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

[TylenolJones]

Survived?!? You’re not even a 1/4 of the way through it.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-survived-project-2025-and-so-did-you.1395124/

Does he think Project 2025 was literal and only meant the year rather than the entire four year term of the President?

Yes, Project 2025 has hurt me more deeply than most would guess, but what it hasn't done, is force me out of public life. What it hasn't done, is forcibly detransition me. What it hasn't done is to achieve *the end results* that the people who crafted it hoped for. I remain proudly and visibly trans.

Yes, many of the hateful policies from Project 2025 were put into place, but trans people are not breaking under the immense pressure.

You can literally find out how personally it's hurt him deeply: 

Note: Defense Department barred any new hormone treatments as well as any surgical procedures for transgender troops.
Note: The Supreme Court allowed Trump to enforce trans military ban while litigation is ongoing.
Note: Trump rescinded guidance extending the nondiscrimination protections under Section 1557 to discrimination based on gender identity.
Issue rules and guidance that “sex” is properly understood as a fixed biological fact.
Revoke EO 14020, which established the Gender Policy Council.
Abandon the redefinition of "sex" to “sexual orientation and gender identity” in Title IX.

You will not find anything in Project 2025 about trying to force anyone out of public life let alone forcibly detransition them but he's survived that anyway.

That said, this one is listed as "not started" which shows to me that Trump has gone woke:

"classify educators and public librarians" who discuss "transgender ideology" with minors as "sex offenders."

[Propagandhim]

Good enough for me.  Checks out.

[HaughtyFrank]

Survived?!? You’re not even a 1/4 of the way through it.

Project 2025 isn't limited to 2025?

[Besticus Maximus]

Gentlemen, I hope you have all received the memo. We will be pretending not to understand how fraud works until march, if any of you fuckers so much as hint that these crimes are crimes then it’s straight to jail. No fucks given.

[HaughtyFrank]

Good enough for me.  Checks out.

I give this a 50/50 shot between it being a terrible coverup by fraudsters or a maga nutjobs breaking in thinking he'll solve the case himself

[Propagandhim]

Good enough for me.  Checks out.

I give this a 50/50 shot between it being a terrible coverup by fraudsters or a maga nutjobs breaking in thinking he'll solve the case himself

This is fair.  Maybe I shouldn't jump to conclusions.  I saw the initial video investigating this and it seemed convincing, but I could be taken for a ride.  So, fair enough.  But the initial claim by Nepenthe and everyone else is that it would be unthinkable for a community of Somalis to engage in fraud.   

Why would you think the right-wing could potentially be right that "Somalis are running fake daycares to steal hundreds of millions/billions of dollars in fraud?"

Because it already happened?  Given the massive proven fraud in the overlapping food program, it could be unlikely that the childcare side remained 100% clean while the food side was 100% corrupt.  That the discrepancy between the building sizes and the sums of money billing the state seem like legitimate questions?  That when the federal Assistant Secretary of HHS called the Minnesota state director of child care services he said she "could not tell me with confidence" that the fraud wasn't happening or isolated?  That's how it could POTENTIALLY be right?  Because Somalis, like everyone else, are human beings that aren't made of magical fairy dust?  It's just annoying that Nepenthe will automatically defend and believe this sort of thing is unthinkable for anyone she perceives as the in-group, but always has the least charitable perception of her out-group like the ethno-narcissistic she is.

[Alpacx]

Also this was literally an OP set up by someone looking to challenge Walz in the next election. Fuck me dude.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/12/29/youtuber-nick-shirley-accuses-somaliowned-day-care-centers-of-fraud

During an on-camera virtual press conference on Monday, however, Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth confirmed her caucus helped point the creator in the direction of where to look. Opening the meeting, Demuth welcomed the attention, placing blame on the Walz administration for failing to act.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/after-being-accused-of-fraud-by-creepy-racists-in-a-viral-video-daycares-in-minnesota-are-getting-harassed-and-vandalized.1395118/#post-149521579

[HaughtyFrank]

Good enough for me.  Checks out.

I give this a 50/50 shot between it being a terrible coverup by fraudsters or a maga nutjobs breaking in thinking he'll solve the case himself

This is fair.  Maybe I shouldn't jump to conclusions.  I saw the initial video investigating this and it seemed convincing, but I could be taken for a ride.  So, fair enough.  But the initial claim by Nepenthe and everyone else is that it would be unthinkable for a community of Somalis to engage in fraud.   

Yeah, I mean a daycare center with a big ass "learing center" sign on the front door is going to be shady as hell. The question is of they're straight up committing fraud but it's absolutely worth investigating

[benji]

Also this was literally an OP set up by someone looking to challenge Walz in the next election. Fuck me dude.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/12/29/youtuber-nick-shirley-accuses-somaliowned-day-care-centers-of-fraud

During an on-camera virtual press conference on Monday, however, Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth confirmed her caucus helped point the creator in the direction of where to look. Opening the meeting, Demuth welcomed the attention, placing blame on the Walz administration for failing to act.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/after-being-accused-of-fraud-by-creepy-racists-in-a-viral-video-daycares-in-minnesota-are-getting-harassed-and-vandalized.1395118/#post-149521579

Oof, maybe listen to and trust Black women? Not a good look to question them.

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-survived-project-2025-and-so-did-you.1395124/

As we wade through all the shit being thrown our way, it can be easy to lose sight of where we stand and how we are doing.

Yes, Project 2025 has hurt me more deeply than most would guess, but what it hasn't done, is force me out of public life. What it hasn't done, is forcibly detransition me. What it hasn't done is to achieve *the end results* that the people who crafted it hoped for. I remain proudly and visibly trans.

Yes, many of the hateful policies from Project 2025 were put into place, but trans people are not breaking under the immense pressure. Communities are not getting on board with the forcible disappearances of immigrant neighbors. People are rallying against policies which were meant to bring about Gilead and which the majority were expected to celebrate.

The cruelty hasn't cut people's grocery bills... and there is very good reason to think that however worse 2026 may be to 2025 for targeted minorities, or for the under privileged, that 2026 is going to be a very bad year for the people lobbing those attacks our way.

I am *so* proud of all the communities who refused to bow to fascism. I am *so* proud of the communities who refused to submit even with a boot on their goddamn necks.

We stood firm. We stood fast. We still stand.

And every moment that we refuse to buckle. Every moment that we refuse to bend. Every moment that we refuse to *break*.

It shows *everyone else* how weak and pathetic these fascists are.

Congrats and Happy New Years to all of you.

I celebrate tonight believing more firmly than I did a year ago that these fascists are going to *fail*, knowing the smile on my goddamn face is one of defiance.

We shouldn't have to withstand any of this of course.

But I suspect that they're really starting to fear that we can and will.

 He works at the county jail for the supposedly fascist government he's against. Of course he survived, he's "one of the good ones".

 Like all the mods on there he's a first class hypocrite. Got to keep working for the man or he can't afford new overalls and shark plushies.

[simiansmarts]

I really don’t understand why trans people in sports has become this giant issue that outshines everything else. If you talk to people online you’d think it was the single most important issue of our times.

Culture war politics drive engagement even though the issues are irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, that's pretty much it.

[simiansmarts]

I give this a 50/50 shot between it being a terrible coverup by fraudsters or a maga nutjobs breaking in thinking he'll solve the case himself

This is fair.  Maybe I shouldn't jump to conclusions.  I saw the initial video investigating this and it seemed convincing, but I could be taken for a ride.  So, fair enough.  But the initial claim by Nepenthe and everyone else is that it would be unthinkable for a community of Somalis to engage in fraud.   

Yeah, I mean a daycare center with a big ass "learing center" sign on the front door is going to be shady as hell. The question is of they're straight up committing fraud but it's absolutely worth investigating

Good thing the Biden DOJ was already investigating, charging and convicting people of fraud since 2022 but apparently it wasn't newsworthy until some twitter influencer took matters into his own hands.  
 

People are so easily manipulated.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-survived-project-2025-and-so-did-you.1395124/

Communities are not getting on board with the forcible disappearances of immigrant neighbors.

 He works at the county jail for the supposedly fascist government he's against.

Not the jail. Makes six figures for the sheriff's office that still cooperates with ICE: 

The Barnstable County Sheriff’s Office was the last sheriff’s department in New England with an active 287(g) agreement when Buckley ended it on her first day in office in January 2023.

“I have complete respect for the role that ICE plays,” Buckley said last week. “My decision to end the 287(g) agreement was not an indictment of the work that they do; it was related to the operational capacity of the sheriff’s office.

Even without a 287(g) agreement, communication between the sheriff’s department and ICE still exists, Buckley said.

When inmates are booked into the county jail, the sheriff’s office is notified if ICE has issued a detainer for that person, Buckley said. The current policy of the sheriff’s office is to notify ICE when that person is ready to be released.

That notification would take place whether ICE had proactively asked about that person’s release date or not, Buckley said. “We are doing it in both circumstances,” she said. “We did that before the 287(g) agreement existed, and we will continue to share appropriate law enforcement information with ICE.”

[Alpacx]

Era 2025 gaming setup thread has 227 posts by December 30

Neogaf's 2025 gaming setup thread reached 220 posts

A lot of capitalism and systemic issues going on during Cerium's nap.

[benji]

Drag em Jeff  

[benji]

That said, MAGA dorks are pretty funny, they sound like Era posters posting in outrage threads:

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gen-zs-far-right-influencers-are-refusing-support-for-jd-vance-vow-to-vote-for-newsom-in-2028.1394452/page-4#post-149516380

Gavin Newsome is likely the only candidate that has a genuine chance of winning a national election and the right is already planting the seeds of chaos.

Can't wait for people to not vote the party line again and get another shitty republicans elected because it's their preferred candidate.

We're Chopped. Cooked. Finished.

"I'm OK with a white supremacist sympathizer as long as they have a D next to their name."

You're right - we are cooked. Just not for the reasons you think.

Please stop believing these people. Please stop reporting on their false words. Just stop talking about them. That includes Newsome.

[Propagandhim]

Wait, Gavin Newsom is a white supremacist sympathizer now?  I thought they hated him because he was anti-trans issues or something, but now he's a white supremacist too?

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-survived-project-2025-and-so-did-you.1395124/

2025 on my personal level, the micro level, has been an amazing one filled with huge life milestones that I never thought I'd ever get to reach. But it was all happening with a very astute awareness that, on the macro level, things were happening that could demolish my progress in an instant with the horrific things that were going on as part of P25.

With any luck, the pendulum is indeed starting to move back the other way now, but even if it doesn't feel it or the swing is slow, remember that the best form of resisting is to not give up, but to live your life goals as best you can and continue existing.

Here's hoping everyone has an amazing 2026! ❤️

Despite the government hating people like me I had a mostly great 2025, trans joy is a barb against those who hate

Some of us did. I'll never forget there are many whose names we don't know who were taken off the streets, from their homes, ripped from their families. Who we and perhaps no one on earth will ever see again.

I view this and everything following in the aftermath as "this stupid fucking America needs to put its hand in the stove until it burns so hot we remember why we don't do that"

We deserve the worst we get as a country, and I don't really think we'll learn the right lessons. But as a trans woman who saw all this this coming 10 years away I feel no despair. I feel intense anger as I always have and I mourn for those who watched it happen along side me. But most people even on the left didn't take trans people seriously when we warned yall so honestly even if you voted for self preservation unless you actually gave a shit about marginalized communities I honestly couldn't play you the smallest of violins

I was horrified following the Kirk murder and what was looking like a prelude to a full-scale trans seizure, but it hasn't scaled near that point so thankfully.

As an autistic person, I can relate in terms of feeling dread throughout this year thanks to RFK joining the mob and my immediate family joining the MAHA train. But seeing my cousin go forward with coming out as non binary and getting top surgery along with the pushback from Canada up north gives me a sliver of hope. And I refuse to go down while these creeps are still alive. It's been a tough year, but I have to believe there's a light at the end of the tunnel and want to get there with everybody. I'm not giving up.

Yeah, everyone who came out this year helped me rekindle hope.

Something has to really be done about Stephen Miller. Dude reminds me of Roger Stone and Roger Ailes who were part of the Nixon administration, and effectively led to the creator of Fox News and the bullshit we're experiencing today.

The sneaky thing with him is that he is purposely always staying in shadows ,behind the scene like the noserfatu fuck he is, which helps absolve him of the heinous shit that is obviously his working.

The "shadows":

White House Director of Speechwriting
In office
January 20, 2017 – January 20, 2021

Senior Advisor to the President
In office
January 20, 2017 – January 20, 2021

12th United States Homeland Security Advisor
Incumbent

White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy
Incumbent

The Rogers were not part of the Nixon Administration, they were part of separate Nixon campaigns. And Ailes also created MSNBC, which is why Murdoch hired him for Fox News.

[benji]

Wait, Gavin Newsom is a white supremacist sympathizer now?  I thought they hated him because he was anti-trans issues or something, but now he's a white supremacist too?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gavin-newsoms-first-podcast-episode-brings-on-charlie-kirk-slams-trans-people-asks-kirk-for-advice.1126764/

See also: https://www.resetera.com/threads/governor-gavin-newsom-addresses-california-and-the-nation.1215192/page-5#post-141371430

Still trying to square 'pushes back against Nazis' with rubbing shoulders with an out and out white supremacist looking to strip women and girls of their bodily autonomy, and the architect of the rise of the far right we've seen the past decade.

The speech is good but it sits in the context of recent actions and Newsom has shown there's a level of comfort to be had alongside not just Republicans, but outspoken elements of the far right.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gavin-newsom-to-blue-states-follow-my-lead.1344304/page-2#post-147282796

Can't say I trust people that take pleasure in destroying what little homeless people have, and are comfortable to sit down and have a laugh with white supremacist fascists. Least of all when they start to suggest they have valid points on trans people.

Hey Newsom. Go fuck yourself.

I know what leaders look like. They look like AOC. They look like Mamdani. They stand for the marginalized groups being attacked by the fascists rather than going 'well the fascists have some good points so I shall sit down and have a nice chat with them'.

Prop 50 is good but he is a right wing nutter on the inside.

Newsom isn't just center-right, he's actively transphobic.

[Jansen]

I'm confused here. Post-WWII, Japan's government has been mostly right wing because the US made it that way. Is Sanae Takaichi any different from previous Liberal Democratic Party PMs?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ff7-rebirth-director-ff7-remake-co-director-naoki-hamaguchi-praises-japans-far-right-pm-sanae-takaichi.1394749/page-5#post-149525416

[benji]

Found this in that podcast thread: https://www.resetera.com/threads/gavin-newsoms-first-podcast-episode-brings-on-charlie-kirk-slams-trans-people-asks-kirk-for-advice.1126764/page-5#post-136692783

So, how many people here are going to openly start shitting on trans people once the party fully turns their backs on them?

It won't be open animosity, but we are about to get a lot of concern trolling and "the Democrats are just playing politics, please don't be mean to them" as we do every time some minority is considered easy collateral.

Staff will be ready.

 

Also:

Bragging that your 13 year old son was begging you to let him meet Charlie Kirk is not the flex you think it is Gavin, oh my fucking god what are we doing here…

Oh great he's raising a chud, too...

[Boredfrom]

Is gross how Nepenthe pretends to care about other minorities. I don’t think she cares about non AfricanAmerican black people.

[Taco Bell Tower]

Is gross how Nepenthe pretends to care about other minorities. I don’t think she cares about non AfricanAmerican black people.

She doesn't which is why she banned a Haitian user for it long time ago.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/remember-when-a-writer-decided-the-legion-of-superheroes-needed-more-sexy-characters-and-had-an-alien-go-through-a-second-puberty-you-not-ready.1395187/

In this thread, Slayven wants to fuck a non antro Snake and is disappointed that DC writers don’t like bestiality.

Posters notice this so MadLaughter takes one for Slaven.

 What a friggin' downgrade, this picture has so much sauce that whoever turned her into a human woman with a snake tail should be jailed

[Propagandhim]

Is gross how Nepenthe pretends to care about other minorities. I don’t think she cares about non AfricanAmerican black people.

You have it backwards.  She considers every black person on earth some part of global kin- group community no matter the difference in culture/history, whatever.  She thinks Brazilian blacks would welcome her like they're part of one big family.  It's like a far-right person who thinks "Whites" are part of this global community with the same shared goals and interests and common enemies.  It's all the same racial bullshit.

[benji]

Is gross how Nepenthe pretends to care about other minorities. I don’t think she cares about non AfricanAmerican black people.

You have it backwards.  She considers every black person on earth some part of global kin- group community no matter the difference in culture/history, whatever.  She thinks Brazilian blacks would welcome her like they're part of one big family.  It's like a far-right person who thinks "Whites" are part of this global community with the same shared goals and interests and common enemies.  It's all the same racial bullshit.

Uh, why wouldn't they? They have the same general skin color.

[Boredfrom]

Is gross how Nepenthe pretends to care about other minorities. I don’t think she cares about non AfricanAmerican black people.

You have it backwards.  She considers every black person on earth some part of global kin- group community no matter the difference in culture/history, whatever.  She thinks she Brazilian blacks would welcome her like they're part of one big family.

She isn’t, she likes to pretend this is the case but every time some black poster has an opinion not in line with Black Americans ones, she goes passive aggressive or mad.

[simiansmarts]

That said, MAGA dorks are pretty funny, they sound like Era posters posting in outrage threads:

Not to excuse magatards but I think there's a higher propensity of real posters on Era versus the magatards on twitter where there's a good chance you're actually talking to a callcenter in Dubai getting a paycheck from Elon.