Other Forums Containment Thread

[HaughtyFrank]

Let’s look at Dave Chapelle threads for instance. Where rightfully, he is called out for using his words to put down trans people. If he got the shit slapped outta him we’d be getting that oh well gif for 10 pages.

Black women don’t get that same protection

Dave Chappelle got outright tackled on stage.

Era didn't give a shit.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/dave-chappelle-attacked-on-stage-in-la.579725/

Era not giving a shit that Chapelle got attacked with a knife is not the win she thinks it is and more of an example of how deranged the place has become. Also you had to lock the thread because babies were hammering the report button whenever someone said that violence might be a step too far

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

This is basically just gentrifiction, or as I'm starting to call it a "kinder occupation," but with the added bonus that a ton of the people doing it don't even have any permanent residency status or contribute to the economic sectors that help the locals.

[ShutUp]

Two big celebrities in film's biggest night.

It's not that hard. No one cares about bar fights with randos people keep bringing up as poor comparisons.

Follow that up with the celebrity reaction (they were there) Rock's family/friends, public reaction/memes and Academy's punishment and you have a mega story.

 

Probably be banned for pointing out the dumbass comparison attempts

It's only a poor comparison cause y'all put these people on a pedestal for being public figures. The Grammys themselves are a farce where folks mostly pay out money and campaign the Academy to get those nods. Elitist af on a fundamental level and I'm not gonna expect a man to be superhuman at all times because y'all need him to be

It’s a poor comparison because it happened IN FRONT OF A WORLDWIDE AUDIENCE and that’s somehow the viewers fault? Who “needed” him to be superhuman? Was the world demanding that happen the moment the words left Chris Rock’s mouth? Many thought the whole thing was fake!

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/will-smith-breaks-silence-%E2%80%9Cdeeply-remorseful%E2%80%9D-for-oscar-slap.613449/page-3#post-90749892

I'm with Tony Rock on this one. Years of being runner up to the fucking ghost of tupac in your own home must be maddening.

[Propagandhim]

Speaking of Tupac...Tupac went to jail for brutally raping a woman and is still a beloved figure in culture. Exactly like Mike Tyson.  But then again, Mel Gibson was allowed to be in a movie about a talking beaver puppet.

[benjipwns]

It's only a poor comparison cause y'all put these people on a pedestal for being public figures. The Grammys themselves are a farce where folks mostly pay out money and campaign the Academy to get those nods. Elitist af on a fundamental level and I'm not gonna expect a man to be superhuman at all times because y'all need him to be

The Grammys may be a farce but they aren't awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences?

[benjipwns]

The only reason this is still a thing is because whites got terrified that one of the few niccas they actually felt safe around got too violent for them.

Fucking this. If they lose faith in Morgan Freeman or Denzel they might writing start NY Times articles about how bringing slavery back may be a good thing.

God, I hate white people. Why are white people all insane like this?

[ShutUp]

Oh yeah not toxic for a man to attack a woman for a medical condition though. Think you're slick or something? We know what you really mean

So exchange words backstage after the segment? And what the person they attempted to gotcha said was the calls in that thread for violence are toxic. That’s what they “really mean”.

They actually used the you ain’t slick meme 

[HaughtyFrank]

Speaking of Tupac...Tupac went to jail for brutally raping a woman and is still a beloved figure in culture. Exactly like Mike Tyson.  But then again, Mel Gibson was allowed to be in a movie about a talking beaver puppet.

Or Dr. Dre showing up at the Superbowl with everyone cheering.

[ShutUp]

The only reason this is still a thing is because whites got terrified that one of the few niccas they actually felt safe around got too violent for them.

Fucking this. If they lose faith in Morgan Freeman or Denzel they might writing start NY Times articles about how bringing slavery back may be a good thing.

God, I hate white people. Why are white people all insane like this?

“You can’t slap someone on live TV like that and not expect consequences” somehow being turned into “crackas scared of Will now”. That’s our Nep Nep!

[Nintex]

Sorry Will, not good enough. Only one way to save your career now.

A digitially de-aged reboot of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air for Netflix.

[benjipwns]

The next ten years Will is barred are going to be miserable.

And so will the years after he returns.

People are not asking "why did this blow up?" because they don't understand the spectacle of a celebrity assaulting another on camera during the Oscars.

They're asking why it blew up because they don't understand why people felt second-hand fear and panic from the whole thing.

"It's toxic masculinity when my beliefs on who should monopolize violence are violated, but not when a man humiliates a woman over her medical condition on national TV."

They're so desperate.

[ldcommando (notthegafone)]

All this shit over the mildest joke possible. G.i. Jane 2? Really?

[HaughtyFrank]

I for one know they'd have the same exact opinion if it had been Matthew McConaughey slapping the shit out of Chris Rock. 

[Tuckers Law]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/will-smith-breaks-silence-%E2%80%9Cdeeply-remorseful%E2%80%9D-for-oscar-slap.613449/page-6#post-90756144

Nah I'm tired of this narrative. A lot of people like you like to pick and choose when words are considered "violence" because you or someone you like's feelings got hurt. No matter how people in this topic want to spin it, there was ZERO reason for Will to do what he did. As a man he wasnt protecting his wife or his family, he was protecting her ego and ended up bringing more drama and chaos to his family had he handled things directly and privately with Chris.

A lot of men end up getting hurt in situations like this because they get sent to be emotional attack dogs for situations that dont require escalation and end up getting beat up, charged with crimes and their careers ruined, or killed. But people dont care about that even when it ends up being over women who lie and twist stories.

As a black dude I'm happy Will apologized...he should've never slapped Chris on a stage viewed by millions and helped fuel the narrative that we're inherently violent and lack impulse control. If things were really that much of a problem it should've been handled in private and not to the cheers and jeers of people who want to use this as a proxy for some stupid gender culture war.

People here will say its cool to just slap someone when you aren't being physically assaulted, but then say we need gun control because people are too implusive and escalate situations beyond what they're needed to be. Insanity and hypocrisy.

 

[ShutUp]

The next ten years Will is barred are going to be miserable.

And so will the years after he returns.

People are not asking "why did this blow up?" because they don't understand the spectacle of a celebrity assaulting another on camera during the Oscars.

They're asking why it blew up because they don't understand why people felt second-hand fear and panic from the whole thing.

"It's toxic masculinity when my beliefs on who should monopolize violence are violated, but not when a man humiliates a woman over her medical condition on national TV."

They're so desperate.

He has one project currently in post production and three others in pre-production, including Bad Boys 4. Hollywood shelving the one in post production and cancelling the other three as we speak. His Ten Years of Punishment begin now.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/will-smith-breaks-silence-%E2%80%9Cdeeply-remorseful%E2%80%9D-for-oscar-slap.613449/page-6#post-90756144

Nah I'm tired of this narrative. A lot of people like you like to pick and choose when words are considered "violence" because you or someone you like's feelings got hurt. No matter how people in this topic want to spin it, there was ZERO reason for Will to do what he did. As a man he wasnt protecting his wife or his family, he was protecting her ego and ended up bringing more drama and chaos to his family had he handled things directly and privately with Chris.

A lot of men end up getting hurt in situations like this because they get sent to be emotional attack dogs for situations that dont require escalation and end up getting beat up, charged with crimes and their careers ruined, or killed. But people dont care about that even when it ends up being over women who lie and twist stories.

As a black dude I'm happy Will apologized...he should've never slapped Chris on a stage viewed by millions and helped fuel the narrative that we're inherently violent and lack impulse control. If things were really that much of a problem it should've been handled in private and not to the cheers and jeers of people who want to use this as a proxy for some stupid gender culture war.

People here will say its cool to just slap someone when you aren't being physically assaulted, but then say we need gun control because people are too implusive and escalate situations beyond what they're needed to be. Insanity and hypocrisy.

 

But people dont care about that even when it ends up being over women who lie and twist stories.

Almost made it through your post without giving the game away.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/will-smith-breaks-silence-%E2%80%9Cdeeply-remorseful%E2%80%9D-for-oscar-slap.613449/#post-90745206

Don't make fun of a woman's hair (or lack thereof). It does not matter if you "didn't know" about JPS's alopecia. You don't do it.

Don't make fun of someone's wife in a public forum and expect to walk away unscathed.

Don't give people reasons to knock you upside the head.
Don't make fun of people's appearances.
Don't be an asshole.

And when you do, anyway: Be a man and apologize to her.

Don't use a woman's humiliation as fodder to sell tickets to your shitty stand-up tour.

[benjipwns]

I always find it funny how white people got so much to say but always skip over posts by people of color and ignore what we have to say every fucking time

I always take a deep breathe when I see any era thread that has anything to do with black people.

Every single time. Like let’s forget nuance I guess.

The joke was bad, the slap was a bad reaction, but this isn’t even the worst thing anybody has done to somebody at the Oscars.

And let’s not forget how white Hollywood is using this as their scapegoat to keep people from looking at their worse crimes.

Fucking this. If they lose faith in Morgan Freeman or Denzel they might writing start NY Times articles about how bringing slavery back may be a good thing.

Morgan "the solution to racism is to just stop talking about it" Freeman clocking someone will be ruled by the courts as something to Stand Your Ground against and trigger old school race riots.

"If we can't trust him we can't trust none of y'all."

Yes, words have power. "The pen is mightier" and such.

Good, so now you understand why people aren't jiving with folks trying to say Chris Rock's jokes were just words.

There's definitely a pattern here where the harm of words is significantly desensitized when it comes to Black targets. You can find any thread here where white people get physically checked for calling a Black person the n-word and people will still go "The Black person shouldn't have retaliated because it's just a word," but this sentiment is not shared with white/potentially-white targets of political bullying or oppression.

This thread.

And fatty posted that YouTube video about "Black boyhood" again.

Leaving this here, as this video is damn near required viewing for anybody wanting to engage in the nuance surrounding this topic:

[Propagandhim]

You can find any thread here where white people get physically checked for calling a Black person the n-word and people will still go "The Black person shouldn't have retaliated because it's just a word," but this sentiment is not shared with white/potentially-white targets of political bullying or oppression.

I read this sentence 4 times and I still don't quite understand what it means.

[blame space]

can someone ask why i'm banned

[Propagandhim]

can someone ask why i'm banned

Everyone had enough of your white/potentially-white cac bullshit

[benjipwns]

You can find any thread here where white people get physically checked for calling a Black person the n-word and people will still go "The Black person shouldn't have retaliated because it's just a word," but this sentiment is not shared with white/potentially-white targets of political bullying or oppression.

I read this sentence 4 times and I still don't quite understand what it means.

She's saying that when you see threads about whites responding to oppression with violence (or threads where this may hypothetically be the case) nobody in them ever whines "you shouldn't response to words with violence" like happens in every thread in which Black people respond to oppression by defending themselves like Will Smith did because ResetERA.com is full of white supremacists that she can't do anything about.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

can someone ask why i'm banned

I thought you died twice

[Propagandhim]

You can find any thread here where white people get physically checked for calling a Black person the n-word and people will still go "The Black person shouldn't have retaliated because it's just a word," but this sentiment is not shared with white/potentially-white targets of political bullying or oppression.

I read this sentence 4 times and I still don't quite understand what it means.

She's saying that when you see threads about whites responding to oppression with violence (or threads where this may hypothetically be the case) nobody in them ever whines "you shouldn't response to words with violence" like happens in every thread in which Black people respond to oppression by defending themselves like Will Smith did because ResetERA.com is full of white supremacists that she can't do anything about.

Yeah, I was trying to put myself in Nepenthe's paws and figure out what her idea of the white version equivalent of responding to words with violence that people condone is.  I still can't think of a single example.   

[Rman]

Nep really loves this topic.

[HaughtyFrank]

I still don't even know why Reboot Lara does any of this shit. She clearly doesn't enjoy any of it.

Well you should find it pretty easy to relate then.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rumor-new-tomb-raider-project-jawbreaker-info-leaked.613584/post-90759036

 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/will-smith-breaks-silence-%E2%80%9Cdeeply-remorseful%E2%80%9D-for-oscar-slap.613449/page-6#post-90757848

Era was more forgiving of Liam Neeson looking for a Black man to lynch in defense of his friend who told him she'd been raped (not even the rapist, just literally any Black man) than they have been of Will Smith slapping Rock over a joke in defense of his wife.

[Propagandhim]

1.) Era was not more forgiving.
2.) Neeson took a walk.  He didn't hit anyone.  He admitted being wrong and embarrassed by the thought.


Fucking clown

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/will-smith-breaks-silence-%E2%80%9Cdeeply-remorseful%E2%80%9D-for-oscar-slap.613449/page-6#post-90757848

Era was more forgiving of Liam Neeson looking for a Black man to lynch in defense of his friend who told him she'd been raped (not even the rapist, just literally any Black man) than they have been of Will Smith slapping Rock over a joke in defense of his wife.

Lets ignore the context that Liam Neeson didn't actually hurt anyone and that he brought it up while being remorseful about what kind of bad things revenge can make you do.

[BisMarckie]

Liam Neeson is responsible for keeping the black population in Northern Ireland below 1%. That’s why the Joker  2 is based on his life.

[BisMarckie]

Do you think Chapelle's rhetoric amounts to a mere disagreement or do you think he is bolstering an environment that is getting trans people ostracized and killed?

I think Nepenthe is writing on her fanfiction again.

„Then Lucio and his best friend Nepenthe showed up and subdued Dave with a capoeira move“

[Tuckers Law]

Bonafide probably going to get clipped if he keeps posting against the opinions of the crusty fur suit and her rotund cool young dude-thirster.

[HaughtyFrank]

The majority of people do not honestly believe that "violence is never the answer." Violence's appropriateness depends upon how they feel about its flow in any given direction. A bunch of people here offended by this are nonetheless okay with various levels of state-sanctioned violence, for example. That's partly why this whole thing is so tired. There's more interesting dialogue to be had to with regards to the sociopolitical ramifications from a Black perspective, but as BossAttack said, it's really only Black folks' business.

This line of thinking is so wild to me.

"Alright, stay the fuck back from Arnie Hammer's cannibal fantasies, that's White folks' business!"

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/will-smith-breaks-silence-%E2%80%9Cdeeply-remorseful%E2%80%9D-for-oscar-slap.613449/page-6#post-90756144

Nah I'm tired of this narrative. A lot of people like you like to pick and choose when words are considered "violence" because you or someone you like's feelings got hurt. No matter how people in this topic want to spin it, there was ZERO reason for Will to do what he did. As a man he wasnt protecting his wife or his family, he was protecting her ego and ended up bringing more drama and chaos to his family had he handled things directly and privately with Chris.

A lot of men end up getting hurt in situations like this because they get sent to be emotional attack dogs for situations that dont require escalation and end up getting beat up, charged with crimes and their careers ruined, or killed. But people dont care about that even when it ends up being over women who lie and twist stories.

As a black dude I'm happy Will apologized...he should've never slapped Chris on a stage viewed by millions and helped fuel the narrative that we're inherently violent and lack impulse control. If things were really that much of a problem it should've been handled in private and not to the cheers and jeers of people who want to use this as a proxy for some stupid gender culture war.

People here will say its cool to just slap someone when you aren't being physically assaulted, but then say we need gun control because people are too implusive and escalate situations beyond what they're needed to be. Insanity and hypocrisy.

 

Sorry, can’t trust the words of someone with less than 1000 posts. I don’t make the rules 

[BisMarckie]

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.

[Propagandhim]

Couldn't someone just as easily do what she does and fanfic themselves into believing that Nepenthe's ideology is doing damage to the fabric of society, promoting racial friction,  and that the only rebuff is to pound her into the ground?  This isn't that difficult to understand.  To see why responding with violence to words is uncivil and destructive is actually incredibly easy.  Yeah, it's privilege - the privilege of having a fucking brain.

[BisMarckie]

The problem with this is rhetoric is that "bolstering an environment" is subjective.

Nope. I'm not letting you pivot.

Do you think Chappelle's rhetoric against trans people is bigoted or not? Yes or no.

She asks while pivoting. This woman is gloriously insane

[BisMarckie]

and that the only rebuff is to pound her into the ground?

um, have you missed when she and her capoeira teacher almost thrashed a restaurant because the server was rude?  because good luck with that

[Pissy F Benny]

Do you think Chapelle's rhetoric amounts to a mere disagreement or do you think he is bolstering an environment that is getting trans people ostracized and killed?

I think Nepenthe is writing on her fanfiction again.

„Then Lucio and his best friend Nepenthe showed up and subdued Dave with a capoeira move“

Plot twist: instead of it being the lame overwatch character, it's Brazilian World Cup Winning Defender Lucio who turns up and whoops Chapelle

[Tuckers Law]

and that the only rebuff is to pound her into the ground?

um, have you missed when she and her capoeira teacher almost thrashed a restaurant because the server was rude?  because good luck with that

I’m sure in her mind she’s like Eddie Gordo doing capoeira, meanwhile in reality everyone witnessing her moves thinks she’s some meth’d out weirdo rolling around on the ground.

[benjipwns]

Do you think Chapelle's rhetoric amounts to a mere disagreement or do you think he is bolstering an environment that is getting trans people ostracized and killed?

While I don't know which of these Chappelle's rhetoric (aka stand-up comedy) is since it seems to be neither I do know that your rhetoric consists almost entirely of trying to justify violence against other people for any reason you can grasp because you know violence is wrong but want to excuse it in cases you believe you should support such as when someone says something you dislike emotionally.

I know this because you endorsed the concept of blood feuds as justified on multiple grounds.

[HaughtyFrank]

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.

You know what's sheltered and privileged? Thinking you can slap someone without any consequences

[BisMarckie]

Do you think Chapelle's rhetoric amounts to a mere disagreement or do you think he is bolstering an environment that is getting trans people ostracized and killed?

While I don't know which of these Chappelle's rhetoric (aka stand-up comedy) is since it seems to be neither I do know that your rhetoric consists almost entirely of trying to justify violence against other people for any reason you can grasp because you know violence is wrong but want to excuse it in cases you believe you should support such as when someone says something you dislike emotionally.

I know this because you endorsed the concept of blood feuds as justified on multiple grounds.

Since I am being addressed here, please let me clarify that the only blood feud I have advocated for is against people that argued against paying  70 bucks for the TLOU remake.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

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.

 

[BIONIC]

can someone ask why i'm banned

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/will-smith-breaks-silence-%E2%80%9Cdeeply-remorseful%E2%80%9D-for-oscar-slap.613449/page-8#post-90762693

I don't understand a lot of "progressive" perspectives on this as a black man.
On one hand it's just a slap as has always been my stance and not all actions of violence are a " mortal sin" or whatever pearl clutcher's and punitive people would have you think; plus there was an absurd level of projection of people's own experiences onto their's/making baseless assumptions of Will as an abusive man within his family rather than someone clearly cracking under pressure/mental duress.
Everything above bothered me.
On the other hand how can people condemn "toxic masculinity" and talk of the insecurity/ego of men putting their frustration in front of their partners suffering leading to embarrassing moments as this slap clearly was and then condone his actual assault as some sort of chivalric act?
It just doesn't pass the "words as an act of violence" bar and when statistically some of the grossest acts of violence are either instigated/instrumented by female parties and in a lot of cases due to slights of some sort- there shouldn't be any "wife man" nonsense in supporting of proxy-violence unprompted by a partner or prompted.
This feels like another example of people picking and choosing what progressive tenants to uphold and conflating Will's blackness with any and all aversion to him slapping a man for a joke that isn't far off from any of the appearance based attacks/jokes the average person would make (that I don't make) and that even seemingly left-leaning people make against people they deem worthy of attacking for qualities outside of the their control.
And the idea of Chris having used his pulpit as a comedian to pick on Jada specifically for years is a stretch amongst stretches.
At the end of the day it was just GI Jane- misyogynior or whatever other examples of black women being perpetually put upon you can make.

 

[benjipwns]

Since I am being addressed here, please let me clarify that the only blood feud I have advocated for is against people that argued against paying  70 bucks for the TLOU remake.

Exactly, talk shit about The Last of Us Part I, get hit. Chuds don't have the right to oppress people willing to pay something closer to the actual objective value of a product.

[Potato]

Eight year old article in a student newspaper:

.

If you posted that to Reeeeesetera, you'd not survive for more than a few minutes.

However, if you switched the topic to conservative Christians and changed the examples to something appropriate, you'd have 30 pages of "Yass Queen" and "Fuck Trump".

They are in a cult and they don't even know it.

[Lonewulfeus]

This is basically just gentrifiction, or as I'm starting to call it a "kinder occupation," but with the added bonus that a ton of the people doing it don't even have any permanent residency status or contribute to the economic sectors that help the locals.

A kinder bueno is currently occupying my stomach

[benjipwns]

This is basically just gentrifiction, or as I'm starting to call it a "kinder occupation," but with the added bonus that a ton of the people doing it don't even have any permanent residency status or contribute to the economic sectors that help the locals.

A kinder bueno is currently occupying my stomach

I actually read it at first in the same way and was trying to figure out what he meant by it before I realized it probably meant the normal word.

[HaughtyFrank]

can someone ask why i'm banned

Nepenthe claimed that you never made a ban appeal (which is also weird though since she acts like you'd have to formally file a complaint before they can reconsider a ban)

[Propagandhim]

My goal is to gentrify a neighborhood without contributing to the local economy.  (suckers!)   


 I'm gonna pay sky-high rent and eat at all the best restaur...FUCK.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fruits-veggies-to-make-your-body-smell-taste-better-anyone-have-personal-experience.613629/

I can believe that this works, but how dramatic is the difference, really?

[Taco Bell Tower]

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.

[Uncle]

can someone ask why i'm banned

why are you banned

[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.