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

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/im-not-sure-im-in-a-healthy-relationship-and-i-need-some-advice-spoilers-for-adolescence.1147935/#post-137667588

Update for everyone that's been kind enough to read my post and give me their thoughts.
It's been almost 24 hours and we've barely talked. Initially I made it clear to her that I wasn't giving her the silent treatment but might need a little space. I'm a pretty quiet guy naturally, especially during the workday, so that's been misunderstood before. She appreciated that and originally said she needed space to "cool off" and would let me know when she's over it. She went on a drive and walk after that for about an hour, then at the end of my workday I went out to get coffee and breakfast as well as some groceries (I had no appetite all day from the stress), and then I went out with some friends for dinner after they broke their fast for Ramadan. She seemed a little bothered by that, asking if I made those plans recently, but I'd been trying to hang out with them for a few weekends now and this was the first time we were all available.
In all this time we've still had our minor interactions (letting her know I'm going out, asking if she needs anything while I'm up, saying "Love you" while heading out the door, letting me know I had a cut on the back of my head and telling me to clean it) but no prolonged interaction. I let her know that she can take her time, and whether she wants to talk or needs more time to herself I fully understand.
Overall, I'm still really concerned about our relationship but much less stressed out than yesterday. It helps that I got a pretty significant opportunity at work to step up and take on a new role, so I'm trying to focus on that and getting some exercise in to calm my mind. Again, thank you so much everyone for taking the time and energy to converse with me about this.

Oh, that's why he can't communicate with women. Messy needs to get in here ASAP to share more of his religious incel advice.  

[Potato]

Sounds more like the friends are Muslim than him.

[Eric Cartman]

If the Democrats don't make, "bringing dignity and respectability back to the White House", a massive part of their next campaign, they truly are as retarded as I think they are...

uh, does this look like people who dont know how to run a campaign?

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/im-playing-gta-v-for-the-first-time-and-i-just-played-a-mission-where-you-assassinate-a-healthcare-ceo.1148331/
Luigi memes and Ree hoping GTA 6 has more of that

[Boredfrom]

What stupid shit Bwoog is going to say now?

It's one of the President's biggest powers so of course he's going to abuse the fuck out of it to make himself feel like a big man. Our country never should have had a President, we should have had a Prime Minister like so many other countries who has to get shit through via the other governing bodies.

 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-is-privately-pushing-aides-to-go-“bigger”-on-tariffs-floats-idea-of-universal-tariff-rate-on-imports-feels-first-term-advisors-were-“too-soft”.1148706/

One of the dumbest posters.

[Eric Cartman]

I would have just posted this in Kulturkampf but part of it started to sound so familiar...

I envy the Palestinians. Not for what they’re going through, obviously, but for what they have. Their supremely authentic culture, with its deep roots and ancient connection to the land.

One of the very, very few good things that the Gaza holocaust has brought into this world is a deluge of footage of Palestinians living their lives, interacting with each other and relating to their loved ones as they find ways to get by in this nightmare. Westerners like me have been quietly watching these video clips on our little screens in our homes, and watching the various films, documentaries and shows that have been made about Palestinian life over the years, and taking it all in.

And it’s just so very moving. Palestinians are such amazingly beautiful people. How tender they are with each other. How real and organic their spirituality is. How deeply they love their culture in all its unique expressions. How profoundly intimate their connections with each other are, both between individuals and with their community as a whole.

I’m a white Australian. We just don’t experience such things. The indigenous inhabitants of this land were massacred, robbed and displaced just as the Palestinians are today, and my ancestors were brought to this continent from Ireland and Scotland by circumstances beyond their control. Now for the most part it’s just this shallow, vapid civilization whose primary cultural identity consists of not getting too worked up about things. We live with this perpetual vague state of alienation and dysphoria buzzing in the background of our consciousness, because we have no roots here.

My husband Tim is an American of Irish descent and has had much the same experience. That’s just what it’s like for white people in the colonized world. We have no connectedness. No historical depth. No real culture. No real grounding. That’s why we’re always reaching around for something other than what we have, whether it’s more money and more possessions or a return to the religion of our grandparents or New Age spirituality or substance abuse. Our experience here just doesn’t feel quite right. We don’t feel like we belong.

Then we look at the Palestinians and how starkly their society contrasts with our own, and we can’t help but feel a sense of deep longing. They live so naturally and so warmly. It just looks right.

And I am quite certain Israelis feel the same way when they look at Palestinians. Here they are with this ridiculously fake culture of AI and electronic dance music, speaking a strange new version of a dead language that Zionists reanimated a few generations ago so they could LARP as middle easterners and pretend the “Israel” of today has anything whatsoever in common with the historic Israel of Biblical times. And then they look over at the people who were living there before them with their deep roots and vibrant authenticity, and they feel envy. And their envy turns to spite. And their spite turns to hate. And their hate turns to genocide.

There are other reasons for the hatred Israelis feel toward Palestinians, to be sure — the entire apartheid state depends on their being aggressively indoctrinated into viewing the lower-tiered inhabitants of the land as less than human. But jealousy surely plays a part.

And I hope they don’t succeed in wiping out the Palestinians. I hope they don’t succeed in driving them off their land. It would be such a loss to the whole world for a thing of such beauty to be snapped from its roots and cast into the dustbin of history. Apart from all the other reasons to feel heartbroken about the abuses we are witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank, there’s the fact that our world is losing one of the most breathtakingly beautiful things it has ever birthed into existence.

If these freaks succeed in stomping out Palestine, I think it will genuinely feel like losing a loved one. I think many people around the world will feel the same way.

I desperately hope this doesn’t happen. If I were a different sort of person with a different sort of spirituality, I would say I pray this doesn’t happen. In a world that’s increasingly fake and fraudulent, we can’t afford to lose Palestine.

I mean... I'd have thought most of the countries around them openly talking about exterminating them as sub human and indirectly funding attacks against them which include blowing up schoolbuses filled with children, converting all the aid they give into rockets to fire at them, and - seems kinda recently! - running into a music festival and slaughtering / abducting a bunch of people just going to a fucking music festival might have more to do with it

[Eric Cartman]

Also:

More than 1,200 scientists who responded to a Nature poll

Roughly 1,650 people completed the survey.

Many of the 1,608 respondents who answered the question

- more than a quarter (~408) of respondents aren't scientists
- ~40 people didn't bother answering that question in the survey

[StandingOvation]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ai-is-going-to-win.1148679/

And locked in 25 minutes 

But not before getting dogpiled by the other Ree-tards   

I expect a ban soon!

2 week ban for ‘creating a troll thread’ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Eric Cartman]

I think things would have been different during the Cold War. But after the Wall fell and the world globalized most Americans came to assume they could just export themselves to any country they want whenever they want with no trouble because they can travel there with little effort.

I think it might just be that 'Murica is a big fucking country thats basically isolated and most americans don't even leave their own state, let alone bother to see how the rest of the world works.

4 hour plane trip from middle america, and the biggest culture shock you'll likely have is whatever the local specialty food is.
4 hour plane trip from middle of europe and youve got entirely different language, foods, architecture, fashion, etc

[Eric Cartman]

Yeah the reason Hasan jokes like that about his house value is because it's obviously absurd to be calling a 5 bedroom 3 million dollar house in LA a mansion.

[Nintex]

Biggest issue is the US had genuine connections to Europe that no longer exist. Through relationships between soldiers and European girls, jewish families that migrated to the US and closely working together to rebuild Europe and keep it safe from communism during the Cold War.

WW2 is now 4 or 5 generations behind us. Guys like Pete and JD just have 0 connection to that shared history. The latino, African, indian and asian Americans even less and a majority of muslims doesn't even believe the Holocaust was real.

[Snoopy]

They could've stopped WW2 almost immediately if someone had bothered to park his car on the Polish border

[HaughtyFrank]

Yeah the reason Hasan jokes like that about his house value is because it's obviously absurd to be calling a 5 bedroom 3 million dollar house in LA a mansion.

What is it about Hasan that makes them lose any critical thinking?

[killamajig]

What do you mean?

Hasan and Vivian are refreshing voices with all of the toxicity out there. Both of them would make great democrat politicians

[ClothedMac]

The sad thing is they've banned all the interesting posters that had something to say, or at least could be baited into a retard slap fight. I can't remember the last time I bothered to log in. I just scroll past all the banal bullshit, looking for someone that might be worth trolling but there never is. I noticed one of them is actually trying to copy Echoes. That's how bad it's become

I was thinking about that and how you don't see the same conspiracy thinking going on or populating threads.  In their path for unity of mind they didn't just erase the centrist thinkers but also the wacky leftists.  There are less crazies to laugh at.  It's less interesting place.  

https://www.resetera.com/threads/im-not-sure-im-in-a-healthy-relationship-and-i-need-some-advice-spoilers-for-adolescence.1147935/

TL;DR: Fiancé got mad when discussing Adolescence and incel/manosphere culture. Accused me of defending it for taking time to learn how bad the problem has gotten and watching content creators that critique and fight it. Shut down any attempts to defend myself or explain what was being misunderstood. Having this happen throughout the relationship, and her general anger issues, is making me question whether I want to get married.

Bad news Axumite...sounds like your fiancé is an era poster herself.

I'm amazed Visawife hasn't rushed in to offer his expert advice. Probably busy checking the padlocks on his cellar door

Has Excelsiorif made a thread yet about how bad Adolescence is yet?  She enters every thread about the subject and confuses (as she always, always does) depiction with support. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/im-not-sure-im-in-a-healthy-relationship-and-i-need-some-advice-spoilers-for-adolescence.1147935/

TL;DR: Fiancé got mad when discussing Adolescence and incel/manosphere culture. Accused me of defending it for taking time to learn how bad the problem has gotten and watching content creators that critique and fight it. Shut down any attempts to defend myself or explain what was being misunderstood. Having this happen throughout the relationship, and her general anger issues, is making me question whether I want to get married.

Bad news Axumite...sounds like your fiancé is an era poster herself.

She really sounds like an Era poster. She's mad at Andrew Tate but since she can't yell at Tate she'll yell at her fiance even though he has done nothing but be supportive, ironically playing right into the manosphere

I think he has proposed to excelsiorif

[Polident]

Yeah the reason Hasan jokes like that about his house value is because it's obviously absurd to be calling a 5 bedroom 3 million dollar house in LA a mansion.

What is it about Hasan that makes them loose any critical thinking?

Think they’ve spent their adult lives bouncing from one fanboy cult to the next. They’ve never grown up and matured into their own persons. It’s the same attitude and fervor for Sony or Marvel or whatever. 

When the PS3 first launched, Sony didn’t want to pay for rumble motors in the sixaxis. These types argued how with motion controls, you don’t need rumble motors. By shaking the controller, you become the rumble motors.

[Garfield]

Biggest issue is the US had genuine connections to Europe that no longer exist. Through relationships between soldiers and European girls, jewish families that migrated to the US and closely working together to rebuild Europe and keep it safe from communism during the Cold War.

WW2 is now 4 or 5 generations behind us. Guys like Pete and JD just have 0 connection to that shared history. The latino, African, indian and asian Americans even less and a majority of muslims doesn't even believe the Holocaust was real.

The problem isn't entirely from the American side. The problem is also from the European side- Europe completely abandoning its culture, especially its religion and history, to the point that the Europe, that America felt connected to, no longer exists.

[Garfield]

It's like when people try to say Bernie is a millionaire as a gotcha. Like, OK he is like 100 years old, and you're supposed to have 1-2 million saved up in order to sustain yourself after retirement age and pay for end of life care, what are we doing here lol. Obviously that is a luxury but people try to pretend having the recommended amount of wealth to retire makes you a Rockefeller.

yeah Bernie is just advocating for everyone to have 3 luxury houses like him..oh wait a sec

[Garfield]

I would have just posted this in Kulturkampf but part of it started to sound so familiar...

I envy the Palestinians. Not for what they’re going through, obviously, but for what they have. Their supremely authentic culture, with its deep roots and ancient connection to the land.

One of the very, very few good things that the Gaza holocaust has brought into this world is a deluge of footage of Palestinians living their lives, interacting with each other and relating to their loved ones as they find ways to get by in this nightmare. Westerners like me have been quietly watching these video clips on our little screens in our homes, and watching the various films, documentaries and shows that have been made about Palestinian life over the years, and taking it all in.

And it’s just so very moving. Palestinians are such amazingly beautiful people. How tender they are with each other. How real and organic their spirituality is. How deeply they love their culture in all its unique expressions. How profoundly intimate their connections with each other are, both between individuals and with their community as a whole.

I’m a white Australian. We just don’t experience such things. The indigenous inhabitants of this land were massacred, robbed and displaced just as the Palestinians are today, and my ancestors were brought to this continent from Ireland and Scotland by circumstances beyond their control. Now for the most part it’s just this shallow, vapid civilization whose primary cultural identity consists of not getting too worked up about things. We live with this perpetual vague state of alienation and dysphoria buzzing in the background of our consciousness, because we have no roots here.

My husband Tim is an American of Irish descent and has had much the same experience. That’s just what it’s like for white people in the colonized world. We have no connectedness. No historical depth. No real culture. No real grounding. That’s why we’re always reaching around for something other than what we have, whether it’s more money and more possessions or a return to the religion of our grandparents or New Age spirituality or substance abuse. Our experience here just doesn’t feel quite right. We don’t feel like we belong.

Then we look at the Palestinians and how starkly their society contrasts with our own, and we can’t help but feel a sense of deep longing. They live so naturally and so warmly. It just looks right.

And I am quite certain Israelis feel the same way when they look at Palestinians. Here they are with this ridiculously fake culture of AI and electronic dance music, speaking a strange new version of a dead language that Zionists reanimated a few generations ago so they could LARP as middle easterners and pretend the “Israel” of today has anything whatsoever in common with the historic Israel of Biblical times. And then they look over at the people who were living there before them with their deep roots and vibrant authenticity, and they feel envy. And their envy turns to spite. And their spite turns to hate. And their hate turns to genocide.

There are other reasons for the hatred Israelis feel toward Palestinians, to be sure — the entire apartheid state depends on their being aggressively indoctrinated into viewing the lower-tiered inhabitants of the land as less than human. But jealousy surely plays a part.

And I hope they don’t succeed in wiping out the Palestinians. I hope they don’t succeed in driving them off their land. It would be such a loss to the whole world for a thing of such beauty to be snapped from its roots and cast into the dustbin of history. Apart from all the other reasons to feel heartbroken about the abuses we are witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank, there’s the fact that our world is losing one of the most breathtakingly beautiful things it has ever birthed into existence.

If these freaks succeed in stomping out Palestine, I think it will genuinely feel like losing a loved one. I think many people around the world will feel the same way.

I desperately hope this doesn’t happen. If I were a different sort of person with a different sort of spirituality, I would say I pray this doesn’t happen. In a world that’s increasingly fake and fraudulent, we can’t afford to lose Palestine.

Bitch, Palestinians hate gay people and think they should be stoned to death (not even the good stoned either). What do you think of their "authentic" lifestyle now?

Edit: Oh my, have a look at her poetry if you want a good giggle.

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/

It's hilarious how she will never connect the dots between realizing contemporary liberal culture of getting wasted and people with 1000+ body counts in Australia/US is rotten to the core and the fact that it's her and her liberal friends promoting/forcing down our throats such a culture over the last 60 years.

(In addition to her being completely ignorant of all the things she would criticize Palestinians for if they were white rednecks rather than Muslims.)

Looking at her webpage, it's clear she's an idiot and very naive.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-need-help-what-games-could-i-suggest-to-my-picky-friend.1148892/

Alright friends, hear me out.

I need you to find a game for my friend to play. But it's not easy.
This guy has a TON of games he just would never consider playing.

In his own words, he believes them to be a 'cause for negligence'.

So the following are games and types of games he wouldn't play:

Spoiler: "His way too long list" (click to show)(click to hide)

1. Games on boards with 8 or 10 rows.
   
2. The same games played on imaginary boards.
   
3. Games of marking diagrams on the floor such that the player can only walk on certain places.
   
4. Games where players either remove pieces from a pile or add pieces to it, with the loser being the one who causes the heap to shake.
   
5. Games of throwing dice.
   
6. Dipping the hand with the fingers stretched out in lac, or red dye, or flour-water, and striking the wet hand on the ground or on a wall, calling out "What shall it be?" and showing the form required—elephants, horses, etc..
   
7. Ball games.
   
8. Blowing through a toy pipe made of leaves.
   
9. Ploughing with a toy plough.
   
10. Playing with toy windmills made from palm leaves.
    
11. Playing with toy measures made from palm leaves.
    
12. Playing with toy carts.
    
13. Playing with toy bows.
    
14. Guessing at letters traced with the finger in the air or on a friend's back.
    
15. Guessing a friend's thoughts.
    
16. Imitating deformities.
    
17. Playing with someone's ears, eyes or nose
    

Now, don't get me wrong.
I can get behind some of those, #16 for example is kinda obvious.

But I'm having a really hard time making game suggestions to him. Do you have any ideas?

[Boredfrom]

Biggest issue is the US had genuine connections to Europe that no longer exist. Through relationships between soldiers and European girls, jewish families that migrated to the US and closely working together to rebuild Europe and keep it safe from communism during the Cold War.

WW2 is now 4 or 5 generations behind us. Guys like Pete and JD just have 0 connection to that shared history. The latino, African, indian and asian Americans even less and a majority of muslims doesn't even believe the Holocaust was real.

The problem isn't entirely from the American side. The problem is also from the European side- Europe completely abandoning its culture, especially its religion and history, to the point that the Europe, that America felt connected to, no longer exists.

[StandingOvation]

The sad thing is they've banned all the interesting posters that had something to say, or at least could be baited into a retard slap fight. I can't remember the last time I bothered to log in. I just scroll past all the banal bullshit, looking for someone that might be worth trolling but there never is. I noticed one of them is actually trying to copy Echoes. That's how bad it's become

I’m sure they’ll be back to cream over dubiously aged squid children with Kyuuji when Splatoon 4 is announced next week.

Or maybe this thread will tempt them back...

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-do-you-wish-you-could-do-with-pokemon.1148889/

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/elon-musk-%E2%80%9Cmy-companies-are-suffering%E2%80%A6-i-mean-you-have-tim-walz-running-on-stage-with-joy-at-tesla%E2%80%99s-stock-cut-in-half%E2%80%A6-what-an-evil-thing-to-do-%E2%80%9D.1148736/#post-137668260

A classic aspect of a bully is how quickly they turn around and claim victimhood. He does it so effortlessly because he's just been a bully for the vast majority of his life. I don't believe for one second he genuinely thinks he's done nothing wrong.

[Boredfrom]

it's clear she's an idiot and very naive.

That woman: “there is no white culture”

Garfield: “there is no European culture anymore”

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/unfortunately-i-just-don%E2%80%99t-think-black-panther-wakanda-forever-holds-up.1148913/

[Lonewulfeus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/post-30-era-i-would-like-to-hear-some-dating-success-stories.1148826/#post-137676915

I'm 40 and polyamorous. I met all 4 of my partners in my 30s. My wife and one other patner on OKcupid. One partner on Facebook Dating. The fourth at a work conference.

Honestly, dating certainly feels easier for me as I get older than it was in my twenties.

[Garfield]

it's clear she's an idiot and very naive.

That woman: “there is no white culture”

Garfield: “there is no European culture anymore”

The "idiot and naive" quote was about her Palestine views/views on war in general.

Regarding her culture views, she doesn't realize that her side is the one promoting the rot of our culture.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Just laugh and move on, Boredfrom.

[books]

User admits using Twitter to harass people:

Childish I know but I still use it to say the most horrible things I can think of to the worst people around.
I was responsible for one of Adam Sessler's crashouts shortly before he deleted all of his socials so I'm chasing that dragon I guess

 
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thr-elon-musk’s-ai-company-officially-acquires-x-in-45b-deal.1148457/page-3#post-137661390

This guy probably put Etika over the edge for the lolz. Fn bastard.

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/unfortunately-i-just-don%E2%80%99t-think-black-panther-wakanda-forever-holds-up.1148913/

It wasn't that good but the Latino representation was pretty awesome. Saw it in a theater in a Latino neighborhood and people were pretty ecstatic about it. Shame that Namor actor is a POS. Hoping we get more representation in the MCU

Era: "I saw people with my skin color so I clapped."