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[Uncle]

Era still has no thread about a not-insignificant terrorist attack in Europe

However they rushed to create a thread about mosques with sledgehammered windows in the UK, which is disgusting and racist

https://www.resetera.com/threads/four-mosques-damaged-by-sledgehammers-in-birmingham-uk-overnight.106711/post-19069437

Fucking cowards.

This a few weeks after attendees of those same mosques withdrew 600 of their children from school in protest of being taught LGBTQ values, which is disgusting and homophobic

https://www.resetera.com/threads/uk-school-stops-lgbt-lessons-after-parents-protest.103459/post-18537225

Cowards, all of them.

God damn the UK is just full of cowards isn't it

[marrec]

After wasting a lot of time trying to find out if "attendees of those same mosques withdrew 600 of their children from school in protest" I have determined that I wasted a lot of time.

I've also determined that the mosques vandalized are in different parts of Birmingham with closer community schools.

I also realized I have no idea how the schooling system works in the UK, are community schools like public schools that give all kids within the community access to education for free? Are they private schools? WTF?

Anyway, these cowards should fix their weird school system.

[headwalk]

COWARD

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I love this show much every time I see it.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

After wasting a lot of time trying to find out if "attendees of those same mosques withdrew 600 of their children from school in protest" I have determined that I wasted a lot of time.

I've also determined that the mosques vandalized are in different parts of Birmingham with closer community schools.

I also realized I have no idea how the schooling system works in the UK, are community schools like public schools that give all kids within the community access to education for free? Are they private schools? WTF?

Anyway, these cowards should fix their weird school system.

The only weird thing about our system is we call private (posh) schools public schools.
Orthodox followers of religions don't like homosexuals very much.
That's not news is it? Its pretty likely a significant portion of the congregation of a defaced mosque wouldn't particularly want their primary school teaching their kids about homosexuality.
Its pretty likely most parents wouldn't want sexuality being taught at primary school at all, as 4 - 11 is maybe a bit young for that.

[headwalk]

i don't think it's about laying down the specifics of having a good rimming game to 8 year olds as much as it is to establish the idea that if a man and man hold hands it's not some hideous contortion of the natural order.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

i don't think it's about laying down the specifics of having a good rimming game to 8 year olds as much as it is to establish the idea that if a man and man hold hands it's not some hideous contortion of the natural order.

I mean... that's really an integration problem more than anything.
A parent can tell their kids homosexuality is a moral sin all they want, but when the entirety of the media those kids are steeped in are saying the exact opposite, they've got at best an uphill battle.
Recent immigrants might cling to 'the old ways' but their kids don't have to, and chances are probably won't.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Like, a devout christian woman was on telly this morning in relation to this story and ended up saying being gay is "a choice" and is currently being torn to shreds in the press for saying that as a result.
There's a line where you have to respect a parents beliefs and their right to teach those beliefs to their kids, even if you disagree with those beliefs.

I dunno. I can't help but feel the best time to bring up the nuanced and complicated concepts that make up human sexuality is when a kid is old enough to start forming their own worldview, which would be secondary school rather than primary school.

[marrec]

Like, a devout christian woman was on telly this morning in relation to this story and ended up saying being gay is "a choice" and is currently being torn to shreds in the press for saying that as a result.
There's a line where you have to respect a parents beliefs and their right to teach those beliefs to their kids, even if you disagree with those beliefs.

I dunno. I can't help but feel the best time to bring up the nuanced and complicated concepts that make up human sexuality is when a kid is old enough to start forming their own worldview, which would be secondary school rather than primary school.

I'm not a child psychologist, but:

1) Gay and Lesbian couples aren't nuanced. Men sometimes like Men and women sometimes like Women.

2) I would think it's better to introduce these really simple ideas as soon as they start mucking about with relationships in general. Primary school kids already talk about their boyfriends and girlfriends because media influence, so it's not like this is all a foreign concept to them.

Also, fuck parents who want to impose indoctrinated bullshit on their kids. Also, fuck anyone who wants to tow the bullshit line of "respect cultural differences" when it comes to human rights.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Also, fuck parents who want to impose indoctrinated bullshit on their kids.

I mean... that's all parents. Phillip Larkin nailed it.

[marrec]

Also, fuck parents who want to impose indoctrinated bullshit on their kids.

I mean... that's all parents. Phillip Larkin nailed it.

There's a significant difference between indoctrinating your kids with a laziness around doing the dishes versus "homosexuals aren't real".

You know what I mean.

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[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

yeah, but I don't know where specifically you draw the line.

Yeah, I do think tolerating other peoples beliefs is important, up to the point where they infringe on other peoples rights. You can tell a kid at school theres nothing wrong with being gay, but if they go home and their parents say "nope, it is" whos the kid actually gonna believe?

Its probably too late to teach the parents they're wrong, and its probably too early to teach a kid why their parents are wrong until the point where they start questioning their parents anyway and begin forming their own view of the world. I don't know when exactly that is, but it seems more like 13-14 to me than 10-11.

[Uncle]

Also, fuck parents who want to impose indoctrinated bullshit on their kids.

I mean... that's all parents. Phillip Larkin nailed it.

There's a significant difference between indoctrinating your kids with a laziness around doing the dishes versus "homosexuals aren't real".

You know what I mean.

I think it's important to recognize that a lot of what any parent teaches their kids is indoctrination, whether right or wrong

Kids aren't old enough to understand all the context so at a certain level it always boils down to "look, just accept this because I told you, alright?"

Indoctrination has negative baggage but it just means teaching something without encouraging critical thought surrounding that thing

There are plenty of parents that indoctrinate their kids that homosexuality is fine, and that's fine, because they're in no position to examine the subject critically and arrive at the right conclusion

[Cauliflower Of Love]

You can teach kids things without indoctrinating them.

[VomKriege]

The Disney Fox merger is a rollercoaster.

Just quit. All you do is bitch and moan about Marvel and it’s fanbase. Maybe stick to your niche corner of the net then.

Imagine being in a thread bitching and crying about Disney when att / time warner and Comcast / universal mergers exist. Were where you then ?

I don't think we had an endless stream of threads or users celebrating those fucking mergers with shit like "we won, best day of my life" tho.

The fucking hot takes are absolutely astounding.

Fox was selling, they didn’t care to who, would you rather have an entertainment company by the morning your local ISP? Think about that for a minute

Disney knows the value of movies and TV Shows they won’t just cut shit to curb shit they need to make money off their acquisitions so Animation, Searchlight, etc won’t be going anywhere.

It’s truly shocking to see how many people don’t know what a monopoly actually is.
Universal Pictures
Paramount
Warner Bros.
Columbia Pictures
Blumhouse
A24
Lions gate
MGM
Netflix
Apple
Amazon

All make entertainment too yet somehow Disney has a monopoly? Ok...?

Yes it’s sucks people will lose their jobs but I’ve never seen this forum up in arms when other mergers happen, and they happen frequently so maybe lose the high horse routine because you can’t bitch about this one and ignore the one she that happen everyday

you extrapolated all of that from my one word post, which said "gross"?

Today is one of the greatest days in American history.

Agree. Fantastical things will come in the next few years.

Poe's law in effect.

Your anger is incredibly misplaced. Disney is not the villian here and it really seems like you're just following a script, complete with the predictable slam at the very end at people liking that Marvel got their properties back as a side benefit.

Same guy...

What would you have people do? Cry and lament about things that may-or-may-not actually happen that they cannot change in any way shape or form, or actually look at the positive aspects of this - that the best entertainment company just got even better, and we're finally going to see accurate versions of these oft-maligned characters.

MALIGNED

Props to scrubpar, he really trolls those topics something fierce.

[Uncle]

You can teach kids things without indoctrinating them.

Like GreatSage was saying it depends on the age of the kids and whether they're old enough to be properly taught

The key being that you don't arrive at the fallacious conclusion "all religion is indoctrination but all LGBT acceptance is lovingly taught by approaching the subject with critical thinking"

There are parents out there who say "trans women are women, don't make me say it again, now eat your fucking peas"

(Most of them post at era)

[marrec]

If a child is "indoctrinated" into a scientifically correct conclusion (say, Vaccines save lives) is that the same as homophobic indoctrination?

Also, kids are smarter than you're giving them credit for and start coming to their own conclusions about things based on peers and media long before secondary school. It's important to steer them in the right direction early.

In this specific instance, it's not even a matter of if the parents are correct, we know they are incorrect and morally wrong to boot. In these instances I think it's important for the school to step in and be a lightly guiding rudder.

[SmokyDave]

I just told my kid that some girls love boys, and some girls love girls. It’s the ones that don’t love anyone that you need to look out for, I said. Them, and the muslims anyway.

I’d like to think I did it right.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Like... if I had kids who'd come home and started saying evolution is just someones guess, and that its just as likely the bible is literally true, the earht is only a few thousand years old and dinosaur bones are just a little test god put there to see if you're faithful enough because some teacher decided they wanted to go off-book and start teaching what they think its important for kids to know, I would be fucking livid

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Also, kids are smarter than you're giving them credit for and start coming to their own conclusions about things based on peers and media long before secondary school.

I mean, like I said, I can't think of a single soap that doesn't have openly gay characters treated exactly the same as straight characters. British media is pretty progressive on that front, and good luck telling a kid dumbledore is a bad person because reasons.

[BisMarckie]

It's important to steer them in the right direction early.

Wow, marrec just repeated Hitler‘s beliefs verbatim. 

[marrec]

It's important to steer them in the right direction early.

Wow, marrec just repeated Hitler‘s beliefs verbatim. 

WOW there really is an anti-semitism problem on the left

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

you can tell when marrec is banned from his regular careposting home when this thread becomes careposting

[team filler]

Also, fuck parents who want to impose indoctrinated bullshit on their kids.

I mean... that's all parents. Phillip Larkin nailed it.

There's a significant difference between indoctrinating your kids with a laziness around doing the dishes versus "homosexuals aren't real".

You know what I mean.

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[marrec]

you can tell when marrec is banned from his regular careposting home when this thread becomes careposting

NOT TRUE

My first post on this topic was clearly a shitpost to which you responded with a semi-care post check the receipts!

Also, I've been very good about leaving the delicate ecosystem of this thread in tact.

[Uncle]

If a child is "indoctrinated" into a scientifically correct conclusion (say, Vaccines save lives) is that the same as homophobic indoctrination?

It doesn't need to be exactly the same if it's something that still shouldn't be done

There's enough false information out there without breeding mistrust by constantly saying "because I said so"

The first time anything you're told from someone like that starts to ring false, you start to question everything they told you, including the correct things, and you can't trust everyone to end up circling back to correctness after that trust is broken

[agrajag]

you can't explain things to kids?

[headwalk]

Also, fuck anyone who wants to tow the bullshit line of "respect cultural differences" when it comes to human rights.

well there's the rub isn't it? the human right to practice and believe in whatever you want is directly up against the human right to practice and believe in whatever you want. it's where the domineering idea that everything everyone wants to do and believe is always okay comes a cropper.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-increasingly-sad-desperate-decline-of-burger-king-%E2%80%93-episode-5-monthly-coffee-subscription.106696/post-19066046

as a former customer, its increasingly sad and pathetic struggles to survive have been difficult to watch.

I feel like I've bumped into an old acquaintance from high school begging for change on the street.

Damn, dude really hates burger king.

but can I also get 30 burger king crowns for that same $5?

I believe they're free to take, in any quantity, without buying anything. Like, for real. My mom teaches Sunday school, and she gives dozens out to her young students dozens every year. And neither she nor I have eaten at a BK since 2007.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

you can't explain things to kids?

 

[Uncle]

you can't explain things to kids?

I personally don't, people who do that usually later end up explaining things to cops
 

[BIONIC]

Why are you engaging with known sister-fucker marrec?

[marrec]

Why are you engaging with known sister-fucker marrec?

take your twisted fantasies back to pornhub you sick fuck

[BisMarckie]

Why are you engaging with known sister-fucker marrec?

We like Fiction here.

[agrajag]

you can't explain things to kids?

 

you can't explain things to kids?

I personally don't, people who do that usually later end up explaining things to cops
 

interesting how both your minds went to the same place

 

[BisMarckie]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-increasingly-sad-desperate-decline-of-burger-king-%E2%80%93-episode-5-monthly-coffee-subscription.106696/post-19066046

as a former customer, its increasingly sad and pathetic struggles to survive have been difficult to watch.

I feel like I've bumped into an old acquaintance from high school begging for change on the street.

Damn, dude really hates burger king.

but can I also get 30 burger king crowns for that same $5?

I believe they're free to take, in any quantity, without buying anything. Like, for real. My mom teaches Sunday school, and she gives dozens out to her young students dozens every year. And neither she nor I have eaten at a BK since 2007.

I guess OP has moved on from organizing an Atlus boycott and reaching out to youtubers for statements. 

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

interesting how both your minds went to the same place

 

 

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

I guess OP has moved on from organizing an Atlus boycott and reaching out to youtubers for statements. 

I suppose it'll turn out his mum has been mooching off of Atlus' wifi for over a decade, and that was the last time they actually even played an atlus game

[headwalk]

"the increasingly sad and desperate decline of burger king"

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

If era didn't have a stick up its ass it might have noticed this
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Do not dance in this game, we don't want Carlton to sue us.

[BisMarckie]

I just heard from our YUM! Brands representative that it is against the The Bire‘s TOS to talk about any competitior to YUM! Brands in a positive manner.

ASaiyan is correct, Burger King is trash.

[BIONIC]

Why are you engaging with known sister-fucker marrec?

We like Fiction here.

Clearly she doesn’t give a shit about you guys, and dumped your asses like day old bread

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Why is a cis man like John McCain allowed to be liked and called a hero while a Transwoman who AOC is cool with like Chelsea Manning, whose sins are being associated with WikiLeaks, Assange and being caught in an alt-right party, not only is hated very much, but is being called a coward, despite being subjugated to torture to expose US surveillance?

mccain was straight garbo, but trying to equate a traitor with mccain is some peak era shit.

[Leadbelly]

https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1108443231166099456

ree won. 

This was probably true for like an hour or something. Probably best not to continually report this because it is just going to go back and forth for a while.

Pewdiepie: 90,608,823
T-series:  90,604,360

In fact they updated their article:

UPDATED, 3/21: The back-and-forth battle for YouTube’s No. 1 spot continues.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/big-win-for-right-wing-populist-party-in-the-netherlands.106701/post-19066986

White people got complacent after WW2. The idea that the source of evil and bigotry had been conquered by war was foolishly reinforced to placate those with privilege. Straight white Christians had a boogeyman they could pin as a scapegoat forever. Minorities all over the world have been screaming what needs to be done and too many people wanted to live in ignorant bliss. Now it's coming back to bite hard at humanity again and once again people of color have to bare the burden of a naive society.

I find this wording interesting. And the notion that "minorities" not only in Europe and North America but "all over the world" had figured out this one weird trick to work effectively and permanently.

Also the idea that evil had been forever conquered, and "straight white Christians" could simply "scapegoat" Nazism for anything bad, when the next 50 years were spent in a series of proxy wars with the Soviets including a hilarious boycott of the Olympics.

What I'm saying is that nobody actually reads EdibleKnife's word salad posts, they just see length and praise them for something using so many words coming from a lesser race.

[marrec]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/big-win-for-right-wing-populist-party-in-the-netherlands.106701/post-19066986

White people got complacent after WW2. The idea that the source of evil and bigotry had been conquered by war was foolishly reinforced to placate those with privilege. Straight white Christians had a boogeyman they could pin as a scapegoat forever. Minorities all over the world have been screaming what needs to be done and too many people wanted to live in ignorant bliss. Now it's coming back to bite hard at humanity again and once again people of color have to bare the burden of a naive society.

I find this wording interesting. And the notion that "minorities" not only in Europe and North America but "all over the world" had figured out this one weird trick to work effectively and permanently.

Also the idea that evil had been forever conquered, and "straight white Christians" could simply "scapegoat" Nazism for anything bad, when the next 50 years were spent in a series of proxy wars with the Soviets including a hilarious boycott of the Olympics.

What I'm saying is that nobody actually reads EdibleKnife's word salad posts, they just see length and praise them for something using so many words coming from a lesser race.

It's all word salad, but "white people got complacent after WW2" is especially odd when he later goes on to claim that "once again people of color have to bare the burden" considering who had to actually bare the burden of Nazism in WW2 

[BisMarckie]

According to Battlefield V predominantly women.

[porkbun]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-increasingly-sad-desperate-decline-of-burger-king-%E2%80%93-episode-5-monthly-coffee-subscription.106696/post-19066046

as a former customer, its increasingly sad and pathetic struggles to survive have been difficult to watch.

I feel like I've bumped into an old acquaintance from high school begging for change on the street.

Damn, dude really hates burger king.

but can I also get 30 burger king crowns for that same $5?

I believe they're free to take, in any quantity, without buying anything. Like, for real. My mom teaches Sunday school, and she gives dozens out to her young students dozens every year. And neither she nor I have eaten at a BK since 2007.

I guess OP has moved on from organizing an Atlus boycott and reaching out to youtubers for statements. 

I haven't eaten there in 12 years for a reason. These days I rarely eat fast food at all due to stomach problems

Soooooo you haven't eaten at a place for 12 years and you don't eat fast food anyway, so you decided to splat out some verbal diarrhea because why exactly?

Oh and it's full of BS too.

Where are you getting this $1 billion loss figure from?


EDIT: I'm an idiot for citing Wikipedia without double-checking, lol. Looks like they actually had positive net income for 2018. My bad.

This is peak GAF/REEEE.

BTW how many REEEEers have tummy problems?  Like anything besides tendies and water will make them deathly ill.

[nachobro]

peak resetti would be implying BK is racist/sexist/cheeseburger-phobic and that's why they are failing and near bankruptcy

[Uncle]

Where are you getting this $1 billion loss figure from?


EDIT: I'm an idiot for citing Wikipedia without double-checking, lol. Looks like they actually had positive net income for 2018. My bad.

This is peak GAF/REEEE.

BTW how many REEEEers have tummy problems?  Like anything besides tendies and water will make them deathly ill.

"lol I leaned too hard on wikipedia" except I checked BK's wikipedia and there is nothing anywhere to indicate any sort of decline or loss that I can see

[Drainage]

peak resetti would be implying BK is racist/sexist/cheeseburger-phobic and that's why they are failing and near bankruptcy

Burger Monarch is the preferred nomenclature, please.

[Leadbelly]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/big-win-for-right-wing-populist-party-in-the-netherlands.106701/post-19066986

White people got complacent after WW2. The idea that the source of evil and bigotry had been conquered by war was foolishly reinforced to placate those with privilege. Straight white Christians had a boogeyman they could pin as a scapegoat forever. Minorities all over the world have been screaming what needs to be done and too many people wanted to live in ignorant bliss. Now it's coming back to bite hard at humanity again and once again people of color have to bare the burden of a naive society.

I find this wording interesting. And the notion that "minorities" not only in Europe and North America but "all over the world" had figured out this one weird trick to work effectively and permanently.

Also the idea that evil had been forever conquered, and "straight white Christians" could simply "scapegoat" Nazism for anything bad, when the next 50 years were spent in a series of proxy wars with the Soviets including a hilarious boycott of the Olympics.

What I'm saying is that nobody actually reads EdibleKnife's word salad posts, they just see length and praise them for something using so many words coming from a lesser race.

I do wonder actually if he even means 'minorities' rather than 'people of colour'. There is a tendency in the West to associate minorities with people of colour. Demographically speaking it would probably be fairly accurate in most Western countries as well. When these words are almost thrown around as buzzwords it is easy to see how they can be mixed up.

And I wonder this because, I'm not so sure he would be the first to criticise Muslims for the oppression of Yazidis or Coptic Christians in Muslim majority countries for instance. Yet, probably the first to criticise Western foreign policy in those same countries. Oppression of minorities seems to work in only one direction with these people.

[FStop7]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sonys-silence-with-playstation-is-just-awful-as-there-is-no-communication.106704/

Darkness has enveloped the once peaceful and prosperous kingdom of Sonyland  :'(

[BisMarckie]

Today Quantic Dreams PlayStation exclusives are going to PC and it seems that they are going Multiplatform from now on, no word from Sony as the news left it's fans confused and surprised.

Finally more people can experience and . 

[HaughtyFrank]

Why is Dora doing a sexualized butt pose?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/first-posters-for-dora-and-the-lost-city-of-gold.106783/post-19081394

These people need help

[porkbun]

peak resetti would be implying BK is racist/sexist/cheeseburger-phobic and that's why they are failing and near bankruptcy

True, but there are multiple people in the thread pulling out the "fast food targets poor people and minorities" playbook.

[BisMarckie]

The eternal internal struggle of
vs.

[BIONIC]

That JaseC creep stopped using avatars of that one actress, and started using AOC avatars instead.

Considering that and the size of his Steam library, I wonder if he’s ever known the touch of a woman? 

[HaughtyFrank]

I don't know what is more embarassing. Thinking that poster is sexualised or writing a full analysis of why it's not

Not at all. Dora is not standing directly in front of the camera, as Tracer is in that photo, but is shifted towards the right, which doesn't expose her to such a vouyeristic gaze. It also works as the viewer can see her backpack and map, two of her classic sidekicks, which would not be easy to convey without seeing her from behind or the side. Dora has typically been presented as a leader, so it makes sense that she would be in front of the rest of the group and need to turn to address them, rather than uncharacteristically displaying herself to the viewer ala Tracer. Also her face is brightly lit while her back and legs are much darker, drawing attention away from them.

You can make a good point about the absurdity of wearing such short shorts while trekking through the jungle, but that feels like more of a reference to the original character design than anything.

People have butts, sometimes they will face a camera, end of story you weirdos.

[BIONIC]

(Image removed from quote.)

The eternal internal struggle of
vs.

Fairly desexualized badass 

[VomKriege]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/first-posters-for-dora-and-the-lost-city-of-gold.106783/page-2#post-19082080