Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Nintex]

I love that 'Deadnaming' used to be about bullying someone with their old name, like: 

"Did you get that email Steve? Where you going for lunch Steve? How 'bout that game last night Steve?"

Resonable enough, most would agree that's asshole behaviour. 

Then somewhere along the way it became a holocaust level offense to even remember that an actress named Ellen Page ever existed. There was only Elliot, alter your memories or else!

It's kind of sad how the trans maffia made Ellen Page implode.

As of late they don't even consider Inception the amazing career opportunity and learning experience that it was but "eewww icky I was in a movie with straight guys " .
They could've leaned into the tomboy vibe instead and gotten many roles, with their current appearance and behaviour the opportunities are very limited.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-the-worst-matrix-sequel.826137/page-4?post=120368250#post-120368250

And I don't think I'm allowed to hate Resurrections as someone trans.

It's bad enough that the way the film was treated on here pretty much beat down a lot of us trans folks who found value in it to the point we have no interest in discussing it at this place, we don't need it to be painted as some "obligation," even cheekily.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Good action, bad sci-fi.

[Averon]

Just found out plagiarize's a former prison guard. Which helps explains his insistence to stick to pedantry on sexual slavery. He was literally trained to view people under him as "inmates" that are unruly and dangerous. So you can't give them an inch--even when you're dead wrong. In their view, admitting mistakes means the "inmates" will run over you and brutality murder you. Plagiarize sees his mod position as another prison guard job, and ERA members are the inmates they can never back down to.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/president-joe-biden-is-officially-the-2024-democratic-party-nominee.826572/?post=120397068#post-120397068

Why is it that I have to type an entire paragraph to post?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/president-joe-biden-is-officially-the-2024-democratic-party-nominee.826572/?post=120397356#post-120397356

The arbitrary word limit on posts is stupid so here's a second sentence to get around that since my post is complete despite being very short.

[Lonewulfeus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/president-joe-biden-is-officially-the-2024-democratic-party-nominee.826572/?post=120397440#post-120397440

Apparently there was some PoliEra drama and now political threads are being protected or some such thing. It is hard to tell just how long a response needs to be in order to shining through as the moment.

PoliEra, never heard of them

[Potato]

I love that 'Deadnaming' used to be about bullying someone with their old name, like: 

"Did you get that email Steve? Where you going for lunch Steve? How 'bout that game last night Steve?"

Resonable enough, most would agree that's asshole behaviour. 

Then somewhere along the way it became a holocaust level offense to even remember that an actress named Ellen Page ever existed. There was only Elliot, alter your memories or else!

Kind of changes the plot of Juno significantly if you insist on this shit!

EDIT: Also, fuck that guy Elliott for stealing roles that should have been played by women. We should cancel that fucking straight white man!

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-the-worst-matrix-sequel.826137/page-4?post=120368250#post-120368250

And I don't think I'm allowed to hate Resurrections as someone trans.

It's bad enough that the way the film was treated on here pretty much beat down a lot of us trans folks who found value in it to the point we have no interest in discussing it at this place, we don't need it to be painted as some "obligation," even cheekily.

When did Vonocunt convert to transolothism?

[Potato]

Just found out plagiarize's a former prison guard. Which helps explains his insistence to stick to pedantry on sexual slavery. He was literally trained to view people under him as "inmates" that are unruly and dangerous. So you can't give them an inch--even when you're dead wrong. In their view, admitting mistakes means the "inmates" will run over you and brutality murder you. Plagiarize sees his mod position as another prison guard job, and ERA members are the inmates they can never back down to.

My understanding was that he was just some IT schlubb who fixed the real prison guards computers.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/president-joe-biden-is-officially-the-2024-democratic-party-nominee.826572/?post=120397440#post-120397440

Apparently there was some PoliEra drama and now political threads are being protected or some such thing. It is hard to tell just how long a response needs to be in order to shining through as the moment.

PoliEra, never heard of them

disappearingcommies.jpg

[PogiJones]

Looking through some of the old poli-era discord is fun. Apparently Hachikoma was part of the discord but actually secretly spying for the socialist era discord. She got banned for claiming the Israeli rape victims were lying and then revealed that she was a mole all along

Era is fucking weird sometimes. Little community cliques sniping each others Discord? 

Why don't we get infiltrators 

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/president-joe-biden-is-officially-the-2024-democratic-party-nominee.826572/?post=120397440#post-120397440

Apparently there was some PoliEra drama and now political threads are being protected or some such thing. It is hard to tell just how long a response needs to be in order to shining through as the moment.

PoliEra, never heard of them

FUCK JOE BIDEN
FUCK GENOCIDE JOE
FUCK ISRAEL
FREE PALESTINE
FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA PALESTINE WILL BE FREEE

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

Easy 20 words for a reply.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/today-in-fuck-that-a-realistic-digital-marilyn-monroe-makes-its-debut-at-tech-conference.825444/?post=120250863#post-120250863

User Banned (1 Week): Misogynistic Slur

Ghoulish, soulless cunts. They deserve all the scorn coming their way.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://old.reddit.com/r/ResetEraInAction/comments/1bciz6x/these_are_the_tweets_that_caused_the_poliera/

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/oppenheimer-wins-best-picture-at-the-96th-academy-awards.825855/page-3?post=120322881#post-120322881

Emily Blunt and Florence Pugh, who both played Oppenheimer's love interests. They weren't in the movie for that long or didn't show up that often. If you have two people have similar hairstyles and you're not picking up that it's a different person until halfway through, then that's sorta bad. I had to look at their faces until I realized it was two different people.

[Potato]

https://old.reddit.com/r/ResetEraInAction/comments/1bciz6x/these_are_the_tweets_that_caused_the_poliera/

Posting that automatically makes you a chud and anything you say is now "something the chuds say" which makes you persona non grata on Resetera and also makes anything that appears in those tweets invalid to any discussion on resetera at all. Especially any discussion which involves admin/moderator abuse of power and downplaying of sexual assault of hostages and anti-semitism. Those tweets, which are now private by the way, simply never happened, but if they did happen then they were justified becasue of capitalism, colonialism and white supremacy.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/oppenheimer-wins-best-picture-at-the-96th-academy-awards.825855/page-3?post=120322881#post-120322881

Emily Blunt and Florence Pugh, who both played Oppenheimer's love interests. They weren't in the movie for that long or didn't show up that often. If you have two people have similar hairstyles and you're not picking up that it's a different person until halfway through, then that's sorta bad. I had to look at their faces until I realized it was two different people.

All Asians look the same.

What, I'm not racist, it's true!

[Snoopy]

Why don't we get infiltrators 

It's pointless infiltrating a group of people who don't care if they get doxxed

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Looking through some of the old poli-era discord is fun. Apparently Hachikoma was part of the discord but actually secretly spying for the socialist era discord. She got banned for claiming the Israeli rape victims were lying and then revealed that she was a mole all along

Era is fucking weird sometimes. Little community cliques sniping each others Discord? 

Why don't we get infiltrators 

Genocide Joe really wanted to know if one of us had access to the mod discord.

[Genocide Joe]

Era is fucking weird sometimes. Little community cliques sniping each others Discord? 

Why don't we get infiltrators 

Genocide Joe really wanted to know which one of us had access to the mod discord.

Still licking my lips

[BIONIC]

Why don't we get infiltrators 

Genocide Joe really wanted to know which one of us had access to the mod discord.

Still licking my lips

Try licking deez nuts instead haha goteem

[Superstar]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/oppenheimer-wins-best-picture-at-the-96th-academy-awards.825855/page-3?post=120322881#post-120322881

Emily Blunt and Florence Pugh, who both played Oppenheimer's love interests. They weren't in the movie for that long or didn't show up that often. If you have two people have similar hairstyles and you're not picking up that it's a different person until halfway through, then that's sorta bad. I had to look at their faces until I realized it was two different people.

All Asians look the same.

What, I'm not racist, it's true!

Shogun is great but unironically can't tell half the characters apart. I know I'm not the only one.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/oppenheimer-wins-best-picture-at-the-96th-academy-awards.825855/page-3?post=120322881#post-120322881

All Asians look the same.

What, I'm not racist, it's true!

Shogun is great but unironically can't tell half the characters apart. I know I'm not the only one.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/oppenheimer-wins-best-picture-at-the-96th-academy-awards.825855/page-3?post=120322881#post-120322881

All Asians look the same.

What, I'm not racist, it's true!

Shogun is great but unironically can't tell half the characters apart. I know I'm not the only one.

Are you team Mariko or team Fujiko.

[Polident]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-the-worst-matrix-sequel.826137/page-4?post=120368250#post-120368250

And I don't think I'm allowed to hate Resurrections as someone trans.

It's bad enough that the way the film was treated on here pretty much beat down a lot of us trans folks who found value in it to the point we have no interest in discussing it at this place, we don't need it to be painted as some "obligation," even cheekily.

Born again religious types are often the most dogmatic about protecting their texts. Be grateful they’re only digitally beheading non believers.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

I have to admit I'm a little sad that the massacre of PoliEra is over. It brought us all together for a brief moment but now it's gone.

Like dust in the wind.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-the-worst-matrix-sequel.826137/page-6?post=120398616#post-120398616

This was actually the most obvious thing about the film. Once you get past the cute meta commentary of the film, however, the film itself is incredibly disappointing.

It's a fun idea, but a terrible movie.

The fact that it's bad makes it good. The harder you dislike it the better it is. I don't make the rules unfortunately.

[AldusMoneyPenny]

Do you think these people realise how closely they play it to the KGB/Stasi playbook?

Like, the behaviour they exhibit is the literal worst parts of every disastrous attempt at communism and the results are the same.

Their solution is the same too. MORE PURGES!!!!

Footage of Dubs arriving at the PoliEra discord:

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/neve-campbell-announces-she-is-back-for-new-%E2%80%98scream%E2%80%99-movie.826443/page-2?post=120384600#post-120384600

Lost Noah, lost Jamie Lee and now Neve

disappointing

 Why?

[BIONIC]

Not reading but enjoy:

Alright so I'm finally in a place where I can sit down and just talk to people. And this will be a long one, but I hope there's some bridging to be done here.

First and foremost, I apologize to the Jewish members here for in any way giving them that impression that I was okay with any kind of antisemitic rhetoric. I am not. The Twitter account is indeed mine. I made those comments in a discussion with a rando on Twitter in a larger thread concerning the Palestinian genocide. I don't remember the inciting tweet or anything, but I did post very frank and vague anticolonialism theory without considering the wider cultural context of the Jewish perspective when it comes to calls for decolonizing Gaza.

So for the past few days I've had multiple talks behind the scenes after pulling the tweets to let others read them and help me understand where I went wrong. On one end, it was explained where the logic that Palestinian Gazans are owed autonomy to fight back by any means runs concurrent with antisemitism, and I'll explain in the way it was explained to me: Let's say that tomorrow, a permanent ceasefire is implemented and total political autonomy is given to Palestinians, and they say that they want Israelis to leave. If the Israelis say no, and Palestinians insist, then you’re probably going to have ethnic cleansing happening but in the other direction.

Naturally, this isn't something that the majority of people want. You don't want that. I don't want that. Genocide is horrible no matter who it happens to. This in turn lead to another conversation last night with Jewish staff because I admitted there were other simultaneous conversations happening where other parties have come back to me in response saying they don't think those tweets were antisemitic from a very frank perspective of addressing the on-going genocide happening right now, and the logistical and historical outcomes of decolonialism itself wherein, largely, the oppressors aren't actually genocided when autonomy is gained.

Which in turn is a problem. Because how can I possibly square two opposing viewpoints on this matter to make right? "It's antisemitic to talk about decolonialism in the context of Israel-Paestine without understanding that a potential throughline of that thought is more dead Jewish people." "It's not antisemitic to talk about decolonialism in the context of Israel-Palestine because the identity of the settler is ultimately irrelevant to the fight and self-defense of those being settled upon."

I have yet to really figure this out, but I have put that to the side for now because principally and morally, I just don't want to impart harm at the end of the day. I don't want to make either ResetEra or the wider world unsafe for anybody, especially the marginalized, if I have the means and knowledge to do the opposite. There's too much pain out there, and I do my best to not add to it. So who cares about the ambiguity of the politics and history involved if there is pain being expressed here and now? So I decided I was going to apologize directly to the PoliEra OT after work on Sunday and invite specifically the Jewish members to open up to me however they wished.

That got railroaded when, during my lunch break, I learned that my house got put up on hate sites, I was advised by both site administration, my boss, and the security guard there to get in contact with the police, and PoliEra decided to descend into chaos (Fun fact: I've had the PoliEra OTs blocked since I last posted in them, so I was one of the last administrators to even know any shit was going down in the first place regarding Brady's ban). Even today I had to perform follow-up with another local police department. But that story and admonishment will be for another post. During these talks with Jewish staff, we forced each other to stop beating around the bush and just say how we feel and where we’re coming from, and I want to share part of that to shed light on why I said the things I did:

I principally have come to believe and recognize that one's identity isn't really tied to their ability to participate in oppression. It might lead to general cultural political leanings and affects depending upon the wider material context that one's identity exists in, but it is not a full check. Like as an example, 95% of Black people who do vote, vote for Democrats. That means the other 5% are voting for Republicans. This doesn't erase their Blackness; what it does is merely reflect the reality that no one is automatically immune from identifying with and wanting to participate in systems that reinforce harmful status quos even if there are contradictions involved in doing so, just because of their identity. Melanin blocks sunlight, not cultural conditioning.

Subsequently, I don't really care about that 5% in any notable manner. Plenty of Black folks shame these people, call them coons, and get Schadenfreude at their inevitable misfortune in a white supremacist system, and largely there isn't really a belief that the act of denigrating conservative voting patterns and beliefs is inherently anti-Black when it's being aimed at a Black person on those grounds specifically. So to me, decolonizing Gaza should ideally have no more of an inherent strain of bigotry than decolonizing South Africa; if the latter is not anti-white on those grounds, it should follow that the former is not antisemitic on those grounds. These conflicts involve death, but the death isn't inherently predicated on the identity of the person performing the oppression. That is the framework and headspace I was posting in, and I learned quickly that this is an outright cultural disconnect.

Again, violence in these kinds of conflicts is indeed inevitable, and much of that violence is going to be aimed at people who aren't directly or physically capable of participating in the oppression, such as children. It isn't good that this happens even if we can sit here and rationalize it as a tragic inevitability of these conflicts where people are pushed to no other means. And specifically in terms of how Jewish people can see this, it is ultimately inseparable from the real and latent fears and generational trauma they have as a result of centuries of antisemitism within the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. That the violence, even within the context of a conflict like this, can nonetheless go too far, that justifications can be found yet again for another pogrom, another cleansing, another genocide. And yeah, that fucking sucks, and I can't in good faith blame people who don't know me intimately to wonder about whether or not I'm gunning for genocide of Jewish people unless I make it clear as such. And I failed to do that.

So once again, I apologize. As I said, the last thing I want to do is ever impart harm or become a direct liability to any members here, and there's two things I'm going to do to ensure that this never happens again. First is that I'm simply not going to talk about the I/P conflict in any way, here or elsewhere online, because it's clear I'm not equipped to discuss this in a way that doesn't actually engender legitimate feelings of fear. This also extends to modding reports; beyond maybe tagging relevant folks if something flares up which needs quick attention, I will provide no actual relevant input in report discussion. Second is that I'm going to continue just educating myself about this separately. Poodlestrike gave me some good resources to look into to further learn about both the antisemitic throughlines that can not only crop up in I/P discussions, but in general other discussions where people can slip into stereotyping, such as with the trope about Jewish new world order conspiracies.

So that’s what I have to say. I’m sorry. I hope I can earn your forgiveness and trust back, but I do understand if I’ve breached lines in an irreparable way with some members here. All I can say is that this has been a lesson learned, and I will take that lesson going forward in an effort to better myself.

Thank you.