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nkt another.. please. ..mercy on my soul

you need to make more self-indulgent art btw. hyper-specific self-indulgent niche shit that appeals to You Specifically and maybe nobody else will get it or even like it but that's the point.

i love sex workers and contraception and abortion and open relationships and gay people and transgenders and weird identities

I humbly suggest that true crime freaks should get into learning about scammers instead of serial killers. I LOVE reading about fraud and grifts and pyramid schemes. true crime ppl have all this paranoid energy about murder, which is rare in the grand scheme of things.....maybe instead that could be channeled into some productive rage toward capitalism.

And u know a side effect of learning about scam artists is that you start to understand certain things about economics, and just how STUPID these systems are and how easily they are taken advantage of....and I'd much rather people gained a passing familiarity with economics than whatever armchair psychologist shit these true crimers get on. We need fewer people who think they're experts on "sociopaths" and more people who understand how people like Elizabeth Holmes and the WeWork guy were able to do what they did

I want to add, if you’ve got access to it, the BBC Radio 4 series (or podcast) “Scam Secrets” is a fascinating look into scams that are currently running.

OP has a point about capitalism, but actually I want to reblog this as someone who recently answered the phone to a scammer and say: we need true crime to make people more vigilant in their personal lives. You're at way more risk from an unknown number calling you than from anyone slicing your Achilles' tendons as you walk through a parking lot. I don't care so much about the people scammed by Elizabeth Holmes but I do care about worried and confused senior citizens buying thousands of dollars in gift cards because they think they need to help their grandson who's in trouble in another state.

Seconding this. There’s also a lot of crossover between scams and cults, which are also useful for people to be aware of. “Oh I’m not religious so I’d never fall for a cult” “oh I’m smart and savvy I’d never join a cult” oh boy do I have some fun stuff to tell you about cults.

It's a metaphor :)

Its that time of year again