Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[Propagandhim]

Banning me from the bore is like segregated bathrooms don't you fuckin dare bitch

[benji]

Neighborhood Pod Journal: Week Three

The old TERF bitch up the road keeps misgendering me and only wants me to fill her bird feeders instead of discussing theory for police abolition. Across the street from her the fascist phobes keep asking me not to wear my matted furry suit out when talking to their children about the crimes of the collective nation of Jewish people and especially to stop showing them genocide victims on my phone, this is exactly what Zionists don't want them to see or know about. Overall the neighborhood continues to not grapple with its internalized whiteness so there's been no progress on organizing a move to an impoverished crime-ridden region of Brazil. It's not all negative, one of the neighbors suggested a rock-and-gravel free non-racist butcher to my mother; although mom stubbornly continues to frequent the corporate supermarket nearby and then wash our meat rather than making the trip for solidarity. It's in doing this kind of organizing work on the ground that you can see just how tough of cookie intersectionality is to crack.

[Propagandhim]

[Snoopy]

You're not going to see a lot of coalition building from liberals and mainstream outlets beyond capitulation to the right because they fundamentally believe minorities and the far-left threw the election instead of the whites who almost always cede to conservativism and voted Republican.

But the contradictions within the Democratic Party have been laid bare. I think there's a lot of fire in folks right now, and there is a prime opening to start organizing in any way we can. Start a neighborhood pod (like I plan on doing) , start taking those self-defense classes, and above all else get invested in your local politics. Start bolstering your community against the nonsense.

In the suburbs?! 

What an hero.

Nep is a shit version of Me Myself and Irene. There's the person she desperately tries to portray herself as: A friend to the community who spends her days helping the poor and needy. Then there's the real version: A bitter racist cop.

[Nintex]

Good Morning Podders!!

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Still need to listen to the new album. I can see the idiot forum listening to a song like this and not getting the message behind it in the slightest. Media literacy is near zero there.

Some Megan Thee Stallion for you top of the page heathens

wait thi sis meghan?

[Eric Cartman]

???

spill the tea, sister

Just the fact shes been saying I wasnt fired, I wasnt fired, as she slowly shrank and transformed into a corn cob only to eventually reveal, uh, yeah she absolutely was, and is career fucked right now. Its exactly the kind of thing era usually pounces on with a "LOOK WHAT THE CHUDS / TRUMP / JKR / MUSK HAS DONE NOW" type thread.

Its also starting to become a pattern that some female games journo Frosks their career live on camera while their so called colleagues stand around cheering and go off queening, then do fuck all to get them rehired where they work when they inevitably get canned

[Eric Cartman]

I hope so. This stuff has reached a point in Germany where it's legit disgusting 

We now have things called non-crime hate incidents that are not crimes but the police will log, investigate, interrogate, and possibly apprehend you for, but as uncrimes not say what you are being not-arrested for, why, or on whose accusation

[Eric Cartman]

I'm starting to think sourcing all staff positions from your Discord clique based on what demographic groups they fall into may not be the best model for building a competent staff.

hey now, his proposed cabinet is still going through senate oversight, its too early to say that for sure just yet

[Eric Cartman]

Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Pod
1. Start building a team
Find a buddy or two (if you can) to build your neighborhood pod.
● A buddy helps make the work feel less overwhelming — you can plan things together
● A buddy keeps you accountable to each other
● A buddy may have relationships and know resources you don’t
Start by identifying someone in your building or block, and text/call them to ask them to be your partner
in building a neighborhood network. (Just because you are the person starting the outreach process does
not mean that you will be the Neighborhood Point Person or that you have to do this all by yourself.)

2. Define & map your zone
Pods tend to work better when they are small, 5-30 people – but please do what works best for your
neighborhood. If there are more than 30 neighbors interested, you can ask if anyone else in the group
wants to be a PPP and break off into their own pod.
Whatever you decide, map it out. If it’s your street, walk around and write down all the house numbers. Be
thorough and check side roads that you might not have been down before. We do this so that once we
start contacting neighbors, we can make sure we don’t leave anyone behind!

3. Review all safety guidelines
We’ve got two aims that we’re trying to balance:
1. Making sure everyone (especially the most vulnerable) is supported in their community, and that
support carries on throughout the outbreak and after.
2. Trying to minimize contact and adhere to rigorous and agreed-upon safety protocols to minimize
the risk of spreading the virus while we’re supporting each other.
Safety protocols for various aspects of mutual aid support have been compiled in this pamphlet, like
how to deliver groceries and collect items from someone who is self-isolating, how to disinfect items, how
to properly remove gloves, etc.
As PPP you should read and familiarize yourself with these protocols and ensure agreements and
understanding around them within your pod. Any questions should be posted to the PPP Slack Channel
and we will all try our best to use collective wisdom and resources to answer them

4. Make a plan
a. Name your group — it can be something fun!
b. Decide how you’ll communicate with your neighbors. You have a couple options:
i. Make a group text or social media chat if everyone is comfortable with it (WhatsApp,
Signal, Facebook, SMS, Telegram, etc.)
ii. If most people can do text but some can only talk by phone, assign people to be
responsible for calling those people to update them.
iii. If most people are only comfortable talking by phone, set up a phone tree.
c. Decide who will do outreach, what information you need to gather, and how you will keep track
of it.
d. If you have not already done so, please fill out our Neighborhood Pod intake form here.

5. Invite your neighbors
Be ready to start fielding requests pretty quickly. Be willing to ask potential members if they have the
capacity to help you coordinate the pod and what skills they can contribute
a. Contact as many people as you can over the phone
This is to limit transmission. Introduce yourself as a neighbor, be really friendly and explain you’re
just here to help and ask them the questions on your questionnaire. And ask if they have any of their
other neighbors numbers so you can call them too!
b. Fill in the gaps by flyering
For anyone who is unreachable by other means, flyer their houses. You can use this flyer template
available in English and Spanish (make a copy of it to edit), or create your own. *It is illegal to put
things in other people’s mailboxes: try the crack of their door, between screen door and main door,
etc.
***Please follow safety guidelines to ensure you stay safe and do not spread the virus*****

6. Have a conversation
Your pod will only be as strong and resilient as your relationships, so it’s important to set up some
introductory conversations. Set some community agreements, for example, treating each other with
respect and assuming the best intentions. You also want to get a sense of what each person needs, and
what each person can do to help. These are some questions to ask each other:
● What are your hobbies and interests?
● What languages do you speak?
● When are you generally working/busy and when are you generally available?
● How regularly do you want to check in?
● What is your living situation like and who else lives with you?
● Who are your emergency contacts?
● What resources, skills or knowledge do you have that you could share with the pod or help others
with?
● What are your needs? What are you afraid of losing? What do you need help with?
● Do you have any important health info about yourself you want to share with me? For example,
do you have regular prescriptions or appointments you need to maintain?
● What will be your primary concerns if the pandemic lasts two months or longer?
You might find that it takes multiple conversations with each other before people feel
comfortable discussing the last few questions. That’s okay! Building relationships and trust is
what this is all about, and how we make sure we can continue to support each other after the
pandemic.

7. Support each other
○ Make sure someone is sending a message to the pod at least every few days and remind folks to
check in with their neighbors. This is a tough time and folks might have a hard time admitting
when they are struggling.
○ Organize to support needs as they arise. Some needs may be met within pods, some may require
connecting with other pods or local organizations or organizing as a broader community.
○ As information and resources become available through the network let folks in your pod know.
Have a weekly “sound-off:” ask neighbors on the thread to submit a word or emoji about how
they’re doing. If someone submitted an indicator that they’re struggling, or did not respond at all,
check in individually.
○ Even though this pod model is arising out of crisis, not everything needs to focus solely on
survival. For example, your pod could have:
■ Weekly sound-offs
■ Weekly calls
■ Art, game, or movie calls
■ Morning coffee
■ Safe outdoor recreation activities
■ Etc

[Eric Cartman]

Still need to listen to the new album. I can see the idiot forum listening to a song like this and not getting the message behind it in the slightest. Media literacy is near zero there.

Some Megan Thee Stallion for you top of the page heathens

wait thi sis meghan?

megan thee stallion is good actually

[jooseloose]

Cunty screaming into the void in constructive

Not a fan of finger wagging and tone policing from cis people to trans people about Sarah McBride statement.

That's rich coming from the cunt that finger wags and tone polices an entire forum to the point where they successfully had discussion of one of the biggest entertainment franchises of all time banned.

[DavidCroquet]

The intersectionality brain worn:

And on a personal level, if the right were advocating for segregated bathrooms for white people and colored people and the colored person I helped get into office agreed to go along with that, yes, I'd be fucking FURIOUS.

"Agreed to go along" implies they have a say in whether or not it's done.

“I’d be FURIOUS”….at the white people, right???

No one tell this poster about the first half of the 20th century. Is this Nepenthe, or Uncle Ruckus?

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

No way she's doing any of this with white people.

To be fair, there was no way she was doing any of that with black people.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

This fucking cunt:

You don't have to say that because that's what marginalized folk live through. It is what happens. It is the default. It is the norm. It is exactly the premise of thought that leads to Denzel's answer and how people can be surprised that when he responds the way he does.  He's a Black American. Why would he think about this?

/i/ have to vocalize it to point that out. I don't get to move through school reading about my history. I don't get to read about my empires. I don't get to read about where I came from and how my ancestry  contributed to greek and roman empires, even though Africa had huge influence over greek thought and philosophy.

I never even said that non-white folk can't be interested. I said CENTER. You are showing immense fragility, and you should think on that.

I certainly get your point about African history, to be fair though the character he plays would be incredibly important figure in a proper accounting of African history(in western education) along with Severus being one of handful of African emperors of Rome.

Feel free to call me fragile all you want but I know we have non white and non male history nerds here and I didn't appreciate them being done like that. I can also recognize you didn't start that discourse.

Spouts his usual whiny bullshit, gets called out on it, and resorts to "white fragility".

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

The latest gold trim mod liked post: https://www.resetera.com/threads/baldur%E2%80%99s-gate-3-has-sold-two-copies-in-vatican-city-the-world%E2%80%99s-smallest-country-with-764-residents.1035465/#post-131617251

If a bear has sex in the woods, does the Pope know about it?

This is the kind of quality discourse that resetera needs.

[Taco Bell Tower]

???

spill the tea, sister

Just the fact shes been saying I wasnt fired, I wasnt fired, as she slowly shrank and transformed into a corn cob only to eventually reveal, uh, yeah she absolutely was, and is career fucked right now. Its exactly the kind of thing era usually pounces on with a "LOOK WHAT THE CHUDS / TRUMP / JKR / MUSK HAS DONE NOW" type thread.

Its also starting to become a pattern that some female games journo Frosks their career live on camera while their so called colleagues stand around cheering and go off queening, then do fuck all to get them rehired where they work when they inevitably get canned

Oh! I have posted about that since other people from Kotaku got fired the same day she claimed she quit Kotaku.

[HaughtyFrank]

Forum that was widely outraged over Stellar Blade now declares the outrage to be fake

https://www.resetera.com/threads/video-shaun-stellar-blade-the-fake-outrage.1043739/

Messy you dumbass

[Propagandhim]

I don't get to read about where I came from and how my ancestry  contributed to greek and roman empires, even though Africa had huge influence over greek thought and philosophy.

Arguments about whether or not they're your ancestry aside, everyone fucking knows about the Greek-Egypt connection.  Nobody can be responsible for you sucking at school or getting a shitty education.  This is not like, clandestine information suppressed by the suits at Big Euro.

[kaleidoscopium]

Malds making $300 in the last few days on kofi is a thanksgiving miracle! Wonder what he spends it on, video games, gundam or hood burgers…

[DocWager]

Malds making $300 in the last few days on kofi is a thanksgiving miracle! Wonder what he spends it on, video games, gundam or hood burgers…

Survival

[Jansen]

Malds making $300 in the last few days on kofi is a thanksgiving miracle! Wonder what he spends it on, video games, gundam or hood burgers…

Melody will surely bless their family with a Thanksgiving feast for getting to live at home rent-free.

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

jk STALKER 2, gunpla, and japacrap

[Besticus Maximus]

History is the most important topic of all. And it’s telling that these backwards Luddite fuckwits treat their ignorance of it as a virtue.

[DocWager]

I feel like learning from your fellow folk, is way more important than learning from history.

“Ally” will be the word of 2025 that will absolutely be mocked more in the mainstream.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/americans-who-are-immigrants-in-europe-hows-it-going.1043703/

I've long had a desire to try to move to Europe, but it's always been this kind of "oh, wouldn't that be neat?" sensation that I could easily ignore. In the past year or so, however, it's really been actively nagging at me, to the point that I've gotten my girlfriend (we would get married before moving) on board with the idea (which wasn't that hard; she lived and worked in Ireland for awhile and loved it).

I want to get this out of the way and say that my reasons for wanting to move aren't political at all -- I'm a super-lefty, so obviously I think the state of American politics is reprehensible, but I'm under no impression that any country in the EU is some kind of leftist paradise (or even really "leftist" at all). I'll actually be the first to admit that our life in the US is objectively quite good and comfortable. The real reason I'd like to move abroad is that I've spent my entire life (nearly 40 years) in one tiny little corner of our great big planet, and I'd like to immerse myself in a different culture and lifestyle in a way that a two-week vacation simply can't achieve. I'd also like the ease of access to so many different cultures and languages that living in Europe allows for.

After talking with my girlfriend, our top three choices are the Netherlands (I've got some friends there, both American immigrants and Dutch natives), Scotland, and Ireland. For me, primarily because they all have English-speaking jobs; for my girlfriend, because she really loves Scotland and Ireland. France would also be nice, because I have extended family there, but even though I speak fairly good French, I'd need probably a year's worth of immersion and advanced study to attain a level of fluency suitable for the workplace, so I think it's probably out. If we ended up in the Netherlands, I'd throw myself hard into learning Dutch, obviously.

It's worth mentioning that I'm very aware that we can't just decide to move to Europe, get on a plane, and go. But between the two of us, I think one of us, given enough time, should be able to find a job that will sponsor a residency visa: I'm a very experienced software engineer, and she has a PhD and plenty of experience both teaching and doing administrative work at the university level. We'll also spend time visiting, of course; my girlfriend's already been to all three countries and lived in one, but I've only been to Scotland, from the list. We do not own a house, so the biggest things we'd have to sell are our car and grand piano.

I've tried to research this a lot on reddit, but I mostly see a lot of complaints that seem...I dunno, kinda whiny?...to me: like, for the Netherlands, "it rains a lot" comes up constantly, but we live in Philly, which has substantially higher average annual rainfall. "The food is bland and there's no good Tex-Mex" comes up a lot -- we almost exclusively do our own cooking, so probably not a big deal. The most consequential complaint I've seen is that social mobility is much slower in Europe.

Our American friends in the Netherlands absolutely love it and have said many times they will never come back for any reason, but I'd like a larger sample size. So, Americans AbroadEra -- how's it going? What's good/better? What's neutral? What's bad/worse? What's really bad? Do you regret your decision? Do you plan on returning to America? What were the logistical challenges of moving overseas? I want to know everything, hahaha.

He believes people left after Trump won 

[Uncle]

[Eric Cartman]

Forum that was widely outraged over Stellar Blade now declares the outrage to be fake

https://www.resetera.com/threads/video-shaun-stellar-blade-the-fake-outrage.1043739/

Messy you dumbass

                 gaslighting?
               /

[Eric Cartman]

History is the most important topic of all. And it’s telling that these backwards Luddite fuckwits treat their ignorance of it as a virtue.

[Eric Cartman]

Anakin was able to build a pod in the desert. With a box of scraps!

[DocWager]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/americans-who-are-immigrants-in-europe-hows-it-going.1043703/

I've long had a desire to try to move to Europe, but it's always been this kind of "oh, wouldn't that be neat?" sensation that I could easily ignore. In the past year or so, however, it's really been actively nagging at me, to the point that I've gotten my girlfriend (we would get married before moving) on board with the idea (which wasn't that hard; she lived and worked in Ireland for awhile and loved it).

I want to get this out of the way and say that my reasons for wanting to move aren't political at all -- I'm a super-lefty, so obviously I think the state of American politics is reprehensible, but I'm under no impression that any country in the EU is some kind of leftist paradise (or even really "leftist" at all). I'll actually be the first to admit that our life in the US is objectively quite good and comfortable. The real reason I'd like to move abroad is that I've spent my entire life (nearly 40 years) in one tiny little corner of our great big planet, and I'd like to immerse myself in a different culture and lifestyle in a way that a two-week vacation simply can't achieve. I'd also like the ease of access to so many different cultures and languages that living in Europe allows for.

After talking with my girlfriend, our top three choices are the Netherlands (I've got some friends there, both American immigrants and Dutch natives), Scotland, and Ireland. For me, primarily because they all have English-speaking jobs; for my girlfriend, because she really loves Scotland and Ireland. France would also be nice, because I have extended family there, but even though I speak fairly good French, I'd need probably a year's worth of immersion and advanced study to attain a level of fluency suitable for the workplace, so I think it's probably out. If we ended up in the Netherlands, I'd throw myself hard into learning Dutch, obviously.

It's worth mentioning that I'm very aware that we can't just decide to move to Europe, get on a plane, and go. But between the two of us, I think one of us, given enough time, should be able to find a job that will sponsor a residency visa: I'm a very experienced software engineer, and she has a PhD and plenty of experience both teaching and doing administrative work at the university level. We'll also spend time visiting, of course; my girlfriend's already been to all three countries and lived in one, but I've only been to Scotland, from the list. We do not own a house, so the biggest things we'd have to sell are our car and grand piano.

I've tried to research this a lot on reddit, but I mostly see a lot of complaints that seem...I dunno, kinda whiny?...to me: like, for the Netherlands, "it rains a lot" comes up constantly, but we live in Philly, which has substantially higher average annual rainfall. "The food is bland and there's no good Tex-Mex" comes up a lot -- we almost exclusively do our own cooking, so probably not a big deal. The most consequential complaint I've seen is that social mobility is much slower in Europe.

Our American friends in the Netherlands absolutely love it and have said many times they will never come back for any reason, but I'd like a larger sample size. So, Americans AbroadEra -- how's it going? What's good/better? What's neutral? What's bad/worse? What's really bad? Do you regret your decision? Do you plan on returning to America? What were the logistical challenges of moving overseas? I want to know everything, hahaha.

He believes people left after Trump won 

He’s so leftist that he wants to move to the whitest countries on the planet Earth?

Not many posts BTW for being up a few hours. I guess Era is tired of chiming in on another “American Escaping America” thread.