River Of Slime |OT| Mission: Impossible

[benjipwns]

So yeah, I agree very much in "fuck the media". I'd like to think my great grandparents were saying the same thing in the gilded age when they had to deal with a nonsense media that was working against the interests of the people in pursuit of profits and protecting the top class.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trying-to-be-more-informed-about-palestine-israel.140905/

I'm trying to become more informed about the Palestine/Israel (conflict? i dont lknow what word to use here.) and my reading always come back to things along the lines of "if you are anti-israel, then you are an anti-semite"

im just trying to wrap my head around how being 'anti-' a governmental body makes someone an anti-semite.

also because of the pdp thread, i was wanting to learn about the good and bad of the ADL, can anyone point me in some direction?

or some sourced about the relationship between the two areas that you'd recommend.

thanks

[benjipwns]

what's going on in PoliERA

And Bernie Sanders endorses Rent Control because of course the economically illiterate fuck would.

He includes it because he actively chooses bad economic theory over good because he's incapable of learning and adapting.

It's going to make it even more infurating when Kavanaugh votes to overturn Roe v Wade and Obergefell v Heller.

Just like with Biden's answers on race, at some point people have to accept that the NYT aren't making "mistakes" they're showing a pattern of how shitty they are.

Tulsi has been on the Biden bandwagon this cycle

weird how The Only Anti-War Candidate has been cheerleading someone who happily voted for Iraq this much

Not allowed except for Bernie who can be forgiven for voting for the Crime Bill.

And who's excused for his genuinely bad positions on guns and was just quietly building a multi-racial coalition in 95% white Vermont all those years.

I think my favorite was arguing with a friend about it and he was like “well OF COURSE Bernie had to vote for the crime bill, because he supported the good parts that were in it!”

If Trump loses the election he will not go away quietly. He's going to tear the country apart. He'll start his own network and claim to be the real President.

The only reason he ran at all was purely to spite Obama.

Ugh, imagining a nightmare scenario where he loses next year but isn't sent to prison

so same ol same ol, where's Mercury Fred to liven things up?

[Potato]

There are two genders. Fucking pick one. We have the means and the legal framework to allow people to choose their physical gender so why the fuck are people using they/them?

[benjipwns]

Some people don't wanna. Why do you want them dead?

[HardcoreRetro]

My personal pronouns are the n-word and the f-word. Please use them in the future.

[Himu]

How can you be gay but say you’re non binary? Being gay means you like the same gender. But you lack a gender identity. Or is SonicFox queer? I don’t know anymore.

[HardcoreRetro]

Probably autigender, the gender only autists understand.

Edit: You'd think this is just an awful joke, but it's apparently something that is "real".

[Nintex]

I still identify as a god so use the divine/holiness please.

"Holiness made a good point"

"I saw the divine walking across the street"

Thank you for understanding and respecting an opressed minority. Not many of us gods left after the Greek massacre you know.
It isn’t as normalized in this environment, and am trying to change that in this space! It’s been working well!!!

[Snoopycat_]

In today's episode of things which definitely happened

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i%E2%80%99m-smoking-weed-tonight-for-the-first-time.141113/page-2#post-24539742

[SmokyDave]

There are two genders. Fucking pick one. We have the means and the legal framework to allow people to choose their physical gender so why the fuck are people using they/them?

I dunno man. Been thinking on this one for a while. I don’t see myself as a gender, but as my biological sex. I pick and choose the things that I like without regard to whether others feel my likes are appropriate to my biological sex. The concept of gender is thoroughly irrelevant to me. Does this make me non-binary? Assuming that it did, I wouldn’t even think of changing my pronouns. I understand why everyone would naturally address me as he / him, and it wouldn’t bother me in the slightest as I am biologically male.

I understand the trans thing, as well as I can anyway. Non-binary I just don’t get. If you reject something, you typically don’t hang it around your neck and carry it everywhere with you, you just forget about it and move on.

Cracks me up that there is a test in the Non-Binary OT on reset that tells you how masculine / feminine you are.

This might qualify as a care post in which case, I’m off for a shower.

[Transhuman]

Guy/girl his/her is a great way to narrow down who you're talking about when you don't know the person's name. No different from old/young short/tall.

Using they/their isn't "rejecting labels" you're just embracing one that's slightly more cumbersome to say, and for what? Because you want to be special?

Just because Dave and I may reject gender-norms doesn't mean we have to reject language norms.

[Nintex]

Well it's going to be easy to explain the state of politics in 2021

They did not vote 

[clothedmacuser]

I'll call you Gertrude/Gertrudal if you want just don't expect me to remember it every time and especially don't think I'll assume I should call you that when I first meet  you.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Fun fact, you can annoy mods and the deputy mods on era by using they/their and proper names instead of pronouns, and it takes about 6 pages before they make up transphobia bans.

[benjipwns]

I dunno man. Been thinking on this one for a while. I don’t see myself as a gender, but as my biological sex. I pick and choose the things that I like without regard to whether others feel my likes are appropriate to my biological sex. The concept of gender is thoroughly irrelevant to me. Does this make me non-binary? Assuming that it did, I wouldn’t even think of changing my pronouns. I understand why everyone would naturally address me as he / him, and it wouldn’t bother me in the slightest as I am biologically male.

I understand the trans thing, as well as I can anyway. Non-binary I just don’t get. If you reject something, you typically don’t hang it around your neck and carry it everywhere with you, you just forget about it and move on.

Cracks me up that there is a test in the Non-Binary OT on reset that tells you how masculine / feminine you are.

It's the gender version of how if you "don't stereotype based on race" you're the actual racist. The OT for example literally tells you to accept gender norms simply to defy them in order to declare yourself non-binary. Instead of being a girl/boy who has their own interests you now must first recognize and accept the gender dynamics established by The Powers That Be and realize that when you cross them you have not established yourself as an individual but instead transcended the very concept of gender itself to enter into a new group known as "non-binary" in which gender norms are rejected except when they crosscut to help establish ones lack of following gender norms.

Nepenthe's demands for an universal reality for all black people is similar in its perversion of ideas in the simple pursuit of power. The power to tut-tut people on the internet.

[Potato]

I can call myself a reptile...doesn't give me scales and cold blood though.

[benjipwns]

It fixes a flaw they did not foresee in trying to push the "misgendering is genocide" weapon regarding transgender people. It's one way, and seemingly permanent, one a person learns your new pronouns it's over if they're accepting. If they're doing it deliberately to be a jerk, even then they grasp the concept, they just refuse to do it for whatever reason. And it's too easy, even for bigots, to pretend to accept it like they did the homos then post their hatred on YouTube or local news story comments.

But this allows a permanent state in which you can never do it correctly because they can always discover that their pronouns are ones you didn't know about and thus your genocide of them will never end. Permanent place atop the progressive stack achieved. Checkmate.

[benjipwns]

It's the gender version of how if you "don't stereotype based on race" you're the actual racist. The OT for example literally tells you to accept gender norms simply to defy them in order to declare yourself non-binary. Instead of being a girl/boy who has their own interests you now must first recognize and accept the gender dynamics established by The Powers That Be and realize that when you cross them you have not established yourself as an individual but instead transcended the very concept of gender itself to enter into a new group known as "non-binary" in which gender norms are rejected except when they crosscut to help establish ones lack of following gender norms.

Nepenthe's demands for an universal reality for all black people is similar in its perversion of ideas in the simple pursuit of power. The power to tut-tut people on the internet.

It fixes a flaw they did not foresee in trying to push the "misgendering is genocide" weapon regarding transgender people. It's one way, and seemingly permanent, one a person learns your new pronouns it's over if they're accepting. If they're doing it deliberately to be a jerk, even then they grasp the concept, they just refuse to do it for whatever reason. And it's too easy, even for bigots, to pretend to accept it like they did the homos then post their hatred on YouTube or local news story comments.

But this allows a permanent state in which you can never do it correctly because they can always discover that their pronouns are ones you didn't know about and thus your genocide of them will never end. Permanent place atop the progressive stack achieved. Checkmate.

[VomKriege]

In today's episode of things which definitely happened

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i%E2%80%99m-smoking-weed-tonight-for-the-first-time.141113/page-2#post-24539742

Oh, if you listen to music while high, it feels like there is a private concert being played just for you behind your eyes and between your ears. It's fucking amazing.

That's how you know it's legit, that's totally the one way you feel when you are high on substances, a state I have a lot of experience with and I enter on the regular with my drug friendly cool friends I hang out with.

[clothedmacuser]

In today's episode of things which definitely happened

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i%E2%80%99m-smoking-weed-tonight-for-the-first-time.141113/page-2#post-24539742

Oh, if you listen to music while high, it feels like there is a private concert being played just for you behind your eyes and between your ears. It's fucking amazing.

That's how you know it's legit, that's totally the one way you feel when you are high on substances, a state I have a lot of experience with and I enter on the regular with my drug friendly cool friends I hang out with.

That is either a 13-year-old from a fundamentalist church or a narcotics officer.

[VomKriege]

Those Spiderman threads have broken the Poe barrier something wild :

lmao did you forgot the amazing spiderman that quickly
fuck sony, pos company
fuck them
boycott all their pictures

Also a better film than most of the MCU, again no war criminal lionizing.

what the hell are you talking about

Did you forget how Spider Man: Far From Home, was about how Peter had to inherit the legacy of Billionaire War Criminal and his Drone Strike Glasses and how that's totally a good thing he needed to have.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sony-made-a-tragic-mistake-taking-spider-man-out-of-the-mcu-joe-russo-says.141114/post-24536870

[VomKriege]

I really want to know what the original terms of the deal between Marvel and Sony was. It must be a doozy, or else Disney would have just taken Spider-Man back by force by now.

Any. Means. Necessary.

[benjipwns]

That's a really disingenuous interpretation. Everyone's existence is unique and subjectively experienced and thus any self professed identity has to be evaluated against the terms of its own logic, not a universal one. A person who has decided to reject gender boundaries is pursuing an act of personal liberation by stepping outside of the constraints of the gender role that has been determined for them by society's acknowledgement of their sex. A person who has decided to participate in the gender role opposite theirs is also pursuing a personal act of liberation by examining the range of roles that society offers them and then choosing one, diametrically opposed to the traditional role that was paired with their sex. In a free society both of these choices are perfectly valid and should be acknowledged and respected just like any other choice. In the same way that the state imposes itself to control a person's entire life through violence, the sum total of cultural interactions between the individual and society can seek to reinforce or discourage the individual's personal choices, thus the act of refusing to acknowledge a person's preference of identity is the cultural analogue to state violence. This act of refusal and counter-reinforcement is a sustained act of warfare on human liberation per se.

I could have explained this to you if you had just asked. Next time be better.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/has-the-age-of-amiibo-finished.141176/#post-24547666

I’ve literally got 20 queued up in orders on Nintendo UK for when they release lol.
Link’s Awakening hype.

[BIONIC]

Shonda retire bitch

[Transhuman]

Thanks professor

[VomKriege]

Yeah, everybody knows that part. But there's got to be some kind of "what if" clause in there somewhere that prevents Marvel from just tearing up the contract and paying some kind of fine or something. Whatever that part is, it's got to be an incredible penalty for Disney to not just say "fuck it" and pull the trigger.

That's called "law" apparently ? What a weird clause !

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sony-made-a-tragic-mistake-taking-spider-man-out-of-the-mcu-joe-russo-says.141114/post-24537260

[BIONIC]

As someone who foolishly collected close to 90 of these stupid things, it's been a huge relief to see Nintendo massively cut back on releasing new ones. I have no more room for them, and my amiibo fever died down years ago. Now I mainly buy them out of a sick sense of obligation, not because I actually want another hunk of plastic cluttering up my room.

It's honestly a shame I have to pick another one up in six days when Link's Awakening releases.

[VomKriege]

Who wouldn't put Feige on a pedestal.

White cishet Poland based Russian alt right bot males. That's who.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sony-made-a-tragic-mistake-taking-spider-man-out-of-the-mcu-joe-russo-says.141114/post-24541317

[VomKriege]

You would think the MCU was churning out some AFI top 100 masterpieces instead of by the numbers mediocre summer blockbusters by all the handwringing going on about this decision.

Who gives a shit.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sony-made-a-tragic-mistake-taking-spider-man-out-of-the-mcu-joe-russo-says.141114/post-24542278

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/can-you-be-friends-with-people-you’re-not-completely-politically-aligned-with.141120/page-6#post-24547193

Depends on how far they are from me politically.
In the context of my country (Russia), I can deal with a libertarian friend just fine as a social democrat, but a Putin fan? Hard pass, wouldn’t even bother talking to that kind of person again.

Comrades are getting slicker

[Transhuman]

Weird seeing people on resetera denigrating black Spider-Man in favour of white Spider-Man. Never thought i'd see the day Disney is more important than race.

Guess I no longer understand their cultural loop.

[Nintex]

All this because Disney fucked Sony in the ass over some pocket change on their annual super hero movie gross. 

[daemon]

Weird seeing people on resetera denigrating black Spider-Man in favour of white Spider-Man. Never thought i'd see the day Disney is more important than race.

Guess I no longer understand their cultural loop.

Disney hegemony> Diversity

[Tasty]

Honestly, I knew it the first time I heard "Writings on the Wall" from SPECTRE

It just sounds non-binary as does Sam's singing

They totally sing like a non-binary, that's how I knew it.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sam-smith-comes-out-as-non-binary-see-staff-post-for-discussion-guidelines.140896/post-24520996

               is this supporting harmful *non-binary stereotypes?
              /

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

In today's episode of things which definitely happened

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i%E2%80%99m-smoking-weed-tonight-for-the-first-time.141113/page-2#post-24539742

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Yeah, everybody knows that part. But there's got to be some kind of "what if" clause in there somewhere that prevents Marvel from just tearing up the contract and paying some kind of fine or something. Whatever that part is, it's got to be an incredible penalty for Disney to not just say "fuck it" and pull the trigger.

That's called "law" apparently ? What a weird clause !

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sony-made-a-tragic-mistake-taking-spider-man-out-of-the-mcu-joe-russo-says.141114/post-24537260

Corporate Lawyers Hate This One Weird Trick

[nachobro]

If you reject something, you typically don’t hang it around your neck and carry it everywhere with you, you just forget about it and move on

tell that to every moronic atheist who's made a religion of it

[Tasty]

“It wont work the first time!” they said. Saw what I deacribed as Dhalsim red and blue coming out of my toes later.

From weed?

This is like that scene in Good Boys. "Uhh I've totally had sex, I just haven't kissed a girl yet."

[nachobro]

if only weed was that cool

[nudemacusers]

And no gay man should be murdered for being gay, either. But I'm not gonna not shake my head if you start kissing your boyfriend in broad light in Iran or Pakistan.

I appreciate charizard entering the thread to test the moderation-approved nuances of victim blaming.

[nachobro]

should have specified "white boyfriend" then he'd get a pass

[Joe Molotov]

if you misgender me i will collapse the local multiverse

You’re not God, my father, or my boss, or Grant Morrison.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/ReeraTakes/status/1173214285348114433

 

[Boredfrom]

And closed:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/young-australian-couple-traveling-across-asia-to-prove-how-safe-travel-is-held-in-prison-in-iran-for-3-months-now.141057/page-10

This thread is no longer productive and as such is now locked.

 

[Averon]

The thread was exposing their rank hypocrisy where it came to victim blaming and caping for the Iranian government (whether knowingly or not) just to stick to that couple full of 'white privilege.' Add in a bit of calling out the mods sanctioning such racist, victim blaming comments and it's clear their only move was to lock the thread and hope it's quickly forgotten.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

a.k.a "too much ass showing of protected users ITT and people are wising up"

[EightBitNate]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trying-to-be-more-informed-about-palestine-israel.140905/


Why is the Israel/Palestine debate the only one where being centrist is okay

[NegativeCrepe]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/can-you-be-friends-with-people-you%E2%80%99re-not-completely-politically-aligned-with.141120/ losers

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/can-you-be-friends-with-people-you%E2%80%99re-not-completely-politically-aligned-with.141120/ losers

I'm not going to be friends with people who think me, people like me, or agree with people that think I should be dead.

I have a hard enough time getting along with liberals, lol.

I mean depends on the belief. I'm bi so literally anyone who's a Republican can fuck off, along with a lot of Dems just for being homophobic.

when you say fuck all republicans but also fuck most democrats do you ever think maybe you're just misanthropic 

[Moldy_Old_Void]

Which minority am I a part of if I'm into this?

(Image removed from quote.)

i'm also excited for death stranding

[OnlyRegret]

please tread on me mickey 

[Shuri]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/streamer-beesonmyheadtv-got-car-jacked-and-shot-at-on-screen.141172/

 

[BisMarckie]

It's the scream that made it seem weird to me. When shots are fired, people duck their heads and run on instinct, not scream and draw attention to themselves.

[Ghoul]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/streamer-beesonmyheadtv-got-car-jacked-and-shot-at-on-screen.141172/

 

Twitch banned him for getting shot 

[Ghoul]

Was he illegally street racing?

Absolute galaxy brain here.

[HardcoreRetro]

Must've been a real drag

spoiler (click to show/hide)

racing

[close]

[HaughtyFrank]

https://twitter.com/ReeraTakes/status/1173007750080684033

(In Death Stranding Norman Reedus punches the camera if you repeatedly zoom on his crotch)

I applaud RE to always find a way to be offended.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

I mean streamers will do anything for attention these days so I wouldn't be surprised if they see it as such.

If it is in fact all real then I hope he's alright of course.

The fuck.

I know right (just playing devil's advocate if that wasn't already obvious).

The implication in the term "devils advocate" is to use a compelling argument to defend something seemingly indefensible, as in "the devil" would be able to rationalise anything to tempt someone.

Not just saying the most distinguished mentally-challenged inane shit imaginable without really making a point