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

[Nintex]

The never winning elections again thing tracks.

Kamala ranted and raved about Columbus day. How the white men caused endless suffering and it was not a day to celebrate.

But despite that the Native Americans voted for Trump according to the NBC exit poll

Donald Trump: 68% (+37)
Kamala Harris: 31%

The only reason Trump isn't winning 70/30 is white liberals hating themselves.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

The never winning elections again thing tracks.

Kamala ranted and raved about Columbus day. How the white men caused endless suffering and it was not a day to celebrate.

But despite that the Native Americans voted for Trump according to the NBC exit poll

Donald Trump: 68% (+37)
Kamala Harris: 31%

The only reason Trump isn't winning 70/30 is white liberals hating themselves.

Evidently many on era are clearly not ready for this conversation.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

It's just asking to reflect on something that still impacts indigenous people today, and a lot of y'all are like lol who cares.

The OP is not a call to action. Didn't ask any of y'all to actually DO shit.

Because "reflecting" is performative horsecrap that does nothing for anyone that isn't yourself. The point of reflecting is to inculcate a sense of moral righteousness; those that want to help, do. Reflecting is the "thoughts and prayers" of activism.

[Straight Edge]

Just got back from Thanksgiving at my bro-in-laws. They didn't make stuffing. 

HOW THE FUCK DO YOU NOT HAVE STUFFING AT THANKSGIVING DINNER!

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-reminder-thanksgiving-is-a-problematic-holiday-celebrates-a-myth-of-colonialism-and-white-proprietorship-of-the-u-s.1047771/page-3#post-132253020

It's interesting, I work for a Nation Tribe, and they very much still treat Thanksgiving as a holiday to be celebrated. They are proud of their heritage and history, doing what they can to preserve the culture as much as possible, however, Thanksgiving is still seen as a time to celebrate and give thanks to a lot of them. I also believe that it's been something that is deeply rooted in our culture, so I'm not sure if they would ever change anything at this point. A lot of the people now that are Tribe members are of mixed descent, so I imagine the ideas and beliefs have become intertwined, changed, or disregarded as people in the area and the state have become more diverse. That's not to say all of the Natives of the Tribe I work for feel that way, but just talking to people about it, many of the members just talk about the food they are going to eat and what their plans are for the day, rarely, if ever, talking about the awful history that comes with this particular holiday.

shhhhh..the non-indigenous are debating it for us.

Indigenous people aren't a monolith.

[Averon]

Now with some turkey in my belly, back to laughing at ERA's retardiness

Of course it does. The whole "war on Christmas" bullshit came from the same type of sentiment. The other side can turn anything into a war on something. And the shitty thing is to a degree, it works for them.

You think a thread acknowledging American history on a video game forum can create a culture war?

Why do they act dumb and disingenuous like this? There's a reason the left got the bad reputation it has and it is not all because of right-wing propaganda. That entire thread is a shinning example of why people laugh at and hate the left, especially the terminally online kind who are the loudest and most vocal.

[garamonde]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/starfield-has-been-played-by-more-than-15-million-players.1039776/page-6#post-132064680

User Banned (1 Week): Antagonizing Fellow Members; History of Hostility

Edit: I'm gonna pare my post down a bit, since this got me a little heated, and I want to keep it short.

I do not appreciate your attempt to shut me down solely because my input on this topic isn't as unflinchingly celebratory as you think it ought to be. I'm not out here roasting the devs, I'm not insinuating that the game is a failure, and I'm sure as shit not 'making it about me' by posting my own explicitly-personal reaction to the thread's topic, on a public board, like everybody else! So spare me any more sanctimony or tone-policing or "who cares what you think" crap, please.

I mean unless we're playing armchair shareholder I don't see the point in making it about how impressed you are about the performance of the game.

How many times has this cunt been banned before? Anyone have the tally? Motherfucker stacking these like infinity stones. 

Insane.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-reminder-thanksgiving-is-a-problematic-holiday-celebrates-a-myth-of-colonialism-and-white-proprietorship-of-the-u-s.1047771/

Why I will NOT be saying or wishing to anyone "Happy Thanksgiving".

This highly educational op-ed I have discovered regarding the dark history that surrounds this holiday and why celebrating it is problematic will explain why.

This article is written by a Native American who has been attempting to educate everyone about why Thanksgiving is problematic within Native American culture, if you agree with this effort, please share this widely, the more who learn why Thanksgiving is problematic, the better:
https://www.bustle.com/p/thanksgiving-promotes-whitewashed-history-so-i-organized-truthsgiving-instead-13154470

Here's another article explaining the true history of Thanksgiving:

https://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-thanksgiving-2017-11

Here's a 2019 book whose description states that Thanksgiving is "a holiday which celebrates a myth of colonialism and white proprietorship of the United States":

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/this-land-is-their-land-9781632869241/

And here's a USA Today article from 2023 where it reports that "Indigenous scholars and activists say that the Thanksgiving story ignores a longer past and future for Native Americans":
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/11/22/thanksgiving-story-native-american-history/71563811007/

Note:

I created this thread to try to educate people about the true history of Thanksgiving, a history that is NOT widely taught in schools. ALSO I created this thread to raise awareness that the history of Thanksgiving has been whitewashed and the Native Americans are still being oppressed in the 21st Century.

He "discovered" the article which was...published openly on the internet in 2018? 

I think the left have a term for that. Something like Columbusing? 

[Averon]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-reminder-thanksgiving-is-a-problematic-holiday-celebrates-a-myth-of-colonialism-and-white-proprietorship-of-the-u-s.1047771/page-3#post-132253020

It's interesting, I work for a Nation Tribe, and they very much still treat Thanksgiving as a holiday to be celebrated. They are proud of their heritage and history, doing what they can to preserve the culture as much as possible, however, Thanksgiving is still seen as a time to celebrate and give thanks to a lot of them. I also believe that it's been something that is deeply rooted in our culture, so I'm not sure if they would ever change anything at this point. A lot of the people now that are Tribe members are of mixed descent, so I imagine the ideas and beliefs have become intertwined, changed, or disregarded as people in the area and the state have become more diverse. That's not to say all of the Natives of the Tribe I work for feel that way, but just talking to people about it, many of the members just talk about the food they are going to eat and what their plans are for the day, rarely, if ever, talking about the awful history that comes with this particular holiday.

shhhhh..the non-indigenous are debating it for us.

Indigenous people aren't a monolith.

It's literally that fucking meme of the smug lefty talking over minorities. ClickyCal' is literally acting out a parody of the terminally online smug leftist unironically

[almostheathen]

Haha, clickers brain rot I can't even.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-reminder-thanksgiving-is-a-problematic-holiday-celebrates-a-myth-of-colonialism-and-white-proprietorship-of-the-u-s.1047771/

Why I will NOT be saying or wishing to anyone "Happy Thanksgiving".

This highly educational op-ed I have discovered regarding the dark history that surrounds this holiday and why celebrating it is problematic will explain why.

This article is written by a Native American who has been attempting to educate everyone about why Thanksgiving is problematic within Native American culture, if you agree with this effort, please share this widely, the more who learn why Thanksgiving is problematic, the better:
https://www.bustle.com/p/thanksgiving-promotes-whitewashed-history-so-i-organized-truthsgiving-instead-13154470

Here's another article explaining the true history of Thanksgiving:

https://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-thanksgiving-2017-11

Here's a 2019 book whose description states that Thanksgiving is "a holiday which celebrates a myth of colonialism and white proprietorship of the United States":

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/this-land-is-their-land-9781632869241/

And here's a USA Today article from 2023 where it reports that "Indigenous scholars and activists say that the Thanksgiving story ignores a longer past and future for Native Americans":
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/11/22/thanksgiving-story-native-american-history/71563811007/

Note:

I created this thread to try to educate people about the true history of Thanksgiving, a history that is NOT widely taught in schools. ALSO I created this thread to raise awareness that the history of Thanksgiving has been whitewashed and the Native Americans are still being oppressed in the 21st Century.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. At my parents house where half the attendees voted for trump and somehow having a good time!

Who argues about politics at the dinner table anyway? Why bother when there are infinite better subjects to discuss and if you want to give your siblings or other relatives a hard time you just need to point out how they're bald/fat/old/stupid/ugly/not successful enough/too successful/under the thumb of their partner/follow a shit sports team/etc etc etc.

[Potato]

I had a student ask me if it was racist to wish people happy Thanksgiving, recently. I said no, but they might want to consider that not everyone celebrates Thanksgiving.

They looked at me truly confused, and started spouting the American mythology about pilgrims and indigenous people. They kept saying, "That's what I was taught." I let them finish and asked if they'd ever, even once, spoken to an indigenous person about the holiday.

They said no, and then looked at me and then, after thinking on it for a minute said: I guess thats pretty fucked up.

Also depressing to know someone like skillzilla81 is teaching kids.

I dunno man. Seems a pretty reasonable response, especially for someone from Resetera.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/harris-campaign-internal-polling-data-indicated-that-she-never-had-a-lead-as-much-as-public-polls-team-surprised-by-polls-that-showed-them-ahead.1046109/page-8#post-132226854

User Banned (1 Week): Conspiracy Theorizing Nonsense

Do you actually think anyone involved in her campaign woke up and said "I don't actually want to win"? You can disagree with their strategy, I do, but be serious here. I can't think of a single campaign, even long shot campaigns for Congress in safe seats, that — to quote you — "didn't want to win". That's not how human beings work.

its safe to assume a number of people involved in harris' campaign were probably also being blackmailed by putin to install trump

[DocWager]

I had a student ask me if it was racist to wish people happy Thanksgiving, recently. I said no, but they might want to consider that not everyone celebrates Thanksgiving.

They looked at me truly confused, and started spouting the American mythology about pilgrims and indigenous people. They kept saying, "That's what I was taught." I let them finish and asked if they'd ever, even once, spoken to an indigenous person about the holiday.

They said no, and then looked at me and then, after thinking on it for a minute said: I guess thats pretty fucked up.

Also depressing to know someone like skillzilla81 is teaching kids.

I’ve dated teachers. They are all crazy, and immature.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Dismissing the problems of Thanksgiving and the harmful myths and stereotypes it perpetuates just because all you wanna do is eat some food is peak lib shit.

Nah it's peak lib shit to discuss the problems of Thanksgiving when you're not Native American. Peak white privileged liberal wokescold shit.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2024-u-s-presidential-house-senate-elections-were-n%CC%B5o%CC%B5t%CC%B5-going-back.1026573/page-358#post-132217455

Elon is a little twat(ter).

                   Misogynistic rhetoric

The American-centric moderation staff wouldn't know what a twat is...neither would all of the "women" on staff

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-reminder-thanksgiving-is-a-problematic-holiday-celebrates-a-myth-of-colonialism-and-white-proprietorship-of-the-u-s.1047771/page-3#post-132253020

It's interesting, I work for a Nation Tribe, and they very much still treat Thanksgiving as a holiday to be celebrated. They are proud of their heritage and history, doing what they can to preserve the culture as much as possible, however, Thanksgiving is still seen as a time to celebrate and give thanks to a lot of them. I also believe that it's been something that is deeply rooted in our culture, so I'm not sure if they would ever change anything at this point. A lot of the people now that are Tribe members are of mixed descent, so I imagine the ideas and beliefs have become intertwined, changed, or disregarded as people in the area and the state have become more diverse. That's not to say all of the Natives of the Tribe I work for feel that way, but just talking to people about it, many of the members just talk about the food they are going to eat and what their plans are for the day, rarely, if ever, talking about the awful history that comes with this particular holiday.

shhhhh..the non-indigenous are debating it for us.

Indigenous people aren't a monolith.

Neither are trans people clicky

[imsotired]

Dismissing the problems of Thanksgiving and the harmful myths and stereotypes it perpetuates just because all you wanna do is eat some food is peak lib shit.

Nah it's peak lib shit to discuss the problems of Thanksgiving when you're not Native American. Peak white privileged liberal wokescold shit.

The Culture War has no holidays. Nep lives the struggle every day. 

[DavidCroquet]

Dismissing the problems of Thanksgiving and the harmful myths and stereotypes it perpetuates just because all you wanna do is eat some food is peak lib shit.

Nah it's peak lib shit to discuss the problems of Thanksgiving when you're not Native American. Peak white privileged liberal wokescold shit.

Didn’t she just post the unedited lyrics from that “I don’t wanna work, I just wanna bang on me drum all day” song as a vision for an ideal utopian society like…last week?

Or maybe more simply, doesn’t she play Overwatch?

[Jansen]

I feel like the fat dude from se7en. It was so good and made even more delicious by people hating on a good reason to celebrate with family. 

[Jansen]

No

[almostheathen]

One of those natives needs like blue hair to make it more realistic tbh.

[PogiJones]

https://famiboards.com/threads/monolith-soft-development-and-speculation-st.51/post-1431258

Takahashi's 2015 message responding to JP player feedback on Xenoblade Chronicles X got fully translated. For the record, we know Xenoblade Chronicles 2 was already in the works when he wrote this since work on it began in July 2014.


MOD EDIT: Link removed

While I have to express how terrible it is to cite the website of this terrible person, on the actual topic:

ToraTora provided mods with some pretty damning evidence about the author of the Xenomira site, so I've edited the link out of the post and quotes. We don't presume that this was common knowledge at all, so we didn't think it fair to hand out feedback, but we ask to please not link that site again in the future. Thanks

ToraTora or anyone in the know, would you be willing to pass on the details on this Xenomira person? I'm embarrassed not to have heard of anything as I've made use of those translations for years (and henceforth shall find an alternative or do it myself). Apologies moderators if the question is faux pas.

I'll pm you, but pls understand I don't want to give away too many details as I'm afraid of drawing that person's ire. Fwiw, since he's the only one doing these translations, keep using them for yourself, but try not to promote his website.

[killamajig]

It's been obvious for a while now that racists have been using transphobic discourse as a way to gatekeep non-white women out of sports.

Obviously

[Greatness Gone]

Tacking on plagiarism to that list…

[HaughtyFrank]

What the fuck is going happening on Famiboards, anytime it's posted here it's feels like it's just one layer of an onion of insanity 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/page-133#post-132255618

Very cool of HBO to platform a racist who isn't going to stop at this point. And this is on top of JKR still pushing the false narrative that Imane Khelif is a man.

"the false narrative that Imane isn't cis*"....to clarify the way to word that. She is transvetigating her.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Guess someone saw Discord logs. 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2024-u-s-presidential-house-senate-elections-were-n%CC%B5o%CC%B5t%CC%B5-going-back.1026573/page-358#post-132247611

So, I've taken a break from Thanksgiving Dinner prep to write this message, which you should consider carefully.

Key takeaways from the 2024 Presidential Election:

You Need The Non-Hispanic White Vote: Even now, non-Hispanic Whites make up a majority of the US population, and that percentage may increase under Donald Trump and future Republican leadership. You need this demographic in a way that you don't need the black vote or the hispanic vote. Whites decide election outcomes, so if a policy upsets Whites and the Democrats want to win in the future, they're going to just have to ditch it. This probably means having a rather contrite attitude with regards to that party's disgusting history of DEI/affirmative action/etc policies that discriminate against Whites.

America Didn't Fail The Democrats, Democrats Failed America: Donald Trump didn't win the election because of "ignorance," voters being "low-information," or any other condescending bullshit you can come up with. He won the election because he was a superior candidate to Kamala Harris. We can get into the weeds on what makes Trump so much better than Kamala, but the debate on which is the better candidate is over. Trump > Harris, and Trump voters > Harris voters. Learn your place now so that you can maybe have an argument in 2028.

You Lost The Moral High Ground: Really, it's debatable if you ever had the moral high ground to begin with, but today, you absolutely do not. You need to show some humility and accept that the directionality of moral judgment is going to be from the Pepe-Wojak people and religious conservatives with "We The People" sleeve tattoos to the danger hairs and the they/them retards, and not the other way around. This means you need to stop making condescending remarks to these people, as they are (rightly) judging you for your bad choices in life and your idiot politics.

You Don't Have A "Messaging" Problem, Your Party Just Sucks: The issue with your party and its campaign isn't "messaging." It's actually that your party, its policies/attitudes, and from the people in it running for office all the way down to the everyday voter, is just shit. You're evil, annoying, frustrating people who will lie, cheat, and steal, who will denigrate your betters and then demand respect from them, respect that you will not reciprocate. This was morally wrong when you were the "winners" (the outcome of the 2020 "election" is, ah, rather suspect, to put it politely, but your shitbag candidate did take office for 4yrs), but now that you're losers in the most literal sense, it's also just plain fucking dumb. Don't morally posture to people who decide your fate, and have good reason to make negative determinations about it.

You Need To Internalize Critiques From The Right: This election should have been a teachable moment for you. This isn't a time for you to start hyperventilating about how illegals will be deported or about how you can't have postnatal abortions. It's not time to scream about "fascism." It's a time for humble reflection, not moralizing and doubling down.

You Will Never Be A Woman: But actually, though. All of the -ists and the -phobes were right. You were wrong. Men aren't women. Men can't become women, and women can't become men. People and institutions that understand this, as a category, hold intellectual and moral stature over those who do not, as a category. Having a history of this kind of thing, or displaying pronouns in your bio, display name, or signature, is a stain on your record. Your sin and your stupidity will not be easily washed away.

"Experts" Didn't Earn It: If you wanted us to respect your "experts" you shouldn't have spent the last decade or two filtering explicitly for politics and race. Giving someone credentials for being black or whatever tarnishes those credentials. And yes, showing preferential treatment in hiring/admissions/etc to certain races over others is giving them credentials on the basis of race. Period. Since your "experts" didn't earn their credentials, those of us with brains do not need to take them even the least bit seriously. The people we hold in esteem, by contrast, have earned their stature, and so you are required to take them seriously.

We're Going To Put The Most Qualified People In Power: That means straight, Christian White men with children that are biologically theirs. You need DEI/affirmative action policies that favor dipshit blacks over competent Whites because blacks can't compete. When you say that abolishing DEI is White supremacy and the cisheteropatriarchy or whatever, you're actually correct, just not for the reasons you think. Meritocracy is de facto pro-White, pro-male, and pro-straight, because Whites are just better than blacks, men are just better than women, and straights are just better than fags.

Git Gud Or Git Gone: Get some real skills that actually build up America or go away. We aren't worshiping do-nothing Shanequas and HR hall monitors anymore. Get a real job, marry someone with a real job (if they'll take you), or shut the fuck up. To be clear, bitching about how big tits in video games isn't a real job, nor is crying about how IQ tests are discrimination to the EEOC. We're getting rid of all that bullshit.

Choose Your Words Carefully: Through 2020, there was an ethos that we should all be free to think what we want without being punished for it, even outside of a strictly sense. You killed that ethos, opting instead to do everything in your power to shut up your political rivals who knew more than you about basically everything. You even used the government to pressure big tech to censor anybody who questions your batshit ideas. Consequently, we no longer have to respect your right to express yourself. If we deem what you have to say to be too "woke" or whatever, you're gone. Be careful, because your livelihoods, your social status, and your ability to live a normal are now on the line. Before you consider making one of your leftarded utterances in public, consider: is it worth losing your job over it, and going homeless? Remember, you chose for things to be this way, so you're at fault.

Enjoy your Thanksgiving with your families, assuming they let you back into the fold after you spent the last several years disowning them for not voting for your literal DEI candidates.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

You need this demographic in a way that you don't need the black vote or the hispanic vote. Whites decide election outcomes, so if a policy upsets Whites and the Democrats want to win in the future, they're going to just have to ditch it.

Incoming ban...