@lurkerhasarisen

This is in response to what Polishknight wrote. Strictly speaking he was correct: "...A pretty-but-broke woman can make millions on OF or at least get a free dinner." That’s true in the same sense that a gas station scratch-off ticket can win you 25 million dollars or 25 cents. But the odds of winning 25 cents are astronomically higher.

We in the RP community talk a lot about how an attractive young women has abundant options (even an average young woman has a quantity of options comparable to those of a male rock star), but the number who can REALLY cash in is infinitesimally small. The median OF chick makes nothing at all. Considering that the time she wastes making content with a $0 ROI could be used to make coffee at Starbucks, doing OF is a net expense for most of the women who do it.

The best way for a woman to achieve financial success is to be the kind of woman a financially successful man would marry.

...or hire.

My 80yo Conservative Boomer Mom messaged me that she's feeling depressed about the Blue Tsunami election results, and lamented that "We refuse to learn from our mistakes so I guess we'll just have to try Socialism once again to prove to ourselves that it doesn't work."

Le sigh; we long ago tacitly agreed to disagree on Politics because Fox/Limbaugh talking points don't hold their own when you have to support them against earnest challengers instead of just going to commercial after a long rant and mic drop. She'll legit cry and eat a box of grocery store donuts if I answer, no matter how tenderly because elderly Mom.

Anyway, Reality right now feels like living through the long slog of an Ayn Rand novel wherein the world is falling apart around the Elite Technocrat main characters because of Socialism. Only, in this reality, these very Technocrats are the ones already in charge, and the world is falling apart for the masses because of the exact opposite of Socialism, Laissez-Faire Capitalism, currently works as an engine concentrating wealth and power upward to these top few as opposed to downward toward the masses. In other words, the very solution she held up, turns out to CAUSE the exact dystopia she used 644,000 words to exhaustively describe. Basically, the mythos that modern Conservatism is built upon, stands demonstrably and today blatantly obviously, objectively false to its very foundations, and the reality of this becomes ever harder to deny or effectively challenge.

America's two party system sucks. It locks everyone into an artificial dialectic wherein if you disagree on a given topic, you MUST therefore represent an extreme caricature of the opposite party. There's no place in this paradigm for anyone outside it; for example myself aligning closest to Libertarian values that generally go fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I can get both strong Ds and Rs angrily REEEE-ing and pushing me away within 30 seconds of diving into a serious discussion of current events vis a vis politics.