That’s just lots of white people

The false “I have my shit together” of the landlord

Social atomization of the west and the capitalist system forcing workers to always present an artificially pristine version of themselves 24/7.

Go up the socioeconomic ladder and you encounter many of the people you’re describing.

Yes, but I also got to see them take sort of a fall. Turned out a lot of the negative things people believed about me were actually true of this person.

Our friends were sensing something wrong in the aether, and I guess they tried to explain it by pinning it all on me. I had been drifting into fascist ideology around the time my regular social circle coalesced, after all. What they didn’t understand was that years earlier, I had realized that there would eventually come a time when I would be forced to choose between fascist ideology or being part of this friend group. I decided to keep my friends, and I started seeking out content that challenged my worldview and let myself be changed by it. Sure, I never acknowledged that I had been a cryptofascist, but I was never shy about voicing my new left wing stance either. I also came into conflict with people who held the sorts of beliefs I had held just a few years prior. So I really don’t get how they missed my metamorphosis into the Hexbearian I eventually became.

There eventually were some people who came to see what I was seeing, but unfortunately they weren’t/aren’t in contact with my former circle, so I remain on the shit list.

No but I knew someone who thought they were like that

My aunt is a fucking freak but she’s accepted in my extended family because her husband is rich.

There was a fascist in my friend group that was generally liked by the others, even admired for some things, but eventually they too realized how much of a fascist piece of shit he is and cut him off as well

I guess I did in like…high school. I dont really walk in crowds where that kinda thing is gonna happen tho, my social circle has been punks and my professional circle has been cooks. Plus if I dont like someone it’s either not a secret or if it has to be cause of work then it means they’re my boss and it’s totally fine to shit talk your boss behind their back and I do so frequently and with gusto

Yes. Politicians here get away with it, white worship on the continent gives mfs a pass on terrible shit sexpats being an example . It gets real bad and hard to miss

Yeah they always wind up as small business tyrants or corpo drones and then my instinctive hatred clicks

Yeah, I work with a few of them, unfortunately.

Not to over-medicalize and/or armchair shrink, but there are folks like that who are essentially just very manipulative people that see others as assets to acquire and leverage, not as people they actually care about beyond this. There have been many historical and pop-psych terms for people that do this, and in reality they run a range of psych categories and combinations, but nowadays the kids call them (and most other things) narcissists. To be clear that is not really the right term to use, but you will find results if you ask others for their experience with such people.

These people are actually dangerous in a workplace because if they realize that you aren’t into their game and see what they are doing, they will see you as a threat and start enacting a plan to deal with you - usually marginalizing you in some way. So I recommend playing along and either leaving eventually or leveraging your own opportunities for influence, which is mostly about being well-liked, taking credit for things, and “doing the talking” when it comes to sharing ideas or results.

It is also basically a stereotype at this point that people on the spectrum are better at spotting people like this and sharing their findings.

Edit: you know maybe i shouldn’t tell this story on an account with as much potential information about me as this one. I’m not ashamed but I also don’t come.out well.

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