Brian Saetre

Yeah, I think I need to update my DNS.

Yeah, and everything else is downstream of that. If you can't critically reflect on your behavior because you brain is disordered, you end up doing a lot of bad things.

How am I making excuses? He has a brain disease called narcissistic personality disorder, and that's why he's one of the worst people on earth...

Wait, WTF. It is a brain disease. It's a brain disease that makes him a horrible person, but a brain disease nonetheless.

His brain disease makes it impossible for him to critically evaluate his own actions. If it wasn't for that one particular flaw, he'd probably be a normal person doing normal things.

"it is impossible to advance the struggle against racism without increased activation of the psychological dispositions that are responsible for it"

The downside of being able to kick people out of parties is that it gives the parties even more power to defend the duopoly than is already the case.

It would be great if it weren't run by Elon and we had ranked choice voting to eliminate the spoiler effect.

"Belfast" in Northern Ireland made me laugh.

Eh, they should boot out the king too. Must be humiliating to have a king.

We all have. :)

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The CEO and shareholders will lose out too. Everyone loses.

I just wonder if they will assign blame properly when their investments go poof...

Throughout most of human history we got our sense of self-esteem from belonging to a close-knit tribe. Now that most of us lack that, we get our sense of self-esteem from delusions about our place in the world, our superior knowledge, culture, politics, etc.

At least that's my best guess.

Everyone has blind spots, but I won't argue against the fact that we need more understanding of all types of narcissism, especially at this juncture.

Does that make sense?

All variants of narcissist are dangerous to society, but more people have personal experience with the later two types, since they are harder to identify and avoid. It's not surprising that people have a disgust-reaction when hearing their hypocrisy while describing Trump's similar personality flaws

Trump is a malignant narcissist. I think we probably agree about that. But many prominent social media personalities on the left are communal narcissists or vulnerable narcissists.

Solid article, but I'd like to help explain what I think Robin means by this quote:

"...I loathe this kind of politics...I loathe its operatic-ness, the way it performs concern and care when all it really is about is narcissism and a desperate desire for a fix...."

I haven't read the full piece, but the excerpt seems like a reasonable mea culpa to me. I agree that those who didn't see this coming lack sound judgement concerning the nature of Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and what happens when they get power.

Physically awkward and unrealistic, but not impossible.

My wife and I bonded a bit over our lack of interest in the spectacle.

Looking good!

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We need ranked choice voting so that we have an escape-valve for people's frustrations that doesn't involve voting for the same old parties that keep on failing us.

At least Collins voted correctly yesterday. I don't think Johnson has even done that. Even Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell voted correctly yesterday.

We help take care of others by making it harder for scammers to function.

Name and shame them. I had the same problem with a fortune 500 company, and I'm taking them to small-claims court. We need to fight back, or they'll continue to get worse and worse.

I sure am glad that my dad and I sold off our manufacturing company earlier this year. I do feel bad for the buyer, who is having to pay millions of dollars in tariffs to continue manufacturing in the U.S. using raw materials from the global supply chain.