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The hottest tea, the spiciest gossip, the fiercest commentary and no fucking censorship. We are the Los Santos VIXEN. Hope you've been doing your kegels, babe. Letter from the editor: Sis, stop reading the story and BE the story. Submit your gossip to our handy and under-fucking-utilized gossip submission form. Chop chop. Also Like, Subscribe, Share, is this your first time online? Click HERE ! LSVIXEN XOXO ❤️ A Vixen's Guide: To Entrusting Others With Power Deep breaths everyone, I know... it's election season and the talking heads have been trotted out of their respective enclosures. If you're getting that sticky-yicky feeling from people you have never met before in your life now approaching you with glaring smiles online and in person assuring you that they truly care and that they've always cared, I am happy at least to inform you that you aren't alone. Politics attracts a range of personalities. There are the populists who will tell you what you want to hear but also get steamrolled by whoever shouts the loudest at their rallies. There are the ones that fancy themselves shrewd politicians, ever always with an answer that spin spin spins away any negativity or aims to destabilize the critic. And there are those in it because they intend to stand up for their community. Rare as the last category may be, they still do exist. But how can we tell the difference? I wish I had an easy blood test to figure out which people have lizard blood and which ones are hot-blooded humans, but I don't. What I do have is a phenomenal sense of detecting bullshit however and instead of playing the shit-sniffing dog for you all each and every cycle, I am going to let you in on the way my mind works. What's the saying... yeah let me uh... "teach you to fish" or whatever. Questions to Ask Yourself, When Asked About Your Needs 💮 Any political schmuck worth their weight in salt is going to ask you what issues you're concerned about. That's an attempt to figure out what you most care about so they can swing around and provide you with the strongest assurance that they are the ones to trust on that issue. But we are human beings, we are complex. Can our desires, our dreams, our hopes, and our aspirations be boiled down to issues? I don't particularly think so. These are some questions I ask myself each election cycle. May they help you to identify where the role of the politician may grease the wheels on your personal journey. Controversial opinion time. Money isn't the goal. It's a tool used to get your goals. If you want a house, more often than not you want a sense of security. If you want the recognition that having money brings, more often than not you desire a sense of being seen and respected. All the luxuries that money brings have core reasonings like this and it's important to realize what the underlying desires are. And the needs of our neighbors are equally important because let's say I don't feel safe in my neighborhood because of something like crime. Well, if my neighbors had more opportunities to make money legally and had more pathways to success, they'd be less likely to commit crimes and both me and my neighborhood would be safer. In short, their success and safety secures my ability to be safe and successful. With those questions in mind, what do you ask when you meet a politician? They want something from you. Your vote. Your support. Your acceptance. Maybe even your love and adoration. When they ask you what you need, they're asking you to put a price on it. Questions for Them, Putting a Price on Your Faith. ⭐ At my core, I'm an optimist. I want to believe that when people tell me they care that they truly care, but I've lived on this earth for almost three decades and I do in fact know better than to trust someone at their word. Their word however still is important. If a politician tells you for example that they are going to "look into" an issue such as tribal recognition or public housing initiatives, do not take their word for it, ask for their number, ask for a follow up discussion, send them materials. The moment your attention diverts from the issue is the moment they have succeeded at moving onto the next issue of the week without addressing the first. Here are some questions to ask politicians seeking your support. If they can survive this battery of questions, they may even deserve it. I know a lot of these seem redundant but they aren't. The deeper the candidate must dig themselves in, the more authentic they must appear. By switching topics, they can appear authentically surface level passionate about pretty much any topic, but the more you go into painful detail, the more you ask for written evidence and proof of conviction, the more evident it will become whether they want to authentically show you with pride the efforts they have undertaken and will undertake on your behalf or whether they simply want your vote and will hope your attention span won't bridge into the actual calendar year. Ugh, what's the fucking point, dude. It's all fucked. 😥 I know. I know. I'm not dumb. I've been disappointed by politicians and bosses before. I've held my hope out only for it to be slapped down. I'm not going to ask you to pretend those experiences never happened or that they will never happen again. But if you have the energy and the strength, I do have a favor to ask of you. The more people who passionately and full-heartedly ask the above questions of themselves and candidates, the more likely we are to get the type of leadership we deserve. The politicians of years gone by have thrived in anonymity and silence on all levels of government. They crave your involvement briefly during the election cycle and then they pray for your attention being diverted. Intense questions like the above show them a new kind of public that requires a new standard of effort and it's my hope that maybe, just maybe, it'll produce even one or two of the types of community heroes we deserve. You can mock me because I'm hopeful, but I'd rather have some clear-sighted, active, and energetic hope than be exhausted with a well-founded but tiresome apathy. When in doubt. Support each other. 🔥 We can't always wait for the right ones to come by. This means two things. One is supporting one another the best we can. Your neighbor might be short on rent money and if you're in a time of plenty, it can only make the world a little less shitty if you help out. The old lady might be hands full on groceries, open that door your fuckin' schmuck. It's a nice thing to do. Little kindnesses make a better world. The more people that do little kindnesses and well... it adds up. The second thing we can do is become the leaders we wish to see in the world. If you care about your community, I urge you to talk to your neighbors about their needs, identify which ones everyone keeps mentioning, and find the people who are supposed to be responsible for its solution or resolution. If you keep doing this and if you make real change, you become the type of leader we deserve. All in All. 💋 The final thing I'll mention is that each and every election is a job interview. We are the potential bosses of these politicians. They have to prove to us that they can do the job and that they are prepared to do the job. Even when they get in power, we have the ability to fire them through popular will. This is one area the Karens have trained us well for. If they fuck up, speak to the manager. If that manager fucks up, speak to corporate (aka the Governor). But never ever get it twisted that these individuals are superior to us or derive their power from anywhere but us and our public mandate. Do not forget. You are their bosses. They are your employees. Love you, cuties. ❤️ XOXO, DISCLAIMER >Comments are enabled!

From the EDITING ROOM • May 27th, 2022 - 11:00PM EDITOR'S ROOM: Daily News and News Network enters negotiations for an advertising partnership. The proposed deal will see the Los Santos Daily News showcase advertisements by the Los Santos News Networks within it's ad-space. The Daily News prides itself on unbiased, timely and honest reporting. We take every measure underneath the sun to see that our articles come out at a consistent rate while maintaining the quality that it's known for, including a rigorous review process prior to the publication of each piece as well as a staunch ethics policy that forbids the Daily News, it's affiliates and it's employees from accepting gifts, bribes and "freebies." Integrity makes or breaks a paper. Without our integrity, there is no trust. And if there is no trust, there is nothing. As the Daily News continues to grow, recently being revitalized from it's former dormant state, there's been bigger and bigger demands as to the content produced and the overall output of the Daily News. A full blown expansion like what the Daily has planned requires more funding. Without any desire to listen to investors and to sell parts of the company, to remove ourselves beneath the San Andreas New Group/SANG umbrella, and to ensure that our integrity and independence is respected, we have to ensure that any and all methods to procure funding ends with the paper's integrity in mind. The Los Santos Daily News and the Los Santos News Network has formally entered negotiations for an advertising partnership, where companies who wish to advertise with either corporation may sign a deal with both simultaneously. Any and all existing advertisers with the News Network shall be The deal with mean that banner-ads that would be shown in News Network's print division will be also showcased within the Daily News' ad-space. The Daily News will retain all rights as to what is and isn't shown within our ad-space to ensure that no business whose essence goes against our core values will be present on either our e-paper or our print paper. The News Network in turn will provide the Daily News with a larger source of income for future expansion in exchange for advertising. Los Santos - Courtesy of Getty, June 16th 2014, Al. Dov. What does this mean for the paper? The paper shall retain it's status as an entity beneath the San Andreas News Group. It will not be incorporated beneath the Los Santos News Network's umbrella, nor is the Daily open to a deal that would require so. Our ideals, beliefs, and policies, will remain ours and SANG's. All that will change for the reader is that banner-ads will become more prevalent. Outside of our advertising-related webpages, there shall be no branding associated with News Network on the Daily. The content scheduled to be release, as well as all content in the future, will remain firmly the Daily News' content. Our writing is ours, and it shall stay so until this paper dissolves. Our policies remain exactly the same, and there shall be no influence from News Network's editor's room. The inverse is true, where the News Network will continue to write their own articles and produce their own broadcasts, with the Daily News holding no say over the content of which. Our policies when it comes to what advertisers will be allowed on the Daily remains the same. Any business that promotes sexual or illegal content shall not be added into our adspace, nor shall political campaigns that breach our ToS. (i.e. no attack ads) The benefits gained from a deal like this will be apparent within the coming months. The deal will enable us to expand to bring on more writers, hire more freelancers, and allow us to focus solely on delivering the truthful and accurate reporting that we've been known for. If at any point that the Daily News feels as if this deal causes inadvertent influence on our journalistic practices, whether it's from pressure of News Network's advertisers or otherwise, we will exit out of the deal and any contract signed. With the monetary benefits from this deal, the Daily will be able to expand to hire more reporters, more journalists, and gain a wider reach across to the citizens of Los Santos County. We're more than happy to work alongside the News Network to support our county's local businesses while delivering the highest quality journalism to our readers' doorsteps. Comments are enabled: Username: Comment: