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

[kaleidoscopium]

TW: Article includes quotes containing Transphobia, Homophobia, and bigotry.

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-135108933

I remember kids like this from when I was growing up. Like the kid who my dad threatened to beat the shit out of when he found out said kid carved a Swastika on the computer desk in our basement office during an overnight gaming party. "I should be able to say and do whatever I want with no consequences!!!!!!"

Totally happened exactly like that

[Hap Shaughnessy]

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.

[Taco Bell Tower]

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.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-are-your-thoughts-on-polyamory-and-ethical-non-monogamy.1096596/
entremetGPT

Since Valentine's Day is coming, some romantic topics are coming your way.

It's totally NOT my thing, but I can't yuck anyone's yum. I've actually read a lot about of it since I'm a very curious person and I've always enjoyed seeing how people navigate alternative lifestyles. Non-conformity is a fascinating thing, especially where monogamy is completely the dominant model. Many folks that practice these lifestyles keep it a secret to avoid societal censure.

What I can appreciate as a monogamous person is the more autonomy and lack of jealousy I see in more evolved couples that practice this. I never liked the implied "ownership" model of traditional marriage. Meaning, putting all your eggs into the basket of one person, cohabiting with them, and that's it. But, still that's more where I lean.

Moreover, looking at modern and ancient tribes, this seemed to be norm? I'm no anthropologist.

To define things, polyamory comes from "multiple loves", so they're basically relationships. Ethical non monogamy usually means a couple that has casual encounters with others, either alone, or as a group. There is no "love bond". Swingers are probably the more well known of this type.

But each of these have tons of ways of practicing them. I remember reading about non hierarchical polyamory which was completely different from other models.

And I also like the communications systems many of these folks develop. I think us monogamous folks can learn from the way they handle things like communication and codependency issues that can bubble up on monogamous couplings.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Yes I am in a relationship with my three discord kittens girlfriends. No I've never met them offline but we are in love and I am in the process of running away from the US to live with one of them.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

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.

[nachobro]

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.

Does he know who is currently the President, and for the second time?

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

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? 

[benji]

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.

Dude lives in fucking Chicago. Elected Republicans basically don't exist.

And this kind of shit almost never comes up in local races unless you specifically are running on it like some kind of lunatic.

How was he "pressured into not doing so"? By who? You just run and lose, big fucking deal.

Not surprised that somebody there can't even defend atheism to others though.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Uhm, chuddie? A real politician would lie about their religion for the betterment for their district. It's called being selfless. 

[Boredfrom]

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.

Choose one.

[Propagandhim]

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

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

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

[TacoWallace]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-many-games-you-plan-to-buy-in-february-february-2025-releases.1096683/

What is the point of a shittily formatted list that takes forever to scroll through? There are literally tons of AI websites that do it better.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

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.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Excuse me. Mao would have let the children do a glorious cultural revolution before sending them to the fields.

[Kyon1988]

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.

This guy is everything. Japan expert, politician, actor

[Propagandhim]

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.

Lol, I really hate this mentality.  My qualifications for battling fascism are... height, whiteness, and the high school accolade i repeat in my mind every night before i go to sleep.  I love how the proof that he's been thinking about entering politics is the list of a bunch of arbitrary, unrelated characteristics completely out of the periphery of doing the job correctly and unrelated to experience or anything important.  And just being a reactionary to Trump.    But because it's Resetera, he's not endorsing that those characteristics be whats important for being successful but lamenting (or probably pretending to lament them) them as what's necessary to win in the system.  It's like a way to indicate, "People care about this stupid bullshit in politics so I guess that means I should follow through and do it because that's how this shitty world works".  But then he pivots to AOC and says "maybe if a white guy did it..."    So much for "sit down, shut up and listen" or giving the mic to the marginalized voices that go unheard or "perhaps we should improve society somewhat".  What we need to do is perpetuate everything i'm complaining about.     This reminded me of what they do with Hassan.  "Put Hasan in front of everyone's screens."  "Hassan needs to be the face of our party."  Uhh why?  "Because he's a masculine, handsome, white-adjacent, tall, gymrat that often engages in toxic masculinity which is bad, and it sucks but thats what we need right now.  Look, I don't like bodyshaming and I dont think you should reward people in their careers based on how they look, and objectifying people is wrong, but that's just how this works and we need to win."     

So cynical.  Yeah, political effectiveness is just a shallow amusement - a show to watch to express team sports. It isn't about policy, ability to compromise, having ideas that resonate with people, getting people on your side and having conversations with them and understanding where they come from, challenging deeply held convictions and being open to new ones, but rather about hitting the demographic sweet spot and having the right bone structure or whatever and then complaining about how shallow the horse and pony show is later on.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

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.

[benji]

Also I need to play GTA 6 on PS5 Pro and daddy needs the price to go down

Can't like this post because of its desperate need for paragraphs.

[Propagandhim]

What am I, Walt Whitman?

[Polident]

Back in high school, as a joke I ran for class president against some top of the class ambitious girl. Nobody liked her, so they ended up voting for me. Emerging victorious as a political outsider, I forfeited my title knowing I wasn’t the right choice. Among other reasons. Maybe if Trump also has a buddy with a GameCube 4” LCD screen, things would’ve been different in 2016.

[Taco Bell Tower]

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.

This is the one who went apeshit over Concord's failure but the bold, get him NepNep! 

[Daffy Duck]

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.

Thank you for this, reposting for visibility 

❤️

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Can't find Nola's ban. I'm starting to suspect that he was privately liquidated.

[Chudder Barbarity]

Not that much with the EN side of things. Many of their identities are open secret.

Honestly, I don’t mind they don’t being attractive IRL, but more that the avatar allow them to be more “open” than not having it. I said before, but Hololive sometimes feels like Giant Bomb at its best:



PD: Potato, words matter.

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.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-ban-on-gun-sales-to-adults-under-age-21-is-unconstitutional-under-bruen-court-rules.1096461/#post-135095709

User Banned (2 Weeks): Trolling across multiple threads, account in junior phase

Haha, your country fucking sucks so much :D

[Hap Shaughnessy]

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.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

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.

Thank you for this, reposting for visibility 

❤️

Reposting for visibility. 

[NekoFever]

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