Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[benji]

PlanetSmasher has like literally thousands of Reddit comments about that game and/or some other gacha game. I clicked through some of them once and there's pages of him bitching about this or that mechanic.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/final-fantasy-xiv-dawntrail-ot-hroth-girl-summer.913902/page-89?post=125698833#post-125698017

I spent $400 on a gacha game in one pull session once. Does that count?

Dokkan Battle, a very, very long time ago. I really wanted Majin Vegeta.

I didn't get him.

400 dollars for a Vegeta recolor in a mobile gacha game.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-ot-1-smoked-filled-mar-a-lago-rooms.826662/page-309?post=125701506#post-125701506

Because the media wants to create a narrative that Biden has dementia and is senile and y'all have eaten that right up. I don't even know why the media bothers going after him anymore when everyone else is just doing it for them now.

Yep, everyone except you has fallen for the Russian/Fox News/Dr. Doom plot to trick us into thinking Joe Biden looks and acts like an old man in increasingly worse health. You've got us!

You people are the flip side of MAGA at this point.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Another great Seafoam video. Highly recommended for relaxed listening.

[Cheststrongwell]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ttrpg-awards-ceremony-crit-awards-removed-from-gen-con-due-to-backlash-from-zionists.920628/?post=125482119#post-125482119

User Banned (2 Weeks): Inflammatory Generalization in Sensitive Thread

I don't understand why people use the word Zionism when criticising Israel.

There's too many religious meanings to it.

Israel is a state built on racial and religious supremacy and that's why they should be excluded.

What's the inflammatory generalization?  

This isn't tagged as a sensitive thread?

To these miserable cunts, every thread is sensitive.

[PogiJones]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/president-biden-i-am-running%E2%80%A6no-one%E2%80%99s-pushing-me-out-i%E2%80%99m-not-leaving.918393/page-85?post=125697438#post-125697438

User banned (2 weeks): mod whining

Saw a few people banned earlier for making inflammatory comparisons and I don't think it was necessary. This whole situation with Biden should be a wakeup call that many of the flaws that allowed Trump to take over the Republican party, and still allow him to appeal to fence sitters and have a chance to win, are not unique to them. Human beings are social creatures and institutions, parties, movements are built off of the ways that we group together and organize into hierarchies. One of the ways we do that is through the silencing of dissent, keeping people in line, sweeping unpleasant things under the rug. Accusing those who criticize our leaders of having ulterior motives or being otherwise morally deficient. If we want independent voters to see the Democratic party as defending democracy and democratic norms, we need to be wary of anti-democratic behavior in our own ranks as well. I think it's one of the big reasons the drama around "hiding" Biden has been so damaging and demoralizing.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/president-biden-i-am-running%E2%80%A6no-one%E2%80%99s-pushing-me-out-i%E2%80%99m-not-leaving.918393/page-88?post=125701314#post-125701314

User banned (2 weeks): mod whining

For the record, this situation IS NOT an excuse to make Trump comparisons. The man is literally talking about making a bigoted dictatorship! You need to stop whitewashing and normalizing his insane nonsense!

Again, the Trump comparisons need to stop. We need to stop normalizing and whitewashing his insanity.

Saw a few people banned earlier for making inflammatory comparisons and I don't think it was necessary. This whole situation with Biden should be a wake-up call that many of the flaws that allowed Trump to take over the Republican party, and still allow him to appeal to fence sitters and have a chance to win, are not unique to them. Human beings are social creatures and institutions, parties, movements are built off of the ways that we group together and organize into hierarchies. One of the ways we do that is through the silencing of dissent, keeping people in line, sweeping unpleasant things under the rug. Accusing those who criticize our leaders of having ulterior motives or being otherwise morally deficient. If we want independent voters to see the Democratic party as defending democracy and democratic norms, we need to be wary of anti-democratic behavior in our own ranks as well. I think it's one of the big reasons the drama around "hiding" Biden has been so damaging and demoralizing.

Yes, I completely agree. The democratic party is not a holy object that can do no wrong. If they slide further towards say racism, or hiding problems, or supporting genocide, then that needs to be able to be called out and compared too.

Trump might seem exceptionally terrible, but I learned from earlier moments in history just how banal evil can be. How quickly, especially with cowards surrounding leaders, things can get worse. The democratic party definitely does have people or supporters that would do things way over the top to keep the party line going. It's a sobering lesson, not something to ban people for. This feels like part of a larger conversation around tone-policing in this forum.

"A healthy democracy requires the ability to criticize its leaders, so banning for that is wrong."
User banned: mod whining (aka criticizing the actions of the forum leaders)

[Nintex]

 thank you Joe I accept.

[kaleidoscopium]

Just saw this. Absolutely terrible behavior from Microsoft. Hopefully the attention convinces them to reverse themselves. The idea that Palestinians=Hamas without any real evidence is pretty shitty but honestly par for the course.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-killed-my-online-life-microsoft-is-reportedly-banning-palestinians-in-the-u-s-for-life-for-calling-relatives-in-gaza.925164/?post=125691246#post-125691246

I’m a little confused, what evidence is needed? Hamas is the government of Palestine  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas_government_of_October_2016

[Straight Edge]

My best friend is convinced that he's got Parkinson's. He says Biden walks and talks just like his father in law, who's suffered from the disease for years.

My wife works in speech therapy and said the same thing.

Yep, a family friend who is a nurse and watched her husband pass from Parkinson's says Biden is showing many signs that he has it.

Can we ban please for diagnosing?

[Snoopy]

Can we get Nep's expert diagnosis first. He might just be drunk or suffering from extreme honkyitis

[Straight Edge]

Vice President Trump

[Nintex]

Say what you will about the Trumps. When they were concerned about his ability to lead they had Trump do a cognitive test which he passed with flying colors. When he wanted to run again they advised him not to.

Jill and Hunter Biden are letting Joe implode in front of the entire world.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/president-biden-i-am-running%E2%80%A6no-one%E2%80%99s-pushing-me-out-i%E2%80%99m-not-leaving.918393/page-100?post=125707041#post-125707041

The press look like a bunch of crazy people now.

Good lord it's finally over.

[Uncle]

Vice President Trump

oh jesus christ it's jessica yaniv

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-ot-1-smoked-filled-mar-a-lago-rooms.826662/page-309?post=125701506#post-125701506

Because the media wants to create a narrative that Biden has dementia and is senile and y'all have eaten that right up. I don't even know why the media bothers going after him anymore when everyone else is just doing it for them now.

Exactly and people still try to claim it's a "left-wing" forum.

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/president-biden-i-am-running%E2%80%A6no-one%E2%80%99s-pushing-me-out-i%E2%80%99m-not-leaving.918393/page-100?post=125707041#post-125707041

The press look like a bunch of crazy people now.

Good lord it's finally over.

MIMIC

I would say that the press conference didn't really make things any worse, but it didn't make things any better.

It was fine.

There is some weapons grade cope going on in that thread

[benji]

Why so much talk about Project 2025? Why no talk about this instead?

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/president-biden-i-am-running%E2%80%A6no-one%E2%80%99s-pushing-me-out-i%E2%80%99m-not-leaving.918393/page-100?post=125707041#post-125707041

The press look like a bunch of crazy people now.

Good lord it's finally over.

MIMIC

I would say that the press conference didn't really make things any worse, but it didn't make things any better.

It was fine.

There is some weapons grade cope going on in that thread

that's worse, they get how that's worse, right

if it was an amazing performance maybe it'd put all fears to rest and he's the candidate 

if it was an utter disaster it would definitely put all fears to rest and they'd easily push him out

this middling shit just extends the division and angst within the party, they can't coalesce around a decisive course of action

it's kind of the worst possible outcome

[Straight Edge]

Why so much talk about Project 2025? Why no talk about this instead?

I raise you...

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/president-biden-i-am-running%E2%80%A6no-one%E2%80%99s-pushing-me-out-i%E2%80%99m-not-leaving.918393/post-125708487

CNN asking voters in Michigan question about biden performance , pretty much all 7 of them said Biden was solid and sticking with him.

[Uncle]

well, that's it folks, pack it in, those 7 voters are what pushed him over the top

[Boredfrom]

I want my 4 grand back

Sadly I went against my better judgment. Maybe next year there will be interesting VisionOS updates

So this dude has money.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gizmodo-apple-vision-pro-u-s-sales-are-all-but-dead-market-analysts-say.925290/

[HaughtyFrank]

[books]

They sure talk alot for people that won't end up voting.

[benji]

They sure talk alot for people that won't end up voting.

The burden shouldn't be on me to end capitalism, colonialism and white supremacy.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/president-biden-i-am-running%E2%80%A6no-one%E2%80%99s-pushing-me-out-i%E2%80%99m-not-leaving.918393/page-106?post=125710488#post-125710488

White women will never let Kamala be the first female president.

Edit:

If you want your party to be more disciplined, you need the mechanisms for it. But it doesn't work without a very clear purpose, and that purpose can't be negative (like stopping Trump). You can't radicalize a party or rally it behind unified decision being the quintessential "better things aren't possible, we're just fending off the worst" party.

Biden would do well to read Lenin.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

[benji]

If you want your party to be more disciplined, you need the mechanisms for it. But it doesn't work without a very clear purpose, and that purpose can't be negative (like stopping Trump). You can't radicalize a party or rally it behind unified decision being the quintessential "better things aren't possible, we're just fending off the worst" party.

Biden would do well to read Lenin.

Lenin lost the election. 

[Boredfrom]

So he can overthrow the election after he loses and declare himself leader?

Well can we say this hasn't been tried already?

I mean, my point is I hate Lenin because he fumbled one of those world changing moments. Instead of being a statesman, he chose to be power hungry and do a coup. A democratic Russia, controlled by a series of socialist parties in a functioning democracy, could have been an example to the rest of the world and would have eliminated so many bad faith arguments against Marx's ideas. Instead it became an imperialist power that went on to invade and conquer its neighbors. WW2 wouldn't have turned out how it did, the Cold War didn't need to happen, "socialism" didn't need to become a four-letter word in the west. But it all happened the way it did because he chose his own personal power over doing the right thing.

Biden is likely facing one of those moments right now. A moment where he has to choose between his own personal power and doing what's right for everyone. These moments don't come along a lot, these moments where a single person can choose the flow of history, and I'm just hoping he doesn't fuck it up.

[D3RANG3D]

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