When abusers run the show, the victim pay the double price
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Abusers give the victim currency status so they never learn who is truly victimizing them.
Victims HODL victimhood identity status above all else. No room for signal to get in there. They are owned - as you said - twice.
Not in my experience. Abusers give victim status to themselves. They might use other victims as devices to be seen as such, but it’s purely parasitical. It’s to be seen as… true victims rarely get to victim status, often on the contrary they get portrayed as abusers by the abusers. Gaslighting and projections is the game. Dissonance of character is the strongest indicator…
I should clarify. When the abuser is a government who prints money - the victims can be bought. They demand to be.