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

[Kevtones]

I just want to undo the fact that there were people on the previous page that disparaged my main man Frank Sobotka and Season 2 of The Wire. Season is fucking great and it gets wrong hate from Poot-level individuals.





Also, the only reason I still use Facebook is because there's a great group of people in this The Wire Shitposting Group. It's the best.

[MMaRsu]

lol

[MMaRsu]

Yanks can’t read good.

Case in point; https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-children’s-reading-skills-reach-new-lows.1096500/ it’s a thread dupe, but that doesn’t bother our heroic admin, teacher of children.

Saw this in that thread:

It been low for awhile. Have any of you seen Adin Ross try to read? Oof.

https://www.reddit.com/r/h3h3productions/comments/14ewmkb/adin_ross_attempts_to_read_andrew_tate_article/

Oh my god

Who are these people who literally cannot read the word "Ultranationalist" ????

I assume that guy is American yeah?

Like what the fuck?

Why do the dumb people have followers????

[NekoFever]

The Reddit one’s even worse. He has to sound out everything like a toddler and then just reads out the “read more” headlines like they’re part of the article. Genuine functional illiteracy.

[jooseloose]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/have-you-ever-considered-running-for-local-office-in-your-area.1096644/#post-135109434

I did, but I was pressured into not doing so because it's almost impossible for an atheist to hold elected office in most parts of the country.

Can you imagine

[Snoopy]

I just want to undo the fact that there were people on the previous page that disparaged my main man Frank Sobotka and Season 2 of The Wire. Season is fucking great and it gets wrong hate from Poot-level individuals.





Also, the only reason I still use Facebook is because there's a great group of people in this The Wire Shitposting Group. It's the best.

The only people who dislike the second season are white people

[Besticus Maximus]

Ziggy sobotzka’s missus 

[Kim Wilde Homo]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/have-you-ever-considered-running-for-local-office-in-your-area.1096644/#post-135111108

I am a tall, well spoken, charismatic, assertive, straight, white, man who has been viscerally revolted at the burgeoning fascism since 2015. So yes it's something I've been thinking about for a bit, but have no real clue where to tangibly start as I'm also a massive recluse and pretty misanthropic on the whole too.

I have been entertaining the idea, yes, though I don't know if I have the right personality/temperament to handle all the bullshit associated well honestly.

In HS, I was on the We the People team, which is more or less a "constitutional debate team" that analyzes and faces arguments against the different parts that comprise the US constitution.

And the teachers who led the WtP stuff at my school tried to push me to attend this HS student government conference that was held in DC but I wasn't really interested in those days in getting into the weeds of politics. My privilege and bubble was blinding me, even if I was already quite liberal leaning in those years too. But I have typically been more interested in art than politics, especially in those days.

Also I'd earned the honor of the title of "President of the Graduating Class" for my HS, which was more of an honor/title. There was a "President" and "First Lady", which essentially acknowledged the two most """prestigious""" and "forward facing" men and women of the graduating class every year. (Obv this kind of dichotomy is outdated, especially today).

The way it worked is that all of the teachers collectively put forward 5 boys and 5 girls for these distinctions. Then the 10 selected were then individually interviewed by a panel of "esteemed" members of the local community. Think business leaders, lawyers, people with more serious/reputable/public facing careers. They basically probed us on the kind of people we were, what we thought of the world, and our outlooks on the future.

More and more I think back to all those things and think about our current situation. And I think about a person like Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and how maybe if there was a big, tall, congenial white guy who was assertive, articulate, and brutally honestly intense at combatting these fascist bullshitters bullshit it could potentially be effective.

A whole lotta no's in that thread. It's almost as if no one wants to fight capitalism and instead want others to do it for them. This is the vanguard of the left? 

Deep down they know that they are loathed by anyone who interacts with them and would never be able to hold office in any kind of voting-based system. Plus many of them also know deep down that whatever fucked up skeletons in their closet would be brought out and are likely worse than the Rethuglikkkan they would be running against.

[Straight Edge]

It's hilarious that you don't even know who pays tariffs but you're trying to tell us how they work and how great they are. Why doesn't your town place tariffs on any goods that come from outside it, Nintex?

I assumed he meant that whatever the price increase would be for US citizens, they would decrease their selling price by that amount, effectively paying the tariff in order to sell their goods at the same price as before and not risk people refusing to buy the now-more-expensive good

This is what I think Trump thinks will happen, but he's wrong.  You can tell by how he behaves that he thinks he has a cure-all with tariffs - how often he talks about them and responds to questions with the subject of tariffs.  You can tell he thinks he's found some magic bullet because the US is such a large economy that we can throw our weight around with it like we do with our military.  But it's not comparable to military force and he thinks using tariffs to hang over any country's head to get whatever you want is as simple as being a function of how wealthy you are like your ability to build and pay for a large military.  It's wrong.   No, China is not going to pay tariffs on their exports, we are.  There are a lot of working parts, but exporters incentive to reduce their prices to offset tariffs depends on the elasticity of demand for the specific goods. If demand is highly elastic and buyers are sensitive to price changes, exporters may lower prices to stay competitive, absorbing part of the tariff as reduced profits.  But if demand is inelastic and buyers are less sensitive to price changes, exporters can pass most or all of the tariff cost onto consumers without losing significant sales. The thing is, exports from China tend to be price inelastic, especially in the short term -- it varies by product of course and the conditions of the market, but economists look at the trade war between the US and China and see China's overall export price elasticity often below 1: meaning that a percentage change in price leads to a less than proportional change in export volume.  This inelasticity is due to China's dominance in global supply chains, its ability to produce at scale, it set up all of its infrastructure and logistics for their export-oriented economy, their ability to exploit their enormous labor force, their ease and speed that they engage in currency devaluing, and simply the limited substitutes for many of its goods.  Chinese exporters often absorb some costs through lower profit margins, but U.S. importers and consumers still bear a substantial share via higher prices - so it's a dual burden that undermines purchasing power and economic efficiency in both directions. So thsi is not a magic bullet that Trump thinks it is - broadly speaking, it's a tax that raises the costs for businesses, slows economic output, and increases costs for consumers and reduces choices. These tariffs in particular will disrupt global supply chains and investment decisions and incentivize firms to play this bookkeeping game of 'do i absorb the loss for this thing here and/or pass the cost for this thing here onto consumers to stay competitive?', which harms economic efficiency. Reducing trade volumes, slowing growth, and safeguarding your business for retaliatory measures undermine the intended benefits of tariffs that trump thinks he'll get too - surely there are people around Trump to tell him this? This isn't rocket science.  As China shifts toward more sophisticated exports, certain high-value goods are showing greater elasticity, so there will be higher responsiveness to price changes - but that means the tariffs have reduced effectiveness in safeguarding the industries Trump is trying to protect in America - and again, they're not retards, they know what those industries are - and CHina will engage in retaliatory measures for the most impact and disrupt global trade relationships.  For many high-value goods, the U.S. lacks sufficient domestic production capacity to replace Chinese imports quickly -- look at that semiconductor plant that TSMC is building in Arizona..it's taking forever and they're been buried in years of paperwork - this is one single semiconductor plant.  Again China knows what these industries are - the tariffs will raise prices for consumers without significantly boosting domestic industry in the short term.  In contrast to our ability to undermine their export system, value-added goods produced in the U.S. (the intermediate goods that use Chinese exports as 'inputs' that go into the products we make) - the advanced manufacturing products are more likely to suffer from price increases caused by tariffs and higher input costs. And these goods often face stiff international competition because they get their value from R&D innovations that need to constantly keep up with advances, and higher production costs make them less competitive globally. So tariffs on imported intermediate goods (like steel or electronics components) will raise input costs for U.S. manufacturers, reducing their profit margins or forcing them to increase prices to sell to everyone beyond China.  And if substitutes are available for these products from abroad, the demand for those products created by the domestic industry you're trying to protect decreases, creating a domino effect where youre forced to choose to protect an industry that no longer has to be competitive thanks to tariffs, all the while shitting on consumers and incentivizing poor business hampering the market or leaving those businesses to get fucked over by the unnecessary trade war that you gave all the cards away to.  Also I need to play GTA 6 on PS5 Pro and daddy needs the price to go down

I would like some ranch with that

[Ethan]

lol

"Pageboy Productions"

Stop trying to make it your entire personality

[clockwork5]

The Reddit one’s even worse. He has to sound out everything like a toddler and then just reads out the “read more” headlines like they’re part of the article. Genuine functional illiteracy.

OMG that was painful. On the other hand there is something supremely comical about an idiot yelling at the words on the page.

“Ultra-ultranautilis-ultra-ultranatalist-analyst, BRO! BRO! Oh my god BRO! Ultra-analyst.”

[Potato]

am surprised at the amount of vitriol directed at Veilguard and the developers here.

Don't get me wrong, the writing is abysmal in many (not all) areas. But the game was designed one way, then another, then a third before finally coming out, I can't imagine its final form had nearly enough time in pre-production for the kind of game that it is: a fully voice acted, dialogue heavy RPG sequel to a series famously rich in lore.

Laying blame for "writing" squarely on the writers / developers after that kind of production process just seems hollow.

You think this is the only game that has suffered from development hell? 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ign-ea-is-restructuring-bioware-following-dragon-age-the-veilguard-moving-some-developers-onto-other-projects-within-ea-bioware-focused-on-me5.1095120/page-9#post-135105369

Don't blame the writers for bad writing chud!

[Potato]

It's hilarious that you don't even know who pays tariffs but you're trying to tell us how they work and how great they are. Why doesn't your town place tariffs on any goods that come from outside it, Nintex?

I assumed he meant that whatever the price increase would be for US citizens, they would decrease their selling price by that amount, effectively paying the tariff in order to sell their goods at the same price as before and not risk people refusing to buy the now-more-expensive good

That will always depend on the item itself and the elasticity of demand.

[Straight Edge]

It's hilarious that you don't even know who pays tariffs but you're trying to tell us how they work and how great they are. Why doesn't your town place tariffs on any goods that come from outside it, Nintex?

I assumed he meant that whatever the price increase would be for US citizens, they would decrease their selling price by that amount, effectively paying the tariff in order to sell their goods at the same price as before and not risk people refusing to buy the now-more-expensive good

This is what I think Trump thinks will happen, but he's wrong.  You can tell by how he behaves that he thinks he has a cure-all with tariffs - how often he talks about them and responds to questions with the subject of tariffs.  You can tell he thinks he's found some magic bullet because the US is such a large economy that we can throw our weight around with it like we do with our military.  But it's not comparable to military force and he thinks using tariffs to hang over any country's head to get whatever you want is as simple as being a function of how wealthy you are like your ability to build and pay for a large military.  It's wrong.   No, China is not going to pay tariffs on their exports, we are.  There are a lot of working parts, but exporters incentive to reduce their prices to offset tariffs depends on the elasticity of demand for the specific goods. If demand is highly elastic and buyers are sensitive to price changes, exporters may lower prices to stay competitive, absorbing part of the tariff as reduced profits.  But if demand is inelastic and buyers are less sensitive to price changes, exporters can pass most or all of the tariff cost onto consumers without losing significant sales. The thing is, exports from China tend to be price inelastic, especially in the short term -- it varies by product of course and the conditions of the market, but economists look at the trade war between the US and China and see China's overall export price elasticity often below 1: meaning that a percentage change in price leads to a less than proportional change in export volume.  This inelasticity is due to China's dominance in global supply chains, its ability to produce at scale, it set up all of its infrastructure and logistics for their export-oriented economy, their ability to exploit their enormous labor force, their ease and speed that they engage in currency devaluing, and simply the limited substitutes for many of its goods.  Chinese exporters often absorb some costs through lower profit margins, but U.S. importers and consumers still bear a substantial share via higher prices - so it's a dual burden that undermines purchasing power and economic efficiency in both directions. So thsi is not a magic bullet that Trump thinks it is - broadly speaking, it's a tax that raises the costs for businesses, slows economic output, and increases costs for consumers and reduces choices. These tariffs in particular will disrupt global supply chains and investment decisions and incentivize firms to play this bookkeeping game of 'do i absorb the loss for this thing here and/or pass the cost for this thing here onto consumers to stay competitive?', which harms economic efficiency. Reducing trade volumes, slowing growth, and safeguarding your business for retaliatory measures undermine the intended benefits of tariffs that trump thinks he'll get too - surely there are people around Trump to tell him this? This isn't rocket science.  As China shifts toward more sophisticated exports, certain high-value goods are showing greater elasticity, so there will be higher responsiveness to price changes - but that means the tariffs have reduced effectiveness in safeguarding the industries Trump is trying to protect in America - and again, they're not retards, they know what those industries are - and CHina will engage in retaliatory measures for the most impact and disrupt global trade relationships.  For many high-value goods, the U.S. lacks sufficient domestic production capacity to replace Chinese imports quickly -- look at that semiconductor plant that TSMC is building in Arizona..it's taking forever and they're been buried in years of paperwork - this is one single semiconductor plant.  Again China knows what these industries are - the tariffs will raise prices for consumers without significantly boosting domestic industry in the short term.  In contrast to our ability to undermine their export system, value-added goods produced in the U.S. (the intermediate goods that use Chinese exports as 'inputs' that go into the products we make) - the advanced manufacturing products are more likely to suffer from price increases caused by tariffs and higher input costs. And these goods often face stiff international competition because they get their value from R&D innovations that need to constantly keep up with advances, and higher production costs make them less competitive globally. So tariffs on imported intermediate goods (like steel or electronics components) will raise input costs for U.S. manufacturers, reducing their profit margins or forcing them to increase prices to sell to everyone beyond China.  And if substitutes are available for these products from abroad, the demand for those products created by the domestic industry you're trying to protect decreases, creating a domino effect where youre forced to choose to protect an industry that no longer has to be competitive thanks to tariffs, all the while shitting on consumers and incentivizing poor business hampering the market or leaving those businesses to get fucked over by the unnecessary trade war that you gave all the cards away to.  Also I need to play GTA 6 on PS5 Pro and daddy needs the price to go down

read between the lines, sheeple.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/have-you-ever-considered-running-for-local-office-in-your-area.1096644/#post-135109434

I did, but I was pressured into not doing so because it's almost impossible for an atheist to hold elected office in most parts of the country.

Truly the most cosmopolitan man to ever exist. Is there nothing he hasn't done, no challenge he hasn't conquered?

[Potato]

It's hilarious that you don't even know who pays tariffs but you're trying to tell us how they work and how great they are. Why doesn't your town place tariffs on any goods that come from outside it, Nintex?

I assumed he meant that whatever the price increase would be for US citizens, they would decrease their selling price by that amount, effectively paying the tariff in order to sell their goods at the same price as before and not risk people refusing to buy the now-more-expensive good

This is what I think Trump thinks will happen, but he's wrong.  You can tell by how he behaves that he thinks he has a cure-all with tariffs - how often he talks about them and responds to questions with the subject of tariffs.  You can tell he thinks he's found some magic bullet because the US is such a large economy that we can throw our weight around with it like we do with our military.  But it's not comparable to military force and he thinks using tariffs to hang over any country's head to get whatever you want is as simple as being a function of how wealthy you are like your ability to build and pay for a large military.  It's wrong.   No, China is not going to pay tariffs on their exports, we are.  There are a lot of working parts, but exporters incentive to reduce their prices to offset tariffs depends on the elasticity of demand for the specific goods. If demand is highly elastic and buyers are sensitive to price changes, exporters may lower prices to stay competitive, absorbing part of the tariff as reduced profits.  But if demand is inelastic and buyers are less sensitive to price changes, exporters can pass most or all of the tariff cost onto consumers without losing significant sales. The thing is, exports from China tend to be price inelastic, especially in the short term -- it varies by product of course and the conditions of the market, but economists look at the trade war between the US and China and see China's overall export price elasticity often below 1: meaning that a percentage change in price leads to a less than proportional change in export volume.  This inelasticity is due to China's dominance in global supply chains, its ability to produce at scale, it set up all of its infrastructure and logistics for their export-oriented economy, their ability to exploit their enormous labor force, their ease and speed that they engage in currency devaluing, and simply the limited substitutes for many of its goods.  Chinese exporters often absorb some costs through lower profit margins, but U.S. importers and consumers still bear a substantial share via higher prices - so it's a dual burden that undermines purchasing power and economic efficiency in both directions. So thsi is not a magic bullet that Trump thinks it is - broadly speaking, it's a tax that raises the costs for businesses, slows economic output, and increases costs for consumers and reduces choices. These tariffs in particular will disrupt global supply chains and investment decisions and incentivize firms to play this bookkeeping game of 'do i absorb the loss for this thing here and/or pass the cost for this thing here onto consumers to stay competitive?', which harms economic efficiency. Reducing trade volumes, slowing growth, and safeguarding your business for retaliatory measures undermine the intended benefits of tariffs that trump thinks he'll get too - surely there are people around Trump to tell him this? This isn't rocket science.  As China shifts toward more sophisticated exports, certain high-value goods are showing greater elasticity, so there will be higher responsiveness to price changes - but that means the tariffs have reduced effectiveness in safeguarding the industries Trump is trying to protect in America - and again, they're not retards, they know what those industries are - and CHina will engage in retaliatory measures for the most impact and disrupt global trade relationships.  For many high-value goods, the U.S. lacks sufficient domestic production capacity to replace Chinese imports quickly -- look at that semiconductor plant that TSMC is building in Arizona..it's taking forever and they're been buried in years of paperwork - this is one single semiconductor plant.  Again China knows what these industries are - the tariffs will raise prices for consumers without significantly boosting domestic industry in the short term.  In contrast to our ability to undermine their export system, value-added goods produced in the U.S. (the intermediate goods that use Chinese exports as 'inputs' that go into the products we make) - the advanced manufacturing products are more likely to suffer from price increases caused by tariffs and higher input costs. And these goods often face stiff international competition because they get their value from R&D innovations that need to constantly keep up with advances, and higher production costs make them less competitive globally. So tariffs on imported intermediate goods (like steel or electronics components) will raise input costs for U.S. manufacturers, reducing their profit margins or forcing them to increase prices to sell to everyone beyond China.  And if substitutes are available for these products from abroad, the demand for those products created by the domestic industry you're trying to protect decreases, creating a domino effect where youre forced to choose to protect an industry that no longer has to be competitive thanks to tariffs, all the while shitting on consumers and incentivizing poor business hampering the market or leaving those businesses to get fucked over by the unnecessary trade war that you gave all the cards away to.  Also I need to play GTA 6 on PS5 Pro and daddy needs the price to go down

I did not read a word of it but I agree with everything Propagandhim posted.

I did read every word and I agree with everything that Prop posted, but for the love of God man use some fucking paragraphs!!!!!!!

[Steven Snell]

I'm honestly just so fucking sick of adult fans constantly needing to be creeps and constantly edgy about Pokémon, they aren't just picking humanoid Pokemon as already pointed out and people do realize Gardevoir is popular outside of people who feel to be perverted about everything right?

Gardevoir is a particular sore spot for me because they used to be one of my favourite Pokemon, but anytime I brought then up or discussed them back in the lates 00s and 10s, their always be creep trying to be pervy and creepy to my posts (back when I was a teen, though their was no way they would have known that) or accusing me of being into them sexually, or yelling at me for liking a Pokemon that "ruined" the franchise for them... Yeah needless to say shit like that was one of the big reasons why I ended up taking a long break from franchise. It's especially frustrating see men constantly trying to ruin other fans enjoyment like going into wlw circles to be weird about wholesome wlw fan art.

Newsflash, you ain't the majority of fans, the majority of fans aren't perves who need to objectify and sexualize anything seen as feminine.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-pokemon-center-now-has-a-life-size-gardevoir-plush.1096719/page-2#post-135120318

WLW CIRCLES. Yeah I'm sure that crowd is totally not perverted and into freaky shit?

[Boredfrom]

This is awful. Just watching them move around with those retard faces makes my skin crawl.

Total Streamer Death
Total Vtuber Death
And total Otaku Death for popularising this and gacha slop.

Man, you are so lame.

But is the sad story of the self hating Otaku.

“Guys, I’m normal.”

Who said I'm self-hating? just because I play pretty much exclusively old Japanese games, watch boomer anime, and have some knowledge of jap smut (I can give ya'll some H-game recs if you're interested ) doesn't mean I have to like other people who also like similar stuff. The average otaku has horrendous taste, as you can see from what kind of anime is popular these days.

Fair enough.  

I can respect old fans disdain for current stuff. 

I apologize while lamenting our tastes don’t align in this one.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/new-york-magazine-the-cruel-kids-table-among-the-young-confident-and-casually-cruel-trumpers-who-have-their-sights-on-america.1096662/#post-135111228

This is the posture they take until someone pushes back with violence. And at some point, there will be violent push back, especially in a country rife with firearms.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/new-york-magazine-the-cruel-kids-table-among-the-young-confident-and-casually-cruel-trumpers-who-have-their-sights-on-america.1096662/#post-135111570

Mao would send these kids to the fields. It's what the doctor ordered.

Mao may have sent them to the fields, but Xi threatens them with re-education in a concentration camp prison house arrest.

[HaughtyFrank]

lol

What I find amusing is the RE thread where everyone screams that Elliot must hate QD and David Cage, meanwhile Elliot has only positive things to say about how the game was made

https://www.resetera.com/threads/deadline-%E2%80%98beyond-two-souls%E2%80%99-video-game-getting-tv-series-adaptation-by-elliot-page%E2%80%99s-pageboy.1095084/

There was some controversy about a nude model of the main character but that could have been a simple misunderstanding and solved amicably.

[Besticus Maximus]

How degenerated is your life if you have to convince other people that sex talk about Pokémon is widespread and normal

[Boredfrom]

I'm honestly just so fucking sick of adult fans constantly needing to be creeps and constantly edgy about Pokémon, they aren't just picking humanoid Pokemon as already pointed out and people do realize Gardevoir is popular outside of people who feel to be perverted about everything right?

Gardevoir is a particular sore spot for me because they used to be one of my favourite Pokemon, but anytime I brought then up or discussed them back in the lates 00s and 10s, their always be creep trying to be pervy and creepy to my posts (back when I was a teen, though their was no way they would have known that) or accusing me of being into them sexually, or yelling at me for liking a Pokemon that "ruined" the franchise for them... Yeah needless to say shit like that was one of the big reasons why I ended up taking a long break from franchise. It's especially frustrating see men constantly trying to ruin other fans enjoyment like going into wlw circles to be weird about wholesome wlw fan art.

Newsflash, you ain't the majority of fans, the majority of fans aren't perves who need to objectify and sexualize anything seen as feminine.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-pokemon-center-now-has-a-life-size-gardevoir-plush.1096719/page-2#post-135120318

WLW CIRCLES. Yeah I'm sure that crowd is totally not perverted and into freaky shit?

 

Two things: 

These dudes at ERA are openly lusting for a cartoon animal.

And Echoes totally doesn’t sexualize anything remotely feminine, sure.  He is such a weird case, he is a dude that wants to express his own sexuality by denying it. Dude needs real help, not from crazy people at Discord.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

What am I, Walt Whitman?

My Shining Star. 

[jooseloose]

I'm honestly just so fucking sick of adult fans constantly needing to be creeps and constantly edgy about Pokémon, they aren't just picking humanoid Pokemon as already pointed out and people do realize Gardevoir is popular outside of people who feel to be perverted about everything right?

Gardevoir is a particular sore spot for me because they used to be one of my favourite Pokemon, but anytime I brought then up or discussed them back in the lates 00s and 10s, their always be creep trying to be pervy and creepy to my posts (back when I was a teen, though their was no way they would have known that) or accusing me of being into them sexually, or yelling at me for liking a Pokemon that "ruined" the franchise for them... Yeah needless to say shit like that was one of the big reasons why I ended up taking a long break from franchise. It's especially frustrating see men constantly trying to ruin other fans enjoyment like going into wlw circles to be weird about wholesome wlw fan art.

Newsflash, you ain't the majority of fans, the majority of fans aren't perves who need to objectify and sexualize anything seen as feminine.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-pokemon-center-now-has-a-life-size-gardevoir-plush.1096719/page-2#post-135120318

WLW CIRCLES. Yeah I'm sure that crowd is totally not perverted and into freaky shit?

Regarding the bolded: 

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fallout-nuevo-mexico-mod-cancelled-creator-reported-to-ice-after-cancellation.1096770/

Not finding other sources on this, so it could be wrong, but if not, that is extremely fucked up.

 

Why you guys keep doing this?

[Boredfrom]

WLW CIRCLES. Yeah I'm sure that crowd is totally not perverted and into freaky shit?

Depends. There is actually a contingent that is like Echoes about searching for “wholesome” yuri stuff over the usual hentai smut or the “fake stuff directed to males”. They usually keep it to themselves and in those communities. Echoes is a uber closet pervert even by standards whatever side of that community.

Echoes is a grown man that acts like a 12 year old that recently discovered anime girls making out in fan art.

[Eric Cartman]

It's hilarious that you don't even know who pays tariffs but you're trying to tell us how they work and how great they are. Why doesn't your town place tariffs on any goods that come from outside it, Nintex?

I assumed he meant that whatever the price increase would be for US citizens, they would decrease their selling price by that amount, effectively paying the tariff in order to sell their goods at the same price as before and not risk people refusing to buy the now-more-expensive good

Well when Big Produce and their famously high margins per unit pass all that imported fresh fruit and veg trump tax on to the consumers and secondary producers, at least you can fall back on domestic produce to compensate

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-are-your-thoughts-on-polyamory-and-ethical-non-monogamy.1096596/page-5#post-135125280

Locked for review due to reports

[Eric Cartman]

It's hilarious that you don't even know who pays tariffs but you're trying to tell us how they work and how great they are. Why doesn't your town place tariffs on any goods that come from outside it, Nintex?

I assumed he meant that whatever the price increase would be for US citizens, they would decrease their selling price by that amount, effectively paying the tariff in order to sell their goods at the same price as before and not risk people refusing to buy the now-more-expensive good

This is what I think Trump thinks will happen, but he's wrong.  You can tell by how he behaves that he thinks he has a cure-all with tariffs - how often he talks about them and responds to questions with the subject of tariffs.  You can tell he thinks he's found some magic bullet because the US is such a large economy that we can throw our weight around with it like we do with our military.  But it's not comparable to military force and he thinks using tariffs to hang over any country's head to get whatever you want is as simple as being a function of how wealthy you are like your ability to build and pay for a large military.  It's wrong.   No, China is not going to pay tariffs on their exports, we are.  There are a lot of working parts, but exporters incentive to reduce their prices to offset tariffs depends on the elasticity of demand for the specific goods. If demand is highly elastic and buyers are sensitive to price changes, exporters may lower prices to stay competitive, absorbing part of the tariff as reduced profits.  But if demand is inelastic and buyers are less sensitive to price changes, exporters can pass most or all of the tariff cost onto consumers without losing significant sales. The thing is, exports from China tend to be price inelastic, especially in the short term -- it varies by product of course and the conditions of the market, but economists look at the trade war between the US and China and see China's overall export price elasticity often below 1: meaning that a percentage change in price leads to a less than proportional change in export volume.  This inelasticity is due to China's dominance in global supply chains, its ability to produce at scale, it set up all of its infrastructure and logistics for their export-oriented economy, their ability to exploit their enormous labor force, their ease and speed that they engage in currency devaluing, and simply the limited substitutes for many of its goods.  Chinese exporters often absorb some costs through lower profit margins, but U.S. importers and consumers still bear a substantial share via higher prices - so it's a dual burden that undermines purchasing power and economic efficiency in both directions. So thsi is not a magic bullet that Trump thinks it is - broadly speaking, it's a tax that raises the costs for businesses, slows economic output, and increases costs for consumers and reduces choices. These tariffs in particular will disrupt global supply chains and investment decisions and incentivize firms to play this bookkeeping game of 'do i absorb the loss for this thing here and/or pass the cost for this thing here onto consumers to stay competitive?', which harms economic efficiency. Reducing trade volumes, slowing growth, and safeguarding your business for retaliatory measures undermine the intended benefits of tariffs that trump thinks he'll get too - surely there are people around Trump to tell him this? This isn't rocket science.  As China shifts toward more sophisticated exports, certain high-value goods are showing greater elasticity, so there will be higher responsiveness to price changes - but that means the tariffs have reduced effectiveness in safeguarding the industries Trump is trying to protect in America - and again, they're not retards, they know what those industries are - and CHina will engage in retaliatory measures for the most impact and disrupt global trade relationships.  For many high-value goods, the U.S. lacks sufficient domestic production capacity to replace Chinese imports quickly -- look at that semiconductor plant that TSMC is building in Arizona..it's taking forever and they're been buried in years of paperwork - this is one single semiconductor plant.  Again China knows what these industries are - the tariffs will raise prices for consumers without significantly boosting domestic industry in the short term.  In contrast to our ability to undermine their export system, value-added goods produced in the U.S. (the intermediate goods that use Chinese exports as 'inputs' that go into the products we make) - the advanced manufacturing products are more likely to suffer from price increases caused by tariffs and higher input costs. And these goods often face stiff international competition because they get their value from R&D innovations that need to constantly keep up with advances, and higher production costs make them less competitive globally. So tariffs on imported intermediate goods (like steel or electronics components) will raise input costs for U.S. manufacturers, reducing their profit margins or forcing them to increase prices to sell to everyone beyond China.  And if substitutes are available for these products from abroad, the demand for those products created by the domestic industry you're trying to protect decreases, creating a domino effect where youre forced to choose to protect an industry that no longer has to be competitive thanks to tariffs, all the while shitting on consumers and incentivizing poor business hampering the market or leaving those businesses to get fucked over by the unnecessary trade war that you gave all the cards away to.  Also I need to play GTA 6 on PS5 Pro and daddy needs the price to go down

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-calling-them-nazis-going-to-have-the-wrong-effect.1096557/

I need to preface this by saying I am not saying what trump and his ilk are doing is in any way defensible or needs to be treated as anything other than an immediate threat on the US and the world before people jump on the title without reading the thread. I also had to either do sensitive topics or US Politics so I'm sorry to those who have US Politics blocked.

I'm coming at this from a point of view of being autistic and having a mental block when it comes to specific words so feel free to tell me I'm off the mark.

Preface over, is calling trump and the maga flock nazis doing a disservice to the messaging of the actual real harm being done by the American far right? I worry that people who NEED to hear of these atrocities may hear the word nazi and immediately just assume hyperbole, leading to them not realizing just how dire things are for literally everyone who isn't a wealthy shit man (i actually wrote white man but my phone autocorrected and it also fits). Basically i worry that using a term that is generally thought of as the German far right hitler party may lead people to not take the threat we face seriously.

I'm not sure if I'm making any sense (i second guess myself a lot) so please let me know if you have thoughts.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-calling-them-nazis-going-to-have-the-wrong-effect.1096557/#post-135101058

OP this ain't gonna go well. You dropped a reasonable, practical take, but social media has made it so that type of rhetoric isn't paid any mind. Everything is either 0 or 100.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-calling-them-nazis-going-to-have-the-wrong-effect.1096557/#post-135102828

Requesting a thread lock because i am having a panic attack. I'm sorry i said anything, please don't think i in any way condone what's going on or that I'm trying to downplay anything

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-calling-them-nazis-going-to-have-the-wrong-effect.1096557/#post-135103035

Thread locked at OP's request.

The irony here is pretty obvious, but I just gotta  

"They ARE Nazis, full stop, without asterisk! They are just as awful, just as capable, just as murderous, an equally existential threat! If you disagree, YOU are the problem, and a Nazi yourself!"
"So you voted against them?"
"No."