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

[Jansen]

From constructive 

Can we not have American users come into a thread about boycotting the US to downplay our efforts or give the ol "Yet you live in a society" drive by?

[Uncle]

the pure culmination of self-flagellation and prostrating guilt, in an attempt to establish the ultimate in privilege, to become not just one of the good ones, but perhaps the best one

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/millions-of-student-loan-borrowers-are-delinquent-lawsuit-blames-the-feds.1407310/#post-150098629

Could you file for bankruptcy? I had to once and it only took a couple of years to start getting credit again.

[Kyon1988]

Super tempting to make a burner account and confront Dr bulshit

[Potato]

We all do indirectly by virtue of using the internet and playing videogames, but it's such a stupid pedantic argument that it doesn't matter. The argument that person is making is the equivalent of saying "one of my bottles actually ends up in a landfill so I'm never going to bother recycling anything ever". I'm not sure how people's brains are incapable of understanding that it doesn't need to be an all or nothing effort.

I mean, if your goal is actually harming the US economically versus some sense of self-purity then you should probably make this a priority of your choices no?

When buying Steam games, you can use third party stores so that Steam gets 0% of the transaction. Use isthereabydeal.com or gg.deals to find the best deals.

You'll still be using Steam of course but when there aren't other alternatives available there's not much you can do.

Where does this guy think they get the Steam keys?

The reality is you can't avoid everything American. However, that isn't the point. The point is to put pressure on American companies and the American people. If Wal-Mart is your only grocery store in town, nobody is expecting you to go hungry. But if you have alternatives, then choose those.

As a Canadian, I have done the following:

• Wal-Mart -> Giant Tiger, Super C, Loblaws, Canadian Tire
  
• McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, Dominoes -> Harvey's, A&W, and other local shops **Note: A&W Canada is 100% Canadian owned, headquartered in North Vancouver, BC
  
• Newegg/Amazon -> Canada Computers
  
• Canceled all American subscription services and use pop-up blockers on American owned sites
  
• Apart from Nintendo, most of my video game purchases are through key sites like Green Man Gaming (UK based), GOG or even buying used when possible.
  

I will prioritize Canadian owned and made first. Failing that, I will support other countries like Mexico, UK, or members of the EU, etc.

As for American media, I'll keep it simple. If you can't respect my sovereignty, I will not respect your copyright laws. 😉

You should check out what international agreements on those your country has agreed to. 

You know what fixes nationalism? Moar nationalism!!

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/millions-of-student-loan-borrowers-are-delinquent-lawsuit-blames-the-feds.1407310/#post-150098629

Could you file for bankruptcy? I had to once and it only took a couple of years to start getting credit again.

No, because the idiot refuses to sell his $600K+ townhouse.

[Alpacx]

I will prioritize Canadian owned and made first. Failing that, I will support other countries like Mexico, UK, or members of the EU, etc.

As for American media, I'll keep it simple. If you can't respect my sovereignty, I will not respect your copyright laws. 😉

You should check out what international agreements on those your country has agreed to. 

You know what fixes nationalism? Moar nationalism!!

Nationalism is passé, provincialism is where it's at:

Crown Royal parent company closed a bottling plant in Ontario, Ontario Premier dumped a bottle onto the street at a press conference threatening to take all of Diageo products off of the shelves of the Ontario Liquor Monopoly, softened on that but still threatening to do it to Crown Royal which is produced in two other provinces.

[Mediocre Lager]

From October:

My situation is so depressing I don't even want to share it online so I'll just say I believe that statistic and wish the best for all and hope I make it out alive this year.

I'm going homeless soon. Probably by new years. That's when I give up.

I guess I had long enough. With this news I'm going to die next month I guess

Unrelated just because I saw it in his posts:

I don't even have words for any of this. It's all so traumatizing. I literally cried.

I literally cried tonight because of this thread and this post. Got on a soapbox in my house about how they're gonna throw the book at the only openly deliciously gay black Gen Z mainstream male rapper on the west coast who I just watched an HBO documentary of. He's done so much for minorities and queers everywhere forever in such a short time and his life wasn't easy and nudity and inviting people to a party shouldn't get you 4 police assaults and felonies. He got fame and money very quickly with no support or role models or precedent to lean on. I don't understand how and why we continue to assassinate victims of fame in this violent country. I'm so mad this is happening I don't really know what else I can say. Also im not black so I can't even imagine the despair some young black queers must be facing.

This game is bringing me to tears. I always wanted and imagined MGS3 in these visuals and now it's here with my 5090 PC and Hue/Govee lit smart home theater PC setup. It's a stunning game, and it's wild just wild how photorealistic it can seem at times, like with the foliage

MGS3 is a top favorite game of mine and I'm so glad they kept the script and the voices and everything intact. Quintessential remake approach.

9800x3D
RTX 5090

Also this because it's still funny:

"Women are women and men are men: you cannot change your biological sex."

Wow so many falsehoods and ignorances in one sentence. Not only can many creatures change sex, it's a straw man for…(gestures at everything), and if sex is indeed solely based in biology then it most certainly isn't a binary. Sex and gender are both a composite tapestry of many factors including hormonal expression and phenotype but who cares I'm preaching to the crowd here, it's these fuckers without any biology training to begin with making laws in countries that make my blood boil.

Maybe if he spent more time looking for work and less time crying he'd have a job.

[Potato]

there are only 50,000 people in greenland, why doesn't trump just do what muslims and indians are doing and send dedicated patriots to live there and become an overwhelming majority

how does their minuscule law enforcement plan on deporting 60,000 homesteaders

Did you miss out on providing a prime example of a settler/coloniser there?

[benji]

Maybe if he spent more time looking for work and less time crying he'd have a job.

You probably think he should lower his standards because he hasn't been employed in like seven years or more. Well, he has. Now he's disabled in some unspecified way and can't work at all.

[Mediocre Lager]

Maybe if he spent more time looking for work and less time crying he'd have a job.

You probably think he should lower his standards because he hasn't been employed in like seven years or more. Well, he has. Now he's disabled in some unspecified way and can't work at all.

I'm in tears just thinking about this.

[Potato]

Maybe if he spent more time looking for work and less time crying he'd have a job.

You probably think he should lower his standards because he hasn't been employed in like seven years or more. Well, he has. Now he's disabled in some unspecified way and can't work at all.

It would be ironic if his disability involved something to do with his bowels.

[benji]

Do you think he even searches for nearby jobs? He's underqualified probably but this one would really piss off Era:




Can help hunt Muslims too:


Even looking in his more specific area easily popped up plenty of crap, I didn't lower the requirements from a PhD either:





That latter one even comes with tabletop RPG insurance:

[JoeBoy101]

I’m more interested what happened to his family members that moved in with him. Are they all working to support his habi-uh-handicap, or did he just sell them off for more graphi-uh-medicine and treatments?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/january-15-2026-trump-threatens-to-invoke-insurrection-act-in-response-to-anti-ice-protests-in-minnesota.1406818/page-2#post-150085198

If he does then it's time to 2nd amendment these fucks

[Greatness Gone]

How does Nepenthe reconcile her online anarchist persona with the fact that she clearly never puts those beliefs into practice in real life? Literally what qualifies her to ask anything of anybody???

[JoeBoy101]

Do you think he even searches for nearby jobs? He's underqualified probably but this one would really piss off Era:

Factually incorrect.

Are you implying I'm supposed to moderate my opinion based on what the rest of YOU think of a holiday calendar with a GenAI mistake?

Hysterical. I'm the one with the PhD in Data Science and Bioengineering with 10 years of post-secondary education in this. You read the room. Or just enjoy the circular takes that are worse then GenAI slop

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/january-15-2026-trump-threatens-to-invoke-insurrection-act-in-response-to-anti-ice-protests-in-minnesota.1406818/page-2#post-150085198

If he does then it's time to 2nd amendment these fucks

They'd just shoot you on sight if you had a weapon.

Also this is like the third time in six months he's threatened this.

How does Nepenthe reconcile her online anarchist persona with the fact that she clearly never puts those beliefs into practice in real life? Literally what qualifies her to ask anything of anybody???

It's not on her to emotionally labor when it's y'all fault in the first place.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-does-era-think-of-zoos-aquariums.1406821/page-2#post-150099601

Those poor exotic animals. Being watched by tourists like OnlyFans without the subs.



But rly, I'm glad parents can take their kids to go touch plexiglass between lions and chimps for some good photos for insta.

Insufferable cunt

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/january-15-2026-trump-threatens-to-invoke-insurrection-act-in-response-to-anti-ice-protests-in-minnesota.1406818/page-6#post-150095263

All this insanity and I go to work in a factory filled with people and can't find a single fucker that cares about any of this shit. Like people really won't budge on the caring part. My own family ranges from extreme MAGA to being a Democrat that "Don't ever want to talk about it". Not sure how the rest of you are fairing these days or what your communities look like but it's complete shit here in PA. As far as I can tell, the average people don't seem to have ANY clue at all what is going on. I gather most people don't really engage with the news all that often. People (at least here) just seem oblivious as to what is happening. It's WILD!!!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/january-15-2026-trump-threatens-to-invoke-insurrection-act-in-response-to-anti-ice-protests-in-minnesota.1406818/page-6#post-150099049

I started following one particular lawyer in the northeast a few years back and something that stuck with me during the 2020 elections was his statement that "You'd be surprised how many people just get up, go to work, come home and don't interact with anything outside of their routine."

My family won't let me even share the news what is going on. Instead they send me mental health information. My friends immediately shut me up as well if I try to tell them any of this news. Basically gave up.

[Propagandhim]

It's a great life here in the US. I followed the American dream and educated myself for 15 years worked for fortune 50 companies and worked under two Noble laureates during my doctorate and I can't find a job and I'm too sick to get one anyway and these student loan administrators are hounding me

I never wasted any time of the government or any of its money

[benji]

Shouldn't you actually do something yourself before you get upset that other people don't do anything?

[benji]

Is now the time to purchase a gun?

For those physically and emotionally capable enough, that time was a year ago.

Dude out here literally denying the trans genocide and time to arm up was many years ago.

[Jansen]

Yeah he definitely didn't defraud the government getting disability and food stamps. You know the programs that ask you about all your assets...

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gorillaz-debuts-new-album-at-house-of-kong.1288272/

Do they make threads private instead of complying with DMCA notices?

[benji]

Yeah he definitely didn't defraud the government getting disability and food stamps. You know the programs that ask you about all your assets...

He's not on disability yet. In the post where he said he just applied he didn't read the AI output saying it wouldn't be one of the programs he was afraid were being abolished because it's Social Security administrated. I imagine he thinks they'll just wave him in immediately rather than the actual SSDI process which usually takes months. It'll be less than two months before he's whining about how he's not on disability yet and how Trump's probably doing it to him.

[TacoWallace]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/say-something-nice-about-another-member-on-gaming-side-2026-edition.1407487/

While I think all of you are a nice bunch, I want to give a shout out to Nepenthe for being a good, nonsensical mod.

I...assume you meant to say, 'no nonsense' ? 🤔

Nah, they meant it as is.

PlanetSmasher we haven't really talked much but I'm usually checking for your take on things, I like seeing your perspective.

PlanetSmasher has fans?

Actually, this one's whole list of bums is gross.

And to the staff overall who have kept this place running smoothly and have been very quick & helpful on my many inquiries / tickets in the last year or so lol

I've known it for years but this shameless suck-up doesn't even try to hide it anymore.

[Jansen]

Yeah he definitely didn't defraud the government getting disability and food stamps. You know the programs that ask you about all your assets...

He's not on disability yet. In the post where he said he just applied he didn't read the AI output saying it wouldn't be one of the programs he was afraid were being abolished because it's Social Security administrated. I imagine he thinks they'll just wave him in immediately rather than the actual SSDI process which usually takes months. It'll be less than two months before he's whining about how he's not on disability yet and how Trump's probably doing it to him.

His work history better be good or them payments will be peanuts

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/elliot-sang-black-folks-have-been-warning-us.1406437/#post-150094531 

I understand the venting though.

I understand the sheer feeling of terror that you might be in the crosshairs of American-sanctioned violence.

That you might be next.

That you'll be treated like all the rest of you were treating the undesirable nations so long as you got access to your little treats and goodies off the backs of their bodies, treats and goodies you falsely attribute to a sense of "humanism" and "democracy."

I understand that feeling because that's just been the reality of being Black- I've had a cop pull up on me with their finger already on the trigger over a fucking broken taillight, years before people were aware of the concept of police harassment and brutality against Black people was a matter of policy. 🤷🏿‍♀️ Like, sorry to the rest of the West, but I've never had the pleasure of experiencing full-throated American superiority and exceptionalism. The internalized colonies of Black and Indigenous folks never have. And y'all were just fine with that status quo just because it wasn't you. Hell, every time there's a shooting of any sort, what do a lot of Westerners do? "Those fucking savage Americans." It was pretty much always just voyeurism for them, mere entertainment. They didn't actually care. It was just another feather in the cap of European chauvanism. "Look how much more civilized we are."

Well, it ain't entertaining anymore, now is it?

No, now that your former best friend has gotten too big for his britches because the economic circumstances surrounding the BRICS block, the lacking palatability of oil, the Ukraine invasion, and the general decay of capitalism have forced their hand, now all of a sudden it's Americans' responsibility- and only America's responsibility- to stand up to imperialism.

When y'all didn't care about imperialism before. None of y'all did.

Because it was happening to the people you felt deserved it.

So again, what are these people going to do about these countries' imperialism if we were to stop Trump today; just take him out and burn this shit down?

Nothing.

They will do nothing because they've never done nothing.

France will never stand up against its government for Haiti. Canada will never stand up against its government for its First Nations people. Belgium will never stand up against its government for the Congo. Why the fuck do the colonized owe the West anything more than what they've been given by the West in turn?

This, somehow, still hasn't been a wake up call for Westerners. You got America banging on your door in the middle of the night and you ironically still lean into the country's exceptionalism, that this is an isolated, unique, vacuous circumstance that needs to be fixed so you can continuing enjoying your universal healthcare and four-day work weeks. So you can continue enjoying being imperialist. You're still asleep.

Enough is enough. No more imperialism, anywhere.

The only thing amusing about this is white Americans on the forum getting offended by the bullshit. Like, why are you trying to justify yourself to folks who will never take up the work you're now being tasked with? Fuck 'em. The political discussion here 95 times out of 100 is a waste of time in the first place.

Now let it be known that we within the US need to organize not just for ourselves but for the betterment of humanity in general. People need to be fighting ICE. They need to be making their politicians' lives hell. They need to strike, if not a general one then in key specific areas at least (an airline strike would do some real damage). There is work to be done, and again it starts from an organizational basis. But it shouldn't be done at the behest if and guilt-tripping from other Westerners who otherwise could not be assed to give a damn in the first place. Certainly if you are Black and Indigenous, none of this should even be in your orbit. Don't talk to these folks. Don't engage. They don't deserve your time.

 

Something, something people unaware of inherent privilege, something, something. But hey, sure Nepenthe, your quality of live is exactly the same as if you had grown up in "the global south"

[Uncle]

there are only 50,000 people in greenland, why doesn't trump just do what muslims and indians are doing and send dedicated patriots to live there and become an overwhelming majority

how does their minuscule law enforcement plan on deporting 60,000 homesteaders

Did you miss out on providing a prime example of a settler/coloniser there?

oh yeah also australians