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

[benji]

ERA reactions have been so eye opening on how hard they are still trapped in their bubbles that actually made me hope that Trump winning will be a wake up call for most of the world.

Not because I like Trump or his policies or believe he is Pro Free Speech (  ), but because people will stop being such a pussies about their beliefs and how to support them. Hope Trump second term is a Vaccine rather than a chemo. Fight the virus with the virus.

Trump sucks.

But more than one thing can suck. And also we can rank them based on our relative preferences. And across multiple sets of preferences, Trump may suck less than others on some of those preferences and suck more on others.

We should defy zero-sum thinking whenever possible and reasonable. These morons don't and need everything to be zero-sum which is why they advocate for "solutions" that always make things more zero-sum, more all-or-nothing, more extreme-black-and-white, etc. They think this will force people to agree with them because they never consider the possibility that it will just make people refuse to show basic human decency and deny them the dignified lives they deserve simply for existing even more by forcing an existential choice.

They've framed everything as an existential conflict with "whites" or "centrists" or "chuds" or "cis" who all mindlessly lockstep support the same interests at the expense of everyone else and now they're in utter despair because enough of those people were supposed to vote to (supposedly) personally harm themselves. They didn't, which means everyone else now has to lose and people like Zaslav become even more powerful than they were before when they controlled everything. It's all status, nobody can be up without somebody else being forced down, if someone's doing well then someone else must be losing. The entire framing relies on enough of the majority sacrificing their own interests purely out of the goodness of their hearts. The problem couldn't be me, it couldn't be this framing, it's them and their refusal to do as I say. This is why democracy doesn't work: everyone else.

[Besticus Maximus]

Nepenthe should be escorted off the website immediately, nothing short of vandalism and anyone taking anything she says seriously ever again should have someone else in charge of their legal and money decisions

[Boredfrom]

Joe gonna give everything to Ukraine and tell Trump to EAT HIS ASS. 

“Trump was a petty asshole during his last months on the office? I can be one too.”

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-does-progressive-outreach-to-men-look-like-how-can-we-turn-the-tide.1028586/#post-131257737

I appreciate the thought exercise, but I don't think speculating on how to get votes matters much at this point when Trump has stated he intends us to never have elections again, and there's effectively nothing standing in his way from doing so.

 Woah buddy, relax! If Trump goes full dictator I'll apologize and say I'm an idiot but I don't think it's going that far!

[Vertigo]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/donald-trump-is-the-47th-president-of-the-united-states.1028550/post-131257365

Never underestimate how awful America truly is. Most especially male voters. Especially in the coming years when the "male loneliness epidemic" gets far far worse as women reject men on mass as their rights are eroded away by people preaching about going back to the 1700s.
And it'll get worse because RIP to the literal Department of Education.

What is this moron on about?

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-does-progressive-outreach-to-men-look-like-how-can-we-turn-the-tide.1028586/#post-131257737

I appreciate the thought exercise, but I don't think speculating on how to get votes matters much at this point when Trump has stated he intends us to never have elections again, and there's effectively nothing standing in his way from doing so.

 Woah buddy, relax! If Trump goes full dictator I'll apologize and say I'm an idiot but I don't think it's going that far!

That man has a job as a writer.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/donald-trump-is-the-47th-president-of-the-united-states.1028550/post-131257365

Never underestimate how awful America truly is. Most especially male voters. Especially in the coming years when the "male loneliness epidemic" gets far far worse as women reject men on mass as their rights are eroded away by people preaching about going back to the 1700s.
And it'll get worse because RIP to the literal Department of Education.

What is this moron on about?

Majority of white women voted for Trump. 

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-does-progressive-outreach-to-men-look-like-how-can-we-turn-the-tide.1028586/#post-131257737

I appreciate the thought exercise, but I don't think speculating on how to get votes matters much at this point when Trump has stated he intends us to never have elections again, and there's effectively nothing standing in his way from doing so.

Well, I mean, there's the law and all the people who disagree? (If this is what he meant, I read Trump's comment more as meaning he's going to literally solve everything in four years so even Vance or Barron is irrelevant. Which is a hilariously more insane interpretation which is why I support it over the other one. When in doubt don't suspect Trump of being modest.)

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

That's how I read his comment too. I don't know how anyone could connect the dots to a dictatorship.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/donald-trump-is-the-47th-president-of-the-united-states.1028550/post-131257365

Never underestimate how awful America truly is. Most especially male voters. Especially in the coming years when the "male loneliness epidemic" gets far far worse as women reject men on mass as their rights are eroded away by people preaching about going back to the 1700s.
And it'll get worse because RIP to the literal Department of Education.

What is this moron on about?

The Department of Education was founded in 1979, making it only slightly older than Crossing Eden is. It provides 5-15% of education budgets, varies by state as it mostly exists to very very mildly level out the funding across them. (Something that was simply done with cash grants directly to the states prior to its creation.) Or does things everybody hates like No Child Left Behind.

Nobody except bureaucrats and losers like Eden would even notice if it was eliminated. Reagan promised to eliminate it and here we are 40+ years later with it having literally armed cops.

You could make a Department of Basic Human Decency that does nothing but give suitcases of unmarked cash to Elon Musk or beat old Black men with traffic cones and these guys would take it seriously and defend it as necessary to civilization because of the name.

[FEUER FREI.]

it would be funny if someone posts this in their election/trump win announcement threads

[Snoopy]

The Majority Report is going to be hilarious today

[D3RANG3D]

Now we're talking was/is there going to be a screechining 2.0?

[Polident]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/donald-trump-is-the-47th-president-of-the-united-states.1028550/post-131257365

Never underestimate how awful America truly is. Most especially male voters. Especially in the coming years when the "male loneliness epidemic" gets far far worse as women reject men on mass as their rights are eroded away by people preaching about going back to the 1700s.
And it'll get worse because RIP to the literal Department of Education.

What is this moron on about?

1700s? If only we had relatively recent examples of a takeover led by men who force women to cover up their hair, make gaydom illegal, have honor killings, acid attacks, mass exterminate leftists, etc.

[Snoopy]

My daughter is a huge Taylor swift fan and I was telling her a few weeks ago about how she's getting so many women to register to vote and vote for Kamala. She told me that Swift fans are mostly conservatives and that all she is doing is getting more conservative women to vote for Trump regardless of a Kamala endorsement. I didn't believe her then but now it makes sense.

[benji]

                       armchair diagnosis?

[D3RANG3D]

AP called it, it's joever...

[HardcoreRetro]

[benji]

[D3RANG3D]

[Polident]

Emote, please.

: pissbaby

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Emote, please.

: pissbaby

[D3RANG3D]

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[benji]

Dearborn (big Muslim population city in Michigan) unofficial results:
Trump: 46.8%
Harris: 27.8%
Stein: 22.0%
West: 0.6%
Oliver: 0.5%
Kennedy Jr.: 0.4% (he was not removed from the ballot in Michigan)

Now you think, wow Harris really fucked up and lost Michigan over genocide. But those Stein votes are ~6650 votes. Harris is currently trailing Trump in Michigan by ~120,000.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Dearborn (big Muslim population city in Michigan) unofficial results:
Trump: 46.8%
Harris: 27.8%
Stein: 22.0%
West: 0.6%
Oliver: 0.5%
Kennedy Jr.: 0.4% (he was not removed from the ballot in Michigan)

Now you think, wow Harris really fucked up and lost Michigan over genocide. But those Stein votes are ~6650 votes. Harris is currently trailing Trump in Michigan by ~120,000.

oh no what will neolib Era say when confronted with this evidence?!

[HardcoreRetro]

Have the celebratory trans lynchings started yet? 

They're not happening? 

You're telling me I bought this expensive costume for nothing? Fuck... 

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This shitpost'll age amazingly if Americans actually do completely lose their shit. 

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Where's Kamala? Resetera needs her to give a speech. 

[benji]

oh no what will neolib Era say when confronted with this evidence?!

To be fair, Wayne County might have just enough outstanding to make that the overall difference but that still assumes she would have lost no votes by coming out for threatening Israel.

[benji]

Where's Kamala? Resetera needs her to give a speech. 

It'll just be some centrist white lib nonsense about accepting the results and working together for genocide instead of "arm up, get in the streets."

[Daffy Duck]

Devastated. What am I supposed to tell me children this morning?

I'm sorry for the community members on here who will be affected the most.

Now, more than ever, this nook of the internet needs to be a safe place.

I'm sorry.