2) the demonization, smearing, and (often) elimination of any credible threat to or criticism of your actions or attempts to bring your motives of amassing power to light /8
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but mostly i try to recognize people who try to play these games with me and avoid them and cocoon them off if needed
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That is literally playing the game You’re describing a response to a power game where you identify and evade the actors which is honestly probably the optimal strategy most of the time But when you can’t avoid them it’s useful to have tools no?
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It IS really unpleasant because the conclusions are grim and the roads are unsavory but like... Idk wouldn’t you rather have models you believe are correct? Unless you mean unpleasant some other way
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executing on the models is unpleasant because most of the active responses (vs passive) require either crass displays of my own power or treating someone else (even a Bad person) like an object and both of those things make my skin crawl
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