Other Forums Containment Thread

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/recycle-reuse-renew-rethink-walmart-canada-apologizes-and-removes-t-shirt-with-design-flaw-resulting-in-a-hidden-message.708482/

 

[maninthemirror]

At this point we've already established the marginalization is more internal than external (on the violence front).  At least in America, there is no directly violent legislation being proposed against trans people, it's entirely based on denying their identity in various ways.  The threat to their physical existence has always been suicide as a result of what's going on around them, which sucks of course, but I've never heard of encouraging suicide as equivalent to genocide regardless of how bad conditions got.  It would be like calling Jonestown a genocide.  There's really no other marginalized group I can think of where the threat isn't state violence or (non-group specific) basic human rights being taken away, but self-harm.

The black community for over 250+ years has suffered a million times more than the trans community . Trans community have supporters in half the country, for over 100 years black people had zero support. Absolutely zero . You don’t hear about any suicide en mass . Look at Uyghurs under China , look at jews under Hitler, look at native Americans against settlers, look at Palestinians against Israeli government. These are examples of struggle and yet they are not associated with suicide . In comparison to these the trans community is living in a utopia and yet when they hear a misgender they get triggered . These people need help

[Potato]

reminder kyuuji saw native american genociding nazi propaganda Avatar 2 6 timesin theaters and ignored every single post about it being problematic.

Kyujigijigi ignores the reality of their own existence every single day

[team filler]

it's like the worst most dramatic of the gays are what the trans reee activists are made from 


it's that one "leave britney alone!" guy but an entire community of them 

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/leaker-of-u-s-secret-documents-worked-on-military-base-friend-says.708083/page-6#post-104134226

The one thing I miss about having a Twitter profile is just to tell her how a massive fraud she is.

She probably never saw anything of it, I was completely self aware of that, but the interaction itself was worth it still.

No, it probably it wasn’t, my dude.

[Colonel Mustard]

For a rAdIcAl pRoGrEsSiVe sOcIaLiSt forum, they sure do carry a ton of water for the US state department and ban anyone who goes against that.

[maninthemirror]

For a rAdIcAl pRoGrEsSiVe sOcIaLiSt forum, they sure do carry a ton of water for the US state department and ban anyone who goes against that.

Horseshoe theory

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ceo-of-nintendo-russia-is-running-an-import-company-to-avoid-the-official-nintendo-sales-ban-in-russia.708149/page-2#post-104093492

User banned (permanent): Whataboutisms over multiple posts in a sensitive thread. Multiple prior bans for dismissing racism, dismissing sexism, and hostility

Ah yes, you would rather watch the people of Ukraine get slaughtered?

Again, you are presumably fine with the horrors of the war on terror and its dark epilogue in Yemen. Would you support China arming Houthis with state of the art weapons to defend themselves against the US and Saudi Arabia? Is that how peace is achieved?

This one is interesting because prominent members in the Off Topic section like RustyNails and Nepenthe constantly use the first example to shame anyone who thinks America isn't the worst society to ever exist, so it seems like a rather reasonable whataboutism especially when we consider that any realistic evaluation of a Nintendo sales ban in Russia is that it has absolutely zero connection to Russian success (or lack there of) in the attempt to conquer Ukraine or even to just mindlessly slaughter Ukrainians. (The latter being a relatively trivial task for any modern state to accomplish on a whim at low cost.)

The proper response would be to articulate how the war on terror and events in Yemen, while bad, do not compare to what Russia is intentionally doing. This could foster a discussion as to what level of irrelevant internet nobodies adhering blindly to nationalist policies targeted at innocent people is worth upholding and inspire others to become more aware of American wrongs that they could push back against (something denied to Russian citizens) but nah the proper recourse here is to permaban someone questioning the public performance of people trying to earn "goodboy" social credit points on a "video game" forum as to their principled views. Anyway, this guy should have been posting in a trans thread from a Twitter grifter who not only lies but cannot read the things they lie about to raise awareness about the heckin genocide Joanne is enacting that she outlined all the steps of in Harry Potter.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/multiple-u-s-cities-sue-hyundai-and-kia-after-wave-of-car-thefts-wsj.708485/

The US should just make this a requirement. Freaking failed state here.

This fucking forum, man.

[benjipwns]

Further, I would consider a Nintendo sales ban to be advantageous to the Russian war effort. Consider $1000 in true value (i.e that at any point this whatever can trade for $1000 at this moment) now consider a Russian Nintendo fan. Under the lack of a ban this Russian Nintendo fan can purchase $1000 in Nintendo products as is his normal monthly expenditure, everyone in the supply chain now has $1000 and the Russian Nintendo fan has $1000 worth of Nintendo products the Russian state has no interest in. Under the ban, he cannot make these purchases and the Russian state can instead seize the $1000 to purchase $1000 of military arms with or to pay soldiers or whatever. Nintendo bans are anti-Ukraine. Q.E.D.

 

[benjipwns]

"But the ban will raise his discontent with Putin leading to his eventual overthrow after the Nintendo fan begins social protest."

He's a Nintendo fan, your hypothesis is immediately falsified.

[Raist]

reminder kyuuji saw native american genociding nazi propaganda Avatar 2 6 timesin theaters and ignored every single post about it being problematic.

Excuse me, it was for research into the problematic themes.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/person-puts-square-wheels-on-bike-actually-works-no-really.708506/

Nsalivas is an idiot.

[jorma]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/via-erin-reed-missouri-ags-new-emergency-rule-requires-trans-people-seeking-care-to-have-3-consecutive-years-of-dysphoria-and-never-be-depressed.708320/#post-104110256

More trans genocide 

The thing is I don't doubt that there are legislator who happily argue for anti-trans laws but with RE screaming genocide at every corner they've basically turned into the boy who cried wolf.

This suggested law sounds way to extreme to me but should mental health be completely ignored? I don't think so

excuse me? GIRL who cried wolf, you fucking terf whore 

[benita]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/recycle-reuse-renew-rethink-walmart-canada-apologizes-and-removes-t-shirt-with-design-flaw-resulting-in-a-hidden-message.708482/

 

Who else thought they were complaining about something else?

 

[Snoopycat_]

Why is the food in Disney Parks so mediocre?

You’d think for the rising costs and the food mark-up, even today, you’d get much more tastier options at Disney Parks. However, I’ve always found the food in Disney Parks to be downright mediocre. Even in the fine dining spots. Heck, I even prefer leaving the parks and eating outside them at better venues for food.

I know food is not the draw, but at those prices—both tickets and food prices, you’d think they be better here.

I’ve honestly had better stuff from food trucks in my travels, than overpriced Disney Parks food

I dunno, maybe because it's a theme park for children you absolute plank

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-is-the-food-in-disney-parks-so-mediocre.708566/

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rs-the-marvels-trailer-has-been-trending-and-once-again-brie-larson-is-facing-harrasment-and-hate-campaigns.708362/

  BREAKING NEWS

The Marvels YT trailer is kinda getting ratio'd, BETTER PRE-EMPTIVELY BLAME INCELS / ALT RIGHT CHUDS / GAMER GATE

 

The most TEPID of comments got so many morons angry for YEARS...It's hilarious and pathetic, truly.

[Potato]

Why is the food in Disney Parks so mediocre?

You’d think for the rising costs and the food mark-up, even today, you’d get much more tastier options at Disney Parks. However, I’ve always found the food in Disney Parks to be downright mediocre. Even in the fine dining spots. Heck, I even prefer leaving the parks and eating outside them at better venues for food.

I know food is not the draw, but at those prices—both tickets and food prices, you’d think they be better here.

I’ve honestly had better stuff from food trucks in my travels, than overpriced Disney Parks food

I dunno, maybe because it's a theme park for children you absolute plank

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-is-the-food-in-disney-parks-so-mediocre.708566/

Wait, wait, wait. This fucking idiot is surprised that mass produced theme park slop is not as good as meals from food trucks which are renowned for being some of the most innovative foods available?

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/person-puts-square-wheels-on-bike-actually-works-no-really.708506/

Nsalivas is an idiot.

Oh lord, I loled hard.  How the hell did that person think square is also wheels

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/person-puts-square-wheels-on-bike-actually-works-no-really.708506/

Nsalivas is an idiot.

Oh lord, I loled hard.  How the hell did that person think square is also wheels

You can't tell if something identifies as a wheel or not just from looking at them.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Here are some selected quotes from the past week written by people this man pays to read:

Black Lives Matter's critical stance toward America's claims on democracy and justice is, in my view, disastrously misguided.
I cannot endorse the idea that white people should, as a matter of course, intentionally segregate themselves from black people. And yet, I cannot dismiss the sentiment to which [Scott] Adams was giving voice.

That's not to say there's nothing uniquely troublesome about this area of medicine. I want to better understand how strong the case is that there are some conflicts of interest going on here: it seems like the vast majority of the research about youth gender medicine, in the United States at least, is published by doctors at clinics, who for obvious reasons want it to be the case that their treatments are great.

I never use the word w*ke. It's an error to use the term if you hate it, or merely find it laughable and/or contemptible. I'm very confident it won't be beaten while it's enemies use the term. I'm not sure of a better alternative but it's something like 'the me cult' because this phenomenon is (A) the latest in a centuries-long trend of emphasising the individual as all-important and (B) it resembles a cult more than normal Anglo-American politics. Supposedly egalitarian, the cult is suffused with hierarchies. Supposedly liberal, the cult often resembles a lame echo of Stalinism, particularly when trying to destroy careers, though some of its upper hierarchies clearly have ambitions to be less lame and more dangerous.

...what are these quotes supposed to prove, because at face value they seem like well reasoned parts towards a larger argument 

[Taco Bell Tower]

God damnit, that made me some kind of bigot

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

What on earth is "gotcha content moderation"

eg "Would you allow a piece of writing that states although one ethnic group are generally of low moral standing, there is sometimes one of the 'good ones'?"

IF YES: you love racists
IF NO: congrats you just banned the good samaritan from THE BIBLE"

[Polident Hive]

Under the impression the modem theme park landscape is built around whales (not in the fat sense… but that too) will accept overly inflated fees and pay for the roadkill and tap water. Thus making it expensive and less accessible for sub lower middle class families with kids to go on vacations. Don’t know. Last time I’ve been to once, we were in Bush’s first term

[Kurt Russell]

Why is the food in Disney Parks so mediocre?

You’d think for the rising costs and the food mark-up, even today, you’d get much more tastier options at Disney Parks. However, I’ve always found the food in Disney Parks to be downright mediocre. Even in the fine dining spots. Heck, I even prefer leaving the parks and eating outside them at better venues for food.

I know food is not the draw, but at those prices—both tickets and food prices, you’d think they be better here.

I’ve honestly had better stuff from food trucks in my travels, than overpriced Disney Parks food

I dunno, maybe because it's a theme park for children you absolute plank

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-is-the-food-in-disney-parks-so-mediocre.708566/

Wait, wait, wait. This fucking idiot is surprised that mass produced theme park slop is not as good as meals from food trucks which are renowned for being some of the most innovative foods available?

jfc Disney play parks have fine dining zones?

 

[Boredfrom]

Why is the food in Disney Parks so mediocre?

You’d think for the rising costs and the food mark-up, even today, you’d get much more tastier options at Disney Parks. However, I’ve always found the food in Disney Parks to be downright mediocre. Even in the fine dining spots. Heck, I even prefer leaving the parks and eating outside them at better venues for food.

I know food is not the draw, but at those prices—both tickets and food prices, you’d think they be better here.

I’ve honestly had better stuff from food trucks in my travels, than overpriced Disney Parks food

I dunno, maybe because it's a theme park for children you absolute plank

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-is-the-food-in-disney-parks-so-mediocre.708566/

Wait, wait, wait. This fucking idiot is surprised that mass produced theme park slop is not as good as meals from food trucks which are renowned for being some of the most innovative foods available?

jfc Disney play parks have fine dining zones?

 

Michelin grade, in fact:

https://magicguides.com/best-michelin-guide-restaurants-at-disney-world/

[benjipwns]

jfc Disney play parks have fine dining zones?

 

I'm pretty sure there was a thread about how they're the best way to experience fine dining and actually save money through one of the Disney payment plan things.

[benjipwns]

Here are some selected quotes from the past week written by people this man pays to read:

Black Lives Matter's critical stance toward America's claims on democracy and justice is, in my view, disastrously misguided.
I cannot endorse the idea that white people should, as a matter of course, intentionally segregate themselves from black people. And yet, I cannot dismiss the sentiment to which [Scott] Adams was giving voice.

That's not to say there's nothing uniquely troublesome about this area of medicine. I want to better understand how strong the case is that there are some conflicts of interest going on here: it seems like the vast majority of the research about youth gender medicine, in the United States at least, is published by doctors at clinics, who for obvious reasons want it to be the case that their treatments are great.

I never use the word w*ke. It's an error to use the term if you hate it, or merely find it laughable and/or contemptible. I'm very confident it won't be beaten while it's enemies use the term. I'm not sure of a better alternative but it's something like 'the me cult' because this phenomenon is (A) the latest in a centuries-long trend of emphasising the individual as all-important and (B) it resembles a cult more than normal Anglo-American politics. Supposedly egalitarian, the cult is suffused with hierarchies. Supposedly liberal, the cult often resembles a lame echo of Stalinism, particularly when trying to destroy careers, though some of its upper hierarchies clearly have ambitions to be less lame and more dangerous.

...what are these quotes supposed to prove, because at face value they seem like well reasoned parts towards a larger argument 

It's fun that they took out the who and just posted these blindly. (Or more likely took it from an approved "thinker" on social media.)

First one isn't even "written" as it's a video discussion between three Black men for paid subscribers: https://glennloury.substack.com/p/the-mainstreaming-of-black-lives

Second one is from progressive Democrat Jesse Singal as always questioning bad research: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/your-questions-answered-therapy-whether

Third one is not from last week but last December: https://dominiccummings.substack.com/p/3-regime-change-rationalism-in-politics

It's also funny that that poster says:

I gotta say, a black man stanning for Scott Adams in 2023 is some ultra instinct level coonery.

When there's people, like Nepenthe, on the forum who totally believe in permanent racial segregation, something the person rejected. (In a comment that is not "stanning" for anyone.)

[Jansen]

genocissy

Genociding cis gender sissy




https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/page-69#post-104142860

If I where a man that wanted to rape woman in the ladies room, I would just walk in, don't need to be a treansgender to do that.
I always ask myself, if the rape fearing woman never go to the mens room(I'm sorry Rapist room) when the line for the ladies room is too long

https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/page-69#post-104144159

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

jfc Disney play parks have fine dining zones?

 

I'm pretty sure there was a thread about how they're the best way to experience fine dining and actually save money through one of the Disney payment plan things.

I think it went even further and suggested disney world is on par if not better than actually visiting other countries and experiencing other cultures firsthand

[NekoFever]

Under the impression the modem theme park landscape is built around whales (not in the fat sense… but that too) will accept overly inflated fees and pay for the roadkill and tap water. Thus making it expensive and less accessible for sub lower middle class families with kids to go on vacations. Don’t know. Last time I’ve been to once, we were in Bush’s first term

The prices have gone insane, speaking as someone who went to WDW annually in the 90s and then went for the first time since then in 2021. The nickel and diming has got ridiculous too.

And yet, yeah, the shops and restaurants are rammed with Disney adults going nuts over pins and limited edition food containers.

I think it went even further and suggested disney world is on par if not better than actually visiting other countries and experiencing other cultures firsthand

There was definitely a guy on Era who said he didn't need to travel internationally because he had an annual pass and could go to Epcot.

[MMaRsu]

So basically they just started talking to me about a PS5 and overwatch 2 to me out of nowhere. Both things I play a fair bit btw. But anyways they mentioned they are gonna play Ow2 all weekend this weekend now that their kids are out of town and how they don't get to play often. We had never really talked before this. Then they busted out the question:

"YO! You a gamer!?"


I freaked out. I said "n-no!" like really loud in the most obviously lying way possible. BUT I PANICKED. I just didn't want to be put in THAT box, ya know? I don't want them to think I PLAY PLAY video games, ya know? Like, seriously play them. So I lied. The room got all quiet. It was like they were expecting me to say yes.

I feel like I may have missed a connection here? Like they were going to invite me to a sort of gaming circle so we could play together? I dunno. But it got awkward after that?

How do you answer when asked this? Do you even get asked this at all? Do you hide your power level? Also, do you share that you surf gaming forums all day for news? Do you tell them about us? Resetera?

Dont label me gamer!!!!!!!!!1111

Even though I spend 90% of my time on gaming forums and own a PS5

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-a-coworker-asked-me-if-i-was-a-gamer.708593/

 

[team filler]

"let us cheat at sport or we're gonna kill ourselves and call it genocide  " 


jk rowling continues to have great success and new deals for her wizard franchise 

dave chapelle continues to be one of the best at what he does and has a new netflix special anytime he wants 

thebore.com continues to thrive and be right about everything 

[nobody of note]

In constructive a helpful example of who exactly would still pay for Era Clear during the reign of MOBA:

Just double checking because I never saw an announcement but this “Resetera Clear” is legit right? I can’t seem to find a thread but I’m also tired and brain fried from personal issues. I thought it was a late April Fools Joke but it seems to actually work to remove ads so I’m guessing it’s legit. Ha.

It is, yes.

Thank you. I could not find anything anywhere. And again my brain is kind of fried so my searching abilities week, just like my self control: because I already signed up for it before asking if it was legit. Please don’t ask if I want to download RAM because I might.

[Boredfrom]

jfc Disney play parks have fine dining zones?

 

I'm pretty sure there was a thread about how they're the best way to experience fine dining and actually save money through one of the Disney payment plan things.

Yeah, I doubt I can save money there.

[Pissy F Benny]

watching a single film in a cinema 6 times is disgusting, i doubt i watch 6 films a year these days seeing as they're all TOO FUCKING LONG now

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

How sick did you and your kids get? Every time I hear about cruise ships one of the common recurring themes is "one of us got sick, and then all of us got sick", because cruise liners tend to be insulated disease cans and cruises are usually so expensive that guests won't cancel if they get sick the day before departure.

Did you guys come back with a cold or the flu or anything?

Planetsmasher back with another "I read a twitter thread" statement thats not really a thing like it was a conversation he had recently at a dinner party

[maninthemirror]

Meanwhile , the newly trans Chris Tyson of Mr beast fame gender affirming his son

[HaughtyFrank]

Guess the OP

https://www.resetera.com/threads/new-news-new-thread-tyt-dedicated-15-minutes-to-tone-policing-trans-folk-wherein-ana-validates-the-trans-youth-care-and-athlete-debate.708479/

"How dare you report when people behaved like maniacs"

[MMaRsu]

Meanwhile , the newly trans Chris Tyson of Mr beast fame gender affirming his son


(Image removed from quote.)

yikes

[Snoopycat_]

Ree - Why is it so difficult to make friends? No one wants to hang out with me.

Co-worker - Oh hey, I just got a PS5. You play video games don’t you?

Ree - Fuuuuuuuuuuccccccckkkkkkkkkk Ooooooooooffffffffffff

[clothedmacuser]

There was definitely a guy on Era who said he didn't need to travel internationally because he had an annual pass and could go to Epcot.

There was one of a typical, "America is the most racist places on earth," types who said why bother traveling and experiencing new cultures if they would just hate him because he was black.  He would rather just spend the money on a larger TV

[Nintex]

So basically they just started talking to me about a PS5 and overwatch 2 to me out of nowhere. Both things I play a fair bit btw. But anyways they mentioned they are gonna play Ow2 all weekend this weekend now that their kids are out of town and how they don't get to play often. We had never really talked before this. Then they busted out the question:

"YO! You a gamer!?"


I freaked out. I said "n-no!" like really loud in the most obviously lying way possible. BUT I PANICKED. I just didn't want to be put in THAT box, ya know? I don't want them to think I PLAY PLAY video games, ya know? Like, seriously play them. So I lied. The room got all quiet. It was like they were expecting me to say yes.

I feel like I may have missed a connection here? Like they were going to invite me to a sort of gaming circle so we could play together? I dunno. But it got awkward after that?

How do you answer when asked this? Do you even get asked this at all? Do you hide your power level? Also, do you share that you surf gaming forums all day for news? Do you tell them about us? Resetera?

Dont label me gamer!!!!!!!!!1111

Even though I spend 90% of my time on gaming forums and own a PS5

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-a-coworker-asked-me-if-i-was-a-gamer.708593/

 

Meanwhile in Nintex' office

Nintex: "Did you see the new Zelda trailer?"

co-worker: "Nope not yet but my sister has it pre-ordered"

*Nintex opens the Zelda trailer on the Samsung The Frame TV*

co-worker: "Holy shit"

different co-worker from across the office: "Woah, are they doing a Zelda movie now?"

Nintex: "Nope, it's the new game but it looks just as epic as a movie"

different co-worker from across the office: "Oh man I really need to buy a Switch"

co-worker: "Did you see the Mario movie yet?"

Nintex: "Nope, but I've seen John Wick 4"

*Nintex opens John Wick 4 trailer*

*phone rings*
Client: "I'm looking for Nintex is he around"

co-worker: "NINTEX IS BUSY RIGHT NOW CAN HE CALL YOU BACK LATER? (shouting over the sound of the John Wick 4 trailer)"

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rishi-sunak-latest-unelected-prime-minister-of-the-uk-says-100-of-women-do-not-have-a-penis.708704/

That thread title…

[BIONIC]

And then all your co-workers took turns sucking your dick

[Nintex]

It's misinformation too:

"For 99.9 per cent of women, it is completely biological ... and of course, they haven't got a penis."

99.9% not 100%.

[Boredfrom]

I understand why Sunak is scumbag, so not defending hid quote… but is funny how disconnected RE is from the average person as most people will not exactly react in outrage reading that headline (even if they ProTrans).

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/disney%E2%80%99s-live-action-%E2%80%98lilo-stitch%E2%80%99-movie-finds-its-lilo-in-newcomer-maia-kealoha-joins-zach-galifianakis.703784/post-104134196

Now it's time for RE to get upset about Disney casting

https://twitter.com/ziarastar/status/1646675678740324353

People are rightfully mad because damn the really could not find an Hawaiian actress with some melanin. Colorism wins again I guess.

Meanwhile the casting in Little Mermaid where the white Prince Eric has a Black Mom

https://twitter.com/StreamrNews/status/1643284315504103433

 

[Taco Bell Tower]

In constructive a helpful example of who exactly would still pay for Era Clear during the reign of MOBA:

Just double checking because I never saw an announcement but this “Resetera Clear” is legit right? I can’t seem to find a thread but I’m also tired and brain fried from personal issues. I thought it was a late April Fools Joke but it seems to actually work to remove ads so I’m guessing it’s legit. Ha.

It is, yes.

Thank you. I could not find anything anywhere. And again my brain is kind of fried so my searching abilities week, just like my self control: because I already signed up for it before asking if it was legit. Please don’t ask if I want to download RAM because I might.

If I'm not mistaken didn't B-Dumbs and the rest of the upper class mentioned they were getting rid of it?

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Why doe era still have a link to the genocide in the footer?

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rishi-sunak-latest-unelected-prime-minister-of-the-uk-says-100-of-women-do-not-have-a-penis.708704/

That thread title…

not actioned

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trailer-for-jada-pinkett-smiths-queen-cleopatra-documentary-film-courts-controversy.708728/

Casted a Light Skinned black person as Cleo. Gonna say if it was someone very dark skinned, I get it but lol….her skin tone isn’t far off from a 2023 Egyptian. Also feel like they wouldn’t care if it was Emma Stone casted…

Oops…

Cleopatra VII was Greek and would have looked more like other Greeks or Romans at the time. That's not to say there weren't Black rulers of Egypt, but most academics would agree that Cleopatra specifically wasn't black as it would be understood today..

[joeboy101]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trailer-for-jada-pinkett-smiths-queen-cleopatra-documentary-film-courts-controversy.708728/

Casted a Light Skinned black person as Cleo. Gonna say if it was someone very dark skinned, I get it but lol….her skin tone isn’t far off from a 2023 Egyptian. Also feel like they wouldn’t care if it was Emma Stone casted…

Oops…

Cleopatra VII was Greek and would have looked more like other Greeks or Romans at the time. That's not to say there weren't Black rulers of Egypt, but most academics would agree that Cleopatra specifically wasn't black as it would be understood today..

And whom have those ‘academics’ been following on Twitter, huh?! Probably some YT Sam Hyde shit I bet, the bigots.

[paprikastaude]

wrong thread

lol resetti

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/justin-trudeau-snatched-the-soul-of-a-pro-life-ppc-kid-today.708227/page-2#post-104103899

User Banned (2 Weeks): Misogynistic Slur

I hate the term "pro life". It's not pro life, it's anti abortion. If it was pro life they'd also be campaigning for better welfare and financial aid for children born in difficult environments because life doesn't fucking end at birth. So they're not pro life because they couldn't give a shit about the child's actual life, just about stopping all women being able to get an abortion. That's what they want. The cunts.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/substack-ceo-refuses-to-say-if-racism-will-be-moderated-on-new-platform-substack-notes-i%E2%80%99m-not-going-to-get-into-gotcha-content-moderation.708398/page-3#post-104135741

User Banned (2 Weeks): Misogynistic Slur

If he had been asked if child abuse material was allowed on the platform, do you think he would still decline to answer?

That's illegal so it is a simple answer. Being a racist cunt isn't illegal.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

wrong thread

lol resetti

[EightBitNate]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/new-news-new-thread-tyt-dedicated-15-minutes-to-tone-policing-trans-folk-wherein-ana-validates-the-trans-youth-care-and-athlete-debate.708479/

Why are so many of their threads titled this way, as if theyre aware that the thread isn’t newsworthy lol

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-microsoft-activision-blizzard-acquisition-ot-antitrust-simulator.633344/page-791#post-104158997

User Banned (permanent): Troll account

Surely there is a another thread better suited for this type of commentary?

Unfortunately not. Lots of good info about the merger but this website is a cesspit when it comes to politics.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/europe-must-resist-pressure-to-become-%E2%80%98america%E2%80%99s-followers-%E2%80%99-says-macron.706856/page-4#post-103980026

User Banned (Permanently): Dismissing Concerns of Islamophobia; History of Downplaying and Dismissing Racism & Bigotry

Not even close? The US invaded TWO countries with shock and awe tactics that completely destabilized those countries, killed millions, and created millions more refugees and resulted in even more extreme destabilization in the Middle East and planned to invade even more countries at one point. We went straight for the infrastructure, signed away natural resources and introduced mass privatization, and then stared like a fucking idiot when people asked if they had literally any plan for afterwards and just kept extracting resources for the benefit of a handful of US backed oligarchs. The US JUST left Afghanistan 1.5 years ago and then promptly exacerbated a famine by refusing to release money held by Afghan civilians (and people can argue all the bullshit about the Taliban getting the money, but the point is that the US was complicit and responsible the minute they withheld that money and earmarked it for 9/11 victims). The US did what Russia is doing in Ukraine twice over not less than 20 years ago and not a soul has been prosecuted, the war criminals are still to an extent celebrated here, and the US then proceeded to drone strike just about anywhere they wanted in the Middle East during all of Obama and Trump's Presidency, including directly killing an Iranian general and damn near sending the US into open conflict with Iran. The US still occupies land in Syria to this day. The US still supports the Saudis in their blockade of Yemen that has resulted in a decade of food crisis and horrific death toll from the Civil War. The US still supports Israel's apartheid regime unflinchingly as Israel has spun further and further towards genocide and continued occupation of land that has resulted in untold suffering to the Palestinians. Every South American country has a coup attempt story from the last 50 years that has resulted in basically the entirety of the continent refusing to look towards the US for anything (except for when the ultra right wing people get into power).

Take one step outside of "The West" and the US IS THE BAD GUY. No other country has the recent military record the US has and the Global South has ran to China to make deals and create opportunities while running as far away as possible from the US and the IMF relatively speaking. There's a reason the US is seen as the single biggest obstacle to world peace by a great number of countries when surveyed. China is not an ideal or good regime, but are people here genuinely surprised that a good portion of the world absolutely prefers China and their economic incentives to US big stick policy exerting the unipolar world order pressure through military might and threats since the fall of the Soviet Union unilaterally and without consequences?

And while people can point to how China treats its own citizens, does the US having one of the highest incarceration rates in the world amounting to modern day slavery just not register? Or the tens of thousands dying every year from an institutional and deliberate lack of universal healthcare while the country has made billions of weapons and enriched a handful of oligarchs. The US dresses up its mistreatment of its own citizens as "problems that need to be worked on" and then promptly does extremely little by design to solve many of those problems. People get arrested, mistreated, and have systems designed to deny them human decency and rights all the time. But because it's "part of the system", those injustices are allowed to stack up ad naseum as the promise of "just elect the right guy to fix them" is forever dangled to the populace. The US already committed its primary genocide to exist and did basically nothing to own up to that, and the possibilities of a trans genocide are unfolding before the states now too as the already extreme right wing pushes harder and harder towards dehumanizing and demonizing LGBT people (and a good deal of that is completely legal under the system too and increasingly with little recourse to stop it). A lot of Chinese policy is horrific and cruel towards it people, dehumanizing, and completely fucking horrific too. But the point I bring up is that the US certainly does not treat its own people well even if it is SUPPOSED to in theory have all these guard rails and features to protect people.

And beyond that, no other country in the world has the direct military intervention record the US does. And how many states have gotten into bed with the US to find their industries, resources, and institutions gutted and sold off to "Western capital" or even just "austerity measures" sold to gut the economies of other countries. It's happened time and time again, so of course the US screams as loud as it can about what Belt and Road is going to do to countries... because that's exactly what the US has done over and over.

I think to a majority of the world's population does not think of China as "FAR WORSE" than the US. I'd say a majority of the population has on average had more to fear from the US and its military than China. And until people can acknowledge that, the US is never going to be suddenly winning over the world community on this. The Islamic world alone has endured massive suffering at the hands of the US, and that's well beyond its own borders (though the US did make sure to have hyper Islamophobia for a while and has persecuted Muslims in its territory too countless times since the Bush era, with once again no actual consequences to anybody committing those actions). None of what the US does justifies bad things that China does or excuses them or whatever people I KNOW are going to in bad faith take this commentary to mean. But there's the reality of the US on multiple levels, and then there's especially the reality that the foreign policy of the US has been several times more destructive to parts of the world than Chinese foreign policy, and that has been ESPECIALLY true in the past 20 years.

If the US wants to position itself as the "good guy" to China's "bad guy", it has a few thousand war criminals to prosecute, a whole bunch of international laws to start adhering to, begin offering better options for most of the world that doesn't involve resource theft and blind eyes to totalitarian regimes and authoritarian actions resulted in the deaths of millions, etc.

I don't like even entertaining the prospect of defending China here, but like, the response to this can't be suddenly hyper focused around the US as a "much better" alternative that proceeds to either forgive countless US atrocities or ignores the suffering of millions. And people occasionally try to weasel around these issues by blaming it on this Republican and that one instead to try and shift the idea of the US from a less rightwing nation that it objectively is, but it's not like the Democrats are fully taking steps to truly pull back US imperialist ideas and actions, or prosecuting the criminals, or doing things to well and truly reverse the damages done. And whatever is done is on just truly a pathetic scale compared to what is needed. You'd need a top to bottom readjustment of US foreign policy for this to ever work, and you'd probably have to spend decades rebuilding the broken relationships and trust with so many international partners at this point.

Im not going to read this word stew. uyghur kamps alone are far worse and massive than anything the US has done. To talk about US islamophobia is ridiculous compared to that.