• Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    13 days ago

    Her entire thing is acting like an airhead with forced cheerfulness in public. People somehow fall for it. I think this sort of thing happens with her every year and it’s always when she’s driving the Tesla.

    • Dessa [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      13 days ago

      There is nothing easier for a woman to do than to convince an audience she is dumb, particularly an audience of men.

      I don’t condone what she’s done in this particular video, but I respect a grift that turns misogyny back on an audience.

      • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        Owning the misogynist audience by acting like a dumb woman.

        I really don’t follow your logic. Isn’t this just pick-me behavior? Selling out your gender to get pats on the head and views from men?

        I really don’t understand the attitude among the western left that they are “owning” the reactionaries and rich by selling out to them, giving them what they want in exchange for their money. You aren’t “getting that bag” you are being a comprador. In an economic relationship, generally the one receiving the money/capital is the one being exploited - not the other way around. Employees, sex workers, poor nations exporting their resources and labor - all of these involve “getting that bag” from the capitalists (it’s actually the mechanics of capitalism itself being extolled as something empowering instead of exploitative! Exchanging their endless funny money for our values, time, effort, and things is good for them and bad for us. Taking their money to do what they want is exactly what they want! They get: our souls. We get: monopoly money)

        Harsh words but needed for the western left, who are filled with these people morally justifying themselves participating in the system by saying they are “grifting” it. It’s all a grift. You’re just becoming a part of the machine.