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

[HaughtyFrank]

Trump just being a nice granpa around Mamdani lol

[Nintex]

He just sold Ukraine down the river so he feels good

[JoeBoy101]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/deep-down-most-people-like-furries-they-just-don%E2%80%99t-know-it-yet-fuga-melodies-of-steel-and-aeruta-creators-talk-about-kemomimi-furries-appeal.1357552/page-2#post-147877177

 User Banned (2 Weeks): Inflammatory Rhetoric

I like anthropomorphic animals and always have.

I absolutely cannot fucking stand the mascot costume look that is so ubiquitous in furry fandom. I think it's hideous. I don't understand it and i don't want to understand it.

More power to you if you like it but keep it the fuck away from me.

I also don't have an interest in seeing the anthropomorphic animals fuck. (Though to be fair I'm not all that interested in fucking in general.)

I guess more power to you if you're into that as well. I genuinely don't really care until it seeps its way into something i would otherwise like.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/deep-down-most-people-like-furries-they-just-don%E2%80%99t-know-it-yet-fuga-melodies-of-steel-and-aeruta-creators-talk-about-kemomimi-furries-appeal.1357552/page-2#post-147878224

 User Banned (2 Weeks): Inflammatory Generalization

On the surface, I think furries are weird. Deep down? I think they're even fucking weirder

Surprised NepNep didn't permanently banned them

Factually incorrect! Aren’t you aware of the 3-Mod Tribunal that approves all bans, a.k.a The Tridumvirate?

[Shecky Fragbaum]

Isn't 808's a fairly prominent BCT contributor? Skinfolk ain't kinfolk to skinchangers it would seem.

[TylenolJones]

Whose alt account is this?

I'm convinced Ken Klippenstein is a Republican double agent with these takes.

Yes?

And now he's being nicer to Mamdani than pretty much anyone in Democratic leadership outside maybe Hochul. Note the present tense.

Ken Martin, AOC, Kamala Harris, Hakeem Jeffries, Barack Obama all endorsed him. But yes, Trump leveraging his popularity after calling him a stupid communist extremist make him nicer to him than the Dems. America really does deserve Trump.

Are you seriously coming in here with Hakeem Jeffries endorsing Mamdani at the absolute 11th hour, no, 11:59, as some kind of praise?

Obama also did not formally endorse Mamdani btw. Neither did Kamala with any kind of enthusiasm.

This is how the propaganda works btw. You genuinely believe that Trump has been nicer to Trump than establishment Dems because they didn't endorse exactly when and how your favorite content creator wanted after Trump, a fascist white supremacist, called him a stupid communist extremist. How do I know you are an 18-35 male?

Also bdumbs derailing the thread to post about his beefs with twitter folks. 

Ryan Grimm is an idiot, this has been known.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-to-meet-zohran-mamdani-at-the-white-house-friday.1358749/page-11#post-147985129

[DavidCroquet]

Trump just being a nice granpa around Mamdani lol

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

I also like the claim that "Adults can wear cute clothes and it not be inherently sexual" as if seeing an actual human being dressed like that in public wouldn't immediately set off the "child sexual predator" alarm bells.

found the bigot.

Wear the outfit, David.

[Snoopy]

Here comes President Greene

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Page 600 is cursed

We need a dislike button.

We need an expunge button.

[benji]

I didn't even post the funniest thing about that Chewy thing, if you noticed on their character description they talk about how they're 400 pounds and there's a bunch of posts about no  fatphobia and fat and proud and so on.

When I looked at their media tab, they appeared to have gotten gastric bypass surgery. Perhaps to slim down for their wedding?

They're telling us to literally celebrate a class traitor who consents to the means (losing weight) by which the genocide of their people is carried out. This is why y'all aren't serious.

[HaughtyFrank]

The 'fat and proud' scene has been in shambles ever since Ozempic dropped

[benji]

Sorry, CHUNKY, like the soup that no longer eats like a meal.

Anyway, out of the relentless fear of being called factually incorrect, I went back to confirm, this was under the surgery picture:

Literally spreading the fatphobic doctor's propaganda that your weight has anything to do with health issues. Why are our heroes always betraying us?

[TylenolJones]

UserUnknown is my new favorite character. 

I'm black.

And? Does that absolve you of caring about the mass suffering brought about by this administration and which his voters saw coming?

I'm black, hispanic, whose mother died because of right-wing Covid misinformation. I have two girls who have to grow up in a world where men, for the most part, are dangerous and contemptible people. I'm a devout Christian who is distressed to see the heresy and evil manifesting around me and the apathy people have for human suffering. Excuse me for seeing Republicans as a unique evil empowered by the moral failings of half of the country.

 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-to-meet-zohran-mamdani-at-the-white-house-friday.1358749/page-16#post-147992320

[benji]

Shit, that purging ain't gonna happen with the liberals we've been voting in the past few years. They'd probably just kick the can till another republican got into office again

Yeah, the Old Guard needs to go; people like Mamdani, AOC, and Crockett can breathe new life into the party. We can't keep being infiltrated by the Sinemas, Manchins, and Fettermans of the world; vetting better candidates going forward needs to be a priority.

If millions of people didn't vote for Trump, he would have been convicted and in jail. There is no side-stepping that fact.

Are you ignoring the four years where millions didn't vote for Trump and nothing happened?

Biden and Garland slow walked his prosecution, they didn't want to put Trump in jail, they wanted him to be beaten at the ballot box and they lost the gamble. They're cowards that are scared to hold people accountable because they don't understand the assignment. They want to campaign on Trump being a fascist, they don't want to actually treat him like one.

Dems want us to "DONATE NOW TO FIGHT TRUMP AND SAVE DEMOCRACY!!!" but also dont want to rock the boat by actually standing up to fascists during the shutdown and fully supporting someone like Mamdani

The establishment fucking lost domestically, we don't have to praise them for shit. Of course Trump is a fascist, today wasn't about making Trump happy. It was about opening Zohran and his policies to a whole new crowd. By not getting demonized and hated by Trump, by actually getting Trump to agree with him, it pushes his policies that much further into the mainstream. Fox News can't run endless stories about how "insane" his policies are when Trump himself agrees with some of them. This means Uncle Joe who only watches Fox News actually has to listen to these policies because his MAGA Emperor gave him the green light not to immediately hate the man. Again, that's a small victory and moves the line further.

Establishment democrats are fascist colaborators and should be ran out of the party as soon as humanly possible.

Fascism isn't beaten electorally, enough Dems know this, but they aren't willing to tell the American people this. Biden had eight years under Obama to see what rule following led to, it wasn't a mistaken belief but an active choice. He spent decades in government palling around with all these assholes, he was in the big club.

Nothing happened? Biden oversaw an airtight labor market while managing inflation caused by Covid-19 and averted an outright recession. Millions of people were vaccinated. The Biden DOE saved people thousands in monthly payments through the SAVE plan and student debt relief, which his admin fought to protect against Republicans in court. The Biden FTC oversaw a slew of pro-worker and consumer policies and anti-corporation court challenges. Biden walked the picket line and his admin oversaw labor wins for railroad and entertainment workers. The infrastructure investment spiked wages for unionized workers. Biden ended Title 42 at the border, abating the humanitarian crisis on the Mexico side of the border. No admin invested more in high-speed rail and renewable energy. All of these were progressive Democratic policy platforms.

Did he arrest Trump or not?

I think you're scared to hold the American people accountable. The Biden DOJ's only mistake was acting like fastidious rule followers because they had the mistaken belief that people care about norms and they were undermined by a pro-Trump Supreme Court with the immunity ruling. The American people simply didn't have to vote for a fascist, and did anyways because of racism and misogyny.

They DIDN'T VOTE FOR A FASCIST AND GOT NOTHING FOR IT! How are you going to blame the people when the people elected him and he didn't fucking do anything?! What kind of person are you? How can you talk so highly of abject FAILURES and talk down on the people who voted for said failure?

Do you seriously think people voted for Trump because Biden didn't prosecute him fast enough? Are you, okay?

No I imagine they didn't vote at all cause what's the point, and also the so called fascist fighters seemed to have more fight in them for Israel blowing up kids than anything else.

Good talk.

[benji]

Remember when you shouldn't platform any fascists and there's no reason to talk to, let alone try and convince, them or racists or any other bigots to change their views, instead you should just shun them until they feel shame and realize you're right? Now it's a brilliant move to go pay homage to the Nazi King genociding everyone and emboldening people like Joanne because people on Fox News will see that socialist 9/11 causers are based and arm up on behalf of marginalized people.

 Don't ever visit Twitter, LiveStreamFails or Joe Rogan, that's normalizing fascism.
 Do PR for the fascist President because it helps build your brand.

[Taco Bell Tower]

UserUnknown is my new favorite character. 

I'm black.

And? Does that absolve you of caring about the mass suffering brought about by this administration and which his voters saw coming?

I'm black, hispanic, whose mother died because of right-wing Covid misinformation. I have two girls who have to grow up in a world where men, for the most part, are dangerous and contemptible people. I'm a devout Christian who is distressed to see the heresy and evil manifesting around me and the apathy people have for human suffering. Excuse me for seeing Republicans as a unique evil empowered by the moral failings of half of the country.

 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-to-meet-zohran-mamdani-at-the-white-house-friday.1358749/page-16#post-147992320

Damnit, was hoping they were responding to NepNep 

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

The 'fat and proud' scene has been in shambles ever since Ozempic dropped

Turns out it was copium all along. Who could have guessed.

[benji]

Turns out it was copium all along. Who could have guessed.

Exactly why the whole system is so insidious and we need to destroy capitalism, colonialism and white supremacy at all costs.

[Geoff Marvel]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/recently-went-from-being-in-a-monogamous-relationship-to-an-open-poly-one-and-im-struggling-with-incredible-guilt-shame-pursuing-other-partners.1361503/

Let me preface this by saying it wasn't my idea to have an open relationship, and I'd much rather be in a monogamous one, but it's not something I can change. Basically, I've been with my partner for 11 years and we've been married for the past six. We basically came to an agreement recently where we've both agreed we want to stay married but see other people. I am actually fine with this. If I'm being honest it's been well over a year since we've shared any sort of physical intimacy and we don't even sleep in the same room these days. We don't hate each, in fact we both still care for each other, it's just things change. It's more of like we both survived hell together and saved each other's lives, but we just kind of have our own lives now.

And, yes, I'm stupid. I already know this. And yes she has told me she isn't seeing anybody yet, but I don't exactly buy that she was camping by herself every weekend last summer. She has told me that three other people are interested in talking with her and she does want to "talk" to other people.

My problem is it's not exactly a poly relationship if only one partner is seeing other people, but I still feel incredible guilt and shame seeking out other relationships, partly because I feel like there's a stigma with poly dudes. Bros have no problem pursuing a married woman, but I feel like 95 percent of women would immediately bail if I told them I'm still married. I feel it's a given you have to be open about that but how do you pursue a woman you're interested in without coming off as immediately ick if you're a man in an open relationship? Like I feel like most woman would assume you're just lying. Sorry I literally have no one to confide in, and it's been over a month already.

[NekoFever]

The 'fat and proud' scene has been in shambles ever since Ozempic dropped

I like how they’ve spent years shouting that it’s not about food and they’re just naturally big and people can starve themselves and not lose any weight, and then an effective appetite suppressant arrives to stop them eating shit and all of a sudden their weight drops like a stone

[Polident]

The 'fat and proud' scene has been in shambles ever since Ozempic dropped

I like how they’ve spent years shouting that it’s not about food and they’re just naturally big and people can starve themselves and not lose any weight, and then an effective appetite suppressant arrives to stop them eating shit and all of a sudden their weight drops like a stone

It’s like how almost every fad diet has been a way to trick people into eating fewer calories. 

Eating less and exercising more is effective. Who knew?

[Snoopy]

I wouldn't be a billionaire for long.

Because I'd immediately use the money to start a reparations and early education fund.

Would you fuck fatty. You'd grasp that money the same way you grasp your unpaid mod powers.

[Rendle]

If I was a billionaire i'd buy a refurbished s23 plus to replace my broken s22

[HaughtyFrank]

Pronouns: they/she/any

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-is-erika-ishiis-ghost-of-yotei-actor-goty-2025.1361548/

Why even bother announcing their/her/his/its/zirs pronouns at all then?

Also I dare anyone in that thread to continually call her 'he'

[DavidCroquet]

Jim Sterling threads were full of this. Even he said call me whatever after transitioning—including his pronouns and his name.

But now everyone on era calls her Stephanie in lockstep.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/recently-went-from-being-in-a-monogamous-relationship-to-an-open-poly-one-and-im-struggling-with-incredible-guilt-shame-pursuing-other-partners.1361503/

Let me preface this by saying it wasn't my idea to have an open relationship, and I'd much rather be in a monogamous one, but it's not something I can change. Basically, I've been with my partner for 11 years and we've been married for the past six. We basically came to an agreement recently where we've both agreed we want to stay married but see other people. I am actually fine with this. If I'm being honest it's been well over a year since we've shared any sort of physical intimacy and we don't even sleep in the same room these days. We don't hate each, in fact we both still care for each other, it's just things change. It's more of like we both survived hell together and saved each other's lives, but we just kind of have our own lives now.

And, yes, I'm stupid. I already know this. And yes she has told me she isn't seeing anybody yet, but I don't exactly buy that she was camping by herself every weekend last summer. She has told me that three other people are interested in talking with her and she does want to "talk" to other people.

My problem is it's not exactly a poly relationship if only one partner is seeing other people, but I still feel incredible guilt and shame seeking out other relationships, partly because I feel like there's a stigma with poly dudes. Bros have no problem pursuing a married woman, but I feel like 95 percent of women would immediately bail if I told them I'm still married. I feel it's a given you have to be open about that but how do you pursue a woman you're interested in without coming off as immediately ick if you're a man in an open relationship? Like I feel like most woman would assume you're just lying. Sorry I literally have no one to confide in, and it's been over a month already.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/womens-mainstream-clothing-options-are-so-much-better-than-mens-or-how-i-shopped-in-the-womens-section-for-the-first-time-in-my-life.820905/

So long story short, my wife and I went shopping for clothes the other day at our local Goodwill, and I ended up saying, fuck it, I'm going to shop in the women's section. I'm currently exploring my gender identity having come to the realization that I think I'm non-binary.

It's honestly kind of liberating? So I decided to check out the women's clothing section and it's as I always suspected --- women's clothes are so much better than men's clothing. The colors, the patterns, different fabrics and textures --- holy shit, I can't believe this has been here the whole time. And jackets, oh my God I'm a whore for jackets. The men's section no lie was an entire rack of grey sport coats. The women's section? Holy shit, the options. Lol. Ended up spending close to $100 on clothes and I only think two or three items were from the men's section. Thoughts? Opinions?

Also, I know this isn't probably a big deal for most of you, but for me it was awesome.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/if-your-spouse-makes-significantly-less-than-you-is-it-more-beneficial-to-file-taxes-as-married-filing-separately.1096440/

Basically, we've always filled jointly since we've been married, because standard advice is that you receive far more tax benefits filing jointly.

My wife is convinced now that we'll get more back if we file separately because she makes like less than $14K. Is this true? We have no kids and she makes so little, I could see that making sense but everything I've ever heard or read generally says otherwise.

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/recently-went-from-being-in-a-monogamous-relationship-to-an-open-poly-one-and-im-struggling-with-incredible-guilt-shame-pursuing-other-partners.1361503/#post-147997189

If I'm being being honest, it's more like we're amicable housemates. I'm open to divorce honestly but it's more of like I'll be absolutely fucked and homeless if do that right now. I took on a 5-year debt consolidation loan a couple years ago and I have a year's worth of payments left. We basically own our house so there is no housing costs but if I left now, I'd probably be living in my car right now. I don't know. Like. Yeah. It probably has run it's course. I don't know maybe run the clock out for the next 12 months and bail? Yeahhhhh fuck. I honestly would probably be happier.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/recently-went-from-being-in-a-monogamous-relationship-to-an-open-poly-one-and-im-struggling-with-incredible-guilt-shame-pursuing-other-partners.1361503/page-2#post-148001566

Your marriage is over.

You're dragging a corpse along the road.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hey-ign-gaming-journalism-is-fucking-pathetic.1357384/

 User Banned (3 Days): Inflammatory Commentary

We all know quite a bit of "articles" are just based off our front page.

Any feelings on that? It's a real thing that is making money.

Let's dictate the next major article.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hey-ign-gaming-journalism-is-fucking-pathetic.1357384/#post-147851365

We're obviously not going to host a thread like this.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-game-awards-2025-all-nominees-revealed-voting-now-open.1355809/page-25#post-147808948

 User Banned (2 Weeks): Conspiracy Theorizing

Don't the nominees come straight from the jury? Or are you accusing Geoff of putting his thumb on the scales?

I wouldn't put it past him.

[Snoopy]

You know what wife, I think I’ll start dressing up in your clothes.

Really? Hmmm. Interesting.

3 weeks later.

Hey honey, uhh who were those black guys coming out the house?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nearly-half-of-us-kids-want-in-game-currency-this-christmas.1360300/page-5#post-147966271

Yep, it's being normalized (along with paid RNG and gambling tactics, especially on mobile games) at such a young age, I do genuinely worry about the mental wellbeing of kids (I say as someone with an addictive personality who has suffered because of Paid RNG) and makes me worried how their going to be even more exploited as they grow older and become old enough to gamble (something I feel social media encourages). Stuff like this should have been better regulated over a decade ago.

I'd be curious what the percentages are for around the world, the UK specifically.