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

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/this-new-chick-fil-a-sandwich-looks-revolting.1031535/page-2#post-131407896

i love how many "allies" self report in chik fil a threads

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2-democrats-speak-out-against-transgender-athletes-after-trump-win.1030611/page-6#post-131408031

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/us/politics/trump-win-election-harris.html

This is all stemming from how effective that Charlamagne anti-trans ad was. Saw Morning Joe and CNN going on about this as well. Apparently Kamala's' own team's analysis concluded it had an almost 3% swing in the election… I'm not kidding. It resonated with "white suburban women, black men, and Latino men" leading to a 2.7% swing:

Literally why is this the hill they want to die on when even the studies that support them always end with a disclaimer that the study was limited and there needs to be more research. I think it was somewhere around COVID where they just lost their mind and decided that any kind of implication that a trans athlete might have an advantage is nothing but transphobia. A belief that's just so far removed from any common sense and the public

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fox-news-interview-kamala-harris-will-provide-gender-affirming-care-for-prisoners-%E2%80%9Ci-will-follow-the-law-just-as-the-trump-administration-did%E2%80%9D.1011729/

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/this-new-chick-fil-a-sandwich-looks-revolting.1031535/page-2#post-131407896

i love how many "allies" self report in chik fil a threads

Why is he posting in a chick fil a thread?  Checkmate

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/well-pretty-sure-me-and-my-family-are-done.1031589/

So, to start, my mental health has not been in a good place for a while now. I worked in a very high stress environment, so after four years my body is in constant fight or flight mode. So....I dug heavily into re-electing Biden, then Harris. Well....we all know how that has now ended.

So...now my family. My parents and brother have been on the MAGA train since the early days. My mom always says she doesn't follow politics, but somehow always agreed with Trump and "questioned" the other side and their decisions. So after 2016, it's been almost a decade of mentally preparing myself to be around them. The conversation always turned to Trump, or against Biden, Clinton, whoever. So, couple that with my current mental health and I just don't have it in me to be there mentally.

So, the good news is I have a new position to hopefully get my mental health in a better state. But, it's not an immediate change. My mom made a post on Wednesday about how we all need to "come together and accept the outcome". My wife said that it's going to be difficult, because our 10 year old daughter has direct affects from this decision. She pulled the post, and I didn't hear from her until today.

Now, to be clear, I'm the one who brought it up. She called to just catch up. But I just started the vent.....about the election, my daughter, hell my job as a federal employee that could go awayz their social security. She did what she always does, went into the religion talk and I, again, in the wrong told her it's not fantasy. It's reality and this stuff is coming. She got upset, and had to take a call from my dad.

I ended up calling her back to try and level set. It started OK, until she stated about Harris "deciding to be black". I ....well....went in. She started crying and my wife interjected and said we both need to walk away and have a conversation when emotion wasn't high. We hung up .....then my brother text.

Now my brother is arguably the most selfish person I know. He's been this way his whole life. My relationship with him went sour when I bought my first home and he didn't even show. When I brought it up to him, he told me that I'm not his priority (this was right after Trump was elected the first time). So to me....that was it. So he text me telling me to "knock it off and just accept the results. Stop being a shitty son and making Mom cry". I told him that first off, it's none of his business, he said it is. I told him that yeah ....should have had that conversation at a different time, but he really should not be casting stones when he's done nothing but be a prick to the family for years, and that he has zero relationship with my daughter. He told me that's my problem because he tried to be a good uncle. I told him that no.....he's taken no effort. I then went into what he told me years back and that is what did the divide. He said "good job causing this" and that when Trump lost they didn't do this. I told him that's bullshit, all they did was talk shit about the Dems. But again, that's not the convo. My convo and opinion is how he's behaving. His response "well I guess we will talk in four years". I told him, look, he doesn't know my life. It's been incredibly stressful.

I then sent a text to my mom, dad, brother telling them we all need to sit down and talk this out. So.....who knows. I'm sure my parents will, but I'm pretty sure my relationship with my brother is done.

Thanks for reading.

Reminds me of this one Ree user who held a grudge to a deceased sibling over a fucking USB cable.

[Polident]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2-democrats-speak-out-against-transgender-athletes-after-trump-win.1030611/page-6#post-131408031

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/us/politics/trump-win-election-harris.html

This is all stemming from how effective that Charlamagne anti-trans ad was. Saw Morning Joe and CNN going on about this as well. Apparently Kamala's' own team's analysis concluded it had an almost 3% swing in the election… I'm not kidding. It resonated with "white suburban women, black men, and Latino men" leading to a 2.7% swing:

Literally why is this the hill they want to die on when even the studies that support them always end with a disclaimer that the study was limited and there needs to be more research. I think it was somewhere around COVID where they just lost their mind and decided that any kind of implication that a trans athlete might have an advantage is nothing but transphobia. A belief that's just so far removed from any common sense and the public

Because conceding is admitting all those horrible things they thought, supported, and did were wrong. And some were so monstrous that they feel they can’t come back from it.

[Alpacx]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2-democrats-speak-out-against-transgender-athletes-after-trump-win.1030611/page-6#post-131408031

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/us/politics/trump-win-election-harris.html

This is all stemming from how effective that Charlamagne anti-trans ad was. Saw Morning Joe and CNN going on about this as well. Apparently Kamala's' own team's analysis concluded it had an almost 3% swing in the election… I'm not kidding. It resonated with "white suburban women, black men, and Latino men" leading to a 2.7% swing:

We cookin for the cookout fellow Birers

[benji]

Every videogame character should be me, and allow me to escape into a fantasy world where I am god and everyone has to agree to be my girlfriend

Update: My girlfriend should also be me, with small changes in outfit and hair colour and possibly vertical size depending on mood

I don't ask for much but somehow this simple request for basic human decency is too much?  

One of the dumbest things online lefties have done is to curse out centrists as absolute evil instead of allies who agree on a lot of things

I mean, it wasn't the "online" left who started this. It's every session of the International.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2024-u-s-presidential-house-senate-elections-were-n%CC%B5o%CC%B5t%CC%B5-going-back.1026573/page-113#post-131215563

So you admit you know nothing yet come in here to post an uninformed take from across the pond anyway.

Exit polls here do not count early or postal votes. It's literally just people whom accept an interview by the media when leaving a polling station on Election Day. This is faulty for several reasons, first being Dems historically vote in greater numbers early or by mail, so ED skews Republican.

The best part is: the pollsters knew this so they started polling early this cycle. This wasn't how the exit polls were done at all this year.

[benji]

Fine, here are the correct answers:

[benji]

I looked back at everybody's, I was the only person to crack 80% on the "progressive" scale. This is why The Bire is well known as far-right, our highest member only gets 80%.

[Alpacx]

Literally why is this the hill they want to die on when even the studies that support them always end with a disclaimer that the study was limited and there needs to be more research. I think it was somewhere around COVID where they just lost their mind and decided that any kind of implication that a trans athlete might have an advantage is nothing but transphobia. A belief that's just so far removed from any common sense and the public

Because if you deny they're women in sports you're shattering their illusion that everyone sees them as women.

Every day they have doubts that people see them as actually women. Maybe others are just being polite, or are scared of them.

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It finally makes sense to me why trans-identifying people claim that failing to “affirm” their preferred gender equates with “denying their existence”

(&, tangentially, why they lean so hard on stereotypes.)

1/10

Material reality is measurable & observable.

We can agree what sex a baby is when it’s born (intersex disorders excepted) because we can perceive that reality with our senses.

Existence of X doesn’t *require* external validation b/c it exists irrespective of such.

2/10

When something exists only in one’s imagination, the *only* way to root that imagined entity in the material world is to get other people to agree that they perceive it and act accordingly.

If others perceive it, too, it now exists outside one’s imagination.

3/10

For example, I can imagine that I have unlimited money, but that doesn’t change my bank balance.

However — if ppl started playing along with my fantasy &, say, accepted fake money printed on my crappy inkjet as currency, that fantasy would have *some* tangible basis in reality…

Similarly, the acquisition of observable (facsimiles of) traits associated w/ the oppo sex is an effort to elicit the external validation which would make the fantasy “real.”

Adopting pre-existing, sex stereotypes (and their baked in sex assns) facilitate this process.

5/10

But when people *don’t* affirm the fantasy, it loses its footing in reality.

Of course, the trans person doesn’t cease to exist as a living entity — but their fantasy-self reverts to existing only in their mind as soon as people stop pretending it *is* observable.

6/10

And that last sentence articulates the fundamental disconnect between trans people saying “You’re denying my existence!” & people who decline to affirm saying, “You still exist — you’re literally standing right there.”

And my billionaire fantasy offers me some empathy.

I imagine that if I got used to being allowed to transact w/ my inkjet dollars that I would be incredulous when I encountered people who refused.

They would literally be denying my unlimited wealth.

(Justifiably so.)

And I might say, “But it looks just like money!  Why won’t you take it?”

I assume the answer would be, “A. It doesn’t, B. Its not real money.”

To which I might reply, “But other people treat it like real money!”

“Well, I won’t.”

You can imagine where it goes from there …
Unfortunately for gender ideologues, free societies don’t compel speech.

No one is obligated to lie about their perceptions.

And as growing numbers realize the *real* harm being done by validating these fantasies, they’ll be increasing unwilling to “affirm” them.

TLDR:
 

[benji]

I liked that because I'm excited at more people finally realizing the dishonesty and malicious totalitarian nature of the "denying my existence" argument.

But I'm more triggered by needing ten fucking tweets to say it and say it poorly, especially because this PERSON HAS A BLUE CHECK AND SO CAN WRITE LONG TWEETS.

[benji]

Surprised I haven't seen this meme on ResetERA.com yet:

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/anyone-else-just-done.1031175/post-131392080

Nepenthe is going to "up her own activism within her middle-upper class neighbourhood"

My goal is to ramp up my own activism within my neighborhood as a survival mechanism, to try and figure out the ways to stave off the worst of what may come for the people I care about within my community.

I'm done with folks who are giving up though. This "lay down and die" approach is childish and just indicative of how utterly cooked most Americans are politically. Absolutely useless.

I am also done with the Democratic Party until they understand that I am not interested in voting for conservatives just because they dangle Pride flags in my face.

Can I point out that she already should have been doing this? All branches of government in Georgia have been controlled by Republicans since 2017. (Coincidentally the last time Republicans had the trifecta at the national level.)

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

I guess this iw why I'm still playing DA.

[benji]

I looked back at everybody's, I was the only person to crack 80% on the "progressive" scale. This is why The Bire is well known as far-right, our highest member only gets 80%.

I guess this iw why I'm still playing DA.

User banned (9 months): outscoring benji on the progressive axis

[benji]

you reminded me

remember when era and democrats seized on "weird" as some kind of masterstroke meme magic that would destroy republicans and Vance in particular? 

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Also FDR proposed that in 1944, not against Nazis or anything but the progressive wing of the Republicans who agreed with him on all of it, then he died. Then the Democrats lost the 1946 midterms in a landslide. Truman didn't run on it in 1948.

[TylenolJones]

not shocked to see Shoot still banned

I'm Latino and got banned by a white mod in a Latino thread for agreeing with John Leguizamo not identifying as Latinx

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https://www.resetera.com/threads/bill-clinton-campaigning-for-harris-in-michigan-makes-offensive-comments-in-attempt-to-court-palestinian-voters.1024155/page-13#post-131417436

[Boredfrom]

not shocked to see Shoot still banned

I'm Latino and got banned by a white mod in a Latino thread for agreeing with John Leguizamo not identifying as Latinx

🍿

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bill-clinton-campaigning-for-harris-in-michigan-makes-offensive-comments-in-attempt-to-court-palestinian-voters.1024155/page-13#post-131417436

Ah, is just Loco.

[Boredfrom]

Is funny, because I’m pretty sure that he decided for the Loco username as everyone call him that… but I’m sure it was in a negative way. As in “Loco Pendejo” kind of way.

[Polident]

you reminded me

remember when era and democrats seized on "weird" as some kind of masterstroke meme magic that would destroy republicans and Vance in particular? 

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Also FDR proposed that in 1944, not against Nazis or anything but the progressive wing of the Republicans who agreed with him on all of it, then he died. Then the Democrats lost the 1946 midterms in a landslide. Truman didn't run on it in 1948.

Really, now. How do people become this way.

[Potato]

He is facing one of the toughest and weirdest bosses on ERA. All help is appreciated.

you reminded me

remember when era and democrats seized on "weird" as some kind of masterstroke meme magic that would destroy republicans and Vance in particular? 

...and it was working, so the Democrats promptly forgot about it and focused on worthless bullshit that didn't win any votes.

[D3RANG3D]

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[benji]

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[Potato]

I hope they do. In my experience the people who don't want them are either racist or want Gwen to be sapphic so badly that they dive headfirst into racist terminology to justify why they "dislike" the idea of Gwen and Miles being together, despite that relationship meaning something to marginalized people just as much as a sapphic one would.

One and done. Internet shippers who self-insert/are parasocially attached to characters loathe the characters in question getting with a black character

 HOLY SHIT 

Man, this has been an epic bitch fight and really shows BCT making a solid attempt to take back some territory from the trans mafia. Maybe with black voters being "the good ones" they see an opportunity to reassert authority?

[Polident]

Where do they get the camp stuff from? Almost all anti-trans issues from the moderate and even right revolve around leaving people alone.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

There are food banks, that's what's confusing.

Let's not kid ourselves. The chances she's begging for food money are practically zero.

I've said before, you can't:

beg for money for food

AND

be round

[Daffy Duck]

Wait, are hamasEra going up against TransEra?

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Of course they're responsible for deaths in their community, they're the ones telling kids and teens that if you don't get drugs and surgery then the only option is to kill yourself. All while claiming that adults just have to declare themselves a member of the opposite sex to be considered valid as trans.

But kids and teens aren't all killing themselves so "the community" has to keep repeating the lie because they need kids and teens to be killing themselves to validate their claims.

Rowling's whole deal is "leave women alone, stop invading our spaces" but they tell young people "she wants you dead" because they need those kids and teens to believe it so they'll sacrifice themselves on the altar of their bullshit ideology.

[Besticus Maximus]

Wait, are hamasEra going up against TransEra?

They're starting manoeuvres because it's the holy month of Nanowrimo and and the frontline soldiers will be busy shipping