05-25-2026, 12:52 PM
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Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)
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(05-25-2026, 11:48 AM)Let's Cyber wrote:Depends on what you would consider "true" because I think the specific claim she's making is not true in terms of an example of something that actually happened.Nep wrote:First is that the metrics that determined the distribution of food aid would incentivize countries to stop growing their own food in order to receive the cheap grain available, while other markets who genuinely needed that grain were left out and thus experienced caloric shortages. Second is that the marketing surrounding USAID where countries were displayed as backwards, war-torn hotspots of famine decimated some countries' tourism sectors as well as their foreign investment potential. Both led to tens to hundreds of thousands of deaths every year, depending upon the surrounding political and climate conditions that may have been exacerbated by the so-called aid.Is this even remotely true? I feel like I need to do several hours of research fact-checking every dumbfuck Nep post I read to eventually come to the conclusion she's full of shit. But I think a broader general claim she's trying and failing to articulate could be true. (It's simply a basic capitalist argument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowding_out_(economics)) What's funny is that the mainstream places I can find that broader argument (although specific to certain types of food aid) is "far-right" pro-capitalist sources like the libertarian Cato or conservative Heritage: https://www.cato.org/briefing-paper/cutting-international-food-aid https://www.heritage.org/trade/report/how-american-food-aid-keeps-the-third-world-hungry These criticisms specifically target a program that ships US surplus to poor nations, with the Cato article pointing out that the US is the only country that does this versus other methods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_for_Peace Cato's argument certainly resembles Nepenthe's claim, although the critique targets the method and oversight more than the concept: Quote:When the US government donates farm products to poor countries, it can undercut local farmers abroad and thus undermine the ability of poor countries to feed themselves. Foreign aid experts have long warned about this problem, but US policies have lagged reforms in other donor countries. CRS notes, “Many other major donors—such as Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union—have converted primarily to cash-based assistance” from in-kind food aid.6 The article cites a paper at a capitalist academic institution (which Nepenthe has disparaged previously versus simply watching TikTok) which itself further states: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/258406?v=pdf wrote:The most common criticism of U.S. food aid is that it crowds out the production of cereal grains in recipient countries (Schultz 1960; Maxwell and Singer 1979; C. B. Barrett and D. Maxwell 2007). Evidence supporting this critique, however, is meager (Tschirley, Donovan, and Weber 1996; Gelan 2007; Tadesse and Shively 2009). Empirical analysis is complicated by confounding events, such as natural disasters, that affect both food aid and production. Food aid sent in response to a disaster will be negatively correlated with cereal production because the disaster will cause cereal production to decline and cause the U.S. to send food aid. After the disaster ends, cereal-grain production will restart, and food aid delivered during the disaster will appear to be positively related to subsequent cereal production. Failure to address the “mechanical” relationship between food aid and production leads to biased estimates. Lavy (1990) and Barrett, Mohapatra, and Snyder (1999) fall prey to this source of bias by relying on time-series variation in a vector-autoregressive (VAR) model for identification. Abdulai, Barrett, and Hoddinott (2005) attempt to address this concern by conditioning on rainfall and disasters in a country-level fixed-effects VAR model for sub-Saharan Africa in 1970–2000. This control-variable approach, however, falls short if disaster affects production and food aid over multiple periods.Notice the paper starts by saying "the most common criticism" which reduces Nepenthe's radical revolutionary position to the common wisdom of the academic economics profession with citations back to the 1960's. (Specifically a Nobel Prize winning capitalist of the Chicago School behind a theory she attacked in her AI rantings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Schultz) But if you'd prefer something that seems more like what Nepenthe might actually read, I found a Substack packed with theory and liberation: https://agrowingculture.substack.com/p/the-hidden-legacy-of-usaid wrote:Even “project food aid” — food donated “free of cost” — came with its own strings attached. Cheap U.S. imported grains drove Majority World food prices down, crippling local food systems and economies and forcing them to purchase food from Minority World countries and corporations to feed their populations. Quote:These are not isolated stories. They are part of a larger, ongoing project of colonialism — where aid is weaponised to systematically dismantle food sovereignty in the Majority World in order to sustain the flow of wealth and resources to the Minority World. Quote:Over decades, the USAID has spread its tentacles into every aspect of the food system, to siphon off Majority World wealth and consolidate U.S. power. Quote:This is the true face of aid: not a bridge to self-reliance, but a mechanism of submission. Countries across the Majority World have been systematically denied the ability to produce what they need — from seeds to life-saving medicines — through trade rules and intellectual property regimes enforced by institutions like USAID. When the U.S. pulls the rug out from under these countries, it’s not just funding that disappears — it’s food, healthcare, and survival. If aid were truly about justice, it would work to dismantle the systems that make it necessary. Instead, it reinforces dependency, erodes sovereignty, and ensures that even the right to live remains subject to foreign policy. Quote:What Inspired Us This Week Spoiler: (click to show) 6 users liked this post: Taco Bell Tower, Cheers, Propagandhim, HaughtyFrank, HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth, Let's Cyber
05-25-2026, 01:48 PM
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Thank you, benji.
![]() Quote:But if you'd prefer something that seems more like what Nepenthe might actually readYeah this type of thing is probably close. I assumed there'd be a FD Signifier video essay shitting on USAID. There is very clearly a source for which this rich, creamy shit is spewing. You see, we need to cut these African countries off from the free food so they pick themselves up by the bootstraps and actually start supporting themselves. ![]() It's weird how similar some of these leftie arguments are to Reagan on Welfare Queens. Quote:But grief is not where we stop. Grief is where we begin.This substack so resetera coded, holy shit.
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05-25-2026, 02:26 PM
(05-25-2026, 11:37 AM)kaleidoscopium wrote:ziggy_mardust wrote:OP, I don't know if your limited worldview is the result of being terminally online, being in a video game forum bubble, or a case of arrested development. But human beings are complex and each come with their own baggage, lived experience, and views that aren't worn on their sleeves. To even suggest that being "possibly MAGA" and "kind" are mutually exclusive is an unfortunate symptom of equating the real world with scripted fiction. That whole post is Resetera. It's got everything including highly specific examples which are very "that happened".Quote:OP, how much of this is projection? People in real life aren't nearly as one-dimensional as characters that fit neatly in 22-min television series. 7 users liked this post: Taco Bell Tower, Hap Shaughnessy, kaleidoscopium, Orange Juice Box, HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth, benji, Alpacx
05-25-2026, 02:47 PM
Quote:inb4 benji gets some disciple of milton friedman to use empirical studies to shit on the utility of microloans.I've mostly only ever seen neoliberals be positive about them, even if critical of certain versions/implementations, it's the socialists/Marxists who are universally opposed to them or any type of lending. (Since all lending with interest is usury.) But I do have caution about their value to the Global South considering the people I've seen most positive anywhere about microloans are the human expression despising ghouls of tech. 4 users liked this post: Taco Bell Tower, Propagandhim, Alpacx, HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth
05-25-2026, 02:53 PM
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(05-25-2026, 09:08 AM)Boredfrom wrote:I think it comes down to Baki being a very mainstream anime and having a recent explosion in popularity on Netflix so RE doing its usual “ermmm this character is problematic” schtick just makes them look even more out-of-touch with normal people. You still have the local freaks like Echos and ClickyCarl throwing a shitfit but they’re very much in the minority in this situation.(05-25-2026, 08:43 AM)Gameboy Nostalgia wrote:Hercule wrote:It's a fictional character. Vegeta committed mass genocide. Darth vader did the same. People love Char and he wanted to kill basically half of the population. It's fiction 2 users liked this post: Taco Bell Tower, Boredfrom
05-25-2026, 02:56 PM
https://www.resetera.com/threads/dave-filonis-vision-for-star-wars-future-dare-to-be-great.1529176/page-3#post-155382613
Fj0823, post: 155382391, member: 247 wrote:Don't get mad at me. It's reality. Wrighteous86, post: 155382505, member: 16613 wrote:I mean they can like the cartoons, even I do to an extent, and still think Ahsoka sucks in live action and find it confusing that Zeb is in a movie so much and is completely unnecessary. Fj0823, post: 155382559, member: 247 wrote:Okay, that's not the discussion. It's the fact that his stuff IS reaching younger demos. Which the franchise struggles with currently. CourierV, post: 155382613, member: 188937 wrote:it's bridging the generational gap in my relationship thank you dave filoni you've united a gen z and millenial pair of transsexuals around the power of star war.
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05-25-2026, 03:13 PM
(05-25-2026, 09:21 AM)Boredfrom wrote: BTW, isn’t the FGC always wishing to become a clean and friendly enough to become more mainstream? I know Baki is popular enough to be a hit on Netflix, but not mainstream enough to people care about the character that comically raped Trump and Musk. So dunno if anyone will care either way.The FGC will never be mainstream because people HATE losing in games where there's no team to shift blame to. It's why whenever there's a fighting game that has a mainstream buzz (most recent example, Invincible VS) there's a ragequitting epidemic online where it's a coinflip as to whether you'll get to finish a match. 4 users liked this post: Mediocre Lager, Taco Bell Tower, HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth, Boredfrom
05-25-2026, 03:26 PM
(05-25-2026, 02:56 PM)BIONIC wrote:CourierV, post: 155382613, member: 188937 wrote:it's bridging the generational gap in my relationship thank you dave filoni you've united a gen z and millenial pair of transsexuals around the power of star war. https://www.reddit.com/r/shittymoviedetails/comments/1sivdmj/comment/ofvkp9o/ wrote:CourierV https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/1sy3ang/comment/oiwcy9m/ wrote:CourierV ![]() Spoiler: (click to show) 6 users liked this post: Taco Bell Tower, killamajig, BIONIC, HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth, Alpacx, simiansmarts
05-25-2026, 03:33 PM
(05-25-2026, 03:26 PM)benji wrote:https://www.reddit.com/r/shittymoviedetails/comments/1sivdmj/comment/ofvkp9o/ wrote:CourierV
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05-25-2026, 03:45 PM
Hey they noticed that one manga author getting harassed off twitter.
They're lucky they're in the OT though. Post this in a normal thread and you'll get hit with "dismissing concerns" Quote:Quote:Dare I ask what this was?Order of events are that some guy did a low budget cosplay of Jabber doing his dance, Urana found it funny and reposted it on Instagram, the problem is the cosplayer used leeks on his head for the dreads, that part fanbase found it offensive and they were already mad at her for promoting the Stage Play because it white washed the black characters ( Urana has already spoken out that she was against that decision and that there's not much she can do because of contracts, but those fans still don't care), they start to harass her, call her the KKK, and compare her to Gooseworx and Vivzepop which that's another can of worms, Urana apologized and deleted the post but they still kept harassing her, she then started to block people and that just pissed them off more, the drama then became about how she's "immature, ignorant and doesn't want to be corrected", and then she deleted her Twitter and Instagram, saying that it was starting to become a distraction that was affecting her work https://www.resetera.com/threads/gachiakuta-manga-ot-class-divide-casts-a-boy-aside-the-angel-belied-his-patricide.1316167/post-155370496 6 users liked this post: Taco Bell Tower, Hap Shaughnessy, JoeBoy101, HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth, filler, benji
05-25-2026, 03:54 PM
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05-25-2026, 03:58 PM
Christopher Nolan thread
Quote:I saw the bit on him only using flip phones and stuff, honestly goals. Dubs wrote:Tbh, I've been seriously thinking about doing that myself... Shut up 10 users liked this post: Chumbawumbafan69, Taco Bell Tower, Hap Shaughnessy, Potato, BIONIC, HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth, Propagandhim, benji, Besticus Maximus, HaughtyFrank
(05-25-2026, 03:54 PM)benji wrote: Looking at what first time crimes have 20 year minimums (so parole at 10 years) in New York, the answer is basically either murder or violent sexual assault.Oh, guess they were a repeat offender instead, drug dealer presumably: CourierV, https://www.resetera.com/threads/have-you-ever-been-to-jail-prison.1366867/#post-148207933 wrote:My partner spent 10 years inside, a victimless crime but they were a victim of our state's harsh sentencing laws. Saw a lot of bad, of course, but something they always highlight is the community that can form there, the people they met who helped turn their own life around on the inside, and the things we can learn from the people on the inside. "We're facing a fascist takeover, but these people have lived in a fascist state for a long time now. They have the keys to surviving and thriving in it" Or perhaps, part of a murder, driver or something maybe: CourierV, https://www.resetera.com/threads/nbc-news-alabama-governor-commutes-death-sentence-of-man-who-didnt-kill-anyone.1458844/#post-152393791 wrote:My partner is part of a larger coalition trying to get felony murder repealed in NY right now. It's really opened my eyes to how bad the law is and how much its trapping people inside longer for crimes they only have tangential ties to at best. 11 users liked this post: Taco Bell Tower, Hap Shaughnessy, yetanotheraccountholyf, BIONIC, Orange Juice Box, Alpacx, HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth, Let's Cyber, simiansmarts, Propagandhim, DavidCroquet
05-25-2026, 04:12 PM
someone alert Blueball that Benji is looking at websites again
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05-25-2026, 04:25 PM
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05-25-2026, 04:29 PM
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(05-25-2026, 02:47 PM)benji wrote:Quote:inb4 benji gets some disciple of milton friedman to use empirical studies to shit on the utility of microloans.I've mostly only ever seen neoliberals be positive about them, even if critical of certain versions/implementations, it's the socialists/Marxists who are universally opposed to them or any type of lending. (Since all lending with interest is usury.) I deleted the post, but Kiva is a no-interest loan. I wouldn't quite say its charity, but nobody uses the site to make money. There's an argument there that it might elbow out the local finance system to compete and grow, but I believe Kiva screens and targets areas where traditional banking fails (needing a credit score,insufficient collateral,too small for a conventional bank to bother underwriting etc). 3 users liked this post: Taco Bell Tower, HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth, Besticus Maximus
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05-25-2026, 04:49 PM
Real talk, ninja gaiden and fear are the only actual good game there
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05-25-2026, 04:52 PM
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05-25-2026, 04:58 PM
(05-25-2026, 02:53 PM)simiansmarts wrote:(05-25-2026, 09:08 AM)Boredfrom wrote:I think it comes down to Baki being a very mainstream anime and having a recent explosion in popularity on Netflix so RE doing its usual “ermmm this character is problematic” schtick just makes them look even more out-of-touch with normal people. You still have the local freaks like Echos and ClickyCarl throwing a shitfit but they’re very much in the minority in this situation.(05-25-2026, 08:43 AM)Gameboy Nostalgia wrote: That’s what is funny to me. The lack of principles as long something is mainstream enough with their online social group. Half of the people in that thread celebrating the character were in other threads bitching about “problematic stuff”. 4 users liked this post: Taco Bell Tower, Alpacx, HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth, simiansmarts
05-25-2026, 04:59 PM
Should I take creatine? Have always been natural but think its time to get huge
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05-25-2026, 05:13 PM
the bore geriatric autists need creatine for brain health in their old age tbh
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05-25-2026, 05:36 PM
(05-25-2026, 04:52 PM)Let's Cyber wrote:(05-25-2026, 04:49 PM)Besticus Maximus wrote: Real talk, ninja gaiden and fear are the only actual good game thereOrange Box Much agreed. I left orange box off cos the games was old at that point really. Same is true of ninja gaiden I suppose. 2 users liked this post: Taco Bell Tower, Let's Cyber
05-25-2026, 05:42 PM
If you ain't played Beowulf the game, Jericho, or Conan (2007) then you can't be helped. I think Conanc even had hog but maybe I'm getting it confused with another conan game
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05-25-2026, 06:11 PM
We have more concurrent users than Marathon.
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05-25-2026, 06:16 PM
Echos and Clicky should be happy about Yujiro Hanma since he's a character that would view them as a woman no matter how little effort they put into their offline appearance. It would give them maximum affirmation
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