Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ohio-governor-dewine-announces-extremely-restrictive-new-regulations-on-adult-trans-healthcare-borderline-total-elimination-of-trans-healthcare.802476/page-3?post=117280425#post-117280425

This is 100% unequivocally genocide, and not the beginning of it either. feels like we're halfway through the progression at this point and the fucking worse is yet to come. I need to get out of this fucking state.

We were at Stage Nine, then Stage Eight, now half-way? We're going backwards?

False. This is, and always has been, a story of western colonial land grabbing. It's not destined to go on forever. It only has because the US has continued to provide cover and support.

Did he miss the part where Israel outclasses all their neighbors in everything on their own? Was the original partition and Israeli defeat of the Arab invaders a "Western colonial land grab"? And are Jews automatically Western no matter what? Does the West know this?

That entire forum has around 3,000 members online at any give time. They can impact fuckall.

I don't think this is true, sadly. It happened in 2016 and it can happen again.

The social media astroturfing is effective and it's why they spend so much time and resource on it. 

In 2016, they spent a few thousand dollars on Facebook ads targeting Hillary voters with incoherent messages. In a campaign with billions in media spending.

All of which, if we believe academic research, was completely useless because there's never been any proof that campaign spending influences votes after establishing familiarity. Something extra irrelevant in a race with Hillary and Trump as the two major candidates.

[benji]

Still cracks me up how Resetera was one of the top site referers to Hillary Clinton's website. No doubt that got them lots of attention from Russia

That was NeoGAF.com, ResetERA.com didn't exist until October 2017.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fired-up-biden-shows-gloves-are-off-in-january-6-anniversary-speech.802743/page-12?post=117305952#post-117305952

Again, this isn't calculus. Biden is uniquely evil in this being extreme is his support of this genocidal campaign with the aim of the eradication of Gaza as a habitable place for Palestinians.

That is just the very tip of iceberg in the article. Biden isn't going through any informed policy by simple conviction that Israel has the right to eradicate Palestinians.

[Besticus Maximus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ohio-governor-dewine-announces-extremely-restrictive-new-regulations-on-adult-trans-healthcare-borderline-total-elimination-of-trans-healthcare.802476/page-3?post=117280425#post-117280425

This is 100% unequivocally genocide, and not the beginning of it either. feels like we're halfway through the progression at this point and the fucking worse is yet to come. I need to get out of this fucking state.

We were at Stage Nine, then Stage Eight, now half-way? We're going backwards?

False. This is, and always has been, a story of western colonial land grabbing. It's not destined to go on forever. It only has because the US has continued to provide cover and support.

Did he miss the part where Israel outclasses all their neighbors in everything on their own? Was the original partition and Israeli defeat of the Arab invaders a "Western colonial land grab"? And are Jews automatically Western no matter what? Does the West know this?

That entire forum has around 3,000 members online at any give time. They can impact fuckall.

I don't think this is true, sadly. It happened in 2016 and it can happen again.

The social media astroturfing is effective and it's why they spend so much time and resource on it. 

In 2016, they spent a few thousand dollars on Facebook ads targeting Hillary voters with incoherent messages. In a campaign with billions in media spending.

All of which, if we believe academic research, was completely useless because there's never been any proof that campaign spending influences votes after establishing familiarity. Something extra irrelevant in a race with Hillary and Trump as the two major candidates.

In 2015-2016 the Russians got Trump, Corbyn and Brexit over the line and did it by astroturfing social media. It was their major foreign policy success of the decade.

The paranoia that Resetera shows over Israel should be squarely aimed at Russia, who actually are the cartoon baddies who bug your granny

I've got advanced thoughts about how the Russians are fucking with the porn sites to do some social engineering too

[Boredfrom]

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https://www.resetera.com/threads/fired-up-biden-shows-gloves-are-off-in-january-6-anniversary-speech.802743/page-12?post=117305952#post-117305952

Again, this isn't calculus. Biden is uniquely evil in this being extreme is his support of this genocidal campaign with the aim of the eradication of Gaza as a habitable place for Palestinians.

That is just the very tip of iceberg in the article. Biden isn't going through any informed policy by simple conviction that Israel has the right to eradicate Palestinians.

This is the thing that weird me out. By all accounts, the Biden administration actually feels more ambivalent about Israel current war plan, but because most U.S. politicians are pro Israel (something that Biden was never not going to be), leftists are upset about the support even if this was always going to be the case and Biden has not saying anything outlandish outside the progressive wishful thinking. 

Feels so self defeating because everyone knows that Trump will be way worse in this issue but somehow people need to take seriously the Muslim community throwing a hissy fit and pretending they are not get fucked by Trump (unless they are rich Saudis).

[nachobro]

That was NeoGAF.com, ResetERA.com didn't exist until October 2017.

the glorious time when we were rescued from that elf run hellhole of biased and awful moderation to arrive....here

[kaleidoscopium]

That was NeoGAF.com, ResetERA.com didn't exist until October 2017.

the glorious time when we were rescued from that elf run hellhole of biased and awful moderation to arrive....here

I think about this often, neogaf had and still has bad moderation, but resetera is just so much worse at this point. Now when is bdubs going to have a shower allegation…

[Uncle]

I’ve got little doubt there is some Russian or Russian adjacent operative that has influence on that site, I just find it hilarious there is some poor sap who has to infiltrate this retarded gaming forum for a job.

You can easily recognize them as they have specific spelling and grammar mistakes. They fuck up connecting verbs, a/an and negative sentences. They also use "myself" a lot. So instead of: "I bought the game" they would say "I bought the game myself" and "I feel happy" becomes "I feel happy myself".

Most annoying were the Ukrainian "NAFO" bots though. They even give the bernie bros and CCP shills a run for their money.

reminds me of how apparently all Indian people are taught that you put emphasis on statements by saying "each and every"

for example when you are being phone scammed they will say "I promise you sir, we will take care of each and every virus, if you go to the store and buy each and every gift card"

[Besticus Maximus]

The chelsea manager has more say over incomings and outgoings than bdubs tbf

[ClothedMac]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fired-up-biden-shows-gloves-are-off-in-january-6-anniversary-speech.802743/page-12?post=117303258#post-117303258

i didn't say cut to the chase to authoritarianism, i said lets fight. stop paging me pls?

An insurrection?

It's amazing how the people that talk like Nepenthe get banned all the time or get personally scolded by B-Dubs.

Will Nepenthe stand up for this guy who fights under her flag and is having his concerns dismissed by b-dubs?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fired-up-biden-shows-gloves-are-off-in-january-6-anniversary-speech.802743/post-117306108

This is exactly the kind of shit I'm talking about, Jesus dude.

All he's saying that the true enemy of freedom are the liberals holding back the holy left. Nepenthe said in that thread that voting doesn't work and we need to move on.

[DocWager]

I mean we got foreign instigators here too. 

You know who you are.

[kaleidoscopium]

Bdubs upset at people roasting his announcements with a “best site wide announcement of the year” thread 😂

https://www.resetera.com/threads/just-a-few-weeks-left-to-vote-for-your-favorite-site-wide-announcement.803064/

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/people-who-think-they-are-smart-in-real-life-because-of-the-way-they-discuss-comics-anime-video-games-entertainment-are-so-insufferable.803049/

So something I've noticed and encountered is people who think just because of the way they discuss comics, animes, or entertainment (because they write like say a long essay on why Vader's redemption was good or something" general that somehow makes them an actual "intellectual" and think they can speak on actual real life topics with little to experience or more so than other people.

It's obnoxious as they think discussions over meaningless stuff makes them "smart" and act like arrogant fools who refuse to realize that they aren't and think they know more than actual experts. Like I knew some idiot who tried to say I should be "ashamed of graduation law school" because my "arguing and debating skills" on comic issues such as should Deathstroke be a Batman villain, how old are the Batfamily, who should the next Batman be, were "bad" and that 'spamming comic panels was exceptionally awful behaviour for a lawyer'.......because yes I should care more about what some random non-lawyer thinks on Batman over actual lawyers who judged my skills in situations that are relevant to law school/the legal profession and deemed it good enough.

Hit dog hollers.

People like this need to go outside and get some real life experience.

[Potato]

I’ve got little doubt there is some Russian or Russian adjacent operative that has influence on that site, I just find it hilarious there is some poor sap who has to infiltrate this retarded gaming forum for a job.

Nah, it's just that the actual Russian agents on Twitter have been so effective with low intelligence Americans and Europeans that these monkeys are happily doing Vladimir's work unintentionally.

[benji]

In 2015-2016 the Russians got Trump, Corbyn and Brexit over the line and did it by astroturfing social media. It was their major foreign policy success of the decade.

You guys and your cope.

1704672057[/url]']
https://www.resetera.com/threads/fired-up-biden-shows-gloves-are-off-in-january-6-anniversary-speech.802743/page-12?post=117305952#post-117305952

Again, this isn't calculus. Biden is uniquely evil in this being extreme is his support of this genocidal campaign with the aim of the eradication of Gaza as a habitable place for Palestinians.

That is just the very tip of iceberg in the article. Biden isn't going through any informed policy by simple conviction that Israel has the right to eradicate Palestinians.

This is the thing that weird me out. By all accounts, the Biden administration actually feels more ambivalent about Israel current war plan, but because most U.S. politicians are pro Israel (something that Biden was never not going to be), leftists are upset about the support even if this was always going to be the case and Biden has not saying anything outlandish outside the progressive wishful thinking. 

Biden's "uniquely evil" even though as I mentioned yesterday there's like a literal handful of Dems who don't support Israel. And nowdays there's just as many Republicans willing to toy with the idea. I don't know how they decided Democrats would be on their side, the Senate Majority Leader is one of the biggest Israel supporters around and always has been but he kneeled for George Floyd and calls Trump a traitor so he obviously must want Palestine from the River to the Sea if only Biden wasn't so "uniquely evil" by sharing the mainstream of 90% of his party on the issue ever since Israel first stole the land in 1948.

[Uncle]

I don't think anyone has posted the official mod reasoning yet for unstickying the trans genocide thread

https://www.resetera.com/threads/yes-it-is-trans-genocide-a-faq-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-today.711593/page-5?post=117242532#post-117242532

In the new year we had unstickied a few threads in etc and in gaming because they were not as active anymore. Unfortunately sometimes people stop paying attention to stickied threads after a while, so it's good to clear them out.

If someone would like to make a brand new thread with a detailed OP will we sticky that one. Feel free to report it once ready.

[Potato]

The chelsea manager has more say over incomings and outgoings than bdubs tbf

Niche reference for thebore, but I just want you to know that I appreciate your effort.

[HaughtyFrank]

Bdubs upset at people roasting his announcements with a “best site wide announcement of the year” thread 😂

https://www.resetera.com/threads/just-a-few-weeks-left-to-vote-for-your-favorite-site-wide-announcement.803064/

Really? Godforbid anyone do anything fun

Is that why you locked the thread after that mild roasting?

[benji]

I don't think anyone has posted the official mod reasoning yet for unstickying the trans genocide thread

https://www.resetera.com/threads/yes-it-is-trans-genocide-a-faq-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-today.711593/page-5?post=117242532#post-117242532

If someone would like to make a brand new thread with a detailed OP will we sticky that one.

[HaughtyFrank]

I don't think anyone has posted the official mod reasoning yet for unstickying the trans genocide thread

https://www.resetera.com/threads/yes-it-is-trans-genocide-a-faq-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-today.711593/page-5?post=117242532#post-117242532

In the new year we had unstickied a few threads in etc and in gaming because they were not as active anymore. Unfortunately sometimes people stop paying attention to stickied threads after a while, so it's good to clear them out.

If someone would like to make a brand new thread with a detailed OP will we sticky that one. Feel free to report it once ready.

That... That doesn't make any sense at all..

[Besticus Maximus]

Trans Genocide OT 2 | Transitioning to a new genocide thread |

[kaleidoscopium]

I don't think anyone has posted the official mod reasoning yet for unstickying the trans genocide thread

https://www.resetera.com/threads/yes-it-is-trans-genocide-a-faq-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-today.711593/page-5?post=117242532#post-117242532

In the new year we had unstickied a few threads in etc and in gaming because they were not as active anymore. Unfortunately sometimes people stop paying attention to stickied threads after a while, so it's good to clear them out.

If someone would like to make a brand new thread with a detailed OP will we sticky that one. Feel free to report it once ready.

So we weren’t the only ones to notice the genocide went on a holiday break.

[Uncle]

I suppose this is evidence that they weren't ordered to take them down by their masters, but that they were simply embarrassed by the hyperbole and ongoing lack of genocide taking place

or thought that after two high profile mass shootings, people would get the wrong idea about who was genociding who in the "trans genocide"

[DocWager]

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Bdubs upset at people roasting his announcements with a “best site wide announcement of the year” thread 😂

https://www.resetera.com/threads/just-a-few-weeks-left-to-vote-for-your-favorite-site-wide-announcement.803064/

Really? Godforbid anyone do anything fun

Is that why you locked the thread after that mild roasting?

Further proof that authoritarian leadership doesn’t work. What a shit community. It’s just an excuse for “disrupters” to annoy the masses with their tankie drivel.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Bdubs upset at people roasting his announcements with a “best site wide announcement of the year” thread 😂

https://www.resetera.com/threads/just-a-few-weeks-left-to-vote-for-your-favorite-site-wide-announcement.803064/

Really? Godforbid anyone do anything fun

Is that why you locked the thread after that mild roasting?

What a low effort post. The screen shots should've included how many (and lack thereof) replies each nominated thread had. 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Nepenthe has reentered the thread:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/fired-up-biden-shows-gloves-are-off-in-january-6-anniversary-speech.802743/page-12?post=117309423#post-117309423

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Nepenthe wants Trump to win. How else will they be able to tut-tut the Ree userbase?

[Echelon]

Ricky Gervais just won a Golden Globe for best TV Stand Up. Genocide is in full gear with our lord commander leading the troops!

[benji]

Nepenthe has reentered the thread:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/fired-up-biden-shows-gloves-are-off-in-january-6-anniversary-speech.802743/page-12?post=117309423#post-117309423

Coalition building requires at a bare minimum being on the same page about basic foundational political tenets, and liberals and far-leftists have never actually been in agreement on these things despite sharing some ideological overlap. It also requires an open commitment to criticism and pushback when people wanna fuck around with the principles that were previously agreed upon. Incumbent Democrats are largely protected from criticism by liberals under the assumption that criticism is an automatic point for conservatives.

It's not just the past 8 years that this has been an ideological issue. This is a centuries' old battle.

And it's also only been a decade since the internet has made it incredibly easy for disinformation and coordinated campaigns to be conducted to weaponize wedge issues to the point where focus is shifted entirely away from the common ground the coalition should have in preventing authoritarian Christo-fascism that would, in itself, lead to the deaths and persecution of countless people.

But even just ignoring the domestic concerns in play it's hard to ignore the fact the ongoing war in Ukraine and the massive casualties they have endured are somehow never brought up or mentioned in these objections. You have GOP congresspersons actively preventing life saving military aid to a country under siege by a despot. Aid that would absolutely vanish if the despotic stooge running for president is allowed to be re elected.

When a single wedge issue becomes the solitary focus and leads to rampant voter suppression advocacy it would be incredibly naive to not look at the interests being served. It's obvious. We can look at past election seasons and easily see attempts to use other wedge issues to do the exact same thing. The answer here isn't to allow yourself to play directly into the oppositions hands. That's exactly how we get suppressed turnout and horrific electoral consequences. Make no mistake the consequences at risk here are dire. This time it's not just about the next decade or even the next generation. We are dealing with a threat to very concept of democracy and the rise of authoritarianism. We are dealing with forces attempting to dismantle the entire concept of representative democracy. An event that would echo across the entire world and usher in the complete collapse of the modicum of checks we have against outright global conflict.

Edit: and before someone responds saying I'm tired of being told about the threats in play or the stakes. I get it. It's exhausting. But the answer isn't to absolve your self of the responsibility to push back against it. We have work to do. That work starts with the vote it doesn't end with it. The mistake is treating your vote as the statement instead of the first step.

 (at all of this, but especially the bolded)

[benji]

That Nepenthe post is one of her better ones just by default of how bad the others are, the main problem is that she thinks anyone to the "right" of Pol Pot is a "liberal" especially if they're white.