Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[PogiJones]

me googling to see if the thing I just made up is real:



bitch that's just asexuality 

Okay, we clearly have too much prosperity. Bring back hunger.

[Venice]

From the 'Perils of the Coffee Date' thread:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/educate-me-the-perilousness-of-the-coffee-date-yay-or-nay.815790/page-8?post=119031372#post-119031372

And honestly I would argue the same principle is true for men as well: if a fancy dinner date isn't going well, you're still stuck with it until the end AND you have to pay a bunch of money. There's no point in trying to pull a bad date out of a tailspin - 99% of the time, shit doesn't work like in rom-coms, where you can fail over and over again and then still wind up with the other person in the end. If a random date turns sour, that's probably the end of that. Both parties being able to cut bait and leave without a huge financial or time investment is just respectful of both people so they can get on with their lives!

Personally I'm at a point in my life where I'm only going out for fancy dinner with someone I like spending a lot of time with and fully intend to see again. If I'm still trying to figure out if the other person is someone I even want in my life at all, we can go get coffee and then go to a museum or a movie or something else in that vein that they're into. If they want to call me cheap for that, fair enough - that's just another reason we wouldn't have gotten along in the first place.

PlanetSmasher: Spends $100's of dollars every single month buying every single brand new AAA game that comes out (before playing them badly, then complaining about it post after post)

Also PlanetSmasher: Whinges about spending $30+ on a once-in-a-lifetime date 

(Btw, PlanetSmasher, you should be grateful a girl is mentally ill enough to go on a date with you, let alone you having the audacity to 'figure out they are someone you want in your life')

[TacoWallace]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-hate-how-the-term-zionist-has-become-an-acceptable-slur-especially-on-social-media.816108/page-2?post=119056287#post-119056287

Really tackling the important issues here, western liberals. I'm sure we can brainstorm another term identifying the proponents of a genocidal settler colonial ideology that is sure to offend no one, least of all any advocates of that ideology making scurrilous accusations of antisemitism, while still maintaining firm opposition to the apartheid state.

Heeeeeey wait a goshdarn minute this whole thread about that is filled with apologetics for the apartheid state! Now I wonder why people so concerned about the optics of the term "zionist" are also posting about the hopelessness of the Palestinian cause of liberation and casting the domination of the apartheid regime as inevitable or immutable!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-hate-how-the-term-zionist-has-become-an-acceptable-slur-especially-on-social-media.816108/page-2?post=119057415#post-119057415

User banned (3 months): concern trolling around antisemitism over a series of posts

No really I'm sure there's another term we could use besides the present and historical one that advocates for the state of Israel have and continue to use to describe themselves and their cause of the establishment and defense of a religio-ethnic apartheid state

What about "Baddudes" because they're bad
or "Wrongers" because their cause is wrong

How dare people claim Nepenthe uses mod shields.

Speaking of mod shields, I just saw that Lobster Roll troll has a tag now.

In a world where no one else likes them, it couldn't have anything to do with their frequent friendliness towards Nepenthe...could it?

[nachobro]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/xbox-business-update-is-coming-feb-15th-on-the-xbox-video-podcast-feat-phil-spencer-sarah-bond-and-matt-booty-up-verge-details-potential-plans.816075/page-28?post=119055861#post-119055861

If they're derailing the conversation, feel free to report them.

Can I report this?

well you see that's not port begging, that's saying there should be a port day one. extremely different, especially when posted by a mod

All of the site guidelines and rules are in our FAQ

coward

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-hate-how-the-term-zionist-has-become-an-acceptable-slur-especially-on-social-media.816108/page-2?post=119058618#post-119058618

Having lived my entire life seeing the word "Zionist" exclusively used as a dog-whistle or an outright slur, it's been quite the shock to see it suddenly thrown around so freely, sometimes correctly but oftentimes not. It's made it really hard to discern whether people are arguing in good faith or just antisemites.

 

[benji]

All of the site guidelines and rules are in our FAQ

Are Nepenthe and Hecht aware of this?

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-hate-how-the-term-zionist-has-become-an-acceptable-slur-especially-on-social-media.816108/page-2?post=119058618#post-119058618

Having lived my entire life seeing the word "Zionist" exclusively used as a dog-whistle or an outright slur, it's been quite the shock to see it suddenly thrown around so freely, sometimes correctly but oftentimes not. It's made it really hard to discern whether people are arguing in good faith or just antisemites.

 

What's the difference between anti-Semitism and racism?

Why don't people just call anti-Semitism exactly what it is?

Would solve a lot of the confusion the leftists have with their language.

[benji]

What's the difference between anti-Semitism and racism?

Why don't people just call anti-Semitism exactly what it is?

Would solve a lot of the confusion the leftists have with their language.

They would have to reject a key "tenant" regarding "race" that dates to late 1800s white supremacists. And they can't, it's too central to their world view.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Words change, okay? Just like race does. Jews are WHITE now, bigot.

[Polident]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-hate-how-the-term-zionist-has-become-an-acceptable-slur-especially-on-social-media.816108/page-2?post=119058618#post-119058618

Having lived my entire life seeing the word "Zionist" exclusively used as a dog-whistle or an outright slur, it's been quite the shock to see it suddenly thrown around so freely, sometimes correctly but oftentimes not. It's made it really hard to discern whether people are arguing in good faith or just antisemites.

 

They don’t get it. When zionist was used by fascist antisemites, it was over the belief jews control and influence the world and media and should be eradicated. When zionist is used by decent f**king persons, it’s over the belief jews control and influence the world and media and should be eradicated.

[Uncle]

me googling to see if the thing I just made up is real:



bitch that's just asexuality 

Okay, we clearly have too much prosperity. Bring back hunger.

I'm hungry

I had an important meeting so I didn't eat lunch so I wouldn't have to get up and go poo in the middle of it

[Uncle]

[benji]

Real kings shit their pants.

[Uncle]

https://www.crazygames.com/game/dont-shit-your-pants

[Uncle]

[benji]

The guys who did Don't Shit Your Pants are the ones who do the sweet Rogue Legacy games.

First one is currently on sale for $3:

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

B-dubs closed the Zionist thread because Richter1887 was starting to dig their own grave. 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jon-stewart-returns-to-daily-show-as-monday-host-from-feb-12-through-the-election-cycle-will-be-executive-producer.808860/page-7?post=119069688#post-119069688

20 minutes of centralism, soft-balling Trump's fascistic rhetoric in the process, and deflecting criticisms by lampshading that Stewart too is old makes me glad that I've not paid attention to this man in over a decade; for someone twenty years younger than either candidate, he's not much more astute. But whereas Biden's mental limitations are partially the rigors of aging, Stewart's blindspots are systemic privilege and willful ignorance. The glibness with which he points out that the country won't end after the election completely misses the point.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

So Jon is bad now? 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jon-stewart-returns-to-daily-show-as-monday-host-from-feb-12-through-the-election-cycle-will-be-executive-producer.808860/page-7?post=119069853#post-119069853

Musky liked it so it has the blessing of the alt-right.

Don't really need more proof than that that Jon's return tonight was awful.

[benji]

I always have never trusted Jon Stewart and his refusal to refrain from criticizing a man leading a brutal genocide of all Muslims on behalf of the collective nation of Jewish people proves I was right about him just like I was about Tara Strong and Mr. Beast. You can't trust these people because they'll always sell out to the fascists to get genocide just like they did in Germany in the 1930's when it wasn't as far into the stages of genocide as we are. It's more than far enough for those of us who deserve a dignified existence to be lectured by these people and what we need now is a final solution.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Maybe he'll invite Chappelle on next to discuss trans rights

That's actually a pretty good idea. 

[benji]

Maybe he'll invite Chappelle on next to discuss trans rights

Oh yeah, definitely can see that as the next part of his centrist plan:

Outstanding Variety or Talk Show Episode
“The War Over Gender” The Problem with Jon Stewart (Apple TV+) – WINNER

It is, honestly, the kind of thing we’ve been hoping to see from Problem ever since its first season debuted back in September 2021: Stewart at his best, calmly disassembling every false justification that Rutledge presents for her backing of laws that cut off trans Arkansas kids from access to gender-affirming healthcare. He cites facts and figures, pushes back on empty buzzwords, and just generally forces her to say the quiet parts loud. It’s a clear example of Stewart using his platform, and his privilege, to force Rutledge to face the statements that the trans people hurt by her policies have been making for years, in a way that brings some of that Apple-backed visibility to the issues, and the lies so frequently told about them.

Apple—clearly sensing a moment—already widely disseminated a beefy chunk of the interview online this weekend. But it’s also made sure that the entire episode—titled “The War Over Gender”—is available, for free, to anybody with an Apple account, regardless of whether you have an Apple TV+ subscription or not. That includes the additional conversations that Stewart had with parents of trans kids, trans attorney Chase Strangio, and an endocrinologist to lay out the facts and realities of trans life in America—as well as the moment where Stewart called out his own tendency, readily apparent in old Daily Show clips, of using trans people as an easy and reductive punchline. (No reconsiderations or re-evaluations of his full-throated defense of his old pal Dave Chappelle, though.)

Jon Stewart's The War On Gender Stands Up For Trans Kids In Ways The Mainstream Never Has Before
...
Things aren’t getting any better, so any and all support from those outside of our circles is essential. But even that is rare, with comedians and corporations seeing us as quick punchlines or expendable pieces of representation with a clear capitalist incentive behind acknowledging us in the first place. I am very tired, but Jon Stewart has given me hope.

The Problem With Jon Stewart’s latest episode went hard on the gender debate currently dominating the sociopolitical landscape. The War on Gender tears apart any and all arguments aimed at transgender women dominating sports, anti-trans legislation emerging in myriad states eager to take healthcare options away from trans youth, and the generally outdated view we as a society have on sex and gender as constructs.

The simple fact that Stewart decided to dedicate his show’s Season 2 premiere to the topic—and acknowledge that he has historically been part of the problem—is commendable. And it stands in sharp contrast to his good friend Dave Chappelle, who has only doubled down on his anti-trans material since first coming under fire for targeting that community in his 2021 Netflix special The Closer.

Amid the controversy surrounding Chappelle last fall, Stewart openly defended the comedian as a “good” and “decent” man who did not intend to hurt anyone with his words. “I know his intention is never hurtful,” Stewart said at the time. “He’s just not that kind of person.”

One can argue whether or not Chappelle’s intention should even matter in that case, but Stewart’s objective and the impact of his new episode are fairly clear. By rejecting his own transphobia and actively educating himself on the topic, he is demonstrating that stubbornly refusing to evolve in the name of “free speech” is not the only answer.

[AldusMoneyPenny]

It's like You Don't Mess With The Zohan was never made

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tried-to-kill-myself-a-month-ago-still-trying-to-find-reasons-to-keep-living.816300/

Didn't try very hard

[Uncle]

Didn't try very hard

[kaleidoscopium]

Latest overreaction to Covid protocols being rolled back thread 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/february-13-2024-wapo-u-s-cdc-plans-to-drop-five-day-covid-isolation-guidelines.816303/

[nachobro]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tried-to-kill-myself-a-month-ago-still-trying-to-find-reasons-to-keep-living.816300/

Didn't try very hard

Back in 2018 I put a gun to my head and was about to pull the trigger.

The only thing that stopped me is that I might as well tough it out a bit more to play Devil May Cry 5 and Sekiro before I go out.

 
https://www.resetera.com/threads/tried-to-kill-myself-a-month-ago-still-trying-to-find-reasons-to-keep-living.816300/post-119077830

very sad subject but this line really got me laughing

[Jansen]

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[NekoFever]