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

[benji]

I think it's remarkable that Nepenthe has lectured everyone for years about Indigenous this and Black that, attacking anyone who listens for not rejecting white ways of thinking and living for the purified utopia of the Global South, only to now refashion her worldview into promoting something entirely based on the personal hangups about mid-19th century European philosophy of three 19th century white dudes.

[Besticus Maximus]

Surely, surely, surely someone at moba understands the danger of having nepenthe encouraging her users to buy guns and shoot people?

[Jansen]

If you're not assessing Resurrections on a trans and reflective level beyond just seeing it as a 'high budget tantrum' or however people seem to see it then I'm not surprised it wasn't enjoyable. Not to say you can't consider it on those themes and also find it lacking, but thinking the extent of its theme is just "fuck you" is misplaced. As is the bizarre attitude of side eyeing people for getting more out of it than you did lol.



Then again my tank on talking about it with cis people has long-since run dry lol. All I hope is that the themes of transition aren't dumped wholesale in a future iteration in favour of just having more flashy shoot bang.

[benji]

There's no themes of transition or anything about trans in The Matrix. It's a superficial flashy shoot bang take on a concept thousands of years old. Neo is pretty literally a Jesus-type figure, Agent Smith is an ascended malevolent servant, who serve to break an eternal cycle that the Machine Gods are unable to solve because they've become so set in their ways. (Though then the last film suggests it was part of Oracle's plan all along and the Machines were aware of the solution because the Wachowski's are stupid and needed a way out of their own explanation from Reloaded.)

Though I suppose it's "trans" in that it's a bunch of navel gazing incoherent gibberish once it moves any step beyond the simple premise.

[Propagandhim]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-guardian-florida-woman-who-fatally-shot-man-to-not-face-charges-due-to-‘stand-your-ground’-law.1625491/#post-160125274

While I can agree with folks that America (really, the West) is barbaric, it's a completely toothless observation without a recognition of the dialectical relationships and historical precedents that have led to this point where we are with gun ownership, many of which will continue to be unaddressed by the country at large. Like if you can't even acknowledge the racial dynamics involved, your judgement means nothing.

Gun control will come when we remake society such that there aren't multiple industries (weapons manufacturing/MIC, journalism, social media, etc.) and status quos contingent upon the exacerbation of reasons people feel the need to be personally armed in the first place.

Wild that we just have to "remake" society and specifically in a way that doesn't allow for unapproved voices to speak. This from a forum where the staff advocates for people to arm up every other week and half of the forum claims to believe they're living through a low level civil war with no other options but violence.

Notice yet again that the "solution" yet again requires the person to already have unchecked political power. On a forum where members rush to explain how little they want to participate, even if it's merely voting solely in the general election like Nepenthe always does.

Also, let me ask this, how are we going to control guns, especially confiscating the 1 billion out there, without police? "Community" mobs just ransacking everyone's houses to acquire all the weapons for themselves?  

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-make-her-look-more-corpulent-more-stuffed-where-the-eyes-cant-escape.275780/page-562#post-160120342

I definitely feel like a lot of younger people and a lot of us older people need to go back and watch anti fascist youtube videos from the GamerGate/Trump in the White House the first time era. Sometimes it really feels like this forum is going more and more right wing, and that it is by design.

YouTube? The fascist website that only promotes far-right videos to users and needs to be eliminated when remake society to eliminate factually incorrect thoughts?

Nepenthe: "I have a solution for all of society's problems!  But, here's the catch, we can't do the solution until all the problems that makes us want the solution go away!" 

"Nepenthe... I don’t say this often...but are you by any chance writing a book? And if so, might you -- gosh I feel silly just asking because I know it's beneath you to acknowledge a mere mortal like me -- consider autographing a copy? Reading your posts here feels less like browsing a forum of collective bonfires and more like God leaning down to whisper into a child’s ear, “Yes, you too, my sweet child, you too shall receive this wisdom, that which may be yours shall come in due time."

[simiansmarts]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-guardian-florida-woman-who-fatally-shot-man-to-not-face-charges-due-to-‘stand-your-ground’-law.1625491/#post-160125274

While I can agree with folks that America (really, the West) is barbaric, it's a completely toothless observation without a recognition of the dialectical relationships and historical precedents that have led to this point where we are with gun ownership, many of which will continue to be unaddressed by the country at large. Like if you can't even acknowledge the racial dynamics involved, your judgement means nothing.

Gun control will come when we remake society such that there aren't multiple industries (weapons manufacturing/MIC, journalism, social media, etc.) and status quos contingent upon the exacerbation of reasons people feel the need to be personally armed in the first place.

Wild that we just have to "remake" society and specifically in a way that doesn't allow for unapproved voices to speak. This from a forum where the staff advocates for people to arm up every other week and half of the forum claims to believe they're living through a low level civil war with no other options but violence.

Notice yet again that the "solution" yet again requires the person to already have unchecked political power. On a forum where members rush to explain how little they want to participate, even if it's merely voting solely in the general election like Nepenthe always does.

Also, let me ask this, how are we going to control guns, especially confiscating the 1 billion out there, without police? "Community" mobs just ransacking everyone's houses to acquire all the weapons for themselves?  

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-make-her-look-more-corpulent-more-stuffed-where-the-eyes-cant-escape.275780/page-562#post-160120342

I definitely feel like a lot of younger people and a lot of us older people need to go back and watch anti fascist youtube videos from the GamerGate/Trump in the White House the first time era. Sometimes it really feels like this forum is going more and more right wing, and that it is by design.

YouTube? The fascist website that only promotes far-right videos to users and needs to be eliminated when remake society to eliminate factually incorrect thoughts?

The furry gaming forum admin who’s pushing forty and still lives in her parents McMansion has strong ideas about remaking society in her image.

[benji]

"What if you were a secret chosen one privy to the real reality and you just had to take a metaphorical pill that made you a God-figure???"

Wow, just like being trans!!!

[Besticus Maximus]

Meanwhile, in the east among the umma

[DavidCroquet]

There's no themes of transition or anything about trans in The Matrix. It's a superficial flashy shoot bang take on a concept thousands of years old. Neo is pretty literally a Jesus-type figure, Agent Smith is an ascended malevolent servant, who serve to break an eternal cycle that the Machine Gods are unable to solve because they've become so set in their ways. (Though then the last film suggests it was part of Oracle's plan all along and the Machines were aware of the solution because the Wachowski's are stupid and needed a way out of their own explanation from Reloaded.)

Though I suppose it's "trans" in that it's a bunch of navel gazing incoherent gibberish once it moves any step beyond the simple premise.

I'll go further and say that I didn't really pick up on the transness from Resurrections either. I did however notice the chintzy, Netflix-original quality that pervaded the whole movie.

Maybe that's the transness?

[benji]

I feel like I'm literally making this expression whenever I read a transplanation of any media:

[benji]

Meanwhile, in the east among the umma

Bet you didn't climb, perpetuating the carceral "law-establishing" legacy of British colonialism.

[benji]

Nepenthe: "I have a solution for all of society's problems!  But, here's the catch, we can't do the solution until all the problems that makes us want the solution go away!" 

"Nepenthe... I don’t say this often...but are you by any chance writing a book? And if so, might you -- gosh I feel silly just asking because I know it's beneath you to acknowledge a mere mortal like me -- consider autographing a copy? Reading your posts here feels less like browsing a forum of collective bonfires and more like God leaning down to whisper into a child’s ear, “Yes, you too, my sweet child, you too shall receive this wisdom, that which may be yours shall come in due time."

The furry gaming forum admin who’s pushing forty and still lives in her parents McMansion has strong ideas about remaking society in her image.

I really don't understand why y'all questioning her grasp of social issues. Like, we just abolish guns, the military, the police, journalists and social media. All things that provide no value to anybody. This isn't that hard.

I'm not sure y'all are ready for textbook dialectical materialism yet, feel like you guys need to go back and watch some anti-fascist YouTube videos about Gamergate instead of continuing to slide this website more and more to the far right.

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/alcohol-tastes-like-shit.1626025/

My family likes to say I have an unhealthy relationship with alcohol. My belief is that there is no point drinking alcohol unless you are explicitly planning on getting drunk.

I only drink a handful of times a year, I'm not an alcoholic. But that is my view of alcohol. It is merely a tool to be drunk. There is no point drinking it otherwise, because it tastes like SHIT!

I've tried multiple brands of beer. I've tried cocktails. Every single one either makes my tongue recoil or is simply "meh" and my tastebuds would be much better served by a soda or water instead, if the goal was to enjoy the taste of what I am drinking.

I cannot comprehend the typical "guy's night out" for beer and wings. Beer. Tastes. Like. SHIIIIIT. Why would you ruin your wings like that? A diet coke would be far more delicious -- hell, a water would be more delicious, why are you suffering through beer as a pleasure drink on a casual night out where you're not even trying to get drunk? If you're not getting drunk what is the point of drinking that garbage?

Don't even get me started on shots. Holy fuck. I appreciate them for the fact that they help me get drunk faster, but I have to fight back the vomit reflex almost every time I take one. It's rare I can even down a shot in one go. Usually I'll get half the shot down, then I have to take a break and fight back gagging because it tastes so abhorrently bad, then I repeat the process for the other half because if I take all the liquid at once I fear I will genuinely puke right in the middle of the bar, not because I am drunk, but because the taste is so bad.

For the handful of times a year I do decide to cut loose and get drunk, I wish so very much that it could be achieved with liquid that is actually enjoyable on the tongue, yet I am forced by the nature of alcohol to simply endure downing multiple glasses of liquid that actively makes my tongue recoil. The most bearable and cliche alcoholic beverage I can drink are rum and cokes, which still don't taste good, and I dislike intaking all that sugar, but they at least make achieving the drunken process more bearable.

I am not crazy. I feel as if the entire drinking adult population in the world is in on one big gaslighting campaign. The feeling in your brain from the drinks is enjoyable, but getting there is nothing but gags and pain.

Discuss alcohol, what combos you recommend, or how wrong or right I am. I needed to vent about this. I am not crazy!

Once again,  Era baby can't understand people liking things they don't like.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/treasury-secretary-bessent-compares-canada-to-little-yippy-dog.1625575/page-3#post-160146568

Of course he owned a german shepherd, the Nazi's best friend.

 German shepherd

 Pitbull

[Boredfrom]

'm like an hour in, bought it on a whim, but I forgot just how uninterested I am in this 1Xth century Japan setting. Like my eyes are glazed over running around the environment with flashbacks to running around Nioh/Fate Samurai/Ghost of Tsushima/Sekiro lol. I'll probably just refund but does the setting evolve at some point to something more interesting? Because I do really like the cutscenes and characters and the gameplay is fun enough.

Dude with   Avatar 

So you like the characters and the gameplay, but somehow the setting repels you?  

https://www.resetera.com/threads/onimusha-way-of-the-sword-ot-souls-come-unto-me.1623601/page-23#post-160151197

(Wuxia slop tends to only have gameplay going for it  )

[Propagandhim]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/alcohol-tastes-like-shit.1626025/

My family likes to say I have an unhealthy relationship with alcohol. My belief is that there is no point drinking alcohol unless you are explicitly planning on getting drunk.

I only drink a handful of times a year, I'm not an alcoholic. But that is my view of alcohol. It is merely a tool to be drunk. There is no point drinking it otherwise, because it tastes like SHIT!

I've tried multiple brands of beer. I've tried cocktails. Every single one either makes my tongue recoil or is simply "meh" and my tastebuds would be much better served by a soda or water instead, if the goal was to enjoy the taste of what I am drinking.

I cannot comprehend the typical "guy's night out" for beer and wings. Beer. Tastes. Like. SHIIIIIT. Why would you ruin your wings like that? A diet coke would be far more delicious -- hell, a water would be more delicious, why are you suffering through beer as a pleasure drink on a casual night out where you're not even trying to get drunk? If you're not getting drunk what is the point of drinking that garbage?

Don't even get me started on shots. Holy fuck. I appreciate them for the fact that they help me get drunk faster, but I have to fight back the vomit reflex almost every time I take one. It's rare I can even down a shot in one go. Usually I'll get half the shot down, then I have to take a break and fight back gagging because it tastes so abhorrently bad, then I repeat the process for the other half because if I take all the liquid at once I fear I will genuinely puke right in the middle of the bar, not because I am drunk, but because the taste is so bad.

For the handful of times a year I do decide to cut loose and get drunk, I wish so very much that it could be achieved with liquid that is actually enjoyable on the tongue, yet I am forced by the nature of alcohol to simply endure downing multiple glasses of liquid that actively makes my tongue recoil. The most bearable and cliche alcoholic beverage I can drink are rum and cokes, which still don't taste good, and I dislike intaking all that sugar, but they at least make achieving the drunken process more bearable.

I am not crazy. I feel as if the entire drinking adult population in the world is in on one big gaslighting campaign. The feeling in your brain from the drinks is enjoyable, but getting there is nothing but gags and pain.

Discuss alcohol, what combos you recommend, or how wrong or right I am. I needed to vent about this. I am not crazy!

Once again,  Era baby can't understand people liking things they don't like.

"Suffering through beer".

[Besticus Maximus]

We're upset because the knee jerk reactions centering foreigners' feelings on how barbaric they find America and how they would never come here flattened the dynamics altogether and served to equivocate both parties involved in the dispute

Imagine literally anyone else posting that

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/germanys-far-right-afd-secures-huge-lead-in-key-state-election-could-appoint-their-first-state-government.1625392/page-6#post-160143271

 User banned (2 weeks): conspiracy theories

The West has had 10+ years to cut Russia off the internet but done nothing. This is the result.

Not excusing Russia but even when it's true, the US-Israel combo has done more damage in 2 years than Russia in 10 (see Morocco and Spain current crisis).

We are not talking enough about how much damage the US and Israel are doing to Europe in the shadows.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Before the mods nuke it.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/tim-schafer-is-delusional-and-needs-to-go-double-fine-needs-new-leadership.1625671/

Time Schafer quote below in Jason Schreier's Sept 4, 2026 Bloomberg Game On interview:

"We never actively tried to make a game we thought was going to lose money. I think people would say, 'Oh, Keeper looks like this art house thing that no one expects to be a hit.' But to me it's the kind of game that someone who doesn't play games would love. I really think there's a mass market appeal to Keeper."

Tim Schafer is an old-skool game dev and I respect what he did with his 90's point & click games, and for Psychonauts 1 and 2.

BUT

Tim Schafer is an active danger to the future of Double Fine and will run that company into the ground. Unless Schafer was giving a troll interview, then he legit believes that Keeper has/has mass market appeal.

IF

IF Tim Schafer was not trolling, joking, high on some kind of substance or got he got paid to say this, or one of his friends/collegues asked him to say this, and there were no mitigating circumstances in play.

THEN

Tim Schafer is THE most delusional, out of touch, popular game company leader there currently is and that there has ever been. And it shows that Schafer only has a bunch of yes men/women around him who are just looking to collect a paycheck instead of disagreeing with their deluded boss.

Time Schafer is stuck in the 2012 era of games where games like Journey could get non-gamers into gaming. And even then, Keeper looked so absolutetly dreadful, that the only mass market appeal it would get if it was somehow running as a tech demo in 1995.

If the leader of Double Fine things that games like Keeper has the same gravitas to pull the mass market like Call of Duty, Fifa, GTA Online, Minecraft, then he needs to replaced immediately.

Message To The Double Fine Devs:
If Tim is a noble as he appears on camera, then you need launch an intervention and ask Tim to create a succession plan where an actual in-touch development leader can take charge at Double Fine. Keep Tim as a figure head leader and as spokesperson to get the money and sales in. But do not let this man lead any kind of development effort.

 User banned (permanent): Creating an extremely inflammatory troll thread. Prior bans for creating troll threads. Account in junior phase.

[Let's Cyber]

These Nintendo die-hards are so weirdly ultra-fundamentalist about Ocarina of Time, they got me hoping this new thing is a total reimagining.  Honestly given the artstyle of the teaser, I think it's going to be something substainally different from the original. 

Please please please do not had a stamina wheel.

No joke, this would be a deal breaker.

No stamina wheel please.

Why would they add a stamina wheel, OoT isn't designed with those in mind.

No stamina wheel, no climbing, no runes/superpowers, no weapon degradation, no shrines (hopefully), no going straight to the final boss after leaving Kokiri Forest.

There's a lot about the BotW formula that shouldn't be anywhere near OoT (or any future Zelda game, for that matter). But there's a lot that could.

 

Miyamoto could do the funniest thing tomorrow. 

[Vertigo]

Of course Cunting Eden makes a blatant response thread after getting thread banned from the DLSS5 one, what a manbaby 
 
https://www.resetera.com/threads/highlighting-video-game-artists-thread.1625074/ 
 
There’s deep irony in a forum that regularly expresses their utter contempt and disdain for game developers all of a sudden wanting to have an “appreciation thread” but only as a weapon for their moral crusade

I love that his still cosplaying as being deeply involved in game development, isn't he still a teaching assistant and occasional games tester for VMC?

The way his been talking in these threads he gives the impression his a grizzled veteran on their 4th game.

What an absolute clown.

[jooseloose]

There's no themes of transition or anything about trans in The Matrix. It's a superficial flashy shoot bang take on a concept thousands of years old. Neo is pretty literally a Jesus-type figure, Agent Smith is an ascended malevolent servant, who serve to break an eternal cycle that the Machine Gods are unable to solve because they've become so set in their ways. (Though then the last film suggests it was part of Oracle's plan all along and the Machines were aware of the solution because the Wachowski's are stupid and needed a way out of their own explanation from Reloaded.)

Though I suppose it's "trans" in that it's a bunch of navel gazing incoherent gibberish once it moves any step beyond the simple premise.

You can't even try to argue that with this lot else you'll be immediately brigaded, reported and banned for dIsMiSsInG cOnCeRnS. By their logic every superhero origin story is a trans allegory. FACT.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/alcohol-tastes-like-shit.1626025/

Don't even get me started on shots. Holy fuck. I appreciate them for the fact that they help me get drunk faster, but I have to fight back the vomit reflex almost every time I take one. It's rare I can even down a shot in one go. Usually I'll get half the shot down, then I have to take a break and fight back gagging because it tastes so abhorrently bad, then I repeat the process for the other half because if I take all the liquid at once I fear I will genuinely puke right in the middle of the bar, not because I am drunk, but because the taste is so bad.

For the handful of times a year I do decide to cut loose and get drunk, I wish so very much that it could be achieved with liquid that is actually enjoyable on the tongue, yet I am forced by the nature of alcohol to simply endure downing multiple glasses of liquid that actively makes my tongue recoil.

That's not the taste, it's the reaction to the high amount of alcohol. Vodka, for example, has almost no taste to it because it's so much water, so you only taste the alcohol unless it's one of the serious vodkas.

Most alcohol comes without serious flavoring beyond what comes from the distillation process because that defeats the purpose of mixing. Beer and wine are different because you drink it. Hence, why "shots" are a thing, there's nothing really worth sipping until you get more expensive.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/germanys-far-right-afd-secures-huge-lead-in-key-state-election-could-appoint-their-first-state-government.1625392/page-6#post-160143271

The West has had 10+ years to cut Russia off the internet but done nothing. This is the result.

You can't, this isn't how the internet works. It would just be European states blocking their own citizens from anything with a Russian IP, which would do nothing to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc. because those aren't Russian websites. The US government doesn't even have a mechanism for doing this.

And for the record, the West has done something far far worse to Russia and did it long ago: cut it off from the global financial system. It's remarkable that nobody cares about this, or it being done to Iran as well, because it's the closest thing our modern world has to a legitimate old timey economic act of war. And the US/EU can do it literally overnight without warning.

[HaughtyFrank]

I had never seen the face of, resetera favorite, thoughtslime before

[benji]

[HaughtyFrank]

Why is anyone of the people here involved thinking that "nightmare doors" that are randomly plopped into the environment and are just traversal challenges, will engage with mental health in any meaningful way?

[Potato]

There's no themes of transition or anything about trans in The Matrix. It's a superficial flashy shoot bang take on a concept thousands of years old. Neo is pretty literally a Jesus-type figure, Agent Smith is an ascended malevolent servant, who serve to break an eternal cycle that the Machine Gods are unable to solve because they've become so set in their ways. (Though then the last film suggests it was part of Oracle's plan all along and the Machines were aware of the solution because the Wachowski's are stupid and needed a way out of their own explanation from Reloaded.)

Though I suppose it's "trans" in that it's a bunch of navel gazing incoherent gibberish once it moves any step beyond the simple premise.

If we take the Wachowski brothers' retcon explanation as fact, then every single "hero's journey" story could be interpreted as a trans allegory. The hero, through their struggles, becomes someone new...the person they were always destined to be. 

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/alcohol-tastes-like-shit.1626025/

My family likes to say I have an unhealthy relationship with alcohol. My belief is that there is no point drinking alcohol unless you are explicitly planning on getting drunk.

I only drink a handful of times a year, I'm not an alcoholic. But that is my view of alcohol. It is merely a tool to be drunk. There is no point drinking it otherwise, because it tastes like SHIT!

I've tried multiple brands of beer. I've tried cocktails. Every single one either makes my tongue recoil or is simply "meh" and my tastebuds would be much better served by a soda or water instead, if the goal was to enjoy the taste of what I am drinking.

I cannot comprehend the typical "guy's night out" for beer and wings. Beer. Tastes. Like. SHIIIIIT. Why would you ruin your wings like that? A diet coke would be far more delicious -- hell, a water would be more delicious, why are you suffering through beer as a pleasure drink on a casual night out where you're not even trying to get drunk? If you're not getting drunk what is the point of drinking that garbage?

Don't even get me started on shots. Holy fuck. I appreciate them for the fact that they help me get drunk faster, but I have to fight back the vomit reflex almost every time I take one. It's rare I can even down a shot in one go. Usually I'll get half the shot down, then I have to take a break and fight back gagging because it tastes so abhorrently bad, then I repeat the process for the other half because if I take all the liquid at once I fear I will genuinely puke right in the middle of the bar, not because I am drunk, but because the taste is so bad.

For the handful of times a year I do decide to cut loose and get drunk, I wish so very much that it could be achieved with liquid that is actually enjoyable on the tongue, yet I am forced by the nature of alcohol to simply endure downing multiple glasses of liquid that actively makes my tongue recoil. The most bearable and cliche alcoholic beverage I can drink are rum and cokes, which still don't taste good, and I dislike intaking all that sugar, but they at least make achieving the drunken process more bearable.

I am not crazy. I feel as if the entire drinking adult population in the world is in on one big gaslighting campaign. The feeling in your brain from the drinks is enjoyable, but getting there is nothing but gags and pain.

Discuss alcohol, what combos you recommend, or how wrong or right I am. I needed to vent about this. I am not crazy!

Once again,  Era baby can't understand people liking things they don't like.

His username checked out too

[benji]

I had never seen the face of, resetera favorite, thoughtslime before

I've seen literal ex-and-future-whores who stream on Twitch who have a better sense of background imagery than most "intellectual" YouTubers. Like what is this background supposed to be conveying at all? It doesn't say "these are my interests" to me because there's so little of everything. It's telling me "here are some superficial but ultimately irrelevant things you should pretend are my devoted personality since I don't actually have one."

And yes, this matters, because I'm usually so dulled into boredom by the lowbrow content that I start examining their rooms in detail. Really, any post of any online "intellectual" where they show their "workstation" triggers this reflex. Asmongold's living in actual trash has a respectful honesty to it. There's a trans Twitter influencer, now on Bluesky, who used to post proud pictures of their desk and bookshelf and I loved it because you could see the additional dust with each update. They had "plushies" that were incredibly caked in dust. And they didn't see it, at all, they would just post "look at Yoshi!" and his green has faded from how much dust is on him. Just incredible content.

I went to that channel to see how long that woke 1 video is (only 16 minutes!) and here's a video from a couple years ago of "Mildred" when she turned 39:

@dustinyager11
2 years ago
Your authenticity has helped me reclaim my own. the way you speak is the way i've always been able to speak but didn't because  of who knows reasons; but hearing you invites me to be a more whole me in reality. thank you thought slime. your boldness is the willy wonka golden ticket I've always needed for enhanced thought freedom.

 

Here's some thoughtful comments on the woke one video:

@saltytbone
10 days ago
There's such a huge disparity in normie America where anyone "perceived" as Left needs to walk the "receptibility tightrope" or else the normies will say "They are annoying, so of course it makes sense Americans will vote for Trump/Vance." Like the default is America is inherently going to respect the asshole first and it's the non-asshole who has to sing and dance to earn America's respect. And it's, well, annoying.

My brother in 2022 said "Well if they're going to call me a bigot and a racist, then I guess I'll just have to be a bigot and a racist." Thankfully the infuriating part of that dumb argument keeps me from going numb.

All of this is to say, if Democrats think tossing aside trans people will help them win, then what is it exactly they think they're winning? Like when Biden and everyone cheered like "yay, it's 2015 again!" with no thought about what happened after 2015.

@leothedino4
9 days ago
doesnt escape my notice that similar to "callout" and "cancel" woke is another aave term thats been turned into synonymous with "annoying"

@VyoletAyers
10 days ago
"Be annoying until you get what you want," is actually an important virtue. I remember the exact moment when I realized that the US Public School I went to was trying to teach us about workers unions back at the turn of the century and how their conditions were so much worse what with 16-hour days in dangerous factories and child labor and so on and how that meant we had no right to complain about our modern lives not having to work as kids and weekends off and a minimum wage at all, even if it's a shitty one. And ALL of this was to distract us from the real lesson that a bunch of people earned what improvements we've seen in the workplace since then by WHINING and COMPLAINING and being ANNOYING, PETULANT, and ENTITLED. That shit works! Do it!

@magniloquencia
10 days ago
Yes, ugh. So frustrating to watch the history of contemporary American fascism being rewritten, in real time, to be the fault of the movements that first tried to resist it.

@dermotfenster9980
2 weeks ago
Many (possibly most) of the tropes of "woke" they make fun of originated from Libs of Tiktok and other right wing performers pretending to be us.  Like that video of the fake trans rights activist wearing a Russian flag as a cape that's currently circulating.  It amazes me that they'll go to all the effort of dreaming up fictional people and behaviors, create content of their performances of these characters, then firehose outrage at these fictional straw man depictions as though they actually exist...all while spending not a single second on self-reflection.  Not a moment spent questioning whether this is really how they want to spend their finite, irreplaceable supply of living time, nor how any of that will reflect on what their life meant after it runs out.

@JvneValka
10 days ago
"Asking to be allowed to piss" sounded really funny, until I realised that I might just get assaulted and killed for trying to do just that in a public restroom.

@erinaltstadt4234
8 days ago
No one is going to assault you for using the men’s restroom. You are are being hyperbolic

@silphv
7 days ago
@erinaltstadt4234  do you know what state they live in? what city or town? it's not safe to generalize. Even if it is unlikely, "unlikely" doesn't feel safe. Even if it's not outright assault, reactions can feel extremely threatening. The feeling of realizing the stranger who is mocking is actually about to hurt you is terrifying. It happens in an insant and you have to be ready for it. Being ready for it every fraction of a second you are in a situation is fucking agonizing.

@NJDalal
10 days ago
"Be annoying until you get what you want" is how I got my parents to stop trying to bring me to church with them lol.

@seropia
3 days ago
"The Squeaky Wheel gets the Grease!" Is the idiom I always heard getting growing up. Those who speak up loudest are the ones who get catered to. So don't numb out and don't shut up, that's what they want.

@Caitlin_of_Mist_and_Shadows
10 days ago
I think those who are against human rights, empathy, and socialist ideals (actual liberty) like to frame such things as "annoying" when labeling them as woke. But that's all some f-cking bullsh-t. Woke is being aware of systemic injustices. Waking up to the truth of them.

"Sleep, sleep, everyone. Pay no attention to the men behind the curtain." That's what I hear from the anti-woke weirdos.
The human trafficking villain of the piece saying, "don't you think being against human trafficking is, too woke?" as they have the hero tied up, a Rube Goldberg machine ready to dispatch them. And like no, f-ck you, villain, of course you'd say that! Convincing people that your villainy is normal and being against it is "weird" is your whole thing.

Sadly, almost all of the news media and the entertainment media is infested with villains. Owned by them, run by them. So the absolute nonsense gets laundered over and over until it sounds "normal" only because it's what you keep hearing.

Also lots of praise for the guillotine earrings.

And this:

@melle-d9971
10 days ago
i'm a cis women and thought slime is legit my look goals.  i get such the vibe of a librarian who won't take your shit. i love them <3

 

Also, here's some information:

@legogoka-boomstudio1838
9 days ago
“Woke 2” is kinda a joke but it’s essentially a name for the ever evolving “woke” as a movement.

I watched female tropes in gaming videos that started gamergate and she is constantly saying “well while it’s bad for minorities it’s probably wasn’t malicious and kinda just happens” and was almost just too polite and I was surprised how this caused uproar. We know things like /pol were made with malicious intent, the creator literally talked to Epstein right before making it, and we need to call shit like that out.

[Boredfrom]

I mean, I let a lot of my favorite stuff get dusty because my clinical depression.