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[HaughtyFrank]

Edit: Nm

[Uncle]

Only the English could consider this a "literal hellscape".
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Not shown: 10,000 snakes, spiders, crocs, sharks, dingos and drop bears with murderous intent

Drop bears are the only thing to worry about

an entire animal species just riddled with chlamydia

[Potato]

Only the English could consider this a "literal hellscape".
(Image removed from quote.)

Not shown: 10,000 snakes, spiders, crocs, sharks, dingos and drop bears with murderous intent

Drop bears are the only thing to worry about

an entire animal species just riddled with chlamydia

Drop Bears are not Koalas. Different species.

[Lonewulfeus]

RustyNails
Attempted to circumvent ban with alt account
Banned

 

Who was his alt?

I think it was that topless new guy

That’s what I thought too, but he’s not banned.

[Daffy Duck]

Oh no, they got sacked


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12060053/amp/Starbucks-sack-trans-worker-berated-female-customer-confrontation-misgendered.html

[Daffy Duck]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-this-really-what-chinese-take-away-is-in-the-uk.716386/page-5#post-105260218

User Banned (2 Weeks): Inflammatory trolling towards Chinese people

im going to murder a chinese tonight.

Hahahahahhaa holy fuck these mods are dumb cunts, that’s standard phrasing for eating food.

And this cunt

that poster sure was excited to have a 'fun' reason to say 'murder a chinese'

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-this-really-what-chinese-take-away-is-in-the-uk.716386/page-6#post-105260836

[HaughtyFrank]

Oh no, they got sacked


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12060053/amp/Starbucks-sack-trans-worker-berated-female-customer-confrontation-misgendered.html

Now RE can make a thread about it.

"Spineless pieces of shit. Will never order extra cream again"

"Always thought that there was something the off about Starbucks "

[killamajig]

RustyNails
Attempted to circumvent ban with alt account
Banned

 

Who was his alt?

I think it was that topless new guy

That’s what I thought too, but he’s not banned.

Ban bot is down so I can't check for any bans for ISIS support. Lol

I was wondering how do they catch alt accounts? I'm assuming they're using the same IP or something. But wouldn't they be checking for duplicates all the time? I feel like I've seen posters that got banned with alts that had thousands of posts on both accounts. How does that get through the system? Sorry if it's a dumb question I'm high rn.

[Taco Bell Tower]

RustyNails
Attempted to circumvent ban with alt account
Banned

 

Who was his alt?

I think it was that topless new guy

That’s what I thought too, but he’s not banned.

Ban bot is down so I can't check for any bans for ISIS support. Lol

I was wondering how do they catch alt accounts? I'm assuming they're using the same IP or something. But wouldn't they be checking for duplicates all the time? I feel like I've seen posters that got banned with alts that had thousands of posts on both accounts. How does that get through the system? Sorry if it's a dumb question I'm high rn.

My guess is they have a feeling it's a banned person back with an alt with the same behavior lol.

[Uncle]

I was wondering how do they catch alt accounts? I'm assuming they're using the same IP or something. But wouldn't they be checking for duplicates all the time? I feel like I've seen posters that got banned with alts that had thousands of posts on both accounts. How does that get through the system? Sorry if it's a dumb question I'm high rn.

there are probably tools built into the forum software, or plugins you can buy/download to help with this

however, you can't (I mean, shouldn't) just go banning everyone who uses a VPN, which feature identical public IP addresses for many customers

but for era, I'm sure that's an excuse they don't feel they have to care about, they can use any justification to ban at all

[Lonewulfeus]

I use a vpn when I log into the riotous account and it’s never been caught

[Cauliflower Of Love]

RustyNails
Attempted to circumvent ban with alt account
Banned

 

Who was his alt?

I think it was that topless new guy

That’s what I thought too, but he’s not banned.

Ban bot is down so I can't check for any bans for ISIS support. Lol

I was wondering how do they catch alt accounts? I'm assuming they're using the same IP or something. But wouldn't they be checking for duplicates all the time? I feel like I've seen posters that got banned with alts that had thousands of posts on both accounts. How does that get through the system? Sorry if it's a dumb question I'm high rn.

I snitch them out all the time.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/alanah-pearce-suspended-from-twitch-mid-stream-for-watching-nintendo-approved-preview-footage-of-totk-update-suspension-contested-and-removed.717541/#post-105393076

User Banned (1 week): Drive-by trolling, prior infraction for similar behaviour

the less of her the better

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-3-scores-114m-domestic-280m-global-opening-weekend.716932/page-4#post-105378331

If GOTG3 can have some very strong legs, it should clear $300M, and possibly even get as high as $350M. Not as good as GOTG2, but still not bad all things considered. It has had an excellent reception by audiences so far, so hopefully it can avoid having its legs cut out from it by other early summer releases. The thing is, it's actually kinda hard to predict legs from audience reception. Here's how MCU films stack up in terms of opening weekend as a share of lifetime gross (domestically, at least) compared to their CinemaScore:

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While three of the four A+ MCU films are among the ten least frond-loaded, all being below 35% for opening weekend share, and four of the five with a score of B+ or B are among the ten most front-loaded, there is still a lot of variability. GOTG3 has an "A" CinemaScore, which is the most common rating, making up 19 of the 31 MCU films released so far. However, those 19 films had their opening weekends range from anywhere from 28.3% (for GOTG Vol. 1) to 43.9% (for Civil War). If GOTG3 can get a multiplier of at least 2.55x (opening weekend making up 39.2% of its lifetime gross), it'll pass the $300M mark. If it can get a 2.97x multiplier (opening weekend making up 33.7% of its lifetime gross), then it'll pass $350M. The overall average multiplier for MCU entries with an "A" CinemaScore was 2.7x (opening weekend making up 37% of its lifetime gross), which if GOTG3 hits that average it'll gross about $319M lifetime. If it can pull off a miracle and have a 3.33X multiplier (opening weekend 30% of lifetime), it'll do $393M, putting it about on par with GOTG2.

Worldwide, if it has good legs it should easily clear $700M, possibly upwards of $850M if it gets a nearly 3x multiplier. Solid, though lower than GOTG2.

As for why GOTG3's opening being a good bit less than that of its immediate predecessor, I do wonder if Quantumania burned some people. While that movie's gross was only slightly less than Ant-Man 2's domestically, and Ant-Man was never a huge draw to begin with, it might've disappointed enough regular MCU viewers to skip GOTG3. If it had the same legs as Ant-Man 2, it could've busted $300M domestic, far beyond what either of its predecessors grossed.

Also, it is worth pointing out that of the five MCU films to have a CinemaScore lower than A-, four of them were among the last seven films. Those four films all had opening weekends making up a good bit over 40% of their lifetime grosses, meaning worse-than-average legs for an MCU film. Two of those films still did very well lifetime (MoM grossing over $400M domestic, and Love & Thunder doing about on par with Ragnarok), but could've gone even higher with better reception. While there isn't any consistent data showing obvious "Marvel fatigue," I do wonder if some recent films not quite hitting the high marks seen throughout Phase 3, and Quantumania being considered possibly the least good MCU film to date, could be having some sort of impact. A string of well-received films could easily get things fully back on track, though.

Considering how well Captain Marvel did, The Marvels could give us an indicator of the franchise's future health, especially since it's following the well-received GOTG3.

 

[Joe Molotov]

It was Golden Week in a Japan, a lot of people were probably traveling.

[Greatness Gone]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-3-scores-114m-domestic-280m-global-opening-weekend.716932/page-4#post-105378331

If GOTG3 can have some very strong legs, it should clear $300M, and possibly even get as high as $350M. Not as good as GOTG2, but still not bad all things considered. It has had an excellent reception by audiences so far, so hopefully it can avoid having its legs cut out from it by other early summer releases. The thing is, it's actually kinda hard to predict legs from audience reception. Here's how MCU films stack up in terms of opening weekend as a share of lifetime gross (domestically, at least) compared to their CinemaScore:

(Image removed from quote.)

While three of the four A+ MCU films are among the ten least frond-loaded, all being below 35% for opening weekend share, and four of the five with a score of B+ or B are among the ten most front-loaded, there is still a lot of variability. GOTG3 has an "A" CinemaScore, which is the most common rating, making up 19 of the 31 MCU films released so far. However, those 19 films had their opening weekends range from anywhere from 28.3% (for GOTG Vol. 1) to 43.9% (for Civil War). If GOTG3 can get a multiplier of at least 2.55x (opening weekend making up 39.2% of its lifetime gross), it'll pass the $300M mark. If it can get a 2.97x multiplier (opening weekend making up 33.7% of its lifetime gross), then it'll pass $350M. The overall average multiplier for MCU entries with an "A" CinemaScore was 2.7x (opening weekend making up 37% of its lifetime gross), which if GOTG3 hits that average it'll gross about $319M lifetime. If it can pull off a miracle and have a 3.33X multiplier (opening weekend 30% of lifetime), it'll do $393M, putting it about on par with GOTG2.

Worldwide, if it has good legs it should easily clear $700M, possibly upwards of $850M if it gets a nearly 3x multiplier. Solid, though lower than GOTG2.

As for why GOTG3's opening being a good bit less than that of its immediate predecessor, I do wonder if Quantumania burned some people. While that movie's gross was only slightly less than Ant-Man 2's domestically, and Ant-Man was never a huge draw to begin with, it might've disappointed enough regular MCU viewers to skip GOTG3. If it had the same legs as Ant-Man 2, it could've busted $300M domestic, far beyond what either of its predecessors grossed.

Also, it is worth pointing out that of the five MCU films to have a CinemaScore lower than A-, four of them were among the last seven films. Those four films all had opening weekends making up a good bit over 40% of their lifetime grosses, meaning worse-than-average legs for an MCU film. Two of those films still did very well lifetime (MoM grossing over $400M domestic, and Love & Thunder doing about on par with Ragnarok), but could've gone even higher with better reception. While there isn't any consistent data showing obvious "Marvel fatigue," I do wonder if some recent films not quite hitting the high marks seen throughout Phase 3, and Quantumania being considered possibly the least good MCU film to date, could be having some sort of impact. A string of well-received films could easily get things fully back on track, though.

Considering how well Captain Marvel did, The Marvels could give us an indicator of the franchise's future health, especially since it's following the well-received GOTG3.

 

more effort was put into that post than the last decade of marvel movies.

[Nintex]

I checked with the local mom n pop store. They said that folks are very excited to go see Guardians of the Galaxy 3. At least 3 people in the store bought the Guardian of the Galaxy 3 branded Snickers bars, while leaving the SKU's without the GotG branding untouched. One kid bought a Funko Pop of GROOT. The owner of the store said he had never seen anything like it and this momentum would certainly tanslate to big numbers at the box office. The Mario movie had fallen off he said. Folks just weren't into Mario or PlayStation. It was all Xbox (GamePass) and Guardians of the Galaxy 3. He was planning to order bootleg products from Ali Express just to meet the incredible demand. He called some friends who run a store in Finland and the same was happening there.

Just as I left some kid asked me if I had played Redfall yet. Obviously this kid was way too young to play Redfall but his parents let him play because it was such a big tentpole release for Xbox Studios. We both agreed this was the biggest year for Xbox.

[Straight Edge]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/me-and-the-wife-are-going-on-a-trial-separation-wondering-if-people-can-let-me-know-their-experience-of-it.717733/page-2

I feel you on some level man.

Their pronouns are right there, btw.

Just a turn of phrase, no offense meant.

Please don't use turns of phrase that dismiss us like that, I'm sure you can understand why that's a bad idea.

 

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/me-and-the-wife-are-going-on-a-trial-separation-wondering-if-people-can-let-me-know-their-experience-of-it.717733/page-2

I feel you on some level man.

Their pronouns are right there, btw.

Just a turn of phrase, no offense meant.

Please don't use turns of phrase that dismiss us like that, I'm sure you can understand why that's a bad idea.

 

What the hell are they even getting upset about? The user they originally quoted says their gender is male on their profile.

[Boredfrom]

You are such a cunt, Astro. Asshole.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

User Banned (2 Weeks): Dismissive Commentary Around Pronouns; Misgendering

 

[Uncle]

cwmartin is kind of a prominent user, right? seen that av a lot

[BIONIC]

Astro’s little non-binary peccker got a little more stiff after that ban

[jorma]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/me-and-the-wife-are-going-on-a-trial-separation-wondering-if-people-can-let-me-know-their-experience-of-it.717733/page-2

I feel you on some level man.

Their pronouns are right there, btw.

Just a turn of phrase, no offense meant.

Please don't use turns of phrase that dismiss us like that, I'm sure you can understand why that's a bad idea.

 

What the hell are they even getting upset about? The user they originally quoted says their gender is male on their profile.

that user also posted this a few days ago:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/32-part-documentary-on-the-development-of-psychonauts-2-releasing-later-today-now-live.685414/page-9#post-105104071

Finally made it through this. Wow, what a journey.



Massive kudos to Double Fine and 2PP for everything that went into creating this.

...


I sit here thinking "Man I would love to work at Double Fine, it looks frustrating as hell!"

 

[BIONIC]

[Joe Molotov]

Is there a generic non-binary they/them word equivalent to dude/man/fellas? If not, someone should invent one and get rich. I mean a real one, not something with an X in it.

[jorma]

Is there a generic non-binary they/them word equivalent to dude/man/fellas? If not, someone should invent one and get rich. I mean a real one, not something with an X in it.

yeah man, it's man, short for mankind 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-this-really-what-chinese-take-away-is-in-the-uk.716386/page-7#post-105268117

User Banned (Duration Pending Review): Hostility; Long History of the Same

There are at least two British Chinese who voiced their displeasure and you're still digging.

"When you don't have minorities to lean on" ?!? Wtf. Get the fuck out. Please don't use us as your points for arguments.

Between two imperialist countries making jokes about each other, I'd rather the immigrant third party not be the subject of these jokes to be honest with you. We are not your pawns to use in internet arguments, we are real people.

Y'all wanna talk about making it a bannable iffense to talk about anyone's food then? Because I guarantee you that, by this reasoning, if you've opened your lips to say word fucking 1 about any American food that isn't something processed, you have either insulted generations of immigrants, or you've attacked food that my people created out of necessity being made to survive off the scraps the people who put us in chains didn't want or preparing food in the house that they did.

Do you want to go there? Or can we just keep making jokes about each other's food without turning it into some rightwous cause?

No, it's being toxic and snobbish in both instances. But I don't have the same cultural and historical context and knowledge that I do for my own country's food so calling out people is harder on other fronts. Though you and others doing the whole "IT'S FINE TO BE TOXIC" thing completely ignored all context I, and others, have given... so I guess that knowledge doesn't matter much, unfortunately.

That and, frankly, the prerequisite for calling out others being toxic shouldn't be "you should call out literally all other toxicity under the sun."

The prerequisite for not being a hypocrite is sometimes complaining about the same issue when it's applied to someone other than yourself. You don't need "cultural and historical context" to know that processed cheese product is poor people food, which you've so vehemently railed against making fun of (and which most people on your side of the argument think is a valid target).

I don't have a problem with folks taking a shot at chittlins. I don't think it's toxic. But I do have a problem with folks getting self-righteous about it any time it's about something on your side of the Atlantic.

[ldcommando (notthegafone)]

The adder banned?

 

pls be a perm. Dude is unbearable

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Is there a generic non-binary they/them word equivalent to dude/man/fellas? If not, someone should invent one and get rich. I mean a real one, not something with an X in it.

Used to be they them but she him gets bent out of shape figure so now it should be for everyone*


*except furries

[Daffy Duck]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/me-and-the-wife-are-going-on-a-trial-separation-wondering-if-people-can-let-me-know-their-experience-of-it.717733/page-2

I feel you on some level man.

Their pronouns are right there, btw.

Just a turn of phrase, no offense meant.

Please don't use turns of phrase that dismiss us like that, I'm sure you can understand why that's a bad idea.

 

Fuck off astro you sad fuxking cunt

[Daffy Duck]

Is there a generic non-binary they/them word equivalent to dude/man/fellas? If not, someone should invent one and get rich. I mean a real one, not something with an X in it.

Cunt.

[Averon]

This is the same astro--one of Kyuuji's biggest fans/sycophants, btw--that made a big deal about deleting CP 2077 only to backtrack a week later and enthusiastically post how they are playing it

Policing how people use pronouns in an online forum is probably one of the few things that makes them feel fulfilled in their sad lives.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/florida-passes-bill-allowing-radioactive-material-to-be-built-into-roads.716836/#post-105296467

User Banned (1 Week): Inflammatory & Dismissive Generalization; History of Inflammatory Commentary

Is forced secession a thing?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/florida-passes-bill-allowing-radioactive-material-to-be-built-into-roads.716836/page-2#post-105298792

User Banned (2 Weeks): Inflammatory Generalization

I always thought that you’d want radioactive materials as far away from people as possible.

It’s my understanding that the inhabitants of Florida truly are “as far away from people as possible”.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nsfw-has-anyone-ever-successfully-gotten-rid-of-a-fetish-warning-gross.717343/page-2#post-105381016

User Banned (1 Week): Inflammatory Point of Comparison over a Series of Posts

In no way trying to insult the OP, but let's not compare the plight of the LGBTQ community to a poop fetish.

How did you interpret this from my post ? A sexual fetish is a sexual desire for something you don't typically choose. Being sexually attracted to something that is not harming others should not be seen as a negative. My point is people telling him to "stop watching porn" are telling him to do something that's not going to have any affect on his desires. If anything, LGTBQ people are some of the most OPEN individuals in kink and fetish communities for these very reasons.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nsfw-has-anyone-ever-successfully-gotten-rid-of-a-fetish-warning-gross.717343/page-2#post-105381016

User Banned (1 Week): Inflammatory Point of Comparison over a Series of Posts

In no way trying to insult the OP, but let's not compare the plight of the LGBTQ community to a poop fetish.

How did you interpret this from my post ? A sexual fetish is a sexual desire for something you don't typically choose. Being sexually attracted to something that is not harming others should not be seen as a negative. My point is people telling him to "stop watching porn" are telling him to do something that's not going to have any affect on his desires. If anything, LGTBQ people are some of the most OPEN individuals in kink and fetish communities for these very reasons.

See? That's inflammatory. Not comparing Square enix to nazis and white supremacists. But making an argument that LGBT people have empathy for people who are shunned by society because of their sexual preference? That's inflammatory!

[Greatness Gone]

I don't want to be grouped with people that literally like eating feces, so that ban was justified. 

[benjipwns]

Oh no, they got sacked


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12060053/amp/Starbucks-sack-trans-worker-berated-female-customer-confrontation-misgendered.html

The cruelty is the point.

[Kurt Russell]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/me-and-the-wife-are-going-on-a-trial-separation-wondering-if-people-can-let-me-know-their-experience-of-it.717733/page-2

So anyway this weekend we both had a chat and it came and we ended up just being honest with each other about how we both feel.. turns out we've both been considering separation..

Sure you were, champ.

[Greatness Gone]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fire-emblem-engage-sells-1-61-million-copies-thru-end-of-march.717553/page-4

I think if Three Houses shows anything, it's that great characters will trump great narrative any time. I say this as someone who has put over 800 hours into Three Houses, but the actual narrative is kind of a huge mess.

Nintendies are mentally ill. How is this even possible?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tucker-carlson-will-relaunch-his-show-on-twitter.717859/#post-105431488

For everyone still in denial: Twitter is being reshaped into a tool to push and normalize fascist propaganda. And to use a highly appropriate aphorism, "birds of a feather flock together".

Sticking around gives implicit permission stating that you find what's happening acceptable. Just like what happened with this exact same community.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tucker-carlson-will-relaunch-his-show-on-twitter.717859/page-2#post-105433600

Delete your Twitter

"But I personally get -so much- value! Why should -I- have to make sacrifices just because my presence validates and incentivizes the fascist take-over!". Just a different form of Fuck You, Got Mine.

It's no wonder fascist movements have slid right on in throughout history. People will accommodate them every single step of the way, right off the cliff even when they say they are against it. When it comes time to shit or get off the pot, most people are way too happy to just keep on sitting until their guts explode and shit seeps through their whole body. So long as they feel like they at least get a little -something- out of the arrangement, they'll let that shit fester until "whoopsie!". Then turn around and act like they had no role in what happened at all.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tucker-carlson-will-relaunch-his-show-on-twitter.717859/page-4#post-105436441

So is Twitter banned on Era yet ?

[D3RANG3D]

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[Taco Bell Tower]

User Banned (2 Weeks): Dismissive Commentary Around Pronouns; Misgendering

 

They seriously banned him for using the proper pronouns

[Greatness Gone]

do they not know you're allowed to post literally anything on twitter? it accommodates every kind of weirdo imaginable.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tucker-carlson-will-relaunch-his-show-on-twitter.717859/#post-105431488

Sticking around gives implicit permission stating that you find what's happening acceptable. Just like what happened with this exact same community.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tucker-carlson-will-relaunch-his-show-on-twitter.717859/page-2#post-105433600

It's no wonder fascist movements have slid right on in throughout history. People will accommodate them every single step of the way, right off the cliff even when they say they are against it. When it comes time to shit or get off the pot, most people are way too happy to just keep on sitting until their guts explode and shit seeps through their whole body. So long as they feel like they at least get a little -something- out of the arrangement, they'll let that shit fester until "whoopsie!". Then turn around and act like they had no role in what happened at all.

What is this dude even talking about?

[Snoopycat_]

Forget about the 500 times ree declared they were leaving Twitter. This time they really mean it.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tucker-carlson-will-relaunch-his-show-on-twitter.717859/

[benjipwns]

do they not know you're allowed to post literally anything on twitter? it accommodates every kind of weirdo imaginable.

If I see one Nazi and a hundred million other Twitter users on Twitter I see one hundred million and one Nazis on Twitter.

[Propagandhim]

So thankful for bluesky giving me the out I needed to completely eject myself from that platform.

A braver sacrifice hasn't been made since the Irish republican hunger strikes.  🙏

[NegativeCrepe]

ass-tro is the biggest cunt on that website i think, worse than kyuji or b-chud, i would pay big money to watch them walk through detroit at night

[benjipwns]

So thankful for bluesky giving me the out I needed to completely eject myself from that platform.

A braver sacrifice hasn't been made since the Irish republican hunger strikes.  🙏

Thank you former Twitter CEO and board member Jack Dorsey for creating a Twitter-funded platform that the Trans Spring can continue onto now that Twitter is allowing broader speech than it did during the impetus to create BlueSky.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tucker-carlson-will-relaunch-his-show-on-twitter.717859/page-4#post-105438034

THIS and all the other posts like it. I got a big tut tut a while back when Elron was promoting trans genocide. How communities there needed to stay there or something like that. Then I keep reading about how it’s so hard to switch and how people are waiting for the de facto replacement to come along. Maybe it’s because I’m not addicted to or have fomo or the need to be always connected to the world like that. Make the move, put the work. Make the change that creates change. Lead your own bubble out of that shit hole twitter, whether it be mastodon, Bs, hive or whatever.

But no, instead it’s tacit approval by participation.

Nah. What you actually got was a heartfelt and compassionate response breaking down why it wasn't as simple as you were trying to make it seem. Something you never bothered to respond to and seem to have taken nothing from.

So here it is again in full since you're so intent on misconstruing it:

It's not dependent on having an online presence, it's dependent on connecting to other people for a host of reasons. Being honest, have you really sat and thought about how some of us can't go to our doctor for our healthcare? Can't book in an appointment to understand whether the changes we're experiencing with our bodies are normal, in line with expectation or the like? That the closest we often have to that is reading the direct experiences of others and seeing the images they share to best understand ourselves and what we're going through. Be that hormones, surgery, dysphoria or beyond. Have you paused to think that we can't go to typical news sources to understand the minutiae of how genocidal rhetoric is advancing and what areas of our life, access to spaces and ability to do things might be under threat. That I'm keenly plugged into sources I follow and trust because the question of whether I buy a house in this country is directly tied to understanding whether my access to healthcare and ability to live life publicly is likely to change in the coming years.

These are only two brushstrokes of a wider painting, but I hope you can start to get a sense of why people might continue to have a twitter account. We haven't even touched on being able to follow people's transition journeys and seeing their trans joy, hoping that it might be something you can have for yourself in the future. Haven't spoken to how having a timeline filled with trans women and illustrations is something that brings me comfort at a time when I can't even buy lunch without seeing my existence demonised on the front pages of newspapers.

Be grateful that you don't have a dependency on online communities for such things. Don't scapegoat that for being why you'll "never understand" though; that's a wilful decision on your part. It's easy enough to have a conversation about it and to keep an open mind, rather than assigning judgement to those you're unfamiliar with. Sit with it for a bit because I'm happy for you that you don't have to contend with that side of things, as I am in equal part sympathetic to the difficulties you face that I might not be familiar with or understand.

Everyone keeps judging me for not deleting my account and actively contributing to a platform that amplifies antisocial right-wing voices and the descent into madness, but did you ever think of the cost of not allowing me to advertise my personal brand shouting into the infinite void? Let's get some perspective here people. The most important thing is me and my voice and my brand.






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[benjipwns]

Looks like a bunch of fascist pro-genocide justifying FREEZE PEACH bullshit to me, Kyuuji. You either cut the Suppressive Persons out of your life completely or you become one.

[Propagandhim]

It's not dependent on having an online presence, it's dependent on connecting to other people for a host of reasons. Being honest, have you really sat and thought about how some of us can't go to our doctor for our healthcare?

Wait, where are you getting your healthcare from, then? 

[benjipwns]

It's not dependent on having an online presence, it's dependent on connecting to other people for a host of reasons. Being honest, have you really sat and thought about how some of us can't go to our doctor for our healthcare?

Wait, where are you getting your healthcare from, then?

DIY HRT wiki, sponsored by Keffals.

I presume.

[BIONIC]

The medical advice that gets the most retweets is the one you should follow obvs

[Straight Edge]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/should-people-with-children-receive-additional-pto-time-off-at-work-versus-those-with-no-kids.717796/

Simplest answer: everyone should have unlimited PTO. We shouldn't have to make tiers of vacation/sick time that only apply for specific people over others.

 

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/should-people-with-children-receive-additional-pto-time-off-at-work-versus-those-with-no-kids.717796/

Simplest answer: everyone should have unlimited PTO. We shouldn't have to make tiers of vacation/sick time that only apply for specific people over others.

 

Read your Marx, buddy:

In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly—only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!

If every employer was made to have unlimited PTO I'd have so many jobs.

edit: As Daddy Marx said:

And finally, the division of labour offers us the first example of how, as long as man remains in natural society, that is, as long as a cleavage exists between the particular and the common interest, as long, therefore, as activity is not voluntarily, but naturally, divided, man’s own deed becomes an alien power opposed to him, which enslaves him instead of being controlled by him. For as soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular, exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a herdsman, or a critical critic, and must remain so if he does not want to lose his means of livelihood; while in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner

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The medical advice that gets the most retweets is the one you should follow obvs

This too is a rejection of the backwards division of labor! Why should only doctors get to "specialize" and give medical advice?!? What if I wish to give medical advice after dinner?

[benjipwns]

Before you all rush in praising doctors and their "medical science" rather than crowd sourcing lived experiences consider this, why do doctors spend all their time studying things that harm or even kill people? Why don't they instead spend their time studying ways to uplift people and bring them euphoria and joy? Because they're sick perverted sociopaths. That's why it's far more rational to trust the most attention grabbing members of Twitter who only have everyone's interests at hearts than any selfish greedy fetishist doctor.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-this-really-what-chinese-take-away-is-in-the-uk.716386/page-7#post-105268117

User Banned (Duration Pending Review): Hostility; Long History of the Same

There are at least two British Chinese who voiced their displeasure and you're still digging.

"When you don't have minorities to lean on" ?!? Wtf. Get the fuck out. Please don't use us as your points for arguments.

Between two imperialist countries making jokes about each other, I'd rather the immigrant third party not be the subject of these jokes to be honest with you. We are not your pawns to use in internet arguments, we are real people.

Y'all wanna talk about making it a bannable iffense to talk about anyone's food then? Because I guarantee you that, by this reasoning, if you've opened your lips to say word fucking 1 about any American food that isn't something processed, you have either insulted generations of immigrants, or you've attacked food that my people created out of necessity being made to survive off the scraps the people who put us in chains didn't want or preparing food in the house that they did.

Do you want to go there? Or can we just keep making jokes about each other's food without turning it into some rightwous cause?

No, it's being toxic and snobbish in both instances. But I don't have the same cultural and historical context and knowledge that I do for my own country's food so calling out people is harder on other fronts. Though you and others doing the whole "IT'S FINE TO BE TOXIC" thing completely ignored all context I, and others, have given... so I guess that knowledge doesn't matter much, unfortunately.

That and, frankly, the prerequisite for calling out others being toxic shouldn't be "you should call out literally all other toxicity under the sun."

The prerequisite for not being a hypocrite is sometimes complaining about the same issue when it's applied to someone other than yourself. You don't need "cultural and historical context" to know that processed cheese product is poor people food, which you've so vehemently railed against making fun of (and which most people on your side of the argument think is a valid target).

I don't have a problem with folks taking a shot at chittlins. I don't think it's toxic. But I do have a problem with folks getting self-righteous about it any time it's about something on your side of the Atlantic.

I always love it when one of the righteous ones breaks. They don't know that the only way for RE is to get more and more extreme.
You want to be able to have some lighthearted ribbing about another countries cuisine? Go somewhere else you Nazi!

[benjipwns]

I like how Aurora said China isn't imperialist. Like the Han just peacefully spread over that entire territory "naturally" subjugating all the many minorities into the Chinese state. Like the CCP specifically hasn't annexed and warred with its neighbors constantly even beyond spreading economic influence all over the globe once it stopped hiding in its shell.