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It must be useful in some way to the people doing it but what could be a personal benefit?

Financial speculation likely plays a part. It might seem geopolitically insane that Europe traded cheap russian energy for expensive american/norwegian/russian but through third parties energy... but everyone who's invested in American LNG is making a killing. And Europeans who own the privatized import businesses are also making a second killing too.

That aside there just seems to be a culture of sanctions. The west is used to breaking weak nations by isolating them from western finance, capital and technology. By sheer inertia this keeps on going despite how a country like China can just keep on prospering, or how countries like Russia and India can more than make do as well. Or how all the new economic powers mean that countries like the ASS group just has options and people to talk to.

Is western finance good at insurance? Probably. But it's not like Mumbai, Shanghai or Singapore can't do the same service.

For $120k/yr, you can get a Twitch stream e-celebrity or two union stewards.

I think that the quality shared between the Red Nation podcast and Union stewardship is that neither is founded on a react youtuber's popularity.

Unions are organizations centered around organized labor, and that's where union stewards draw a stipend. The Red Nation podcast seems to be an actual political movement. Hasan the twitch streamer is a guy entertaining people online. He draws an exceptional amount of money from it, but he's just another influencer online. Those types tend to wither in the real world.

Hasan happens to entertain people in a way that makes them amenable or at least aware of left of center discourse. That creates a hope or an expectation for more. But an entertainer is likely what he'll always be. Hasan could take half of his earnings and pay people to be a political movement called the Hasan Unionizers but that would just be pretense and a boost for his own brand as an influencer. Nothing more.

The way I see it he does the good his position in society enables him to. That is to say that while boosting leftist voices, discourse, and donating money to unionizers and orgs won't bring about social change, its a part of it. Entertainers like him are a force multiplier. Rather than expecting Hasan to successfully leverage his twitch streamer react career into a political career, one should likely seek local orgs and help boost the people he's given his voice to. You know, support the actual politicians and labor leaders.

Look at the right. Their grifters don't all get elected or seek office. Instead of trying to get every Crowder out there to head a TERF org or to enter senate, the right wing audiences will boost those voices that do seek power. Media people have their role to play, and that's no more than Hasan will likely ever be.

tbh he's a twitch streamer. i think people overestimate his actual power. down here we call internet celebrities 'sub-celebrities' for a reason. the guy can signal boost some unionization effort here and there, but he can't even compare to a Trump or an Arnold and get elected, much less call the red brigades.

I mean they are talking about how they were made to feel, and how it was a positive experience. They weren't called a fairy, they felt like something unique and different enough akin to a fairy. It's like someone saying they swam naked on a lake in a pale moonlight and it made them feel witchy. Sure, a mysoginist can use the word witch or hag but they have no power in the scene, as described.

not if he does actually manage to raise one tenth of this much gulf money

spectre of a bunch of made up guys

we do get a lot of low effort posters and fascists. case in point

one doing

not being the government that's what you goddamn statist

Why there are no Warlords in the Roman Republic:

If one of the generals crosses the rubicon, the senate parliamentarian declares it to be illegal and all other generals strike the offender down.

By that standard

Teachers will always be expected to be role models for children. There will of course be conflict on what those standards should be - which is why we need to be politically competent.

There are ghouls out there. They'll say teachers shouldn't be LGBT. They'll push for all sorts of things. But if your opening salvo is that teachers don't have to be role models for children, and in fact can do whatever they want in their free time then you'll be ceding the ground to the ghouls. There's no two ways about it.

As such, if your priority is to defend my right to have an Only Fans, all I can say is 'no thank you'. I'm not american but I suspect that the issue we have in the public school I teach - kids don't have food at home and sometimes there's no food in school either - is a marginally Bigger Deal than whatever liberation you seem to think I need.

If your response to hearing a teacher has an OF is "they should get fired" then you suck.

Was that what I wrote?

damn the funny potential is very high rn

They shouldn't have to be public role models though.

As a teacher I disagree. I'm a public servant specialized in dealing with kids. I'm supposed to be held to very high standards. What those standards are is up to the community itself. Refusal to engage with the expectations of said community is just ceding ground to my political enemies, who most likely just want to destroy education as a public service in the first place.