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  • May 27, 2026, 9:54 PM

    @humanadverb @blueemu @aleen @jargoggles you've really never seen a terrible narcissist lose confidence because their looks were insulted? It works really well. You genuinely should try it sometime, especially if they're making fun of your weight. If its in person, it can be a quick way to shut them up (assuming they're not violent). And the Nazis don't hate us because we hate them, they just hate us because we aren't them. No amount of being nice is going to make them less horrible to us. Trust me, I've tried. Juvenile insults just work better.

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  • May 27, 2026, 10:01 PM

    @ArcMother @blueemu @aleen @jargoggles I do actually have a lot of experience with clinical narcissists. And childhood bullies. And college Republicans. And then there's the people we see on the YouTube.

    Yes, juvenile insults work well with a small subset of those people, but even childhood bullies can get pretty good at parrying a juvenile insult, even one delivered with calm composure.

    I'm not nearly as good at knowing what people are thinking as you, though, so I guess I'm wrong.

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  • May 27, 2026, 10:15 PM

    @ArcMother @blueemu @aleen @jargoggles The facetious part is calling back to your argument being based so much on what you think you understand about other people's thoughts.

    This part, too:

    It's a shame Democrats have been sleeping on the "juvenile insult" kill move. They were probably misled by all of us weak fatties saying "actually, we're kinda repulsed by fat phobia coming from people who say they care about us." The fools.

    Seriously---I think this kind of activism is corrosive.

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  • May 27, 2026, 10:19 PM

    @humanadverb @blueemu @aleen @jargoggles I study psychology and specifically narcissists and psychopaths. I've studied and dealt with these people for actual decades. So yeah, I know it works. I wouldn't do it if it didn't work, for all the reasons people are jumping down my throat about. Also, I'm not running for office, I'm starting flame wars in maga comment sections. Very different strategies for very different purposes.

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  • May 27, 2026, 10:35 PM

    @ArcMother @blueemu @aleen @jargoggles I apologize for being facetious and I'm going to stop, but I really hope you can hear me on this:

    You mentioned your qualifications only briefly, but decades of study and experience I and probably most of the people in your mentions have too. You're not a singular expert.

    Us lefties, we listen to each other and try to do better.

    Instead of stepping on people's hurts so you can continue to hurl insults you don't really believe in, try listening.

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  • May 27, 2026, 10:42 PM

    @humanadverb @blueemu @aleen @jargoggles I listened. But you're telling me that it doesn't work and its not worth it. Those things are not true. So.. What else do you want? I'm not going to pretend something is true that isn't and give up on a strategy so that you guys will like me better or something.

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  • May 27, 2026, 10:59 PM

    @ArcMother @blueemu @aleen @jargoggles I have given you a lot of reasons why I think it is counterproductive. I wasn't hoping you would renounce truth, but hopefully reconsider your conclusions. Or, absent that, at least recalculate the cost-benefit here.

    I'm not working on you with a tactic. I'm not making an argument I don't believe in because I want a certain outcome.

    I get that maybe we need to break some eggs to win. I'm not sure anything about what you're doing here is helpful.

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  • May 29, 2026, 3:53 AM

    @ArcMother @humanadverb
    It may work well when aimed directly at the narcissist, eg face to face, but in this case you posted it on a social media platform that I'm pretty sure Trump doesn't use. So, you're far more likely to hurt the feelings of good people than affect Trump in any way. So really, your justifications don't apply here. Perhaps you have another set of justifications for upsetting good people here on Mastodon, in which case I'd be interested to hear them.

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  • May 29, 2026, 4:30 AM

    @anne_twain @humanadverb@dice.camp I call trump fat in MAGA spaces as I said several times but no one wants to read I guess. People in here are only upset that I said its okay to do that. Christ. READ.

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  • May 29, 2026, 2:41 PM

    @anne_twain It seems @ArcMother is successfully disguising herself as a conservative so her taunts don't give other conservatives the idea that liberals hate fat people, but disguising herself in a way that lets fat liberals understand that she doesn't really mean it, allowing us to try harder to not be hurt by all the free-flying faux hatred of fat people.

    So, really, I'm glad she's explaining all of this on social media because (and I'm ashamed to say this) I might have become confused.

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