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Let's just ignore thousands of European noble families and wealthy industrial tycoon dynasties.
Any examples? I’m not really aware.
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AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k
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It's possible for things to be both sad and funny from different perspectives. Hope that helps.
Don't backtrack now. It's only funny to you because you don't know her. I don't find everyday sociopathy as amusing myself.
Yeah, so what? That's how a lot of life works. If I had to practice maximal empathy and view every misfortune I hear about through the lens of "Oh my god, what if it happened to me!" I would be catatonically depressed and wouldn't be able to function. It's too bad for this lady. I wouldn't laugh in her face about it of course. But come on, the pictures are funny. It's okay to find humor in dark things. I try to find humor in my own misfortunes as well. That's life.
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Yeah very commonly people say, "I have identified this as a scam but given that other victims weren't mocked relentlessly enough, I shall part with my money." /s
I think you know that's not what the comment is saying. They're saying people who fall victim to these scams would be less likely to talk about it, knowing they'll be the Internet's lolcow for a day. That hurts everyone, because now a scam is getting less coverage, leading to more people falling for it. Has nothing to do with recognizing it as a scam in the moment it's happening. They're talking about what comes afte…
That's a nonsense argument. Mockery obviously makes people LESS likely to talk about their victimization.
What you're actually trying to say is, "mockery amplifies the signal to get in front of more people's eyes" and my counter to that is: it doesn't need to. The article itself does a perfectly fine job communicating what's going on without making mockery. You're just choosing to layer mockery on top of it for, as far as I can tell, net negative effect.
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It's possible for things to be both sad and funny from different perspectives. Hope that helps.
Don't backtrack now. It's only funny to you because you don't know her. I don't find everyday sociopathy as amusing myself.
With the same low level reasoning I would say people are only sorry for her because she is a woman, that needs to be protected. Reverse the sexes in the story and you dont get much of an interesting story
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> Anne's daughter, now 22, told TF1 she tried to "get her mother to see reason" for over a year but that her mother was too excited. "It hurt to see how naive she was being," she said. At least a little bit moron, also was married while this was ongoing
I don't think you realize just how extensively abuse can break your brain. Edit: I'm talking about emotional and psychological abuse. Separating you from people who care for you, gaslighting you, building dependency, etc are all scamming tactics that are absolutely psychological and emotional abuse.
She never saw face to face any of the protagonists here. It’s all online. They said to her what she was waiting for
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#106The lack of empathy of the responses here saddens me. I sincerely hope none of your parents or grandparents are scammed. And I hope you are all educating your loved ones on the threat of scams in this new era when AI fakes are so easy and realistic.
Criticising, being realistic, seeing through lies and being empathic are not exclusive. We can do all of those things at the same time. The fakes were not realistic here, it didnt need any AI and most people who are mocking her here read more about the topic than you apparently
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What's the "best part" of someone with both HIV and cancer who is going through a divorce getting robbed out of every cent to their name and then mocked on the Internet? Yeah, hilarious. Ell oh ell oh ell.
The best part is that there are people so gullible to fall for things like this. These are the people clicking internet advertisements and funding the web.
Maybe a radical perspective here, but I'd suggest that even dumbasses have a right to live with dignity and not get scammed of their belongings.
Even the biggest dumbass on the planet, in fact, deserves this.
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Don't backtrack now. It's only funny to you because you don't know her. I don't find everyday sociopathy as amusing myself.
With the same low level reasoning I would say people are only sorry for her because she is a woman, that needs to be protected. Reverse the sexes in the story and you dont get much of an interesting story
What a blindly judgemental farce. Maybe don't project your own prejudice onto others?
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Your timeline there is a bit off. When she met this Brad Pitt, she was still married. She started sending money to him; got divorced; got a settlement of €775,000; and proceeded to give all of that as well to Brad Pitt. Still worthy of sympathy, but no one would question mockery of a married man who started chatting with a fake Angelina Jolie on social media, started sending her money, got divorced, and then gave the…
> ... , but no one would question mockery of a married man who started chatting with a fake Angelina Jolie ... I would hope that noone would mock this person. Anyone doing this clearly has some issues and should not be mocked but encouraged to seek help. When did so many people become assholes?
Claiming that some stranger "has issues" and encouraging them to "get help" is just denigrating them instead of mocking their behavior.
We don't know anything about this person besides what facts have come up in the story, and none of us are directly engaging with them anyway.
It's much less presumptive and much more socially constructive to directly critique their behavior for being plainly misguided, so that others can learn from it, than it is to make any kind of judgment about the person themselves.
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I think you know that's not what the comment is saying. They're saying people who fall victim to these scams would be less likely to talk about it, knowing they'll be the Internet's lolcow for a day. That hurts everyone, because now a scam is getting less coverage, leading to more people falling for it. Has nothing to do with recognizing it as a scam in the moment it's happening. They're talking about what comes afte…
That's a nonsense argument. Mockery obviously makes people LESS likely to talk about their victimization. What you're actually trying to say is, "mockery amplifies the signal to get in front of more people's eyes" and my counter to that is: it doesn't need to. The article itself does a perfectly fine job communicating what's going on without making mockery. You're just choosing to layer mockery on top of it for, as f…
It's the human condition to teach each other via positive and negative reinforcement.
If she didn't come forward publicly her story would've via the human telephone game. As well fabricated stories on this topic will and are created. So the mob is mocking fiction but in the end in a valuable societal manner to teach the fools.