LOL WUTOh no! fake psychics are impersonating the real psychics and this is bad because tarot is queer?

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[–]Datachost 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Grifters mad that other grifters are doing a better job of telling people what they want to hear.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Certainly seems that way. Makes me think of the Michael Caine, Steve Martin, Glenne Headly film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, con artists conning con artists.

What I don’t get is how a mainstream media outlet can be anything other than scathing about all these psychic/tarot/astrologers etc as they are by definition preying on the vulnerable (often the chronically grief-stricken or recently bereaved). For all their wailing about standing up for the marginalised, they really don’t give a fuck about actual victims at all as long as those that are doing the scamming tick the right identity boxes.

[–]Datachost 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

they really don’t give a fuck about actual victims at all as long as those that are doing the scamming tick the right identity boxes.

Yep, reminds me of a lot of modern so called Marxists. They'll happily scoff at the working class, so long as it's the white working class

[–]LtGreenCo 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If there was ever a real psychic the last thing they'd do is start a business reading people's fortunes. They would be winning lotteries, horse races, stock markets, or one of the other myriad of easier ways to profit off of their superpowers. It's ridiculous that in this day and age we still have people gullible enough to fall for it.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Desperation will make people do and believe things that others think ridiculous. Also, don’t forget that the “psychics” are actually usually pretty good at using skills like cold and hot reading to fool people. But at the end of the day, the “psychics” are almost all con artists that prey on desperate and, almost always, vulnerable people. Save your opprobrium for the con artists themselves and not their victims.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 5 fun2 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

On a recent evening, the author, podcast host, and tarot reader Michelle Tea was lying in bed, reading a book. She asked her husband, scrolling his phone next to her, what he was doing. 

Why did she need to ask?

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Tl;dr…

“Psychics”, tarot readers and other assorted scam artists are being hit by a spate of impersonation attacks and no one seems to care.

This makes it an article by a major news organisation bemoaning scam artists being scammed themselves and managing to make it seem like it is bad for BIPoC Queer Latinx sex workers too.

[–]GrilledTofuIdentifying as a block of tofu 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

tarot is queer

This part sent me laughing because of course they have to culturally appropriate every occult practice in the world or something

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Fake psychics? Lol. At least the horoscopes still have integrity.