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

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pete-buttigieg-my-second-greatest-fear-for-my-party-is-if-we-win-in-nov-that-we-forget-that-a-return-to-the-prior-status-quo-is-not-the-answer.1515547/page-2#post-154781599

Yet he is zionist and transphobic....maybe he should lead by example by stopping being status quo neo-lib. Right message from a very wrong person.

I love Resetera in so many ways, but people tripping over themselves to get the first comment on a thread to show how progressive they are is my least favorite part.

Pete is a good candidate with good ideas, full stop.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pete-buttigieg-my-second-greatest-fear-for-my-party-is-if-we-win-in-nov-that-we-forget-that-a-return-to-the-prior-status-quo-is-not-the-answer.1515547/page-4#post-154803919

Seriously. It's like people here are trying to win first in the outrage Olympics nine times out of ten and if that's how it really is, then people like Trump will always win because NO one will check the boxes people here want.

I think there is a big difference between wanting things to get better and doing things to make them get better. There was somebody in this thread that made comment that was like "so what is Pete doing to fix this"

Bro what. Is Pete is in office right now? That RIDICULOUS train of thought is a huge part of the issue. Why would Pete be doing ANYTHING about this? Republicans control all of congress, the presidency AND the supreme court.

Everyone screams that the lesser of two evils isn't good enough, but then the greater of two evils gets into power and destroys a bunch of shit, and then you blame the party that has no power and say stupid shit like"why aren't you doing anything?"

Like what the fuck are we even talking about here.

I don't understand this mindset. You can't change shit if you don't have control or power in politics and you won't get that if you don't win. You aren't going to win without having a strong and winning message that resonates with people, which is exactly what a Pete is saying here yet the FIRST RESPONSE in this thread is someone shitting on the guy with the right message.

I don't understand this mentality. How do you all think politics and power work in the United States? Because being snarky in the face of abuse doesn't count and it doesn't win shit. Neither does being smug while people you say you care about are snatched off the streets, and groups you say you care about are having their freedoms get stripped away taken away. so you care about all these groups but didn't vote for Harris because her and Trump were the same? The same Trump who is riding shotgun with Bibi and helped start a war with Iran that has put the world economy on the brink? Trump's brain is apple sauce and we have outright corruption eating through EVERYTHING. But yeah. Trump and Kamala were TOTALLY the same.

What we have to understand is that our current political structure is about harm reduction. It's not about feeling good or hope or change or any of that shit. It's about not making shit worse. It's about plugging the holes and stopping people like Trump and the republicans who want to blow everything up. HARM REDUCTION. THAT IS IT. And it's going to be about harm reduction for the majority of our lives until we put enough people in office that will turn the tide to dramatically shift things. We can't just show up for presidential election and then not do anything else for four years. The opposition didn't do that, they kept showing up and look at what they were finally able to do- they gutted voting rights, they gutted women's rights, and they are doing everything they can to walk back the last 60 years of progress because they were finally in the right place at the right time. They took advantage of the population complacency and apathy. And even after all the damage Trump did the first time around people still convinced themselves that this whole "I can't vote for the lesser of two evils" thing was the right move so we got the greater of two evils.

Bottom line, screaming down people like Pete, who are in the right here, is not helpful. And it also makes me think that no one who runs for office is ever going to live up to anyone's standards here, which is a quick way to keep losing. We can't keep making every single issue a litmus test that's disqualifying. Otherwise people like Trump are gonna keep winning and we're going to keep having things get worse and worse and worse. And I cannot believe people who claim to be progressive actually want that.

Harm reduction for who? They never can seem to answer that question.

It's always harm reduction for white libs and never brown and black bodies being murdered in their capitalistic forever wars.

Democrat? Republican? Different mask on the same face of the empire.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Meanwhile Jeff is hitting back at the h8rs

Looks like shit too. Pass.

This aged well.

Still think it looks like shit. Aged fine.

Generally, saying something looks like shit only for it turn out being great would fall under "things that aged poorly."

Got 'em

Scream 7 box office

[benji]

Harm reduction for who? They never can seem to answer that question.

It's always harm reduction for white libs and never brown and black bodies being murdered in their capitalistic forever wars.

Democrat? Republican? Different mask on the same face of the empire.

"Harm reduction! Harm reduction! Harm reduction!" they yell as they not only demand to send queer people to the camps but won't even get a vasectomy to stop the march of fascism.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Harm reduction for who? They never can seem to answer that question.

It's always harm reduction for white libs and never brown and black bodies being murdered in their capitalistic forever wars.

Democrat? Republican? Different mask on the same face of the empire.

"Harm reduction! Harm reduction! Harm reduction!" they yell as they not only demand to send queer people to the camps but won't even get a vasectomy to stop the march of fascism.

Harm reduction for these people is the drone pilot having they/them pronouns. It's okay I guess to drop those bombs when they have a Democrat in the White House.

I'll be voting for the ML candidate like we've been instructed. Sorry not sorry.

Even where there is no prospect of achieving their election the workers must put up their own candidates to preserve their independence, to gauge their own strength and to bring their revolutionary position and party standpoint to public attention. They must not be led astray by the empty phrases of the democrats, who will maintain that the workers’ candidates will split the democratic party and offer the forces of reaction the chance of victory.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pete-buttigieg-my-second-greatest-fear-for-my-party-is-if-we-win-in-nov-that-we-forget-that-a-return-to-the-prior-status-quo-is-not-the-answer.1515547/page-2#post-154789270

My guess is USAID, Forest Service, and IRS are definitely safe so long as there's no way for republicans to somehow hard block them.

NASA will get more funding but might not be a priority.

Defense budget will probably still keep going up because they don't want republicans to label them as anti-military but maybe we'll get lucky on 'we don't need million dollar planes we need food.'

wait they want to reinstate USAID, the soft power of the US imperial system that kills local economies and forces them to rely on the "kindness" of America??

y'all serious?

[jooseloose]

My dudes I got banned from the super straight porn for super straight heterosexuals subreddit because they claimed my super straight art of a dude sucking a dick wasn't heterosexual! What's more heterosexual than a super straight dude sucking a dick?

FACT CHECK: I think the usage of "eating out" and "she had a dick, but no focus was put on it" indicates he was rimming her which is VERY HETEROSEXUAL.

linux_transgirl likes giving advice to teens:





Not a fan of Clicky's interests:

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

Trans woman having using Linux as part of their identity what a shock.

[Daffy Duck]

These psychos will never not be funny 

People cheering for others losing access to things they paid for by a corporation that funds the genocide in Palestine is a special kind of disconnect from morals and humanity.

Ownership BOO
Genocide and psychopathic levels of wealth hoarding YAY

https://www.resetera.com/threads/forza-horizon-6-unencrypted-files-accidentally-got-leaked-via-a-steam-update-game-has-already-been-cracked-release-is-in-9-days-early-access-in-5.1516081/page-4#post-154825921

[HaughtyFrank]

Found a historian who's a true ally and willing to arm up and get in the streets (apologies for the Twitter account but it posted the video):

Interesting of him to pretty much admit that he's a race essentialist since he also wants to murder the colonial white children. Can't let a single drop of white blood taint native American genes. Bold choice to include that in your video about Nazis but who am I to judge.

[kaleidoscopium]

He can have his opinions, and I can choose not to give him any support. His opinions are of genocide, so I don't have a problem personally blacklisting him.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pete-buttigieg-my-second-greatest-fear-for-my-party-is-if-we-win-in-nov-that-we-forget-that-a-return-to-the-prior-status-quo-is-not-the-answer.1515547/page-2#post-154782307

[Let's Cyber]

A more likely framework for understanding the disconnect would be between those who who invest themselves in media and those who observe media. There are some people who like to see themselves depicted in media, that like to imagine themselves as the characters experiencing those events, often these people want "representation" for this purpose. And then there are people who like to see interesting things happen to interesting characters, they have no interest in imagining themselves in that situation or as that character as some kind of escapist fantasy.
For the first group, seeing people experience things they did would bring great pleasure, they enjoy the sentimentality of the emotions connected to remembering that stuff. For the second group, it would just be boring.

This more or less cuts to the heart of the popularity of YA properties like Harry Potter and the Hunger Games. Those chosen one stories can be immensely satisfying as a power fantasy when readers/watcher put themselves emotionally in the MC shoes and mostly boring junk for everyone else. 

My GF at the time forced me to read the Hunger Games books and god damn I wanted to kill my self. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nyt-the-democrat-making-republicans-nervous-in-iowa.1515478/

Wow, fantastic, a Democrat with a chance of taking the governorship in Iowa. A real opportunity to make some progress if we can all get beh…

Rob Sand says transgender women shouldn't compete in women's sports

Thankfully a lot of dems have moved on from this. It's such an incredibly niche issue anyway, and right now conservatives have won on the propaganda front.

[who is ted danson?]

WHO SPILLED BANANA MILKSHAKE IN MY GAMECUBE

BIIIIIIIIIIII

[simiansmarts]

He can have his opinions, and I can choose not to give him any support. His opinions are of genocide, so I don't have a problem personally blacklisting him.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pete-buttigieg-my-second-greatest-fear-for-my-party-is-if-we-win-in-nov-that-we-forget-that-a-return-to-the-prior-status-quo-is-not-the-answer.1515547/page-2#post-154782307

You think Clicky would be convinced if he saw ZNWO (Zionist New World Order) sissy porn?

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

linux_transgirl likes giving advice to teens:

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

"I'm sure glad they aren't going after sex criminals, because if they were, they would definitely be going after me, who is definitely not a sex criminal."

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Dude even got a vasectomy to fight fascism and help the Global South:

Can't even fathom the amount of ladies who would be disappointed to learn this.

[Let's Cyber]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-made-the-mistake-of-peaking-at-some-gaming-discourse-on-social-media-jesus-fucking-christ-its-about-mixtape.1515259/page-7#post-154824055

Well, Mixtape wasn't even on my radar, and I only decided to play it after all the tourists started crying.

"I only bought this game to own the libs chuds  "

Very normal purchasing habits, btw. I love letting the people I hate online dictate how I spend my money and use my time.

[nachobro]

i checked out the game on gamepass since people wont shut up about it

its bad and im kinda convinced its made by ai

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rewatched-fifth-element-the-other-day-and-had-some-thoughts-full-spoilers.1516213/

I remember watching it as a kid and loving the darn thing, it recently celebrated a big birthday, and so I put it on, it's wacky for sure…

Firstly, one thing that became apparent is how short it is, it wraps up really quickly.

Second was how silly it is, it's like a parody of the first die hard meets Star Wars, but I think that's part of its charm.

I think the thing that I'd forgotten is how the villain of the movie basically doesn't exist, that might seem bad, but I think not having the standard confrontation with a bad guy ending (beyond the impending doom element anyway) really works for it.

But a lot of stuff didn't hold up in a serious way, still enjoyed it, but I think watching it as an adult has taken a little of the charm away :p

The no fun brigade enters the chat..

While I enjoyed my rewatch of it last year, for the most part, I find it more and more difficult to interact with Besson's works; especially this, Valerian and Léon. There's this creepiness in his female characters, how they're written, portrayed and filmed, that I find really uncomfortable. Him having married a 16 year old girl in his early thirties certainly doesn't help. 😬
I really, really liked Anna, but with the #metoo stuff happening in the years before and then the allegations against Besson at the time... I haven't rewatched it since then, even though I have owned the Blu-ray for years now.
I do might get The Fifth Element for my collection at some point. The whole design and style of it, it really feels like one of the last big science fiction works, before the genre began heavily cratering this side of the millennia and the rise of cg effects. There's still so much analog effects work in this, that I really enjoy.

Yup, I absolutely cannot watch Besson's work anymore.

I was already side-eyeing a lot of the female representation in Besson's work and all the news that came out just absolutely ruined it for me.

Not to mention Jean-Paul Gaultier turned out to be a fucking Nazi as well, so can't even enjoy the costume design like I used to...

Sigh.

Yeah, I can totally see that. The helpless child/childlike woman/trafficked woman with an almost fatherlike figure of the male character is really icky in LEON/5th Element/The Transporter movies. No doubt in some of the other ones too.

I didn't see it so much in Valerian, it's a different kind of creepiness that Dane Dehaan delivers where he is trying to wear down Cara Delavigne.
That very much feels like the actors didn't want to engage in what Besson was trying to go for, because I don't think it plays out.

Chris Tucker was in the Epstein files....
He took a ride on the Lolita Express

Always wanted to like it because on paper it's right up my alley, but it always had this gross sheen to it that made me uncomfortable. I watched Leon recently and that was even worse. It's the "sense of humour" it has that feels a little too much like someone's jerking off to it.

[Lonewulfeus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/if-you-could-pitch-write-for-any-show-movie-comic-whatever-what-would-it-be.1516450/

Waiting with bated breath for the inevitable planetsmasher post.

[benji]

Yup, I absolutely cannot watch Besson's work anymore.

I was already side-eyeing a lot of the female representation in Besson's work and all the news that came out just absolutely ruined it for me.

Not to mention Jean-Paul Gaultier turned out to be a fucking Nazi as well, so can't even enjoy the costume design like I used to...

Sigh.

Not to mention Jean-Paul Gaultier turned out to be a fucking Nazi as well, so can't even enjoy the costume design like I used to...

Ugh, of course. 🙄

This seemed like such an odd niche claim to me, and after his Wikipedia entry included nothing even close, if you'll forgive me screenshotting the AI summaries for sake of ease:





Also:



A longer article that kept turning up if you're interested in more details: https://www.ssense.com/en-ae/editorial/fashion/jean-paul-gaultier-history

[BananaBlast]

WHO SPILLED BANANA MILKSHAKE IN MY GAMECUBE

BIIIIIIIIIIII

[Cheers]

So Clicky’s solution is to not vote, encourage others to do the same, thereby speed running them getting sent to camps by the next crazy Trump? Oh and then complain the Dems aren’t doing anything?

[benji]

So Clicky’s solution is to not vote, encourage others to do the same, thereby speed running them getting sent to camps by the next crazy Trump? Oh and then complain the Dems aren’t doing anything?

No, they're saying to just not nominate a far-right Nazi like Pete Buttigieg, Gavin Newsom or if he was eligible Jean-Paul Gaultier.

[HaughtyFrank]

What's next? Partnership with ICE to promote Halo?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gears-of-war-e-day-is-officially-sponsoring-wwe-triplemania-potentially-hinting-at-a-september-release-date-window.1516489/post-154831918



These people...

[jooseloose]

Mixtape just looks like another one of those "how do you do, fellow kids" games like Life is Strange and all those other ones. Zero interest.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rewatched-fifth-element-the-other-day-and-had-some-thoughts-full-spoilers.1516213/

I remember watching it as a kid and loving the darn thing, it recently celebrated a big birthday, and so I put it on, it's wacky for sure…

Firstly, one thing that became apparent is how short it is, it wraps up really quickly.

Second was how silly it is, it's like a parody of the first die hard meets Star Wars, but I think that's part of its charm.

I think the thing that I'd forgotten is how the villain of the movie basically doesn't exist, that might seem bad, but I think not having the standard confrontation with a bad guy ending (beyond the impending doom element anyway) really works for it.

But a lot of stuff didn't hold up in a serious way, still enjoyed it, but I think watching it as an adult has taken a little of the charm away :p

The no fun brigade enters the chat..

While I enjoyed my rewatch of it last year, for the most part, I find it more and more difficult to interact with Besson's works; especially this, Valerian and Léon. There's this creepiness in his female characters, how they're written, portrayed and filmed, that I find really uncomfortable. Him having married a 16 year old girl in his early thirties certainly doesn't help. 😬
I really, really liked Anna, but with the #metoo stuff happening in the years before and then the allegations against Besson at the time... I haven't rewatched it since then, even though I have owned the Blu-ray for years now.
I do might get The Fifth Element for my collection at some point. The whole design and style of it, it really feels like one of the last big science fiction works, before the genre began heavily cratering this side of the millennia and the rise of cg effects. There's still so much analog effects work in this, that I really enjoy.

Yup, I absolutely cannot watch Besson's work anymore.

I was already side-eyeing a lot of the female representation in Besson's work and all the news that came out just absolutely ruined it for me.

Not to mention Jean-Paul Gaultier turned out to be a fucking Nazi as well, so can't even enjoy the costume design like I used to...

Sigh.

Yeah, I can totally see that. The helpless child/childlike woman/trafficked woman with an almost fatherlike figure of the male character is really icky in LEON/5th Element/The Transporter movies. No doubt in some of the other ones too.

I didn't see it so much in Valerian, it's a different kind of creepiness that Dane Dehaan delivers where he is trying to wear down Cara Delavigne.
That very much feels like the actors didn't want to engage in what Besson was trying to go for, because I don't think it plays out.

Chris Tucker was in the Epstein files....
He took a ride on the Lolita Express

Always wanted to like it because on paper it's right up my alley, but it always had this gross sheen to it that made me uncomfortable. I watched Leon recently and that was even worse. It's the "sense of humour" it has that feels a little too much like someone's jerking off to it.

The person that said it feels like most Era posters spend their day with the controversies section of Wikipedia open was so right.

[Besticus Maximus]

Are they not just thinking of Galtieri, being thick morons and all

[simiansmarts]

So Clicky’s solution is to not vote, encourage others to do the same, thereby speed running them getting sent to camps by the next crazy Trump? Oh and then complain the Dems aren’t doing anything?

Clicky's solution is not vote, complain about being genocided and hop on reddit to jerk it to Splatoon BNWO hentai to cope with said genocide. 
 
If you confront him about it, he'll tell you the liberals made him do this and stop kinkshaming.

[Let's Cyber]

So Clicky’s solution is to not vote, encourage others to do the same, thereby speed running them getting sent to camps by the next crazy Trump? Oh and then complain the Dems aren’t doing anything?

Clicky's solution is not vote, complain about being genocided and hop on reddit to jerk it to Splatoon BNWO hentai to cope with said genocide. 
 
If you confront him about it, he'll tell you the liberals made him do this and stop kinkshaming.

Step 1) Refuse to vote, thus showing the liberal, neo-imperialist/colonialist, white, Christian-nationalist Jewish funded apartheid fascists you disapprove of their capitalistic genocide. 
Step 2) Feel self satisfied
Step 3) ???
Step 4) Die in the Trump trans camps. 

[Cheers]

So Clicky’s solution is to not vote, encourage others to do the same, thereby speed running them getting sent to camps by the next crazy Trump? Oh and then complain the Dems aren’t doing anything?

Clicky's solution is not vote, complain about being genocided and hop on reddit to jerk it to Splatoon BNWO hentai to cope with said genocide. 
 
If you confront him about it, he'll tell you the liberals made him do this and stop kinkshaming.

Step 1) Refuse to vote, thus showing the liberal, neo-imperialist/colonialist, white, Christian-nationalist Jewish funded apartheid fascists you disapprove of their capitalistic genocide. 
Step 2) Feel self satisfied
Step 3) ???
Step 4) Die in the Trump trans camps. 

That’ll show em!

[Alpacx]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-made-the-mistake-of-peaking-at-some-gaming-discourse-on-social-media-jesus-fucking-christ-its-about-mixtape.1515259/page-7#post-154824055

Well, Mixtape wasn't even on my radar, and I only decided to play it after all the tourists started crying.

"I only bought this game to own the libs chuds  "

Very normal purchasing habits, btw. I love letting the people I hate online dictate how I spend my money and use my time.

*Nervously looks at Hogwarts Legacy on his Steam account*

[BIONIC]

post on the gay retard board for 9 years, brehs 

The bore isn’t that bad