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

[HaughtyFrank]

With RE mods being even more nuts recently I'm expecting bans to fly in any minute

https://www.resetera.com/threads/artist-creates-a-1-1-yorha-2b-statue.169779/post-29069882

[VomKriege]

With RE mods being even more nuts recently I'm expecting bans to fly in any minute

https://www.resetera.com/threads/artist-creates-a-1-1-yorha-2b-statue.169779/post-29069882

Cum gets brownish after a while I think. There was a picture of a guy that came on a My Little Pony figure every day for a year and it looked like slightly burnt pizza color-wise.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/artist-creates-a-1-1-yorha-2b-statue.169779/post-29070314

[VomKriege]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/name-a-video-game-that-you-believe-is-apolitical-and-someone-will-explain-to-you-why-it-isnt.169772/

Name a seemingly apolitical game, and someone will explain why it is inherently political.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/name-a-video-game-that-you-believe-is-apolitical-and-someone-will-explain-to-you-why-it-isnt.169772/post-29069240

ToeJam and Earl

ToeJam and Earl is game that essentially fetishizes and pays homage to 1980's and 90's hip hop culture.

 

[VomKriege]

tony hawks pro skater

Skateboarding has always been associated with counter culture / being defiant of authority.

  NOW THAT'S WHY I CALL POLITICAL INSIGHT !

If you play video games, you're taking a political stand that video games are more important than our planet.

Ah, the natural evolution of ResetEra.

 

[VomKriege]

Polisummit when ?

 

[Snoopycat_]

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https://www.resetera.com/threads/artist-creates-a-1-1-yorha-2b-statue.169779/page-2

[HaughtyFrank]

Is "women members" good English? Are they just scared of typing female members?

[VomKriege]

Oh man, PoliERA sure got salty & spicy before that lock.

You invaded this thread with others and have the nerve to tell others to "get the fuck outta here".
Nimrod.

lmao "invaded"

INVADED!

I wish you lot would just have the courage to be honest, say you don't give a shit about black and brown people and you'd like us darkies to leave you alone to have your #NeverBernie circle jerk where you can erase minorities and the poor.

 

[Pissy F Benny]

Is "women members" good English? Are they just scared of typing female?

Females is a dog whistle, which is why I always make sure to use the politically correct ‘bitches’

[OnlyRegret]

Neolib slayer

[VomKriege]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-poliera-2020-ot-2-dershowitz-says-quid-pro-quo-on-the-go.167533/post-29065713

BAN Y2KEV !

[james]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-poliera-2020-ot-2-dershowitz-says-quid-pro-quo-on-the-go.167533/post-29065713

BAN Y2KEV !

I’d rather have Bloomberg than forma.

If thats not worth a perm, what is?

[benjipwns]

. Conservative comedy it's just racism most of the time. It's never making commentary or observations on anything.

Conservative comedy story bit: "Saw this group of black people and ran bc they are violent murderous" *waits for audience laugh*

Liberal comedy story bit: "I was at the movie with my boys, white guy looked at our row and then quickly went to another area to sit. I looked at my friends and they looked at me and we started laughing and going "hell yea nicca" why? Because racism worked in our favor for once, we had the row to ourselves bitch!"

 

I get what he wanted to say, but this guy is terrible telling the joke.

It's worse because I thought the second one was building up to how the movie was Cars 2 and the guy was eating beans.

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/name-a-video-game-that-you-believe-is-apolitical-and-someone-will-explain-to-you-why-it-isnt.169772/

Name a seemingly apolitical game, and someone will explain why it is inherently political.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/name-a-video-game-that-you-believe-is-apolitical-and-someone-will-explain-to-you-why-it-isnt.169772/post-29069240

ToeJam and Earl

ToeJam and Earl is game that essentially fetishizes and pays homage to 1980's and 90's hip hop culture.

 

aka suck the fun out of everything

"tell me a joke and I'll tell you why it isn't funny"



also we went over this a year ago
 

http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=46206.msg2619657#msg2619657

space invaders is a simple game based on simple premise, at least on the surface. your lone ships stands before a baying horde of foreign grotesques, intent on destruction, you fire your weapon, you score shoots up and the dopamine flows through your veins. is it really a simple action game or allegory for the addiction of colonialism? acting as a small force with superior weaponry dispensing with the rushing horde primitive alien masses, it's clear that it is you the player who is acting as the colonial occupier, you are the invader.

While some cling to the outdated notion that Tetris might be "problematic" due to its Russian roots, I find myself celebrating the fact that it represents a culture often ignored and left behind in modern discourse.  Any level of whiteness and the privilege afforded from it that the Russian people enjoy is broadly overshadowed by the unique cultural perspective that brought us socialism.

No, my personal criticism of Tetris hews closer to the way it seems to praise order and normalcy over that which is outside the norm.  As I watch the blocks fall and form irregular shapes, I can't help but see them as our own quirks and differences given form.  That gap of several blocks at the bottom?  A black man, left behind because he doesn't conform to white society.  The tall, overhanging ledge of blocks interrupting that perfect wall?  A transwoman, told that she will never fit in, that there is no place for her here.  A perfect row represents conservatism, the alt-right constructing their gleaming, one-way society brick by brick.  The bricks are whisked away and you are thus reward for enforcing the status quo.  Allow too many gaps in your wall, too many "weirdos" and "freaks," LGBTQIA, minorities, women, and we are told the entire system will crumble.  A game over.

Might other designs exist in this vein of gameplay that could allow or even glorify other success states?  In the long run, we may need to lower our guard ever-so-slightly and allow Alexey Pajitnov, a white male, to help show us the way.

[railGUN]

 

[HaughtyFrank]

This reminds me of the time some polygon writer asked the Tetris creator if the game is actually about communism

Here’s the pitch: All creative works are influenced by the cultural milieu of their makers, by their upbringing, prejudices, politics, and so on. Tetris might seem like a completely apolitical work of abstractions, but isn’t it possible — and here is where I put the notion to Pajitnov — that this idea of very different individuals (i.e. shapes) fitting together to complete a harmonious whole is at the heart of a planned society, and is therefore an expression of the communist ideal?

(Look, I know it’s a stretch, but it’s mine.)

He shoots me down with pitiless logic.

“That’s the first time I’ve heard this concept,” he says. “First of all, it’s not just cooperative stuff that belongs to communism. In lots of circumstances people have to plan and work together and make something lovely out of the chaos. I don’t think that these ideas you have about communist stuff is right. Usually, [Soviet communists] focused on making sacrifices for the future.”

https://www.polygon.com/interviews/2019/6/17/18681154/alexey-pajitnov-interview-tetris

[railGUN]

  I will say, bravo to the Resetera moderation staff for bravely shutting down a thread about a female statue that had *gasp* breasts and and a *gulp* vagina.

Women are way too fragile to view such a depiction and the damage that such a thread would cause is just too great to risk.

 

[railGUN]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/natalie-portman-responds-to-rose-mcgowan’s-criticism-of-her-oscar-dress-aka-til-natalie-portman-is-a-savage.169791/

Buckle up fellas. This gonna be one hell of a ride.

[Jenkem]

resetera is the hannah gadsby of internet forums

[Jenkem]

resetera is the hannah gadsby of internet forums

thebore is the Transhuman of internet forums 

[Great Rumbler]

tony hawks pro skater

Skateboarding has always been associated with counter culture / being defiant of authority.

[Transhuman]

thebore is the Transhuman of internet forums 

[benjipwns]

tony hawks pro skater

Skateboarding has always been associated with counter culture / being defiant of authority.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeNKhm09Q88

[railGUN]

We’re locking this thread to review reports.

Every poster in that thread

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/leaked-audio-of-mike-bloomberg-explaing-his-racist-stop-and-frisk-policy-%E2%80%9Cyou-can-just-xerox-descriptions-of-male-minorities-16-25-to-police.169494/post-29061226

Being from the East Coast, I've known about this demon for awhile now. His true colors have been shown publicly to a greater audience but even in this very thread, you have others trying to dismiss his bigotry. Anyone trying to tell me or any other black/brown person how they should vote, needs to reassess.

That's the nicest way I can put it.

The same people who show disgust at the way Republicans stay in-line always seem to miss the way that Democrats can do the same. You're doing the bare minimum by not voting R. Being a Dem, especially a white Dem, is far from a revolutionary act. Seeing some posters bring up Biden and Buttigieg as alternatives, as if they aren't racist too, goes to show that even if you're in the same party that relations are just surface level.

I am. . .so fucking tired.

Bloomberg is not Biden or Buttigieg and frankly while your tiredness makes mine irrelevant- we’re all tired. But I’ll repeat myself:

whatever you are concerned about- race, healthcare, representation, the rule of law, the Supreme Court, jobs, the economy, social justice, democracy, socialism, centrism, liberalism, progressiveness, Bernie’s agenda, Pete’s, Klob’s, whatever. If Trump wins 2020 all the things that made you tired- will become permanent and irreversible in your lifetime.

I can’t in good conscience tell anyone to vote for Tulsi or to a far lesser extent Bloomberg because I fundamentally distrust their intent or even that they’d work with the Democratic Party.

But I can say two things with certainty:

1. if Trump wins - the trajectory is horrifying and permanent.
2. If you don’t vote - you directly help elect Trump and any messaging intent will be lost in the noise and counterproductive to your intention.

They're all racists. If any of them wins the nomination, I'm not voting for them. I don't care what anyone, especially a white person, thinks about this. America is a racist, classist, imperialist war machine. I don't have any faith in the electoral system even though I still vote. I never said that I didn't and I think that it's interesting that you tried to appeal to that scenario. The things that seem alarming to ' progressive ' white voters are things that I, as a black person have been dealing with my entire life. Personally, I'm sick of the narrative that Democrats are our only hope when the system has been rotten and festering for brown and black people in particular since the beginning.

So, once again, don't tell me what I ' should ' or ' have ' to do when so-called progressives in America pat themselves on the back for doing the bare minimum while everyone else suffers. And has been suffering. You want everyone to rally around whoever benefits you while everyone else stays in their place?

Fuck that.

I'm not going to vote D on someone who thinks I'm subhuman. Period.
This is not a controversial take.

It's almost as if. . .you proved the point of my original post.

Frank O'Connor's post

It’s like you totally ignored the post you replied to.

The amount of self-control that it took to reply without using ( many ) expletives is the small thing I'm going to be proud of today.

It’s like you totally ignored the post you replied to.

No. In fact I very much accepted the assertion that Bloomberg is a giant racist horror show. Especially for people of color. And that I couldn't possible properly relate to that harm that he has caused to those people. Then I said I couldn't in good conscience say that a person SHOULD vote for him or Tulsi. And then I repeated a dry and unfortunate bit of arithmetic that I'm not happy about.

The thing that you're rightfully upset about will become worse if Trump is reelected. I don't have a solution that solves both. I have an arithmetic that makes it less bad and less permanent. Or slows a catastrophic increase in those very problems.

They're all racists

I didn't tell you what to do. I repeated something I'm going to repeat in every election thread till November. That regardless of what your politics are, staying home helps Trump get elected. That could be a viable protest or method. I don't see it. But maybe?

That's not controversial. I can't make you do anything you don't want to do. All I can do as a citizen is remind people that Trump in particular, will not only make the institutional problems of racism and class worse, he will reverse what little progress there has been and then attempt to secure permance for an authoritarian and directly, nakedly racist state.

I WANT you to vote D for selfish reasons. Some of them are mutually beneficial.

What I would ask you - is to tell me what staying home will do to address or improve any of this - or why I shouldn't be concerned about permanent changes to the republic from this administration? You don't owe me an answer, but I would like to hear any ideas about realistically preventing what could be the most consequential assault on the rule of law in our lifetime.

And I don't think you owe me an answer either. But we're in the thread exchanging opinions. Mine is that Trump is worse. Not that the alternative is good or even adequate. it's not. It's terrible. But it's meaningfully less terrible.

I know this is going to be a bit of a shock to you but white supremacy existed before Trump and it will exist after whether a Dem wins or not. We could have the most progressive candidate win and still have systematic issues for years. That probably has a lot to do with the fact that these issues are innate to the country we live in. This idea that things can't or won't get worse is strange to me.

How do all the threads on police brutality and discrimination make you believe that we're not already there ?

White people have shown, time and again that they don't care unless they need us for votes.

Too soon?

Me choosing not to participate in a system that was made to grind me and other minorities into dust is only perceived as a slight because most white people are too fucking complacent to help any real change. To me, that change exists outside of the electorate. If you can't read between the lines and figure out what that means, that's on you. I've lost my patience tbh. How is voting for a racist candidate going to help anyone who isn't white? You're taking all this time to try to ' lecture ' me about about voting and going on about Trump when all I said it ' I'm not voting for a racist candidate '.

Voting isn't compulsory and I really don't appreciate you trying to condescend to me about it after I made the reasons why I wouldn't clear.

bork you should repor... oh

[benjipwns]

The reason Bloomberg is even in the conversation is because white Democrats do not have the interests of their black and brown neighbors and constituents at heart, but they're too enamored with decorum and appearing like the good guy to simply become Republicans.

This isn't an issue with minorities. It's an issue with white people. So don't ask us why we wouldn't vote for Bloomberg. Ask why y'all were trash enough to nominate him in the instance he wins it.

If Bloomberg gets the nomination then that is the Democratic party sending the message to people of color and to LGBTQ people that the party does not give a shit about them.

If you feel very strongly that minorities should show up the dem nominee in the general, then you better be registered to vote in your state’s primary right fucking now, and you better vote for someone who isn’t a racist, transphobic, bigoted piece of shit.

This shows how fucked the Democratic party is that they don't thrash Bloomberg's ass and force him out. He shouldn't be on anyone's tongue, or on any ballots.

Ya'll ask why so many black people trust Biden? Maybe it's because they don't trust white America to do the right thing if Bernie or Warren is the nominee, and they don't trust people like Bloomberg (and Buttigieg tbh) to even try to make significant changes if they win.

I said this in the other thread... if you're so afraid of people not voting in the GE because of a Bloomberg nomination, then it's your mission from God to make sure the nomination is anybody but Bloomberg. Don't give him an inch.

Bloomberg is just a more polite Trump. Anyone unironically advocating for Bloomberg specifically over Trump is amplifying decorum at the expense of humanity. He is barely even worthy of mention except specifically to call out what a vast pile of shit he is

There is no ethical way to support or defend Michael Bloomberg. Period.

Looking at this field it's hard to dispute that [the Dems getting more racist] wasn't the strategy going into this campaign season.

[Joe Molotov]

Why can’t RE mods just ban all the racists?

[james]

They locked poliera for 4 hours but no bans wtf

[Transhuman]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/natalie-portman-responds-to-rose-mcgowan’s-criticism-of-her-oscar-dress-aka-til-natalie-portman-is-a-savage.169791/

Buckle up fellas. This gonna be one hell of a ride.

I'm sad that none of posters mentioned Rose Mcgowan got caught with cocaine at an airport and accused "agents of Harvey Weinstein" of planting it in her purse. I feel like she is not helping the #beleivewomen movement when she makes up some conspiracy theory to escape a drug charge.

[Lonewulfeus]

lol, we wish we could talk about politics. Instead if we broach the subject of a potential bloom vs Trump matchup and talk about supporting the dem candidate in said matchup a bunch of folks decide to inform us that we support racists and are awful, how dare we dicuss staving off total destruction. Such civility.

So close to a realization.

[benjipwns]

thread is full of people asking for discord invites now lol

[Transhuman]

PM to me plz benjazi

[thisismyusername]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/leaked-audio-of-mike-bloomberg-explaing-his-racist-stop-and-frisk-policy-%E2%80%9Cyou-can-just-xerox-descriptions-of-male-minorities-16-25-to-police.169494/post-29061226

Being from the East Coast, I've known about this demon for awhile now. His true colors have been shown publicly to a greater audience but even in this very thread, you have others trying to dismiss his bigotry. Anyone trying to tell me or any other black/brown person how they should vote, needs to reassess.

That's the nicest way I can put it.

The same people who show disgust at the way Republicans stay in-line always seem to miss the way that Democrats can do the same. You're doing the bare minimum by not voting R. Being a Dem, especially a white Dem, is far from a revolutionary act. Seeing some posters bring up Biden and Buttigieg as alternatives, as if they aren't racist too, goes to show that even if you're in the same party that relations are just surface level.

I am. . .so fucking tired.

Bloomberg is not Biden or Buttigieg and frankly while your tiredness makes mine irrelevant- we’re all tired. But I’ll repeat myself:

whatever you are concerned about- race, healthcare, representation, the rule of law, the Supreme Court, jobs, the economy, social justice, democracy, socialism, centrism, liberalism, progressiveness, Bernie’s agenda, Pete’s, Klob’s, whatever. If Trump wins 2020 all the things that made you tired- will become permanent and irreversible in your lifetime.

I can’t in good conscience tell anyone to vote for Tulsi or to a far lesser extent Bloomberg because I fundamentally distrust their intent or even that they’d work with the Democratic Party.

But I can say two things with certainty:

1. if Trump wins - the trajectory is horrifying and permanent.
2. If you don’t vote - you directly help elect Trump and any messaging intent will be lost in the noise and counterproductive to your intention.

They're all racists. If any of them wins the nomination, I'm not voting for them. I don't care what anyone, especially a white person, thinks about this. America is a racist, classist, imperialist war machine. I don't have any faith in the electoral system even though I still vote. I never said that I didn't and I think that it's interesting that you tried to appeal to that scenario. The things that seem alarming to ' progressive ' white voters are things that I, as a black person have been dealing with my entire life. Personally, I'm sick of the narrative that Democrats are our only hope when the system has been rotten and festering for brown and black people in particular since the beginning.

So, once again, don't tell me what I ' should ' or ' have ' to do when so-called progressives in America pat themselves on the back for doing the bare minimum while everyone else suffers. And has been suffering. You want everyone to rally around whoever benefits you while everyone else stays in their place?

Fuck that.

I'm not going to vote D on someone who thinks I'm subhuman. Period.
This is not a controversial take.

It's almost as if. . .you proved the point of my original post.

Frank O'Connor's post

It’s like you totally ignored the post you replied to.

The amount of self-control that it took to reply without using ( many ) expletives is the small thing I'm going to be proud of today.

It’s like you totally ignored the post you replied to.

No. In fact I very much accepted the assertion that Bloomberg is a giant racist horror show. Especially for people of color. And that I couldn't possible properly relate to that harm that he has caused to those people. Then I said I couldn't in good conscience say that a person SHOULD vote for him or Tulsi. And then I repeated a dry and unfortunate bit of arithmetic that I'm not happy about.

The thing that you're rightfully upset about will become worse if Trump is reelected. I don't have a solution that solves both. I have an arithmetic that makes it less bad and less permanent. Or slows a catastrophic increase in those very problems.

They're all racists

I didn't tell you what to do. I repeated something I'm going to repeat in every election thread till November. That regardless of what your politics are, staying home helps Trump get elected. That could be a viable protest or method. I don't see it. But maybe?

That's not controversial. I can't make you do anything you don't want to do. All I can do as a citizen is remind people that Trump in particular, will not only make the institutional problems of racism and class worse, he will reverse what little progress there has been and then attempt to secure permance for an authoritarian and directly, nakedly racist state.

I WANT you to vote D for selfish reasons. Some of them are mutually beneficial.

What I would ask you - is to tell me what staying home will do to address or improve any of this - or why I shouldn't be concerned about permanent changes to the republic from this administration? You don't owe me an answer, but I would like to hear any ideas about realistically preventing what could be the most consequential assault on the rule of law in our lifetime.

And I don't think you owe me an answer either. But we're in the thread exchanging opinions. Mine is that Trump is worse. Not that the alternative is good or even adequate. it's not. It's terrible. But it's meaningfully less terrible.

I know this is going to be a bit of a shock to you but white supremacy existed before Trump and it will exist after whether a Dem wins or not. We could have the most progressive candidate win and still have systematic issues for years. That probably has a lot to do with the fact that these issues are innate to the country we live in. This idea that things can't or won't get worse is strange to me.

How do all the threads on police brutality and discrimination make you believe that we're not already there ?

White people have shown, time and again that they don't care unless they need us for votes.

Too soon?

Me choosing not to participate in a system that was made to grind me and other minorities into dust is only perceived as a slight because most white people are too fucking complacent to help any real change. To me, that change exists outside of the electorate. If you can't read between the lines and figure out what that means, that's on you. I've lost my patience tbh. How is voting for a racist candidate going to help anyone who isn't white? You're taking all this time to try to ' lecture ' me about about voting and going on about Trump when all I said it ' I'm not voting for a racist candidate '.

Voting isn't compulsory and I really don't appreciate you trying to condescend to me about it after I made the reasons why I wouldn't clear.

bork you should repor... oh

Dude's not necessarily wrong TBH. Rode Frank's ass like a horse and put him away dry.

[Finbarfin]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/leaked-audio-of-mike-bloomberg-explaing-his-racist-stop-and-frisk-policy-%E2%80%9Cyou-can-just-xerox-descriptions-of-male-minorities-16-25-to-police.169494/post-29061226

Being from the East Coast, I've known about this demon for awhile now. His true colors have been shown publicly to a greater audience but even in this very thread, you have others trying to dismiss his bigotry. Anyone trying to tell me or any other black/brown person how they should vote, needs to reassess.

That's the nicest way I can put it.

The same people who show disgust at the way Republicans stay in-line always seem to miss the way that Democrats can do the same. You're doing the bare minimum by not voting R. Being a Dem, especially a white Dem, is far from a revolutionary act. Seeing some posters bring up Biden and Buttigieg as alternatives, as if they aren't racist too, goes to show that even if you're in the same party that relations are just surface level.

I am. . .so fucking tired.

Bloomberg is not Biden or Buttigieg and frankly while your tiredness makes mine irrelevant- we’re all tired. But I’ll repeat myself:

whatever you are concerned about- race, healthcare, representation, the rule of law, the Supreme Court, jobs, the economy, social justice, democracy, socialism, centrism, liberalism, progressiveness, Bernie’s agenda, Pete’s, Klob’s, whatever. If Trump wins 2020 all the things that made you tired- will become permanent and irreversible in your lifetime.

I can’t in good conscience tell anyone to vote for Tulsi or to a far lesser extent Bloomberg because I fundamentally distrust their intent or even that they’d work with the Democratic Party.

But I can say two things with certainty:

1. if Trump wins - the trajectory is horrifying and permanent.
2. If you don’t vote - you directly help elect Trump and any messaging intent will be lost in the noise and counterproductive to your intention.

They're all racists. If any of them wins the nomination, I'm not voting for them. I don't care what anyone, especially a white person, thinks about this. America is a racist, classist, imperialist war machine. I don't have any faith in the electoral system even though I still vote. I never said that I didn't and I think that it's interesting that you tried to appeal to that scenario. The things that seem alarming to ' progressive ' white voters are things that I, as a black person have been dealing with my entire life. Personally, I'm sick of the narrative that Democrats are our only hope when the system has been rotten and festering for brown and black people in particular since the beginning.

So, once again, don't tell me what I ' should ' or ' have ' to do when so-called progressives in America pat themselves on the back for doing the bare minimum while everyone else suffers. And has been suffering. You want everyone to rally around whoever benefits you while everyone else stays in their place?

Fuck that.

I'm not going to vote D on someone who thinks I'm subhuman. Period.
This is not a controversial take.

It's almost as if. . .you proved the point of my original post.

Frank O'Connor's post

It’s like you totally ignored the post you replied to.

The amount of self-control that it took to reply without using ( many ) expletives is the small thing I'm going to be proud of today.

It’s like you totally ignored the post you replied to.

No. In fact I very much accepted the assertion that Bloomberg is a giant racist horror show. Especially for people of color. And that I couldn't possible properly relate to that harm that he has caused to those people. Then I said I couldn't in good conscience say that a person SHOULD vote for him or Tulsi. And then I repeated a dry and unfortunate bit of arithmetic that I'm not happy about.

The thing that you're rightfully upset about will become worse if Trump is reelected. I don't have a solution that solves both. I have an arithmetic that makes it less bad and less permanent. Or slows a catastrophic increase in those very problems.

They're all racists

I didn't tell you what to do. I repeated something I'm going to repeat in every election thread till November. That regardless of what your politics are, staying home helps Trump get elected. That could be a viable protest or method. I don't see it. But maybe?

That's not controversial. I can't make you do anything you don't want to do. All I can do as a citizen is remind people that Trump in particular, will not only make the institutional problems of racism and class worse, he will reverse what little progress there has been and then attempt to secure permance for an authoritarian and directly, nakedly racist state.

I WANT you to vote D for selfish reasons. Some of them are mutually beneficial.

What I would ask you - is to tell me what staying home will do to address or improve any of this - or why I shouldn't be concerned about permanent changes to the republic from this administration? You don't owe me an answer, but I would like to hear any ideas about realistically preventing what could be the most consequential assault on the rule of law in our lifetime.

And I don't think you owe me an answer either. But we're in the thread exchanging opinions. Mine is that Trump is worse. Not that the alternative is good or even adequate. it's not. It's terrible. But it's meaningfully less terrible.

I know this is going to be a bit of a shock to you but white supremacy existed before Trump and it will exist after whether a Dem wins or not. We could have the most progressive candidate win and still have systematic issues for years. That probably has a lot to do with the fact that these issues are innate to the country we live in. This idea that things can't or won't get worse is strange to me.

How do all the threads on police brutality and discrimination make you believe that we're not already there ?

White people have shown, time and again that they don't care unless they need us for votes.

Too soon?

Me choosing not to participate in a system that was made to grind me and other minorities into dust is only perceived as a slight because most white people are too fucking complacent to help any real change. To me, that change exists outside of the electorate. If you can't read between the lines and figure out what that means, that's on you. I've lost my patience tbh. How is voting for a racist candidate going to help anyone who isn't white? You're taking all this time to try to ' lecture ' me about about voting and going on about Trump when all I said it ' I'm not voting for a racist candidate '.

Voting isn't compulsory and I really don't appreciate you trying to condescend to me about it after I made the reasons why I wouldn't clear.

bork you should repor... oh

Dude's not necessarily wrong TBH. Rode Frank's ass like a horse and put him away dry.

He's not wrong. No one should vote for Bloomberg for any reason. You might as well be voting for Kodos vs Kang if you're that cynical about politics. There is not one reason in all of everything that any rational person with less than ten million dollars in their retirement account would vote for Bloomberg other than "defeating trump". Which is a useless fucking gesture if you're going to elect a billionaire in his place. A billionaire who is trying to game the system by out-moneying all the actual politicians in the race.

[railGUN]

A lot of people said exactly for this reason, they were that in on Wework they needed to work or it would tank them.

Goodnight HULKAMANIACS and jabronie marks without a life that don't know it a work when you work a work and work yourself into a shoot,marks

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/AshPaulsen/status/1227793683870707712

They walk among you.

[thisismyusername]

He's not wrong. No one should vote for Bloomberg for any reason. You might as well be voting for Kodos vs Kang if you're that cynical about politics. There is not one reason in all of everything that any rational person with less than ten million dollars in their retirement account would vote for Bloomberg other than "defeating trump". Which is a useless fucking gesture if you're going to elect a billionaire in his place. A billionaire who is trying to game the system by out-moneying all the actual politicians in the race.

I was more getting at the "I know this is going to be a bit of a shock to you but white supremacy existed before Trump and it will exist after whether a Dem wins or not. We could have the most progressive candidate win and still have systematic issues for years" bit.

I have had people get angry with me when I say "if Bernie isn't the nominee, I'm not going to vote for the democrats. Fuck them, let them learn that they need to listen to their electorate and not rig shit" because "OH MY GOD HOW CAN YOU LET THE SUPREME COURT/blah blah blah PASS YOU BY!? ARE YOU STUPID!? THINGS ARE GOING TO GET WORSE IF WE HAVE MORE YEARS OF TRUMP!!!"

and I'm like: "Nah, not really."

"So you're a racist then!"

"What the hell jump in logic is that? Simply because I'd rather have the DNC fucking lose for not helping the poor IN-COUNTRY over folks coming in OUT-OF-COUNTRY right now means I'm racist because I won't put a check-mark near another 'D' on the ballot because of my distaste for their policies that don't match what I want to do in-country right now? What the fuck logic is that?"

Basically this person nails it:

Voting isn't compulsory and I really don't appreciate you trying to condescend to me about it after I made the reasons why I wouldn't clear.

Frank/Stinkles/OuterWorldVoice trying to play on that "oh 4 more years of Trump will be 'hellish'!!!!" exaggeration can fuck off.

[zepblackstar]

and you thought the my little pony movie had a record amount of restraining orders in attendance

https://twitter.com/AshPaulsen/status/1227793683870707712

They walk among you.

[railGUN]

If Trump wins, I get to watch REE implode.

If a dem wins, I get to watch REE and GAF implode.

Win win/win for me.

[railGUN]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/natalie-portman-responds-to-rose-mcgowan’s-criticism-of-her-oscar-dress-aka-til-natalie-portman-is-a-savage.169791/

Thread has been locked so they can "review reports" for several hours now... A thread that frames the mocking of a female rape victim as a "savage rebuttal", and that multiple members agreed with (thereby endorsing the mocking of a rape victim).

Aaaaand nothing has happened. No bans. Thread still locked. Entire mod staff should catch a 1-month ban for "minimizing rape" and/or "making light of rape/rape victims" for not actioning the thread accordingly.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/natalie-portman-responds-to-rose-mcgowan’s-criticism-of-her-oscar-dress-aka-til-natalie-portman-is-a-savage.169791/

Buckle up fellas. This gonna be one hell of a ride.

I’m more surprised that RE still bats for Rose McGowan.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/natalie-portman-responds-to-rose-mcgowan’s-criticism-of-her-oscar-dress-aka-til-natalie-portman-is-a-savage.169791/

Thread has been locked so they can "review reports" for several hours now... A thread that frames the mocking of a female rape victim as a "savage rebuttal", and that multiple members agreed with (thereby endorsing the mocking of a rape victim).

Aaaaand nothing has happened. No bans. Thread still locked. Entire mod staff should catch a 1-month ban for "minimizing rape" and/or "making light of rape/rape victims" for not actioning the thread accordingly.

Lol:

Given the controversy this thread has generated, it will remain locked.

[railGUN]

  I wonder how they decide when a controversial thread is or isn't thread worthy.

[benjipwns]

It's got bans now:

User Banned (5 Days): Inflammatory Drive-By Posting

fatality

User Banned (5 Days): Inflammatory Drive-By Posting

Wow. I need this kind of savage in my life.

User Banned (5 Days): Inflammatory Drive-By Posting

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User Banned (5 Days): Inflammatory Drive-By Posting

The ether that make your soul burn slow

User Banned (5 Days): Inflammatory Drive-By Posting

HAHAHAHA fuckin rekt

User Banned (5 Days): Inflammatory Drive-By Posting

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User Banned (1 month): Victim blaming rhretoric

There are no perfect victims. Rose McGowan is far from a perfect victim.

User Warned: Drive-By Trolling

Rose "I cannot vote Democrat" McGowan

User Banned (1 Month): Victim Blaming Rhetoric Over Multiple Posts

Don't dish it if you cant take it. Why does Portman have to sugarcoat and be sensitive towards her taking a payout? She doesn't.

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RHRETORIC

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[Boredfrom]

Rose and Asia Argento are probably the biggest scumbags that undermined the #MeToo thing:

Speaking to Le Monde, Argento talked about the Harvey Weinstein trial, her own accusations against the mogul, as well as the allegations that were publicized from actor Jimmy Bennett. And perhaps a bit unsurprisingly, she now has a new opinion about what #MeToo stands for and its effect on Hollywood.

“Regarding the injustices I suffered, I felt that the Europeans were more perceptive than the Americans,” said Argento. “Many here have understood that the actor who accuses me of pedophilia, Jimmy Bennett, is being manipulated. This surge of solidarity touched me. Because of this, I lived through the terrible years of 2017 and 2018.”

While she isn’t specific on who might be manipulating Bennett, Argento says that the whole situation undermined what she said about #MeToo and “suited everyone, including Weinstein and his friends.”

 

https://theplaylist.net/asia-argento-metoo-weinstein-climax-20200129/

[benjipwns]

[clothedmacuser]

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That last paragraph 

It's like your cuck dad saying "and I mean it this time mister!" 




Also, Crossing Eden implying Bond 64 was political.  Because it has stages set in Russia. 

Oooooo boy what an apoilitical game this was. We play as this badass named James Bond who works for no one in particular. In every level, we shoot bad foreign bad guys for literally no reason. Really weird that the game keeps talking specifically about Russians. Are the levels even in Russia? Probably not. Also, political fiction is not inherently political, as political fiction writers would never attempt to make a statement about anything, especially not politics

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-just-wanna-go-back-to-when-games-didnt-have-politics-lets-talk-about-the-apolitical-games-of-the-past.127131/


They same people who think Splatoon! is political because it's implied it takes place in a Water World future.




Just as political as Animal Farm.  A book which has totally no relation to Era at all.


Edit: I don't like that we can say cuck again.  I'm going to type out Giant Dad from now.  Join my pledge.

[who is ted danson?]

At first I thought it was hilarious Bloomberg was running


Now I think it would be good if he won the nom, won the presidency, and gave himself a taxcut to recoup his camapign costs.

[Uncle]

I didn't know a thing about rando mod poodlestrike a week ago

during the black summit they provided some lols and it became obvious they're a garbage mod with no attempt at professionalism

screed above confirms it, they post just as emotionally and opinionated as the average user but get to tack on how "we will be enforcing shit"

probably the most transparent mod on the site

[railGUN]

Sorry your spoilers are more important than a trans woman winning a world title.

  it's wrestling dude. No one "won a world title", a scripted story played out according to the pre-written script.

[railGUN]

Trans rights?!

More like what about Spoiler rights?!

Anirite?!

Jfc

fucking bigots

 

[clothedmacuser]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/aew-crowns-first-ever-trans-world-champion.169817/post-29077686

That thread is pretty funny because the people upset at being spoiled have a fair point but they are TOTALLY DEMOLISHED by others playing the "oh, so you are a bigot who hates Trans people?  Good to know.  Mods!" 


Sometimes I try to think, "how will people find an angle to make this racist?" and I've never topped Era.  The new Christopher Nolan movie has a black lead.  I can't wait to see how they figure out to call Nolan a bigot.

[railGUN]

But but it's a "live event". So? You think Game of Thrones or The Witcher didn't premiere "live"? People want to watch shit without knowing the result. There's an explicit rule about posting spoilers in thread titles. But none of that matters because trans.

Of course people are getting upset that they take issue with having some major event spoiled for them, when the event happened in the middle of the night where they live. Of fucking course. Because REE and because trans and because fuuuuuuuuuuucccccccckkkkkkk oooooooooffffffff.

[benjipwns]

I've been a moderator of a bunch of subreddits for years, some big, some small. I think I'm really good at what I do, I def feel like if it were the right fit with my experience in challenging spaces I could mod anywhere reasonably well with a bit of an adjustment period, it's a fun hobby most of the time. It's kind of like how people say everyone should have to work retail for a while to understand what it's like on that end, I feel like it would be cool if people who used forums understood all that goes into keeping a community active and monitored. From a user perspective sometimes things can seem really simple when that isn't always the case!

[railGUN]

So according to the rules of REE, sports results are allowed to be posted, if it's posted on a main channel/outlet of said sport (which this was).

In other words, posting this doesn't break any rules.

BUT - people are not upset that a trans person won a wrestling championship. They're upset that they didn't get to watch the match without knowing the results.

And being upset about this somehow makes them a bigot. And makes it about "them" instead of the trans person winning the championship. Because they wanted to experience this historic event for themselves.

 

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/democratic-presidential-primary-february-ot-it-cant-be-worse-than-iowa-right-discussion-guidelines-in-op.167107/post-29064953

This is going to be a really spirited post but I am trying to work out some feelings. I am not putting anyone on blast here and I am not judging anybody else - even though it is probably going to sound like it. The Bloomberg hypothetical is weighing very heavily on my mind because it is challenging something about myself I took for granted and while I have no solution or conclusion I want to express some serious stress over this issue.

I say the following rather brazenly because I am choosing to believe Bloomberg has no shot at the nomination. It is safe to vent because I am hoping I will not have to actually make this decision. I am grappling right now with the fact that I perceive Bloomberg to be a Trumplike figure to the Democratic Party. He is monstrous to me. He is not "as bad" as Trump, but Trump is a living obscenity. If people have to be as bad as Trump to earn my opposition then Republicans have won forever.


SPOILER: EMOTIONAL RANT
In 2016 and in its immediate aftermath, I saw a lot of Republicans who claimed to hate Trump but also voted for him. Even though Trump supposedly didn't reflect their values or what they wanted for their country, they voted for him because they felt like they had no choice. They were relented Never Trumpers who felt like they did what they had to do. They struggled with the fact that their political party was overtaken by somebody like him. They denied that the Republican Party, in general, was defined by Trump-like politics. They would tell you and probably still tell you that Trumpism is not what the Republican Party is all about and the state of affairs is unfortunate and regrettable. But they still voted for him, and will probably vote for him again, because they are Republicans and he is their option.

I always thought this was incredibly idiotic. I have zero respect for these people. They felt like they had no choice, but they did. They had multiple choices. They could not vote at all. They could vote for another candidate. Nobody had a gun to their head and made them vote for Trump, but they did. I could not fathom how somebody could have such little self-worth and have so little dignity that they would kneel before somebody so disgusting and so damaging just to keep the other party from winning. To me, all they had to do was not vote for Trump. This should be an effortless decision. Being a Republican didn't mean you had to vote for Trump. But Republicans did because why wouldn't they?

Back then, the difference between Trump and Clinton was wide. You might have thought Clinton would be a bad president who carried on America's worst traditions, but Clinton never threatened the United States the way Trump did. What we've seen from a Trump presidency is a harrowing, irredeemable horror. It is inexcusable to me that anybody felt like they did not have a choice between Trump and the accelerated demise of the planet. If you didn't support Trump and his politics, don't vote for him. If you voted for him you were a moron.

I thought all these Never Trumper Republicans were as naive as they were stupid. They stammered and trembled at the thought of a Trump presidency. They didn't understand what was happening. They didn't know what they were supposed to do. And I thought this was pathetic. How could any Republican be surprised? This was what the Republican Party was all about! This is what you've been working towards all these years! Your ultimate evil plan has finally paid off! How could you be so stupid and oblivious to what he and your party stood for? And if you didn't want that, why were you such a willing participant?

I have no sympathy for these people at all. I resolved that if there was ever a Trump-like figure in the Democratic party, I would not vote for him, because the choice was that easy. I have a moral and ethical obligation not to support that kind of destructive entity. I would not be a total moron like a Republican. It couldn't be me.

Bloomberg's very existence is so antithetical to what I believe in and what I want for this country that I cannot imagine myself willingly supporting his candidacy. Electing somebody like Bloomberg as the Democratic response to Trump would be selling out all my politics in an act that completely dissolved my self-respect. I would feel as spineless, as useless, and as irredeemable as all the shaky Never Trumpers who still fell in line when it came down to it.

And worst of all is that Bloomberg becoming the nominee would prove what I've been denying all my life: that he is what the Democratic Party is all about. He would be the ultimate payoff to a long career of evil. Baddies versus baddies warring over the dominion of people for all time. And I was just another person who helped support that system and helped make it happen.

The only way I could see myself voting for Bloomberg is by negotiating with my own beliefs to the point where I convinced myself he "wasn't that bad." I'd have to believe that since he was better than Trump (even "1% better", as someone suggests above) I had an obligation to vote for him. But right now I cannot imagine that. Bloomberg is not a compromise between choices to me. He is everything I oppose.

The trauma of having to choose between Donald Trump and Michael Bloomberg would be anguish enough that I wouldn't judge anyone for not voting for Bloomberg. I wouldn't judge people who judged me if I didn't. Voting for Trump is still worse, and voting for Trump in 2016 was still worse, but voting for Bloomberg? The choice between Trump and Bloomberg is full-blown dystopic state to me. I don't know how I could participate in politics that simply came down to choosing which way I'd rather die.

[railGUN]

Fun fact Nyla was the lead role in a trans sitcom that I auditioned twice for for two different supporting roles.

In a different world we'd have been cast mates.

I'm so excited right now.

<record scratch>

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

I will say, bravo to the Resetera moderation staff for bravely shutting down a thread about a female statue that had *gasp* breasts and and a *gulp* vagina.

Women are way too fragile to view such a depiction and the damage that such a thread would cause is just too great to risk.

 

it's good that the nexus of left leaning videogame thinking can imbue the correct amount of shame on the female body that bitches and whores constantly need to be covered up to hide

[BIONIC]

I refuse to believe incelsheet ever left her room, let alone auditioned for anything

[Ghoul]

I've been a moderator of a bunch of subreddits for years, some big, some small. I think I'm really good at what I do, I def feel like if it were the right fit with my experience in challenging spaces I could mod anywhere reasonably well with a bit of an adjustment period, it's a fun hobby most of the time. It's kind of like how people say everyone should have to work retail for a while to understand what it's like on that end, I feel like it would be cool if people who used forums understood all that goes into keeping a community active and monitored. From a user perspective sometimes things can seem really simple when that isn't always the case!

“It’s like saying people should work in retail one day” these people can’t even get employed by amazon / Walmart why are you setting the bar so high, you bloody tyrant. Also I love how absolutely no one quoted him or paid any attention, also in the thread mods saying “maybe” you’re not proper mods, “moderation not totality.”

MOD SUMMIT NOW