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[–] 131 points 1 month ago (14 children)

Gaslighting behaviour: reframing, deflection, minimisation.

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  • [–] 109 points 1 month ago (10 children)

    Gaslighting isn't real. You made it up.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    The American Psychological Association (APA) Dictionary of Psychology defines gaslight as:

    to manipulate another person into doubting their perceptions, experiences, or understanding of events.

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  • [–] 102 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    The link says nothing of the sort. You probably misread it, or misunderstood it.

    spoilerIt was a joke

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    And of course the American PYSCHOLOGICAL Association would say that. It's how they make money by selling these bogus diagnosis guides to psychologists

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Definitely. Except he didn't add how she hates him because of his freedom.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Do conservatives still say that? I remember Dubya saying that decades ago - and my wife and I still laugh at that occasionally. Anytime we have a minor convenience it's because someone hates our freedom.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Usually not in those exact words. But everything adjacent to those words. Ben Shapiro repeatedly makes the comment that liberals hate America. Except he can't say liberals. They're the radical left. They're Democrats that hate America. Their DSA the hate America. They hate its abundance. They hate its progress. They hate its free markets. Unfortunately, one of the good things about Ben Shapiro is he does specify who "they" are. And he calls out people who don't specify who "they" are. It's one of the only good things about him.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I always find this stuff funny, but it sucks that so many people hear it and take it seriously. The idea of anyone that doesn't vote Republican just hating America because of our abundance, progress, or freedom is just ridiculous. But I suppose he can't go out there telling the truth or he'd lose his audience.

    It's like those graphics you see on Fox News about the "radical left" ideas like free healthcare and affordable housing.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    He is losing audience. The Tucker/Fuentes right are cannibalizing his audience. Becoming a Trump Supporter didn't help him because he did it right before Trump supporters started thinking Trump wasn't radical enough.

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  • [–] 59 points 1 month ago

    Wut. Too old for this shit

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  • [–] 47 points 1 month ago

    I often think that there’s no way a man could possibly achieve levels of douchebaggery so high that he sends a message like this unironically. Then I get in my car and see large pickup trucks behaving the way they do.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    It's always fun to see people who learned how to debate from posting online bring that energy to real life. Just a fun reminder that sometimes learning something can actually make you more of an idiot.

    Sometimes I'm really thankful that my brain was already mostly developed before the Internet became popularized. Lord only knows what my autistic ass would have done with all the terrible information available nowadays.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Just a fun reminder that sometimes learning something can actually make you more of an idiot

    I feel like these people are idiots to begin with, and the fact they learned just pointed then into a different flavor of idiocy

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    Candidate for the American Supreme Court.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    Actually hilarious

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    I didn't ask to read this post. This post asked to get in front of my eyes. In not saying reading it was right, but don't try to make this post bigger than it was.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

    Someone trying really hard to ignore the transitive symmetric property.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    This would be the symmetric property my friend.

    Transitive would be: if you're my girlfriend, and you have a girlfriend, then she is my girlfriend.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    "Fuck that's so stupid why the hell did I date you. Fuck off trash."

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    When lawyers complain they got a bad rep

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    This guy definitely called Saul TT

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    All of the red in the world has been sucked up and consumed and placed into this flag.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    We got a Stavvy’s World caller

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Nah, lawyers care what words mean.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (8 children)

    There is a real question about whether a relationship should continue after a transition, but doing it over texts and in such a debatey way is kinda weird.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I think the implication is that this guy asked a woman to be his girlfriend, then cheated on her. When he was caught, he said that he only asked if He could be her boyfriend, but never claimed that she was his girlfriend, leaving him free to have other relationships. It’s a twisted logic that’s gaslighting the woman…

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  • But ... the whole point is making it bigger!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I am kind of worried that I have said something similar at some point... not to be a fuccboi but just something similarly pedantic and arseholey.

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