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[benji]

STAFF COMMUNICATION

Make your copies of Home Alone 2 Trump-free: https://avidemux.sourceforge.net/

But this won't report that I watched it to the company.

[Potato]

STAFF COMMUNICATION

Make your copies of Home Alone 2 Trump-free: https://avidemux.sourceforge.net/

But this won't report that I watched it to the company.

How will Disney ever greenlight Home Alone 7 if we don't watch Home Alone 2: Lost in New York on Disney+ and leave it running in the background (but obviously skip the Trump scene)?

It's up to you people. Don't complain when they cancel the franchise.

[benji]

There's so much pressure on us these days to make sure we're always skipping the Trump scene while repeatedly streaming Home Alone 2 so they know specifically that we don't want that.

[kaleidoscopium]

Why do the suits think a directors cut of the scar boy game is a good next step? Lmao

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jason-schreier-behind-‘suicide-squad-’-the-year’s-biggest-video-game-flop.891039/page-7?post=124026327#post-124026327

[Boredfrom]

Has any media with the Suicide Squad IP been successful?

Yeah, the OG film you dumbass.

[Garfield]

OK, let's break this down.

1. Quitting a "job" where you don't get paid is not hard. You just walk away. It's not a job.
   
2. If you have a moral objection to an organisation where you are giving your time for free, you aren't obligated to finish the work you were given to do. It's not a job. You're not being paid.
   
3. Newsflash. It's not hard to get a "job" at a publication that doesn't pay, BECAUSE IT'S NOT A FUCKING JOB YOU IDIOT!!!!!!
   
4. You paid to go to the Elden Ring event in Paris with your own money and produced work for free which a company profitted from. It's not a privilege.
   
5. Against everything that you said about "It's not a "for exposure" kinda deal so whatever." It actually IS a "for exposure" kind of deal because you're NOT BEING FUCKING PAID!!!!!!
   

These people are morons. Just mentally incompetent.

Saddest thing is this ree guy is probably at least 30 

[Boredfrom]

I really hope the X-Men MCU film bombs hard, just to kill their Marvel Elitism forever and the world can move on. I fucking hate modern superhero fans dick measuring competition and comic fan enablers like Slayven.

[Boredfrom]

It's racism. Some of its general "look at that black beast" straight racism. Some of its closeted racism, "I thought Will would never stoop to lows like those other ones" and some of its the paternal "how could he not know violence is wrong, no matter what I would never ever do that because I am 100% rational unlike that boy."
Brad Pitt is out here, allegedly, with a reputation for beating his kids and wife while still getting glazed in the press.

Did Brad Pitt beat his kids in National television? 

You guys realize how shit do you look when you justify violence as “race related issue”? 

Again, you guys loved to mock Will Smith as the whitest black man on earth until the Oscar incident.

[Orange Juice Box]

Disney, Leftist, Star Wars Furries.  Those are the worst kind.  

[Polident]

Is Will Smith not getting supported by the press? As I understand it, the context here is being on hot ones, promoting Bad Boys 4, and the host can’t ask any questions that anybody cares about. Not even if he or Bradley Cooper is the catcher.

[benji]

It's racism. Some of its general "look at that black beast" straight racism. Some of its closeted racism, "I thought Will would never stoop to lows like those other ones" and some of its the paternal "how could he not know violence is wrong, no matter what I would never ever do that because I am 100% rational unlike that boy."

I think it's pretty fucking racist to say that last one is racist.

[benji]

I'm amazed at how transparent they are all the time. They think "talk shit, get hit" is some Black code, so criticizing it is racism against Black people. No, it's because you're a bunch of wannabe mob violence leaders who think blood feuds are awesome. You want to ward off criticism of Will Smith because you want violence to be normalized. (As long as you're the one doing the violence.)

[Orange Juice Box]

Is Will Smith not getting supported by the press? As I understand it, the context here is being on hot ones, promoting Bad Boys 4, and the host can’t ask any questions that anybody cares about. Not even if he or Bradley Cooper is the catcher.

Hot Ones threads are pretty common on Era.  They normally just joke about the host and rib them for something they did 10 years ago and that's it.  But in the issue of "the slap," Era mods need to step in to remind people that "The Slap," is only news because of white people.  

Black people NEVER talk about "the slap," when it comes up.  They all agree with the worldly black leftists of Resetera.  When you are with black people who think "the slap," was a moment to joke about, well sir,  those black people were "those kind."

[Hap Shaughnessy]

The funniest part was Will laughing at first and then looking over at Jada and the expression on his face when he realized he fucked up big time.

 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-many-years-of-your-life-have-you-lost.892161/?post=124034184#post-124034184

Let's see, was a shut in for over ten years after a divorce were I had given up on life, now going in year four with someone that was my dream girl, just for her to turn into a hardcore drug addict. I'm 38 and almost it seems half my life was waisted.

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/found-out-my-partner-has-been-cheating%E2%80%A6.662293/page-15?post=99974020#post-99974020

I find myself in spot similar but also different, no cheating that I'm await of, but my significant other hid massive drug use from me for several years. It's really hard trying to learn to trust the person again. Some days are harder than others, the drug use is still on going, but she has stopped lying about it and gaslighting me. Good for you for working on you're self in such a traumatic time in you're life, and while others on this forum clearly disagree with you sticking with her, I applaud you on it. I truly hope it works out for both of you, my personal experience is people throw around the words I love you and really most of the time don't mean it at all…. I see a lot, and in my situation heard a lot of I would leave her etc. cheating, lying to a spouse, these are major issues. people, if they want to can change, some people are damaged, they do messed up stuff and hurt people they truly love. My advice to people that are thinking wow dude fuck her get a divorce, that's fine for most people, also why longterm "Real" relationships are dwindling at least in the United States, I can't speak for other countries. I don't know if you're SO will do what needs to be done to help heal the damage she has done, but I hope so, the fact you still love her, still want to be with her. Not a lot of us left that when we marry someone, or say we Want to be with some one forever etc. really suck it up and do it even when things are at there roughest moments. Truly my hats off to you sir!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/anyone-deal-with-a-bipolar-spouse.807291/?post=117849735#post-117849735

I can't speak on you're situation, there all different, but I was married to some one for four years that was rapid cycling bi-polar as well as possible many other things, it's completely destroyed my life. Been divorced from her for now about thirteen years and still I'm a shell of who I would have been if I did not meet her, the non stop lies… she lied about everything, like even what did you cook for dinner? And the first word out of her mouth would be a lie, then she would answer again and tell the truth. Like almost like she could not help it but to lie… my mom is still in contact with her, I'm not I have moved on and have a family now, I here she as she got older made a lot of progress and I'm really happy for her, but I will NEVER date some one that is bi polar again, I'm sure not all are but the few people i have met in life that struggled with that horrible illness were non stop drama all the time, like they craved it. I have heard there is good medical treatment for the disease now, and I wish the best for anyone that struggles with the disorder, Just not something I will ever allow into my life again.

[Averon]

It's racism. Some of its general "look at that black beast" straight racism. Some of its closeted racism, "I thought Will would never stoop to lows like those other ones" and some of its the paternal "how could he not know violence is wrong, no matter what I would never ever do that because I am 100% rational unlike that boy."
Brad Pitt is out here, allegedly, with a reputation for beating his kids and wife while still getting glazed in the press.

Did Brad Pitt beat his kids in National television? 

You guys realize how shit do you look when you justify violence as “race related issue”? 

Again, you guys loved to mock Will Smith as the whitest black man on earth until the Oscar incident.

ERA were also pretty damn supportive of the slap, if I remember correctly. Pretty sure more than a few were banned in the initial thread for arguing that going up on national TV to assault someone was a bad look. Now suddenly bringing up the slap you all cheered on is racism

[benji]

Black people NEVER talk about "the slap," when it comes up.  They all agree with the worldly black leftists of Resetera.  When you are with black people who think "the slap," was a moment to joke about, well sir,  those black people were "those kind."

And Black people have always thought Chris Rock was an Uncle Tom for being most popular with white people. Will represents the more authentic Black experience that makes whites and Chris Rock uncomfortable.

[benji]

ERA were also pretty damn supportive of the slap, if I remember correctly. Pretty sure more than a few were banned in the initial thread for arguing that going up on national TV to assault someone was a bad look. Now suddenly bringing up the slap you all cheered on is racism

It's exactly like Star Wars, the chuds only bring it up in bad faith. Nobody else cares about it because they know it's a good thing. This is just a pattern of white people wanting to suppress Blackness.

[Echelon]

I don't care that Will Smith slapped Chris Rock. He should've punched Chris Rock because it's Chris Rock and he could do with using his mouth less. What I found utterly disgusting about Will Smith's behavior is that he defended the honor of a conniving whore like the pathetic cuck that he is.

[Averon]

Chris Rock made, like, two jokes about Jada Smith over a 20 year period and ERA somehow worked that into Chris Rock being an "abusive, obsessed incel" toward Jada Smith that stalked her. Just something they completely made up in their heads to justify their approval of Will Smith assaulting Rock, and they echoed and defended that take as if it was the absolute truth.

Just imagined alternative facts from the ether to defend their beliefs. How is that any different from what the "MAGA chuds" they love to hate do?

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/father-of-baraboo-high-school-graduate-blocks-superintendent-from-shaking-daughters-hand.890907/post-124001802

Okay, so I didn't think we would have to issue bans in a thread about a racist. Like, I had a potentially naive hope that Era could navigate that discussion without issue until I woke up this morning. But I feel it's important enough in this instance to explain why we did so.

Simply put, Black suffering is expected. It is not just made invisible or downplayed; we collectively expect Black people to physically and psychologically suffer in all manner of ways, and we host this expectation without any regard for the possibility of Black people fighting back. Look at the innumerable conflicts and genocides in African communities and diasporas we do not actually talk about compared to other countries and communities. Look at the ways in which we reflexively appeal to pacificism when Black people are attacked.

You may ask, well why do we do this? It is because Black suffering is a significant material basis for the way in which our society functions. The US and Western Europe, and you could make the argument current world affairs as a whole, literally cannot exist as they do today if it is not on the back of centuries of brutal suffering and exploitation of the African peoples. And from this material basis emerges centuries of cultural justifications for it: rampant dehumanization, myths about our pain tolerance, or even just an inability to give a damn or becoming numb to seeing it over and over again.

So, in a conversation where someone rightfully points out that the only person in this situation who actually got hands put on them is a Black man, that while the white girl has endured emotional suffering, the Black man has endured both the physical and the emotional trauma of the moment...why would you get mad at that? What is it in you that is offended when someone points out that the Black person was the biggest victim in a given situation, and that his pain has been collectively overlooked? Why was it overlooked? Would you have overlooked it if it was another minority?

I have made no bones about how I feel about the political inclinations of this forum, but this is a moment to lay them bare: Era has light years to go when it comes to just seeing Black people as people worthy of protection from violence, as people who do not deserve to have to take violence from white people "with grace and dignity" by just not doing anything about it because that disturbs the status quo, to fundamentally understand that Black people's suffering is- unlike most other groups- uniquely and fundamentally paramount to the maintenence of Western supremacy, and that there are long conversations about the contradictions that exist to be had if you in any way consider yourself an anti-racist ally.

Sorry. You don't and never will have any ground to stand on to get in your feelings that someone pointed out that you had more sympathy for a white girl who was embarrassed than a Black man who was physically assaulted. Not until this system is broken. Take this time to do some questioning and introspection.

Why would Nep ever change when you got pathetic suck ups like this:

People don't seem to understand that oppression (and to a very large degree, prejudice) is fundamentally social. As you've said, when black people's suffering is treated as "just a thing that happens" by the people in the situation, the police, the newscasters that report on the event, the people in a forum... The more people that treat a thing as normal, unimportant, expected, the more it persists.

Bringing up the "conflicts and genocides" purely as an opening to bitching about her personal obsessions with whites and "Western supremacy" (like Lucio, furries, Sonic, all her interests, her entire life, etc.) while everyone talks about the normalization of Black suffering. Just beautiful work.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-many-years-of-your-life-have-you-lost.892161/

Sorry for the negative topic. Going through a current life decision that may invalidate the last year and a half of my life and it's making me wonder if anyone ever felt the same.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/its-impossible-to-get-an-it-job-without-experience.892170/

My best friend has veen struggling for two years to get into an IT job and he hasn't found ANYTHING

For context, he is a computer science major looking into pivoting in Technical Writing. He has reworked his resume top-to-bottom millions of times, constantly asking for advice from other people in the same field and he still only gets a handful of interviews at most that always end on radio silence or rejections.

The worst thing is that I have seen his mental health greatly deteriorate over these two years, he still tries to apply to jobs every day but the job grind is killing him. He even finally tied to apply to shit jobs outside his field, like retail ones, after I insisted him about it for months, but he is finding out most of them tell him he is too overqualified for them. He is doing a TW certification now but he is really fucking depressed about life after two years of nothing.

I have always been baffled its taking him this long to get a job in the field. I worry him being black and gay is somehow dropping his chances drastically when it comes to interviews. Does anyone have any tips ot help? I am really starting to worry for him.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/movies-that-have-aged-horribly.890904/page-7?post=124034580#post-124034580

Sleepaway Camp is the opposite of this thread, it's aged beautifully and the only way it got made in the 80s was because it flew way over everybody's heads. "Angela" is driven mad because he's a boy being forced to live as a girl, and the other campers and counselors are grotesque parodies of "gender roles" (every male is dumb and aggressive, every female is catty and stuck up).

Angela's the villain, but there's such a thing as sympathetic villain - most people have sympathy for Mrs. Voorhees having had her son drown in Friday the 13th, for instance.

Sleepaway Camp is pro-trans, full-stop.

[benji]

No doubt in my mind that her only ethical system is "the pendulum needs to swing in the other direction now".

Because I like tormenting you all, I want to illustrate that you can actually see that this is the fundamental component of her entire world view. And we can start with the above rant where she said something she's said many times:

It is because Black suffering is a significant material basis for the way in which our society functions. The US and Western Europe, and you could make the argument current world affairs as a whole, literally cannot exist as they do today if it is not on the back of centuries of brutal suffering and exploitation of the African peoples.

From this myth stems all her conclusions and arguments:
1. That Black "money" must have been stolen and never returned, why else would they be generally poorer than whites? How else would "Black suffering" be the "significant material basis" for any society?
2. That Black "culture" (aka late 20th Century popular African American culture) must be superior to all others, why else would it not be equally suppressed and stolen by whites? It endures despite the whites, indicating the "material basis" for that stolen Black "money" that creates white wealth.
3. Since all of our current lives "literally cannot exist" without this continuing a fundamental global change to all life must happen.

She won't say it because even she knows it's absurd to say on a forum she has complete dominance over but the logical conclusion from her premises and prior conclusions (that become our new premises) is:
1. That Black people need to use violence to globally suppress whites and eliminate "white culture" (whatever this means) completely by forcibly subjugating white people for at least 400 years as a slave labor caste for Blacks.

When it comes to Nepenthe, "white replacement theory" or "white genocide" isn't a fringe conspiracy theory it's the more peaceful and less extreme version of her actual position. Her greatest wish is a brutal global race war.

All because she believes others are burdened with the duty of providing her a "dignified life" simply because she exists and yet this isn't happening so the whites must be deliberately preventing it because she's Black. (And also because she's a Young Earth Creationist but doesn't realize it.)

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/movies-that-have-aged-horribly.890904/page-7?post=124034580#post-124034580

Sleepaway Camp is the opposite of this thread, it's aged beautifully and the only way it got made in the 80s was because it flew way over everybody's heads. "Angela" is driven mad because he's a boy being forced to live as a girl, and the other campers and counselors are grotesque parodies of "gender roles" (every male is dumb and aggressive, every female is catty and stuck up).

Angela's the villain, but there's such a thing as sympathetic villain - most people have sympathy for Mrs. Voorhees having had her son drown in Friday the 13th, for instance.

Sleepaway Camp is pro-trans, full-stop.

How is that ProTrans? Angela was a biological male forced to be a girl, not a biological girl with gender dysphoria that is forced to be a girl.

[Nintex]

Editing media criticism aside, Trump was a celebrity figure in 1992 and represented New York of its time. Like many boys with access to premium cable, I watched Sex and the City a couple times. The main love interest was described as like Trump, and it was seen as desirable. Cultural context is relevant. Likewise, you have to deal with Giuliani when watching 2003’s Anger Management. A lesser spoke about consequence of 9/11.

Trump was always a good sport when directors wanted to use his buildings as sets or him to play a role and a big fan of Hollywood in general. It's why he got so many invitations for these kind of things.

[Polident]

Chris Rock made, like, two jokes about Jada Smith over a 20 year period and ERA somehow worked that into Chris Rock being an "abusive, obsessed incel" toward Jada Smith that stalked her. Just something they completely made up in their heads to justify their approval of Will Smith assaulting Rock, and they echoed and defended that take as if it was the absolute truth.

Just imagined alternative facts from the ether to defend their beliefs. How is that any different from what the "MAGA chuds" they love to hate do?

There was a fun development when Marlon Waynes (White Chicks, Requiem for Dream) had a comedy special making fun of Chris Rock. At least in an out of context clip spread around Twitter. People rallied around him briefly. But in the full special he made fun of everybody. He said Chris Rock was too kind to Jada with the GI Jane joke. That he should’ve gone with Gollum.

[Besticus Maximus]

It's all so arbitrary and bollocks and more evidence of their slavish, feudal attitudes towards their intellectual property enjoyments of times past.

I don't even understand how they've landed on the fact that Chris Rock is more popular with the chuds. Will Smith is a galaxy class wrongun and nothing he has ever said or done lends itself to the idea that he is an 'ally'.

[Snoopy]

Sunday, Monday,

I honestly feel like my entire life is a waste. Sorry, I don't have anything more positive to say.

Happy days,

Tuesday, Wednesday,

all of it

Happy days,

Thursday, Friday,

Most of them

Happy days,

Saturday

Since i was born.

What a day,

Rockin' all week for you

[Eric Cartman]

clicky

A light slap on the cheek isn't exactly 'violent'.

but also, words are literal violence and there is an actual trans genocide happening