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[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/era-look-at-this-hospital-bill-aka-why-you-should-never-move-to-the-states.613440/#post-90743973

It's crazy what a basic medicaid plan covers. I work full time, my wife is a travel agent, needless to say her work has been dry. We qualified for it, so we went with it. She ended up getting a Giant Cell Tumor at her left wrist. It broke through her bone and shattered her wrist. It took a year to calcify, countless trips to University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore and then a surgery to resect the bone, place an antibiotic spacer, take a piece of her fibula, graft it to her radial ulna and fuse her wrist. We saw the bills, we never paid a dime. The downside is that I'm terrified as long as republicans are in office trying to dismantle it.

YUP.

I had shit insurance at Gamestop and couldn't cover my wife without pretty much all my paycheck going into "the insurance plan" so my wife qualified for medicaid. Our first child was fully paid for thankfully. By the time our second came around, I had gotten a better job, but I hadn't swapped my wife over to a much better insurance plan. Thankfully she was able to keep hold of medicaid to get our 2nd childbirth fully paid for.

I wish I could have kept it, but now that my current job "offers family insurance" proper unlike Gamestop, I had to go ahead and moved them.

God, I miss medicaid.

Are these dudes bragging about making less than $25,000 a year?

[benjipwns]

I’m planning to emigrate, not because I “hate America” (I mean, I do, but that’s beside the point) but because I’m not sure I can afford to be an American as I grow older. Emigrating has costs too, of course. It’s never as easy as the “I’ll just move to Canada!” people think it is. But with America, it’s almost like I feel like I won’t have a choice, like I’m being forced out: either move away or face potential financial ruin as you grow older. Oh, and if you stay here you’ll lose some more of your rights, too.

I want to stay. I want to like my country. But I don’t think my country seems to value me back.

[benjipwns]

The last time I went to the ER, I was having a panic attack but didn't know. It cost me $1200 bucks to see a PA that said "Yeah, that's a panic attack." So this bill isn't all that bad.

I also got a bill for someone who got medevac'd. It was something like $25,000. I had to fight with the hospital until they realized the person in question, sadly, passed away.

Healthcare in the US sucks.

[cosmicblizzard]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/will-smith-breaks-silence-%E2%80%9Cdeeply-remorseful%E2%80%9D-for-oscar-slap.613449/page-4#post-90751506

Words can have indirect consequences, but that's a larger discussion. Words have no power on their own, it's all in how they are received and processed. Physically assaulting someone is always a direct act of violence. This shouldn't be controversial. Sad it has to be said.

Curious what your take is on Alex Jones and the effect his words had on the parents of the kids murdered at Sandy Hook. Words have a fuckton of power.

Damn, comparing Rock's joke to Sandy Hook. Now I've seen it get low.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/will-smith-breaks-silence-%E2%80%9Cdeeply-remorseful%E2%80%9D-for-oscar-slap.613449/page-4#post-90751734

Either words have power or they don't.

This should be a simple principle to be consistent with.

Chris Rock's joke was Black people's Sandy Hook?

That Sandy Hook comparison would net an "Inflammatory comparison" ban in literally any other context, and really it should in this context as well, but Nepenthe needs to prove a shoddy point that badly that she'll compare the mass propagation of a horrific conspiracy theory, harming and harassing the family of dead kids to a powerful rich comedian making a one sentence joke about a powerful rich woman married to an even more powerful rich man.

Great site you got there.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Sandy Hook was the 9/11 of Will Smith's hitler slap on chris rock.

[BisMarckie]

I just like to go to the ER to hang out with the staff there because I am good for it.

[Propagandhim]

If you medevac a dead person, you dont have to pay Blockbusters late fees.

[benjipwns]

Sandy Hook was the 9/11 of Will Smith's hitler slap on chris rock.

Oh, so standing up for a Black woman being assaulted by a white supremacist stalker is the equivalent of Hitler now?

[BisMarckie]

If you medevac a dead person, you dont have to pay Blockbusters late fees.

I wish we could throw dead people in jail, you know like Ruth Bader Ginsburg for holding onto her seat too long.

[benjipwns]

I wish we could throw dead people in jail, you know like Ruth Bader Ginsburg for holding onto her seat too long.

Who says we can't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod

 

[ShutUp]

Big trend in here of pivoting to making this pretty specifically about a workplace violation the last couple pages lol

Was the event that it took place at not considered a work event all of a sudden? An actual terrible attempt to pivot would be if you tried to equate this to two random guys getting into a fight at a bar. Like the person I’m quoting did a few pages before this.

And they keep going on about these hypothetical crackas pearl clutching but have yet to provide any examples. Just more imagined boogeymen.

[Rman]

i still don't get how these idiots equate a super tame joke with "violence" justifying an actually violent response. plus gi jane was a badass.  still not getting how that was a poor joke.

looks like the tide has shifted from the original threads where even criticizing Will got you a banning.  guess Nep was talked to.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

i still don't get how these idiots equate a super tame joke with "violence" justifying an actually violent response. plus gi jane was a badass.  still not getting how that was a poor joke.

looks like the tide has shifted from the original threads where even criticizing Will got you a banning.  guess Nep was talked to.

even by era standards it would be pretty fucking special to ban people for saying someone did something wrong in the thread about them apologising for doing something wrong

[Hap Shaughnessy]

looks like the tide has shifted from the original threads where even criticizing Will got you a banning.  guess Nep was talked to.

White supremacy at work.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Sandy Hook was the 9/11 of Will Smith's hitler slap on chris rock.

Oh, so standing up for a Black woman being assaulted by a white supremacist stalker is the equivalent of Hitler now?

did you just call chris rock a white supremacist?

[Rman]

i still don't get how these idiots equate a super tame joke with "violence" justifying an actually violent response. plus gi jane was a badass.  still not getting how that was a poor joke.

looks like the tide has shifted from the original threads where even criticizing Will got you a banning.  guess Nep was talked to.

even by era standards it would be pretty fucking special to ban people for saying someone did something wrong in the thread about them apologising for doing something wrong

that literally happened when this first went down. will apologized via social media text post first.  the clowns at era said he shouldn’t had too or that rock needed to as well.

[benjipwns]

Sandy Hook was the 9/11 of Will Smith's hitler slap on chris rock.

Oh, so standing up for a Black woman being assaulted by a white supremacist stalker is the equivalent of Hitler now?

did you just call chris rock a white supremacist?

Are you saying you're ignorant of the fact, as was pointed out back when Will stood up to his anti-Black violence against a Black woman, that Chris Rock is most popular with white supremacists and other chuds?

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Sandy Hook was the 9/11 of Will Smith's hitler slap on chris rock.

Oh, so standing up for a Black woman being assaulted by a white supremacist stalker is the equivalent of Hitler now?

did you just call chris rock a white supremacist?

Are you saying you're ignorant of the fact, as was pointed out back when Will stood up to his anti-Black violence against a Black woman, that Chris Rock is most popular with white supremacists and other chuds?

oh so now I'M the ignorant one?

say what you really want to say, say it from your chest

[Pissy F Benny]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/will-smith-breaks-silence-%E2%80%9Cdeeply-remorseful%E2%80%9D-for-oscar-slap.613449/page-8#post-90762372

Chris Rock will continue to joke about this forever, which sucks for Will.

 

Of the things people make fun of will smith for, I'd hope this isn't the one that stings the most

Then again he's been in Hollywood for over 30 years and seems to be batshit insane these days so maybe it does

[Propagandhim]

Oh, so now he's insane?  Fighting potential-white violence is now insane.  Got it.   I love how The Fresh Prince of Sandy Hook gets in one little fight and everyone gets scared, and now they're all moving with their aunties and uncles to gentrify a neighborhood where they don't contribute to the local economy.   It's always the same with you people.

[benjipwns]

Oh, so now he's insane?  Fighting potential-white violence is now insane.  Got it.   I love how The Fresh Prince of Sandy Hook gets in one little fight and everyone gets scared, and now they're all moving with their aunties and uncles to gentrify a neighborhood where they don't contribute to the local economy.   It's always the same with you people.

Will and Jada run in Tom Cruise's cult and the whites don't care, then Will stands up to a violence by a white supremacist against Jada and the whites are in a panic making YouTubes and writing NYTimes columns about how we need slavery to put "them" back in their place rather than minding their own white people business. Then they wonder why we ask people who call themselves allies to speak out.

[Potato]

i still don't get how these idiots equate a super tame joke with "violence" justifying an actually violent response. plus gi jane was a badass.  still not getting how that was a poor joke.

looks like the tide has shifted from the original threads where even criticizing Will got you a banning.  guess Nep was talked to.

The bigger mystery is how the whole thing was white people's fault.

 

[Taco Bell Tower]

I’m planning to emigrate, not because I “hate America” (I mean, I do, but that’s beside the point) but because I’m not sure I can afford to be an American as I grow older. Emigrating has costs too, of course. It’s never as easy as the “I’ll just move to Canada!” people think it is. But with America, it’s almost like I feel like I won’t have a choice, like I’m being forced out: either move away or face potential financial ruin as you grow older. Oh, and if you stay here you’ll lose some more of your rights, too.

I want to stay. I want to like my country. But I don’t think my country seems to value me back.

[Propagandhim]

I don't want to contribute to this trauma porn culture, god knows trauma is the only way they know how to tell our story and sell our pain,  but I will literally kill myself with a razor and my neckblood will be on your hands if you don't behave like allies and let Will Smith hit Chris Rock for making white supremacy out of ridley scott movie jokes.  Again, not super into the trauma thing, but *gesticulates a knife going across own neck*  *makes croaking noise*  *sticks tongue out like a dead person*

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rumors-of-gta6s-female-protagonist-has-brought-shitty-gamer-takes-twitter-account-out-of-retirement.613668/#post-90770550

Oh, they never left, friend. They've been there the whole time. Waiting.

He's right, wait til players dress the women protagonists all scandalous.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rumors-of-gta6s-female-protagonist-has-brought-shitty-gamer-takes-twitter-account-out-of-retirement.613668/#post-90770964
https://twitter.com/SoulUnison/status/1552502328665681920
Shamelessly promoting their Twitter 

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/will-smith-breaks-silence-“deeply-remorseful”-for-oscar-slap.613449/page-10#post-90771978

It's threads like this why I get r/blackpeopleTwitter made a country club only threads a thing. Because damn, a lot of my fellow whites, and anyone not black honestly, needs to shut the fuck up about this because they have no idea what they're talking about.

Why are you on r/blackpeopleTwitter in the first place? 

[Taco Bell Tower]

Enzom's alt!?

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rumors-of-gta6s-female-protagonist-has-brought-shitty-gamer-takes-twitter-account-out-of-retirement.613668/#post-90770964
https://twitter.com/SoulUnison/status/1552502328665681920
Shamelessly promoting their Twitter 

Why is he speaking over a woman of color?

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-remains-of-edith-finch-has-a-free-upgrade-from-ps4-to-ps5-but-not-for-the-ps-version-again.613320/#post-90764925

Still no reaction yet. Contacted the publisher on twitter, and I am sure they saw this thread too but sadly neither this game is FF7 nor this will make many react so they feel the pressure to solve this as quickly as FF7 recently.

But they're crying about not getting the free upgrade

[Taco Bell Tower]

can someone ask why i'm banned

https://www.resetera.com/threads/should-a-modern-tv-be-able-to-withstand-any-kind-of-puncture-to-its-screen-twitter.613416/#post-90739776

Oh man, I’m getting blamespace vibes here…

[Phoenix Dark]

The idea that white people shouldn't talk about Will Smith/Chris Rock because reasons cracks me up. A dude smacking another dude for talking about his wife isn't a race issue. I guarantee no normal black person said that in real life.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I love you benji

[Pissy F Benny]

The idea that white people shouldn't talk about Will Smith/Chris Rock because reasons cracks me up. A dude smacking another dude for talking about his wife isn't a race issue. I guarantee no normal black person said that in real life.
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Ree (and plenty of other dullards online tbf) can take even the most amusing situation and turn it into tedious culture warz grandstanding.

The leaps in logic that lead to the conclusion that this is white people's fault tho is

And somehow coming to the conclusion that Chris Rock is infact the uncle tom in this quarrell with fuckin Will Smith

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/when-characters-kiss-in-animated-shows%E2%80%A6-nsfw-maybe.613677/

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[Polident Hive]

Seeing videos of the slap in circulation again, really, Will Smith is a star. That form. That swagger. That showmanship. Channeling Denzel in American Gangster.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Seeing videos of the slap in circulation again, really, Will Smith is a star. That form. That swagger. That showmanship. Channeling Denzel in American Gangster.

This is pretty accurate because frank turnt bitch, and Bumpy would have admonished him.

[benjipwns]

I love you benji

GGGGGAAAAAAYYYYYY

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[Phoenix Dark]

The idea that white people shouldn't talk about Will Smith/Chris Rock because reasons cracks me up. A dude smacking another dude for talking about his wife isn't a race issue. I guarantee no normal black person said that in real life.
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Ree (and plenty of other dullards online tbf) can take even the most amusing situation and turn it into tedious culture warz grandstanding.

The leaps in logic that lead to the conclusion that this is white people's fault tho is

And somehow coming to the conclusion that Chris Rock is infact the uncle tom in this quarrell with fuckin Will Smith

Consequences of viewing everything through a prism of victimhood, and the realization that playing the victim puts you on a pedestal for certain types of white people to give you attention. The irony of demanding white people be quiet is that most of this stuff is packaged for white consumption. And so much black media we've seen over the last 5 plus years has been a direct result of this. From the black trauma porn that began dominating black film/television (Lovecraft Country, Them, P-Valley's current season, etc) to the BLM organization (NOT the slogan), where white liberals could absolve their sins by putting $10 in the coffers.

The normal black response to the Will/Chris shit was on display in barbershops, restaurants, living rooms, etc across the nation. And it basically boiled down to shit like "don't talk about a man's wife" or "see what happens when you marry the wrong woman" or "he embarrassed himself in front of the nation" or whatever else. Trust me I've heard this shit argued over nearly every time I've gone to the barbershop since it happened. No one is saying

"comrades, all I know is white people are not qualified to discuss this topic amirite...ACAB btw"



get the fuck outtahere

[Boredfrom]

Will Smirh ruined comedy and comedians able to get work. Every night, all comedians are physically attacked and brutalized. He should be paying damages to Comedians unable to work safely, like Patton Oswalt.

You mean, the dude that got shit on twitter because his perceived double faced comments?

[Cauliflower Of Love]

era trolls are running out of people to trolls and it's like just trolls trolling



the bire has some competition finally.

[Tasty]

Will Smirh ruined comedy and comedians able to get work. Every night, all comedians are physically attacked and brutalized. He should be paying damages to Comedians unable to work safely, like Patton Oswalt.

You mean, the dude that got shit on twitter because his perceived double faced comments?

Damn Will Smirh, damn him to hell.

[Boredfrom]

Yes, Will Smith isn’t killing comedy, but sure as hell he isn’t helping when there is a bunch of self righteous influencers and Gawker alumni willing to write about how comedy is cancer.

[ShutUp]

Up to 14 pages in that apology thread. But it’s the whites out there who are really the ones pearl clutching over this.

[BikeJesus]

I love these Will Smith Chris Rock threads because its makes it VERY FUCKING EASY to spot who here on ERA has lived a sheltered and privileged life.

vIoLeNcE iS nEvEr tHe AnSwEr!!!!

My God some of you are fucking naïve.

Yep, it‘s the people with revenge fantasies based on wrestling and comic books.

I was going to post that one earlier. 27,000 posts and calling other people sheltered.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/when-characters-kiss-in-animated-shows%E2%80%A6-nsfw-maybe.613677/

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Locked, especially the underage girls getting sexual gifs

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/will-smith-breaks-silence-%E2%80%9Cdeeply-remorseful%E2%80%9D-for-oscar-slap.613449/page-14#post-90782181

Every woman I know has said on social media that they want a partner who will stand up for them like Will Smith did

Morrigan

Can I speak as a woman and say I sure as shit wouldn't want such a partner or do I count less than the women you decide to use for your argument?

[VomKriege]

Heh that Marvel photography & grading thread at least get into a deeper pool of criticism. There's certainly a veneer of smugness to some of the arguments though.

We should, but before we do all that I believe that a different first step is necessary. We all need to agree that opinions on this topic have a degree of subjectivity and that, since this a complex issue with so many different parameters, opinions that comment on it in reductive and dismissive manner ( i.e. everything is perfect, everything is shit) are not useful for a productive discussion. In one word, we need nuance.

Not every person has to write a dissertation for every movie.

Haven't seen the videos in question but some seem to report the argument is that somehow it's "scientifically impossible" to grade those movies less neutral... Which is a little if so but there's a thin line from that or just explaining it's difficult as a colour composition challenge which I would be perfectly fine with.

[Sman]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/when-characters-kiss-in-animated-shows%E2%80%A6-nsfw-maybe.613677/

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I think I saw Ramna kiss Akane in Ramna 1/2.

 

I think Ramna was in girl form.

 

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/when-characters-kiss-in-animated-shows%E2%80%A6-nsfw-maybe.613677/

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Locked, especially the underage girls getting sexual gifs

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[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/will-smith-breaks-silence-%E2%80%9Cdeeply-remorseful%E2%80%9D-for-oscar-slap.613449/page-14#post-90782181

Morrigan

Can I speak as a woman and say I sure as shit wouldn't want such a partner or do I count less than the women you decide to use for your argument?

Silence, cracker.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/will-smith-breaks-silence-%E2%80%9Cdeeply-remorseful%E2%80%9D-for-oscar-slap.613449/page-15#post-90786873

I'd really to hear what some of you prices of shit in this thread would dare to say to my epileptic wife. Got any you wanna go for while you've got the opportunity? Words just words bro, sure.

I literally managed to get a full night's sleep and in that time still nobody still defending Chris has actually come to the conclusion that an apology to her might be in order and instead ran circles to avoid it

I bet this whole situation has left your wife literally shaking. 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/will-smith-breaks-silence-%E2%80%9Cdeeply-remorseful%E2%80%9D-for-oscar-slap.613449/page-16#post-90788028

Matt
Ignore me. It's 7am here, I have had a few drinks, and I completely misunderstood everything you said. I need to go to bed.

EDIT: You beat me. I deleted my post. I'm sorry for my stupidity here. That is 100% my own idiocy here.

Spent his Friday night drinking alone and posting on Era?

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/will-smith-breaks-silence-%E2%80%9Cdeeply-remorseful%E2%80%9D-for-oscar-slap.613449/page-15#post-90785016

Because some users here are living in the real world, and they know how things goes. If i talk shit about the wife of someone, i expect some punches to be thrown.

That situation is pretty simple. You can say that Will went to far, but you can also understand that Chris had it coming. Has nothing to do with being liberal & left leaning. Boundaries exists for a reason.

They keep forgetting Will was laughing at the joke.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

It has quite a lot to do with 'left leaning' to be honest - responding to words with violence ultimately makes the case that authority is only derived from violence, which for a forum obsessed with fascism hiding under the bed everywhere they look, is pretty fucking fash-lite as a belief.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

If you don't know about Dave Chappelle's attacks on trans people then look them up if you want to understand the context behind the sentiment. It's not a difficult one to search for and he hasn't been subtle about it. It would (genuinely) be faster than me writing it all out.

The ignorance is in trying to draw the hard line between the two, especially with something as vague as jokes made in poor taste. Comedy has a history of running cover for bigotry and hate speech, not least with regard to transphobia. Which is part of why people like Dave Chappelle, Ricky Gervais and Bill Burr all manage to keep their specials and stand-ups going despite using them as a platform to demean trans people for years. It's not hate you see, it's just a joke. It might be in poor taste but... He doesn't really dislike trans people he's just... and so on and so forth.

No it doesn't, you fucking moron.
Comedy can - AND SHOULD - be irreverent, which can - AND SHOULD - include that commentary being transgressive or dealing with taboo subjects, especially when those taboos are pretty fucking arbitrary. Good comedy to some extent relies on novelty or surprise, and great comedy can be challenging in that it makes you think for yourself about things, by recontextualising societal norms or expectations through humour.

Its why you fucking dipshits should actually watch the routines you complain about as they are performed, not in 'Buzzfeeds top 10 things I was offended by" list format


e:
Hate speech is trying to persuade someone to hate something.
Comedy is trying to make someone see something funny in something.

If you can't tell the difference check your fucking ego.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/will-smith-breaks-silence-%E2%80%9Cdeeply-remorseful%E2%80%9D-for-oscar-slap.613449/page-14#post-90782181

Every woman I know has said on social media that they want a partner who will stand up for them like Will Smith did

  What someone's wife thinks.

  What random women on social media think.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/will-smith-breaks-silence-%E2%80%9Cdeeply-remorseful%E2%80%9D-for-oscar-slap.613449/page-16#post-90789624

Era is basically the only place I see people defending Will, and you know how detached Era is from the real world despite them telling you to live in the real world.

Carltonina Banks the Black Panther furry know as Nepenthe for example.
 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Didn't Jada put out an Instagram statement saying ,"y'all deal with this"

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-think-stray-would-have-been-that-popular-if-instead-of-a-cat-it-would-be-a-generic-robot.613095/page-6#post-90730311

User Banned (2 Weeks): Sexist Rhetoric; History of Inflammatory Generalization

No chance. It's hugely popular among women strictly because of the kitty cuteness. Take that away and it really is just a generic exploration (walking simulator) game.