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

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-palestine-the-ongoing-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-icj-orders-halt-to-israeli-offensive-on-rafah-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-443#post-133740558

A lot of it is a lot easier to understand when you remember that ResetEra is a direct off-shoot of a forum in NeoGAF that very gleefully had its own "Draw Muhammad Day." I don't doubt many of the same people drifted over here. Basically a direct "fuck you" to its own very liberal Muslim community.

This place is not the actual left-wing's wet dream. When even a default reddit sub of all things like r/news has its head on a lot more straight when it comes to Palestine, that's all you really need to know. Because that bar is subterranean.

ResetEra is the most bizarre "progressive" forum I have ever been a part of, by far, both at once beautiful and open yet in some ways also oddly reactionary and regressive, and even conservative. I tend to charitably think people hate religion as a whole here so much that it also extends to Muslims, and they deeply struggle with some makeshift cognitive dissonance there, that doesn't actually exist.

Guys, I think he's figuring it out.

The best plot line running through Marvel movies is how they solved the energy crisis, have magical alien technology, time travel, etc. yet everything is exactly the same as it is in our world. There’s the detail in Watchmen that all cars are electric, because Manhattan and Veidt made it happen. Maybe BP lobbies against Hulk and Goku and whatever.

Speaking of politics this is an amusing one to contrast with their reaction to Snyder, where they were outraged that the films depicted a world and characters both effected by and responding in various ways to just the existence of Superman. They prefer the safety of the MCU where literal gods fly around and the status quo of our world remains completely unchanged. Where half of everyone disappears for five years, possibly the most traumatic event in human history, and nobody talks about it much. These guys bitch about how evil everyone else in our society is, but they got upset that the Snyderverse's masses didn't embrace Superman immediately and few trusted him. "Missing the point of Superman." Or taking the character and concept seriously in a world where some people are willing to draw Muhammed.

Arguably you could expand this to an overall DC vs. Marvel thing because that's how the comics are. The Marvel Universe even has the same President as our world, there's been six decades plus with zero technological trickle-down from anything that's happened since Reed Richards launched that space flight. (Ultimate Marvel was different however.) DC comes up with elaborately stupid explanations for why their universe tracks ours so closely in design. (Essentially our world is the actual "true" Earth in DC that the others are vibrations of.) Though they from time to time do show that there's been a trickle-out through LexCorp and Wayne Enterprises at minimum, so the DC Universe often seems to be a few years ahead of ours. I'd argue that it is especially so in medical technology, there's remarkably little death.

Oop, sorry, didn't mean to take this literature seriously rather than just imbibe the "message" and "politics" to know what I should be screaming at others to achieve basic human decency. GET ORGANIZING LIKE THE AVENGERS!