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

[Mask]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/who-is-the-tesla-demographic.1088052/page-2#post-134662758

User Banned (2 Weeks): Inflammatory generalization

White supremacists. Exclusively.

Surprised that got him a ban and not the sexist remarks from years ago.

Protected user, including his alts, for keeping the forum activity stats up for MOBA.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/local-wi-news-weather-station-cbs-58-has-dropped-weather-reporter-sam-kuffel-1-day-after-criticizing-elons-nazi-salute-on-social-media.1089258/

I wonder if the scramble to silence the Nazi salute talk is media scared of being sued like Trump sued ABC for millions and won. 

That is not funny but worrisome.

Agreed. Lil bro shouldn't have that much sway.

[PogiJones]

I am praying that someone on era will have had enough someday and stand up to nep eventually. She gets more sanctimonious by the day. I can't take it!!

Plenty have, and so she banned their RE accounts, and they went on with life as happier, healthier people.

[PogiJones]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/local-wi-news-weather-station-cbs-58-has-dropped-weather-reporter-sam-kuffel-1-day-after-criticizing-elons-nazi-salute-on-social-media.1089258/

I wonder if the scramble to silence the Nazi salute talk is media scared of being sued like Trump sued ABC for millions and won. 

That is not funny but worrisome.

The only funny part about it is how offended and indignant they get when cancel culture hits them, with no self-reflection whatsoever. Suddenly they abandon all their previous excuses for suppressing speech ("Free speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences!") and are now free speech advocates. But yes, the rest isn't funny.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-not-confident-in-gaza-ceasefire-expected-to-lift-us-suspension-of-2000-lb-bombs-to-israel-and-reverse-sanctions-on-west-bank-settlers.1087860/page-7#post-134698938

You are not obligated to vote for evil.

Are you implying that people who did vote, voted for evil? That comparison seems...inflammatory. It might be seen as antagonistic to other users. I wonder if this user has an extremely long history of the same? 

Is she implying Kamala is evil?  A black woman is evil?

[Snoopy]

I wish we could take the good people from ERA and start our own country.

 

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

The Gooner Social Republic of ResetEra.

[Potato]

I'm bored. This is boring.

Whats going on with the Dior Bags?

he comin for em

Looking back on this now, is it any wonder that Trump won bigly?

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

White man stealing from black women. Nothing's changed except white folx tactics to try and marginalize themselves.

[kaleidoscopium]

If you see a subreddit that doesn't have someone asking, I would recommend yourself doing so and making the post yourself.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sports-subreddits-lead-a-charge-to-ban-x-links-after-elon-musks-nazi-salute.1088235/page-20#post-134726988

Likely the cause for all these random subs asking for it, wonder how long until the rules are backtracked

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/local-wi-news-weather-station-cbs-58-has-dropped-weather-reporter-sam-kuffel-1-day-after-criticizing-elons-nazi-salute-on-social-media.1089258/

I wonder if the scramble to silence the Nazi salute talk is media scared of being sued like Trump sued ABC for millions and won. 

That is not funny but worrisome.

The only funny part about it is how offended and indignant they get when cancel culture hits them, with no self-reflection whatsoever. Suddenly they abandon all their previous excuses for suppressing speech ("Free speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences!") and are now free speech advocates. But yes, the rest isn't funny.

I generally feel "an eye for an eye leaves the world blind" but as far as simply watching the hypocrisy unfold in real time...yeah

for years people were losing jobs and opportunities over incredibly dumb shit like this, and anytime anyone said "uh let's maybe not go down this road and normalize life ruination over a couple words you might disagree with," they themselves would end up on the chopping block next

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sports-subreddits-lead-a-charge-to-ban-x-links-after-elon-musks-nazi-salute.1088235/page-20#post-134727768

All the while, Squaredcircle cowardly allows the links to continue. Saddened by my fav wrasslin sub.

Guess you're going to boycott that sub, right? Just like you're boycotting WWE if you haven't already? Right?

[HaughtyFrank]

R/Michigan banned it

To be clear, social media posts have always been banned here.

But we're extra banning Twitter since so many people have requested it.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sports-subreddits-lead-a-charge-to-ban-x-links-after-elon-musks-nazi-salute.1088235/post-134727843

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

All this faith in bluesky.   It really is the truth social to these people.

[kaleidoscopium]

All this faith in bluesky.   It really is the truth social to these people.

Waiting for the shoe to drop on that one, they never learn do they

[Taco Bell Tower]

R/Michigan banned it

To be clear, social media posts have always been banned here.

But we're extra banning Twitter since so many people have requested it.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sports-subreddits-lead-a-charge-to-ban-x-links-after-elon-musks-nazi-salute.1088235/post-134727843

But Reddit is social media 

[kaleidoscopium]

If I counted correctly via search, there were about 60 posts today with a x.com or twitter.com post in them, gonna be a wild whiplash when these people get modded without realizing it

[Boredfrom]

That is not funny but worrisome.

The only funny part about it is how offended and indignant they get when cancel culture hits them, with no self-reflection whatsoever. Suddenly they abandon all their previous excuses for suppressing speech ("Free speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences!") and are now free speech advocates. But yes, the rest isn't funny.

I generally feel "an eye for an eye leaves the world blind" but as far as simply watching the hypocrisy unfold in real time...yeah

for years people were losing jobs and opportunities over incredibly dumb shit like this, and anytime anyone said "uh let's maybe not go down this road and normalize life ruination over a couple words you might disagree with," they themselves would end up on the chopping block next

People are going to still lose jobs and opportunities, just even harder. I don’t found funny the guy crying for free speech (the reason why he bought twitter, according to him) is as petty as any regular wokie.

[Ribosome]

Looking back on this now, is it any wonder that Trump won bigly?

Looking back... 

It's like why was the narrower than expected rejection of Trump's failed leadership and buffoonery in 2020 interpreted as a mandate for progressive politics? 

Why was the candidate that won the Democratic primary as an electable moderate turned into a sockpuppet for leftwing interest groups? (I think we have a general idea there)

[Superstar]

I just saw BlueSky has no way to monetize. Taking funds from their favorite "creators" is pretty good.

[Boredfrom]

Looking back on this now, is it any wonder that Trump won bigly?

Looking back... 

It's like why was the narrower than expected rejection of Trump's failed leadership and buffoonery in 2020 interpreted as a mandate for progressive politics? 

Why was the candidate that won the Democratic primary as an electable moderate turned into a sockpuppet for leftwing interest groups? (I think we have a general idea there)

Because is an old fart that doesn’t know anything? Just like Trump suddenly investing everything in Crypto.

Choosing Trump was an over correction that is going to fuck a lot of people, so I will take the guy in a dress over billionaires acting like man children.

[benji]

What…why are x embeds broken!

Benjamin has some explaining to do

Embeds have been changed so you don't need to replace the X anymore 

[tweet]https://x.com/damekatydenise_/status/1881682200766431618?t=GOIsCQjQl1RWE40IfJpc9Q&s=19[/tweet]

Edit: wait a minute.... 

[tweet]https://twitter.com/damekatydenise_/status/1881682200766431618?t=GOIsCQjQl1RWE40IfJpc9Q&s=19[/tweet]

I don't know why all that crap after the ? suddenly broke these, I edited a bunch of yours from the last page in random thread because of this. I tried changing the regex to just pass it through like before but it won't for some reason. I will have to tinker with it more. I couldn't figure out how to get it to truncate automatically at the ? and only send the stuff before it. If somebody understands regex I can post the line in the community feedback thread and maybe you can tell me what to do.

had to share this

https://imgur.com/gallery/dear-rest-of-world-some-of-you-seem-confused-about-how-america-got-here-qEUmgS4

https://i.imgur.com/6sDGAO8.png

I like these conspiracy theories where the person makes clear that they think everything was some kind of socialist utopia before like say 2011.

It's usually from the same kind of person who has that response ResetERA.com did when that dude suggested they copy what civil rights protesters did in the 1950-60's and everyone yelled "BECAUSE THE 1950'S WERE SO GREAT FOR QUEER AND BLACK PEOPLE!!!"

Like, oh, so you're imagining this period of blissful life that just happens to align perfectly with the childhood you desperately want to return to? And all your demands just happen to want to create an existence like your childhood where you have no responsibility but everyone else has to take care of you?

I'm also struck by how often these types of people, like Nepenthe, create totalizing theories based around extrapolating from one central wrong idea. Like this guy thinks there was a perfect blissful utopia until Citizens United declared corporations people, gave them free speech and they could now lobby politicians. Except corporations being people is centuries old common law dating back to the UK, it's the only way they can be punished by the law in the first place. Corporations always had free speech in the United States until the case called Citizens United began when the state explicitly argued it could ban books if they were about politicians. Then there's the belief that politicians weren't lobbied or outright bribed before Citizens United when this wasn't even illegal in the United States until post-Watergate and it was (and is) only illegal to give directly to the politicians campaigns or personally, you can give endless amounts to the parties or the politicians family members.

You don't even need to know these details because you can spot their stupidity within the structure of the theories themselves. They're always the same. There was this utopia and man lived in utter harmony, then he fell from ONE WEIRD TRICK the devil pulled and now all our problems trace back to the simple thing that we could just change and bring about utopia again. Don't you see, it's all so simple, we just need the right people in power, people who can see through the veil into the supernatural forces of evil and what they used to come into our realm and wreak havoc on our destined bliss. You can trust me, I see the entire agenda so I can protect you and the dignified live you deserve. Just get out there and kill those thousand people holding us eight billion down by manipulating us with the algorithms into expelling CO2 emissions or whatever the fuck it is that causes capitalism, colonialism and white supremacy. (Bonus points for this person also being trans and therefore operating from the assumption that there's just one thing they needed to change about themselves to get people to worship them as they deserve.)

[benji]

Looking back... 

It's like why was the narrower than expected rejection of Trump's failed leadership and buffoonery in 2020 interpreted as a mandate for progressive politics? 

Why was the candidate that won the Democratic primary as an electable moderate turned into a sockpuppet for leftwing interest groups? (I think we have a general idea there)

Because is an old fart that doesn’t know anything? Just like Trump suddenly investing everything in Crypto.

The correct answer is because simpletons perceive everything as Good Guys (aka myself) versus Bad Guys. They identified Biden winning with themselves as the Avatar of Good triumphing over the Avatar of Evil.

You can see the inverse with their current belief that everyone is using Trump's victory to go "mask off" as chuds.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tiktok-shuts-down-app-for-all-u-s-users-with-a-popup-message-telling-users-president-trump-is-working-to-reinstate-the-app.1086288/page-5#post-134547561

User Banned (1 Month): Sinophobic Commentary; Account in Junior Phase

I mean there's no doubt it is a national security threat.

Users are voluntarily downloading Chinese software into which they have minimal or no insight. While there's not solid evidence that China has benefited from the American TikTok data yet, it could. They are collecting and storing all of that data.

It is a serious risk when our people form connections to a hostile and untrustworthy nation that is undertaking the largest espionage campaign in history.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jpmorgan-chase-ceo-on-trumps-tariffs-causing-higher-prices-get-over-it.1089219/#post-134714628

User banned (1 month): advocating violence

[Taco Bell Tower]

What a timeline this is for Luigi pics and gifs being bannable material 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tiktok-shuts-down-app-for-all-u-s-users-with-a-popup-message-telling-users-president-trump-is-working-to-reinstate-the-app.1086288/page-10#post-134553963

User banned (1 month): sinophobic rhetoric

Yeah and that happened before the huge network effect made Instagram and Twitter unkillable. Just look at what X is today, and how its still very much alive.

Again, they couldve just regulated it. A ban is a move to kill any non-US owned social media.

It wasn't just "network effects," in Meta's case it was their google-like acquisition spree and targeting of certain elite groups of people. Twitter stayed relevant by in a similar way by getting a bunch of ridiculously famous people to post on it for a long time.

Many social networks have died in the past, they are not unkillable, it was smart consolidation that kept them on top and it'll be regulatory capture that keeps them there.

Calling it the 'CCP dancing app' is so out of touch lol

keep saying out of touch like it'll stick, lol, that app is going to be filled to the brim with pro-Trump shit if/when it comes back under his watch. Are you still gonna want to use it then?

So you seem to be on a bit of an aggro arc, but I wanted to just chime in that it seems that you fundamentally misunderstand the utility of TT's algorithm in helping small marginalized communities find each other in a way no other app does. Hence it's popularity. Over a hundred million people are having their digital 3rd space communities obliterated with this, and if you can't empathize with that, I don't know what to tell you.

I think small marginalized communities deserve a better "digital 3rd space community" than TikTok. I do not think running to a CCP-influenced app like a protection racket will work out well for anyone.

Deleted member 22472

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-not-confident-in-gaza-ceasefire-expected-to-lift-us-suspension-of-2000-lb-bombs-to-israel-and-reverse-sanctions-on-west-bank-settlers.1087860/page-8#post-134709951

User Banned (Duration Pending): Advocating ethnic cleansing, previous severe bans for dismissing representation and racial issues

All I did was quote the thread title, dude.
I'm not gloating here.

What are our options for supporting Palestinian emancipation if this ceasefire falls through?

i don't know what would be involved but imo its far more realistic at this point to setup some sort of fund/system that relocates all Palestinians out of Gaza/West Bank into somewhere else. There are a total of 5m Palestinians who live between the two areas. If a fund was created that had say 5-15 billion dollars, which is literally chump change for big projects. I'm sure there are a few countries out there that would accept 5-15 billion to resettle 5m people.

Yes, it means Israel "wins", they get to keep all that territory and move in all their settlers and they will celebrate and blah blah blah but end of the day the war is over, no more genocide, and a few million people can restart their lives in peace.

Of course it won't happen because people who want to fight for Palestine think it would be "giving up", it removes a lot of political hot buttons that various governments and entities use for their own goals and the idea of using Western money to "solve" genocide is very parochial and imperial and I'm sure a dozen other reasons but dumb me thinks the world is gonna end up spending way, way, way more money in the next decade and hundreds of thousands more civilians will die with no real solution that seems likely. Israel/USA won't allow an independent Palestinian state to exist, Israel has no intention to ever accept Palestinians as Israeli citizens.

[KillRideMedley]

Do we really have to ban people for making the obvious joke that literally all of us are thinking? A month for a gif that is so inoffensive you don't need to remove it from the banned post?

This is a sentiment that is only going to grow. jettisoning good members of the community is just going to hurt the forums.

Fascism has arrived. The decorum goes out the window. Banning people like DigitalOp and Fat4all is just going to drive more and more members away.

This admin and those that are bowing to it are fine with many members of this forum ceasing to exist. Other social media has been overtaken by Nazis.

[Propagandhim]

I am praying that someone on era will have had enough someday and stand up to nep eventually. She gets more sanctimonious by the day. I can't take it!!

She probably has access to the work/school emails people sign up with and will justify any fucked up behavior in the name of fighting oppression.  Best that people just leave quietly.