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sibelian

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81. There's "unpacking nuance"...

Thu Aug 13, 2015, 04:57 AM

Aug 2015

.... and then there's "making up a whole bunch of pointless crap to mask one's self-interest."

There's also "setting the threshhold of acceptability wherever you need it to be so that no-one can actually acheive it, legitimising one's innate sense of superiority in having the wherewithall to set the threshhold in the first place".

There's also "setting up an imaginary, silent audience on the inside of one's head that approves of everything one does so that one gets to behave however the fuck one likes"...

But my personal favourite is "Farting out sidelong, sneaky insults dressed up as analsysis for the sole purpose of characterising objections to the insults as tendentious".

Manipulative behaviour comes in a glorious cornucopia of self-absorbed, self-defeating, self-perpetuating forms, doesn't it?

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Well, that was an interesting insight Le Taz Hot Aug 2015 #18

And apparently yours as well. Thor_MN Aug 2015 #63

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comic genius H2O Man Aug 2015 #71

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Just...wow...nt jonno99 Aug 2015 #55

I was thinking... TeeYiYi Aug 2015 #68

And don't touch my vaporizer awoke_in_2003 Aug 2015 #73

Can I admire it from a distance...? sibelian Aug 2015 #83

Bully awoke_in_2003 Aug 2015 #88

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For some odd reason Aerows Aug 2015 #60

For LGBT, that's the preface to the survival manual. nt Zorra Aug 2015 #64

Exactly so. sibelian Aug 2015 #80

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Some say only the guilty protest their innocence. Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2015 #9

So, what do the innocent do? Le Taz Hot Aug 2015 #11

It means that, many times, those making claims on the power to Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2015 #14

"Many many times" Le Taz Hot Aug 2015 #17

So how does one discern the sincere from the cynical? Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2015 #19

Wisdom and an open mind. Le Taz Hot Aug 2015 #20

Wisdom and an open mind tell me Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2015 #21

Walking away from dealing with them Le Taz Hot Aug 2015 #23

Then I will walk away from the cycincal and seek out the sincere because Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2015 #25

And in a perfect world Le Taz Hot Aug 2015 #27

That's pretty much what I work for. Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2015 #30

If the cause for which they may be pleading has merit perhaps they might make Vincardog Aug 2015 #58

Oh, those ubiquitous "Some"! (It's "protest TOO MUCH".) WinkyDink Aug 2015 #13

At least he didn't use "many" awoke_in_2003 Aug 2015 #75

Indeed they do. sibelian Aug 2015 #44

Well, that settles everything then awoke_in_2003 Aug 2015 #74

Too many nuances to unpack? Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2015 #76

There's "unpacking nuance"... sibelian Aug 2015 #81

Natural enemies, BLM and Scots. NuclearDem Aug 2015 #10

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"Ahhhh, welcome home, Gareth..." sibelian Aug 2015 #82

Please! H2O Man Aug 2015 #72

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Then I shall I forgive *you personally*. sibelian Aug 2015 #45

yes retrowire Aug 2015 #49

SWEET VALIDATION sibelian Aug 2015 #53

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It's a saloon door JackInGreen Aug 2015 #34

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Unquestionably. sibelian Aug 2015 #48

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