A lot of Era users consider themselves to be good stand up people. Pride flags, strong left wing views, posting on Era in support of progressive issues etc. Then make a complete show of themselves in threads like this over, and over, and over again.
Not as well natured and mannered as they like to think, and definitely don't like being called out on it.
Some of the posts in this thread are a disgusting embarrassment and at this point it is expected. Ghoulish is absolutely the right term.
EtcetEraThreadPrince Philip has died aged 99, Buckingham Palace announces
ReasonUser banned (Permanent): Hostility, backseat moderation and downplaying racism over a series of posts. Ban upgrading to permanent following hostile ticket.
Not at all. Just others to show some decency.
The man had his faults, that is for certain, but he was overwhelmingly a positive force, particularly in the lives of young people. A wife of seventy years, his children and family lost someone special to them today.
There is a time and a place to be a fool, but it is disrespectful in the thread announcing his death.
Some Era posters will really be like: “But he deserves some empathy you fucking ghoul”, when Weinstein dies. I’m sure a heck of a lot of you shed a tear when Epstein killed himself, lmao.
EtcetEraThreadBlack Americans flock to gun stores and clubs: 'I needed to protect myself' - Gun ownership among Black Americans is up 58.2%
ReasonUser Banned (duration pending review): dismissive commentary over a series of posts
I'm not here to be anyone's ally, your country sees us as a tributary state for it to plunder, so its cool with me whatever you choose to do (i just hope individuals in it dont suffer for it obviously), but I keep up with news in general and the US is the cultural hegemon (even more so black American culture). And your comment could literally be extended to anything that is culture related (dont talk to Europeans about race relationships they have their own history!, dont talk to Russians about corruption, they have their own history!) Maybe take the opportunity to look at a perspective not clouded by the fog of your own culture (like how Europeans should do so with Racism)
It is a fact tho that saying "i dont trust statistics, i trust my gun to feel safe" is Anti-intellectualism and that it is a cultural prerogative that the US is currently exercising (both from the right and the left), same as how guns are culturally accepted, and I made a comment about that, simple as.I wouldnt have black americans do anything (because im not american or black), im not proposing solutions to your issues, im just commenting on the anti-intellectualism revolving around it.
I may be convinced that some people in Era love this shit because they are miserable introverts that love it when regular people are stuck in their house without human contact. They keep perpetuating this doom and gloom so they can feel better about themselves being shut in hermits
When the circle jerks about southerns possibly getting it worse or a terrible second wave start in this thread, I’m reminded of a post that I once read about how Era naturally attracts lonely and pessimistic people without much socializing, and to consider that their lens skews this forum’s perception of things.
EtcetEraThreadNorth Carolina bill would ban treatment for trans people under 21, notify parents if their child displays "gender nonconformity"
ReasonUser Banned (Permanent): Troll account
I come in here looking for information. I lean right on most topics and just want to understand why this bill is so bad to everyone.
How does this stuff currently work? What does it mean by treatment? Surgery?
EtcetEraThreadLindsay Ellis drops a take so bad she has to nuke her Twitter
ReasonUser Banned (Duration Pending Admin Review): Dismissive commentary in a sensitive thread. You don't have to agree with those who take offense, but it's not unreasonable or "on them" for doing so.
Honestly, her takes in this thread are bad, but thats on you for thinking of that when you see the word “squint”.
EtcetEraThreadNovel coronavirus (COVID-19) resources and discussion thread (Discussion guidelines in OP)
ReasonUser Banned (3 Months): Spreading Misinformation and Dismissing Concerns on the Effects of the Pandemic Over Multiple Posts; Prior Ban for Spreading Misinformation. Account in Junior Phase.
I would rather do things that actually helps than to do things that do more damage.It's more like: The young and healthy exposes themselves to the risk to help protect the old and frail. It's ok that you disagree with me about this. I wish you all good luck trying to stop the virus. The risk of dying if you are under 50 is extremly small. Just follow the recommendations of the FHM and accept the fact that you will probably be infected (or maybe already have been). There is always a risk that you will get very ill but every day we exposes ourselves to risks. When we have herd immunity it will protect the rest.
He crashed spectacularly on a road that is almost straight and he has a history of incidents involving drug abuse. Yes, I have been paying attention. This accident doesn't seems like a case of "just rushing to meet his obligations!" at all.
We both don't know what happened, but don't try to gaslight me into thinking drug abuse is completely unlikely to be the culprit in this case.
Not perfect, obviously, but better than waiting on all the broken promises to fix policing, let alone economic racism. Anti-gun fundamentalism hasn't done shit for anybody, and neither has the tunnel vision on gun ownership only being possible on the level of the individual.Solidly stupid pronouncement when there's white supremacists marching and menacing people anytime they think they have an opening. But that's the 'progressive' way, pay lip service to the brutality of policing against minorities in one breath, and excoriate those same minorities when they have the gall to take steps to defend themselves and each other in the next. You're either with us or you're with the frothing NRA gun cultists!
Hey, so I'm really afraid of the vaccine. Much more than I am of COVID. At the start of all of this, I was pretty freaked out by COVID, and I thought many people I knew were going to die. But here we are 1 year later and I don't know a single person that got very sick from COVID, much less was hospitalized or died. I know a handful of people that had it, but their symptoms were basically nothing. There were many high-risk people I know that I was almost certain would get very sick and/or die, but it simply didn't happen (and most of these people were very careless in terms of taking the virus seriously). I myself, as an "essential worker," have had to be out in the world almost every day since this all started. I've been sick twice with cold/flu-like symptoms, but both times had negative COVID test results.
I'm not an anti-vaxxer. I have all of my childhood vaccines for measles, mumps etc. And I get the flu shot every year. But the speed in which the vaccine was rolled out combined with the degree to which it is seemingly being pushed on the public is causing my paranoia to go into overdrive. I mean, much of the response to the pandemic has been insane in my opinion, but we don't need to go there. Basically, in the end, I don't trust the government. I have no idea what this vaccine will do to me, and I feel like it's largely unnecessary for me personally. But at the same time, it would be a relief to not have to worry as much about COVID anymore, and if it could protect others that would be nice. Yet if I get vaccinated, I feel like my worry would just shift to wondering what effect the vaccine will have on me in the future.
It seems everyone here is very excited to get vaccinated, and I am happy for all of you who have been able to do so. Everyone in my family is vaccinated now, so I'm the only hold out. I just can't shake the feeling that there's something nefarious going on, so I don't know what to do.
EtcetEraThreadPentagon reverses Trump Directive, allows Transgender soldiers to serve
ReasonUser banned (duration pending review): Trolling and derailing a thread about trans desegregation over a series of posts. Many prior infractions for trolling, hostility, and inflammatory posting.
Congrats to everyone now able to bomb Muslims as a career
EtcetEraThreadBarack Obama and Bruce Springsteen launch podcast together on Spotify
ReasonUser Banned (Duration Pending Review): Inflammatory Generalization About the Community; Many Prior Infractions including Trolling; Hostility and Inflammatory Generalization
ERA doesn’t give a shit. You bring up dead brown people and ERA will just groan and scoff at someone that has the bring up the dead people again. Like it’s such an inconvenience to them.
I’ve never looked at this forum the same since I brought it up and I the response I got was “here we go again with the people that got blown up.”
I legit hate all of you and your idolization of your garbage presidents and this garbage country full of garbage people.
EtcetEraThreadIndiewire: Mandalorian actor Bill Burr defends Gina Carano, complains about cancel culture
ReasonUser Banned (Permanent): Trolling and antagonizing other users over a series of posts. History of severe warnings
The woke mob on this site are toxic as fuuuuck. Can’t even be bothered to watch a clip in context.
Bill Burr is a human piece of shit because he has a questionable take once in awhile? He’s a racist because he thinks Gina comparing the Jewish struggle to the “Republican struggle” is merely a stupid and terrible comparison? Is this really what we are doing now?
I assure you Bill has done more charity work than any miserable hyper woke fuck on this site.
Within any fan base you will find people that try to ruin it for everyone with toxic behavior. It's sad how those that chose these toxic methods can think they are helping anything.
That small vocal minority, of course, doesn't represent an entire fan base.
I see extremism against the release as well. In this thread, no less.
Neither should be tolerated.
One thought I had since it seems some of the recent attacks are being perpetrated by black people. Could the Asian people in question be speaking Chinese and dropping the Chinese N word which sounds exactly like the racist N word?
EtcetEraThreadNovel coronavirus (COVID-19) resources and discussion thread (Discussion guidelines in OP)
ReasonUser Banned (1 week): trolling
If you wear a mask you signal that YOU are the one with symptoms, so that makes sense.
Almost all cases seem happen within the family or at private social gatherings like weddings or parties , or at bars where a mask is not required in other countries either, not when people spend 5 minutes in a shop. Masks are not going to help there, because let's be honest, nobody is going to spend the evening at a barbecue with friends wearing a mask.
EtcetEraThreadNovel coronavirus (COVID-19) resources and discussion thread (Discussion guidelines in OP)
ReasonUser Banned (3 Days): Fearmongering
I have no doubt that this could be a long, drawn out process that sends use the way if the dinosaurs. I’m not trying to be alarmist, I just think this is why the world needs to come together to fight this shit.
EtcetEraThreadNovel coronavirus (COVID-19) resources and discussion thread (Discussion guidelines in OP)
ReasonUser banned (3 days): Hostility
Interesting that you think there is some sort of fucking narrative to my post to begin with. This isn’t some fucking politics thread where it’s one side against the other, in case you missed the world is kinda fucked right no, maybe calm it with the accusations once in a while..?
No wonder some of the old timers stepped away from this place recently with shit like this allowed to happen. God forbid you don’t tailor each and every post with multiple caveats and qualifiers.
Accusing me of trying it on with narratives in the middle of a fucking pandemic, come the fuck on. You can definitely miss me with that shit.
Guess what! No fucking narrative here, apart from the very real one that we are all, ALL in the shit equally until this first wave is done for. Until this thing is done for.
The ‘narrative’ I supposedly laid out in my post. Hey, hey, hey what is interesting is that it is already being played out in governments across the world despite the so called narrative (must be fiction right?) I wrote. It’s absolutely shit for everyone living on this planet, but yeah, many governments with the support of vast majority of the respective populations will choose the lesser evil I posted about. My parents, relatives, sibling and even SO can be classed at risk. So yeah excuse me. Hell it’s already happening now with countries reopening. Really, no country should be opening up until the r number is around 0.2, like New Zealand has done and cut the R0 right down to size. Realistically many are opening up with the r number many degrees higher then that.
BTW, I find it interesting how you fixated on the numbers I posted rather then the words around them.
Very interesting indeed. So you agree with what I said then? I mean that’s the narrative I got from your post,right? Funny how that works.
BTW, the numbers I posted are indeed on the low end of things, unrealistic even, but I did so purposefully not to cause alarm in an already fucked thread.
But you know what, to satisfy your need to call me out for no apparent fucking reason, hey I‘ll add a good couple of zeros to the numbers I posted, yknow just to further push people into blind panic in this thread, ah but you MUST be accurate right? No room for reading the temperature in this thread. Just endless cynicism pessimism and bleakness in the disguise of keeping things real.
BTW, I have, in multiple posts, threads and discussions already on here many times CLEARLY stated about in between measures and the new normal we all need to live with until a treatments and a vaccine is found. I expressed support for them many times and even posted multiple suggestions.
I already stated it’s a dial like system when it comes to shutdowns on this very forum, I mean my posts are open to all to read and trawl through.
BTW, the false dilemma isn’t so false for many, many poor countries who literally cannot afford to lockdown for weeks if not months on end and the expect to open up slowly, it quickly becomes a matter of countless people starving on the streets and entire countries going bust. IMF isn’t getting loan applications from the likes of Pakistan for the fun of it just to fund its own fucking lockdown, with the PM effectively stating they cannot lockdown for long or take things slow as people will starve in the streets.
Maybe check out the lockdown stories from the likes of Afghanista sometime? India? Pakistan? Somalia?
Maybe don’t be blinded by first world thinking so much when it comes to a serious global issue that will and has affected everything and everyone.
EtcetEraThreadNovel coronavirus (COVID-19) resources and discussion thread (Discussion guidelines in OP)
ReasonUser banned (1 week): Ignoring staff post with regard to misinformation
I know we have seperate thread(s) for Sweden but I thought this interview (in english) with John Giesecke would be interesting for eveyone.
He is: "one of the world’s most senior epidemiologists, advisor to the Swedish Government, the first Chief Scientist of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, and an advisor to the director general of the WHO".
Some of the points he is making:
I have no idea if he is right or what he is basing this on. It would be interesting here what other epidemilogists thinks about what he is saying.
EtcetEraThreadNovel coronavirus (COVID-19) resources and discussion thread (Discussion guidelines in OP)
ReasonUser banned (1 week): Ignoring staff post with regard to conspiracy theories and unsubstantiated information
edit:
What follows are the person's saying, as of this morning on news channel "cnews" , , which i were not aware of.
For information Luc Montagnier, nobel price 2008, just released the information that it is irrefutable the SARS-COV2 hosts a sequence copy of HIV (3% of the virus composition) , making it highly probable it was engineered in a research institute trying to build an HIV vaccine (there's a technique that consists of using a virus as host for part of another virus "code", in order to make the immune system produce antibodies targeting the molecules that will be fabricated by expression of this code, it's not warfare, just ... trying to make a vaccine... but you normally use a host virus you master fully and know can make harmless... which is not the case here) .
This finding was submitted weeks ago in a scientific journal and censored by the revue editor.
EtcetEraThreadNovel coronavirus (COVID-19) resources and discussion thread (Discussion guidelines in OP)
ReasonUser banned (permanent): Racism; alt account
The Nigeria patient beat and bite the Chinese nurse because he didn’t want to follow the medical check.
Did your friend tell you that? We welcome African friends and we give them medical care here but we don’t welcome those who broke the quarantine rule and beat out medical staffs.
And, to give you a clear mumber, there are 300 thousands African people in Guangzhou and 7000 of them are asked for mandatory quarantine because they are mostly confirmed/ suspect cases’ contacts. We follow that either.
EtcetEraThreadBernie Sanders doesn't feel comfortable about Twitter Trump ban
ReasonUser Warned: Off Topic Thread Derail
Gotta love how this thread reaches 5 pages in under a few hours, but a thread on Biden trying to obfuscate what's going on with ICE's concentration camps struggles to get to 2 pages in a week:
This forum is so fucking pathetic. Enjoy shouting at the old socialist while you enjoy your privileged lives under a president that you can stick your head in the sand about because he isn't (always) vocally racist like Trump.
EtcetEraThread"More useful than a republican" Manchin votes for Anti Trans amendment to Covid Bill.
ReasonUser banned (2 weeks): History of antagonizing members and staff. If you have a concern about a ban, open a ticket. Multiple tickets were submitted about the ban in question and it was revisited accordingly.
Gotta love the stealth edit on the ban too, from:toWhitewashing this ban is not a good look, but unfortunately completely unsurprising
