Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread

[Cauliflower Of Love]

They had to move the staff posts there since noone reads them.


and they still don't care.

[VomKriege]

So on average, in threads with more than 10 pages, how many bans happen?

How is there anyone left posting on that board?

There's 40k+ members, last I could check you still had new people signing in, it takes a lot of thousands of cuts to start making a visible dent. But every old thread being a graveyard and the moderation team having been cycled out almost entirely (twice ?) in a little over two years is not normal.

Most likely they'll agonize by bleeding out prominents but there's a very good chance the General Election will implode the board.

[Uncle]

yeah that's how you do it, you just ban a few at a time and slowly introduce herd immunity that way

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-square-can-make-drastic-changes-to-ff7-in-the-remake-but-couldnt-be-bothered-to-not-make-barrett-an-ignorant-racist-caricature-read-threadmarks.190260/page-18

Saying Barret doesn't fall into racist stereotypes because he's an interesting character with a good arc is like saying some female character with giant boobs and a thigh gap isn't a sexist portrayal because she gets to have a personality with some depth. These traits aren't mutually exclusive.

 

Not only is this really flawed considering Barrett's personality is what's labeled racist, it's also funny that his idea of sexist portrayal equals big boobs

[VomKriege]

User banned (duration pending): Dismissing concerns around racism

I don't know man i think Barrett is cool

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-square-can-make-drastic-changes-to-ff7-in-the-remake-but-couldnt-be-bothered-to-not-make-barrett-an-ignorant-racist-caricature-read-threadmarks.190260/post-32102955

[Lonewulfeus]

It's a scene that doesn't even make any sense, Barrett literally is a terriorist on the run, why would he make a big scene and draw attention to himself? That's why I don't get the arguement that "so you can't have a black character show any anger, that's ridiculous" because we all know it's not just any anger, it's the way they write the anger. It's cartoonish, with stereotypical phrasing, overemphasised gestures and shows the character having complete lack of awareness of surroundings and how other characters react to him, examples being Jesse and Cloud rolling their eyes at him and the Shinra employees on the train. It's not well written anger and seems mainly to be there for comic relief. Like I just don't think a white character would have their anger portrayed this way especially when there's actually legitimate grievences like with Barrett deeply caring about the planet getting destroyed. If it was a white character he'd only blow up when he keeps getting pushed to the edge or have a gruff, silent exterior, there would be nowhere near the same amount of yelling and gestating. That's way it seems childish, it comes off more as a toddler having a temper tantrum then it does how adults actually show their anger.

Never met any Italians huh?

[Pissy F Benny]

Mamma Mia!

[nachobro]

meanwhile on the other end of the clueless final fantasy spectrum
https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-wakka-was-kinda-prejudiced-wasnt-he.190587/

yeah dawg, being racist was literally his entire character arc

[Pissy F Benny]

Discussion of the final fantasy series is gonna be banned on within the next fortnight if this keeps up

[Raist]

Can you imagine if Cid was black too?

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I'm scrolling through this thead.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/boomer-comics-complaining-about-the-kids-and-their-damn-cell-phones.101749/page-24

Boomer Comics

Isn't this just platforming these views?

mods, you know what you have to do.

[Boredfrom]

 Barret rage and tantrums are supposed to be character flaws this time around rather than mostly comic relief. In one of the story changes

spoiler (click to show/hide)

where they save President Shinra but then he almost kill Barret in return

[close]

is pretty much because he is being an impulsive asshole that needs to make a show of everything and fucking Shinra calls him out that. Cat Sith did something similar in the OG game but much much later. Part of his character arc was that he realizes that he is a pretty bad leader figure and that Cloud, Tifa or even Cid are better in that position than him.

For better or worse, part of Barret character is that he is an attention whore. He is the guy that uses sunglasses at night.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/alan-moore-argument-can-be-made-%E2%80%98birth-of-a-nation%E2%80%99-is-first-superhero-film.190449/

Resetera: destroying incelsheets woke credentials by destroying their loves, one hobby at a time

[Merch]

OP of the Barret thread is Black American Psycho, proud member of the Nation of Islam. He was known for thinking cuckhold porn was real, and planning to kill as many white people as possible during the upcoming race war.

[VomKriege]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/alan-moore-argument-can-be-made-%E2%80%98birth-of-a-nation%E2%80%99-is-first-superhero-film.190449/

Resetera: destroying incelsheets woke credentials by destroying their loves, one hobby at a time

The discussion is pretty decent in that thread. 

[Pissy F Benny]

Cuz it’s two pages, a prominent hasn’t turned up to special fellow out (yet)

[Nintex]

nepenthe posts says:

Threadmarks Reiteration of the staff post

but there's no other staff post in the thread?



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ShinNL

Era can't handle the Dutch Directness

[VomKriege]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-square-can-make-drastic-changes-to-ff7-in-the-remake-but-couldnt-be-bothered-to-not-make-barrett-an-ignorant-racist-caricature-read-threadmarks.190260/post-32103921

User Banned (1 Month): Drive By In Sensitive Topic, Ignoring Staff Communication

He had a great arc.

[Propagandhim]

I'd love it if we get to Corel in part 2 or whatever and all of the white miners there talk like Barrett.

Because...why is he the only character in the game to talk like this? lol

No, I don't think you'd love it.

[railGUN]

Are all Japanese people racist?

[ToxicAdam]

Are all Japanese people racist?

We’re going to need someone with the right skin color to speak on it. Because that’s how it works, stereotyping is bad .. unless it’s people with your skin color, then you get carte blanche to say whatever generalizations you want.

[Snoopycat_]

Sweet mother of God. Someone light the Hobberty Bobberty signal. There's a madman on the loose -

"I HATE these films so much I will not let them be shown in our household. LOVED StarWars as a kid, but the Prequels and the ones after...ugh garbage. Solo and The Mandalorian give me glimmer of hope. Just give JJon Favreau the reigns Disney. He gets Star Wars. Kathleen K needs to be feed to the mighty sarlack."

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i%E2%80%99m-watching-the-star-wars-prequels-for-the-first-time.189876/page-4#post-32114589
 

[D3RANG3D]

He's not wrong about the prequels and sequels being shit but solo was also shit.

[Straight Edge]

Rogue One may not be a great movie, but it is the only Disney Star Wars film that has the same tone as the OT and feels like it is part of that universe.

[Tasty]

Big ups to cerium though, he fleeced this trash community so hard I can't help but applaud him.

Is it fleecing if the site dies in two years, though?

I know pretty much most GAF lore from start to end (well, "end"), but pretty much noped out of RE pretty much from the start. I know cerium was admin but that's pretty mch it, who was that dude? Never saw him on GAF.

Also what's happened to RE re()cently?

[Uncle]

Sweet mother of God. Someone light the Hobberty Bobberty signal. There's a madman on the loose -

"I HATE these films so much I will not let them be shown in our household. LOVED StarWars as a kid, but the Prequels and the ones after...ugh garbage. Solo and The Mandalorian give me glimmer of hope. Just give JJon Favreau the reigns Disney. He gets Star Wars. Kathleen K needs to be feed to the mighty sarlack."

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i%E2%80%99m-watching-the-star-wars-prequels-for-the-first-time.189876/page-4#post-32114589

User Banned (2 weeks): Violent Misogynistic Rhetoric Leveled At Rare Woman In Position Of Power

[remy]

Resetera's favourite drama source: the FGC, Black People and Non Binary Trans and people saying the N word combine

https://www.resetera.com/threads/low-tier-god-fighting-game-player-banned-from-ceo-for-transphobic-rant-update-banned-from-evo-capcom-pro-tour.186612/page-13

For the people who can't watch it or if it gets deleted, CeroBlast said this about the N word:

"Yeah right, he doesn't. But if it's [n word] a problem, what I'm trying to say is, black culture distinctively is the problem, not us. If you groom us into culture for saying, that is not really our fault. I know we can stop saying it, you just gotta tell us to stop saying it."

Does she want a beat down to stop saying racist shit? Ok, done deal.
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I thought Messofanego was like... Not Black considering his arranged marriage. I hope he doesn't threaten the woman his parents bought for him with violence too 😬

[thisismyusername]

Is he a cop? Because 40% of those end with domestic violence.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

#ACAB

[close]

Big ups to cerium though, he fleeced this trash community so hard I can't help but applaud him.

Is it fleecing if the site dies in two years, though?

I know pretty much most GAF lore from start to end (well, "end"), but pretty much noped out of RE pretty much from the start. I know cerium was admin but that's pretty mch it, who was that dude? Never saw him on GAF.

Also what's happened to RE re()cently?

PoliGAF/ERA brainworms were exposed because tankies came into the thread to shit on them (and rightly so).

[Joe Molotov]

https://livestreamfails.com/post/78825
https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/invadervie-apologizes-after-vile-unsubscribed-twitch-viewer-comments-1356677

“The clip that you saw does not represent my true feelings," she continued. "I’ve streamed for hundreds of hours and I’ve said, 'Support communities after you support yourself first. Subscribe if you have the disposable income to do so.' But in that clip, I expressed opinions that I do not hold.”

 

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stop hotlinking

and start thotlinking

[Tasty]

Is he a cop? Because 40% of those end with domestic violence.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

#ACAB

[close]

Big ups to cerium though, he fleeced this trash community so hard I can't help but applaud him.

Is it fleecing if the site dies in two years, though?

I know pretty much most GAF lore from start to end (well, "end"), but pretty much noped out of RE pretty much from the start. I know cerium was admin but that's pretty mch it, who was that dude? Never saw him on GAF.

Also what's happened to RE re()cently?

PoliGAF/ERA brainworms were exposed because tankies came into the thread to shit on them (and rightly so).

[VomKriege]

Your buster ass dismissive interpretation of racial stereotypes ( to the I don't see a problem white folk, and the black folk with their heads up their asses) you know that you're in the wrong. Just stop. Read and learn.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-square-can-make-drastic-changes-to-ff7-in-the-remake-but-couldnt-be-bothered-to-not-make-barrett-an-ignorant-racist-caricature-read-threadmarks.190260/post-32118381

It's a J-pop thing. Tifa's body language is that of a J-pop idol.

Next thread is queud up. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-square-can-make-drastic-changes-to-ff7-in-the-remake-but-couldnt-be-bothered-to-not-make-barrett-an-ignorant-racist-caricature-read-threadmarks.190260/post-32113341

[BIONIC]

I don’t post here often, but Jesus Christ that Barrett thread. We really are two different forums.

The worst thing about the Barrett thread is that even though it’s annoying that white people can be purposefully obtuse to why it’s problematic, I can understand it but when black people come in and say “I don’t see what’s wrong with it” etc and then we have people parroting “well X person is black and they didn’t see what’s wrong with it so it’s fine”, we get nowhere. There will always be those black people who turn a blind eye to racism and pretend to act like everything is peachy, but don’t start validating opinions when we’re trying to make headway

I hate it when people post stuff like that. I'm always torn because I don't want to make people feel like their opinions aren't welcome but like... come on. Being black doesn't absolve you of accepting and even propagating racism.

Like I hate using this kind of lingo but we need people to stay on code or just don’t talk. All racists need is one yes man to invalidate everybody else’s feelings. Don’t be the person they bring on Fox News to agree with them

Boy, Nepenthe went off on that mod post. Love it!!!!!

Also thanks. Your thread has inspired me to create more threads like that. We're all thinking it, but we're not saying it beyond this space.

That's not fair. We should not have to suffer in silence.



On the other hand, without creating threads like that, the staff here doesn't have an opportunity to make good on their word to make this a better place for us.

Without mentioning them specifically by name, but they see this and should know they are appreciated, they straight up said, "we are not doing this today" and users continued to show their asses. So they got shown the door.

That's a win IMO.



Yeah Racial Battle Fatigue is gonna fuck my life expectancy, but I'm not gonna take the stress sitting down. It's gonna be a "well you should see the other guy" kind of situation.



Same. I wondered how bad could he possibly be? Basically got punched in the face while playing the game.

I straight up ignore people who have to tell me that they're black. If I can't tell that they're black by looking through their post history, then they are utterly useless to me, whether it's true that they are or not.

In fact they are less than useless. They are in obstacle to be navigated around or trampled. Their choice.

IDNGAF how judgmental that sounds.

[Momo]

Black people are only useful as tools, hmm where have I heard this before?

[Lonewulfeus]

Neogaf?

[ShutUp]

"They didn't agree with the group think so they were shown the door. That's good!"


Fucking pussies. Too cowardly to say that shit to the people in that thread so they run back to their little community needing the yes men to clap like trained seals for them.

[VomKriege]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/should-japan-protect-the-anime-label-treat-it-like-scotch-whiskey-kobe-beef-and-champagne.190809/

[VomKriege]

So, I repeat myself: Anime is just the French word for animation.

...no ? The French word for animation is "animation".

https://www.resetera.com/threads/should-japan-protect-the-anime-label-treat-it-like-scotch-whiskey-kobe-beef-and-champagne.190809/post-32130657

[Momo]

Gonna be honest, if a bunch of you started posting typical cartoon network stuff or whatever in the anime thread I'd be mildly annoyed but I'd ignore you 

[Raist]

I straight up ignore people who have to tell me that they're black. If I can't tell that they're black by looking through their post history, then they are utterly useless to me, whether it's true that they are or not.

In fact they are less than useless. They are in obstacle to be navigated around or trampled. Their choice.

IDNGAF how judgmental that sounds.

wtf

[Lonewulfeus]

Member #61942, that’s definitely a troll

[Momo]

Sweet mother of God. Someone light the Hobberty Bobberty signal. There's a madman on the loose -

"I HATE these films so much I will not let them be shown in our household. LOVED StarWars as a kid, but the Prequels and the ones after...ugh garbage. Solo and The Mandalorian give me glimmer of hope. Just give JJon Favreau the reigns Disney. He gets Star Wars. Kathleen K needs to be feed to the mighty sarlack."

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i%E2%80%99m-watching-the-star-wars-prequels-for-the-first-time.189876/page-4#post-32114589

User Banned (2 weeks): Violent Misogynistic Rhetoric Leveled At Rare Woman In Position Of Power

Amazing

[nudemacusers]

Spicy thread won’t die

https://www.resetera.com/threads/youre-nothing-joe-biden-rape-victim-comes-forward-in-brave-audio-interview-up-she-filed-a-criminal-complaint.177199/page-40#post-32147091

It's because there's a certain clique of cry-bullies on this website who pitched a fit and harassed the mods until they bowed to them, so now they feel emboldened to spew their rape apologist bullshit all over the site. It's going to keep happening until the mods actually do something, but they'd rather ban sexual assault victims pushing back against it than to actually do the difficult thing and fight the victim blaming and rape apologia going on.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/we...l-assault-victims-on-this-site.181172/page-15

It's exactly why the Boat dude gets to fly with his blatant trolling while perfectly normal posts like these are getting hit with over the top 'trolling' bans with a quick, paranoid zeal.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us...ntining-poliera.178039/page-233#post-31995666

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us...ntining-poliera.178039/page-233#post-31996134

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us...ntining-poliera.178039/page-234#post-31998696

Funny how call out posts like Boat guy are fine when it suits a certain agenda, but then other times its worth a ban,

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wa...rds-what-happened.163407/page-2#post-28015398

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-intercept-time%E2%80%99s-up-said-it-could-not-fund-a-metoo-allegation-against-joe-biden-citing-its-nonprofit-status-and-his-presidential-run.177121/page-11#post-30386965

And it can't at all be possible that Boat guy has already shown to have his own agenda with the downplaying,

https://www.resetera.com/threads/we...ims-on-this-site.181172/page-13#post-31456557

No agenda at all,

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us...antining-poliera.178039/page-35#post-30446172

None what so ever,

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us...ntining-poliera.178039/page-218#post-31844022

Dude totally just doesn't want to be called out as the rape apologist that he is.

Funny how thoughtful posts about the current state of things get banned while all the rape apologia and bad faith bullshit gets to go on.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us...ntining-poliera.178039/page-190#post-31740105

Boat dude can say otherwise, but he exactly derailed this thread to paint it to look like people who care about this story are acting in bad faith, because these rape apologists are desperate to project. This is all just a game to them and they think everyone is acting in just as much bad faith as they are. They only cared about the MeToo movement and Ford's accusation as far as they could use it for their own political gain, and they think the rest of us only care about Reade's story because we want to use it to hurt Dems chances at power and nothing more. It's not that what Biden did was wrong, no, it's just that we supposedly only care because we want to hurt the Dems, or are secret Trump supporters, or Russians.

Let's face it. The only reason why a subsection of Dems are pushing back so hard on all the evidence of Biden's shit history, and in the context of this site in particular, why they are gunning to shut down negative talk of Biden's history with women and his racism, is that they're now stuck defending the guy and don't want to be made to feel uncomfortable that they have to defend these things. They don't want to have to be confronted about it so they're trying to shut it all up. They can't handle the fact that they're going to have to throw away a lot of their morals to prop Biden up, so they have no choice but to paint everyone who comes into conflict with that as bad people or bad actors to make it easier. It's why they are excusing, downplaying, and deeming fake things like Biden's accusations and the racist ad. It's easier to just demonize everyone, scream 'fake news!', and downplay everything than to have to question your own morals.

And, oh, hey, I'm looking forward to the immense hypocrisy when I get banned for posting this, for something like 'hostility', 'mod whining', or 'meta-commentary' after the protected clique ran rampant for four straight days with plenty of hostility, mod whining, and meta-commentary going on that saw no punishment. You let them insult you guys to your faces and did nothing but embolden them. You keep letting them shit up threads like these with barely a peep. Hell, they still threatened to leave even after you gave them everything they wanted. Of course they didn't leave, and won't, because they enjoy throwing their weight around while acting like the victims.

They talk like they're just some tiny, insular community that's constantly under attack from 'invaders' (AKA the rest of the site) when in actuality they just want full control over the political discourse on this site and work to get people and topics they don't like banned. As an example, they keep trying to paint it that they're being harassed for being okay with voting for Biden. In actuality, it's the other way around with their constant voter shaming and not-so-subtle insults toward victims. It comes back to how they don't like having to confront or be confronted about Biden's history. Nobody is shaming them for voting for Biden, but uncomfortable truths about him exist and should not be silenced, and assault victims should not have to deal with the downplaying of the allegations, or the shaming and insults.

You can also see how they try to control the narrative in how they have a fit whenever anyone but their 'regulars' post in what's supposed to be the General Politics thread, and while they like to pretend otherwise, they make it so their narrative is the only one allowed there. Given all the recent bans handed out in there, which I linked above, it has been proven to be exactly that. They don't even stick to their own 'community' like they claim. They can't handle even the mildest criticism of their rapist, racist candidate, or their downplaying of those aspects, so they slink into topics like these to fish for bans and act in bad faith. We see it when you let them do things that the rest of us would get banned twice over for. You can keep banning everyone who speaks up about all these issues festering in the background, but to try and keep ignoring it is only going to act as a detriment to the health of this site.

So, where are we at now? That's women, trans folk, foreign POC, and now we can add Asians and assault victims to the list of people who are being pushed off this site thanks to the hostile environments that have been allowed to fester. You create the community you cultivate, I suppose.

[Ghoul]

This dude should have just done a mass quote then built his argument from there. I love how the KetKat ban is called

Funny how thoughtful posts about the current state of things get banned while all the rape apologia and bad faith bullshit gets to go on.

Thoughtful? She was being her cunt self. I always wonder that maybe KetKat thought she was a trans because she was so often called a cunt.

[VomKriege]

ResetERA's Last Supper

[Momo]

This is what you get when you only react to things that annoy you personally ree mods

[VomKriege]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/youre-nothing-joe-biden-rape-victim-comes-forward-in-brave-audio-interview-up-she-filed-a-criminal-complaint.177199/post-32131965

 

[VomKriege]

Financial domination seeping into streaming and aiming at fragile young men is one of the grossest grifts I've ever seen.

Not aware of foot stuff on YouTube, heh ?
Also FUCK OFFFFfffFfff with the ageism.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wholesome-story-streamer-broxh_-asks-subscribers-to-not-subscribe-and-tries-to-return-the-money.190950/post-32147931

[VomKriege]

After the last thread where people were either banned or blanked for their concerns I've stopped contributing to any serious discussion here.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/youre-nothing-joe-biden-rape-victim-comes-forward-in-brave-audio-interview-up-she-filed-a-criminal-complaint.177199/post-32148396

[benjipwns]

Spicy thread won’t die

https://www.resetera.com/threads/youre-nothing-joe-biden-rape-victim-comes-forward-in-brave-audio-interview-up-she-filed-a-criminal-complaint.177199/page-40#post-32147091

It's because there's a certain clique of cry-bullies on this website who pitched a fit and harassed the mods until they bowed to them, so now they feel emboldened to spew their rape apologist bullshit all over the site. It's going to keep happening until the mods actually do something, but they'd rather ban sexual assault victims pushing back against it than to actually do the difficult thing and fight the victim blaming and rape apologia going on.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/we...l-assault-victims-on-this-site.181172/page-15

It's exactly why the Boat dude gets to fly with his blatant trolling while perfectly normal posts like these are getting hit with over the top 'trolling' bans with a quick, paranoid zeal.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us...ntining-poliera.178039/page-233#post-31995666

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us...ntining-poliera.178039/page-233#post-31996134

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us...ntining-poliera.178039/page-234#post-31998696

Funny how call out posts like Boat guy are fine when it suits a certain agenda, but then other times its worth a ban,

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wa...rds-what-happened.163407/page-2#post-28015398

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-intercept-time%E2%80%99s-up-said-it-could-not-fund-a-metoo-allegation-against-joe-biden-citing-its-nonprofit-status-and-his-presidential-run.177121/page-11#post-30386965

And it can't at all be possible that Boat guy has already shown to have his own agenda with the downplaying,

https://www.resetera.com/threads/we...ims-on-this-site.181172/page-13#post-31456557

No agenda at all,

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us...antining-poliera.178039/page-35#post-30446172

None what so ever,

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us...ntining-poliera.178039/page-218#post-31844022

Dude totally just doesn't want to be called out as the rape apologist that he is.

Funny how thoughtful posts about the current state of things get banned while all the rape apologia and bad faith bullshit gets to go on.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us...ntining-poliera.178039/page-190#post-31740105

Boat dude can say otherwise, but he exactly derailed this thread to paint it to look like people who care about this story are acting in bad faith, because these rape apologists are desperate to project. This is all just a game to them and they think everyone is acting in just as much bad faith as they are. They only cared about the MeToo movement and Ford's accusation as far as they could use it for their own political gain, and they think the rest of us only care about Reade's story because we want to use it to hurt Dems chances at power and nothing more. It's not that what Biden did was wrong, no, it's just that we supposedly only care because we want to hurt the Dems, or are secret Trump supporters, or Russians.

Let's face it. The only reason why a subsection of Dems are pushing back so hard on all the evidence of Biden's shit history, and in the context of this site in particular, why they are gunning to shut down negative talk of Biden's history with women and his racism, is that they're now stuck defending the guy and don't want to be made to feel uncomfortable that they have to defend these things. They don't want to have to be confronted about it so they're trying to shut it all up. They can't handle the fact that they're going to have to throw away a lot of their morals to prop Biden up, so they have no choice but to paint everyone who comes into conflict with that as bad people or bad actors to make it easier. It's why they are excusing, downplaying, and deeming fake things like Biden's accusations and the racist ad. It's easier to just demonize everyone, scream 'fake news!', and downplay everything than to have to question your own morals.

And, oh, hey, I'm looking forward to the immense hypocrisy when I get banned for posting this, for something like 'hostility', 'mod whining', or 'meta-commentary' after the protected clique ran rampant for four straight days with plenty of hostility, mod whining, and meta-commentary going on that saw no punishment. You let them insult you guys to your faces and did nothing but embolden them. You keep letting them shit up threads like these with barely a peep. Hell, they still threatened to leave even after you gave them everything they wanted. Of course they didn't leave, and won't, because they enjoy throwing their weight around while acting like the victims.

They talk like they're just some tiny, insular community that's constantly under attack from 'invaders' (AKA the rest of the site) when in actuality they just want full control over the political discourse on this site and work to get people and topics they don't like banned. As an example, they keep trying to paint it that they're being harassed for being okay with voting for Biden. In actuality, it's the other way around with their constant voter shaming and not-so-subtle insults toward victims. It comes back to how they don't like having to confront or be confronted about Biden's history. Nobody is shaming them for voting for Biden, but uncomfortable truths about him exist and should not be silenced, and assault victims should not have to deal with the downplaying of the allegations, or the shaming and insults.

You can also see how they try to control the narrative in how they have a fit whenever anyone but their 'regulars' post in what's supposed to be the General Politics thread, and while they like to pretend otherwise, they make it so their narrative is the only one allowed there. Given all the recent bans handed out in there, which I linked above, it has been proven to be exactly that. They don't even stick to their own 'community' like they claim. They can't handle even the mildest criticism of their rapist, racist candidate, or their downplaying of those aspects, so they slink into topics like these to fish for bans and act in bad faith. We see it when you let them do things that the rest of us would get banned twice over for. You can keep banning everyone who speaks up about all these issues festering in the background, but to try and keep ignoring it is only going to act as a detriment to the health of this site.

So, where are we at now? That's women, trans folk, foreign POC, and now we can add Asians and assault victims to the list of people who are being pushed off this site thanks to the hostile environments that have been allowed to fester. You create the community you cultivate, I suppose.

Quoted for absolute truth, this place is not a safe place to discuss anything now.

[Momo]

mods i dont feel safe with people like benjamin owns running around here quoting text, can we please sort him

[VomKriege]

We hold these bans to be self-evident.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/heres-a-shitty-introduction-to-ubuntu-to-celebrate-the-release-of-ubuntu-20-04-lts.190725/

This is the default version of Ubuntu with all the prettiest shit and whatnot. It uses a desktop environment called Unity. The side bar and the start menu (not pictured) were actually very controversial when they first came out in 2011, because they were a fairly significant departure from the way default Ubuntu used to be. But it's a perfectly fine desktop, and probably has the simplest user experience among all of the Ubuntu flavors, so I would recommend this flavor of Ubuntu for your first try at it.

Edit: Unity was apparently abandoned a couple years ago, so this technically isn't Unity anymore. But it looks and functions almost exactly like Unity did, so I'm just going to keep calling it that.

Hmm, that's weird. I knew Unity was just a shell over GNOME 3, but I never noticed that Canonical abandoned it in 18.04. Their transition from Unity shell to gnome-shell that's tweaked to look like Unity fooled me.

calm down, it's just GNOME man lol

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/youre-nothing-joe-biden-rape-victim-comes-forward-in-brave-audio-interview-up-she-filed-a-criminal-complaint.177199/post-32149473

thank you so, so much for posting this. the way this site treats minorities and victims despite allegedly being on their side is one of the main reasons why i rarely visit anymore.

This post is 100% true and I feel like the recent community outreach efforts haven't led to any meaningful change at all. It seems extremely unsafe to speak out against Biden and the culture that's been created here.

[VomKriege]

Community Outreach team is working 100h a week, thanks for the feedback.

[benjipwns]

User Banned (1 Month): Playing into racial stereotypes

Not to sound offensive, but I think many women would actually prefer Barret's muscular and manly looks to scrawny Cloud.

what

[VomKriege]

User Banned (1 Month): Playing into racial stereotypes

Not to sound offensive, but I think many women would actually prefer Barret's muscular and manly looks to scrawny Cloud.

what

I guess he sounded offensive after all.

[VomKriege]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-square-can-make-drastic-changes-to-ff7-in-the-remake-but-couldnt-be-bothered-to-not-make-barrett-an-ignorant-racist-caricature-read-threadmarks.190260/post-32058936

Really not sure what this has to do with the topic my dude, but
1) women aren't a monolith

 

2) As a woman, Barrett's overly muscular pin head design looks more like it's meant to appeal to straight men to me. I personally prefer Cloud's aesthetic.

 

[BisMarckie]

As a straight guy, I almost exclusively jack it to overly muscular men.

[Don Rumata]

As a straight guy, I almost exclusively jack it to overly muscular men.

Straight men aren't a monolith.

[VomKriege]

So, I'm Blue.

Remember that most of the original "prominent users" here were the ones that made up the strongest clique at the old place and were immediately put into high positions when they migrated over here. They're less liberals and are more very staunch members of the Democratic party, pretending like they're super delegates or something. The Democratic party platform could decide overnight to advocate a number system to track Muslims and a lot of those users would agree with it -- because it came from the Democratic party. I am glad to see more and more of these "radical centrists" slowly get permabanned year over year though. But remember, when Kirblar was permabanned, some of the users on Era said that he "flew too close to the sun" Basically, they were totally agreeing with his largely racist and prejudice throw everything under the bus for "The Good of the Democratic party" rhetoric, but they're able to better keep quiet about it. That's the scary part, they're still around .. but at least they're scared. But I do think that this board is going in the right direction lately in making this place more what it should have always been, a liberal board, not just a Democratic party board.

For the record, I am definitely voting "Blue No matter Who" this November.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/youre-nothing-joe-biden-rape-victim-comes-forward-in-brave-audio-interview-up-she-filed-a-criminal-complaint.177199/post-32149821