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

[benji]

Not even trans Anne Frank?

That Canadian dude is going on and on about how he's struggling to eat the food he's got meanwhile another trans Anne Frank, Melody Shreds, doesn't even have the money to get food and he's doing nothing.

[Boredfrom]

People's situation in America is not actually getting better no matter how they vote, and it's due to solely to extreme wealth inequality and the inherent contradictions and bigotries of capitalism. Telling these people to engage in a system that does not deliver anything to hope for is a fools' errand.

Maybe we should acknowledge that and endeavor to make it a principle to fix it instead of saying "You should vote for me even though it's not going to actually materially benefit you or your future."

You fucking slacktivist piece of shit. Promotes violence but is too lazy to vote. 

It kills me that nobody dares to call her out even in that thread.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/atlasintel-disapproval-of-trump-is-at-83-for-people-who-didnt-vote-in-2024.1140855/page-4#post-137303064

I blame them more than any Maga nut.

I am begging you all to stop letting white conservatives off the hook.

[Shecky Fragbaum]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/atlasintel-disapproval-of-trump-is-at-83-for-people-who-didnt-vote-in-2024.1140855/page-4#post-137302470

Liberals: We're unpopular and we need to figure out why.

Also liberals: Everyone who abstained from voting for any reason is subhuman.

I mean, at some point, you guys are going to have to figure out why people don't like you.

I hate seeing her beat herself up like this

[HaughtyFrank]

People's situation in America is not actually getting better no matter how they vote, and it's due to solely to extreme wealth inequality and the inherent contradictions and bigotries of capitalism. Telling these people to engage in a system that does not deliver anything to hope for is a fools' errand.

Maybe we should acknowledge that and endeavor to make it a principle to fix it instead of saying "You should vote for me even though it's not going to actually materially benefit you or your future."

You fucking slacktivist piece of shit. Promotes violence but is too lazy to vote. 

It kills me that nobody dares to call her out even in that thread.

Oh my God she's full of shit. Life is clearly about to get worse for people who rely on social benefits, what the fuck is she talking about.

She always talks about the global south but in reality she doesn't care at all
The US stopped funding shelters for HIV positive women in South Africa, they're on the street now. Why doesn't she give a shit?

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/28/usaid-funding-health-development-hiv-aids-antiretroviral-mothers-lgbt-sex-workers-south-africa

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Not even trans Anne Frank?

That Canadian dude is going on and on about how he's struggling to eat the food he's got meanwhile another trans Anne Frank, Melody Shreds, doesn't even have the money to get food and he's doing nothing.

Melody is fighting against land lords while not being required to pay rent because their father is a comrade to the cause. 

[Boredfrom]

Funny fact:

Bubsy is the reason I got a Sega Genesis instead of a Super Nintendo.

Both systems were on sale for $80 Bubsy on Genesis was $40 and Bubsy on SNES was $50. While I had no interest in buying the Bubsy game, I assumed Genesis games would sometimes be cheaper than SNES games, so being a low income kid, I thought it was the best bang for my buck - so Bubsy's price at the time made the life-altering gaming system decision.

Thanks Bubsy. Played a shitload of Streets of Rage 2 and Shining Force and Champion Edition and Exile and Pirates Gold and Tyrants and MKII and Madden 94 and

Im sorry for your loss.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/atari-releases-new-key-art-for-bubsy-in-the-purrfect-collection.1140765/

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cnn-journalist-laughs-off-a-us-senator-referring-to-trudeau-as-governor-says-fair-enough-after-he-confirms-it-was-intentional.1125417/page-3#post-136597575

User Banned (1 Week): Inappropriate Speculation

One thing I don't understand is that Canada joining the US would make the pathways to winning the presidency is extremely difficult for the GOP. Canada would be one the largest states in terms of population and it would rob electoral votes from every state with the smallest of the states dropping the most. Politics in Canada more aligns with the democratic party and even goes further left. So is this just posturing and just bullying for the sake of it? The math gets even more unfavorable to the GOP if the provinces in Canada turn into US states. The senate permanently turned blue at that point.

[Boredfrom]

INB4 Ban:

Why does this site have admins who repeatedly cape for not voting and nihilism, when we all know Kamala wouldn't be dismantling the EPA, NOAA, and the Department of Education?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/atlasintel-disapproval-of-trump-is-at-83-for-people-who-didnt-vote-in-2024.1140855/page-4#post-137305281

Not voting because democrats aren't dismantling capitalism is some of the most terminally online-brained, privileged, and insufferable shit. The far left has the lost the plot.

[benita]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/atlasintel-disapproval-of-trump-is-at-83-for-people-who-didnt-vote-in-2024.1140855/page-4#post-137302470

Liberals: We're unpopular Trump won and we need to figure out why.

Also liberals: Everyone who abstained from voting for any reason republican is subhuman.

I mean, at some point, you guys are going to have to figure out why people don't like you.

Fixed it.

[Boredfrom]

INB4 Ban:

Why does this site have admins who repeatedly cape for not voting and nihilism, when we all know Kamala wouldn't be dismantling the EPA, NOAA, and the Department of Education?

Because I am capable of contributing more interesting analysis than you are.

For the record, my argument has always been to simply not vote for Trump, and that those that did vote for Trump are the ultimate issue. All I'm doing is merely explaining why some people abstained in the vague hopes that maybe folks here would understand and go on to further recognize the flaws in their own politics instead, and to shed this hubris and ego that insists only people here who inevitably vote Democrat are the smartest and most moral people on Earth, because if for nothing else you cannot engage in work to free the masses if you constantly dehumanize them and think you're above them. It's counterintuitive.

I know I'm failing at that because I don't fundamentally think anyone here is interested in learning and growing versus being reactionary, judgemental, and angry, which is understandable considering everything that Trump and Elon are doing and the general niche space we've curated over the years. But it means that there really is no point in me wading into threads like this and talking. I'm not that oblivious; I can read a room.

I am also not nihilistic. I fundamentally believe in a general goodness of humanity, even with everything going on right now, and I believe that positive change towards liberation is possible. I was telling people to go out and organize in their communities before the Canadians made it cool because I sincerely believe in the power of mass movement, organization, self-sufficiency, and altruism towards one's fellow man. You may dislike me but at least get my politics and philosophies right.

Ultimately I predicted this was coming because, well, math and history. Everyone else ignored the warning signs in favor of just hoping and praying that people would do what they demanded while calling them stupid and evil for essentially rebelling at their own oppression. You can be mad at me, but you can't say I was wrong.

So like, are we going to continue whining about nonvoters until the midterms where we'll then play like we're interested in getting them to vote, or are we going to sincerely acknowledge and deal with the conditions that underpin oppression in America? I'm confident in which one most people would pick, but I'd like my optimism proven right.

[Boredfrom]

I cannot believe that the she responded with “I predicted this with math and history”.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/regals-women-of-era-ot-episode-i-the-female-menace.337/page-80#post-137258673

Also update on my landlady and I, because I'm getting my house back in the divorce I'm moving out, landlady is sad, but says [ISPOILER]she's going to come over and bathe in my house because all we currently have is a shower, and when I stay over, instead of the spare room I can sleep in her bed....She already warned me after booking our hotel room for our holiday that she spoons in her sleep[/ISPOILER], so not to worry if I get used like a stuffie during the night! 😂

and Sunday I found this note on my keyboard.

[Hidden content]

It's so great to have a friend leave little notes around. 🥰

Although I do wonder what will happen when I'm no longer paying rent....

Thankfully can post here without a bunch of man babies calling me a fake or think that I'm bragging, just because they don't have friends like this...🙄

Will you stop being ridiculous

I'm not though?

She's obviously not a platonic friend and I'm tired of you pretending otherwise

....Yea, friends, as far as I'm aware of, don't leave little romantic notes lying around. If any of my close friends did that while I'm married, there would be a whoooooole lot of awkward conversations happening there. >_>;

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/atlasintel-disapproval-of-trump-is-at-83-for-people-who-didnt-vote-in-2024.1140855/page-4#post-137305875

Frequently when I see you in these threads you're one of the only people talking sense.

I've settled with recognizing that if I end up disagreeing with Nepenthe on anything, it's time to take a step back and reassess. Thankfully, I don't think it's happened with any sort of regularity that I could actually count on one hand.

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/atlasintel-disapproval-of-trump-is-at-83-for-people-who-didnt-vote-in-2024.1140855/page-4#post-137305818

Talk about misrepresenting other people's politics...

A little bit of background, if you will. I went to school for years to lift myself out of poverty and get myself into a modest social service career. Spent the better part of the next four years actively working the front line of the opioid epidemic. Changed fields because I couldn't stomach both the physical and mental strain that line of work takes on you. Moved onto youth focused care to help set one of the populations at highest risk for developing addictions up for success - even though that too is an uphill battle.

I literally had to undergo surgery last fall because of the physical toll that years of having to administer first aid has taken on me.

Don't need to be smugly told by the moderator of a gaming enthusiast forum that I don't do anything for other people - especially after watching months of "well what am I supposed to do? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯" posts by Americans coming into threads about Mexico/Greenland/Canada being militarily acted upon trying to soothe their conscience.

Because let's face it, if someone can't even be trusted to put in the effort to vote for or push progressive politicians or policies, how much effort are they willing to expend actually organizing beyond that?

After all, the deluge of "what do you want me to do about it?" posts are pretty revealing as just how much (or little).

[benji]

People's situation in America is not actually getting better no matter how they vote, and it's due to solely to extreme wealth inequality and the inherent contradictions and bigotries of capitalism.

What time in history was better for Americans? When they were significantly poorer? When wealth inequality was much larger? When there was large swaths of significant state backed racism as policy? When it was engaged in a global war with another power? When the state appropriated less of the population's wealth, something just the other day you were calling on violence to prevent any decrease in?

[benji]

Bernie Sanders couldn't win a third of the vote in a Democrat primary, a population significantly to the left of the general electorate, not even calling for the abolition of capitalism just massive spending increases. How would the Democratic Party calling for an authoritarian end to capitalism have beaten Trump?

[benji]

INB4 Ban:

Why does this site have admins who repeatedly cape for not voting and nihilism, when we all know Kamala wouldn't be dismantling the EPA, NOAA, and the Department of Education?

Because I am capable of contributing more interesting analysis than you are.

For the record, my argument has always been to simply not vote for Trump, and that those that did vote for Trump are the ultimate issue. All I'm doing is merely explaining why some people abstained in the vague hopes that maybe folks here would understand and go on to further recognize the flaws in their own politics instead, and to shed this hubris and ego that insists only people here who inevitably vote Democrat are the smartest and most moral people on Earth, because if for nothing else you cannot engage in work to free the masses if you constantly dehumanize them and think you're above them. It's counterintuitive.

I know I'm failing at that because I don't fundamentally think anyone here is interested in learning and growing versus being reactionary, judgemental, and angry, which is understandable considering everything that Trump and Elon are doing and the general niche space we've curated over the years. But it means that there really is no point in me wading into threads like this and talking. I'm not that oblivious; I can read a room.

I am also not nihilistic. I fundamentally believe in a general goodness of humanity, even with everything going on right now, and I believe that positive change towards liberation is possible. I was telling people to go out and organize in their communities before the Canadians made it cool because I sincerely believe in the power of mass movement, organization, self-sufficiency, and altruism towards one's fellow man. You may dislike me but at least get my politics and philosophies right.

Ultimately I predicted this was coming because, well, math and history. Everyone else ignored the warning signs in favor of just hoping and praying that people would do what they demanded while calling them stupid and evil for essentially rebelling at their own oppression. You can be mad at me, but you can't say I was wrong.

So like, are we going to continue whining about nonvoters until the midterms where we'll then play like we're interested in getting them to vote, or are we going to sincerely acknowledge and deal with the conditions that underpin oppression in America? I'm confident in which one most people would pick, but I'd like my optimism proven right.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Hated my time there, the country has 0 diversity.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/finland-is-named-the-happiest-country-in-the-world-for-the-eighth-year-in-a-row-according-to-the-world-happiness-report-2025.1139772/post-137259522

Just two posts in they're already complaining about the country being too white

It's getting better. Over 10% are people who have foreign origins. Bigger cities aren't that white anymore. But the more North, smaller & remote the place, the whiter it'll be, apart from some tourist hotspots like Rovaniemi that attract people from all over.

The whites need to go back to where they came from.

Where they came from however, can't be too white.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

It's you're disappointed because the European country you visit is predominately white, the problem, motherfucker, is you.

[benji]

It's getting better. Over 10% are people who have foreign origins. Bigger cities aren't that white anymore. But the more North, smaller & remote the place, the whiter it'll be, apart from some tourist hotspots like Rovaniemi that attract people from all over.

I looked at the demographics and most of the foreign origins are Russia, Sweden or Estonia, so all white. And "aren't that white anymore" means still at least 90% white. Non-whites might be ~5% of the population in some of the major cities. One Helsinki metro area city looks like it might be near 10% if you add up all the Muslims, Indians and Chinese.

edit: The similarly sized Republic of the Congo and Central African Republic both look to be 99+% African. Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan are both about 95+% Turkic. (Both are ~3-5% Russian.) Laos questionably claims not a single person from Europe (or anywhere outside Southeast Asia) in its population. (There were 13 French people in 1985.)

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

For the record, there's significant doubts that Turkmenistan actually has done a census in the last decade rather than just making up new population figures and reporting those.

[Boredfrom]

It's getting better. Over 10% are people who have foreign origins. Bigger cities aren't that white anymore.

I will say this is reverse racism… but that is a stupid concept to begin with as is just fucking racism.

Then you are going to bitch about conservatives believing about replacement theory crap while spouting replacement theory.

[Polident]

It's you're disappointed because the European country you visit is predominately white, the problem, motherfucker, is you.

These are largely white users, miserable, and often suicidal. That self hatred extend to society or anybody merely resembling themselves. The average user is a more cartoonish Uncle Ruckus. It’s really weird.

[benji]

Nepenthe can't defend her ideas or even outline how her utopia is supposed to work on a "video game" forum cowed into submission but she thinks the Democrats (only not any of the current ones who have won any elections) will be able to convince the American people to adopt a system that's failed spectacularly everywhere it's ever been tried and has never won a democratic election. And that Nepenthe herself admits will require them to give up most everything they have for a hypothetical yet clearly poorer existence. Which is why she's capable of contributing more interesting analysis than those criticizing her but never does with the excuse that it's not a forum that can have such discussions despite her overseeing it and being responsible for the community she claims is reactionary, judgmental, angry and incapable of learning.

[benji]

If only anyone ever polled this stuff:




Ah, well, what can this compare to well, math and history.

[Daffy Duck]

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It's you're disappointed because the European country you visit is predominately white, the problem, motherfucker, is you.

Imagine if you said the same about Africa, these retards are so fucking stupid and used to shouting about “muh representation in games” they blanket apply it to life.

[benji]

Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan are both about 95+% Turkic. (Both are ~3-5% Russian.)

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

For the record, there's significant doubts that Turkmenistan actually has done a census in the last decade rather than just making up new population figures and reporting those.

Can't believe I almost forgot. Turkmenistan used to be a real country:


They completed the census back when people had to read Ruhnama.

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When's the giant monument?  

[Daffy Duck]

This is too good not to share…

Why’s the tweet embed not working?

[Besticus Maximus]

some neck on the irish giving out about other people rocking up to other countries

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

if y'all ever voted in your fucking life you're co-signing your support on your choice for the rest of your life

Biden? Genocide supporter
That white chick back in highschool for class president? Yup, she's a maga chud nazi now, you literally supported a nazi.
That silly online quiz? You checked the box, you support a lolicon pedo.
Give a like on the bire? You support everything that user ever posted and will ever post in the future.

Never vote. Voting is just another collar around your neck by the white man