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[Propagandhim]

All those 3rd party supermarket brand Doritos are a 'Potemkin Village' -- CheezyChipz might look a dollar cheaper than Doritos, but they really cost nothing and are a front put there by the capitalist illuminati fat cats as a buffer price to fake Doritos' inflated price, because, as we know, The United States of America is teeming with Doritos.  Just look under your couch.

[Potato]

Jail is mostly for minorities. White people will need to fuck up on Elizabeth Holmes' level in order to get jailed, or get captured for committing a mass shooting like this one. Otherwise they get the "good 'ol boy" treatment.

Gotta-hand-it-to-ISIS is on a real tear with the hot takes today, he must be super fucking pissed about something none of us could guess about and wants to start some shit

 

According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) in 2018 black males accounted for 34% of the total male prison population, white males 29%, and Hispanic males 24%. White females comprised 47% of the prison population in comparison to black females who accounted for 18% of the female population.

Why do they always have to be such idiots? Yes the justice system is racist, no this doesn't mean that white people don't go to jail. The pattern I'm seeing is that Rusty just tries his hardest to turn reality into a very simple worldview.

Crime is largely a socio-economic problem, not a skin colour problem. Why do the rees have to always be so racist?

[HaughtyFrank]

She also seems to think that the US produces all of its own food? Given its landmass, the US has the fortune of lots of agriculture area but this doesn't mean it's entirely independent, let alone when Nepenthe thinks you could increase the population by a couple of millions without issue.

[benjipwns]

Wait, so she thinks that people just create an over abundance of goods and services because there exists a deliberate conspiracy to inflate the value of them instead of scarcity playing out...?     So an oppressive system maintained for the benefit of a few operators at the top exists to change the market value of items and services in overabundance?  And not one of those operators is trying to undercut the other operator in the system in order to profit off of it even more?

Uh, no, what part of they're all capitalists and part of the conspiracy are you not understanding?

Wtf, what is stopping someone from being part of the oppressive capitalist in that system?  Why not skip the middle man and start selling clothes and food since they have no real market value?  It's the capitalists setting the prices since there's no scarcity?  WTF, you idiot - you work minimum wage.  Go do it!  You're one of the few people on earth, apparently privy to knowledge that will allow you to do whatever you want with your time because value isn't implicated in scarcity.  You could just be a capitalist and take all of the clothes and food and resell them to people that don't need or want it.

No, she can't. Because the massive global conspiracy that has imposed this system on everyone for centuries doesn't allow Black people to participate unless they agree to be a good little token house slave and Nepenthe is far too principled for that. She is working to show us a better way by divesting from capitalism rather than just killing billions to maintain the arbitrarily decided power of their conspiracy. It's sick and gross that you would even suggest she would kill people to benefit herself when she is arguing against that exact system the conspiracy is imposing.

[Propagandhim]

She also seems to think that the US produces all of its own food? Given its landmass, the US has the fortune of lots of agriculture area but this doesn't mean it's entirely independent, let alone when Nepenthe thinks you could increase the population by a couple of millions without issue.

You don't get it.  You don't fucking get it.  There's a global conspiracy of Jews International Capitalists, tricking foreign produce exporters by manipulating the prices for their labor and goods using stochastic terrorism to restrictively stratify the fruits of their labor out to certain people in order to keep those workers poor and to make a killing off of their labor while everyone goes hungry anyway.   Think about it:  Blizzard purposely doesn't release a ton of Lucio skins so they can inflate the value of each one.  And I buy all of them like Americans buy food when there is an overabundance of it.  My purchase has no bearing on Blizzard overpricing each skin because the scarcity of those skins doesn't exist.  Wait.  Forget I said all of that.

[benjipwns]

And then the capitalists who have been hiding how they're part of the conspiracy the entire time sell off the community where you lovingly devote your labor where you give back what you take from the community to capitalist Swedes who are also part of the conspiracy and never even send you a fruit basket as thanks.

[Potato]

The reason we have scarcity is because some folks have decided that stratifying access to basic needs is a good idea for the human species

 

This is the part that always gets me. Where the fuck do these idiots think all these goods come from?

No Neopetenthe, the reason we don't have scarcity is because people grow that fucking food and make those clothes and it's hard fucking work to do so.

It's such hard work that some of them invested their meagre profits in researching and developing innovative ways to make producing that shit cheaper and more efficient so much so that scarcity stopped being an issue for most people.

You know what would happen if you and the rest of the tankies decided that there was no more inherent value to these necessities? All that would stop and your take a carrot, leave a carrot system would result in scarcity again...and you know what system solves scarcity the best? Fucking captialism!!!

And if you want to know how I know this, then you just need to go and have a look at the USSR and Mao's China and Pol Pot's Cambodia for living proof that communism breeds scarcity and then look at Xi's China to see how captialism solves scarcity you dumb furry fuckhead.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/elon-musk-twitter-drama-ot-let%E2%80%99s-keep-it-here-parody-%F0%9F%94%B5-official-%EA%95%A4-up-reinstates-2020-election-loser-trump.649272/post-96859185

My ratio is 100:300,000 and I've been aiding in crisis response and global uprisings since 2010, so I have some platform there
I have direct contact to journalists from pretty much every major western news outlet, a number of editors from them and several high profile celebs
I'm not going to stop boosting people in need and making their plight more visible because a billionaire child now has the reigns
On my personal account it's about the only place I can reliably get updates on trans issues, and track movements against us
It's valuable to see the day-to-day life and healthcare of a host of trans women when we're 0.3% of the population and doctors know fa about us

ok jan

 

[clothedmacuser]

. I'm not saying it's the best thing to do and I don't say we wouldn't be better off without the technical revolution, but I doubt that I would play on a Series X, the technicak marvel that it is. Again, i could be wrong.

The USSR went to the moon and put people in space without the technology of capitalism, this is just lazy, reductionist thinking so you can arrive at a position where technology cannot advance under a socialist model.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/%E2%80%9Cfuck-capitalism%E2%80%9D-ok-cool-i-agree-too-but-what-are-the-legitimate-alternatives-that-wouldn%E2%80%99t-ruin-the-world-more-than-it-already-is.655698/post-96862128

I doubt socialism would incentivize competition enough to allow for anything like the devices we’re typing this on.

Damn, I wonder how the Russians beat us to space?

Maybe focusing on bread would be a better use of resources.  Why didn't Nep's "local representatives," just "demand," more flour?  USSR could have learned from Nepenthes model.

But who am I to speak.  North Korea has a space and nuclearweapon program.  What does Canada have?

[Propagandhim]

The reason we have scarcity is because some folks have decided that stratifying access to basic needs is a good idea for the human species

 

This is the part that always gets me. Where the fuck do these idiots think all these goods come from?

No Neopetenthe, the reason we don't have scarcity is because people grow that fucking food and make those clothes and it's hard fucking work to do so.

It's such hard work that some of them invested their meagre profits in researching and developing innovative ways to make producing that shit cheaper and more efficient so much so that scarcity stopped being an issue for most people.

You know what would happen if you and the rest of the tankies decided that there was no more inherent value to these necessities? All that would stop and your take a carrot, leave a carrot system would result in scarcity again...and you know what system solves scarcity the best? Fucking captialism!!!

And if you want to know how I know this, then you just need to go and have a look at the USSR and Mao's China and Pol Pot's Cambodia for living proof that communism breeds scarcity and then look at Xi's China to see how captialism solves scarcity you dumb furry fuckhead.

Yeah, uh, sweaty, gonna need a source on that one.  Do you have any metastudies that claim starvation during the Great Leap Forward was, in fact, a real thing when people on the other side of the world had high obesity rates?  How does obesity just happen in one part of the world and starvation in the other?  Yeah, not buying it sweaty.

[Propagandhim]

I wish those Russians built a gov't issue time machine so they can stick DeepWater in an Eastern bloc USSR satellite state he'd have to dodge bullets to escape from.  Fuck, I need a break from this garbage.  Peace 

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/elon-musk-twitter-drama-ot-let%E2%80%99s-keep-it-here-parody-%F0%9F%94%B5-official-%EA%95%A4-up-reinstates-2020-election-loser-trump.649272/post-96859185

On my personal account it's about the only place I can reliably get updates on trans issues, and track movements against us

We have "reliably" doing a lot of the work here considering the Twitter sources they often post from.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-feel-critics-are-too-soft-on-mainline-pokémon-games.656340/page-4#post-96862287

Reviewers can absolutely be overly soft on games and avoid discussing or reporting on key issues because the franchise is too big to fail, yes. Do they do that to Pokemon? I don't know.

But reviewers can absolutely approach titles with kid gloves for any number of reasons. Reviewers are people, and not all reviewers are good at their jobs. It happens. People can be emotionally compromised or treat a marquee franchise from their favorite console manufacturer with a light touch or even write console war tinged reviews that get published. Hell, I wrote a mostly positive review of Killzone 2 when it came out and I can barely remember enjoying anything of that game except the multiplayer mode.

[clothedmacuser]

It's funny how all the horrible posters turned out to be idiot commie fanfic writers.   


Reading though that Nep screed reminds me of my brother when he was 18 and proposed all these cell communities with separate economies and complete peace totally enforced/created.  It also reminds me of Same Seder arguing with Libertarians.  The libertarians assure that it is a natural state to not have police or law enforcers or laws and Seder asks for a single example in history of such a society existing.

My brother found a girl, got married, had a kid in addition to the one his wife already had and now he doesn't talk about that crap anymore.  He focuses on making his job site safer. 



Basically They

[benjipwns]

The USSR went to the moon and put people in space without the technology of capitalism, this is just lazy, reductionist thinking so you can arrive at a position where technology cannot advance under a socialist model.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/%E2%80%9Cfuck-capitalism%E2%80%9D-ok-cool-i-agree-too-but-what-are-the-legitimate-alternatives-that-wouldn%E2%80%99t-ruin-the-world-more-than-it-already-is.655698/post-96862128

Damn, I wonder how the Russians beat us to space?

These dudes bitch about the US spending on the military how often? When the Soviets collapsed their own already shitty economy they were spending so much on it and they're in awe that an authoritarian state that didn't care about safety achieved things.

[benjipwns]

My brother found a girl, got married, had a kid in addition to the one his wife already had and now he doesn't talk about that crap anymore.  He focuses on making his job site safer. 

Basically They

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She addressed this shitlord:

Nah, a wealthy few hogging resources and grinding up the masses is what keeps humanity back and curbs its progress. It actively makes humanity worse and more vile, and is why this is all we have reached at this point in time.

Yep. How many brilliant people have died because of capitalism and colonialism before they could fully contribute to their communities and to the world? The amount of culture, knowledge, and potential for progress that's been deliberately wiped off the map because of the systems we have in play now has to be immeasurable.

(It's also weird that- again- people keep equating happiness and fulfillment with capitalism. Like, stop doing that. That's why that PS5 you snagged still hasn't made you any real life friends.)

[Uncle]

she's right, I converted to communism and suddenly I was surrounded by comrades

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/elon-musk-twitter-drama-ot-let%E2%80%99s-keep-it-here-parody-%F0%9F%94%B5-official-%EA%95%A4-up-reinstates-2020-election-loser-trump.649272/post-96859185

My ratio is 100:300,000 and I've been aiding in crisis response and global uprisings since 2010, so I have some platform there
I have direct contact to journalists from pretty much every major western news outlet, a number of editors from them and several high profile celebs
I'm not going to stop boosting people in need and making their plight more visible because a billionaire child now has the reigns
On my personal account it's about the only place I can reliably get updates on trans issues, and track movements against us
It's valuable to see the day-to-day life and healthcare of a host of trans women when we're 0.3% of the population and doctors know fa about us

ok jan

 

This is definitely my favorite Cuntyuji post.

The perfect combination of  

[BIONIC]

I’ll start stocking up on $20 Lucio skins to finally make some real gosh darn friends

[Propagandhim]

If Europe was this fascinating they wouldn't have needed to steal everyone else's cultures to feel proud of themselves.

How many brilliant people have died because of capitalism and colonialism before they could fully contribute to their communities and to the world? The amount of culture, knowledge, and potential for progress that's been deliberately wiped off the map because of the systems we have in play now has to be immeasurable.

Europeans aka Capitalists both steal culture and knowledge to retain it, permanently, for themselves and also deliberately wipe it off the map at the same time.  Magical people.

[benjipwns]

There's no amount of money I could pay to see Nepenthe and MovieBob discuss/debate their visions of the "post-capitalist" future because the existence of money implies the existence of scarcity and I would pay all the money until there's scarcity again:
https://twitter.com/the_moviebob/status/1594035437126881280
https://twitter.com/the_moviebob/status/1594037129319010304

spoiler (click to show/hide)

https://twitter.com/the_moviebob/status/1594362851245932547

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[benjipwns]

If Europe was this fascinating they wouldn't have needed to steal everyone else's cultures to feel proud of themselves.

How many brilliant people have died because of capitalism and colonialism before they could fully contribute to their communities and to the world? The amount of culture, knowledge, and potential for progress that's been deliberately wiped off the map because of the systems we have in play now has to be immeasurable.

Europeans aka Capitalists both steal culture and knowledge to retain it, permanently, for themselves and also deliberately wipe it off the map at the same time.  Magical people.

Actually, this makes me want to use one of our group burner accounts to ask Nepenthe when humanity eliminated scarcity. It obviously must have been before the conspiracy imposed capitalism on everyone right? Otherwise it would be capitalism that eliminated it just so the conspiracy could impose it again.

[Nintex]

And if you want to know how I know this, then you just need to go and have a look at the USSR and Mao's China and Pol Pot's Cambodia for living proof that communism breeds scarcity and then look at Xi's China to see how captialism solves scarcity you dumb furry fuckhead.

You don't have to go that far back. Europe is already falling apart because of self-destructive anti-capitalist policies instigated by D-level Bond villains.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ign-states-a-benign-fact-of-course-the-rock-responds-with-grace-and-confidence.656430/

The Rock answers a benign post with a benign post…

Marvel fanboys are the Nintendrones of film.

[PogiJones]

Memeing billionaire buying twitter and restoring the account of a terrible ex-president isn't exactly how I envisioned mob justice/cancel culture/deplatforming losing its grip on society, but hey, it's progress for speech, anyway, even if I can't stand the dude.

And handing RedMercury an L years later is always sweet.

[Boredfrom]

Memeing billionaire buying twitter and restoring the account of a terrible ex-president isn't exactly how I envisioned mob justice/cancel culture/deplatforming losing its grip on society, but hey, it's progress for speech, anyway, even if I can't stand the dude.

And handing RedMercury an L years later is always sweet.

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[PogiJones]

Posting my picture next to my picture makes me look like a goober

[PogiJones]

Memeing billionaire buying twitter and restoring the account of a terrible ex-president isn't exactly how I envisioned mob justice/cancel culture/deplatforming losing its grip on society, but hey, it's progress for speech, anyway, even if I can't stand the dude.

And handing RedMercury an L years later is always sweet.

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Do you know how hard it is for me to cut all my qualifiers out just so you losers will read all the words I write? 

[Boredfrom]

I dunno why you think Elon Musk mismanagement is for Free Speech (again, the guy is a Twitter addict) or that Twitter dying is going to stop the mob Justice (Twitter is still acting as Twitter).

[PogiJones]

I dunno why you think Elon Musk mismanagement is for Free Speech (again, the guy is a Twitter addict) or that Twitter dying is going to stop the mob Justice (Twitter is still acting as Twitter).

I didn't say either of those things. But bans for speech are deplatforming, right? And thus undoing that is....? I'm not saying anything is solved. But the opposite of what was happening is happening. Mismanagement is irrelevant to that very simple point. TBH, I'm a lot more worried about the pendulum swinging the other way if conservatives get media control than I am about any mismanagement or if twitter itself dies. IDC about twitter itself.

And to be clear: I know free speech is on a spectrum, and that everyone--even benji--has some line where crossing it is a no-no. I'm not even saying Trump's ban wasn't deserved; it could be seen as incitement to violence. I kinda think he deserved that ban, myself. All I'm saying is that his unbanning is--while in a lot of ways very sucky--free speech gaining ground. That's it.

[PogiJones]

And now you see why I cut all those qualifiers out originally.

[Boredfrom]

I’m just not that optimistic.

[PogiJones]

That's understandable.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I won't deactivate my account, but I'll probably lock things down tomorrow. I think people here might've mentioned something about resetting passwords to resist temptation -- any advice on that?

 

Advice on but using Twitter .

[benjipwns]

They talk about this shit like it's some serious life decision. It's just a website!

[benjipwns]

They talk about this shit like it's some serious life decision. It's just a website!

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/elon-musk-twitter-drama-ot-let%E2%80%99s-keep-it-here-parody-%F0%9F%94%B5-official-%EA%95%A4-up-reinstates-2020-election-loser-trump.649272/post-96859185

My ratio is 100:300,000 and I've been aiding in crisis response and global uprisings since 2010, so I have some platform there
I have direct contact to journalists from pretty much every major western news outlet, a number of editors from them and several high profile celebs
I'm not going to stop boosting people in need and making their plight more visible because a billionaire child now has the reigns
On my personal account it's about the only place I can reliably get updates on trans issues, and track movements against us
It's valuable to see the day-to-day life and healthcare of a host of trans women when we're 0.3% of the population and doctors know fa about us

ok jan

 

I've been aiding in crisis response and global uprisings since 2010, so I have some platform there

Holy fucking slacktivist. It's Twitter ya cunt

[benjipwns]

Guess who has two thumbs and also saw tweets about protests in Egypt over a decade ago.

[PogiJones]

Thank you for your service Benji

[Boredfrom]

I cannot hate Elon after seeing how desperate he is. 

Dude, you have Tesla and SpaceX, and still dirty rich.

[FUME5]

I dont read a word that pogijones loser types.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dating-era-do-you-buy-gifts-in-the-dating-stage.656337/

I'm texting this young lady (we're long distance, haven't met in person yet but have video called), convos going fine but we're having a disagreement.

She sends me her PayPal and says I have to contribute 100 bucks a month.
She sends me a gift list with Gucci slippers, a perfume on it and a few other things, and ask what I'm buying her for her birthday.
She's accustomed to being spoiled (roses, flowers, food)

The roses are neither here nor there, but I think gifts are more for a relationship.

But she tells me we're not in a relationship, she isn't sure about me/us. Said she won't video call until I buy her food ( I didn't).

Am I missing out on dating etiquette I wasn't aware of? Personally I think dating and paying for whatever you do on the date is perfectly fine, but I wouldn't buy expensive gifts for someone who I'm not in a relationship with and says she isn't even sure if she likes me.

Feels weird that she's judging the progress of our situation by whether or not I spend money on her.

So, Era, when is gift buying appropriate? Case by case basis?

This has to be a troll

———

Bonus from our favorite dating guru sex god:

You're being scammed, John Doe. What's your dating history like? Are you new?

[BadAss2961]

Era knows way too much about The Walt Disney Company.

[benjipwns]

Era knows way too much about The Walt Disney Company.

"Christians know way too much about The Bible."

See how ignorant you sound right now?

[Potato]

How many brilliant people have died because of capitalism and colonialism before they could fully contribute to their communities and to the world? The amount of culture, knowledge, and potential for progress that's been deliberately wiped off the map because of the systems we have in play now has to be immeasurable.

Can someone buy Neopetenthe a book on the cultural revolution or just send her a copy of The Killing Fields?


Bitch needs to understand what she's excusing here...

[benjipwns]

By coincidence I'm in the middle of some books about the Cultural Revolution that are particularly focused on the specific insanity at lower levels rather than the high level political intrigues of the Politboro and Mao personally:


I don't have any good Year Zero recommendations but my calling her Pol Pot was deliberate considering her swooning over an apocalypse that wipes out society and her stressing the need to eliminate all "capitalists" on Earth.

I'm not surprised but find it interesting how "overly" online Western communists often seem to ignore the outright insanity in communist Asia while suggesting strict adherence to Maoism fixes the obvious problems the Soviets had.

[PogiJones]

I dont read a word that pogijones loser types.

They're not for 15 TP people, amirite Nintex 

[PogiJones]

Era knows way too much about The Walt Disney Company.

"Christians know way too much about The Bible."

See how ignorant you sound right now?

Marrec knows way too much about Harry Potter

[Polident Hive]

In somebody’s defense (I’m lost about who is saying what) we learned jack shit about Pol Pot in school. You needed some degree of curiosity and passion to learn about the world outside the narrow scope they taught. History is humbling and generally interesting stuff. Maybe not as interesting as remembering that time when Thanos’ son changed Mr Sinister into Miss Benevolent or some shit.

[Potato]

In somebody’s defense (I’m lost about who is saying what) we learned jack shit about Pol Pot in school. You needed some degree of curiosity and passion to learn about the world outside the narrow scope they taught. History is humbling and generally interesting stuff. Maybe not as interesting as remembering that time when Thanos’ son changed Mr Sinister into Miss Benevolent or some shit.

That defence falls apart fast when someone speaks like they're the second coming of Karl Marx though

[NekoFever]

Era knows way too much about The Walt Disney Company.

Era normally 

Era when Disney gets a new CEO 

[BIONIC]

That CEO thread had more pages in 20 minutes than the Iran protests thread had since its inception 

[NekoFever]

If you aren’t willing to take risks for your protest, your protest has no value and is just surface level posturing.

[Pissy F Benny]

Not reading al that but guessing that you can't discuss the footy without adding in a few token platitudes?

[NekoFever]

It's basically like Cyberpunk threads, with two separate conversations going on and ignoring each other.

Pages about what armband England will wear; barely a mention about the Iranian players standing in silence in protest at their national anthem – you know, taking risks for their protest.

[Daffy Duck]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/world-cup-22-england-wales-other-european-nations-will-not-wear-onelove-armbands.656541/page-3#post-96890301

Going about as well as can be expected with ResetEra posters completely unable to see the bigger picture here and instead screech about how Alex Scott can wear the armband yet the men in the pitch can’t, like the situations are the same. FFS.

Would I like them to wear the armband? 100% I would.

Can I understand why they haven’t? Yes, I totally can

[NekoFever]

£10 says I know which side of the armbands are/aren't political and should/shouldn't be worn in football side they fall on every late October/early November when the right-wing English newspapers start kicking off about whether England should be allowed to wear poppies.

[Uncle]

they should all wear armbands with pictures of yellow cards on them, it will still be completely obvious what it means
 

[maninthemirror]

How long before era mods ban discussion of world
Cup and close OT 

These nutjobs at era go when in Rome when it comes to western nations and fuck Rome when it comes to other cultures . This whole thing brought era’s racist mask off

Qatar : let’s play World Cup football, no agenda
Era folks : no we want to push lgbtq agenda , we want to play social politics not football

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/game-makers-toolkit-why-do-god-of-wars-characters-keep-spoiling-puzzles.655461/page-4#post-96724701

User Banned: (Duration pending review) Trolling behavior, previous similar behavior

Honestly yes. The more attention on this stupid bullshit the better.


Why on Earth would you be looking up a wiki every 10 minutes....


How is it not a spoiler when the puzzle solution is blurted out for you without you asking?? If I tell you, before you even start to play today's Wordle, that today's word contains two Ls and an A, that's obviously a puzzle spoiler.

"For fucks sake" indeed.


How is that a solution lmao. Yeah, turn off the ENTIRE SOUND to avoid having the game ruin puzzles for you... 🤦‍♀️


What is this nonsense? It's been 4 years since then so maybe I'm misremembering, but I don't remember GoW2018 being this comically hand-holdy. Having companions banter has nothing to do with them spelling out puzzle or combat solutions, this is not a good argument at all.


You know what the difference is though? You can... not read those messages, or even play offline entirely.

The real 🤦‍♀️ is you giving way too much of a shit about something so stupid.