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by noasaservice 1292 days ago
Its always vogue to call out public/popular humans for diseases. Not the best look.

Now, capitalism... now that causes a whole host of problems. If a corporation were a real human, it would be diagnosed as a sociopath. Noam Chomsky did a great work with "The Corporation": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5hEiANG4Uk
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synu 1292 days ago
It’s true, similarly people self-diagnosing their parents or other family members and friends as narcissists seems to be a quite common and probably unhealthy recent trend as well.

In this case though I wasn’t saying the people calling this leadership are narcissists, but I do think it’s a sign they are confused that the behaviours they are calling leadership are also symptoms of a narcissistic meltdown.

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noasaservice 1292 days ago
Perhaps... But I would think that living with someone (even if not by choice for the first 18 years of your life) gives you a much deeper understanding than watching some celeb online and making snap judgements there.

And in my case, all my siblings have deemed that our mother is indeed a narcissist. We're all no-contact with her. We're not docs, so med diagnosis is off the table... But you can definitely be a narcissist without being diagnosed with NPD.

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synu 1292 days ago
Whatever works for you, I’m just some guy on the internet. All I was trying to say is that I think it’s unlikely real leadership correlates with narcissistic collapse. I’m not trying to debate you about your personal life, capitalism, misdiagnosis of celebrities, or any other topic if it came across that way.
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Bubble_Pop_22 1292 days ago
> Its always vogue to call out public/popular humans for diseases. Not the best look.

Why? Because they still have a decent amount of support and don’t want to alienate their fans?

By 1936 it was clear that Hitler was a crazy narcissist. If people don’t speak out due to fear it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy because everyone thinks the number of people supporting the narcissist is so much bigger than it actually is.

The best antidote against a narcissist is having the largest possible amount of people spending time with them 1:1 or in the same building anyway.

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npteljes 1292 days ago
>Why?

Because by itself it's just an ad hominem, just an attack against someone's character, with no other substance. It's not better than to point a finger and yell "Ur dumb!".

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Bubble_Pop_22 1292 days ago
That’s how you get less of something you don’t like in the world.

By pointing out a bad behavior and denounce it.

“Call out a Narcissist day” should be a thing

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