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

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/another-white-chef-had-to-apologize-for-criticizing-mexican-food.1387861/page-3#post-149114485





 Thank you for someone finally calling out Panda's schtick of spamming irrelevant links in place of actually using their own words  

More jumping in!   
Uzzy

Not quite sure what that has to do with food, but thanks for your contribution I guess?

I swear, some of you have a Word document full of copypastes of articles you find lying around, written in capital letters, ready to be spammed for the slightest semi-relevant topic.

What does this have to do with the topic? And why does every single one of your posts have at least one headline written in huge <h1> text when the link already has the headline?

[Boredfrom]

Others, like Josué Martínez, a chef at the Mexican Culinary School, said he was happy that the debate was happening because it opened the door for a more robust and nuanced discussion.

Mexican bread has long been criticized domestically for its industrialization and reliance on white flour and sugar. But many like Martínez say those conversations are different and more nuanced when led by Mexicans themselves rather than by a foreign entrepreneur.

“It’s an opportunity to learn about the culture of Mexican breadmaking and pastry, to take pride in it, to highlight the richness of our ingredients, and to stop thinking that the so-called first world represents the ultimate standard," Martínez said.

I would agree but you know most people will just act like there is nothing to discuss or that everything is OK.

[benji]

But many like Martínez say those conversations are different and more nuanced when led by Mexicans themselves rather than by a foreign entrepreneur.

[Boredfrom]

I’m wary of defending Hart, as I got a personal bad experience when defending a British person was “blunt” with Mexican food (cuffJeremyClarksoncuff) before I saw the whole rant. 

I’m just going to say: you guys have no idea how shitty the Mexican press and social media can be.  

I found the gentrification stuff misquoted as hell. 

https://www.excelsior.com.mx/redes-sociales/panadero-ingles-no-solo-arremetio-contra-pan-mexicano-desprecia-cdmx-asume-gentrificador?amp

“Me critican de gentrificador, que nadie puede vivir en CDMX por nuestra culpa. Jódete. Nadie puede vivir en Londres desde hace 40 años, debes abrazar el cambio”.

They eliminated half of what he said in the clip

[Boredfrom]

But many like Martínez say those conversations are different and more nuanced when led by Mexicans themselves rather than by a foreign entrepreneur.

I heard about this stuff before, but usually is just used to shit on local corpos rather than giving real solutions or actually asking the local companies to comply.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/administration-to-effectively-ban-gender-affirming-care-for-minors.1387729/#post-149101804


Ok, which of you is this?  And if actually serious, I challenge them to a pickle jar opening contest

From the snowflakes who can't handle any mention of Harry Potter. 

In a move that rivals Kyuuji new game plusing Cyberpunk, the trans person who complained about the card has now a framed version of it to hang on the wall

[benji]

I'm sure whoever the Brit chef is said something uncouth about something he thinks is crap. I don't see why it needs to always be treated as offensive though. People can hate shit you like, get over it. "It's popular in Mexico though!" Okay? And? Since when do we have to not criticize anything popular or it's some kind of national/racial/ethnic offense?

Look at all the shit Americans like. It's only offensive when you say actual insane things that nobody can seriously argue like that the First Amendment goes too far, Americans have too many guns or the Snyder Trilogy isn't the pinnacle of superhero filmmaking.

[Boredfrom]

Reminds me of the French minister to the EU last year after the election saying "We cannot leave the security of Europe in the hands of voters in Wisconsin every 4 years"

Nobody can count on the USA to be consistent from now on, not for domestic matters or world matters. Because you never know when we'll elect some freak who backpedals on every agreement that was previously in place and/or creates a bunch of nonsense that will need to be cleaned up later.

It should be noted that is that is the same freak that was elected and whose policies were not inline with past governments. The freak that everyone is waiting to fuck off and whose current political movement will die or drastically change after he bites the dust.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trumps-hand-picked-kennedy-center-board-votes-to-rename-it-the-trump-kennedy-center.1387582/page-2#post-149131663

[filler]

I'm Mexican and I'm of the opinion that Mexican people simply can't accept any criticism at all when it comes to food. I've literally had people talk shit about me as a person just for saying that I don't like pozole.

Mexicans are so lucky to have you defending white people's ignorant opinions about Mexican food.

You're not obligated to run interference for a white man.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/another-white-chef-had-to-apologize-for-criticizing-mexican-food.1387861/post-149104555

i'm with reeee on this one. get that mothafuckah! 

[filler]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/another-white-chef-had-to-apologize-for-criticizing-mexican-food.1387861/post-149104555

Yeah, what kind of piece of shit would want cross-ethnic solidarity on points of agreement. You should always support your skin folk no matter what!  

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

Do they think there aren't white Mexicans? Is this a MAGA/alt-right forum?

Being fair, when the Mexican Internet Community gets mad at something they can be more insufferable than any Anglo leftist.

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

INBF   Don’t need to tell me.  

boreform's favorite cuisine:

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berga for breakfast lunch n dinner 

[Boredfrom]

I'm sure whoever the Brit chef is said something uncouth about something he thinks is crap. I don't see why it needs to always be treated as offensive though. People can hate shit you like, get over it. "It's popular in Mexico though!" Okay? And? Since when do we have to not criticize anything popular or it's some kind of national/racial/ethnic offense?

Look at all the shit Americans like. It's only offensive when you say actual insane things that nobody can seriously argue like that the First Amendment goes too far, Americans have too many guns or the Snyder Trilogy isn't the pinnacle of superhero filmmaking.

Right now a lot of people in the capital are mad that, wait for it, a lot of foreigners are here after Covid and the immigration caravans.   

There is a good discussion to be have about homelessness (a lot of them are foreign people recently) and gentrification (a lot of it pushed by recently by foreign people also  ) but people here want easy answers most of the time. This British chef mentioned something true that social media omitted: gentrification has been here since a while ago.

[Boredfrom]

Others, like Josué Martínez, a chef at the Mexican Culinary School, said he was happy that the debate was happening because it opened the door for a more robust and nuanced discussion.

Mexican bread has long been criticized domestically for its industrialization and reliance on white flour and sugar. But many like Martínez say those conversations are different and more nuanced when led by Mexicans themselves rather than by a foreign entrepreneur.

“It’s an opportunity to learn about the culture of Mexican breadmaking and pastry, to take pride in it, to highlight the richness of our ingredients, and to stop thinking that the so-called first world represents the ultimate standard," Martínez said.

I would agree but you know most people will just act like there is nothing to discuss or that everything is OK.

Look at filler.

[BIONIC]

Yeah, what kind of piece of shit would want cross-ethnic solidarity on points of agreement. You should always support your skin folk no matter what!  

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

Do they think there aren't white Mexicans? Is this a MAGA/alt-right forum?

Being fair, when the Mexican Internet Community gets mad at something they can be more insufferable than any Anglo leftist.

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

INBF   Don’t need to tell me.  

boreform's favorite cuisine:

That’s not a 1000 year old dragon

[benji]

Reminds me of the French minister to the EU last year after the election saying "We cannot leave the security of Europe in the hands of voters in Wisconsin every 4 years"

Nobody can count on the USA to be consistent from now on, not for domestic matters or world matters. Because you never know when we'll elect some freak who backpedals on every agreement that was previously in place and/or creates a bunch of nonsense that will need to be cleaned up later.

Feel like this is one of those things where you don't want to say it like it's some big reveal when it's something so blatantly obvious. Especially when it's reheated rhetoric from every other decade of the last 50 or so.  

"But but but Reagan didn't play footsy with the baddies." Yeah, the cowboy nutter was only going to get us all incinerated!

[Boredfrom]

Being fair, when the Mexican Internet Community gets mad at something they can be more insufferable than any Anglo leftist.

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

INBF   Don’t need to tell me.  

boreform's favorite cuisine:

That’s not a 1000 year old dragon

That’s you, furro. 

[benji]

A highly respected trans voice (aka fat never-employed trans woman who literally lives in garbage* and got kicked out of the Australian Greens) has a big long thread on Bluesky about Cyberpunk's transphobia:

Most of the discussion I saw centred around objectification. Specifically, there's a soft drink ad with a model who has a sharp jawline and a massive dick print in her form-fitting bodysuit. People seem to have criticised CDPR for that

Admittedly my knowledge of that criticism is surface-level and there might be something I'm missing, but I don't think it's grounds to criticise CDPR because it makes complete sense in-universe. In the CYBERPUNK setting, and especially in the 2077 era, everyone is objectified, an object, a commodity

People are like "but the ad is othering because it associates her with 'mixing it up', which treats her as some kind of exotic flavour". Yes? Were you not aware this was a thing that happened?

In my opinion, there are two points in the story where authorial transphobia becomes a serious concern:

1) Finn "Fingers" Gerstatt, a ripperdoc and minor character in Judy's questline. Fingers is the only clear-cut gender-nonconforming male-assigned character in the game.

He has long acrylic nails, a fishnet top, gold hot pants, and a stereotypically effeminate manner of speaking.

He's also a serial rapist and an intentional facilitator of the manufacture and distribution of sexual abuse and snuff material.

More broadly, Fingers is coded "disgusting" in general and "disgusting person of gender" in particular. To the latter, he's balding and possibly dyes his hair, which are unforgivable sins for the faggot-coded; to the former, even his legitimate business practices are clearly carried out in an unhygienic way.

Fingers is the only starting ripperdoc you have the option to kill as part of the story. (There's a hidden NPC later on who can set up as a ripperdoc if you choose not to kill them, but you have to do a second-tier side quest to run into them.)

During the scene that potentially ends with you killing Fingers, the resident lesbian love interest, Judy Alvarez, is present. She justifiably hates him. One of the insults she hurls at him is "freak". Given that sexual violence is normative rather than freakish in NC, that's an interesting call

2) Edgar Tool, a character in a side quest in PHANTOM LIBERTY. Edgar is presented as a cis man, but was hit by a power surge while viewing a braindance (BD; i.e. full sense recording) of BD star Lina Molina, scrambling his brain and causing him to believe he's her.

There are some hints that it's not just the power surge talking. Tool is able to find an identical copy of Molina's revealing, form-fitting bodysuit in his size at extremely short notice, and you can find fan mail from him to Molina where he says "the only time I can be myself is when I'm being you"

Tool is at least not a bad person, but he's designed to be awkward and conventionally unattractive, and it's implied he's spent most of his adult life in the basement where you meet him. The comedy is that he's a pathetic crossie loser who thinks he's a woman.

I will give CDPR some credit: while you have the option to snap Tool out of it, that's clearly the "sad" ending to this questline. The "happy" ending is where you let him stay in his delusion and he goes on to join Molina in making a wildly successful series of BDs (and possibly transition).

There's also one other area which I think is of concern: "The Beast In Me", the character questline for Claire Russell, the bartender at the Afterlife.

Claire is trans and not overtly monstrous. The questline is a series of races in her truck, which has a couple of big trans flags on it.

The races are of the "death rally" type: no holds barred, killing your competitors is completely fine.

It slowly emerges that Claire's goal in contesting the racing championship is to get an opportunity to kill one of her competitors, Peter Sampson.

It turns out that Sampson killed Claire's late husband, Dean, during one of these races. Claire sees that as unjust and wants revenge.

Given you've already been told it's okay to kill competitors during these races, that immediately sets Claire up as suspect.

Obviously the only way for Dean's killing to still be unjust is if it was for a reason other than preventing him from winning the race, i.e., murder for its own sake. Claire claims it was; she claims Sampson braked, and Dean braked to avoid him, spun out of control, crashed, and died.

In the final quest of the line, you have the option to throw the race in order to tail Sampson off the track and hunt him down. This is clearly the preferred path. If you do so, he will hit another car and overturn. You have the opportunity to let Claire shoot him as he crawls out of the wreckage.

If you don't let her shoot him, he will give his account of events: Dean tried to pass him toward the finish line. Sampson rammed him, causing Dean to lose control of his vehicle (Claire's truck) and crash. The vehicle survived. Dean did not.

Sampson claims what he did was allowed. This is consistent with what you've been told up to this point. I don't remember whether Claire disputes it, but she doesn't dispute the factual accuracy of his account. She still wants to kill him, so you have to scold her and talk her down.

The ending where you tail Sampson and he crashes but he survives is unequivocally the best outcome for the quest; you get Claire's truck in most endings, but in the "Sampson survives" ending he also gives you his (repaired) car out of gratitude.

Letting Claire kill Sampson, on the other hand, is, while not a very bad ending, still worse than keeping him alive. Not only will you not get his car, but Claire will write to you a couple of days later confessing that she regrets killing him. So it's not even textually the right call.

To top it all off, Sampson is set up as a loathsome corpo and a general hate sink at the start of the race. So by the time you have the chance to kill him or not kill him, you've already been primed to believe, correctly, that he should die.

So basically, if you follow the questline to its end, and more specifically if you follow the best path at the end, what you're left with is a situation where Claire is either unable to accurately recall her own experiences, intentionally lying so you'll let her kill someone, or both.

All in all it comes off very "if a trans woman accuses a man of anything, even if he's widely recognised as a real piece of shit, then she's probably lying, deluded, or both, and as punishment she should be forced to surrender her most treasured possession and then disappear from public life".

Strange no mention of beast being a well known slur against trans people.  


 




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[JoeBoy101]

This thread reminds me of why I just don't post as much on actual forms or social media, just hang out in discord or messenger with people I vibe with.

I really have no interest in some random person throwing out a drive-by comment or being miserable and letting me absorb their anxiety.

Love you all, but come on.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-new-smaller-lighter-quieter-imax-film-camera-will-be-named-the-“imax-keighley”-to-honor-geoff-keighley’s-parents.1387591/page-3#post-149119150

Messy and Neppy, She-wolf of ERA, getting some real clap back in that thread. Going to mark and check to see who gets banned next week.

Again, nepotism or nepobaby is not about saying someone didn't do hard work or is a hack which is a completely different, actually insulting concept (doing unoriginal derivative work for commercial gain and appealing to lowest common denominator), it's just they had connections and opportunities. A lot of the best actors got their opportunities through nepotism. It's a creative industry, and unless if you have a great steady salary off the jump, you're gonna struggle and graft so nepotism allows a head start. There is no gross misinterpretation going on here. It's a completely accurate label.

Okay, so ... if we talked about Rob Reiner the same way this site talks about Geoff and played it off as "what, I'm just acknowledging the advantage he had", who's buying that for even a second?

I don't know why people talk with their full chest and then try to downplay it as nothing 10 seconds later.

Again, no one is saying he doesn't work hard.

Eh ... several posts are saying that.

The way "nepobaby" is used here in such a driveby, put down, critical way, where people love downplaying the success of people and things they don't like.

Quote any part of my posts where I said people should be unhappy about this development. If you can't, why would you just randomly make up an argument?

Why is it important that people be happy about this development?

What else could this possibly mean. If they aren't happy about something they are ...?

Friday ERA apparently exhausted from pushing out holiday deliverables and are sick of her shit.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/1-4-teasers-for-avengers-doomsday-leaked.1383643/page-15#post-149122198

It's a good thing neither of you work in marketing.

This is a fantastic teaser that will be an incredibly hype moment for general audiences

This didn't age well

https://www.resetera.com/threads/1-4-teasers-for-avengers-doomsday-leaked.1383643/page-15#post-149127817

sometimes marketing experts get it wrong I suppose lol

https://www.resetera.com/threads/1-4-teasers-for-avengers-doomsday-leaked.1383643/page-15#post-149130091

lmao

It is not normal to clap and cheer at a movie trailer. That is not the sign of whether or not it is good marketing.

I know some of you love being negative about everything but please.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/1-4-teasers-for-avengers-doomsday-leaked.1383643/page-15#post-149131675

Someone shouted "who cares" at my screening and everyone laughed.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/1-4-teasers-for-avengers-doomsday-leaked.1383643/page-15#post-149131903

This is definitely a real thing that happened.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/1-4-teasers-for-avengers-doomsday-leaked.1383643/page-15#post-149132266

It did. "Steve Rogers will return in Avengers Doomsday" isn't as much of a marketing grand slam as whoever thought of this 1/4 campaign.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/1-4-teasers-for-avengers-doomsday-leaked.1383643/page-15#post-149132545

this was me I can confirm. i got high fives after the screening too. and zeovgm was also at the movie and started crying and ran to the bathroom. i will post video if nobody believes me

https://www.resetera.com/threads/1-4-teasers-for-avengers-doomsday-leaked.1383643/page-16#post-149132683

This is incredibly weird.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/1-4-teasers-for-avengers-doomsday-leaked.1383643/page-15#post-149132545

this was me I can confirm. i got high fives after the screening too. and zeovgm was also at the movie and started crying and ran to the bathroom. i will post video if nobody believes me

https://www.resetera.com/threads/1-4-teasers-for-avengers-doomsday-leaked.1383643/page-16#post-149132683

This is incredibly weird.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

[JoeBoy101]

Jeff Marvel right now:

[HaughtyFrank]

This is incredibly weird.

How the fuck would he know?

[Uncle]

I'm sure whoever the Brit chef is said something uncouth about something he thinks is crap. I don't see why it needs to always be treated as offensive though. People can hate shit you like, get over it. "It's popular in Mexico though!" Okay? And? Since when do we have to not criticize anything popular or it's some kind of national/racial/ethnic offense?

Look at all the shit Americans like. It's only offensive when you say actual insane things that nobody can seriously argue like that the First Amendment goes too far, Americans have too many guns or the Snyder Trilogy isn't the pinnacle of superhero filmmaking.

Right now a lot of people in the capital are mad that, wait for it, a lot of foreigners are here after Covid and the immigration caravans.   

There is a good discussion to be have about homelessness (a lot of them are foreign people recently) and gentrification (a lot of it pushed by recently by foreign people also  ) but people here want easy answers most of the time. This British chef mentioned something true that social media omitted: gentrification has been here since a while ago.

how do you feel about sharing a country with ethan ralph

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-much-wealth-is-ethically-acceptable-for-you-to-have.1388347/

Thread is weird because everybody in it seems to assume the wealth will be distributed to everyone else for them to spend freely rather than hoarded by the cops or political elite. Seems to be zero posts concerned about more wealth going to the genocidal Democratic Party to send to Israel or for centrists to spend on ICE for example.

The wealth you personally labored for.

Hold on, you know there's a bait and switch coming because she doesn't actually believe this.

I think people are missing the fact that the number is not inherently the problem; it's where your wealth comes from.

Both are the problem.

It's impossible to amass a Billion dollars ethically as an individual.

The number is inherently the problem, the method is an aggravating factor.

The number of a billion is the result of ownership of capital and wage theft which is inherently unethical. But you can engage in that behavior and not be a billionaire.

But didn't she literally say this just recently?

NepNep

Okay but I'm not the whole of the Internet. I'm one anti-capitalist who has been consistent on this principle since coming into the current level of knowledge I have at my disposal. If you haven't read any of my screeds against not just other billionaires but capitalism and imperialism as a whole, that's your problem, not mine. My post history is open to you to search through.

A billion is not an arbitrary amount, and fundamentally her workers are getting underpaid- even with the bonuses- because all profit is stolen labor value from the workers. Taylor is a capitalist; she owns enough means to not have to do any actual labor for the rest of her life in order to maintain a decent standard of living. In order for anyone to be a billionaire, everyone else who works for them in some capacity has to be screwed out of the true value of their labor. Her being nice or a good singer is irrelevant.

Last post here: This question is about ethics, not about how you are comfy or luxurious or whatever, please read the question. So:

120 bucks can build a village in Africa a well, they can drink water for the rest of their lives, spending excess wealth above 100k on this would be ethical. You don't need more than that.

The reason some villages in Africa needs wells is because of deliberate underdevelopment by the West. Your individual spending is not going to fix that; destroying capitalism and colonialism will.

Why would the West deliberately underdevelop (Africans are owed other people personally laboring for them?) the capital it needs to steal or the system collapses?  

just set a limit and tax everything above that 100%

im no economist or smart dog, just set an arbitrary number

everyone's personal wealth over 99,999,999 dollars get fully taxed or sommit, like in a jrpg

Perhaps coincide with the FDIC and NCUA account insurance limits of $250,000 and then tax anything above at 100%?

No hard number for me but once you reach that 8 digit figure, everything beyond is taxed to hell with no loopholes. Also would make it so the majority of a person's wealth over that amount must be relinquished when they die. No more generational hoarding

What could go wrong. (Ignore the recent thread full of them bitching about the hard cap on food stamps because of regular situations where the marginal dollar matters.)

I also don't think they realize this would outlaw all the companies they love.

15-20 million with no option for loans based on your wealth.

the average person will make probably a few million in their lifetime so that seems fair

$10 million seems reasonable.

I would say the cap should be about $10 to 20 million

20 million seems fair.

$10 million seems like a nice round number?

I genuinely don't see how anyone anywhere could ever possibly need more than $50 million, so maybe that makes more sense as an absolute hard cap.

I agree. Seems like an easy number to reference.

Are these dollars to be inflation adjusted or not?  

You are entitled to whatever you personally worked for

If you have increased your wealth by starting and running a business, have a skillset in your professional career with your years of experience that is sought for, a creative person that found success like as a musician, etc, you are entitled to everything you have worked for, you earned it

No billionaires accumulate so much wealth in that way

 

Socially, I can barely tolerate 99M but 99M+$1 should be the cutoff. After that you're definitely a net negative on society and you should be giving up your 'earnings' as taxes.

 

I think a 90% marginal tax on income over $5,000,000 (with different brackets below this of course) would be a good start. That's fairly close to how it was the 1950s, you know, that golden age we all want to get back to...

I love how they can wax lyrical for the 1950's when women and Blacks were kept out of the workforce because they falsely assume it was some time of even plenty despite almost everyone being massively poorer than they all live today and massive wealth inequality they wouldn't accept.

I'm also pretty sure they've outright dogpiled and banned people for ever saying anything positive about any time before like the 1980's in any other context because of how Blacks and women were treated. Yet they just pass over it in this kind of context because it's a "well known" talking point among the historically ignorant.

Yes and a good amount of being publicly rich is learning to run cover to convince people you "earned" it or that you're just plain better than the poors.

The next thread from here should be "How Much Money is Ethically Responsible to Inherit?"

If people were willing to care about every human we would get to socialism pretty fast.

bingo, and it's surprising people aren't mentioning it as much. you can be a "normal", middle income family from the U.S or Germany or other rich country. your nation directly benefits from a global system of exploitation of underdeveloped nations that transfer wealth to developed ones. crack down all the billionaires in your country, that's not changing without directly targeting said system.

hell, even inside every nation you have different degrees of exploitation. african americans are exploited for white americans, black britons are exploited for white britons, so on so forth. as long as you keep the same system, you will never change that. there's a reason why so many icons of the anti-racism struggle were staunch critics of capitalism. the black panthers, malcom X, assata shakur. they all realized the system of exploitation that is capitalism and advocated for socialism

Nothing says caring about every human and no exploitation like forced labor and mass murder for the benefit of an elite caste!

100 Million - Almost everyone seems to get out of touch with reality and on the border of being detrimental to society once they reach that point.

Then what explains Era posters?

[Boredfrom]

I'm sure whoever the Brit chef is said something uncouth about something he thinks is crap. I don't see why it needs to always be treated as offensive though. People can hate shit you like, get over it. "It's popular in Mexico though!" Okay? And? Since when do we have to not criticize anything popular or it's some kind of national/racial/ethnic offense?

Look at all the shit Americans like. It's only offensive when you say actual insane things that nobody can seriously argue like that the First Amendment goes too far, Americans have too many guns or the Snyder Trilogy isn't the pinnacle of superhero filmmaking.

Right now a lot of people in the capital are mad that, wait for it, a lot of foreigners are here after Covid and the immigration caravans.   

There is a good discussion to be have about homelessness (a lot of them are foreign people recently) and gentrification (a lot of it pushed by recently by foreign people also  ) but people here want easy answers most of the time. This British chef mentioned something true that social media omitted: gentrification has been here since a while ago.

how do you feel about sharing a country with ethan ralph

 

Not a lolcow I put much attention on.

[Propagandhim]

"deliberate underdevelopment by the West"  

https://unctad.org/news/africa-foreign-investment-hit-record-high-2024

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-find-yourself-being-a-hoarder-by-nature.1388599/#post-149132188

I have this bad problem with not wanting people to see me doing things, so I wait until no one is around to get rid of cardboard boxes from stuff I've bought, or things like that. My mental health is slowly getting better, but I usually just want to be invisible, so it means my office at work, my home office/living room and my bedroom are just full of clutter. Moving in with my folks in my 40s hasn't done me any favors in that department. Most of my wife and I's stuff is in storage and everything else is sorta piled high in the parts of the house we hang out in. I hate it when I notice it, but the worst part is that I usually don't see it.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-find-yourself-being-a-hoarder-by-nature.1388599/#post-149132416

I have bookcases full of old magazines I haven't touched in 20+ years, more piles of magazines stored in the attic, a closet full of old, sometimes ripped clothes that I will never wear again...

Yes, I hoard.

Don't care, though. Not running out of space yet at the very least.

[Propagandhim]

"deliberate underdevelopment by the West"  

https://unctad.org/news/africa-foreign-investment-hit-record-high-2024

They're not investing in the future, they're strip-mining the place in the present

[benji]

"deliberate underdevelopment by the West"  

https://unctad.org/news/africa-foreign-investment-hit-record-high-2024

She doesn't mean it literally, like the other poster they're just repeating a term from an academic Marxist theory (that's just a minor rephrasing of Lenin) they don't understand that nobody really agrees with because it's either based on no actual historical examples or just plain unfalsifiable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_theory

A good example of the unfalsifiability is on the Wikipedia page for "underdevelopment" where the founder of the concept is quoted as saying:

Rodney also elaborates on his broader theory of underdevelopment and the issues of using the term especially in reference to comparing economies, saying "Actually, if 'underdevelopment' were related to anything other than comparing economies, then the most underdeveloped country in the world would be the U.S.A, which practices external oppression on a massive scale, while internally there is a blend of exploitation, brutality, and psychiatric disorder."

Perfectly useless theory.

If you click through to either page you'll notice that the theory was developed in the 1950's and is based on the state of the still colonies at that point in time. Like all Marxist theories it's never been updated for what happened since because that would too obviously falsify the theory.

[benji]

This is going to be effective not because it will generate cheering or claps in the theater, but because it will get people talking.

"Did you hear Chris Evans is coming back as Cap? They showed the trailer right before Avatar." "No way, I just saw it last week and mine was a trailer for Thor." "My friend saw it last night and his was of Dr Doom."

By the time RDJ is shown the internet will be on fire. And when they finally reveal the X-Men? Shit is too easy, man.

It's going to be interesting to see how people react to RDJ. There's probably still a huge chunk that either don't know or forgot he's coming back.

Is this guy actually posting from 1992?