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[–] [email protected] 112 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Read the whole and thing and, wow. It's just unbelievable to me that people can support this man so fervently.

I guess it's what happens when you give people permission to be completely selfish and devoid of empathy. He's a fucking psychopath.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s what happens when you get your news in parts of the country where Fox and Sinclair own the airwaves. They make immigrants and democrats seem terrifying.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

add in some social media for the younger people and bam, recipe for fascism.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not psychopathy. But narcissistic personality disorder. If you know anyone who has lived with one, they can tell you it’s on the verge of psychopathy.

It’s crazy behavior and crazy talk because it’s mental illness, probably somewhere around 60 years untreated mental illness. And hallmarks of NPD are maintaining a personal alternative reality, mentally tearing apart anyone disagreeing with that alternative reality, and no empathy.

I’m sick to death of no one talking about it and calling it what it is. We can talk about Biden’s dementia but not this?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I agree 100%. Not sure if it'll helps you feel better but I'm "the" other person that has been saying this along with you lol. I'm a psychology geek and it is so completely obvious that's what he has imo. I have noticed over the years that people don't "get" NPD because it's so counter-intuitive to a functioning human though.

I would actually argue that NPD is on average more dangerous than the ASPDs like psychopathy and sociopathy because it implicitly involves other people. Psycho/sociopaths want "something" and will do anything to get it but sometimes that thing they want may be fairly harmless. Like maybe they sometimes they just stuff so they're thieves. Not great, but mostly a victimless crime. Narcissists specifically want admiration and to prop up that fragile sense of self but that always specifically involves other people, so they're always going to be in proximity with others where the ASPDers may not.

Tldr, the doom Cheeto is a POS with NPD and I will lose exactly zero sleep the day he dies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The latest Ezra Klein talks about this, finally, and in a way that probably won’t get him sued. It’s well articulated, as always with Klein, and more than a little terrifying given the way he builds his presentation.

The podcast is also a YouTube entitled something to the effect of: what’s wrong with trump, not age.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Its just standard brainwashing. It’s not even complicated. It’s all right out in the open.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

It sucks sharing a world with terrorists.