River Of Slime |OT| Mission: Impossible

[Lonewulfeus]

Agreed and with that I'm out - fuck this community, this place sucks ass.

 

Should I invite him to the bire, we have tons of empathy here.   

I don't need to sympathize with pieces of shit just because they experienced the kind of family loss people go through every day

Extended families. 

if losing his wife is something he goes through on the regular, i think maybe the fbi should look into him..

That’s just Christopher Nolan’s resetera account

[HaughtyFrank]

Look at all the ~~~Enlightened European~~~ countries that lost their damn minds when brown people came seeking refuge and opportunity.

A lot of those progressive countries are only progressive as long as everyone looks like them. The moment they start getting more diverse, you see calls to gut the welfare state; rhetoric about "those people" being takers, moochers, "not like us"; and increased and more overt bigotry.

I like how this dumb shit doesn't even read his own fucking article, as he's too busy sniffing his own farts.

At the peak in 2015, 160,000 refugees sought asylum in Sweden, a country of 10 million people. That is equivalent to more than five million refugees arriving in the United States in a year.

Look at a map, dumbshit. Look at the size of these countries that refugees are fleeing to after the US bombed them out of their homes.
We're talking the equivalent of 5 times what the US freaked out about so much they want to build a fucking wall.

His argument is also bullshit considering that even in Turkey people have turned on refugees despite sharing skin color and faith. When there's a sudden huge influx of foreigners tensions are going to be high, that's how it is.

[Mr Gilhaney]

I remember growing up, my mom had a friend. She was married and the guy died of cancer. Sad stuff. Then she got re-married and he killed himself. Got re-married and he fucking killed himself as well. Some people are unlucko.

Seeing as we were kids, we called her the killer vagina.

[NegativeCrepe]

I remember growing up, my mom had a friend. She was married and the guy died of cancer. Sad stuff. Then she got re-married and he killed himself. Got re-married and he fucking killed himself as well. Some people are unlucko.

Seeing as we were kids, we called her the killer vagina.

were they racist though, i dont know if I should feel bad or not

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

His argument is also bullshit considering that even in Turkey people have turned on refugees despite sharing skin color and faith. When there's a sudden huge influx of foreigners tensions are going to be high, that's how it is.

Exactly - turkey is picking up way more than its 'fair share' of refugees, because they're the closest safe haven destination possible, and its not like turkey is an economic super power at the best of times.
Refugees inherently need a ton of help immediately, and sure, in 25 years time they're going to be the proudest fucking citizens of their new home possible, because they showed up in the proverbial rags without any possessions to their name and got housed, clothed, educated, fed and integrated as per their needs, but thats still a big resource drain upfront, because what else are you going to do? "welcome to your safe haven, figure shit out for yourself quickly, because you're dieing in the gutters if you don't".

Pretending that a hugely complex issue that bounces around all sorts of topics relating to what a society is, the limits of how much help you can give to those who need it without harming yourself by giving that help, the obligations of an international community, what rate of change a culture can endure while still recognisably being the same culture, and integration versus alienation that to boil it down to "cacs dont want to live near brown faces hurr durr" is offensively reductionist

[NegativeCrepe]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tacoma-police-fatally-shoot-man-throwing-incendiaries-near-northwest-detention-center.128852/unread

[Kara]

His argument is also bullshit considering that even in Turkey people have turned on refugees despite sharing skin color and faith. When there's a sudden huge influx of foreigners tensions are going to be high, that's how it is.

The Turkish state turning on "outsiders" probably isn't as exculpatory as you think it is.

[Jansen]

His argument is also bullshit considering that even in Turkey people have turned on refugees despite sharing skin color and faith. When there's a sudden huge influx of foreigners tensions are going to be high, that's how it is.

Exactly - turkey is picking up way more than its 'fair share' of refugees, because they're the closest safe haven destination possible, and its not like turkey is an economic super power at the best of times.
Refugees inherently need a ton of help immediately, and sure, in 25 years time they're going to be the proudest fucking citizens of their new home possible, because they showed up in the proverbial rags without any possessions to their name and got housed, clothed, educated, fed and integrated as per their needs, but thats still a big resource drain upfront, because what else are you going to do? "welcome to your safe haven, figure shit out for yourself quickly, because you're dieing in the gutters if you don't".

Pretending that a hugely complex issue that bounces around all sorts of topics relating to what a society is, the limits of how much help you can give to those who need it without harming yourself by giving that help, the obligations of an international community, what rate of change a culture can endure while still recognisably being the same culture, and integration versus alienation that to boil it down to "cacs dont want to live near brown faces hurr durr" is offensively reductionist

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

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Doesn't include shipping either lmao

phew, they're still in stock, I was worried theyd sold out

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

im picking up some of that pogi slack

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tacoma-police-fatally-shoot-man-throwing-incendiaries-near-northwest-detention-center.128852/unread

I don’t see how burning down the building before you liberate refugees is helpful.

You hold the guards at gunpoint, liberate the refugees. Secure the guards, then firebomb the facility.

And here is why people don't want to do these things alone. You need to have more people for such a thing to work. Incendiaries aren't a good idea for this, either, as it's pretty fucking hard to control a burn like that and you'll hurt who you're liberating more.

Oh yeah, liberated some Ala Mhigans myself just last expac. Totally agree.

I guess era mod captains deem discussing best practises for firebombing government buildings a productive topic

[HaughtyFrank]

His argument is also bullshit considering that even in Turkey people have turned on refugees despite sharing skin color and faith. When there's a sudden huge influx of foreigners tensions are going to be high, that's how it is.

The Turkish state turning on "outsiders" probably isn't as exculpatory as you think it is.

I'd say it makes an argument for the issues not being all race based.

[NegativeCrepe]

[Boredfrom]

I think Trump just made clear, in the US at least, it totally is race based.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mistakes-and-wrong-doing-and-the-redemption-road-and-era.129192/

Locked within two minutes. Why are the mods so scared of the community having some self reflective discussions? No matter where you fall on that issue talking about it seems like a good idea.

I think Trump just made clear, in the US at least, it totally is race based.

Fair enough

[Raist]

The forum has thousands of individual users, and generalizing all of them does not lead to productive conversation. As such, the thread has been locked.

"But feel free to keep making broad generalizations based on skin colour  "

[railGUN]

watching people trip over themselves to play defense for a guy like this spouting vague mentions of "he changed"(and the only mention of him "changing" was from a notoriously conservative black friend) says a lot

Conservative bad racist uncle tom reeeeeeeeeee

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dog-the-bounty-hunter-talks-losing-his-wife.129149/post-22781208

 

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mistakes-and-wrong-doing-and-the-redemption-road-and-era.129192/

Locked within two minutes. Why are the mods so scared of the community having some self reflective discussions? No matter where you fall on that issue talking about it seems like a good idea.

I think Trump just made clear, in the US at least, it totally is race based.

Fair enough

C'mon man, corporate have been busting their balls over this quarters productivity targets, gotta keep the workforce motivated to hit those targets

[BisMarckie]

His argument is also bullshit considering that even in Turkey people have turned on refugees despite sharing skin color and faith. When there's a sudden huge influx of foreigners tensions are going to be high, that's how it is.

The Turkish state turning on "outsiders" probably isn't as exculpatory as you think it is.

A better example would have been pogroms against Huguenots in Prussia, but I don't expect these kind of references in the trash thread.

[Joe Molotov]

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Doesn't include shipping either lmao

[Propagandhim]

Not really interested in the source tweet, but this stupid ass reply made me belly laugh for some reason.

https://twitter.com/YUXLOA/status/1150855519327985664

[Boredfrom]

Endorsing Socialism and hate of Israel?    

https://www.resetera.com/threads/reps-omar-pressley-tlaib-and-aoc-press-conference-on-president-trumps-tweets.129196/page-5#post-22782395

RE has the amazing ability of acting horrible even on stuff that should rise eyebrows.

[railGUN]

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/trump-clarifies-about-controversial-tweets-if-youre-not-happy-here-you-can-leave.1492894/

His clarification has no substance; "if you don't like it then leave," is simply a way to deflect any criticism of the USA and of himself, and barely passes as a grade-school level argument.

Good update on the issue though, let me help you add further commentary:

Within this "clarification" he goes on to make further vile bigoted statements without any proof. Par for the course.

Strong work on the thread title, by the way.

All of this is already in the OP. What are your complaints about the thread title? Lack of Vox-style editorialization?

Added the "wonderful Al-Qaeda" bit to make sure you didn't miss that part of the conference and help you out; it can be hard to create a controversial thread with proper fidelity of the information. I see you edited that into the OP after I had begun to draft my post.

And no, the title is truly unbiased reporting that accurately captures the situation. Good work.

Clearly this guy didn't receive the message EviLore sent to Transhuman.

[Boredfrom]

Time to rebuild the Panthers and buff up security for the squad.

 

I know the Panthers were more complex and not outright terrorists like the US painted them to be... but still.

[agrajag]

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These comics read very exhausted and exasperated.

The air quotes & bolding in the first panel makes "Chad" ( ) look like a liberal mocking the idea of the euphemistic term.

he drew marrec without the buck tooth 

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Time to rebuild the Panthers and buff up security for the squad.

 

I know the Panthers were more complex and not outright terrorists like the US painted them to be... but still.

isn't diz a brit like beefy?

[railGUN]

Isn't his entire Presidential run based on complaining about America? If he didn't like it at the time, he could've went back to his "original country," instead of MAGAing.

He does want to go back to his original country.

America before it was taken over by globalism. It was a nice country. I miss it too.

 

[Boredfrom]

The article, while still shitty, isn't nearly as bad as that headline. I wonder if FOX has a team dedicated to that sole purpose? I suppose it makes sense right? They probably have the metrics to see how much more influential headlines are than actual content. So they can put in a half hearted effort and journalism and then slap a crazy fucking headline on it that completely rewrites the story and that headline becomes fact where the story is just buried.... I don't know why I've never thought out this process before. It's so obvious

I mean CNN and MSNBC do it alllllll the fucking time as well. It's really disgusting. But the thing I guess I've never really considered before is using headlines as a tool of influence to guide the narrative... I used to think they'd hyperbolize things for clicks but it's clear to me now they're rewriting the story with the headline.

No wonder why you guys though Gawker was legit journalism...

[daemon]

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Doesn't include shipping either lmao

if the author adds a spoonful of his libtears(tm) consider it sold.

[Tripon]

Isn't JordanN Canadian?

[Potato]

The article, while still shitty, isn't nearly as bad as that headline. I wonder if FOX has a team dedicated to that sole purpose? I suppose it makes sense right? They probably have the metrics to see how much more influential headlines are than actual content. So they can put in a half hearted effort and journalism and then slap a crazy fucking headline on it that completely rewrites the story and that headline becomes fact where the story is just buried.... I don't know why I've never thought out this process before. It's so obvious

I mean CNN and MSNBC do it alllllll the fucking time as well. It's really disgusting. But the thing I guess I've never really considered before is using headlines as a tool of influence to guide the narrative... I used to think they'd hyperbolize things for clicks but it's clear to me now they're rewriting the story with the headline.

No wonder why you guys though Gawker was legit journalism...

This blows my mind. Do they not understand that newspapers have literally been doing this for 100 years?

[Snoopycat_]

Fuckin 'ell, Amazon are proper fucked now. Che's going to make a thread on gaming side tomorrow.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/support-amazon-workers-for-the-prime-day-strike.128907/page-6#post-22784870

[Potato]

Please help inform this ignorant overprivileged Australian, but do workers in the US not have the right to join a union?

[Finbarfin]

Please help inform this ignorant overprivileged Australian, but do workers in the US not have the right to join a union?

They have the right, and there are protections for that process under US law, but for various reasons, it's actually pretty hard to get the ball rolling on that right now in most professions. Growing up, my dad was in the Teamsters and IBEW (international brotherhood of electrical workers) at different times. Even back then (80s/90s) companies were finding creative ways of skirting laws protecting unions, like only signing a contract with full time employees (defined as 40+ hours a week) then replacing 25-50% of the staff with people who conveniently only were allowed to clock 38 hours a week. Shit like that. In the old days, the big unions like the Teamsters used to try to recruit the employees of businesses not under their umbrella, but it doesn't seem like as much of that is happening anymore. That means people have to organize themselves without much outside assistance, and the short story of how that's going is that it's not.

[Tripon]

Please help inform this ignorant overprivileged Australian, but do workers in the US not have the right to join a union?

Yes, but many states are 'right-to-work' states, which means that you don't have to join the union to work in a given field. And most states are 'at-will' states which means that an employer doesn't need a reason to lay off workers, and there was a recent Supreme Court decision of Janus v. AFSCME that forbid the automatic gathering of union fees for public section unions.

Due to a number of factors (corporation opposition, conservative politicians opposition, globalization, etc.) union participation have steadily declined for decades.

[Snoopycat_]

Please help inform this ignorant overprivileged Australian, but do workers in the US not have the right to join a union?

I think they're all controlled by the mafia or something. Every movie I've seen about American unions usually involves Joe Pesci beating up moolies or mooks

[Finbarfin]

Also, there's a lot of bullshit in how people in potentially unionizable (pretty sure I made that word up) services are hired. Take something like this:

https://www.cintas.com/facilityservices/restroomcleaning.aspx

You hire a company outside your own organization to come in and clean up your bathrooms. Those guys send over an "employee" who is actually designated as an independent contractor and therefore not on their official payroll. The guy who cleans the bathroom doesn't work for your company AND he doesn't work for Cintas. How's a guy like that going to unionize? Absolutely not possible. Now extrapolate this to your entire facility maintenance. That's basically already happened in a lot of places. The IRS will only let this go so far. You can't make literally any position in your company you want an "independent contractor" but the rules as written are hugely stretched by nearly everyone and outright broken in many cases with no consequences.

[Kara]

His argument is also bullshit considering that even in Turkey people have turned on refugees despite sharing skin color and faith. When there's a sudden huge influx of foreigners tensions are going to be high, that's how it is.

The Turkish state turning on "outsiders" probably isn't as exculpatory as you think it is.

I'd say it makes an argument for the issues not being all race based.

I'll restate, it's not exactly shocking that refugees would find themselves unwanted in a state where indigenous ethnic minorities are also unwanted.

[Kara]

The IRS will only let this go so far. You can't make literally any position in your company you want an "independent contractor" but the rules as written are hugely stretched by nearly everyone and outright broken in many cases with no consequences.

To add to this, the IRS has been deliberately underfunded for so long that the deliberate miscategorization of employees is practically speaking an unenforceable violation that might only come up in an audit, which also happens to be subject to the same deliberate underfunding.

[clothedmacuser]

Time to rebuild the Panthers and buff up security for the squad.

 

I know the Panthers were more complex and not outright terrorists like the US painted them to be... but still.

isn't diz a brit like beefy?

He calls half indian people "half caste" so yeah.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/asian-era-ot-we-dont-age.519/post-11583658

Hmm, Five bans on his record.  I guess they must see the potential in him. 

[zepblackstar]

THE SACRIFICE! DOWN WITH THE RICH!

https://twitter.com/patrickklepek/status/1150608902758838272

[Propagandhim]

THE SACRIFICE! DOWN WITH THE RICH!

https://twitter.com/patrickklepek/status/1150608902758838272

Forget game developers unionizing.

 Gamers are unionizing.

 

[Boredfrom]

Holy Shit, all of this is because RLM is trending on YouTube:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/its-time-to-stop-supporting-red-letter-media-and-their-bigotry.129228/

[Boredfrom]

Good god, they are trash. I remember hearing about them from Game Grumps, I watched a video about them talking about Infinity War trailer and they were like "Hello? Who cares about Thanos, nobody gives a shit about this villain" and I immediately knew they weren't worth my time.

But this, this is on another level.

 

I made a similar thread last year outlining Grace Randolph's history of racism in her videos which resulted in her videos being banned from being posted here. I feel RLM clearly deserves the same treatment.

Well, at least Cheeto is honest about being about banning opinions he doesn’t like...

[Lonewulfeus]

I don't think this is really generating any kind of discussion, so we'll lock it

Mfw resetera members have no empathy. 

[Averon]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/its-time-to-stop-supporting-red-letter-media-and-their-bigotry.129228/#post-22786815

They stopped beating around the bush and are now finally gonna 'cancel' RLM officially.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/its-time-to-stop-supporting-red-letter-media-and-their-bigotry.129228/#post-22786815

They stopped beating around the bush and are now finally gonna 'cancel' RLM officially.

All because that Star Wars video is trending in YT . The fact that they just reached a million of subscribers probably also angered some Era Discords...

Most fuckers being mad about Marcel and Star Wars and Rich being Rich.

[Joe Molotov]

THE SACRIFICE! DOWN WITH THE RICH!

https://twitter.com/patrickklepek/status/1150608902758838272

At least he has his priorities straight.

https://twitter.com/patrickklepek/status/1150819164203827208

[Lonewulfeus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-you-use-the-infinity-gauntlet-to-eliminate-all-racism-on-earth.129200/

Well resetera wouldn’t exist anymore and where would all those idiots go to earn woke points?

Also kinda shocked that’s not a zattmurdock thread.

[zepblackstar]

Honestly, it's very brave for the wealthy Patrick Klepek to decide against spending his day playing Mario Maker 2 and instead deciding to do nothing.

He is wealthy? Trust Fund?

[Boredfrom]

Is he forgoing his post-lunch belly wubs in lieu of watching anime too? 'Man is a saint.

Anime about sexually frustrated teenagers with skin thigh plugsuits.

[CatsCatsCats]

I just clicked a reset thread, no likes? What’s the point?

[Joe Molotov]

These guys always know right where to go to find racist/sexist videos, how curious.

[Boredfrom]

Haven't watched them in years, but didn't know they were trash until today. Thanks for the heads up, OP.

It'd be great if YouTube had an "ignore content by these creators" feature, as the film stuff I do watch sometimes throws up a RLM thumbnail. Never clicking on those again.

 

Also, a lot of first year film students in that thread.

[Snoopycat_]

These guys always know right where to go to find racist/sexist videos, how curious.

What's even more surprising is that they keep discovering their families, their friends, and even their Amazon delivery guys are all massive racists too

[Uncle]

Holy Shit, all of this is because RLM is trending on YouTube:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/its-time-to-stop-supporting-red-letter-media-and-their-bigotry.129228/

What is crazy to me is their refusal to ever apologize or even acknowledge their hurtful and bigoted comments.

why won't they apologize     

[Uncle]

 

[Uncle]

THESE TRAPS

THEY'RE SO ELABORATE I CAN'T

LOOK AT THIS TWISTED WEB

[paprikastaude]

Holy Shit, all of this is because RLM is trending on YouTube:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/its-time-to-stop-supporting-red-letter-media-and-their-bigotry.129228/

Good god, they are trash. I remember hearing about them from Game Grumps, I watched a video about them talking about Infinity War trailer and they were like "Hello? Who cares about Thanos, nobody gives a shit about this villain" and I immediately knew they weren't worth my time.

holy shit they don't love every aspect of my disney shlock marketing??? LOCK EM UP

[Uncle]

Honestly, it's very brave for the wealthy Patrick Klepek to decide against spending his day playing Mario Maker 2 and instead deciding to do nothing.

He is wealthy? Trust Fund?

you have to be independently wealthy to be able to do what klepek does with his life