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aldomilyar
12hr ago
Yeah. The chavette's likely a member of the permanent antisocial underclass. On the other hand, what world view is going to suggest that shipping in members of Europe's permanent antisocial underclass to live on government handouts next to the antisocial underclass is going to accomplish anything especially positive?
Blueberry
12hr ago
One whale spend in eleven month 4,7 million on her:
aldomilyar
12hr ago
Also it feels like MtF are more likely to try and achieve some sort of performative attractive sexbomb femininity, whilst FtMs acknowledge they're not going to be Arnold Schwarznegger even with Estrogen blockers so settle for the invisibility of a 5'5 chubby guy.
aldomilyar
12hr ago
Maybe he meant 'child rearing' and married with many kids.
AnonymousActuary
12hr ago
there's an interesting parallel between the logic you are going with here (which I don't even disagree with) and the same arguments I see on gun control (ie extremely low percentage of guns ever used in crime)
sodiummuffin
12hr ago
Good find. My first thought is "🐈 money"="pussy money"="prostitution money". I suppose the benefit-of-the-doubt interpretation would be that they're separate and he's saying he's getting UK money and pussy. But the fact that it's displayed over a large quantity of visibly used cash wrapped in rubber bands (not just what's in his hand but also in the background) favors the first interpretation. (As does the "Gangster party" label over a party a few seconds later.) Unfortunately search engines don't do well with emojis so I don't know if it's established slang.
aldomilyar
12hr ago
Putting on my ecommerce hat and looking at the graph in https://instagram.com/reel/DN6HkAKDhYp/ from ostensibly the biggest Onlyfans seller. I'm kinda surprised how consistent the monthly earn looks to be aside from that one huge spike. I do suspect that a girl like Sophie's probably powered by a few whales (and having worked in online gambling it is frankly insane how whale a whale can be).
aldomilyar
12hr ago
Having worked in similar vice industries I feel like that's surely gotta be some sort of insane relationship with a singular whale to make the majority of that (who could frankly be taking a sexual thrill in her publicizing the numbers). Sophie's pretty but I'd be gobsmacked if that was sheer weight of $50 users.
haroldbkny
13hr ago
A few years after that, I'm guessing we will all be hooked up to neural stimulators that simply give direct electrical impulses to the dopaminergic pathways in our brain a'la Olds and Milner. That's all that's left, really.
CertainlyWorse
No one is coming. It's just you.
13hr ago
Hah, this is peak introvert energy. Not actually wanting to attend, but wanting the warm feeling of knowing there are groups nearby that you could attend if you wanted to.
Having worked in online gambling a fair bit I'd kinda love to know the distribution of who's actually paying these sums.
Surely Sophie's gotta have some insane pareto principle where she's got some Saudi Paypig who's absolutely blasting on the dream.
Though looking at the payment graph from https://instagram.com/reel/DN6HkAKDhYp/ it seems remarkably flat aside from that one big month.
aldomilyar
13hr ago
Yeah once you're in the electronic payment loop it's fairly hard to engage in anything too discrete. The hard part is getting the cash and/or crypto into that loop, not channeling it once it's already in there.
haroldbkny
13hr ago
We believe that it may be an outbreak of sex addiction. It's a new phenomenon we don't completely understand yet, but it seems to make people... different. Of course, we all know the normal healthy male thinks only of sex occasionally and has no desire for sex with multiple partners. But in the sex addict, their entire lives are consumed with thoughts of wanting more and more. The mere sight of an attractive woman could... can make them think about sex with her.
They take a 20% cut, and don't accept cash or crypto. That makes it a pretty unappealing option for money launderers. If the money is coming from stolen credit cards, platforms are quick to track down which creators have an abnormal chargeback rate and ban them.
Fundamentally OnlyFans is no different than Patreon, Gumroad, the Kindle store, etc. There are plenty of storefronts online where an individual can charge money for access to content. They all tend to follow pretty similar best practices for preventing fraud and money laundering.
urquan
Hold! What you are doing to us is wrong! Why do you do this thing?
13hr ago
Married many kids, greatly enjoys child birth.
Excuse me, what?
I know a Mormon man, as queer as a three dollar bill. Married, many kids, greatly enjoys child birth. His son came out and his response was "Get over it, I'm gayer than you are!"
jkf
13hr ago
Some of the older tiktok ones are interesting:
https://tiktok.com/@alidumana1/video/7190441685413809414
"UK 🐈 money" apparently...
It's hardly more shameful to be in a relationship with a machine than an e-whore. Neither is something people are likely to admit.
I think the ability to pretend to oneself that it’s really the girl on the other side puts a floor on demand for the “real” thing. If anything I think OF girls using AI to talk for them will generally outcompete AI chatbots alone.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
14hr ago
I'm kind of stunned we've been able to erect (tee hee) a whole market apparatus around females flaunting their reproductive goods that's been completely stripped of reproduction itself. It seems like such a hack. Like figuring out if you turn natural plant pesticides into a drink it gets you high (caffeine) and it grows into some enormous coffee and tea industry.
urquan
Hold! What you are doing to us is wrong! Why do you do this thing?
14hr ago
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I'm curious how you'd distinguish this from desire-to-be-masculine.
I'm with Iconochasm here: I've triangulated that I'm at the far high end of male tenderness and romantic shyness, and those examples strike me as painfully unmasculine. The rat character just feels hunched over, passive, depressed. Maybe a desire is there, but if this resonates with the trans masc community than I don't know if they really get what men aim to be like. Although I love my tenderness, I also don't want to be the guy who apologizes for kissing a woman who really wanted me to kiss her. Ask me how I know.
and also is more gynophilic in his partners than I am
I'm not sure what this is supposed to mean -- I'm really not trying to be a jerk here. But, I mean, you are bisexual, and obviously you have a deep connection to gay culture. I'm not sure that being more gynophilic than you means a whole lot, particularly when we're talking about people who are exclusively attracted to women. Do you have a preference for women?
I admit, I didn't even realize you had any interest in the fairer sex until you explicitly said you were bisexual -- my ingrained mental image, which is hard to shake, is that you're twink who likes wearing programmer socks. I guess I've known too many geeky MSM or furries that fit that frame that I slotted you into it. And I genuinely want to know how wrong I am.
are really gay
The "trans men are really gay" thing actually contributes to the point you're refuting: if you're flying from femininity, what is less feminine than being gay? As you've said before, femininity isn't really all that prized in gay culture, stereotypes aside.
a longer-running thread revolves around wanting to be a dad
Well, a parent, at least. There are obviously differences between moms and dads, but I don't know how to meaningfully distinguish "I want to be a parent, but I don't want to get pregnant" (which would actually contribute to the point you're trying to refute!) from "I want to be a dad."
It is also slightly humorous that the rat character throws a party to interview candidates for impregnating his girlfriend, which seems, well, like something a lot of men would find somewhere between uncomfortable and enraging.
EDIT: A few more reflections after downloading the comic PDF. I braved the rat pornography so everyone else wouldn't have to.
But most of the sex doesn't come off to me as gay, or male -- they come off to me as lesbian wish fantasies about doing masculinity better than men. In particular, the initial sex scene in the comic features the rat character pulling a strapon out of his everyday carry bag (as one does) and then insisting on putting a condom on it, because ????. This is a contradiction to the stereotype that men won't wear a rubber.
Then, during the sex scene, he asks the female character, "how do you like to do it?" and she responds by saying, "Nobody's ever asked me that before!" Again, this is a contradiction to the view that men don't give a damn about women's sexual enjoyment, which is puzzlingly common among women. The point is that the trans masc rat is a Better Man (TM) than those dirty cis rat boys who didn't treat her right.
Maybe that is how a lot of men are, I don't know. But the idea that I'd have a sexual encounter and not aim to make it a good one for my partner is like suggesting that I set my pizza sauce-side down. What's the point of getting my rocks off without having a memorable experience that ends in mutual satisfaction?
(Of course, she doesn't know what she likes, and the trans man rat character just substitutes his own judgment for her inability to state her sexual preferences, and those happen to be absolutely exactly what she likes. Another trope in sexual fiction written by women.)
The "single pregnant woman meets Good Man (TM) with dad vibes" is also a common female fantasy -- obviously it's quite adaptive. But it's not necessarily something that I'd say reflects an internalization of maleness so much as a desire to perform proper maleness for women, or in other words to be the butchest lesbian who ever strapped on a dildo.
I did definitely enjoy the transition from "we literally just reunited on the street randomly" to "we are having sex, we can separate physicality from emotions, right?" to "we are now madly in love," which took all of one evening. Can I make a u-haul joke?
Also... it really does seem like the "main character" in the sex scene I read was the female character. It was all about her. I'm not getting "I AM A MAN FANTASIZING ABOUT BEING MASCULINE" vibes, but very much a projection of women's sexual desires onto the trans male character. Particularly in the "you're my princess but you're also my slut" thing, that's textbook girl next door with a naughty side energy. Of course, I think many men would be happy to do that for a woman if she asked (but in the comic she doesn't ask -- he intuits).
The comic's depictions of sex read more to me like something written by a woman than by a man -- might as well have been written by women I've dated, it's so painfully familiar. (ngl, didn't hate it.) He's a woman's ideal man, not a man's ideal man. That's not an insult, but it is important. I don't think this proves what you think it does.
Of course at the end of the day if a democracy wants to commit suicide they're gonna do it regardless. Even most authoritarian nations are still under some sorts of political pressure, you can't upset the people too much or else they risk higher chance of revolt so even they often are receptive to bad populist policy demands (assuming that the authoritarian leader isn't themselves a believer in bad policy, as they often are like we see with most/all communist states).
But that doesn't mean you should want to do a national suicide! If the argument is "we need to do a little so we can avoid a lot" that's at least understandable, but the goal should still be to reduce the amount of national suicide we do. I'd rather a Deng Xiaopeng over a Mao, and a Xi Jingping over a Kim Jong Ung. But if we can have a Reagan instead, then we should have a Reagan.
magicalkittycat
14hr ago
Which traditional conservative ideas would those be? "Ensure the means to produce an absurdly vital strategic resource with a lead-up time measured in decades remains possible in $country" is something even minarchists believe the role of government should cover.
This assumes that everyone agrees government ownership of companies is the correct approach, which they in fact do not and have not historically agreed on.
Maybe we can cut back regulations, support development and building of technology, etc instead of expanding government more in response to expanded government.
zPvQINBQvfFR
14hr ago
"SNITCHES could be here" he thinks, "I've never been in this neighborhood before. There could be SNITCHES anywhere."
Yes, I suppose if you ignore all of the complexity and randomness that arises in a real confrontation, then I guess the risk is basically zero. Strong beats weak 100% of the time apparently.
Are you intentionally being hyperbolic or do you really not see any spectrum at all between being "a passive slab of meat" and strolling up and disarming the child with strong adult hands with absolutely zero fear or injury like a badass?
If you would like to assign numbers to your unearned confidence, what rate of adult deaths or serious injury in these confrontations would you accept as presenting a credible risk?
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