Reading that article, I have no idea how gay people are involved in this. Normal people, and I include straight people in that, have conversations about and general understandings of their level of a relationship.
This is not a new thing they need to start doing. Hell, the article talks about Sisson _literally explaining_ things to them. This is just some subset of women who willfully ignored it.
And I actually have a theory here: I suspect it's because he's an influencer, and that they have a obvious parasocial relationship in _addition_ to talking to him personally.
We've long had a problem with people thinking parasocial relationships are real and the people on the other side are in love or good friends with them, despite the celebrity not actually knowing their names. This is the same thing, except the celebrity does know the person's name and like to talk to them..but that person still has hallucinated a huge aspect of their relationship.
Some sort of blending, in their head, of the stuff he puts out publicly, blended with their conversations, to make them imagine he's spending _way_ more time with them then he is.
It's like they've discovering the guy who says he won't commit but has been living in their house and spending almost every waking hour talking with them...has been doing that with several other women. I think that would, reasonable, upset a lot of people, even with clearly explained relationship rules.
Except they just hallucinated the 'he's living in my house and spending every waking hour with me' because they're watching his tiktok a lot, and in reality they're just chatting like thirty minutes a day.
To be fair to David’s original point, I expect the Tesla firebombers really have their shit together.
It kinda depends who it is. I said something similiar when Brian Thompson was killed, that if someone on the actual left did this, good luck. But if they did, we'd never know anyway.
Then he was tracked down, and it turns out he wasn't. So...at least that doesn't invalidate my point.
I haven't seen any reports on how competently this was done, although I have very little respect for people who use fire. I guess it could hypothetically be save to burn _cars_, which are in theory in a parking lot, but you can destroy Teslas just by throwing paint on them.
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Reading that article, I have no idea how gay people are involved in this. Normal people, and I include straight people in that, have conversations about and general understandings of their level of a relationship.
This is not a new thing they need to start doing. Hell, the article talks about Sisson _literally explaining_ things to them. This is just some subset of women who willfully ignored it.
And I actually have a theory here: I suspect it's because he's an influencer, and that they have a obvious parasocial relationship in _addition_ to talking to him personally.
We've long had a problem with people thinking parasocial relationships are real and the people on the other side are in love or good friends with them, despite the celebrity not actually knowing their names. This is the same thing, except the celebrity does know the person's name and like to talk to them..but that person still has hallucinated a huge aspect of their relationship.
Some sort of blending, in their head, of the stuff he puts out publicly, blended with their conversations, to make them imagine he's spending _way_ more time with them then he is.
It's like they've discovering the guy who says he won't commit but has been living in their house and spending almost every waking hour talking with them...has been doing that with several other women. I think that would, reasonable, upset a lot of people, even with clearly explained relationship rules.
Except they just hallucinated the 'he's living in my house and spending every waking hour with me' because they're watching his tiktok a lot, and in reality they're just chatting like thirty minutes a day.
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It kinda depends who it is. I said something similiar when Brian Thompson was killed, that if someone on the actual left did this, good luck. But if they did, we'd never know anyway.
Then he was tracked down, and it turns out he wasn't. So...at least that doesn't invalidate my point.
I haven't seen any reports on how competently this was done, although I have very little respect for people who use fire. I guess it could hypothetically be save to burn _cars_, which are in theory in a parking lot, but you can destroy Teslas just by throwing paint on them.