I am aware that many tartlets are invested in bringing Stephanie Jarvis to justice by emphasizing the aspect of her crime spree that she is defrauding grannies. I don't know the demographic of her Patreons, and avoid characterizing them by age, sex and lack of means. I think these obloquys may serve purposes counter to bringing Jarvis to justice which may also be the excuse I hang on to for showing my fanny on a gossip site.
Just so, the law of fraud's fundamental premise is caveat emptor: The duty of the defrauded to perform due diligence before investing in the fraud. Some here, including me, admit to having been seduced by Jarvis but were also disabused on closer inspection and withdrew our Patreon support (I subscribed at the $1 a month rate, like many early Tattlers who wouldn't admit it, to see if the videos contained more evidence of fraud*).
How hundreds of us, we happy few, we band of bros, were able to avoid or extract ourselves from Stephanie Jarvis' fraudulent activities is the evidence that due diligence is our first responsibility when faced with a grifter. Not to take responsibility for my part in a
possibly fraudulent transaction, by emphasizing the no-
tit-Sherlock fact that grifters gonna grift, IMHO, underestimates the power of the grift phenom by not examining how it works on otherwise sensible people like us. This of course has major world-wide political ramifications.
Seems to me that's how to stop it.
If that's our purpose here at all.
Gossip has long been studied as a social and ethical arbiter. We can be here for that too, as a jury really adjudicating the criminal/unethical nature of the crimes, and I have to say there is real discernment on those lines going on here. Some of the stuff I especially enjoy is the video savvy edging into a discussion of video composition and construction rhetoric as authoritarian/fraudulent. Because Jarvis is speaking the language of Modi and his brothers around the world, just to name one avatar. You can call analyzing that rhetoric gossip, but I don't think so.
Emrys Westacott, associate professor of philosophy at Alfred University, offers moral defense of gossip, calling it basic and indispensable human activity that enhances our understanding of human nature and the world; says gossip can even be form of political resistance to undermine entrenched...
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*And my $1 a month subscription was fully rewarded. I was utterly and profoundly persuaded of Jarvis' ruthlessness and incompetence by the Patreon video in which her ladies' maid Philip Janssen groomed her, in a side pony and 80s vintage one-shouldered cocktail dress, to meet the gimlet-eyed and influential resto-grant-giving New York French Heritage Society via Zoom. Part of it was the old saw I learned early in business life that to grift people successfully, you have to dress like them. In this case, people in black. For your interview, dress for the job you want. I realized Jarvis was deeply incompetent as a grifter of the authentic gatekeepers/arbiters of chateauverse money, and that her real crimes against humanity/Creation lay in another direction. Of which
@Clara Burnett was the documentarian: Exploitation of workers and animal cruelty.
) that was supposed to be covered with a tarp against peacocks and it’s still standing there uncovered?it was one of the topics of one the daily episodes,Wonder if the content is real with actual actions taken or just for the sake of filming!
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