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

[Garfield]

[quote=grang]I work for a Head Start program (which are not supposed to be affected very much in terms of pay, accessing funds to continue operating, etc--not SUPPOSED to), and a last minute webinar detailed that WIC has enough liquid funds to pay out to families for 1-2 weeks, and SNAP has enough for most of October. This is food, basic foods, for children, infants, and low income people who can't fucking afford to eat. These fuckers are fucking ghouls

Ghouls? No, hon. Starving children and the suffering poor are a sacrifice for trans joy. It's beautiful. 

I am receiving SNAP payments, thanks for this. I hope SNAP has enough to provide me with my SNAP payment for October

Im sorry you have to suffer because the dems want a whole bunch of shit to agree to fund the government for 7 more weeks

[Boredfrom]

[quote=grang]I work for a Head Start program (which are not supposed to be affected very much in terms of pay, accessing funds to continue operating, etc--not SUPPOSED to), and a last minute webinar detailed that WIC has enough liquid funds to pay out to families for 1-2 weeks, and SNAP has enough for most of October. This is food, basic foods, for children, infants, and low income people who can't fucking afford to eat. These fuckers are fucking ghouls

Ghouls? No, hon. Starving children and the suffering poor are a sacrifice for trans joy. It's beautiful. 

I am receiving SNAP payments, thanks for this. I hope SNAP has enough to provide me with my SNAP payment for October

Im sorry you have to suffer because the dems want a whole bunch of shit to agree to fund the government for 7 more weeks

[Boredfrom]

Does Garfield work in the White House?   

“Don’t blame us, blame the Dems?”

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bill-burr-defends-performing-at-controversial-riyadh-comedy-festival-%E2%80%9Cthey%E2%80%99re-just-like-us%E2%80%9D.1313038/
Bill be like us frfr

[Uncle]

I thought we were supposed to celebrate diversity and other cultures different from ours

[HaughtyFrank]

Someone on my Facebook feed wrote "That GamePass price increase is insane, I'm getting off, but how will I explain that to my son?"

"You could tell him that Microsoft needs more money to fund the Palestinian genocide and you went off that wagon." Sounds like a good enough reason to me.

But Microsoft isn't funding Israel, that's not how it works

[Jansen]

Nah fuck pocketpal.

I hope you get your tendies and chocolate milk before bedtime.

[Boredfrom]

I thought we were supposed to celebrate diversity and other cultures different from ours

Only if they have a ton of money. 

If not, then fuck you.

[Orange Juice Box]

FurryNep dropping nuggets of wisdom:

The contradictions that plague the African continent for the sake of Western imperialism don't penetrate the news cycles not only because the West's cultural foundations are rooted in sheer antipathy to African and Black life, but also because many of these contradictions inevitably become intracontinental, such as Rwanda's role in the DRC's suffering, and so the conflicts are filtered as just "civil war" or "clashes" or "famine" back to the Imperial Core without any clarifying context as to our direct and indirect role within this mass suffering. The physical and narrative distance creates apathy compared to, say, anything Trump does because what Trump does directly affects people within the Core, humans who inevitably matter more than some mere "statistics" in Sudan.

Gaza was largely the same way up until recently, with most people just looking at the Middle East as this mishmash of "centuries'-long conflicts," as just "people who have been fighting forever and can't seem to get along." What happened is that not only were we given mountains of horrific 4K footage documenting what was always obviously a genocide, but Western politicians- even the "good ones"- were nonetheless in support of the cleansing despite people screaming at them to stop it, exposing a major contradiction that has always underlied Western hegemony and has thus chipped away at unbridled support in neoliberal institutions. Gaza was the curtain being pulled on the Wizard. The African contininent as a whole has not had its curtain-pulling moment yet for the masses.

I needed that.  Yes Nepenthe, pull the curtain.  And the world will react to Africa just like it did to Gaza.  Great Plan! 

It's funny because she said she read up on Palestine and Israel after Oct 7th and declared the history of the conflict simple because it's less than 100 years old.  And she goes back to her Core and Periphery learning to explain why the US doesn't publish news constantly about Africa.   

The physical and narrative distance creates apathy compared to, say, anything Trump does because what Trump does directly affects people within the Core

Huh, crazy how that holds true for China, South Asia, India, Australia, South America and East Europe except for one nation. Yet they don't have African or Black life?

exposing a major contradiction that has always underlied Western hegemony

And just what is that "major contradiction."  Like always, she refers to a thing and says some version of, "I've always mentioned this thing,"  and never explains what the "thing," is.

[Orange Juice Box]

It's been too long since we've had some Nepenthe so I needed a second helping.

This isn't actually sustainable, especially in perpetuity. How many "once in a lifetime" economic downturns have we had within our living memory? Our parents' living memory? How much war and genocide has been wrought specifically because of this system? How much underdevelopment of the Global South and the millions of deaths resulting simply from lack of access to a basic standard of living has happened because of this system? How many of us have died from its pollution and infrastructure failures? How many years do we actually have until we hit 4c degrees warming (it's probably shorter than what the media is reporting in order to not cause panic)? Capitalism, by design, isn't actually sustainable in terms of stability and health for the majority of humanity or even our ecological systems.

It's sustainable for the bourgeoisie though. They love what's happening right now.

As for whether or not Americans want this system, I wouldn't say for certain that's the case. For one, I don't think most Americans functionally know what capitalism means beyond "making money." But anecdotally, I don't encounter many people who, when I come along to explain what capitalism is in basic terms, go "Oh no, that's great; I love dedicated the majority of my life to making some lazy fuck rich off of my limited time and physical capabilities doing a bullshit job that means nothing." Just doesn't really happen.

Regardless, you will likely not see revolt in the US because we are a culture of pessimism and comfort. People, for one, lack belief in, knowledge of, and imagination for the existence of alternative economic models because all they know and are forced to know is their current reality. They might not like capitalism but don't even know where to begin searching for something better, in part because they're really pessimistic about their chances of success (for not entirely bad reasons; how many activists and revolutionaries have we killed again?) but also because they're easily distracted by all the trinkets and toys the US offers access to. I mean, you're on a gaming forum after all. The very identity of this place is dedicated to one of the biggest distractions and means of Western propagandization on the planet.

But even then, when you're overworked, poor, and have no real hope for a future, yeah, you're gonna play video games and scroll on social media to escape. That's all people want: an escape.

She always says this.  "When I explain [subject] people get it for once!"   Why don't you explain that to your members for once?  Quit just saying how you know so much about X and actually tell us about X.   Explain capitalism the way you do to these antagonistic people that suddenly fall in line and want to elect you to govern them. 

There is a non-internet thing she participates in, where apparently she's also the smartest, most judicial, and hardest working person.  It's kind of hard to describe it as reality when from the ways she describes it, it's exactly like her online self except she's a respected leader.

[imsotired]

As for whether or not Americans want this system, I wouldn't say for certain that's the case. For one, I don't think most Americans functionally know what socialism means beyond "free stuff." But anecdotally, I don't encounter many people who, when I come along to explain what socialism is in basic terms, go "Oh no, that's great; I love dedicated the majority of my life to making some bureaucrat rich off of my limited time and physical capabilities doing a bullshit job that means nothing." Just doesn't really happen.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-sick-of-going-to-work-every-week-and-making-barely-enough-money-to-get-by.1312474/

Basically, I make $300-400 a week at my current job.

But I have a lot of big expenses this week and it's not gonna leave me with much left.

Yeah, I want to make money to pay my bills, but I want to be able to live and enjoy my life too. Is that really too much to ask?!

These are the thought leaders of the leftist video game community fellas. The ones that are going to lead the revolution. 

[davepoobond]

It took a price increase, not a genocide, to make people cancel game pass

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

well you're making 10 bucks an hour, no idea what it is or how many hours it really is, but that's your problem

get another primary job. if you are there for 40 hours a week, you may as well quit and do doordash or uber full time while looking for something better

Look at this chuddy telling poor Uzumaki Goku to get another job.   ugh no empathy at all.. Blueballs is right about this place.

[Besticus Maximus]

Resetera: Capitalism is the worst thing that ever happened to 

Also resetera: 37k is nowhere near enough gold for a librarian

[Daffy Duck]

Nah, fuck giving any money to this raging zionist and terrorist supporter.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/%E2%80%98kill-bill-the-whole-bloody-affair%E2%80%99-quentin-tarantino-epic-to-be-released-as-one-movie-in-early-dec-including-in-35mm-and-70mm.1314292/

lol he’s such a freak

[D3RANG3D]

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

[Boredfrom]

How much war and genocide has been wrought specifically because of this system?

Way a lot less than you think, specially compared to the past and other systems.

Wasn’t her Art college a good one? I thought they will teach her at least “history of art”, but she is even clueless about that.

[Potato]

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

I'm partial to this one

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

I can't believe Kpop Demon Hunters is healing the world of music. 

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Does Garfield work in the White House?   

“Don’t blame us, blame the Dems?”

Blame? No, sweet child. We should suffer for trans joy. It is therapeutic. Suffering for the service of trans joy will bring us to the next level of oppressive ascension. 

When grandpa and little shuri starve in the streets we will know that Dems held strong so that a white middle class internet addict can goon on bluesky with their favorite HRT featuring cute anime girls on the box. Would you rather they pay out of pocket as one would any other body modification procedures? No, no. My child. Acceptance will bring you serenity. And soon even children will know the joy of government sanctioned transitioning.

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

Don't get angry at me Boredfrom. I'm joking.

[Besticus Maximus]

Labour needs to act way more strongly against this. They can't cower like the democrats did when alt-right rose in American. The risk is that Farage wins.

these people are genuine idiots

[Daffy Duck]

These people are mentally unwell

Absolutely fuck off. I hope all the victims can pull through.
Edit: One dead, one critical... Horrible. Absolutely fucking horrible.

How bad is it that my mind automatically & immediately defaults to "I hope the wanker responsible is white?" Every time something like this happens it is the first thing my mind goes to, just because we don't need to embolden our right-wing nutters.

White nationalist terrorism? I wouldn't be surprised given Reform senior party members and their bullshit

https://www.resetera.com/threads/attack-at-synagogue-in-manchester-uk-up-2-victims-confirmed-dead.1314547/

[HaughtyFrank]

These people are mentally unwell

Absolutely fuck off. I hope all the victims can pull through.
Edit: One dead, one critical... Horrible. Absolutely fucking horrible.

How bad is it that my mind automatically & immediately defaults to "I hope the wanker responsible is white?" Every time something like this happens it is the first thing my mind goes to, just because we don't need to embolden our right-wing nutters.

White nationalist terrorism? I wouldn't be surprised given Reform senior party members and their bullshit

https://www.resetera.com/threads/attack-at-synagogue-in-manchester-uk-up-2-victims-confirmed-dead.1314547/

My assumption was instantly white nationalist. But I've since been seeing other assumptions which are more dangerous, so I get your comment.

Bearded guy with IED belt, obviously a white nationalist

[simiansmarts]

Sounds like a Sikh

[Ethan]

It's been too long since we've had some Nepenthe so I needed a second helping.

This isn't actually sustainable, especially in perpetuity. How many "once in a lifetime" economic downturns have we had within our living memory? Our parents' living memory? How much war and genocide has been wrought specifically because of this system? How much underdevelopment of the Global South and the millions of deaths resulting simply from lack of access to a basic standard of living has happened because of this system? How many of us have died from its pollution and infrastructure failures? How many years do we actually have until we hit 4c degrees warming (it's probably shorter than what the media is reporting in order to not cause panic)? Capitalism, by design, isn't actually sustainable in terms of stability and health for the majority of humanity or even our ecological systems.

It's sustainable for the bourgeoisie though. They love what's happening right now.

As for whether or not Americans want this system, I wouldn't say for certain that's the case. For one, I don't think most Americans functionally know what capitalism means beyond "making money." But anecdotally, I don't encounter many people who, when I come along to explain what capitalism is in basic terms, go "Oh no, that's great; I love dedicated the majority of my life to making some lazy fuck rich off of my limited time and physical capabilities doing a bullshit job that means nothing." Just doesn't really happen.

Regardless, you will likely not see revolt in the US because we are a culture of pessimism and comfort. People, for one, lack belief in, knowledge of, and imagination for the existence of alternative economic models because all they know and are forced to know is their current reality. They might not like capitalism but don't even know where to begin searching for something better, in part because they're really pessimistic about their chances of success (for not entirely bad reasons; how many activists and revolutionaries have we killed again?) but also because they're easily distracted by all the trinkets and toys the US offers access to. I mean, you're on a gaming forum after all. The very identity of this place is dedicated to one of the biggest distractions and means of Western propagandization on the planet.

But even then, when you're overworked, poor, and have no real hope for a future, yeah, you're gonna play video games and scroll on social media to escape. That's all people want: an escape.

She always says this.  "When I explain [subject] people get it for once!"   Why don't you explain that to your members for once?  Quit just saying how you know so much about X and actually tell us about X.   Explain capitalism the way you do to these antagonistic people that suddenly fall in line and want to elect you to govern them. 

There is a non-internet thing she participates in, where apparently she's also the smartest, most judicial, and hardest working person.  It's kind of hard to describe it as reality when from the ways she describes it, it's exactly like her online self except she's a respected leader.

Am I the only one who doesn't give a shit that my job is bullshit and that someone somewhere might be getting rich because if it? I see it as leasing my time to someone in exchange for money so that I don't have to forage for berries all day. If the job is really bullshit, joke's on them I guess. You could say I'm the landlord of my labour.

Then again, I'd probably sing a different tune if I was making 8$ an hour. Maybe even The International.

[Mediocre Lager]

Man, Era is so boring lately. Same things over and over.

We need a new character to this season to spice things up.

[Snoopy]

I just want to know who Nep is educating. It can’t be normal adults. No one with a functioning brain would put up her nonsense.

[Alpacx]

Sounds like a Sikh

Everyone do themselves a favor and go watch the Skytanic episode of Archer

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-wife-said-she-doesnt-feel-the-same-about-me-ive-never-felt-so-alone-in-my-life-also-is-the-world-just-completely-fucked-now.1314745/

Hi all....apologies for the depressing thread, there is nothing anybody can do to help nor do I expect that, just getting something off my chest really. I don't even have a plan for what I'm writing and it may end up being a long essay in which case I don't even necessarily expect anyone to read it all.



But if you do have some words that might help or have been through similar yourself I'd love to hear it.



I'm 34 from the UK, I met my wife (or girlfriend at the time) in 2017. We met on Reddit, I live in Wales, she lived in London. We had a cute online romance for a while and would travel to meet each other on the bus. On meeting her, I fell in love pretty much immediately. She is beautiful, intelligent, caring, aware of the world, funny, dedicated, HOT, a mental health nurse. She is even somehow a socialist and ally despite growing up with rich parents in a private Catholic girl's school in Oxford UK. Just, one of the best people in the world. I'm not even just saying that because of how heartbroken I am right now. Everyone who meets her says the same thing. She is the embodiment of a ray of sunshine.



Soon after meeting, she moved to Cardiff to be with me. She had been a nurse in London for a long time and was burnt out, traumatised, had an eating disorder, suffered from crippling anxiety, and had a past of being suicidal. She had been planning to move to Newcastle to be with her parents to escape London, and changed that to Cardiff when she met me.



The next few years were a dream come true. I supported her, loved her, helped her overcome her anxiety and eating disorders through love and care. She did the same thing for me with all my issues. We were as strong as a couple could be, we faced everything together and backed each other up in all situations. We bought a house near the coast - she grew up in the most central part of England so that was a dream come true for her, she couldn't believe her luck living by the beach. We had a lovely house and worked on improving it, I got into gardening and most summers we didn't have to buy vegetables or herbs at all, I got so productive at it. She still worked as a nurse because getting out of the NHS is hell, but her job here was easier than London and she went from critical accident and emergency jobs to a more office based position which cheered her up a bit. She also went from shift work to 9-5 which meant a good sleeping pattern and routine for the first time in her adult life. Looking at it back now is like one of those flashbacks in colour in a film when everything else is grey and depressing. Quite literally everything was perfect. And yes part of this was 2020. Even that year we were living the dream.



We got married in 2023. Unquestionably, the best day of my life. Certainly, the proudest. Fuck, you should see what she looked like, and how happy we were. I know everyone in that room was wondering how the fuck I got her. She gave a speech about how much she loved me and everything I'd done for her.



The rest of 2023 was great, just enjoying life together. In 2024, everything kinda went bad. Not with our relationship, just with life. Her brother fainted in a petrol station and smashed his head on the counter. The staff put him in his car and left him for 5 hours with a bleed on the brain instead of calling for an ambulance. He was in a coma and still hasn't fully recovered. I know that scarred her for life, she had therapy to deal with it. Then a bunch of other shit things happened, I can't even list all of them there's too many, I sprained my ankle in the middle of training for a trail run and could barely walk for weeks, I also had serious pneumonia from covid and was coughing up blood and basically still in bed for almost a month. We had leaks in the roof that cost 20k to fix. At the end of the year, after dealing with all of that, my boss let me go by surprise after an 8 year stable, well paid, career. Even worse, he told me I had done nothing wrong, and that he just was bored of that business and wanted to go into another. We were both crushed and in shock, I basically spent 2 days crying.



But my career had been in marketing, and I had made a lot of companies a lot of money in that time, so I knew I had the skills to fix things. I decided I didn't want to apply for jobs and essentially risk the same thing happening again in a few years, so instead I started doing the same marketing tasks on a self employed basis, reaching out to old clients and trying to build up my own business that way. At the start it was really hard and I was penniless, some days I couldn't eat. But it went well and I earned more and more every month and as of July I've been making as much as I was before. Don't get me wrong, my life is a lot harder, I have to go out and fight for it with new clients every month rather than just, making it from working every day like you do working for someone else. But I made progress and I felt good. The aim was to keep growing until hopefully she could stop working and have a rest.



My own routine and health took a MASSIVE hit in this time. I went from running and going to the gym most days and eating perfectly, to not running or going to the gym at all and not eating well. It was meant to be maybe for 2-3 months but I haven't gotten back to it all year. But I did this by choice, I needed to throw myself into work to improve our lives and any money spent on those things was better invested in things to help me get work or grow, or so I thought.



She trained for a multi stage ultramarathon this year - 250km in 5 days. It took a lot of training as you can imagine. With her focusing on that and me focusing on work, we haven't been going on dates or having fun as much as we used to. But, I thought this was ok, I thought it was purposeful. She was working on the biggest achievement of her life thus far, and I was working on fixing our finances and future. She achieved the ultra in September and I've never been so proud of anyone.



On Tuesday this week, she said she doesn't feel the same way about me anymore and we should take a break and not live with each other for 2 weeks....



I asked why and she straight up said I haven't done anything wrong and she hates to hurt me but she just doesn't feel the same and part of it is that the last year or two have been so hard. I don't understand that at all, it's not been hard because of us, and the relationship I thought was perfect. Yes life sucks but it does for everyone and we were a team through it all. Me spending so much time on work was only intended to make life better from us, I could have got an entry level job in a shop if I knew this would happen, I don't give a fuck about having money if it's not to make her life better and enjoy it with her.



I don't bring up the "I haven't done anything wrong" part to make me sound perfect, obviously we had ups and downs like any marriage, I have hurt her and annoyed her a lot of times in the past. But I bring it up to 1) compare to the fucking boss who essentially said the same thing, and 2) to clarify that there was no cheating, or big arguments, or aggression, or any clear cut thing that would explain this. She told everyone in her life I was the perfect husband and kept telling me how everyone at work was jealous of me. And now she just....doesn't know.



We're going to spend 2 weeks apart to think clearly and see how much we miss each other but I'm fucking terrified that it'll make us drift and make her realise she's better off without me. I can't do shit if that happens and have always thought she's too good for me so I'd essentially have to say oh well, that's done, lol. I don't want to be that clingy guy that won't leave her alone and keeps texting her while we're meant to be having a break but the alternative is sitting alone waiting and hoping and crying. Of course there is a chance things will turn out fine, I know marriages go through issues like this a lot, and we've always loved each other enough to get through anything - but she seems so distant now, she is not herself, she can't even hug me properly, it feels like I have cheated or something in the way she responds to me, but nothing fucking happened.



I'm just realising that in the time since we've met, I've slowly been shedding friends. I have my 3 or 4 closest friends from school that I still talk to, but most others I have fallen out of touch with. Partly because I was so happy with her that I didn't need anyone else but I Realise how fucking stupid that was now. Even for those close friends, their girlfriends and wives are good friends with her and we often went on double dates etc. I don't want to vent to them about everything because I'm not ready for them to know. I don't want our issues to be fucking dinner table gossip. But that means I have nobody to talk to about this except her, which I can't and I'm going insane.



If we break up I'm truly hopeless, everything I like about myself or have been proud of in the last almost decade has been related to her. And even if things work out and we stay together forever, I'm not sure I can ever get over this.



Anyway, sorry. Nobody here can help me and I wouldn't ask you to but even just typing that out has helped a little, lol.



Side note/broader topic - is the world just fucked now? I know it is politically and that knocks on with everything else but jesus christ. It feels like I get bad news every 3 months. Not just small bad news but the major type that would be life changing a few years ago. Now it's just a normal thing. Is it like this for everyone lately?