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

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/folding-ideas-this-is-how-you-get-jarhead-sequels.1402366/

Just so the video, interesting and good video expect I'm not quite sure what he's trying to say about the lesbian solider in the Jarhead 2 section. Like is he calling her cringe because she's a lesbian and "one of the boys" (like why is that in itself an issue? Women, straight, wlw, lesbian can be as boyish or girlish as they want, portraying a lesbian as tomboyish is somehow wrong, guess I don't exist; nor is lesbians being friends with men or preferring to hang out with them over women)? The cringy dialogue (of the two example he uses, the first is very damn clunky but it's actually surprising to actually hear the word lesbian given how so much fiction (especially video game media) goes out of it's way to avoid saying it, it's actually nice hearing the word and the second is very cringe but like is the implication their that a lesbian thinking women are hot is cringe?)? Is this a "She fights so she must be a lesbian" Complaint (which while I can get doesn't actually bother me who would love more badarse lesbian is good media (which these Jarhead sequels aren't, I'm not defending them here) and make all my badarse women in my own fiction wlw or lesbians? Like what is his issue here exactly? Why point her out as being specifically cringe?

The uwu wholesome lesbian character you play as online isn't real, so yeah, "you" don't exist.

I mean, having not seen the movie itself, I assume he thinks it's cringe because it's how straight men write lesbians in fiction and it's indicative of how generic the rest of the film is in terms of its messaging.

Yes, cringe in the same way that Echoes is cringe. 

That's an incredibly subtle slight against Echoes' wlw cringe, I wonder if he's gonna try to report that user for transphobia 
 
Damn, Echos is going IN on the wlw manifesto in that thread lmaoooo

Nah, firehawk12 is a true believer. He probably didn’t mean it that way.

[Uncle]

Anyone saying "adult men shouldn't like cute things" is a fool who should be ignored. I say this as someone who wears Pokémon and Hello Kitty merch without shame!

so what about when people say "adult men shouldn't like manly things, because that reinforces toxic masculinity?"

maybe nobody should try to gatekeep anything from anybody

[Boredfrom]

Semi related but why the fuck Shaun King is still around:

https://www.thenorthstar.com/p/editor-in-chief-of-large-israeli

[Snoopy]

Oh shit. Watch out Nazis. 

Getting a fuck Nazis tattoo soon about to rep

[Boredfrom]

This in particular sore point for me who has spent decades pushing for fiction traditionally considered boyish, fighting games is particular to have more badarse (lesbian) women (plus more rep in rosters, body sizes) and to be able to have and not have them to automatically must be hyper sexualized; or wanting any Shonen fiction with lead women protagonist that are allowed to act like Luffy or Goku (and be lesbians) or superheroes. It feels often like no matter what, women, wlw and lesbian women in fiction are told are bad reps no matter what. Sorry I realize that was a bit of tangent.

“I spent decades bitching in Tumblr to get the type of lesbos I want!”

Also, who wants more shonen protagonists that act like Luffy and Goku?   Why does he think the dumbass protagonist is limited to male characters and shonen?

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-power-of-getting-laid-developer-deslists-their-own-ai-filled-game-after-getting-a-girlfriend.1403842/



I feel like the whole thread is a dig at reee

[nampad]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fd-signifiers-problematic-white-guy-tier-list.1399207/

The S tier is labeled "Who's coming to the cookout".

They are easily one of the biggest YT crew that gets away with it by their fans because they don't say anything "explicitly" bigoted, which is enough for lots of folks to close their eyes.

But yea, they aren't slick at all. Ick vibes since the beginning.

The quote. 

"Red Letter Media are the most 'I don't know any black people' mfers I've ever seen on YouTube." and then he says I don’t think they are racist and I enjoy their content.

REEE's impetus for RLM "showing they whole ass" was them making fun of the coming out of the closet scene in Stranger Things.  
 
You know, the scene that EVERYONE was making fun of. 

Fuck reading this thread when you are not an unemployed low life who watched every shit 2 seconds after it releases. No wonder you are banned retardera losers.

[HaughtyFrank]

Semi related but why the fuck Shaun King is still around:

https://www.thenorthstar.com/p/editor-in-chief-of-large-israeli

I see he came back from his long think

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

The collapse may be coming anyways, but at least reeee should be honest what they support vs some very short term politics

 

(Btw, I don’t care if the theaters collapse. )

Okay

Bringing down capitalism has to start somewhere, chud.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-power-of-getting-laid-developer-deslists-their-own-ai-filled-game-after-getting-a-girlfriend.1403842/



I feel like the whole thread is a dig at reee

Uh, why are they even talking about the developer being an Incel? It was an AI game about rock, papers, scissors. Nowhere in his post does he talk about being a virgin. It's just a classic case of someone meeting a hippie girlfriend and becoming a hippie.

Edi:t for fucks sake the game has merely 17 reviews. Why even take this seriously

[Polident]

Oh shit. Watch out Nazis. 

Getting a fuck Nazis tattoo soon about to rep

A “Fuck Nazi” tattoo for guys regularly visiting Nazi bars has certain implications.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/if-bothers-me-how-western-democracy-is-foundationally-flawed-hate-speech-is-not-free-speech-but-a-tool-for-oppression.1403521/#post-149965078

I feel that the simplest case that free speech is not some grand protection against tyranny is how America's free speech laws haven't stopped the likes of Fox News, Joe Rogan, Alex Jones and what have you from causing the country's own descent into fascism, but in fact protected them as they did so.

I seriously have never seen this dude not advocate for mass suppression of speech no matter the context.

For me the issue is that a western capitalist society necessitates an underclass. Wealth inequality is always expressed by finding who the minorities are (race, nationality, religious, sexual, gender, etc) and forcing them to become the underclass to bear the weight of exploitation domestically while actively suppressing and exploiting every other country that it can to the extent that they can get away with.

Social sciences like economics have base assumptions that all participants are rational actors and have access to all information. "The market will decide" implies that me as a regular person somehow has decades of experience with stocks/bonds and knows how to 100% maximize my investments and puts that aggregate. In reality, I buy market ETFs and hope for the best.

We do the same for voters. The amount of times I've heard "Well they will just vote him out and if they don't then they agree and it's ok" is infuriating. Or "People just want a change so we get Trump again, too bad". People are complicated and really, really hard to simulate. Also this isn't a direct democracy so no one person is accountable for anything, gerrymandering exists, some people are rightly disillusioned with voting at all; there are all kinds of reasons why it doesn't work.

We have no antibodies for people participating in bad faith and it's killing us as a society. We've been coddled by the idea that a hero will give a big speech and the bad guys will be so embarrassed they will just give up and go home. They do it on Star Trek all the time, just talk to the space nazis about how we're not like that and they'll understand. They'll see that the right way is to cooperate and change their ways. If that were true they wouldn't be nazis, it's not like they are missing some info and we can educate them out of awful beliefs.

I heard a thing way back that said "I like paying taxes, that's how I purchase civilization." and it really stuck with me. Sometimes people need to be forced into doing the right thing and that's not always coercion.

What happens instead is that reliably the GOP gets their base worked up about literally nothing and gets their votes again and again. I'd love to see some kind of "You're not even trying anymore" and "You're actively working against the rules" kind of assessment that throws people out of Congress.

Summary - we fell into the 'both sides' trap years ago and now we're scared that if we don't give fascists their allotted time we might be doing democracy wrong. They know that and are effectively exploiting it to kill democracy.

This guy seems to literally be advocating against democracy. Also the "market will decide" doesn't imply that at all, unless you're a massive fucking narcissist who doesn't believe other people exist.

It's rooted in white supremacy. You want to talk about a foundational flaw…

Is that why 95% of whites weren't allowed to vote?

To me, my reaction to hate speech is the same as it'd be if someone proudly proclaimed to be a pedophile. If were not going to tolerate that, we shouldn't be tolerating the vitriol against folks just trying to live and love a little bit different than you.

Free speech my mother fucking ass I'm sitting back and allowing that.

Welp, bury this dude under the jail.

This is literally gibberish. It also raises the problem with social contracts and I hunted down the article and the author seems completely unaware of this problem, that the terms are not presented anywhere and nobody has ever agreed to them. He suggests that without this "peace treaty" the alternative is only war of all against all. In the comments to the article I found a link to a deleted tweet in which the author said that murdering Nazis is always justified. As if it wasn't obvious where this was going from his "paradox of tolerance" bullshit. He works on "AI Safety" at Microsoft. In other words, it's morally necessary to murder him for funding a genocide.

Frankly I'm surprised Trump hasn't weaponized hate speech laws against any criticism of whiteness.

Yeah agree,with regards to your hate speech weaponization point it's probably cause it wouldn't stick its incredibly hard to get hate speech on anyone's record in America

Because there's no hate speech laws in America for Trump or anyone else to weaponize. "Hate speech" is not a concept in American law.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-power-of-getting-laid-developer-deslists-their-own-ai-filled-game-after-getting-a-girlfriend.1403842/



I feel like the whole thread is a dig at reee

Uh, why are they even talking about the developer being an Incel? It was an AI game about rock, papers, scissors. Nowhere in his post does he talk about being a virgin. It's just a classic case of someone meeting a hippie girlfriend and becoming a hippie.

Edi:t for fucks sake the game has merely 17 reviews. Why even take this seriously

AI derangement syndrome is why

[Jansen]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatbot_psychosis

Lmao

[Boredfrom]

Because there's no hate speech laws in America for Trump or anyone else to weaponize. "Hate speech" is not a concept in American law.

Trump weaponizing Hate Speech laws? How so? He just spits hate already.  

That is definition of hate speech, right? 

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Anyone saying "adult men shouldn't like cute things" is a fool who should be ignored. I say this as someone who wears Pokémon and Hello Kitty merch without shame!

so what about when people say "adult men shouldn't like manly things, because that reinforces toxic masculinity?"

maybe nobody should try to gatekeep anything from anybody

I see an Uncle post and the first person to like it is Boredfrom and I know that the world is healing. 

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Oh shit. Watch out Nazis. 

Getting a fuck Nazis tattoo soon about to rep

He probably won't even fuck Nazis.

[benji]

Trump weaponizing Hate Speech laws? How so? He just spits hate already.  

That is definition of hate speech, right? 

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-power-of-getting-laid-developer-deslists-their-own-ai-filled-game-after-getting-a-girlfriend.1403842/
I feel like the whole thread is a dig at reee

The Power of Getting Laid: Era Users Delete Their Account After Getting a Girlfriend

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-is-k-on-so-popular-with-twitter-nazis-by-moon-channel-innocence-escapism-and-loneliness.1403995/#post-149984878

Yeah Touhou shifted from 4chan to trans girl culture in the 2010s for sure

[Kazuma_Kiryu]

Fuck what the US thinks of this, do it Carney.

We need more affordability because you can't get anywhere in this wide open big ass country without a vehicle and the average prices for an decently optioned new ICE engine vehicle is like 45-50k.

Yes, destroy your country's current auto industry to own the US. This Detective guy is nuts. I bet he didn't see the Canadian auto industry representatives in the article are advising caution.

EDIT: I guess I should say if Canada can get China to build their cars in Canada, then, yeah, try to do the best for your country, but just removing the tariffs and having them dump their cars is a dumb idea.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/most-toxic-parents-in-animation.1403560/page-2#post-149968903

Shadoweaver worst mom easy.

Worst dad has too many in the running.







Could someone do me a favor and make a new thread with the following. I can't do it until my account has reached a certain level of maturity and I think this is important to discuss.





Good news? Toxic masculinity isn't widespread.







[url unfurl=true]https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2027-02373-001.html[/url]











Toxic masculinity has been poorly defined so far.



As the following table of 17 commonly used past measurements of toxic masculinity show the way it has been defined differs wildly due to no attempt to define it.















Summaries of each concept:











The study uses Latent Profile Analysis (LPA) to help focus on individual tendencies and see if and how toxic masculinity manifests across a common grouping of the 8 indicators they are testing for.



They chose this over something like group clustering because that method is at risk of creating artifical profiles of those tested and "LPA adjusts for uncertainty in profile membership. "



The is study was conducted on 55,808 random men aged 18-99 in New Zealand and used the "New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study" to ensure the cross section of New Zealand residents was accurately represented across all other demographics.













Results











Article self criticism of their own methods.







TLDR



Researchers building off of certain prior work create a method to define and measure toxic masculinity.



Their model shows 35.4% of the sample had low levels of indication for toxicity. Another 53.8% exhibited low to moderate levels of toxicity and thus male toxicity isn't widespread among men.



Among the remaining with high indicators for toxicity the model presents that what has traditionally been seen as the most common understanding of toxic male masculinity isn't the only one. There also exists another form that the researchers named benevolent toxic masculinity due to both the paternalistic answers given by this demographic as well as how their marital, income and relationship status is atypical of the stereotypical toxic male.

benji pls 

[Polident]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-is-k-on-so-popular-with-twitter-nazis-by-moon-channel-innocence-escapism-and-loneliness.1403995/#post-149984878

Yeah Touhou shifted from 4chan to trans girl culture in the 2010s for sure

Touhou’s core audience is autistic men. Both are the same group.

[benji]

Fuck what the US thinks of this, do it Carney.

We need more affordability because you can't get anywhere in this wide open big ass country without a vehicle and the average prices for an decently optioned new ICE engine vehicle is like 45-50k.

Yea… I'm sick of this whole… can't do this thing that is better for our people because of US.

Get cheaper EVs on your country. Point blank

U.S. automakers already demonstrated that they will screw over Canadians to kneel before trump, so there shouldn't be any loyalty there.

It will piss off the US auto industry greatly so Canada should definitely do it.

Considering GM and Stellanits are already pausing or pulling out of Canada I say fuck them and the USA.

It's not what the US thinks, this was a Western stance against China, as seen in the OP:

In the fall of 2024, Canada matched U.S. tariffs against Chinese imports, imposing 100 per cent tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, and 25 per cent tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum imports. When the tariffs on China were announced at a cabinet retreat, the Trudeau government made clear it was moving in lockstep with the Americans against Chinese "overcapacity." China responded with counter-tariffs on Canadian canola oil and seafood. Prairie premiers like Saskatchewan's Scott Moe have demanded that Ottawa try to ease the agricultural tariffs.

...

Mexico matched American and Canadian tariffs on Chinese electric cars "because they realize that this is critical if we're going to have a protected North American integrated automotive industry," Kingston said. The economics just aren't there, he added.

"There is no fair competition with the Chinese automotive industry. They massively subsidized this sector and they are now dumping vehicles around the world. Europe was soft on China. Look at what the outcome has been: 90,000 auto jobs lost last year because they've allowed dumped Chinese vehicles into their market," he said.

"At a time when we're fighting for this industry in Canada, allowing these vehicles in would be an economic catastrophe," he added, citing national security considerations as well. The U.S. identified a "real cybersecurity risk associated with Chinese connected and electric vehicles" which led Washington to ban "Chinese-connected vehicle software," and Canada "would and should have the same concerns," he said.

Flavio Volpe, head of the Canadian Auto Parts Manufacturers, said any conversation with the Chinese has to be approached with "extreme caution."

"The world has changed at an incredible pace since we put in those tariffs, and so has the EV world. The two things that haven't changed is that Chinese players are state-owned and that this industry is built, the Canadian industry, is built to serve the American market, he said.

"Should Canada do its best to move tariffs on agricultural goods? Yes," said Volpe. "But we need to be careful about how we invite people in, and anytime we invite anybody to assemble here, they absolutely need to try to meet the highest local content standard that we have. Right now it's the USMCA" standard.

Ottawa should be wary that when Chinese manufacturers make promises to other countries, they work on a "complete knock-down" basis where "you're essentially assembling the vehicle somewhere and then breaking it down into major components and … sending it somewhere, so that you'll assemble in Indonesia (for example) but really all the components are from China. That allows them to keep the Chinese cost structure in place"

"So it allows them to have this really cheap bill of materials that they only get in China, and then use that in Canada, or any other market."

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-guardian-more-gen-z-men-live-with-parents-in-this-city-than-anywhere-in-the-us-how-do-they-date.1402990/#post-149935840

That's the neat part. I don't

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-guardian-more-gen-z-men-live-with-parents-in-this-city-than-anywhere-in-the-us-how-do-they-date.1402990/page-2#post-149942149

I wouldn't deny I have failed quite a bit at life. I would not make the same assumption about others in my situation though, that seems a bit cruel, doesn't it?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-guardian-more-gen-z-men-live-with-parents-in-this-city-than-anywhere-in-the-us-how-do-they-date.1402990/page-2#post-149951248

I've been single my whole life but I can still understand the concern that women might have about dating someone who's not financially independent, along with fears that person might not be emotionally mature enough and rely on their parents to do things for them. But I guess the phenomenon of men treating female partners like mothers instead of equals is not exclusive to those who can't afford to move out.

It's hard. It would be nice to date someone for the first time but there's so many hurdles already aside from this like dating apps being predatory and full of bots that I don't see my chances as being very good anymore, and I'm 30. I can't imagine how it'll be when I get older. As lonely as I am, I'm just trying to survive right now, and I guess that's good enough

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-is-k-on-so-popular-with-twitter-nazis-by-moon-channel-innocence-escapism-and-loneliness.1403995/#post-149982721

Anyone saying "adult men shouldn't like cute things" is a fool who should be ignored. I say this as someone who wears Pokémon and Hello Kitty merch without shame!

Basaltt: "I can't work out why I'm a 40 year old virgin."

[Chumbawumbafan69]

The 40 year olds living with their parents thread is beautiful. It's a bunch of literal 40 year old virgins saying that there's nothing wrong with living with your parents forever while one of their biggest advocates is a guy who had his mom and dad buy him a wife. 10/10, no notes.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

And "liking cute things" isn't the same as "being childish".

[HaughtyFrank]

The 40 year olds living with their parents thread is beautiful. It's a bunch of literal 40 year old virgins saying that there's nothing wrong with living with your parents forever while one of their biggest advocates is a guy who had his mom and dad buy him a wife. 10/10, no notes.

We moved on too fast from Messy wishing he had more sex with his wife 

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

The 40 year olds living with their parents thread is beautiful. It's a bunch of literal 40 year old virgins saying that there's nothing wrong with living with your parents forever while one of their biggest advocates is a guy who had his mom and dad buy him a wife. 10/10, no notes.

We moved on too fast from Messy wishing he had more sex with his wife 

For the sake of our mental health. 

[Chumbawumbafan69]

The 40 year olds living with their parents thread is beautiful. It's a bunch of literal 40 year old virgins saying that there's nothing wrong with living with your parents forever while one of their biggest advocates is a guy who had his mom and dad buy him a wife. 10/10, no notes.

We moved on too fast from Messy wishing he had more sex with his wife 

Has he considered asking his parents to withhold her allowance until she agrees?