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

[Uncle]

No trans thread on front page of EtcetEra? Wow.. Cis really don't care. This is what happens when Moderation allows political threads to be ignored, you have members turn a blind eye to an ongoing genocide.

Sigh. I'm so tired.

I'm actually curious if recent political events has led the more reasonable on the left to go "oh wait all that idpol stuff was broadly unpopular all along" and there's been a subtle disengagement/abandonment of it

I mean there are still always going to be the ride-or-die caraballos but in general trans stuff has felt really muted for a few months

all of that ideology's issues have never been more visible and highlighted to the general public

when people bleat "eeeevil" at trump's executive orders it just feels rote without any passion

"yes yes we know he's an evil nazi etc etc go luigi and such"

[Snoopy]

What happened was Gaza and people were suddenly reminded of what an actual, real life genocide is.

[DavidCroquet]

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

liked without reading

[DavidCroquet]

lol

But didn't David Cage digitally rape Elliot Page prior to their transition without consent!?!??!?!?! Why would she whoops he agree to work with her abuser like this!??

[Boredfrom]

No trans thread on front page of EtcetEra? Wow.. Cis really don't care. This is what happens when Moderation allows political threads to be ignored, you have members turn a blind eye to an ongoing genocide.

Sigh. I'm so tired.

I'm actually curious if recent political events has led the more reasonable on the left to go "oh wait all that idpol stuff was broadly unpopular all along" and there's been a subtle disengagement/abandonment of it

I mean there are still always going to be the ride-or-die caraballos but in general trans stuff has felt really muted for a few months

all of that ideology's issues have never been more visible and highlighted to the general public

when people bleat "eeeevil" at trump's executive orders it just feels rote without any passion

"yes yes we know he's an evil nazi etc etc go luigi and such"

Except when the EO actually starts to fuck people, like the MediCaid shitshow. And yesterday “DEI caused a plane crash” makes clear the dude is fucking racist, so expect IdPol shit getting energized as he keeps doing this shit.

Yes, a lot of people are tired of IdPol shit but this dude  You need to remember that IdPol didn’t die when he was elected the first time as people expected. He is the kind of asshole that keeps the division going rather than ending it.

I cannot wait for tomorrow shit show with the tariffs.

[Propagandhim]

Yall quick to criticize the lack of paragraphs, but yall won't criticize the lack of wlw content afforded to the palestinians   
Yall quick to point out the typos, but yall point out the typo' queer representation in Sudan ain't the right kind, excuse me, the white kind
Yall quick to find the run on sentences, but yall run from trans stories in Yemen

but go ahead, y'all asses can stay stuck in the shallow end of the pool while the rest of us learn to swim

[malfoyking]

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

Im not surprised brain dead dipshit trump dicksuckers like Nintex don't understand the way tariffs work just like their orange idiotic moronic messiah. But hey, at least you owned the libs as that idiot just caused a plane crash. Then he goes and blames DEI! The magic deflection for all his failures.

The orange asshole literally signed an executive order blaming biden for the crash. What a president for all "americans"

Fuck outta here man.

[DocWager]

That shit is like a Wrestling Observer article.

[Ethan]

At this point, with every crimes he's done, if you're in the US, he's your responsibility... if you're not actively trying to remove him. You're complicit

Fuck off with this rhetoric. Over 70 million people in this country voted for Kamala. This isn't on them and don't lump us in with the assholes who did or were too fucking lazy to get off the couch.

I dont hear about many protest of these 70 Million people tbh for all the shit hes done already

People aren't in the streets
I see barely no civil action to stop the idiot...

So yeah... people stopped fighting and just accepted that this was the status quo...

I'm allowed to blame the US for that.

I'll keep it in mind when my country gets invaded by your facist president while you all shrug shoulders. Voting once every 4 years isn't being politically active.

American political "activism" seems to just consist off re-tweeting posts and liking TikToks

Yeah sorry but f*ck off with these excuses. Doing your Job and putting food on the table will become even harder with Hitler 2.0 as your Dictator.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-will-hit-canada-mexico-with-25-tariffs-on-saturday-citing-fentanyl-and-trade-deficit.1096497/page-6#post-135126828

Yanks and canuckian resetis already at eachother's throat. War is inevitable.

LOL at honestly thinking the Americans would hit the streets because, of all things, tarifs on Canada and Mexico.



There isn't a single canadian protesting in front of the American embassy either.

[Taco Bell Tower]

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?

Yeah, wtf was the point of adding it. I checked the Twitter and found nothing

[malfoyking]

Nintex and Trump: ....Yes!

[StandingOvation]

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?

Ironic, given that now Echoes is the pervy one, constantly wishing straight characters would be gay, or trying to give female characters penises so that they can then be surgically removed and then be ‘real trans representation’.

Dude needs serious help.

[HaughtyFrank]

At this point, with every crimes he's done, if you're in the US, he's your responsibility... if you're not actively trying to remove him. You're complicit

Fuck off with this rhetoric. Over 70 million people in this country voted for Kamala. This isn't on them and don't lump us in with the assholes who did or were too fucking lazy to get off the couch.

I dont hear about many protest of these 70 Million people tbh for all the shit hes done already

People aren't in the streets
I see barely no civil action to stop the idiot...

So yeah... people stopped fighting and just accepted that this was the status quo...

I'm allowed to blame the US for that.

I'll keep it in mind when my country gets invaded by your facist president while you all shrug shoulders. Voting once every 4 years isn't being politically active.

American political "activism" seems to just consist off re-tweeting posts and liking TikToks

Yeah sorry but f*ck off with these excuses. Doing your Job and putting food on the table will become even harder with Hitler 2.0 as your Dictator.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-will-hit-canada-mexico-with-25-tariffs-on-saturday-citing-fentanyl-and-trade-deficit.1096497/page-6#post-135126828

Yanks and canuckian resetis already at eachother's throat. War is inevitable.

LOL at honestly thinking the Americans would hit the streets because, of all things, tarifs on Canada and Mexico.



There isn't a single canadian protesting in front of the American embassy.

It's kinda notable how the reaction to the second Trump presidency seems to mostly just be resignation despite him actually doing much more extreme shit. 
That said, the women's march did fuck all so why bother.

Now if the Nintendo OT thread title said something in protest.... that would have a huge effect for sure

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/in-even-more-emilia-p%C3%A9rez-news-actress-karla-sofia-gasc%C3%B3ns-has-recent-tweets-containing-racism-islamophobia-and-more-cw-hateful-rhetoric.1096167/

This movie lmao.

It has even been abandoned by the trans Queen kyuuji

[Propagandhim]

At this point, with every crimes he's done, if you're in the US, he's your responsibility... if you're not actively trying to remove him. You're complicit

 What does he want them to do to "actively remove" a sitting president?

[Ethan]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/in-even-more-emilia-p%C3%A9rez-news-actress-karla-sofia-gasc%C3%B3ns-has-recent-tweets-containing-racism-islamophobia-and-more-cw-hateful-rhetoric.1096167/

This movie lmao.

It has even been abandoned by the trans Queen kyuuji

I haven't really kept track, but isn't the reaction to this movie pretty much universally negative, yet it's getting showered with nominations and awards? I guess it's to show how progressive the Oscars and co are, but this is backfiring because the movie is actually dogshit and the main actress is a bit of a cunt?

[Uncle]

At this point, with every crimes he's done, if you're in the US, he's your responsibility... if you're not actively trying to remove him. You're complicit

 What does he want them to do to "actively remove" a sitting president?

maybe we could passively remove him by waiting 4 years

[Eric Cartman]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/in-even-more-emilia-p%C3%A9rez-news-actress-karla-sofia-gasc%C3%B3ns-has-recent-tweets-containing-racism-islamophobia-and-more-cw-hateful-rhetoric.1096167/

This movie lmao.

It has even been abandoned by the trans Queen kyuuji

I haven't really kept track, but isn't the reaction to this movie pretty much universally negative, yet it's getting showered with nominations and awards? I guess it's to show how progressive the Oscars and co are, but this is backfiring because the movie is actually dogshit and the main actress is a bit of a cunt?

[Eric Cartman]

LOL at honestly thinking the Americans would hit the streets because, of all things, tarifs on Canada and Mexico.

I mean... inflationary pressure takes longer than a weekend to kick in, but food prices going up while food quality goes down generally doesn't sit well with a populace, especially while your taxes just went up and all your government permits and shit are taking longer because the department of just laid a bunch of people off

[Ethan]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/in-even-more-emilia-p%C3%A9rez-news-actress-karla-sofia-gasc%C3%B3ns-has-recent-tweets-containing-racism-islamophobia-and-more-cw-hateful-rhetoric.1096167/

This movie lmao.

It has even been abandoned by the trans Queen kyuuji

I haven't really kept track, but isn't the reaction to this movie pretty much universally negative, yet it's getting showered with nominations and awards? I guess it's to show how progressive the Oscars and co are, but this is backfiring because the movie is actually dogshit and the main actress is a bit of a cunt?

 

I'll give it the benefit of the doubt that, in context, it's genious satire.

[DocWager]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/in-even-more-emilia-p%C3%A9rez-news-actress-karla-sofia-gasc%C3%B3ns-has-recent-tweets-containing-racism-islamophobia-and-more-cw-hateful-rhetoric.1096167/

This movie lmao.

It has even been abandoned by the trans Queen kyuuji

I haven't really kept track, but isn't the reaction to this movie pretty much universally negative, yet it's getting showered with nominations and awards? I guess it's to show how progressive the Oscars and co are, but this is backfiring because the movie is actually dogshit and the main actress is a bit of a cunt?

 It’s basically what you said… You wanna see DEI actually run amok, take a look at this movies award nominations.

[Uncle]

film critics and game critics are identical, I'm not sure which became which

breathless praise for either a big budget "meant to succeed" franchise or some Deeply Meaningful indie thing, turns out it's shit

has happened 500 times in the past decade

exactly 500 times, no more, no less

[Besticus Maximus]

My headcanon is that someone has already informed trump that there is a direct connection between his funding cutting and that plane crashing and even he understands how bad that makes him look, so he started rambling about DEI and lowering standards of plane spotting dorks

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/in-even-more-emilia-p%C3%A9rez-news-actress-karla-sofia-gasc%C3%B3ns-has-recent-tweets-containing-racism-islamophobia-and-more-cw-hateful-rhetoric.1096167/

This movie lmao.

It has even been abandoned by the trans Queen kyuuji

I haven't really kept track, but isn't the reaction to this movie pretty much universally negative, yet it's getting showered with nominations and awards? I guess it's to show how progressive the Oscars and co are, but this is backfiring because the movie is actually dogshit and the main actress is a bit of a cunt?

Got good early impressions. These type of films get screened first in film festivals, where the audience is has different tastes. The progressive stuff probably helped until people realized that it wasn’t a Mexican film but a French one.

[Boredfrom]

My headcanon is that someone has already informed trump that there is a direct connection between his funding cutting and that plane crashing and even he understands how bad that makes him look, so he started rambling about DEI and lowering standards of plane spotting dorks

I think is more simple than that. He knew that people will blame him right away and decided to go nuclear right away because he is an idiot bully. Strike first and ask questions later.

[DocWager]

My headcanon is that someone has already informed trump that there is a direct connection between his funding cutting and that plane crashing and even he understands how bad that makes him look, so he started rambling about DEI and lowering standards of plane spotting dorks

I don’t even bother dissecting this idiot anymore. 

This guy isn’t the solution to the problem. This dude was the cause in giving power to the crazies in the world four 8 years ago.

[DavidCroquet]

The most annoying thing here is that it seems like something close to 0% of the internet is able to hold these two ideas simultaneously:

1. The crash happened for reasons actually unrelated to Trump
2. Trump is still a stupid jackass dickhead

"Blame Trump" is a good way to never understand the state of the world, or address any actual problems. 

The medicaid thing pissed me off for the same reason. It's a shame the media is sort of totally captured by the same reactive Panic Chorus that we see on X and Era...information and facts are a tertiary concern at best, yelling "The sky is falling!" is what really matters.

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/forum-aggregation-and-you-ignoring-threads-that-are-damaging-to-your-mental-health-or-you-might-not-want-to-see.1087431/page-3#post-135081792

Also, can I quit being on staff so I can ignore these threads? Please. My brain cells are dying.

Yes, just quit. Simple as.

There's an old saying that applies to all these mods that bitch about being mods....
"Do not accept the rank if you are unwilling to take on the responsibility."

But I know Reeee need to have something to complain about when it's time to do the "Woe is Me: Olympics" it's hard to win debates when you can't use your oppression status. Like Nep bitching about The Man keeping her down when she's been The Man all along. 

And this "Guys, being a mod is really hard. Please understand if we go off sometimes." 

I went through leadership training and one of the things they tell you is when a leader blames stress for poor performance they're acknowledging that they are easily influenced by external factors and shouldn't be in that position.


Here's something else that kind of applies to mods bitchin to members on Era...

Skip to .. 1:33 https://youtu.be/DhbObZEF0Mc?t=93

[DocWager]

The most annoying thing here is that it seems like something close to 0% of the internet is able to hold these two ideas simultaneously:

1. The crash happened for reasons actually unrelated to Trump
2. Trump is still a stupid jackass dickhead

"Blame Trump" is a good way to never understand the actual of the world, or address any actual problems. 

The medicaid thing pissed me off for the same reason. It's a shame the media is sort of totally captured by the same reactive Panic Chorus that we see on X and Era...information and facts are a tertiary concern at best, yelling "The sky is falling!" is what really matters.

It’s everywhere nowadays. The world now acts like a TikTok video that cuts a person eating a stack of pancakes into 30 seconds complete with overacting facial expressions.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fallout-nuevo-mexico-mod-cancelled-creator-reported-to-ice-after-cancellation.1096770/#post-135119607

I have a travel to USA later this year and im kinda scared now
Will they let me in?

Edited: Closed

Can we try this again when/if actual sourcing for it comes out?

For once a wise Ree mod.  Shows how gullible Ree users are.