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If you welcome the thieves into your house.

The trick is: Don't. Don't sign up for MCNs, don't take brand deals, don't sign up with companies that offer brand deals. Don't do any of that garbage, you WILL get screwed.

Youtube Networks are scams anyway. They just skim 30% of your revenue and give nothing in return. That's how my network, Zoomin.TV was. I only stayed with them for so long because they let me withdraw to Paypal.

You know the Youtubers that get hacked? They get hacked by a virus called Redline Stealer, which they get when they open an MP4.exe file laden with malware. They got that file... from a brand deal.

This is why the best advice I can ever give you is DON'T FUCKING TAKE SPONSORSHIPS.

Not a real issue. It's a symptom of an issue.

The problem with fixating on the methods in which people do age-old shitty things is it makes you believe that

Being a disingenuous prick is a new thing

That the problem is the vocabulary in the first place

Take, for instance, the overuse of the word narcissist. Ask yourself, why do people do this when "asshole" already exists? Well because calling someone an asshole is petty. It paints your interactions with them as mundane.

If you call someone a narcissist, or any pathologized term really, turns an otherwise mundane interaction into ontological evil. Using pathologized language just makes that statement sound more official and more important. They would insist they were possessed by demons if they thought it wouldn't immediately mark them as a nutcase.

People do this because it puts their mind at ease. Take this woman on a "narcissistic abuse" sub (lol)

This is the example I always cite, because you could not be more of a liar if you fucking tried.

I'll tell you what actually happened: These two people, who are bad for each other, snapped at each other, one of them got road rage, and the other's been convincing herself her ex was a demonic entity ever since.

If her ex is a demon, that means she doesn't have to reflect on her own behavior.

This is also done internally, when someone behaves like an asshole and then blames it on their trauma, or autism, or anxiety or whatever. As if these conditions make them incapable of controlling their impulses. It's a convenient excuse for people who simple do NOT want to self-regulate. Who want to follow every impulse imaginable and get mad when you expect them to have some self discipline.

People are extremely attached to their narratives where people they don't like are "incurable" and their evil is so inherent that there's nothing to be done but kill them. It's how an abusive person justifies eternally punishing someone for their failures.

When Star Wars has written nuanced an interesting Sith like Kreia, the Empire's Wrath or Darth Imperious, the writers always sit down and put their whole pussy into the writing.

It always ends up standing out leaps and bounds above anything else Star Wars has ever written, largely because the people who write it are extremely passionate about it.

I think I started that, actually.

Anyway, that is mostly a thought experiment of interpreting the Sith Code differently than people usually do, how the throughline of Passion > Strength > Power > Victory mirrors the Rebellion.

It's less about Leia and more about the Sith Code.

Abuse is a repeated pattern of exploiting a power dynamic over someone. For something to be abuse, it has to be

More than once

Involving one person exploiting their power over another

For example: Sexual Assault is any instance of sexual contact done to you against your will. Sexual Abuse is repeated instances of it over a period of time.

Here's the important part though: Many people use abuse to mean only the second one, and many people use abuse to mean any kind of assault at all.

This relates to this guy, FYI.

Like, is he really so arrogant that he doesn't care how hugely corrupt he looks?

One of the many MANY reasons you can easily tell that DOGE was bullshit is that their approach to "government eficiency" didn't involve just firing everyone who worked at the FCC and shutting it down completely

"Can you imagine a world WITHOUT the FCC????"

Star Wars - Andor.

An objectively well-made show and probably one of the best things to come out of Disney Star Wars, and one of the few things to get anywhere close to the level of writing and character work that KOTOR 2 set 21 years ago.

However, I've watched exactly three episodes of it, and I can't stand it in the slightest. I'm that bitch who doesn't give a shit about any Star Wars property that isn't about the conflicts between the Jedi and Sith, and I'm so sick and tired of the way the series lingers on the Rebel Alliance while refusing to move on.

You don't.

When it comes to Left vs Right, Liberal vs Conservative, etc, you can't be both unbiased and true because the second of both of those dualities is always wrong about everything.

There is nothing in the universe that conservatives are correct about.

Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky

Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.