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#narcissism

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Starchy Compliment

Opinion—Commentary

"So, maybe the real question is not how I fell for the love-bombing, but why it felt so natural. And what does that feeling of normality say about me, a young millennial pushing 30, and the world I inhabit – that such behaviour no longer feels like the exception, but the rule?"

Narcissism 2nd-Hand Smoke of This Generation

straitstimes.com/life/hear-me- via "The Straits Times"
Image: Istock/ST
#LoveBombing #Narcissism

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Greengordon

@Nonilex

Why would #trump do such a horrible thing? Because he's a psychopath. Stop trying to figure it out past that. The cruelty is the point and his pleasure.

"A 50% reciprocal #trade tariff on Lesotho, the highest levy on #Trump's long list of target economies, will kill the tiny Southern African kingdom that Trump ridiculed last month, an economic analyst there said."

#uspol#narcissism
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mk30

100% narcissistic abuse tactics over here on the tariffs front: "Trump, meanwhile, revels in the uncertainty. He “likes the shock and awe,” a White House official said, and aims to capitalize on it. “Each country needs to panic and call. … Trump wants to hear you grovel and say you’ll cut a deal.”" - politico.com/news/2025/04/01/t

Key elements:

* Unpredictable and inconsistent (keeps the victim on their toes).
* "Shock and awe" keeps the victim overwhelmed and always reacting to the new crisis that the narcissist is creating. Prevents them from being able to reflect and catch their bearings (and possibly escape).
* "Wants to hear you grovel": humiliates the victim and forces them to perform submission. If you've ever had to do this, you surely know the rage it breeds. (One time when I was broke and depressed right after college, my dad would only give me $300 for rent if I flew to visit him and grovel. It wasn't a lot of $ to him, but he needed that humiliation. That was the last time I ever asked my parents for $.)

So yea, we're all living under a mean, narcissist daddy now! He imagines each country as just another ungrateful child that needs to kiss Daddy's ring and beg for forgiveness (for what? It doesn't matter. The important part is that you beg.)

it suuuuux. Whole world is gonna have CPTSD.

#USPol#narcissism#abuse
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Geriatric Gardener

So TRUE!!

“Is the MAGA Movement Powered by Teeny Weenie Energy?”

by Don Knight in The Midnight Manuscripts on Substack

“The MAGA movement isn’t alpha.

It’s not powerful.

It’s not masculine.

It’s a bunch of hateful bullies powered by small-dick energy”

open.substack.com/pub/donovanw

The Midnight Manuscripts · Is the MAGA Movement Powered by Teeny Weenie Energy?By Don Knight
#Press#US#Trump
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RDN

Narcissists are more honest after being exposed to explanations of different rationalizations of unethical behavior (assuming everybody does it, blaming others, minimizing harm, or using euphemistic language) and how using these rationalizations can adversely affect one's standing.

Summary: psypost.org/scientists-discove

Original paper (not open access): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.11

PsyPost · Scientists discover how to psychologically inoculate narcissists against dishonestyBy Eric W. Dolan
#Science#Psychology#Ethics
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David Scott Moyer

So you are a communist/socialist/"independent"/green/anarchist.

How do you vote?

· 7 people · Closed
#poll#voting#anarchist
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Matilda's Lab

This may come as no surprise to you, but social media makes people more delusional, and narcissistic.
eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

EurekAlert!Social media use amplifies delusional disorders: SFU studyA new study from Simon Fraser University researchers has found a close link between high levels of social media use and psychiatric disorders that involve delusions, such as narcissism and body dysmorphic disorder. According to the recently published study in BMC Psychiatry – a systematic review of all available academic literature including scrutiny of over 2,500 publications on social media use and psychiatric disorders – forms of delusions were by far the most prevalent type of psychiatric disorders related to high social media use. These disorders include narcissistic personality disorder (delusions of superiority), erotomania (delusions that someone famous loves you), body dysmorphic disorder (delusions of flaws in some part of one’s body) and anorexia (delusions about body size).
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Thor A. Hopland

Know that #racism is (at a #psychological level) #paranoia and #narcissism. They are problems of the human psyche that most people ignore - especially if they are afflicted.

When distortions become reality, you live between dimensions, somewhere between reality - and fiction.

What's necessary is to break down that fiction, to bring clarity, to lighten the weight of fear, the hatred for others - and the self - from their shoulders, for it is the only way to cull racism.

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Vox and the Pack :Fire_Enby:

How does one recognize whether or not what one experienced was narcissistic abuse?

It's not like one can ask the hypothetical abuser. They will deny it. Is learning about the patterns of narcissistic abuse and subsequently recognizing how they show up in one's lived experience the best one can do?

I find that a very unsatisfactory conclusion but it does seem like the best one can do. I probably lived in a relationship with at least narcissistic abuse patterns. And the unsolvable ambiguity of it all bothers me.

#abuse#psychologicalAbuse#narcissisticAbuse
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