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

[Hap Shaughnessy]

They do.
Edit: I also have the same receiver as Shreds, AMA.

How much cum is on yours?

Only impressed if you have a giant pillar through your living room.

None and no.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-2026-ot2-blue-wave-no-save.1602697/page-14#post-159455971

Go brow beat the people who are indifferent or on the fence. I will keep voting for democrats that support me. I am confident that Seth Moulton is going to lose, but I sure as shit am not voting for him in November should he win the primary.

If we have one less seat in November, but we help send the message that trans rights are not negotiable, that is a win from my perspective.

Are you angry at the black people who refused to vote for racists are the gay people who refused to vote for homophobes?

Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Obama start off with a no on gay marriage and switched to a yes during his term? Stupid gays should have voted for McCain to show him that gay rights are non negotiable

[benji]

Obama also opposed abolishing the police, claimed cancel culture was a thing and wrong, and didn't end genocide or capitalism. So they should have refused to vote for his fascist ass. 

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-duskbloods-network-test-ver-ot-culling-game.1609912/page-33#post-159456253

Love when yall port beg.

It's delicious 😋

I can't wait for the next network test.

That was simply a discussion about the possibility of coming to PC, there was no port begging. Weird thing to get defensive about. The guy saying it's "delicious"... yikes.

Especially when the people discussing are even playing the network test, lol.

A hit dog hollering, please move around.

I mean, it was an embarrassing post but you do you.

Your post? I agree.

Don't quote me again.

Yeah yeah, move along buddy.

You bothered me, and I ain't your buddy.

Play the game, and keep the dream alive, my guy.

Gamers

[who is ted danson?]

[Let's Cyber]

He's only 39? Wow, hate sure does age a person.

I wonder if posting the r/bald meme in that thread would get a ban or not. 

[benji]

There actually is an "agender" and "queer" (but married to a man?) person running in Moulton's old district and was running against him except he ran for Senate instead (they're polling at 4% against the Biden endorsed frontrunner):

Andres-Beck’s campaign spokesperson Mischa Smith told the Current that Moulton’s comments were the “tipping point” for Andres-Beck’s decision to run.

“When we beat Seth Moulton, we’ll prove what should’ve been obvious all along: trans people aren’t political props – we’re leaders,” the candidate said in a statement.

https://bethfordemocracy.com/

[BIONIC]

We can finally locate filler easier now whenever he goes off the reservation

[Let's Cyber]

Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Obama start off with a no on gay marriage and switched to a yes during his term? Stupid gays should have voted for McCain to show him that gay rights are non negotiable

Even Queen Hillary was against it and pushing for civil unions until 2013, which was AFTER Obama publicly backed gay marriage in 2012. 

Always a follower, never a leader.

[benji]

Frankly, I only support Democrats who would make transphobia illegal.

[BIONIC]

Frankly, I only support Democrats who would make transphobia illegal.

[filler]

it should be illegal to fear the founding fathers 

[benji]

it should be illegal to fear the founding fathers 

FACT CHECK:

[Jansen]

Are those the ones that come with a wine cooler?

I put all my video game consoles on top of "winecoolers".

[Let's Cyber]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gta-6-gameplay-clips-being-leaked-online-by-hacker-various-amounts-of-footage-available.1607140/page-152#post-159459874

Ain't that the truth. There's threads on here where actual devs/industry people come in and share some actual knowledge, and atleast 50% of the people posting in the thread just completely ignore it and post their own contradictory takes which are based on nothing but vibes

[Taco Bell Tower]

Listening to my fellow New Yorker on my OLED

Although I couldn’t help but notice the image was hosted on GAF, and sure enough he’s posted the same thing there on his GAF Gold account, so I think this is a secret chud.

Funny how GAF takes it as a joke and Ree takes it as solidarity

I wonder if he's subscribed to ResetEra Clear (sounds like a acne cream lolol)

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/had-to-leave-work-early-on-only-my-second-day-feeling-like-an-idiot.1611124/

Thank you all.

It's a fast food pizza place. My previous jobs were uncharacteristically relaxed, so this is my first "normal" job in a lot of ways.

I'm 99.9% sure it's anxiety and nerves. Not impossible it's a bug but I'd be very surprised.

Just another reason why there should be universal basic income

[BIONIC]

it should be illegal to fear the founding fathers 

Yes, there is nothing to fear about Melody Shreds.

[Jansen]

Been thinking about taking a secret solo trip somewhere to commit suicide. I have had this urge before when i went to San Francisco some years ago to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge. If it wasn't for my back and knee issues i probably would have done it. Now a part of me is thinking of going back there or even to Japan or South Korea and end my life there. The thought of travelling to the suicide forest in Japan and dying there seems better since i would be in a place i rather be than life here.

No one even responded to them

[benji]

I have had this urge before when i went to San Francisco some years ago to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge. If it wasn't for my back and knee issues i probably would have done it.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-2026-ot2-blue-wave-no-save.1602697/page-14#post-159461920

I don't think anyone has to be happy about it, but part of harm reduction is also that activist groups need to be very interested in persuasion campaigns that can iterate and evolve and be dynamic in order to do the hard work of changing beliefs.

And tbh I think this had been lacking in a lot of our electoral politics on the left during the first anti Trump wave of 2016-2022. I think we're getting back to a place where persuasion and narratives matter but I do think any harm reduction strategies also need to be married with a real push to persuade. Otherwise they're just delaying the inevitable.

Fair.

The right seized on people's ignorance about trans people and made a lot of simple to understand arguments where as the left couldn't even seem to settle on one.

I mean the argument that people with XY chromosomes have inherent strength compared to people with XX chromosomes and the whole reason that women's sports exists is to allow 50% of the population to actually compete is intuitive and completely undercuts what has been largely a strong point for LGBT advocacy, which have been grounded in arguments of fairness.

Leftists groups can't even agree on a message and the ones they largely have agreed on have been either been dumb ('well all sports are unfair if you think about it') or just outright missing what's driving people to accept the right's framing and also aren't grounded at all in real facts about transitioning.

So if your issue is MGP, I don't think LGBT advocacy groups have done what they need to do to build popular support because they can't even agree on a message or framing (part of this, I think, is not wanting to accept a difference between social and medical transitioning, but that's a different conversation). Let's say she is craven. We haven't built a space where she can be craven towards trans groups because the building of durable popular support just has been such a blind spot here.

Intuitive and completely wrong. But ain't no one wants to have the conversation as to why women's sports started, or wants to acknowledge that medically transitioned trans women don't have an apparent advantage over cis women... because that suggests that they are women, and that gender is more complicated than XX/XY.

I don't know that there can ever be a simple counter to something that *feels* true, but there should have been an effort to at least take *a* position beyond 'this is a distraction from the real issues' or as you mention 'sports are unfair'. Like 'men are taller than women so its unfair to let Trans women play basketball' gets trotted out, like there aren't loads of Trans women that aren't nearly as tall as the average WNBA player.

What frustrates me, is seeing self identifying feminists leaping on board the argument that 'men are obviously stronger than women' not recognizing that it is far more complicated than that, or what the far right intend to do off the back of that belief.

Cause you know 'we're going to protect the women whether they like it or not'.

I don't think queer advocacy groups want to make a different between social transition and medical transition which is why they're probably wary of talking about what a year on hormones does re: strength. I think that's gonna change as more research comes out but that's been friction I've noticed.

Basing eligibility on having female levels of testosterone for a year was working just fine from a fairness perspective before a trans athlete actually won a thing and the right saw an opportunity to use it as a wedge issue.

Its clearly an issue that the more you dive into, the harder and harder it becomes to argue against letting trans women play women's sports... but when the easy answer makes sense... for most people that deeper dive isn't going to happen. The easy answer fit what felt true.

But its not what I want from a politician, obviously.

And like, if we are talking about a level of sports that doesn't test for performance enhancers or that we let people play coed, then I think its probably fine not to worry about social vs medical.

I think there were some a really bad impulses on responding to the initial blow up on the left which made sense at the time but with hindsight were probably wrong — should this be about female levels of testosterone or about fairness overall without having some standard that individual leagues set? There was already queer advocacy groups who didn't like the NCAA standard when it was set and that was a mistake imo. And also not making a rhetorical difference between what is sports? Kicking a ball around with friends afterschool or about competition?

And then some people took it as an opportunity to attack the entire idea of gender segregation in sports or competitive sports as a concept — and there will always be these radicals but without a coherent and cohesive response from major advocates, the lack of cohesion allowed bad faith actors to point to these positions as the ultimate goal of queer advocacy because frankly I couldn't even tell you what the unified belief is that underpins advocacy is. And like you said, I don't think "this is a distraction" is helpful. Makes it seem like you are embarrassed about your position.

The only problem I see that needs solving is figuring out why trans people make up a much smaller fraction of people taking part in sports at anything approaching a professional level than they do the population. The rest is right wing lies.

'Biological men shouldn't be allowed to play women's sports' is a really sly way of saying 'men are superior to women' and I'd rather we were pointing that out.

I'm not sure I follow that argument — like let's remove biological from it because that's the right wing framing. Are cis men not stronger than cis women? Like there are 8 billion people on earth — Obviously there are caveats but muscular mass has nothing to do with "superiority".

Its two overlapping bell curves. Men are stronger than women is an over simplification of things that leaves off an all important *on average*.

It'd be like saying men are taller than women. So... if someone is shorter than a woman does that mean they must be a woman? Obviously not right?

Far too many men think they are stronger than every single woman, and that helps drive a lot of misogynistic crap the right are pushing.

Sure but this is part of the persuasion issue. If you can't even start from the position that on average, men are stronger than women and we created women's sports as a way to give women a way to actually compete because without it, the vast majority (almost all?) of women in the country wouldn't make the varsity team in high school, you're not starting from a place where people are going to believe you're coming from anywhere grounded in facts and potentially persuadable people won't actually care what you say next.

Men, on average, having more muscle mass than women does not mean that trans women shouldn't compete in women's sports. But if you can't start the conversation there you're not actually going to persuade many people imo

The history of why we came to segregate sports is a lot less about biological realities and a lot more to do with sexist ideals forced on women by men. And that is absolutely the next step the heritage foundation want to push. If we want the conversation we have to be prepared to challenge a lot of preconceived notions that don't line up with reality.

Wait, are you advocating for eliminating sex segregated sports?

Nope. Just highlighting that the statement 'we created women's sports because men have more muscle mass on average' is false.

Women were banned from sports because men wanted to dictate what their bodies should be like and what their bodies should be used for. They carved out their own spaces. It was nothing to do with fairness. It was everything to do with control.

And the *same* people falsely claiming that they care about fairness are trying to take us back to a place where women aren't playing rugby or basketball. Banning Trans women is step one.

This is step two.

https://www.heritage.org/gender/report/title-ixs-failed-experiment-why-accommodating-sex-differences-beats-engineered-parity

Feel free to dive into the history of women's sports. It is a fascinating read.

I am fully supportive of women's sports. But the history of why women weren't allowed to play sports and how that changed isn't one as simple as 'well women can't sport as well as men'. Women's sports have been a culture war for a long time. Like with gay marriage, Trans people are being used as a way to get back to a fight the religious right lost.

again, what are you actually advocating for

[HaughtyFrank]

Hilarious watching Kaitos walk on eggshells

Surely he is aware that Plagiarize is actually that sort of trans activist idiot that ruins any messaging democrats try on women's sports. Like yeah no shit you're losing the common sense argument when you're struggling to define what a woman even is.

[benji]

Intuitive and completely wrong. But ain't no one wants to have the conversation as to why women's sports started

The history of why we came to segregate sports is a lot less about biological realities and a lot more to do with sexist ideals forced on women by men.

Women were banned from sports because men wanted to dictate what their bodies should be like and what their bodies should be used for. They carved out their own spaces. It was nothing to do with fairness. It was everything to do with control.

Feel free to dive into the history of women's sports. It is a fascinating read.

I am fully supportive of women's sports. But the history of why women weren't allowed to play sports and how that changed isn't one as simple as 'well women can't sport as well as men'. Women's sports have been a culture war for a long time. Like with gay marriage, Trans people are being used as a way to get back to a fight the religious right lost.

Which is why we need to eliminate that control and demand women allow men in their spaces or else fuck off Nazi. 

[benji]

Not surprised y'all not smart enough to understand the argument "if we enforce Title IX, which segregates by sex, then the right-wing will eliminate Title IX and women's sports in general. So we have to redefine 'sex' to mean self-identity."

[Straight Edge]

Call me old fashioned, but most Americans won't vote for a lady with a beard.

[HaughtyFrank]

Intuitive and completely wrong. But ain't no one wants to have the conversation as to why women's sports started

The history of why we came to segregate sports is a lot less about biological realities and a lot more to do with sexist ideals forced on women by men.

Women were banned from sports because men wanted to dictate what their bodies should be like and what their bodies should be used for. They carved out their own spaces. It was nothing to do with fairness. It was everything to do with control.

Feel free to dive into the history of women's sports. It is a fascinating read.

I am fully supportive of women's sports. But the history of why women weren't allowed to play sports and how that changed isn't one as simple as 'well women can't sport as well as men'. Women's sports have been a culture war for a long time. Like with gay marriage, Trans people are being used as a way to get back to a fight the religious right lost.

Which is why we need to eliminate that control and demand women allow men in their spaces or else fuck off Nazi. 

You just have to understand that sexism is the only reason sports was ever segregated. That highschool boys beat the female world cup winners 5-2 is irrelevant.

If you think this kid has an advantage over those women you're the sexist

[benji]

plagiarize's argument is basically that the proper thing to do is refuse to acknowledge the 80% of the population against, somehow win anyway and then force the views of 10% of the population on that 80% until the 80% learns the proper ones.

Typical Era poster's notion of how democracy is supposed to work.

[HaughtyFrank]

'The people fighting against trans women in women's sports are the same people that don't want women of any kind playing sports'

No idea if that's compelling, but its a defensible position.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-2026-ot2-blue-wave-no-save.1602697/post-159465802

Bitch, then why do you have actual female athletes speak out against trans women in their sport??? You've literally been telling Sophia Cunningham to go fuck herself.

[benji]

Radical feminists (the RF of TERF) are well known for not wanting women to play any sports or have their own female-only spaces.

[benji]

I have had this urge before when i went to San Francisco some years ago to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge. If it wasn't for my back and knee issues i probably would have done it.

Not everyone has the privilege to be able to unalive themselves by jumping off a bridge. Maybe replace your ableism with basic human decency.