pittance of an income.

For those who are well-off or rich, this contradiction is even more blatant. You not only outpace most of the world, but you outpace most of the people around you who in turn outpace most of the world. This is inherently isolating and painful to deal with when your moral fabric is shaped by a society that insists on the meritocracy myth. If you really didn't earn your lot in life, how can you then justify being well-off or rich? Why do you deserve to live better than most of the people on planet? Well, you have to find something to justify it, right? You can't just admit you were one of the lucky ones; even if it required some level of "sacrifice" like going to school, or networking, or dropping all of the distracting consumption like video games to focus on the hustle...is that truly enough? I mean, how do you begin to even quantify being "deserving" of anything material within a system fundamentally built on exploitation? How do you balance these meager acts of working hard against all of the other factors that had to have gone your way, such that you weren't born in a lot in life where you had to do fucking sweatshop work?

You can't, if you're honest with yourself. Hence, the appropriation of struggle.

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

I did not read one word of this drivel

Spoken like a true black girl living with her parents in the suburbs.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-do-many-rich-and-privileged-people-appropriate-struggle.1271889/
No Nepenthe posts, curious

She literally couldn’t resist.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-do-many-rich-and-privileged-people-appropriate-struggle.1271889/page-2#post-143960553

Part of it is sheer myopia. Most people are only ever immersed alongside people and opportunities relevant to their own class and thus do not actually have significant amounts of direct experience with those several tiers lower than them to reasonably gain perspective. So the things they struggle with are struggles inasmuch as they present friction between their current lifestyle and whatever theoretical state of "success" they have in their mind is. Your friend being "broke" despite being in a condo paid for by his family could be technically true in that he has poor spending habits or high bills or whatever, and this is a "struggle," but he doesn't know any better to understand that this issue doesn't actually put him in a position of precarity because he doesn't know what "precarity" even means without anything to actually compare it to.
The other part is Westerners' general inability to recognize and analyze contradictions. We live in a sea of competing and contradictory myths, motivators, and moral outlooks that persist for the sake of maintaining the state of imperialism and class unconsciousness, and a lot of people either don't question any of them or lack the skills and emotional maturity to do so with a reasonable analytical framework. Like, people want to be seen as having "earned" their lot in life due to the capitalistic myth of meritocracy and the moral value of a "work ethic"- that humans who work hard are fundamentally better human beings than those that don't (which, lol) without ever acknowledging that the very country they live in in only exists on the back of rampant imperialism and theft that traps billions of human beings in a state of destitution they will likely never experience, that people who work much harder than they ever have, even those who escaped Western impoverishment, will never achieve even that level of a pittance of an income.
For those who are well-off or rich, this contradiction is even more blatant. You not only outpace most of the world, but you outpace most of the people around you who in turn outpace most of the world. This is inherently isolating and painful to deal with when your moral fabric is shaped by a society that insists on the meritocracy myth. If you really didn't earn your lot in life, how can you then justify being well-off or rich? Why do you deserve to live better than most of the people on planet? Well, you have to find something to justify it, right? You can't just admit you were one of the lucky ones; even if it required some level of "sacrifice" like going to school, or networking, or dropping all of the distracting consumption like video games to focus on the hustle...is that truly enough? I mean, how do you begin to even quantify being "deserving" of anything material within a system fundamentally built on exploitation? How do you balance these meager acts of working hard against all of the other factors that had to have gone your way, such that you weren't born in a lot in life where you had to do fucking sweatshop work?
You can't, if you're honest with yourself. Hence, the appropriation of struggle.

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

I did not read one word of this drivel

[BIONIC]

The sheer lack of knowledge on part of the gaming community on how games are physically and creatively made underneath our capitalistic paradigm not only inevitably leads to bad analysis of individual games and the industry as a whole, but also to an inevitable dehumanization of the developers themselves who are called stupid and incompetent by the very people who know the least about the product they're engaging in. It's become very magnefied in the era of life service games and these massive industry layoffs, and it's made the online gaming community that much more annoying even to read, much less to interact with.

You are stupid and incompetent because you wasted your time in a MyLittlePony fan game.

Couldn't even get halfway through that drivel, but this stupid cunt realises that video games are one of the most capitalistic art forms ever made and have the least artistic value of all the art forms, right?

The artistry of video games is unmatched

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

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-do-many-rich-and-privileged-people-appropriate-struggle.1271889/

No Nepenthe posts, curious

She literally couldn’t resist.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-do-many-rich-and-privileged-people-appropriate-struggle.1271889/page-2#post-143960553

Part of it is sheer myopia. Most people are only ever immersed alongside people and opportunities relevant to their own class and thus do not actually have significant amounts of direct experience with those several tiers lower than them to reasonably gain perspective. So the things they struggle with are struggles inasmuch as they present friction between their current lifestyle and whatever theoretical state of "success" they have in their mind is. Your friend being "broke" despite being in a condo paid for by his family could be technically true in that he has poor spending habits or high bills or whatever, and this is a "struggle," but he doesn't know any better to understand that this issue doesn't actually put him in a position of precarity because he doesn't know what "precarity" even means without anything to actually compare it to.

The other part is Westerners' general inability to recognize and analyze contradictions. We live in a sea of competing and contradictory myths, motivators, and moral outlooks that persist for the sake of maintaining the state of imperialism and class unconsciousness, and a lot of people either don't question any of them or lack the skills and emotional maturity to do so with a reasonable analytical framework. Like, people want to be seen as having "earned" their lot in life due to the capitalistic myth of meritocracy and the moral value of a "work ethic"- that humans who work hard are fundamentally better human beings than those that don't (which, lol) without ever acknowledging that the very country they live in in only exists on the back of rampant imperialism and theft that traps billions of human beings in a state of destitution they will likely never experience, that people who work much harder than they ever have, even those who escaped Western impoverishment, will never achieve even that level of a pittance of an income.

For those who are well-off or rich, this contradiction is even more blatant. You not only outpace most of the world, but you outpace most of the people around you who in turn outpace most of the world. This is inherently isolating and painful to deal with when your moral fabric is shaped by a society that insists on the meritocracy myth. If you really didn't earn your lot in life, how can you then justify being well-off or rich? Why do you deserve to live better than most of the people on planet? Well, you have to find something to justify it, right? You can't just admit you were one of the lucky ones; even if it required some level of "sacrifice" like going to school, or networking, or dropping all of the distracting consumption like video games to focus on the hustle...is that truly enough? I mean, how do you begin to even quantify being "deserving" of anything material within a system fundamentally built on exploitation? How do you balance these meager acts of working hard against all of the other factors that had to have gone your way, such that you weren't born in a lot in life where you had to do fucking sweatshop work?

You can't, if you're honest with yourself. Hence, the appropriation of struggle.

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

I did not read one word of this drivel

I assure you she reads this thread given some of her reactions in the past.  I wouldn’t be surprised if that is the reason of some of BDubs worse decisions (being pressured by her vindictive streak).

[benji]

The other part is Westerners' general inability to recognize and analyze contradictions. We live in a sea of competing and contradictory myths, motivators, and moral outlooks that persist for the sake of maintaining the state of imperialism and class unconsciousness, and a lot of people either don't question any of them or lack the skills and emotional maturity to do so with a reasonable analytical framework. Like, people want to be seen as having "earned" their lot in life due to the capitalistic myth of meritocracy and the moral value of a "work ethic"- that humans who work hard are fundamentally better human beings than those that don't (which, lol) without ever acknowledging that the very country they live in in only exists on the back of rampant imperialism and theft that traps billions of human beings in a state of destitution they will likely never experience, that people who work much harder than they ever have, even those who escaped Western impoverishment, will never achieve even that level of a pittance of an income.

Isn't this fair? You said that working harder isn't evidence of deserving anything. Seems like you lack the skills and emotional maturity to develop an analytical framework that doesn't self-contradict at step one.

Especially when you can't illustrate how your thesis is even supposed to work, how the less hard working impoverished Americans stole and still steal all the capital from the hard working wealthy Global South.

I mean, how do you begin to even quantify being "deserving" of anything material within a system fundamentally built on exploitation?

How do you? You're constantly talking about the life you deserve where you have greater material rewards on the backs of other people doing more labor for you. You spend almost all your time bitching that people don't offer you goods/services for free spiritual rewards and instead seek compensation for their labor.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/netanyahu-says-he%E2%80%99s-on-a-%E2%80%98historic-and-spiritual-mission-%E2%80%99-feels-a-connection-to-vision-of-greater-israel.1268418/page-2#post-143812671

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If you believe in the god of the Old Testament, Netanyahu is justified in what he's doing. It's not even the first time Yahweh has ordered a genocide to make room for the Jewish people.

Just another reason to get rid of fundamentalists of any and all religions.

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[benji]

I assure you she reads this thread given some of her reactions in the past.  

Nah, cowards avoid pointed criticism.

[Boredfrom]

For those who are well-off or rich, this contradiction is even more blatant. You not only outpace most of the world, but you outpace most of the people around you who in turn outpace most of the world. This is inherently isolating and painful to deal with when your moral fabric is shaped by a society that insists on the meritocracy myth. If you really didn't earn your lot in life, how can you then justify being well-off or rich? Why do you deserve to live better than most of the people on planet? Well, you have to find something to justify it, right? You can't just admit you were one of the lucky ones; even if it required some level of "sacrifice" like going to school, or networking, or dropping all of the distracting consumption like video games to focus on the hustle...is that truly enough? I mean, how do you begin to even quantify being "deserving" of anything material within a system fundamentally built on exploitation? How do you balance these meager acts of working hard against all of the other factors that had to have gone your way, such that you weren't born in a lot in life where you had to do fucking sweatshop work?

You get on with your life and try to not be an asshole to others.  

Is that simple. You choose the easy way out and blame anyone but yourself, that’s why race and identity issues are so important to you (and the rest of BCT, for that matter), because is a way to feel victimized while still more well off than most of the world.

[Boredfrom]

I assure you she reads this thread given some of her reactions in the past.  

Nah, cowards avoid pointed criticism.

She is like Trump and probably she never reads anything beyond surface level or has Slayven to inform her when we are shit talking her. 

But there is some stuff seem directed to us and secret discord flame wars.

[benji]

There's something very funny about Nepenthe lecturing about desert and "reasonable analytical frameworks" when her "answer" to everything is that rather than continuing to get richer and improve the lives of everyone on Earth as we've been doing we should do everything we can to make everyone poorer until we're back to subsistence living and most everyone has died off from this.

[BIONIC]

A tweet so epic he retweeted himself less than 7 hours later

[Propagandhim]

Nepenthe’s claims about objective reality should be regarded with the reminder that her perception of life is gruelling, joyless, and...did she use the word unbearable?  Her political and economic comments are bleak because her general sense of life is bleak - it's just a projection of her personal despair than a serious account of what's true of real life.  

For those who are well-off or rich, this contradiction is even more blatant. You not only outpace most of the world, but you outpace most of the people around you who in turn outpace most of the world. This is inherently isolating and painful to deal with when your moral fabric is shaped by a society that insists on the meritocracy myth.

Perfect example:  How can anyone take seriously the opinion of an adult who has never even attempted to leave their childhood home on whether meritocracy in America is a myth?  It's always the same easy junk:  a binary of “privileged vs. oppressed” moral grandstanding than real analysis of anything.  And they eat it up on there.  Structural injustice doesn't remove the value of individual effort - always black and white thinking.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

A tweet so epic he retweeted himself less than 7 hours later

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-wrap-gal-gadot-blames-%E2%80%98pressure%E2%80%99-to-speak-against-israel-for-%E2%80%98snow-white%E2%80%99-box-office.1271841/page-2#post-143951085

typical IDF maneuver to say the bomb wasn't her fault

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/netanyahu-says-he%E2%80%99s-on-a-%E2%80%98historic-and-spiritual-mission-%E2%80%99-feels-a-connection-to-vision-of-greater-israel.1268418/page-2#post-143812671

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If you believe in the god of the Old Testament, Netanyahu is justified in what he's doing. It's not even the first time Yahweh has ordered a genocide to make room for the Jewish people.

Just another reason to get rid of fundamentalists of any and all religions.

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[benji]

Perfect example:  How can anyone take seriously the opinion of an adult who has never even attempted to leave their childhood home on whether meritocracy in America is a myth?

I don't actually care about that, it's just funny to poke at her persona, I think the more important factor is that her own theory can't explain how anything happens. It's all handwaved about "the system" as if this is an explanation. Why is Jeff Bezos or even just America specifically rich? "God The system works in mysterious ways" apparently.

What's the goal of this system? "To perpetuate itself." But how does each thing that happens achieve that goal? Again, she has no explanation, she simply asserts that everything that happens achieves it. That's not even a theory.

We can go further, why do people do things that perpetuate the system? "Because the system conditions them to do it." Again, how? Why was Jeff Bezos conditioned to create Amazon and make billions so he could use those billions to buy the Washington Post and not endorse Kamala who shouldn't be endorsed because she supports genocide? There's an element where she's saying that if it wasn't Bezos it would have been someone else because everyone is interchangible cogs to achieve the systems purpose, but why was it Bezos then and the way he did it? How is this not just saying that's the way God designed everything to work?

And as you said, all of it is just a self-serving explanation for why she's not happy and why that can't be her doing. The "algorithms" of "the system" just organized against her. In a different world, or one where we seize control of the system (even though we're all conditioned to perpetuate it*), that would be different, the system would do what she deserves.

*notice that never does she consider that her rabble rousing on a video game forum is part of perpetuating the system, perhaps by driving off chuds and libs who then work to strengthen the system rather then posting about video games. The system is only ever as smart and capable as she can imagine it.