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[benjipwns]

The funniest part about how every single one of those threads for years upon years now has gone "well, vote for Democrats" "we did" "well, vote harder" "nothing changes" is they never stop assuming that their positions are super popular and it must be some other thing that's preventing success.

[joeboy101]

Maybe because people like you think that everyone who doesn't vote is an asshole. Most of you all are incapable of actually empathizing with the most vulnerable sects of the population who either face hurdles voting, or have rightfully become jaded because they have been consistently let down by the systems at large even when they do the right thing; a lot of these folks are Black and Trans people who y'all claim to love so much until they step out of line. A lot of these people live in staunchly Democratic controlled areas. Their lives are still shit.

    And what's frustrating is that voter apathy could easily be addressed if Democrats just campaigned better. We're not even asking for perfection. I'm not asking for Marx to be resurrected. We're asking for people who just aren't going to abandon our issues or ignore what the public wants after votes have been secured. Like, how the fuck is my community supposed to feel when we vote for Democrats, like you online liberals say we should, and they turn around and plan to bulldoze a public park to make way for a multibillion dollar police training facility that no one wants, and the construction of which is going to increase the risk of flooding to nearby historically Black districts?

    "Sure your house might get flooded and you might have to move, further increasing the ongoing gentrification, but hey, we're not Republicans."

    Like holy shit, do you all actually give a fuck?

There's a lot about this post that I don't like. Or rather, a lot of this post I think is wrong.

Let me start with "bulldoze a public park to make way for a multibillion dollar police training facility that no one wants," because I think that's a good example of the overall issue with this post. You claim that no one wants such a thing, but the polling says you're wrong. According to Pew Research, Black Democrats are more likely than White Democrats to support increased spending on police, and the share of Black Americans overall wanting to decrease spending on police has fallen since 2020.

Next is "campaign better." I find this to be pretty useless advice. For one, what does this mean exactly? Your next few sentences are talking about implementing policy, a different issue all together, not the act of campaigning itself. Second, this is pretty poor advice by itself considering the democratic institutional design of the United States, most notably the bias of the Senate and the Electoral College (and that isn't mentioning the surefire midterm penalty). Third, "campaigning better" might not be what you actually want it to be. To overcome the bias of Senate, Democrats would probably do well to start running a lot of candidates who are more pro-life or pro-gun. I don't like it, and no democracy can be designed that would have your preferred policy outcomes happen all the time, but in this particularly instance, the playing field in the United States means Democrats in certain states will probably need to start tracking to the right further than they need to. It's unfair from a democratic perspective.

Finally, "We're asking for people who just aren't going to abandon our issues or ignore what the public wants after votes have been secured." It's not as simple as that, and I think you know this. First, political capital isn't unlimited. Second, depending on the types of candidates that win, that will constrain what can be done on the national level. It's not a question of "abandoning," it's a question of, "Okay, what can we do considering the opinions of the members that we have?" When you have a fifty-vote majority as Democrats do in the Senate now, that window of possibility becomes very small, because you have to get the support of Joe Manchin. Hopefully, we can some climate legislation before November, and if we do, it won't be because Democrats abandoned anything.

I wasn't asking you what you find to be helpful advice. Frankly, I don't even know who you are; literally have never interacted with you until now, and if I have, I don't remember it. I am ranting to terminally-online fucks who I will never see down in the streets actually trying to help out people like the ones I describe in my community, members who are always going on and on about why certain people don't vote, how these people are irresponsible, and refusing to empathize with why they don't vote so that, maybe, just maybe, they can start trying to solve the problem.

Discussion forum.

[joeboy101]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/politico-supreme-court-has-voted-to-overturn-abortion-rights-draft-opinion-shows.579329/page-68#post-86106866

Oh fucking spare me this self righteous performance.

Do YOU actually give a fuck? I've been doing queer, anti-racist, anti-war activism on the streets for fucking 25 years. I have been arrested at protests, I have had the shit beaten out of me for being queer, more than once. What have you done lately, hmm? Please enlighten us all as to what exactly gives you the right to tell people who they are and what their experience has been. Please, I would SINCERELY love to hear it.

OBVIOUSLY the Dems have a shit ton of problems, we all know that. But expecting people to do the BARE ASS MINIMUM of voting to stop this disgusting backslide is not too much and people are right to be upset with folks that cannot be bothered.

And really, how fucking dare you accuse people that have dedicated large parts of their lives to progressive change of not giving a fuck, seriously, how fucking vile.

RIP Mercury Fred, I made the bet you would be the most mod protected

Fred's been a self righteous prick for the longest time, going way back to GAF...

But kudos to him. He does have an admirable consistency to his positions and convictions and I admire that. She's gonna ban him, but you go hoss!

Also..

Nepenthe Just wanted to say, I appreciate you.

 

[benjipwns]

Nepenthe Just wanted to say, I appreciate you.

[benjipwns]

Mercury Fred is completely awful, one of the worst community members.

I hope he drags Nepenthe until she can't sleep.

[joeboy101]

Mercury Fred is completely awful.

I hope he drags Nepenthe until she can't sleep.

[joeboy101]

Gawddamn!

I am ranting to terminally-online fucks

(Image removed from quote.)

Shew, stop with the spiciness, I gotta sleep later.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-bald-fraud.579968/

So ree are alright with threads mocking disabled individuals now? 

I love all the idiots saying "fuck oil clubs" as if Real Madrid didn't become successful under a literal fascist. I'll take oil sheiks over a fascist any day.

[Potato]

Edit: Deleted. Probably in poor taste

[benjipwns]

I love how "terminally-online" suddenly became the insult that all the terminally-online people use. I get it, I'm terminally-online but I'm not terminally-online you know. But the only people I ever see using it are the people who you can't distinguish this for. One way to tell? They all started calling other people "terminally-online" suddenly.

[Polident Hive]

https://twitter.com/LazlosGhost/status/1521642927209865220

  KING 👑👑👑👑 SHIT

Say what you will about bob, his post calling four cheeseburgers, twenty four chicken nuggets, two large fries, and four cokes a small amount of food is the greatest.

[Mostima]

Seriously? Nepnep is just allowed to go on about how mail-in votes are insecure and how voter fraud is just casually occuring around the country now? Can these people not stand by a single belief they have without flip flopping over the drop of a hat?

[BadAss2961]

Terminally online... Some good projection there, Nep.

Someone that can be found bitching and power-tripping on a piece of shit snowflake internet forum each day of the week isn't doing anything IRL. May not even be voting, apparently. Sit the fuck down.

[Transhuman]

Wonder what the people who advocate against eugenics would do if a prenatal screening showed their baby has Lesch–Nyhan syndrome.

[Uncle]

I love how "terminally-online" suddenly became the insult that all the terminally-online people use. I get it, I'm terminally-online but I'm not terminally-online you know. But the only people I ever see using it are the people who you can't distinguish this for. One way to tell? They all started calling other people "terminally-online" suddenly.

ctrl+f replace with snowflake

[Potato]

Seriously? Nepnep is just allowed to go on about how mail-in votes are insecure and how voter fraud is just casually occuring around the country now? Can these people not stand by a single belief they have without flip flopping over the drop of a hat?

Voter fraud only happens when you want to accuse the "other side" of doing it. When they say it's happening, then it's a conspiracy theory.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-bald-fraud.579968/

So ree are alright with threads mocking disabled individuals now? 

Never forget that they even banned someone for saying that baldness isn't a disability

[benjipwns]

Seriously? Nepnep is just allowed to go on about how mail-in votes are insecure and how voter fraud is just casually occuring around the country now? Can these people not stand by a single belief they have without flip flopping over the drop of a hat?

She also assumes it's "Republican fuckery" instead of incompetent fuckery and she also apparently believed what some bureaucrat told her but nobody else ever noticed.

And thanks to it all she had to... vote in person. As a twenty-ish year old who lives at home with no health issues (thanks to meat washing) and who hadn't yet signed a seven year lease on a Nissan.

And this horror story is apparently her explanation for why she's given up on democracy to attend armed "police abolition" meetings on edge about throwing down if the police show up while wishing for a literal apocalypse to happen.

[Averon]

Terminally online... Some good projection there, Nep.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/politico-supreme-court-has-voted-to-overturn-abortion-rights-draft-opinion-shows.579329/page-29#post-86016890

I don't think that is definitively a problem, frankly

I'm going to DC tomorrow, I'm packing my bags, there's no fucking way I would be doing this if I hadn't been a part of this community for so long. This community has given me more reasons to fight than those beyond my own needs. Drunk posting a bit but I really fucking believe it. I have been in this community for seventeen years and I know it can change people.

He ain't gonna do shit lol

I was at the protest in DC today in front of the court. By the evening the crowd had a few hundred people and great energy. Left feeling good. No incidents and only a single solitary anti-choice protester who was immediately boo'd into the shadow realm. I also heard from several people who were there yesterday that the number of anti-choice protesters was greatly distorted by the media and they were actually massively outnumbered at all times. Yet somehow they still got quite a lot of attention from the cameras! Hmm how odd. Wonder what that's about 🤔

Anyway...I hope it's kosher to post this but a lot of energy is being directed to organizing a general strike action this Sunday, Mother's Day, for eight days, and women and men are both encouraged to participate. I'm not sure how this is gonna work out tbh, a lotta folks who won't risk Mom's disappointment on that day of all days. Maybe buy flowers the day before and cook her a meal instead of going out to brunch? 🤷‍♂️ The folks in charge don't seem to like it very much when we stop going out to eat and spending money! Seems like something that could actually make a dent if it gains enough steam?

Here's the website, if anyone has time to put together a thread and the mods are cool with it, please do!! I'm just super busy while I'm here. https://www.mothersdaystrike.com/

Apologies if it's already been discussed, I don't have time to review the thread

GENERAL STRIKE FOR EIGHT DAYS

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/politico-supreme-court-has-voted-to-overturn-abortion-rights-draft-opinion-shows.579329/page-69#post-86108105
NepNep

I regularly protest police encroachment and gentrification projects. I've protested drone warfare. I've also been threatened with arrest, in and outside of organized demonstration. I am part of an active Black mutual aid organization now. And I've given way too much fucking money and phone banked for the fucking Democrats, even after I've determined that I just don't like them that much. So I've both been on the streets and I've helped on the campaign trail. All you have on me is years of experience because you're older, but you don't get to posture as if I haven't done shit either.

Regardless, my specific problem with you, and others who constantly complain about non-voters, is that you refuse to engage with subsects of the population who don't vote specifically because the system has failed them, not because they're just entitled brats who didn't get their unicorn candidate. We all that know that a subsect of the population just doesn't vote. So the two questions we're left with are "How do we engage at least some of these people so they are primed and willing to vote?" and "How do we make sure they vote for our people?" We don't get to answering these questions with bitching about the fact that these people don't vote, or putting everyone who has failed to vote for one reason or another in this singular box of assholes who are too privileged or evil to bother.

This attitude also doesn't address the fact that the backsliding has been happening despite increasing national and even mid-terms turnout, and despite the fact that Democrats more often than not win the national popular vote. Clearly, there are systemic issues that are here that are not perfectly ameliorated even if you were to get 100% turnout, because we can outvote the competition and still lose anyway. Ultimately, we need to reconfigure the messaging and smartly engage with different demographics of non-voters, because if 30% of the population just regularly does not vote, and that has been the reality cycle after cycle, bitching about them obviously isn't going to do anything this time, nor is it going to do anything if Obergefell is about to go next. The straight middle-class white dudes who don't vote because they're subconsciously aware that none of this will affect their personal life is one thing, and arguably not even people worth pursuing in the first place. But Black and Brown folks who are disenchanted with the system because even their own candidates have failed them are still reachable, and thus they are worth our time. So that's what we should put our focus on.

And finally, I will say I am sorry for misjudging you. I took out my frustrations with this subject on you when it wasn't necessary.

[benjipwns]

She backed down:

I regularly protest police encroachment and gentrification projects. I've protested drone warfare. I've also been threatened with arrest, in and outside of organized demonstration. I am part of an active Black mutual aid organization now. And I've given way too much fucking money and phone banked for the fucking Democrats, even after I've determined that I just don't like them that much. So I've both been on the streets and I've helped on the campaign trail. All you have on me is years of experience because you're older, but you don't get to posture as if I haven't done shit either.

Regardless, my specific problem with you, and others who constantly complain about non-voters, is that you refuse to engage with subsects of the population who don't vote specifically because the system has failed them, not because they're just entitled brats who didn't get their unicorn candidate. We all that know that a subsect of the population just doesn't vote. So the two questions we're left with are "How do we engage at least some of these people so they are primed and willing to vote?" and "How do we make sure they vote for our people?" We don't get to answering these questions with bitching about the fact that these people don't vote, or putting everyone who has failed to vote for one reason or another in this singular box of assholes who are too privileged or evil to bother.

This attitude also doesn't address the fact that the backsliding has been happening despite increasing national and even mid-terms turnout, and despite the fact that Democrats more often than not win the national popular vote. Clearly, there are systemic issues that are here that are not perfectly ameliorated even if you were to get 100% turnout, because we can outvote the competition and still lose anyway. Ultimately, we need to reconfigure the messaging and smartly engage with different demographics of non-voters, because if 30% of the population just regularly does not vote, and that has been the reality cycle after cycle, bitching about them obviously isn't going to do anything this time, nor is it going to do anything if Obergefell is about to go next. The straight middle-class white dudes who don't vote because they're subconsciously aware that none of this will affect their personal life is one thing, and arguably not even people worth pursuing in the first place. But Black and Brown folks who are disenchanted with the system because even their own candidates have failed them are still reachable, and thus they are worth our time. So that's what we should put our focus on.

And finally, I will say I am sorry for misjudging you. I took out my frustrations with this subject on you when it wasn't necessary.

The problem is that the system has ALWAYS been failing everyone but cishet white straight men.

I have never been happy with a presidential candidate, never. Same for most other races. It's always voting for the least worst choice. I would like a far left president, the destruction of capitalism and policy that is anti-racist, queer and economically just. I think we should arrest and seize the assets of billionaires and actually fix the country. This is what I would like to have happen.

BUT we are in a shit ass situation in a shit ass country, that has a rotten, racist, colonialism and genocide as its DNA. People before us have had it WAY worse in many ways and when those people had choices to vote they did. So I cannot get down with people who won't do this one thing. I do understand the frustration and I do understand the obstacles that are there.

Honestly, I wish we could all just fucking rally and oust all of these motherfuckers and turn things around. Maybe things are going to get much worse before they're better but people who will take that on the chin the most are the people who are already most marginalized and I do not want to see that happen. So I'd rather try to turn the damn gas off on the pot we're being boiled in that to let it just cook us all.

Again, for me, it's not even about being happy with a candidate, at any level. 99% of people aren't going to agree with a candidate on every single issue.

It's that, what do you tell populations of people who historically have voted for the lesser of two evils, and then those candidates then go on to proceed to do things that the constituency either didn't vote for, or they go back on their word and don't do things the candidacy wanted them to, or they do things later on in their term that the constituency didn't foresee and vehemently disagree with regardless, and subsequently the affected populations just, over time, give up on just having their basic needs addressed? Seriously, what do you tell people who live in historically Democratic strongholds but yet have nonetheless still suffered backslide?

That they're assholes? That they hate minorities, or even themselves? That they don't care?

Many of these people still fucking care. We need our Party to care about them.

If that, ironically, means more tempered candidates who don't promise shit they can't deliver, and are honest about what they can do, then so be it. I would rather someone in Atlanta who tells me that they're going to do x, y, and z and they have the means to accomplish that, rather than promise me the world and fail (or fucking lie about it) along the way. If it means doing a Stacy Abrams and addressing the systemic gaps in voter registration in areas, then we should've already have been doing that, and the fact that it took us until 2020 to actually get this kind of grassroots action to get some national attention is appalling. If it means refocusing our strategy to addressing issues of gerrymandering and legal challenges to voting, then yes, let's do that too.

To me, this is an issue that can be addressed most appropriately if you start actually laying out the conditions for people who have been not only legally but socially disenfranchised from voting to start voting again.

I agree. Why does everything have to be so fucking polished with these people? Can I get some frustration at least, Jen? Is that possible? I don't care how that old guy Biden feels, he is one of many democrats I can't stand... with their constant need for decorum, how do YOU feel about this?

I understand the frustration here, but at the same time... Jen Psaki is the White House Press Secretary. It is literally antithetical to her job to spout her personal opinion or emotionalize her response. She's acting as the voice of the administration when she's at that podium.

Look to the statements that Biden and VP Harris have made personally for an indication of how the administration feels. Blaming Psaki here is almost like bitching at the register person that the price of a coffee is so expensive at a coffee shop. Like that's their job.

EDIT: Also, lets check unconscious biases here. It's noticeable to me in this post that Joe Biden is "Biden" but Jen Psaki is "Jen."

Mental Health Check.

I strongly advise everybody to take a break from the internet. Misery attracts misery, and doom-posting can distort your reality in nasty ways that leads to counter-productive thinking and wasted energy.

If you cancelled fun activities because of the Roe v. Wade news, now is the time to resume. If you have time to channel your energy into protests and activism, you will not only help the cause but also make friends and feel mentally energized. Even a little bit of meditation and exercise can do wonders.

I am of the outmost belief that the Republican party and Fascists in general are an absolute evil that must be eradicated, but that is no excuse to let their hate corrupt you. Let them burn in their own shit, but don't allow yourself to get drowned with them.

Regards, and try to find fun wherever you can.

And I don't really care about the 'big tent party' bullshit line because that's how you get pro-life democrats in the first place that tank policy. Because they don't want to take a hardline stance on something.

Fucking thank you.

[Taco Bell Tower]

Weak!

[benjipwns]

Trumpers aren't even really in this discussion. Conservatives get votes because a contingent of our country exists specifically to hurt vulnerable people, damn the consequences to themselves.

We're talking about the class of "non-voters" here, whose reasons for not voting range anywhere from legitimately not caring about the consequences of elections, to being arbitrarily rendered ineligible either for life or any given cycles, to being barred from voting due to ridiculous ID laws, to being trapped in sociopolitical disenfranchisement that makes it excessively difficult to vote, to having given upon on political representation because, historically, the country has never actually addressed their concerns, to disability, and so on and so forth. There's many different types of non-voters.

What I'm trying to communicate is that they're not all unsalvageable assholes who don't care about minorities. And that the moment we realize this, the moment we can start actually figuring out ways to make some of these people, many of whom invariably agree with us, feel like a valid part of the political process again.

And this is why endorsing a mass line far to the left of the country and expelling any party members who deviate on any single issue should be our primary task! To encourage the non-voters to vote Democratic!

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/politico-supreme-court-has-voted-to-overturn-abortion-rights-draft-opinion-shows.579329/page-68#post-86107400

Part of the problem with engaging with people that have this view that fetuses are babies and therefore abortion is baby murder is that our language defaults to that as well. We have "baby showers" for fetuses. Pregnant people will refer to their fetus as a baby (I have used the term fetus instead of baby and get really weird looks for it).

[Uncle]

"oh my goodness, Sharon you're having a fetus!!  So excited for you!  I can't wait until your cervix dilates enough to bring it into the world!"

[benjipwns]

Please obsessively pro-choice people, stop being weirdly enthusiastic about abortion and trying to use language in hopes you can trick people out of a staunchly moral position that they're thankfully very moderate about. (There are lots of anti-abortion people who are pro-choice. There are many pro-choice people who don't consider it the most important issue on the Earth.) It doesn't make us sound more reasonable, it makes Alito sound more reasonable.

[benjipwns]

Also, I would expect a "fetus shower" to be very literal.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/politico-supreme-court-has-voted-to-overturn-abortion-rights-draft-opinion-shows.579329/page-71#post-86116322

Kinds annoying how some parts of America like to take credit for being the pioneers of being progressive in terms of LGBT acceptance, feminism and racial justice, despite the so called progress being mostly recent wherein most of America have been about bigotry and spreading bigotry all over the world, and despite you know, the still existing bigotry actively happening.
Double annoying when America looks down upon the third world countries it exploits for being "regressive".

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/politico-supreme-court-has-voted-to-overturn-abortion-rights-draft-opinion-shows.579329/page-71#post-86116322

Kinds annoying how some parts of America like to take credit for being the pioneers of being progressive in terms of LGBT acceptance, feminism and racial justice, despite the so called progress being mostly recent wherein most of America have been about bigotry and spreading bigotry all over the world, and despite you know, the still existing bigotry actively happening.
Double annoying when America looks down upon the third world countries it exploits for being "regressive".

Sure, you need to get the reps in. But radical Black leftists, people like me, don't typically get nominated, either because they are doing work on the ground which is valuable, they get murdered/assassinated if they get big/threatening enough, they get in and get irrevocably corrupted by corporate politics or just capitalism in general, or establishment Democrats deliberately try to railroad their campaigns. This is why even in Democratic strongholds, racism hasn't been meaningfully addressed. So yeah, if you can get a Malcolm X to the President's seat, I'm not going to stop you. Hell, I'd vote for that person with actual gusto. I'm just not going to hold my breath that it'll happen in my lifetime, not after you all have had 400 years to do better.

We're going to run out of people with all these impossible standards before they're acceptable.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/warren-buffett-has-boosted-berkshire-hathaways-stake-in-activision-blizzard-to-9-5-%E2%80%94-a-position-worth-nearly-6-billion.578663/page-3#post-85936793

User Banned (2 Months): Accusations of Journalistic Bias; Platform Warring; Long History of the Same

Exactly why I discourage headlines like the one we saw. So silly. This is clearly a strong signal this deal will pass. Too many opinion columnist dressed as journalist trying to force a narrative

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/politico-supreme-court-has-voted-to-overturn-abortion-rights-draft-opinion-shows.579329/page-71#post-86117645

I mean he identifies as a socialist so...

you cant be a socialist and support a fascist country like Israel

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/politico-madison-cawthorn-photos-reveal-him-wearing-women’s-lingerie-in-public-setting.575950/page-8#post-86114321

Royalard having a normal one as the kids say:

The impression I get from Cawthorne is that, in his real life, he's a generally sex positive and gender neutral person (in addition to being an asshole, if this video is indeed a prank).

So that he's engaged in a politics that encourages monstrous beliefs and the persecution of other people just like him, is both sad AND unforgiveable.

Not "forgetting"...I never knew!

Shiiiiet.

I just saw the video and said, "...I have friends who are into that type of freaky shit. I'll be in my seperate hotel room, preferably on another floor, watching Netflix and eating pizza."

I don't follow Republicans like this.

what gives you that impression?

Hold the phone y'all!

I just made a post. It feels like y'all are digging for some nefarious intent here.

Slay this white bigot. I was just commenting on what I saw.

This is weird.

Why is this weird?

It seems pretty accurate to me.

The evidence is in that Cawthrone lives a life incompatible with the politics he preaches.

i don't want to pile on but "prank" is not a good way of describing "naked guy jumping on someone and humping their head repeatedly"

One, I did not refer to this as a prank. I said if. I AM sex positive, so I did want to leave room for the possibility that this was consensual and that we net sleuths who don't know these people might be wrong. But I've been very intentional with my language that if this were nonconsensual then it's not acceptable. I literally say that in multiple posts. So please miss me with this narrative.

I just think it's weird to highlight me, while being intentional with my language, in the same thread where people are sharing dog reenactments.

I would like to echo this sentiment, some of the posts in this thread are really uncomfortable and depressing.

Right?

DOG REENACTMENTS

But my post is the problem.

Chile...go somewhere.

imo the dog video is probably less bad than the actual revenge porn video (that is also a video of someone being sexually assaulted) that's for whatever reason still in this thread, but neither should have been posted. imo.

Great! And I agree!

I also didn't post either.

i didn't say you did??

You're not slick.

Breaking news.

i genuinely do not know what you're talking about here.

Which just reinforces why you shouldn't have said anything. There's power in silence.

[benjipwns]

Royalan got a little excited at the thought of gay solidarity with a "bad boy" until somebody exposed their fatphobia by not being slick.

[HardcoreRetro]

Also, I would expect a "fetus shower" to be very literal.

[Snoopycat_]

I'm hoping the writers pivot Royalan into a street fighting radical. Out there taking it to the pigs while giving back to the cuhmmunitteee. They've tried it with Nep a couple of times but it's not cannon, and comes off as bad fan fiction

[jorma]

I'm hoping the writers pivot Royalan into a street fighting radical. Out there taking it to the pigs while giving back to the cuhmmunitteee. They've tried it with Nep a couple of times but it's not cannon, and comes off as bad fan fiction

If nep nep is larping as lucio in the fight for the streets, then i figure royalan would be roadhog, giving us some exciting pig on pig rioting.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/where-do-you-go-to-potentially-hit-it-off-with-the-opposite-sex-other-than-bars-clubs-no-apps-social-media-suggestions-please.576412/#post-85588957

I finally remembered to post this bit of Tubyalan lore:

The guy I'm currently seeing I met through Instagram. I model, he's a photographer. Sure it was an app, but we connected primarily through a shared interest, and the disconnected nature of social media insured that by the time we actually met, we'd already had dozens of interactions.

He was a plus-sized model this whole time 

[Coax]

I haven't really paid much attention but is the fat Royalan thing a running gag btw? As they didn't look overweight in any of real pic avatars I saw of them years ago.

[Snoopycat_]

If nep nep is larping as lucio in the fight for the streets, then i figure royalan would be roadhog, giving us some exciting pig on pig rioting.

It would be brilliant if Slayven accidentally became a proud boy because he felt left out of Royalan and Nep’s street fighting talk

[Hap Shaughnessy]

I haven't really paid much attention but is the fat Royalan thing a running gag btw? As they didn't look overweight in any of real pic avatars I saw of them years ago.

Just a running gag.


https://www.resetera.com/threads/canada-geese-causing-problems-for-cities-as-experts-struggle-to-reduce-populations.580004/page-3#post-86128880

People fear these things? They're so weak. Just punch them in the face and they flee so fast.

Dude, have you seen their teeth. Like a fucking velociraptor on steroids. Not worth the crippling debt and bite marks for screwing with one.

 

[Uncle]

fatness is a state of mind, but unfortunately in royalan's case it's also a state of gut

[Cauliflower Of Love]

why does that person care about Jen MSNBC's opinion from the press room?

[Mostima]

Moderating a video game forum is enough to make you fat-adjacent.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/politico-supreme-court-has-voted-to-overturn-abortion-rights-draft-opinion-shows.579329/page-68#post-86107400

Part of the problem with engaging with people that have this view that fetuses are babies and therefore abortion is baby murder is that our language defaults to that as well. We have "baby showers" for fetuses. Pregnant people will refer to their fetus as a baby (I have used the term fetus instead of baby and get really weird looks for it).

That's why I totally side eye anyone who is sad about a miscarriage

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/we-are-at-the-point-where-we-get-too-much-mcu-disney-should-balance-that-shit-out.579911/

Disney really scheduled the last episode of Moon Knight 24 hours away from a premiere of a major MCU movie in most markets,shit like that leads to oversaturation and word of mouth gettin lost between projects,they literally gettin their projects overlap.

[Kurt Russell]

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1522219252819775488

 

[Pissy F Benny]

Stay safe everyone

[Cauliflower Of Love]

oof

[HaughtyFrank]

RE missing out on all the Dave Chapelle details



https://breaking911.com/lapd-says-man-who-tackled-dave-chappelle-on-stage-pulled-replica-gun-on-the-comedian/

Apparently the guy didn't have a gun, but a fake gun with a knife attached 

[ShutUp]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/we-are-at-the-point-where-we-get-too-much-mcu-disney-should-balance-that-shit-out.579911/

Disney really scheduled the last episode of Moon Knight 24 hours away from a premiere of a major MCU movie in most markets,shit like that leads to oversaturation and word of mouth gettin lost between projects,they literally gettin their projects overlap.

See this kind of talk so often now. Like people sit there and discuss shows or movies for hours or days on end and not just “oh man did you see this weeks episode?” and like five minutes, if even, of discussion before you move on. Makes the “weekly episodes work so people have seven whole days to talk about this one 40 minute episode” reasoning hilarious. Even if I have the service a show is on, I’ll usually wait for the whole season to be up or at least multiple episodes so I can binge those few.

[Uncle]

RE missing out on all the Dave Chapelle details



https://breaking911.com/lapd-says-man-who-tackled-dave-chappelle-on-stage-pulled-replica-gun-on-the-comedian/

Apparently the guy didn't have a gun, but a fake gun with a knife attached 

he didn't remember the basics of CQC

[Cauliflower Of Love]

RE missing out on all the Dave Chapelle details



https://breaking911.com/lapd-says-man-who-tackled-dave-chappelle-on-stage-pulled-replica-gun-on-the-comedian/

Apparently the guy didn't have a gun, but a fake gun with a knife attached 

I like how Chappelle was starting to chase that guy back stage and had to pull back.

[headwalk]

I love how "terminally-online" suddenly became the insult that all the terminally-online people use. I get it, I'm terminally-online but I'm not terminally-online you know. But the only people I ever see using it are the people who you can't distinguish this for. One way to tell? They all started calling other people "terminally-online" suddenly.

go touch grass.

[VomKriege]

RE missing out on all the Dave Chapelle details



https://breaking911.com/lapd-says-man-who-tackled-dave-chappelle-on-stage-pulled-replica-gun-on-the-comedian/

Apparently the guy didn't have a gun, but a fake gun with a knife attached 

The basics of CQC.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/florida-man-crashes-700k-supercar-because-he-didnt-know-how-to-drive-manual.580142/#post-86130335

a fresh detailing

what

He probably Armor Alled the steering wheel and/or the pedals.


https://www.resetera.com/threads/florida-man-crashes-700k-supercar-because-he-didnt-know-how-to-drive-manual.580142/page-2#post-86133140

If I spend that much on a car I better damn well not have to shift it myself

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Sure, you need to get the reps in. But radical Black leftists, people like me, don't typically get nominated, either because they are doing work on the ground which is valuable, they get murdered/assassinated if they get big/threatening enough, they get in and get irrevocably corrupted by corporate politics or just capitalism in general, or establishment Democrats deliberately try to railroad their campaigns. This is why even in Democratic strongholds, racism hasn't been meaningfully addressed. So yeah, if you can get a Malcolm X to the President's seat, I'm not going to stop you. Hell, I'd vote for that person with actual gusto. I'm just not going to hold my breath that it'll happen in my lifetime, not after you all have had 400 years to do better.

Hmmm, you know, I just can't quite remember which of the mods it was that immediately started a gofundme when it turned out cerium got rich off selling the forum to try and cash in for themselves

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Which just reinforces why you shouldn't have said anything. There's power in silence.

Just not quite as much power as being able to silence anyone who disagrees with you, on any issue, at a moments notice.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-friend-claims-his-friends-mom-was-a-huge-fan-of-the-morbius-comics-which-is-why-he-saw-the-movie.580229/

When Morbius came out, the first thing everyone thought was "Who the hell wants to see a Morbius movie?" as Morbius is like a C-lister and I can't name any fans of him and all, so Morbius suffered much ridicule. However, when I was talking about Morius to friends, one of them claimed his friends mom loves vampire stuff a lot and was a fan of the Morbius comics and thus, was actually excited to see the film and that is how he ended up seeing it.
Like I don't believe this a real thing and all, seeing as its Morbius but maybe we're the crazy ones

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/johnny-depp-v-amber-heards-defamation-trial-is-underway.572257/page-34#post-86045345

Yes, my screenshotting, the real thing you need to be concerned about in this thread.

User Banned (Duration Pending Review): Antagonizing Fellow Member; Modwhining over a Series of Posts; Hoistory of Similar Behaviour