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[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/queen-elizabeth-has-passed-away-at-age-96-staff-post.629473/page-40#post-92878156

User Banned (1 Week): Ignoring the staff post 

I personally would like a policy on these kind of threads.

People can take a shit on a human being any day, it’s not like people couldn’t just hold off on the potential day of her death.

It’s such a small effort of self-control to remain civilized. I can’t believe some people can’t even do just that.

It’s disgusting.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/queen-elizabeth-has-passed-away-at-age-96-staff-post.629473/page-48#post-92883916

User banned (1 week): antagonizing other users 

If you can't work out why wishing pain on a 96 year old woman is fucked up I don't know what to say.

Cry more, colonizer.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/queen-elizabeth-has-passed-away-at-age-96-staff-post.629473/page-50#post-92884681

User Banned (2 Weeks): Inflammatory accusations towards another member 

My condolences to the United Kingdom.

My thoughts are with her family.

You sure you want your thoughts to be with paedos?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/queen-elizabeth-has-passed-away-at-age-96-staff-post.629473/page-64#post-92888716

User Banned (1 Week): Ignoring the staff posts 

Hope Canada gets a day off for this. But being British it is sad to see her die.

Got to say though some of the comments on this thread are disturbing, how can you be allowed to praise her death and not get moderated like seriously. I was looking through multiple news sites to see all the reactions and when a Fox News comment section show more respect than Era it really says something.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/queen-elizabeth-has-passed-away-at-age-96-staff-post.629473/page-80#post-92896009

User Banned (2 Weeks): Inflammatory comparisons, trolling, account in junior phase 

That unlike you, we're not going to bat for a 96 year old imperialist who never even knew you existed.

better her then getting shot everytime you go shopping

https://www.resetera.com/threads/queen-elizabeth-has-passed-away-at-age-96-staff-post.629473/page-99#post-92924341

User banned (1 week): antagonizing other users 

its a lot of peoples favorite past time to use having a morally correct opinion to justify being an absolute asshole to others.

personally it reminds me of how edgy atheists act.

My favorite pastime is calling out colonizers for being exactly who they are, and I'm absolutely standing on the moral high ground and don't need to justify shit to you colonizing apologist.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/queen-elizabeth-has-passed-away-at-age-96-staff-post.629473/page-107#post-92936551

User banned (1 month): inappropriate joke 

Honestly, I think every British person should be buried alive (or dead - no big deal either way) in the London Underground with her.

She deserves her little booties licked in the afterlife too. Only a traitor would suggest she be abandoned by her people now, after all the time she spent not abandoning her post.

Yum yum.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/queen-elizabeth-has-passed-away-at-age-96-staff-post.629473/page-48#post-92883916
User got unbanned already

[John Dunbar]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/collider-rumour-netflix-considering-shift-towards-weekly-releases.630019/#post-92951080

I'm pretty sure I would watch Netflix content LESS often if I had to wait week to week for it. I have enough shit to juggle on week to week schedules as it is.

Exactly. By having everyone who doesn't want to watch weekly wait 3 or 4 months just to get to watch the season, it means the people who aren't watching - or don't have the schedule availability TO watch weekly - are being given a literally inferior experience.

"Schedule availability," who even talks like this.

My schedule availability doesn't allow me to watch a single episode a week.

[Lonewulfeus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/collider-rumour-netflix-considering-shift-towards-weekly-releases.630019/#post-92951080

I'm pretty sure I would watch Netflix content LESS often if I had to wait week to week for it. I have enough shit to juggle on week to week schedules as it is.

Exactly. By having everyone who doesn't want to watch weekly wait 3 or 4 months just to get to watch the season, it means the people who aren't watching - or don't have the schedule availability TO watch weekly - are being given a literally inferior experience.

"Schedule availability," who even talks like this.

My schedule availability doesn't allow me to watch a single episode a week.

You wouldn’t understand, this is what years of comedy experience school gets you.

[NekoFever]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/collider-rumour-netflix-considering-shift-towards-weekly-releases.630019/#post-92951080

I'm pretty sure I would watch Netflix content LESS often if I had to wait week to week for it. I have enough shit to juggle on week to week schedules as it is.

Exactly. By having everyone who doesn't want to watch weekly wait 3 or 4 months just to get to watch the season, it means the people who aren't watching - or don't have the schedule availability TO watch weekly - are being given a literally inferior experience.

"Schedule availability," who even talks like this.

My schedule availability doesn't allow me to watch a single episode a week.

The same kind of people who refer to watching TV as “consuming content”.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dont-lie-when-staying-at-a-hotel-do-you-typically-have-sex-with-the-window-blinds-open-or-closed.630092/
 

[Averon]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cnn-once-a-quintessential-pro-life-texan-she-had-to-flee-her-home-state-to-get-an-abortion.630125/

Are you guys serious with this thread? Seriously. It's like nobody actually read the goddamned article. It's embarrassing.

It says it in the article, she got married 9 years ago, almost immediately got pregnant, and changed her position shortly after a miscarriage threatened her life and didn't want anyone else to go through what she did. She didn't change her mind because of the Texas thing, she was already pro-choice for years at that point.

This is what happens when you don't actually read the article and just react to the title, you get it completely wrong and argue over literally nothing for pages and pages and pages and work yourselves up over fake nonsense you all just made up.

The entire point of the article was to use this woman's turn around story to show how women are affected by restrictive laws like those in Texas. That's literally the whole reason she's doing the interview because she's been a pro-choice advocate for years!

READ. THE. ARTICLE.

Thread's locked, but it was entertaining while it lasted ERA's holier-than-thou crowd being called out and called misogynists, people in vain pleading for the self-righteous crowd to read the OP, male users being called out talking over women to throw their hot takes, etc...

Great forum you nurtured there, B-Dumbs 

[benita]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/focus-entertainment-to-publish-mundfishs-atomic-heart-out-this-winter.629146/#post-92807632

User Banned (1 Week): Inflammatory Generalization; Conflating the Actions of the Government with the Population

Great looking game, shame it's made in Russia.

The username 

[M]

I want to praise Queen Lizzy on Era, but I am not sure if I will be banned. I will stand by Liz. She worked until her very last day, being taken off her fucking death bed at 96 years old to swear in a prime minister 2 days before her death.

I will stand by my Liz.

[HaughtyFrank]

The only thing they hate more than republicans are people who used to be republicans

[joeboy101]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cnn-once-a-quintessential-pro-life-texan-she-had-to-flee-her-home-state-to-get-an-abortion.630125/

Are you guys serious with this thread? Seriously. It's like nobody actually read the goddamned article. It's embarrassing.

It says it in the article, she got married 9 years ago, almost immediately got pregnant, and changed her position shortly after a miscarriage threatened her life and didn't want anyone else to go through what she did. She didn't change her mind because of the Texas thing, she was already pro-choice for years at that point.

This is what happens when you don't actually read the article and just react to the title, you get it completely wrong and argue over literally nothing for pages and pages and pages and work yourselves up over fake nonsense you all just made up.

The entire point of the article was to use this woman's turn around story to show how women are affected by restrictive laws like those in Texas. That's literally the whole reason she's doing the interview because she's been a pro-choice advocate for years!

READ. THE. ARTICLE.

Thread's locked, but it was entertaining while it lasted ERA's holier-than-thou crowd being called out and called misogynists, people in vain pleading for the self-righteous crowd to read the OP, male users being called out talking over women to throw their hot takes, etc...

Great forum you nurtured there, B-Dumbs 

Jesus, the simmering incel hate towards women in that thread is absolutely dripping.

Also,

Someone who spent the majority of their life as an anti-choice zealot suddenly has a revelation when it affects her. I mean, yay that she saw the light and is speaking out, but I just feel utter disgust toward all Republicans and anti-choice freaks. She can spend a few more decades doing the work before I give any fucks.

She's done more good in the last decade (ie: it's "the majority of her life" because it's two decades) than you ever have.

Hon, I've been doing activism for the last 2.5 decades, I've been arrested at anti-racist actions, protested wars, protested for choice, countless queer protests, protested around climate change, organized, given money, an uncountable number of hours writing letters, emails and making phone calls to elected officials. So yeah, you can keep my name out of your fucking mouth.

Did you crawl out the fucking womb doing that?

How many failed pregnancies have you experienced?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cnn-once-a-quintessential-pro-life-texan-she-had-to-flee-her-home-state-to-get-an-abortion.630125/page-5#post-92971964

I'm going for a walk, then I'm going to talk with the mods. When we're done, expect a graveyard of some kind.

And know that this is all because you guys literally couldn't be bothered to read a couple of hundred words before being toxic, attacking a pro-choice advocate who has apparently been fighting the good fight for a decade now, and acting horribly to women in this thread who actually read the article and tried to explain that you were getting it wrong.

Literally disgusting. You all cared more about having a target to attack than you did anything else.

 

[clothedmacuser]

Era

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cnn-once-a-quintessential-pro-life-texan-she-had-to-flee-her-home-state-to-get-an-abortion.630125/

Are you guys serious with this thread? Seriously. It's like nobody actually read the goddamned article. It's embarrassing.

It says it in the article, she got married 9 years ago, almost immediately got pregnant, and changed her position shortly after a miscarriage threatened her life and didn't want anyone else to go through what she did. She didn't change her mind because of the Texas thing, she was already pro-choice for years at that point.

This is what happens when you don't actually read the article and just react to the title, you get it completely wrong and argue over literally nothing for pages and pages and pages and work yourselves up over fake nonsense you all just made up.

The entire point of the article was to use this woman's turn around story to show how women are affected by restrictive laws like those in Texas. That's literally the whole reason she's doing the interview because she's been a pro-choice advocate for years!

READ. THE. ARTICLE.

Thread's locked, but it was entertaining while it lasted ERA's holier-than-thou crowd being called out and called misogynists, people in vain pleading for the self-righteous crowd to read the OP, male users being called out talking over women to throw their hot takes, etc...

Great forum you nurtured there, B-Dumbs 

I'm going for a walk, then I'm going to talk with the mods. When we're done, expect a graveyard of some kind.

And know that this is all because you guys literally couldn't be bothered to read a couple of hundred words before being toxic, attacking a pro-choice advocate who has apparently been fighting the good fight for a decade now, and acting horribly to women in this thread who actually read the article and tried to explain that you were getting it wrong.

Literally disgusting. You all cared more about having a target to attack than you did anything else.

[Rahxephon91]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/collider-rumour-netflix-considering-shift-towards-weekly-releases.630019/#post-92951080

I'm pretty sure I would watch Netflix content LESS often if I had to wait week to week for it. I have enough shit to juggle on week to week schedules as it is.

This guy is such a whinner. He has a problem with everything and everything is so troubling for him. Its like every piece of news or whatever he was to has a negative bent or it impacts him in a negative way.

His life must be turley terrible.

At least I sometimes make fun of my weird idiosyncrasties.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cnn-once-a-quintessential-pro-life-texan-she-had-to-flee-her-home-state-to-get-an-abortion.630125/page-3#post-92968196

This thread is an example of this forum at its absolute worst.

No, at its absolute best.

[clothedmacuser]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cnn-once-a-quintessential-pro-life-texan-she-had-to-flee-her-home-state-to-get-an-abortion.630125/page-5#post-92971964

I'm going for a walk, then I'm going to talk with the mods. When we're done, expect a graveyard of some kind.

And know that this is all because you guys literally couldn't be bothered to read a couple of hundred words before being toxic, attacking a pro-choice advocate who has apparently been fighting the good fight for a decade now, and acting horribly to women in this thread who actually read the article and tried to explain that you were getting it wrong.

Literally disgusting. You all cared more about having a target to attack than you did anything else.

 

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cnn-once-a-quintessential-pro-life-texan-she-had-to-flee-her-home-state-to-get-an-abortion.630125/page-5#post-92971964

I'm going for a walk, then I'm going to talk with the mods. When we're done, expect a graveyard of some kind.

And know that this is all because you guys literally couldn't be bothered to read a couple of hundred words before being toxic, attacking a pro-choice advocate who has apparently been fighting the good fight for a decade now, and acting horribly to women in this thread who actually read the article and tried to explain that you were getting it wrong.

Literally disgusting. You all cared more about having a target to attack than you did anything else.

 

Here's some help with a select few arseholes you fucking idiot b-Dumbs

If these stories are meant to engender any sort of sympathy, they are failing, miserably. Fuck this person. How convenient to hate women around you, until something bad happens to you.

Those damn face eating leopards again.

The consequences of my actions are strong with this story.

That’s what happens when you follow politics like it’s a fucking sports team.

"Personal growth" lmao.

Only changing your mind about a harmful issue once it directly has a negative impact on you isn't growth, it just means you're an asshole.

These people don't deserve sympathy or praise for their hypocrisy.

Yeah, she voted for those laws to be passed. So not understanding her stupid ass question.

Its all fun and games until it happens to you. Pretty much every R eventually finds out, unless they can afford otherwise.

Play stupid games…ignore decades and generations of warnings…your elders that fought tooth and nail to give you the freedom you freely dispose.

You understand that she's a selfish person who only cares about what affects her, right? Somebody like this is completely devoid of empathy and can only operate on sympathy. It means that she's spent a lifetime ignoring the struggles of other people and even cast her votes to keep those struggles a reality for others. It wasn't until the exact same struggle landed on her doorstep where she was like, "I have a problem with this". Wow, huge growth.

An interesting byproduct of this thread are the folks in here that clearly have a bone to pick with the forum at large and are letting that leak out a little bit in their posts.

Are we supposed to feel something other than total contempt and loathing for this scumbag?

Won't someone PLEASE think of the anti-choice freaks, PLEASE?

Let's see how long the bans are...

[BikeJesus]

Nah.

Sick and tired of these American idiots who only change their nasty politics when the harsh reality of their beliefs come home to roost. Next thing we’ll be getting a sob story from someone who defended slavery, until they ended being made a slave and suddenly realized it was actually bad. Fuck the hell off with that shit.

Naturals Law. Surely this inflammatory comparison will be moderated.

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cnn-once-a-quintessential-pro-life-texan-she-had-to-flee-her-home-state-to-get-an-abortion.630125/page-5#post-92971964

I'm going for a walk, then I'm going to talk with the mods. When we're done, expect a graveyard of some kind.

And know that this is all because you guys literally couldn't be bothered to read a couple of hundred words before being toxic, attacking a pro-choice advocate who has apparently been fighting the good fight for a decade now, and acting horribly to women in this thread who actually read the article and tried to explain that you were getting it wrong.

Literally disgusting. You all cared more about having a target to attack than you did anything else.

 

the reason b-dubs is so defensive of people who were doing naughty things 10 years ago

[Hap Shaughnessy]

I want to praise Queen Lizzy on Era, but I am not sure if I will be banned. I will stand by Liz. She worked until her very last day, being taken off her fucking death bed at 96 years old to swear in a prime minister 2 days before her death.

I will stand by my Liz.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/queen-elizabeth-has-passed-away-at-age-96-staff-post.629473/page-115#post-92971694

Also, being taken off our death beds at 96 years old, 2 days before death to swear in a prime minister. A lot can be said about Liz and the Royal Family, but Liz did work hard for an old woman. It's pretty incredible she was taken off her death bed to continue her duties. Don't trivialise that.

Let's see.

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

Hon, I've been doing activism for the last 2.5 decades, I've been arrested at anti-racist actions, protested wars, protested for choice, countless queer protests, protested around climate change, organized, given money, an uncountable number of hours writing letters, emails and making phone calls to elected officials. So yeah, you can keep my name out of your fucking mouth.

 

Amazing copypasta.

[Potato]

So, has B-Dumbs confirmed if it is ok to denigrate 9-11 victims tomorrow since they were part of an imperialist, colonialist nation and half of them probably voted Republican and many might have been jewish people who supported Israel?

[ShutUp]

Fascinating how someone can’t possibly change their views once something horrific happens to them MORE THAN ONCE, after growing up in a conservative family, but teenagers beating an old man to death with traffic cones and laughing while doing it is just everyone but the parents fault and those murderers and accomplices to murder deserve sympathy and gosh golly gee please think of their fragile mental state.

Hope Bdubs makes good on the threat and turns that thread into a perma graveyard. Not a week, not three months. Fucking permanent. Make an example out of these psychos who drop the facade and show how much they hate women the first chance they get.

[Potato]

Never going to happen with Boss Attack among the guilty

[Taco Bell Tower]

Why is B-Dumbs mad tho?  He knows Ree users can't and don't bother to read OPs and articles before throwing their hot takes

[clothedmacuser]

Myaaaaaaaah!

I'm going for a walk, then I'm going to talk with the mods. When we're done, expect a graveyard of some kind.

Why is everyone so judgemental, righteous and eager to stone outsiders.  Mhywaaaaa!   it's like my members look for the worst interpretation in others others and hope for mob (literal) violence. 


Also,

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-growing-radicalization-of-resetera-agree-disagree-your-thoughts.629779/

How long before locked for "meta commentary"?

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[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cnn-once-a-quintessential-pro-life-texan-she-had-to-flee-her-home-state-to-get-an-abortion.630125/page-2#post-92966525

Guys, people can have read the story and still think this lady isn't worth their sympathy for only caring about abortion once her rights were threatened, we don't need to go as deep as her needing an abortion to have little sympathy for someone who played their small part in enabling its fall

EDIT: Jeez. I've got egg on my face too. I skipped over her earlier pregnancy problems

"Hey guys, people likely read the story.  Oh, guess I didn't"

[NekoFever]

 

[NekoFever]

I want to praise Queen Lizzy on Era, but I am not sure if I will be banned. I will stand by Liz. She worked until her very last day, being taken off her fucking death bed at 96 years old to swear in a prime minister 2 days before her death.

I will stand by my Liz.

I’m a lifelong republican (the British kind) and that thread is like this comic in action. I might even watch the funeral just to spite them.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cnn-once-a-quintessential-pro-life-texan-she-had-to-flee-her-home-state-to-get-an-abortion.630125/page-4#post-92970038

Are we supposed to feel something other than total contempt and loathing for this scumbag?

You know that nudity is against TOS right? Please stop showing your ass and read the OP.

[Taco Bell Tower]

She's done more good in the last decade (ie: it's "the majority of her life" because it's two decades) than you ever have.

Mercury Fred

Hon, I've been doing activism for the last 2.5 decades, I've been arrested at anti-racist actions, protested wars, protested for choice, countless queer protests, protested around climate change, organized, given money, an uncountable number of hours writing letters, emails and making phone calls to elected officials. So yeah, you can keep my name out of your fucking mouth.

Sure ya did, sure ya did

[Taco Bell Tower]

B-Dumbs

Edit: it's late, so I'll be back to finish in the morning

[Snoopycat_]

Welp, I guess Gaf is going to get an influx of incels.

[Taco Bell Tower]

Shower Elf gonna be grinning to see those incels crawling back

[ldcommando (notthegafone)]

This mercury fred fella is now going to have way more free time to participate in all of those totally real protests he is always going to.

[NekoFever]

Keep an eye out for a mysterious new member acting like a hostile little worm with suspicious familiarity with the internal politics of Ree.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://twitter.com/paddingtonbear/status/1567931094858702850


This one hurts me the most.

I don't know any of my UK friends celebrating her death, most of us don't care for her or the monarchy and are all just hoping for a day off work. No one is happy she is dead we just don't care she is not alive. I assume most of this site is US based because it is.

Aight so you're just being ignorant

Yeah, it's pretty much white or woke americans trying to score some points.  It's like the inverse of when a kid in your high school class dies and everyone pretends they are the most upset.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/queen-elizabeth-has-passed-away-at-age-96-staff-post.629473/page-77#post-92894329

This was always part of their propaganda though. The film criticises colonial attitudes but the IP makes a clear distinction that oh... sweet old Lizzy would never do that.

[joeboy101]

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Also, the 'attempting to get a woman banned' certainly sounds like he was banging the report button demanding she be shown the door. Lord only knows how his reports read.

[Snoopycat_]

Uh excuse me mods, I've been doing activism for the last 2.5 decades, I've been arrested at anti-racist actions, protested wars, protested for choice, countless queer protests, protested around climate change, organized, given money, an uncountable number of hours writing letters, emails and making phone calls to elected officials. I've just been publicly shamed by some uppity slut who should be in a kitchen making my samwiches

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

..... How the fuck is a monarch a symbol of democracy when they're not elected?....

I'm going to bed.

I know what Nepenthe comprehends about the world outside her own immediate lived experience fits on a fucking stamp, but does she really think the UK isn't a democracy?
Arguably a fucking better one than the electoral college?

What the UK constitutional monarchy represents to other - usually repressively authoritarian - regimes, is that you can introduce more progressive democratic systems without losing tradition or ending up in a guillotine.

[Averon]

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One of the few times their ban message was accurate. Mercury getting permed was a long time coming given how aggressive and hoiler-than-thou he was in political threads.

[HaughtyFrank]

..... How the fuck is a monarch a symbol of democracy when they're not elected?....

I'm going to bed.

I know what Nepenthe comprehends about the world outside her own immediate lived experience fits on a fucking stamp, but does she really think the UK isn't a democracy?
Arguably a fucking better one than the electoral college?

What the UK constitutional monarchy represents to other - usually repressively authoritarian - regimes, is that you can introduce more progressive democratic systems without losing tradition or ending up in a guillotine.

Meanwhile in the very same thread they repeatedly question why the Queen didn't oppose the government regarding colonies etc. as if an unelected person having that power would actually be desirable

[bork]

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"User requested account closure"

[Uncle]

..... How the fuck is a monarch a symbol of democracy when they're not elected?....

I'm going to bed.

I know what Nepenthe comprehends about the world outside her own immediate lived experience fits on a fucking stamp, but does she really think the UK isn't a democracy?
Arguably a fucking better one than the electoral college?

What the UK constitutional monarchy represents to other - usually repressively authoritarian - regimes, is that you can introduce more progressive democratic systems without losing tradition or ending up in a guillotine.

that's what I was gonna say, I don't know a lot about UK history and the transition from tyrant kings to basically modern representative democracy, but it seems to have been relatively smooth without people threatening to kill royalty in order to instate it? just kinda slid right into a reasonable system of government? that's a fucking triumph compared to france etc

[Averon]

PoliERA is panicking their little club's gonna be cutdown to size

Look at rjinaz tying to act like some martyr:

They already said it is going to be a mass graveyard. I just wanted to say before I check out, likely for good, I always enjoy the discussion in this thread even if I disagree with a lot of y'all from time to time. I'll still read time from time from the sidelines. Been posting here, first on gaf, and then era for a decade now. Way too many posts and time spent here and there. Probably best to find a new hobby anyway, I barely even play video games anymore lol.

Good luck to Dems in two months. I really feel like we have the senate down pat. We'll likely lose the House by a handful of seats but man, I hope we take it. I believe!

So they DO believe ban baiting is a thing that happens:

I think this is also a problem with the site right now. There is a ban culture here, where people root for bans, trap for bans, and just get way too off on bans. Mods must sort through literally hundreds of reports a day for every possible slight under the sun. Though that's a problem with a lot of social media, not just here by any means. Like seriously people, if that is your idea of entertainment, you should probably find another hobby. It certainly doesn't make for a healthy community.

I also admit embarrassment at my first post in that thread. Mods will likely see my later posts with a clearer head after reflecting on others posts and agreeing with many and shifting perspective from reading the article a couple times more…but I didn’t go back and edit that first post.

So if it comes to me, so be it for that.

You can call this schadenfreude or karma, but I honestly do believe that it's important to see people with truly horrendous takes, or terrible engagement practices, like not reading the linked article, get actioned. So yes, I do get a sort of joy in seeing some posters get banned, and I do think that it's conducive to a healthy community.

That thread really goes to show how bad a medium Twitter is for news.

Maybe complex issues weren’t meant to be funneled into 4 sentences.

No, the problem was people not reading the OP and came rushing in to get their licks in on a women they though was a conservative. ERA only pays lip service to "believe women" if they share their politics. As that thread showed, women they think are outside their political sphere can fuck off!!!


BTW, even on his way out, bitch-boy Mecury still tried to get more people banned:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-poliera-2022-ot-2-nu-clears-the-ex-president-thank-you.619137/page-94#post-92973764


 

[NekoFever]

..... How the fuck is a monarch a symbol of democracy when they're not elected?....

I'm going to bed.

I know what Nepenthe comprehends about the world outside her own immediate lived experience fits on a fucking stamp, but does she really think the UK isn't a democracy?
Arguably a fucking better one than the electoral college?

What the UK constitutional monarchy represents to other - usually repressively authoritarian - regimes, is that you can introduce more progressive democratic systems without losing tradition or ending up in a guillotine.

that's what I was gonna say, I don't know a lot about UK history and the transition from tyrant kings to basically modern representative democracy, but it seems to have been relatively smooth without people threatening to kill royalty in order to instate it? just kinda slid right into a reasonable system of government? that's a fucking triumph compared to france etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_Charles_I

I agree it was smoother than France and our system is less of a basket case but there were plenty of speed bumps along the way.

[NekoFever]

BTW, even on his way out, bitch-boy Mecury sill tried to get more people banned:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-poliera-2022-ot-2-nu-clears-the-ex-president-thank-you.619137/page-94#post-92973764

B-Dubs:

 

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_Charles_I

I agree it was smoother than France and our system is less of a basket case but there were plenty of speed bumps along the way.

Which is pretty ironic the self-professed Irish gravedancing in the Ex-Queen-Liz thread, because nobody fucked Ireland harder than Cromwell

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

that's what I was gonna say, I don't know a lot about UK history and the transition from tyrant kings to basically modern representative democracy, but it seems to have been relatively smooth without people threatening to kill royalty in order to instate it? just kinda slid right into a reasonable system of government? that's a fucking triumph compared to france etc

Going further back, theres relatively smooth transitions in ancient greece and the roman empire, but the UK constitutional monarchy is pretty robust and pretty well established in [CURRENT_DATE].

I mean, obviously, it's no WAKANDA FOREVER where a dude with fucking superpowers only his lineage are allowed to have has absolute authority, a personal cadre of loyal-only-to-him elite soldiers backing his every move, and the only legal transition of power outside inheritance is TRIAL BY COMBAT TO THE DEATH like I presume political expert Nepenthe would be happier endorsing.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/queen-elizabeth-has-passed-away-at-age-96-staff-post.629473/page-91#post-92907955

Beebeard is an obvious alt. An account that goes back to 2017, but he only started posting at the end of August.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-poliera-2022-ot-2-nu-clears-the-ex-president-thank-you.619137/page-95#post-92982095

I spent years without posting, even with membership dating back to the old place, because I maintain so much respect for one of the best places I know of for getting information and opinions about politics and news. I read, and I read, and I learned, and I learned some more. My fear is that even with that modest pedigree, I may still be prone to posting before developing a more nuanced opinion about something first. For those adventures, I am grateful that this community is effectively self-policing, and that there are usually other, friendlier steps along the way before account actions.

ed: Darn it, top of the page? arrgh

Does Beebeard read the Bore?

[Propagandhim]

I read, and I read, and I learned, and I learned some more. My fear is that even with that modest pedigree, I may still be prone to posting before developing a more nuanced opinion about something first.

"I keep reading until I get the correct Resetera(tm) Endorsed opinion, aka The Nuance."

[Propagandhim]

I am NOT in a cult.  I am an activist.  I've been to 40 activist parties in the past 30 days, it's not the same pizza.  I am NOT in a cult.

[HaughtyFrank]

BTW, even on his way out, bitch-boy Mecury still tried to get more people banned:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-poliera-2022-ot-2-nu-clears-the-ex-president-thank-you.619137/page-94#post-92973764

If they banned little assholes like this the forum would be a much better place and the mods would have far less work. Instead of whining about how they're being "flooded by a massive number of reports" they should just get rid of about 3/4 of those piss babies who write reports.

[Taco Bell Tower]

PoliERA is panicking their little club's gonna be cutdown to size

Look at rjinaz tying to act like some martyr:

They already said it is going to be a mass graveyard. I just wanted to say before I check out, likely for good, I always enjoy the discussion in this thread even if I disagree with a lot of y'all from time to time. I'll still read time from time from the sidelines. Been posting here, first on gaf, and then era for a decade now. Way too many posts and time spent here and there. Probably best to find a new hobby anyway, I barely even play video games anymore lol.

Good luck to Dems in two months. I really feel like we have the senate down pat. We'll likely lose the House by a handful of seats but man, I hope we take it. I believe!

So they DO believe ban baiting is a thing that happens:

I think this is also a problem with the site right now. There is a ban culture here, where people root for bans, trap for bans, and just get way too off on bans. Mods must sort through literally hundreds of reports a day for every possible slight under the sun. Though that's a problem with a lot of social media, not just here by any means. Like seriously people, if that is your idea of entertainment, you should probably find another hobby. It certainly doesn't make for a healthy community.

I also admit embarrassment at my first post in that thread. Mods will likely see my later posts with a clearer head after reflecting on others posts and agreeing with many and shifting perspective from reading the article a couple times more…but I didn’t go back and edit that first post.

So if it comes to me, so be it for that.

You can call this schadenfreude or karma, but I honestly do believe that it's important to see people with truly horrendous takes, or terrible engagement practices, like not reading the linked article, get actioned. So yes, I do get a sort of joy in seeing some posters get banned, and I do think that it's conducive to a healthy community.

That thread really goes to show how bad a medium Twitter is for news.

Maybe complex issues weren’t meant to be funneled into 4 sentences.

No, the problem was people not reading the OP and came rushing in to get their licks in on a women they though was a conservative. ERA only pays lip service to "believe women" if they share their politics. As that thread showed, women they think are outside their political sphere can fuck off!!!


BTW, even on his way out, bitch-boy Mecury still tried to get more people banned:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-poliera-2022-ot-2-nu-clears-the-ex-president-thank-you.619137/page-94#post-92973764

but I didn’t go back and edit that first post.

This dumbass does know mods can see previous comments before the edit, right?

[BIONIC]

I’m just here wondering how B-Chubs was supposedly “going for a walk” at 10 PM in NYC on a Friday night

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/north-korea-declares-itself-a-nuclear-weapons-state-in-irreversible-move.629938/page-2#post-92977874

Afghanistan was not imperialism.

Imperialism would mean we wanted to take stuff. Afghanistan lacks stuff.

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/article/afghanistans-rare-earth-element-bonanza

Afghanistan’s land holds — copper, cobalt, iron, barite, sulfur, lead, silver, zinc, niobium, and 1.4 million metric tons of rare-earth elements

U.S. agencies estimate Afghanistan’s mineral deposits to be worth upwards of $1 trillion. In fact, a classified Pentagon memo called Afghanistan the “Saudi Arabia of lithium.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan_Oil_Pipeline

Some have proposed that the actual motive for the United States-led Western invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was Afghanistan's importance as a conduit for oil pipelines to Afghanistan's neighbouring countries, by effectively bypassing Russian and Iranian territories, and breaking the Russian and Iranian collective monopoly on regional energy supplies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkmenistan%E2%80%93Afghanistan%E2%80%93Pakistan%E2%80%93India_Pipeline

The roots of this project lie in the involvement of international oil companies in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan beginning of 1990s. As Russia, who controlled all export pipelines of these countries, consistently refused to allow the use of its pipeline network, these companies needed an independent export route avoiding both Iran and Russia.

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/north-korea-declares-itself-a-nuclear-weapons-state-in-irreversible-move.629938/page-2#post-92979230

As I said this board has terrible foreign policy takes.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/this-bad-trend-of-calling-sequels-dlc-needs-to-end.630221/

While I could post video examples, I'm not going to promote these click bait channels so you'll have to look them up yourself.

That being said, there's been a terrible and disrespectful trend of calling sequels that don't reinvent the wheel, DLC. Be it GOW:R or the latest Splatoon game.

Just because a game reuses assets from a previous title does not make it "DLC". A lot of these games are full length titles that have a new story, gameplay modifications, music, and graphical improvements to be considered SEQUELS, not DLC, as a way to take shots at devs.

People cry about how long games take to make today, now just imagine if after every single game you have to start from scratch with either a new IP or completely new assets.

STOP CALLING SEQUELS DLC FOR NOT REINVENTING THE WHEEL!

  I never heard anyone calling sequels as dlcs/expac

[Switters]

GUYS GUYS IT'S HAPPENING BDERP WOKE UP!

[Taco Bell Tower]

B-Dumbs got lazy and just gave people 2 weeks ban like the coward he is.

User Banned (2 weeks): didn't read the article, drive-by posting

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cnn-once-a-quintessential-pro-life-texan-she-had-to-flee-her-home-state-to-get-an-abortion.630125/
So much for mass graveyard

[HaughtyFrank]

Well it is a mass grave, a 2 week mass grave 

Edit: Powdered Egg somehow getting away with a 1 week ban

White Americans will inherit the Earth.

User Banned (1 week): drive-by posting