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

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-like-sex-the-physical-act-of-love-coitus-do-you-like-it.1396213/#post-149596054

Yes! I just wish I had it more often, but even when I don't, the foreplay and flirting is always fun.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-like-sex-the-physical-act-of-love-coitus-do-you-like-it.1396213/page-4#post-149614534

[Taco Bell Tower]

RE quickly sent a thread venting about the forum to the shadow realm 
 
https://www.resetera.com/threads/i%E2%80%99m-done.1395682/ 
 
  

 
 

It's flat out ugly here. Not the content that's posted but the attitudes held by the most prominent. And it's hard to escape. Simply putting the users on ignore is not the solution. Their way of thinking and attitude seeps everywhere.

Certain posters and mods assume the worse from benign statements. They'll factually untrue you to death for wrong think. This place demands conformity, made for a curated space instead of challenging thought. People are encouraged to dogpile. It's more important to signal moral alignment than to argue substance. Accusations and history and the thoughts of chuds are more important than praising the good things that happen in any industry but especially gaming.

And with posters like Zeo and Nepenthe how can it be any better? Zeo for his incessant moral policing and Nepenthe for the clear disdain she has for the users here.

The lack of transparency with ban histories is absurd. The lack of word filtering for banned words is crazy. How many man hours do yall spend manually banning people when a simple word filter can do the job? Even auto ban the person? You've had years to implement something better. Don't some of you get paid? Why isn't there more transparency with bans? It's just "trust us bro" and appealing a ban is not seen publicly, so all we have is the mods word… which hasn't always been reliable. Shit sucks. Y'all can do better but don't.

Yall don't even update your own fucking rules. There's no banned topic list. No banned resource list. Is there even a list of active mods?

Fucking ban me. I'm done. Yall have fun. There's nothing for me here anymore.

 
 
 Can't have that here.

Jeff Marvel is so stealing that bold.

[benji]

RE quickly sent a thread venting about the forum to the shadow realm 
 
https://www.resetera.com/threads/i%E2%80%99m-done.1395682/ 
 

Yall don't even update your own fucking rules. There's no banned topic list. No banned resource list. Is there even a list of active mods?

 
 
 Can't have that here.

I mean the guy literally threatened the lives of staff.

[Alpacx]

[Orange Juice Box]

 

It's flat out ugly here. Not the content that's posted but the attitudes held by the most prominent. 

Fucking ban me. I'm done. Yall have fun. There's nothing for me here anymore.

 
 
 Can't have that here.

This thread is fun but too big.  Dude with people who have been imprisoned and tortured gets, "Well actually."  



https://www.resetera.com/threads/airstrikes-in-caracas-venezuela-update-trump-confirms-attack-says-maduro-has-been-captured.1396297/page-58#post-149634823

Yet, that's better than asking, "but how does this solve capitalism?"

[Propagandhim]

Yeah Trump is so much worse in comparison that half the forum defends sitting home and not even bothering to vote for the major opposition party, while Venezuelans were getting reamed by deathsquads for publicly supporting and doing it.

[benji]

This thread is fun but too big.  Dude with people who have been imprisoned and tortured gets, "Well actually."  



https://www.resetera.com/threads/airstrikes-in-caracas-venezuela-update-trump-confirms-attack-says-maduro-has-been-captured.1396297/page-58#post-149634823

What Trump does to illegal immigrants and does to Gaza is way worse than anything Maduro ever did.

The crisis has affected the life of the average Venezuelan on all levels. By 2017, hunger had escalated to the point where almost 75% of the population had lost an average of over 8 kg (over 19 lbs)[a] and more than half did not have enough income to meet their basic food needs.[40][41][42] By 2021 20% of Venezuelans (5.4 million) had left the country.[43][44] The UN analysis estimates in 2019 that 25% of Venezuelans needed some form of humanitarian assistance.[45]

...

According to the national Living Conditions Survey (ENCOVI), by 2021 95% of the population was living in poverty based on income, out of which 77% lived under extreme poverty, the highest figure ever recorded in the country.

The government-controlled National Electoral Council (CNE) announced[17] possibly falsified[18][19] results claiming a narrow Maduro victory on 29 July; vote tallies were not provided.[20] The Carter Center was unable to verify the CNE's results, asserting the election failed to meet international democratic election standards.[21] The CNE's results were rejected by the OAS,[8] and the United Nations declared that there was "no precedent in contemporary democratic elections" for announcing a winner without providing tabulated results.[22] Analyses by media sources found the CNE results statistically improbable and lacking in credibility.[23][24][18] Parallel vote tabulation confirmed the win by González.[25][26][27] Political scientist Steven Levitsky called the official results "one of the most egregious electoral frauds in modern Latin American history".[28]

Operation Tun Tun (Spanish: Operación Tun Tun), also known as Operation Knock Knock,[1] is the name coined by pro-government deputy Diosdado Cabello during the 2017 Venezuelan protests that describes a crackdown on dissent from the Venezuelan opposition using state security forces.

After the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election, Operation Tun Tun was activated to arrest large numbers of protesters and people opposed to the government of Nicolás Maduro and, according to human rights activists, to instill fear in opponents of the government and quell the 2024 Venezuelan protests.[2][3][4][5]

...

Human rights groups and relatives of the detained said that they are typically charged with terrorism, are not allowed a private defense, and the whereabouts of many are unknown.

Venezeula was one of the richest countries in Latin America with a functioning democracy before Chavismo.

[benji]

Maybe a silly question, but by putting this through the courts doesn't the Trump admin risk the Judiciary deeming the arrest illegal?

Like what happens if the Judicial Branch isn't on board?

I think they see it as a win either way. If the courts rule against Trump he and Steven Miller are going to say that the courts have no legitimacy to overrule national security and they're going to use it to amplify their war against the rule of law and Fox News will be on board. It's another step to Trump declaring himself dictator

He's got a perfect plan for everything!  

The US is not going to invade Canada. Good lord.

Yeah, surely nothing this shocking could ever happ--

WHAT?????


I reiterate


WHAT?????

-- Or maybe y'all need to stop downplaying threats to other nations once and for all? Too much to ask?

What a fucking cunt.

The US is not going to invade Canada. Good lord.

This. Stop downplaying this threat. The world is now a less safe place than before

The US is not going to invade Canada. Good lord.

Stop dismissing legitimate concerns.

The US is not going to invade Canada. Good lord.

Katie Miller (Stephen Miller's wife) tweeted out a picture of Greenland with the colors of the American flag with the words "soon" across it.

So like, I'm going to need you fucks to start taking this shit seriously because Trump actually does what he says he's going to do.

The US is not going to invade Canada. Good lord.

After all this, anyone still so sure usa won't invade Greenland or Canada is being delusional. You guys are implying 0% chance that's just dumb given what Trump has said and done. Heck even in the interview about Mexico video which was widely shared where he said Mexican president can't control the drug gangs... That video ended with him bringing up Canada as another source for drugs coming to Canada.

Again, of all the days to wave away our fear that the biggest bully in the world who happens to be our next door neighbour, might invade us like he keeps hinting at, today is not the day to do it given what's happened to Maduro and Katie Miller also annexing Greenland on Twitter.

 These people are so fucking stupid.

The United States of America is a failed terrorist state run by a bunch of corrupt fascist oligarchs, something known by anyone who have had an American friend in the past 15 years. Is it okay to start hoping China bomb the shit out of the country?

Who could complain without looking like a hypocrite?  

Instead, he said the US plans to work with Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, Maduro's second-in-command.

Welp, looks like we know who helped them get the dictator. The vice president sure as shit made a backdoor deal there.

Of course he wasn't going to allow some "woman" to take control, especially one who "beat him" for having a Nobel peace prize. "She's a nice woman" is extremely telling there.

The New York Times and Washington Post learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin Friday night — but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops, two people familiar with the communications between the administration and the news organizations said.

People are celebrating the downfall of a authoritarian regime while we're fucking in one

 

That doesn't change the fact that you literally cheered for war crimes. Are you also cheering when Russia bombs Kyiv?

That person didn't "literally cheer for war crimes." Get out of here with that shit, some of you are way too comfortable accusing people of the most heinous stuff because you chose to interpret what they said in the most cynical way and/or distorted their comment. It is pretty disgusting how lightly these accusations are thrown around.

[benji]

Much of that thread seems entirely unaware that most of the West has already been sanctioning Venezeula for a decade starting with the Obama Administration which started because they were funding FARC:

The red countries aren't sanctioning but have non-entry lists for Maduro officials/allies/etc.

[Boredfrom]

I'm not much of an interventionist, nor a fan of Trump, so I wasn't really sure what to think at first. But after seeing all the celebrations of Venezuelans all over the world, it kinda warms my heart, ngl. I think ol' Donnie may have actually made a good call for once. Maybe. Guess we'll see what happens in the long term regarding the power vacuum and the prospect of occupation. But for now, those videos sure are nice. Those people have been suffering.

My country also suffered by interventionism and didn’t actually made things better. Different circumstances and all that, but I didn’t think the Bore was that naive.

Next we're going to liberate you from the tyranny of your shitty bread. You're welcome. 

[imsotired]

At times like this it is important to check in with the most oppressed group on Era, the Canadians:

We're back to Americans talking down to us and downplaying our fears, aren't we? Sigh

Time to get armed, and if any foreign boots hit our land, we have a duty to fuck them up

It is the whole 51st state stuff all over again on this forum, where several US members were joking lightly about it or shrugging it off that we Canadians should not take Trump seriously. Well here we are again with the same schtick.

Sometimes I do wonder when ppl post on reddit or era insane shit lile to joke about their country just doing war crimes as "gallows humor", or saying stupid stuff like "current day life is too hard for a lot of ppl to be informed about anything, they could not know that voting for facism would end badly", like they are the only people in the world, if they understand how fucked up they are being.

I wrote up a whole chastising of Americans in one of the threads. Deleted it prior to posting. Whats the point. Theyve made their choice, liberal or otherwise. Theyve washed their hands of atrocities yet to come. "What can we do?" isnt a genuine question but rather a defeatist attitude that plagues the yanks.

TBH, you might be. Take it in stride and when you come back remember that this entire forum is America first and foremost, for better and worse.

Even if the staff doesn't intend it to be, it is, because that's what most of the users are.

And lest they (the wider American audience) ever be offended by any modicum of criticism.

Like, some people here honestly think another country is going to solve their problems for them, or that there is no point in even trying, because apathy has long set in. It makes me feel bad for the ones who ARE fighting against what is going on in the US, because how on earth do you fight millions of people who just don't give a fuck.

Gaza has basically made the words of any western leader meaningless anyway.

[NekoFever]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-30s-have-fucking-sucked-so-far.1396513/

I know the majority of the replies here will be "Go to therapy", and trust me, I know. But I can't afford that right now. In the meantime, I feel I need to unload.

My 20s were great, for the most part. At 22, I had a temp job where I got to travel all around Europe, which I adored. Had some amazing experiences, met loads of cool people, saw lots of new places. At 23, I moved to Germany for a fairly well-paid job at one of the Big Three. Lived there for a few years, had my own place, own car, got into great shape, worked on some stuff I was super proud of, worked flexitime, had 40+ days' holiday, could afford at least a couple of trips abroad each year, would spend most of summer at the outdoor schwimmbad, hit up a few gigs and festivals, got to fly home fairly regularly to see friends. Felt super fit, super energetic, always life of the party. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't all plain sailing, and the job was stressful at times, but overall, I had a pretty good thing going.

Then I decided I wanted to go travelling, so I quit the job in Germany, and came home to the UK for 6 months just to spend some quality time with friends and family. I ended up picking up a 6-month part-time contract just to pay the bills and save a bit for my travels. Then COVID hit and fucked everything up. I ended up stuck in that dead-end job for 4 years because of the uncertainty of everything.

In that time, I continued to date and had a few relationships that didn't work out. With the last one, we agreed to 'keep it casual' because we knew I'd be going away on my travels as soon as the COVID restrictions were lifted, so getting into something serious seemed pointless. Thing is, we fell in love with each other. I didn't know how to handle it (more on that later) and it imploded and we went our separate ways.

Eventually, the restrictions lifted and I was finally able to set off on the trip I'd been dreaming of for 4+ years. The plan was to do 6 months around south-east Asia before ending in Australia on a working holiday visa, where I'd meet my buddies in Perth. I was so excited to start a new chapter in my life.

Thing is, the entire time I was out there, I was completely heartbroken; I couldn't shake the feeling that I'd made a terrible decision by choosing this trip over her. I missed her like crazy and everything felt completely hollow and meaningless without her. I wanted to take pictures of everything and send them to her like "You'd love this!" but we weren't on speaking terms.

One night, I got hammered and ended up pouring my heart out to her over text. Like, really, really poured it out. Said I'd fucked up so bad and I'd book the next flight home if it meant we could be together again. She replied the next day saying it was too late and she was already seeing someone else. My heart broke into a million pieces and I just wanted the ground to swallow me up.

Regardless, I tried to tough it out and continue my trip. I usually move on pretty quick. I eventually got to the Philippines, and one night, as I'm walking back to my apartment, I see a fight and I try to break it up. I end up having to punch this dude and my finger became severely infected, swollen, and at risk of sepsis. The medical staff in the Philippines seemed to have no idea how to deal with it, so my parents told me to fly home to have it done on the NHS.

Just like that, the trip I'd been planning for 4+ years was over. Cut in half. No more Australia. I was rushed straight to hospital, had an emergency operation, and was released on Christmas Day.

That was 3 years ago now and I feel like I haven't been happy since.

You might wonder why I didn't just get back out there after the op. Doctor's orders; I had months of physio to get through first. Shit, guess I'd better get a job then. I turned 30 and my perspective started to shift. Flitting around from one thing to the next was starting to wear thin, and I felt it was time to start building a life for myself - a career, a car, somewhere to live.

I got back into the events industry, but it's nothing like it used to be. Wages have stagnated, work is harder to come by, the quality of staff has dropped off a cliff, agencies are asking more and more of you while penny pinching the joy out of everything, and the work itself just isn't as fun as it used to be.

I was working crazy long days, constantly moving up and down the country, barely getting any sleep, and working on super stressful events. I was working pretty much every weekend, never being at home, never seeing friends, missing events, birthdays, and gigs. I even missed my grandad's funeral. And the pay didn't justify it like it once did. I knew I had to get out of events, so I started a content creation business, but juggling all of that while trying to look after myself was exhausting.

Amongst all this, I was going to therapy to, amongst other things, talk about my relationship history. I've been a textbook avoidant all my life, because I was very suddenly abandoned by a girl I was madly in love with when I was 18. It fucked me up for so many years without me even realising. I would self-sabotage in relationships and start acting up at the first sign of things getting serious. Therapy really helped me unpack a lot of things, and eventually I felt I could move on and finally let someone in.

I reconnected with the girl I'd fallen in love with just before my travels, as I'd heard she was single again. We dated for 7 months, seeing each other where we could, and it was amazing. The feelings came rushing back and I felt so lucky to get a second chance. If I'd had a shitty week, she made everything right. She was my port in a storm, the only thing I felt sure about, the reason I kept plugging away. And because of the therapy, I didn't get scared this time. I felt so safe and secure. Until one day, she suddenly turned around and said she didn't feel the same. It was a textbook repeat of the trauma I'd just worked through from 14 years ago, and it destroyed me all over again.

At exactly the same time, my therapist left the service, and I got paired up with someone new. Starting all over again felt really heavy, and in the end, I decided I wasn't really getting on with her. I left the service entirely and haven't been back since.

I then decided to get my head down and put all my energy into my content creation business. I basically spent 2025 locked in my room, working my absolute arse off to make it happen. In the first year, we gained 30k followers, made around £20k, and secured some fairly big clients, including the BBC. Not exactly a gold mine, but certainly something to build off.

But I'm 33 in March, and I'm still mostly broke, still living with parents, still single, and I feel like life is just passing me by. I feel like I'm just treading water and not making any headway. I thought I'd be so much further ahead by now, but I can't even afford a deposit on a 1-bed apartment. I feel totally ashamed of living at home.

I feel absolutely exhausted every single day, no matter how much sleep I get, no matter what I do. Being self-employed, I struggle to find the motivation to get out of bed most days.

I no longer enjoy the hobbies that once brought me joy. I feel totally flat and numb, day in, day out.

When I do enjoy things, it feels more like a temporary distraction from the fact I'm unhappy, rather than genuine joy and contentment. I can't even go for a walk without my brain constantly reminding me I'm unhappy.

I go completely into myself and barely say a word most days. I have no interest in most conversations or interactions, and find talking to my parents exhausting.

When I do have time off, my brain is telling me that I don't deserve it and that I should be working.

Half of my friends have moved away, and the ones that haven't are married with kids.

I've had to buy a Brick to stop my doomscrolling and I fear I may have undiagnosed ADHD.

I've gained weight, started to get pain in my feet and knees when I run, and feel like I've aged 10 years in 5.

I've fallen back into old habits of meaningless casual sex because I crave physical intimacy but am not in a position to date/be a good partner right now.

I hate the long, cold, dark UK winters. I quite like my town but after 30 years, I feel I've seen all it has to offer, and I hate the mentality of the people that live here. I dream about moving somewhere else, but then I feel like I'm just exporting my problems somewhere else rather than fixing them.

And then I look around at the state of the world, i.e. Gaza, and it all just feels very fucking heavy and hopeless.

I hate feeling like this. I wake up every day and know nothing is going to surprise me.

I miss the happy, quick-to-laugh, energetic, fit, fun, flirty 25-year-old me. How do I get back there, Era?

Has he considered transitioning?

[benji]

Time to get armed, and if any foreign boots hit our land, we have a duty to fuck them up

THANK 👏 YOU 👏

[yetanotheraccountholyf]

i dont think US is going to go after Canada, but i dont agree that canadians should be laughed at for being afraid of the possibility. venezuela is not the same, but we just got a reminder that us army is THE force to be afraid of

---

[imsotired]

i dont think US is going to go after Canada, but i dont agree that canadians should be laughed at for being afraid of the possibility. venezuela is not the same, but we just got a reminder that us army is THE force to be afraid of

---

It's the anger at their victim status not being recognized by others on era that's funny.  It's what all these sub-groups end up doing.

[nampad]

1766883751[/url]']
https://www.resetera.com/threads/avatar-fire-and-ash-dir-james-cameron-ot-the-way-of-water-has-no-beginning-and-no-wait-it-does-have-an-end-actually.1385287/page-14#post-149378728

My fucking god. So worth the wait to see it in IMAX. Loved it, ate it up. It had the highest highs so far for me, and a number of emotional moments. Varang was mesmerising as well, such a great villain. I did have my worries but thankfully Neytiri lived, praise be.

Fuck you and cuntjuji, literally just bought tickets 5 minutes ago just to be spoiled while catching up on this thread on the shitter…

[jooseloose]

RE quickly sent a thread venting about the forum to the shadow realm 
 
https://www.resetera.com/threads/i%E2%80%99m-done.1395682/ 
 
  

 
 

It's flat out ugly here. Not the content that's posted but the attitudes held by the most prominent. And it's hard to escape. Simply putting the users on ignore is not the solution. Their way of thinking and attitude seeps everywhere.

Certain posters and mods assume the worse from benign statements. They'll factually untrue you to death for wrong think. This place demands conformity, made for a curated space instead of challenging thought. People are encouraged to dogpile. It's more important to signal moral alignment than to argue substance. Accusations and history and the thoughts of chuds are more important than praising the good things that happen in any industry but especially gaming.

And with posters like Zeo and Nepenthe how can it be any better? Zeo for his incessant moral policing and Nepenthe for the clear disdain she has for the users here.

The lack of transparency with ban histories is absurd. The lack of word filtering for banned words is crazy. How many man hours do yall spend manually banning people when a simple word filter can do the job? Even auto ban the person? You've had years to implement something better. Don't some of you get paid? Why isn't there more transparency with bans? It's just "trust us bro" and appealing a ban is not seen publicly, so all we have is the mods word… which hasn't always been reliable. Shit sucks. Y'all can do better but don't.

Yall don't even update your own fucking rules. There's no banned topic list. No banned resource list. Is there even a list of active mods?

Fucking ban me. I'm done. Yall have fun. There's nothing for me here anymore.

 
 
 Can't have that here.

[Switters]

Everyone hates TheJeffCU.  I get giddy every time he catches some factually true truth bullets to his pencil shaped head.

[clockwork5]

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskVenezuela/s/XCYj7YdIct

r/askvenezuela has some decent meme and general “why are the US left so retarded” content if anyone is into that sort of thing.

[kaleidoscopium]

I'm not going to link to most of it because it's vile, but if anyone is wondering how this situation has been evolving: multiple women on X have sent messages (both private and via public message) to Grok asking it to reject requests to alter them, Grok replies saying it will comply, then someone immediately gets it to alter an image of the woman in question.

You can see the most PG-13 version of this whole thing play out here.

It's not just programmed badly, it's fucking programmed to just placate people and then go against their wishes 5 seconds later.

And there are FAR worse things happening in other posts now that creeps have figured out how to get Grok to display genitalia.

It is so beyond the pale and reckless.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/woman-felt-dehumanised-after-musks-grok-ai-used-to-digitally-remove-her-clothes-via-bbc-news.1396252/page-3#post-149636149

These retards surprise me more everyday

[HaughtyFrank]

I'm not going to link to most of it because it's vile, but if anyone is wondering how this situation has been evolving: multiple women on X have sent messages (both private and via public message) to Grok asking it to reject requests to alter them, Grok replies saying it will comply, then someone immediately gets it to alter an image of the woman in question.

You can see the most PG-13 version of this whole thing play out here.

It's not just programmed badly, it's fucking programmed to just placate people and then go against their wishes 5 seconds later.

And there are FAR worse things happening in other posts now that creeps have figured out how to get Grok to display genitalia.

It is so beyond the pale and reckless.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/woman-felt-dehumanised-after-musks-grok-ai-used-to-digitally-remove-her-clothes-via-bbc-news.1396252/page-3#post-149636149

These retards surprise me more everyday

"I HEREBY DECLARE THAT I DO NOT GIVE MY PERMISSION FOR FACEBOOK OR META TO USE ANY OF MY PERSONAL DATA"

[benji]

Why would you think grok would alter itself for everyone permanently whenever a random user tells it to?

[BIONIC]

I'm not going to link to most of it because it's vile, but if anyone is wondering how this situation has been evolving: multiple women on X have sent messages (both private and via public message) to Grok asking it to reject requests to alter them, Grok replies saying it will comply, then someone immediately gets it to alter an image of the woman in question.

You can see the most PG-13 version of this whole thing play out here.

It's not just programmed badly, it's fucking programmed to just placate people and then go against their wishes 5 seconds later.

And there are FAR worse things happening in other posts now that creeps have figured out how to get Grok to display genitalia.

It is so beyond the pale and reckless.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/woman-felt-dehumanised-after-musks-grok-ai-used-to-digitally-remove-her-clothes-via-bbc-news.1396252/page-3#post-149636149

These retards surprise me more everyday

"I HEREBY DECLARE THAT I DO NOT GIVE MY PERMISSION FOR FACEBOOK OR META TO USE ANY OF MY PERSONAL DATA"

[kaleidoscopium]

Why would you think grok would alter itself for everyone permanently whenever a random user tells it to?

They think it’s actually artificial intelligence, somehow they’re more bought in than most tech bros

[Straight Edge]

[kaleidoscopium]

I missed this post because apparently I had put this member on ignore, most likely due to their terrible politics.

Thank you for your totally anecdotal experience to this conversation. I'm gonna share my anecdotal experience too: my friends from China have told me repeatedly everyone they know that has gone to the US after hearing all the news about how life there is so good and they would make so much money (from Chinese media shockingly!), have ended up returning because life in the USA absolutely sucks.

Since you invited yourself to this whataboutism, here are some grounded words for an useful idiot: Xi Jinping wishes he had the same level of national support to be elected twice in bourgeois elections (despite being known that USA's president is a serial rapist); Xi wishes it had the same level of unconditional support and collaboration from the big data fascists technocrats as the USA; Xi wishes it had half of its country media wilfully collaborating and supporting his authoritarian government without resorting to censorship; Xi wishes he would have half the level of impunity and support to foster a culture of fascist institutional violence, systematically break the (international) law, and openly participate in genocide.

Nah, I am pretty sure America is every fascist's and megalomaniac's wet dream, and by far, because you can do everything you want and still be in power after ten years, despite calling yourself a "democracy."

(Disclaimer, because in this site it needs to be said loud and clear to be treated seriously: I think Xi Jinping's government sucks and it's terrible for China's working class).

https://www.resetera.com/threads/now-that-the-us-has-illegally-attacked-venezuela-does-this-now-make-china-and-russia-more-aggressive-in-their-own-war-crime-invasion-efforts.1396372/page-3#post-149645611

[benji]

Xi wishes it had the same level of unconditional support and collaboration from the big data fascists technocrats as the USA; Xi wishes it had half of its country media wilfully collaborating and supporting his authoritarian government without resorting to censorship; Xi wishes he would have half the level of impunity and support to foster a culture of fascist institutional violence, systematically break the (international) law, and openly participate in genocide.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/now-that-the-us-has-illegally-attacked-venezuela-does-this-now-make-china-and-russia-more-aggressive-in-their-own-war-crime-invasion-efforts.1396372/page-3#post-149645611

Xi literally has and does all this?

[benji]

Everyone hates TheJeffCU.  I get giddy every time he catches some factually true truth bullets to his pencil shaped head.

[Straight Edge]

Outsourcing most of your national defense to another country is probably not a good idea.

[kaleidoscopium]

No, it's not old man syndrome. This time it's definitely different. Technology in this case is not just different from the way you are used to doing things. Technology has become purposely weaponized against the everyday average person in manipulative, exploitative, and destructive ways.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/woman-felt-dehumanised-after-musks-grok-ai-used-to-digitally-remove-her-clothes-via-bbc-news.1396252/page-3#post-149647594

Old men said the same thing back then