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

[Ethan]

Oh, you don't get it?  You don't understand the theory?

Turns out it doesn't accelerate organization and revolution.
It just makes people want to tune out politics.
Who could have seen that coming?

[nachobro]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/lesbians-and-wlw-of-era-i-summon-you-what-would-be-your-dream-wlw-and-lesbian-video-games.1087758/

even resettis are done with this one

[DocWager]

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Oh, you don't get it?  You don't understand the theory?

Turns out it doesn't accelerate organization and revolution.
It just makes people want to tune out politics.
Who could have seen that coming?

It’s like it’s the 80’s all over again.

You doomed us you dumb fucks!

[DavidCroquet]

   

Forum Aggregation and You (Ignoring threads that are damaging to your mental health or you might not want to see)

By going to this link you can actually turn on and off various forums and subforums. This will be expanded in the next few weeks on gaming side, along with an update to the prefix system, to allow for people to better filter threads they might be interested in, along with a bunch of other big site updates, but given the events of the day it was felt this should be posted here and now.

If you would like to ignore any political threads, due to them being mentally draining and damaging, you can do so by going to the above link and unchecking the box next to "US Politics" and then hitting the save button at the bottom of the screen. You can then turn it back on at any point by going back to this page and checking the box.

We hope this helps people better manage their mental health while browsing Era.

   

How long till they just ban all political threads?

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/#post-134636202

I am already rubbing my palms together in glee at the thought of the "wrong" thread being labeled politics, and the OP vs. mods + safespace posters vs. OP cagematches to follow.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-cross-cultural-exchange-on-rednote-is-quite-cool.1087548/

"Guys, we're not coomer social media addicts, we're uh...freedom fighters queer liberationists ethnographically curious!"

Unsurprisingly this thread has barely any traction. Seems the allure of the "cross-cultural exchange" really dimmed once TikTok was back online.

I wish the TikTok drama had lasted longer. What a riot.

Messo, fucking Messo, the guy who will pull up his dossier to inform you that the youtuber you just posted once uttered the word "retard" 10 years ago, completely uncritically posting videos of a complete and total CCP shill who also happens to have a lot of videos about how great Russia is.

Holy fuck, be an idiot if you want, but don't be such a hypocritical idiot.

[kaleidoscopium]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/lesbians-and-wlw-of-era-i-summon-you-what-would-be-your-dream-wlw-and-lesbian-video-games.1087758/

even resettis are done with this one

It’s just… so unintentionally funny. The muffins bit killed me

[NekoFever]

Funny that we never hear from intersex people themselves. Almost as if they only exist as hypothetical for arguments.

Also, pretty sure this definition would still apply to intersex, kinefelter whatever, because no one would produce sperm and eggs

Use of the word "intersex" is a tell. The correct current year term is "Differences/Disorders of Sexual Development"

Going around saying Intersex is like still using the word transsexual

They like ‘intersex’ because it makes it sound like some third sex, neither male nor female, which destroys the gender binary, whereas the proper term sounds like, you know, regular men and women who happen to have some kind of disordered sexual development.

They’re basically arguing that we shouldn’t call humans a bipedal species because people with one leg exist.

[DavidCroquet]

I wish the TikTok drama had lasted longer. What a riot.

Quoting myself because I may yet get my wish!


https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-apparently-called-tiktok-worthless-is-his-first-day-back-in-white-house-questions-raised-on-if-hell-actually-save-it.1087761/

While conspiracy theories(meta secret purchase etc) on this have run rampant, in the back of my mind I had my own.

[killamajig]

Good to see Era get the Venezuelan to apologize for making negative remarks about a murderous Venezuelan drug cartel.   Era logic: USA=Bad   Everyone else=Good  


ResetEra, where hypocrisy is always in full bloom and "tail wagging the dog" theroy is in full effect. Things go the wrong way over there. Men telling women what to do, whites telling minorities what's good for them, rich lazy suburbans living with their parents and no real struggles feeling oppressed, fat guys saying they are starving etc. 

What kind of willful idiot do you have to be to not see the Emperor has no clothes? 

NepNep parading around unclothed while her subjects praise the beauty of her new attire, as we laugh and point at their foolishness.

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-not-confident-in-gaza-ceasefire-expected-to-lift-us-suspension-of-2000-lb-bombs-to-israel-and-reverse-sanctions-on-west-bank-settlers.1087860/#post-134655426

Well, this fucking sucks. And I'd like to make a plea for those thinking it's a good time for schadenfreude that it is absolutely not that time. Opposition to Trump needs to be united again.

If we're not united in going to the polls, what's there to unite about? Huffing Nepenthe's farts?

[Uncle]

I would like to give my current working theory. I would love if any of our Trans Friends can add on or give any enlightenment

In my opinion, Trans people represent the future of the human race and our civilization. We have lived life and have been raised in a society that was developed on strict gender roles and identity. Transgender identity breaks all that to the core.

Trans people have existed since the beginning of humanity and could be found with traces in virtually every community across the world. We have knowledge of societies where it was even respected and revered amongst the people

But it's only now on the modern day that trans people have pushed for more social acceptance and visibility and our current society is pushing back on that hard

The vast majority of our power structures in the US gain most of their power by positioning people into believing specific gender identities and roles. Being Trans breaks all that.

Being Trans represents that a human is defined by no strict label and that our gender identity is far more sophisticated than our simple sex organs or sexual orientation.

What I notice regarding Trans Rights issues is that people feel challenged by the idea. They are confused because the very existence of a Trans person disrupts their programming. I do think a lot of this stems from the pure basis that Gay Sex doesn't produce life… but even in a SciFi world where same sex couples could produce life, I know without a damn doubt those children would immediately be considered second class humans overall, we know how humanity works

If we want to evolve past these issues, the core problem that people are having trouble with is having to define "What is a Man"

"What is a Woman"

And what I've found is people are not willing to do the work. They aren't willing to sit down and examine those questions and find a real answer that will support their ideals and reaffirm their identity

It's easier to hate. It's easier to tell someone they are wrong. It's easier to attack them and paint them as an abberation of nature. Because the other solution requires work.

It requires study, and it requires empathy. But in a society that loves to thrive on invisible class systems, everyone just got a new class tier to step on and on top of that, they are a massive minority so no real opposition there

You dumb fucker, talking like Trans people are the X-Men. Pls, go fuck yourself and let your political side heal from you retards.

I actually disagree with your assessment here

reading between the lines of this post? digitalop just openly said "but really, what IS a woman? you have to have a good answer for this, trans people"

he just had to couch it in 37 layers of "I wuv u youse are teh bestest bravest slay girl" or he would've been banned

[Ethan]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-cross-cultural-exchange-on-rednote-is-quite-cool.1087548/

"Guys, we're not coomer social media addicts, we're uh...freedom fighters queer liberationists ethnographically curious!"

Unsurprisingly this thread has barely any traction. Seems the allure of the "cross-cultural exchange" really dimmed once TikTok was back online.

I wish the TikTok drama had lasted longer. What a riot.

Messo, fucking Messo, the guy who will pull up his dossier to inform you that the youtuber you just posted once uttered the word "retard" 10 years ago, completely uncritically posting videos of a complete and total CCP shill who also happens to have a lot of videos about how great Russia is.

Holy fuck, be an idiot if you want, but don't be such a hypocritical idiot.

This one didn't age well :


Many videos with a certain convicted pedo as well.
Not the due diligence we have come to expect from Messo

[DocWager]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/lesbians-and-wlw-of-era-i-summon-you-what-would-be-your-dream-wlw-and-lesbian-video-games.1087758/

even resettis are done with this one

Somebody just call this person out for being a creep already.

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-not-confident-in-gaza-ceasefire-expected-to-lift-us-suspension-of-2000-lb-bombs-to-israel-and-reverse-sanctions-on-west-bank-settlers.1087860/page-2#post-134656254

Wish people would stop trying to use these threads as some type of gotcha. It's annoying.

Palestine, Corporate regulation, Trans genocide...guys, can we instead focus on what's really important? Protecting my right to dodge accountability and ensuring that my feefees aren't hurt when people point out accurately that I am a retard.

[killamajig]

   

Forum Aggregation and You (Ignoring threads that are damaging to your mental health or you might not want to see)

By going to this link you can actually turn on and off various forums and subforums. This will be expanded in the next few weeks on gaming side, along with an update to the prefix system, to allow for people to better filter threads they might be interested in, along with a bunch of other big site updates, but given the events of the day it was felt this should be posted here and now.

If you would like to ignore any political threads, due to them being mentally draining and damaging, you can do so by going to the above link and unchecking the box next to "US Politics" and then hitting the save button at the bottom of the screen. You can then turn it back on at any point by going back to this page and checking the box.

We hope this helps people better manage their mental health while browsing Era.

   

How long till they just ban all political threads?

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/#post-134636202

I am already rubbing my palms together in glee at the thought of the "wrong" thread being labeled politics, and the OP vs. mods + safespace posters vs. OP cagematches to follow.

Yep. No matter how political trans topics will be they wont dare make them blockable and then the other cliques will want that carve out too.

[nachobro]

Somebody just call this person out for being a creep already.

FACT CHECK: it is extremely normal and not at all weird to constantly bring up the sexual orientation of a video game character


https://www.resetera.com/threads/unpopular-fighting-game-opinions.462921/page-85#post-134653935

[killamajig]

And yeah on average a Chinese person's money is going to go roughly twice as far, though that'll be unevenly spread. Food will be much, much cheaper, while manufactured goods, less of a difference. And some of that cheapness on food on this like food is because the guy making it is making a wage that would be unimaginable in a more developed country. But things are cheaper, so he's able to eat and house and clothe himself fine, even if his house is probably smaller than would even be legal to build in most of America.

That's right! Don't fall for that American propaganda. That Chinese guy is "able to eat and house and clothe himself fine" because things are cheaper. It all just works out, okay? Just don't ask how i know this. 

[kaleidoscopium]

Please tag threads appropriately, don't need or want to be reminded of what was exceedingly obvious to anyone with a few brain cells to rub together

tag your threads properly this should not have made contact with my eyes

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-not-confident-in-gaza-ceasefire-expected-to-lift-us-suspension-of-2000-lb-bombs-to-israel-and-reverse-sanctions-on-west-bank-settlers.1087860/#post-134655339

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/january-20-2025-trump-signs-executive-order-that-mandates-withdrawal-from-un-agreements-on-climate-change-and-from-the-paris-agreement.1087308/#post-134628969

Thing with The Happening is that was just total punishment of all of humanity.

But climate change isn't all of humanity's fault, because not all of humanity consented to this system or has power within it.

It's honestly like a few thousand niggas that are consciously, directly responsible- billionaires, fossil fuel barons, those in the military industrial complex, and pro-capitalist politicians.

There's 8 billion of the rest of us though....

We could, like...take 'em.

We need the head done like the Che Guevara print.

Bitch, you won't even give up Twitter or video games. You live in the suburbs and own a car. YOU'RE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE, just like the rest of us!

[kaleidoscopium]

Did the voters "punishing" and protest voting Biden and Harris over Gaza really think Trump would have a better stance on this and do better ?

Sheesh

No. The point was that abetting genocide was a step too far for some voters.

Democrats could've easily remedied this conundrum by not abetting genocide.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-not-confident-in-gaza-ceasefire-expected-to-lift-us-suspension-of-2000-lb-bombs-to-israel-and-reverse-sanctions-on-west-bank-settlers.1087860/page-2#post-134657199

[benji]

Real heroes delete their problematic tweets mere days after posting them

Jeff deleted all the tweets but this one.

The unfortunate reality is that Americans are proving that they don't just not understand trans people but they don't understand nonbinary fluid spectrums at all. They are confused and they are frightened and they are resisting and they are rejecting. People want their simple comfortable binaries, and to that end we will undo a decade's worth of progress if not more, and it doesn't matter if it's in rejection of ongoing scientific study because this is about language and this is about culture (though it definitely doesn't help that American culture is rapidly becoming anti-science).

But sex is a binary and that's science. There are no non-binary sexed humans. There are no humans on a sex spectrum. There are no humans with a fluid sex.

Doesn't that, uh, include the ones that killed cops? I'm not even surprised.

Nobody on January 6th killed any cops. That was a false media claim. The cops went 1-0 on Jan 6th.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-to-sign-orders-ending-diversity-programs-proclaim-there-are-only-two-sexes.1087110/page-3#post-134631462

Having the government recognize my gender was affirming and losing that affirmation hurts. It's upsetting to see a President decree a bunch of hateful lies, and fwiw him denying climate change doesn't make it any less real. Same goes for your truth and mine.

It is not a lie that there are only two sexes. You denying this because you hate your own messed up beliefs about gender does not make it real.

I would like to give my current working theory. I would love if any of our Trans Friends can add on or give any enlightenment

In my opinion, Trans people represent the future of the human race and our civilization. We have lived life and have been raised in a society that was developed on strict gender roles and identity. Transgender identity breaks all that to the core.

Trans people have existed since the beginning of humanity and could be found with traces in virtually every community across the world. We have knowledge of societies where it was even respected and revered amongst the people

But it's only now on the modern day that trans people have pushed for more social acceptance and visibility and our current society is pushing back on that hard

The vast majority of our power structures in the US gain most of their power by positioning people into believing specific gender identities and roles. Being Trans breaks all that.

Being Trans represents that a human is defined by no strict label and that our gender identity is far more sophisticated than our simple sex organs or sexual orientation.

What I notice regarding Trans Rights issues is that people feel challenged by the idea. They are confused because the very existence of a Trans person disrupts their programming.

Your claims are false. Trans reifies gender as material. No known society believed in trans identity let alone respected it. Many societies placed effeminate men in lesser tiers than masculine men. You want to take this even further and declare it material reality that any man who doesn't conform to your messed up beliefs about what being a man is must not be a man and must be a woman. This is misogynistic drivel you want forced into material reality by the state because you're a totalitarian.

Nothing about trans disrupts my programming, it confirms my beliefs about totalitarian cultists who wish to use the power of the state to harm people who don't believe what they do and force them into pretending to believe utter nonsense. You are just the latest example in a history littered with them.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cnn-33-of-all-americans-express-a-favorable-view-of-the-democratic-party-an-all-time-low-in-cnns-polling-dating-back-to-1992.1086531/page-6#post-134605161
https://www.resetera.com/threads/cnn-33-of-all-americans-express-a-favorable-view-of-the-democratic-party-an-all-time-low-in-cnns-polling-dating-back-to-1992.1086531/page-6#post-134632053

It requires doing the actual work. At multiple points throughout US history major political parties have risen and fallen. The Federalists, the Anti-Federalists, the Whigs, the Know-Nothings, the Bull Moose, the Democratic-Republicans, and so on and so forth. The difference between all of the ones that rose up and what's going on now is that nobody is actually doing the work needed.

This is factually wrong.

The Federalists fell, there were only the Democratic-Republicans which then split into the Democrats and Whigs. The Whigs refused to become anti-slavery so the only risen third party in American history the Republicans replaced them.

The Anti-Federalists were not a party they pre-date the Constitution. The Know Nothings were a short-lived remnant of the collapsing Whigs that only mattered in two elections. The Bull Moose Party was a personal vehicle for Teddy Roosevelt that ceased to exist after the sole election it ran in.

The difference between the Republicans in 1852-1860 and all third parties today (or since) is that there is no issue that anyone is willing to break from the dominant political culture on like they did and slavery. The Populists/People's Party could have been this but they willingly joined the Democrats instead.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/january-20-2025-trump-signs-executive-order-that-mandates-withdrawal-from-un-agreements-on-climate-change-and-from-the-paris-agreement.1087308/#post-134628969

We need the Happening irl to wake people up. The planet will fight back.

Thing with The Happening is that was just total punishment of all of humanity.

But climate change isn't all of humanity's fault, because not all of humanity consented to this system or has power within it.

It's honestly like a few thousand niggas that are consciously, directly responsible- billionaires, fossil fuel barons, those in the military industrial complex, and pro-capitalist politicians.

There's 8 billion of the rest of us though....

We could, like...take 'em.

This is absolutely false, those people couldn't possibly be responsible for all CO2 emissions in human history especially the ones that predate their being alive. Also note how American-centric her false belief is, she's talking about Americans when America has slashed CO2 emissions dramatically over the last few decades but it's irrelevant because the GLOBAL SOUTH and China have more than replaced the difference. 

Lol what stupid circular logic. "Sex determines the reproductive cells you make, the reproductive cells you make determine your sex".

What about intersex people? Or people with certain conditions like Kleinfelter's?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/congratulations-by-executive-order-everyone-is-now-a-woman-somehow-not-the-onion.1087461/#post-134640009

Those people are either male or female. There is no third sex.

The executive order "allows" Trump nothing like that. An executive order cannot grant such a power. Trump, like all Presidents, is allowed that power because Congress granted it 50 years ago with the War Powers Act and subsequent legislation.

[DavidCroquet]

tag your threads properly this should not have made contact with my eyes

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-not-confident-in-gaza-ceasefire-expected-to-lift-us-suspension-of-2000-lb-bombs-to-israel-and-reverse-sanctions-on-west-bank-settlers.1087860/#post-134655339

Hold up: isn't Kiyamet a full on HamasEra poster? Why doesn't he want to see this? Why would he be trying to reduce visibility on the plight of those suffering in Gaza by policing the tags here?

[Boredfrom]

Fucking effingvc and Hamas ERA cynicism. Bitching about Biden for a year and some, but suddenly incapable of doing it against Trump. They knew that Trump wasn’t going to change a thing outside cheap showmanship for the Dutch, but they were so mad about Biden to think that the orange asshole that insulted your religion and people for years was not better.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/chuck-schumer-still-thinks-bipartisanship-is-the-way-as-of-today.1087395/#post-134634087

User banned (1 week): inflammatory commentary

Modern Dems would be Nazi collaborators to the very end.

Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds. The second dems were content with throwing trans people under the bus, I knew this would be the case.

Hit BlueMAGA hollers.

[benji]

Lol what stupid circular logic. "Sex determines the reproductive cells you make, the reproductive cells you make determine your sex".

Actually, I realized this isn't remotely circular logic at all if you understand what sex actually is and what its biological purpose is.  

They hate the science so much they essentially want to eliminate biology as real and demand that it must be defined from nothing. As if the entire reason we exist in the first place has no role at all in how it's defined.

It's some kind of ancient humans must not be animals religious shit.

[Boredfrom]

How many Trans Activists went full on tirades against Israel and Biden? Not because they give a shit about the conflict, but because social media brain rot.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

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

User banned (1 month): sinophobic rhetoric

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/get-a-load-of-this-fucking-weirdo.1087434/

the dumbest thing is that the opposite of non-binary would be binary

but you don't see people going around with their profile tagged gender: binary

are you a man or a woman? yes

fucking pick something, non-binary isn't option 3, it's a whole category of idiocy, so settle on one of em

[DavidCroquet]

Fucking effingvc and Hamas ERA cynicism. Bitching about Biden for a year and some, but suddenly incapable of doing it against Trump. They knew that Trump wasn’t going to change a thing outside cheap showmanship for the Dutch, but they were so mad about Biden to think that the orange asshole that insulted your religion and people for years was not better.

yes yes, trump bad, we know! as principled non-voters, we are well aware that trump would not be better than Biden. What you always fail to mention is what we were actually trying to accomplish by withholding our votes, which is <ERROR: FILE NOT FOUND>!

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/space-x-to-space-reich-elon-musk%E2%80%99s-salute-on-tv-gone-wrong-right.1087218/page-2#post-134615892

User Banned (2 Weeks): Dismissing Concerns of Fascism

I think Elon is a gigantic piece of shit.

I also think to the extent this was intentional, it was probably done by that shitbag "for the lolz" to get the left to cry bloody murder about it.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/space-x-to-space-reich-elon-musk%E2%80%99s-salute-on-tv-gone-wrong-right.1087218/page-8#post-134622858

User banned (permanent): troll account

Elon Musk and Donald Trump are nazis. And they're just the tip of the iceberg...

Fuck the dems for not doing shit for the past four years, aside from bending over backwards to gargle nazi balls. It's safe at this point to assume most of them are in on it, and/or have had some kind of severe brain damage. The whole system is irreparably corrupt.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/space-x-to-space-reich-elon-musk%E2%80%99s-salute-on-tv-gone-wrong-right.1087218/page-10#post-134625909

User Banned (Permanent): Advocating murder

I see quite a few people in this thread feeling forced to self-censor out of fear of being banned for expressing their true opinions. However, if a ban is the price for speaking my mind on this, so be it. Elon is a genuinely fucking terrible man who is an undeniable net negative for global society, not just the US. I truly hope that some Luigi-like character, puts a stop to him before he causes (even more) irreversible damage on a massive scale.
Fuck Elon Musk forever and then some

User Banned (2 Weeks): Agreeing with post advocating violence

Yes