They’re right, except for one thing; once you know what to look for, these people are easy as hell to spot.
They’re drawn to power, in any form. They consolidate it. They build power systems around them. And they exploit it.
You can spot them because they’re the people who, somehow, the rules never apply to. There’s always an exception, a workaround, an excuse, a rationale, a condescending it’s more complicated than that, dear.
They’re the people who say the right things but never follow through. We’ll be fully transparent, followed by radio silence.
The ones who convince you to give them authority for a good cause. We should form a committee to establish some common principles, but it ends up being a committee of one, and the principles sufficiently vague to be twisted to work any way.
I think we have natural instincts for detecting these people, but we’re taught from an early age to suppress them. Never judge a book by its cover! Always give people the benefit of the doubt! Respect your elders! You just have trouble with authority!
We’ll never be free of these psychopaths until we learn to spot them, confront them, and prevent them from building and growing their power systems.
It’s basically the ideal American. I mean that’s what I understand from growing up here… That type of person is the person they taught us is successful.
It makes me feel like america makes monsters. It’s good for the business. And our nation is basically not much more than a business… Kinda like a Mafia family.
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Every corporation is by design a psychopathic entity. They are designed to be incapable of empathy, regardless of who is running the show. Their only goal is to accumulate wealth and power. And we give them power, huge amounts of it.
An accurate representation of what happens if you ignore your natural instincts and let one into your organisations:
QAnon claims there’s a secret cabal of pedophiles running the world. They are right about that, but too stupid to realize the pedos are on their team.
In 2022 I sent an email to Jonathan Swan of The New York Times where I confessed to being the founder of Qanon. One sec, lemme find the screenshot, I just moved it to my ~/img directory so the timing is perfect. I couldn’t find it for the longest fucking time, but I stumbled across it while looking through my 15,000 image ~/png directory.
lol, this is hilarious. Did you get a reply?
Nope! Not surprised tbh, I’m sure Mr. Swan gets plenty of emails from nutjobs. At the time, I had just had a TBI, and I was smoking pot all day. That combination made me lose my goddamn mind and spend ten days in the psych ward. WORST. BIRTHDAY. EVER.
The funniest thing I’ve seen recently was some conspiracy theorists looking at released things from Epstein and saying “What are they trying to distract us from?” Like, folks, y’all were going crazy about pizza logos.
Has anyone ever seen the movie “They Live”?
I haven’t seen the movie but I have seen the memes. So I just know They Live as the movie where the guy puts on the sunglasses and sees things like “CONSUME”
I’ve always said not to trust somebody who smiles all the time
Of course it’s a little deeper than that, but if somebody smiles too much then it usually means they’re either lying to you or themselves
I do subscribe to the idea that many psychopaths can “turn it on” for people they love - my FIL is a retired C level who never had any problem exploiting workers, but his kids will tell you he’s funny and loving and weird. Since I’m a same-sex partner of one kid, I can see through it - I never got looped in close enough so it’s fairly obvious.
Psychopaths are more than capable of caring about people, but they are only care about people who benefit them in some way. That’s why they’re nice to their loved ones- the there are plenty of benefits that come from having a family, and, believe it or not, it’s not just shallow manipulation…they actually do feel for them. I’ve always been nice to my family and friends, and I don’t plan on changing that.
I heard from a diagnosed narcissist that its because they see those people as extensions of themselves basically. Like they don’t care for you as an individual, but as a part of themself.
But take all that with a grain of salt
Isn’t that a reason why, like…most people care about other people? You’re much more likely to like someone who has a lot of shit in common with you, so arguably you would see that person as an extension of yourself as well.
All I can say is I don’t. And that maybe I am not explaining it clear enough, or that there is an misunderstanding of semantics
Perhaps, but also how much of that love depends on the ‘loved ones’ acting in a way that is wanted/expected vs loving them for who they are? How many of these people see their love as transactional, like withdrawing college funding if the kid declares an undesired major?
Loving someone as an extension of yourself is an entirely different thing for a narcissist.
One of my best friends is a sociopath and he describes this as “internalizing” them. This made a breakup really hard for him because he felt like a part of himself was rejecting the rest.
They wear masks
Yeah, those positions like CEO, president, chairman etc. are almost always a filter for the wrong kind of people. After all, why would someone with empathy and doubts “win” against someone without?
My dad used to be the CEO of a software company. He was the rare CEO because he wasn’t a psychopath. He’s actually one of the nicest and most morally upstanding people I’ve ever met. He once told me that firing people was by far the least favorite part of his job, but he knew he had to. Nobody wants a boss who is afraid to fire people. Well, the employees would love it, but that doesn’t matter because CEOs have to answer to the shareholders whether they like it or not.
This is exactly what the illuminati want you to believe.
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…OP, are you a billionaire?
Edit: This is funny after seeing the joke confession to being Q. WHAT ARE YOU HIDING!? /s obv
It wasn’t a joke. The traumatic brain injury made me think that I was Q because I was a severe alcoholic who loved trolling people on 4chan and 8chan . I convinced myself that Q was a character I played whenever I got blackout drunk. I’m really getting frustrated that everyone thinks I’m joking. The last several months have been the only time in my whole entire life when I’ve been honest about myself on social media. Before that I was just an unfunny troll
You still are.
Perhaps. Perhaps.
Oh shit, I’m sorry. I totally misread that post as sharing something funny you did rather than opening up about a dark time. 💜
it’s ok buddy
“there will stay”
