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| Behavior | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| ad baculum | rhetorical | Appeal to violence |
| ad hominem | rhetorical | Attack the person instead of their ideas. |
| aggression | tactical | Issue threats and/or violate boundaries. |
| argumentum ad passiones | emotional | "I feel it (or I feel *strongly* about it), therefore it must be true." |
| assault | tactical | |
| Assert the opposite of reality | rhetorical | Simply state the opposite of what is true |
| banning books | legislative | Book banning is a form of censorship in which government officials or organizations remove books from libraries, school reading lists, or bookstore shelves because of objections to content, ideas, or themes. |
| Believes oneself to be superior and requiring of association with high-status people | pathological | Related to supremacy and collective narcissism, this worldview is one of extreme entitlement and expected deference. |
| Black & white thinking | cognitive | A pattern of thought characterized by polar extremes, sometimes flip-flopping very rapidly from one extreme view to its opposite. A symptom of many personality disorders. |
| Blame Democrats | rhetorical | "I'm not responsible for my bad behaviors: DEMOCRATS ARE!" |
| bullying | emotional | Intimidating, harming, or coercing -- usually of someone who is perceived as vulnerable. |
| charisma | emotional | Cloying, often superficial or fake charm |
| charm | emotional | Compelling attractiveness that fascinates, allures, or delights |
| closed mind | cognitive | not open to an argument from facts |
| Cognitive dissonance | cognitive | Having an incongruent value system, or believing mutually exclusive things -- as well as behaving without consistent ethical principles; a sense of randomness to one's approach to life. |
| cognitive distortion | ||
| Communicate by emotional contagion | behavior | |
| Communication is difficult or impossible | behavior | |
| confusion | ||
| Consistent inconsistency | ||
| conspiracy theories | ||
| contempt | ||
| counterattack | ||
| Creating unnecessary chaos | emotional | Create conflict to get attention and get a chance to get what you want. |
| Crocodile tears | emotional | |
| DARVO | tactical | |
| Deception | ||
| demagoguery | emotional | Seeks support through an appeal to desires and prejudices of voters instead of rational arguments. |
| Demand mirroring of their emotions | behavior | |
| Denying plain facts | ||
| Diverting attention | ||
| Do not perform emotional work | behavior | |
| emotional abuse | ||
| Emotional manipulation | emotional | |
| Envious of others and believes others are envious | pathological | |
| Exaggerating one's achievements and talents | pathological | |
| Expecting special favors and unquestioning compliance with your expectations | pathological | |
| extortion | ||
| fears change | weakness | |
| fears difference | weakness | |
| flying monkeys | ||
| fraud | ||
| frivolous lawsuits | ||
| Gaslighting | Cause you to question your own sanity -- very dangerous to do this to people. The effects are long-lasting and difficult to do; it can take many years to heal from this kind of insidious abuse. | |
| Grandiose sense of self-importance | pathological | |
| grandiosity | ||
| grooming | ||
| Hard to give to; reject efforts to give help | behavior | |
| high need for closure | Prefers to resolve situations quickly and reduce uncertainty as immediately as possible | |
| hypocrisy | Consistently fail to live up to their own stated ideals, and the things they demand of others. | |
| idealize, devalue, discard | The narcissistic abuse cycle | |
| Interpsonally exploitative; takes advantage of others | pathological | |
| irrational anger | ||
| Lacks empathy; unwillingness to recognize the needs and feelings of others | pathological | |
| lawsuits | ||
| Love to play victim and hero | emotional | They want your emotions oscillating all over the place, because it gives them more opportunities to swoop in and capture you at a vulnerable moment and earn your trust -- so they can violate it. |
| Lying | ||
| Malignant envy | ||
| Masters of deceptive and misleading stories | rhetorical | |
| Mind games | emotional | |
| Motivated Reasoning | cognitive | They start with the premise they want and work from there -- they are bad scientists, but good lawyers. |
| Moving the goalposts | tactical | |
| narcissistic rage | ||
| narcissistic supply | ||
| One-way street | Expect loyalty from you while offering none in return | |
| oppression | ||
| panem et circuses | ||
| Paranoia | emotional | Nurturing and maintaining enemies |
| Passive-aggression | emotional | |
| Perjury | legal | Lying under oath, in court or in a deposition |
| Phobic | emotional | Their main aspect is fear, from bouts of phobia indoctrination |
| Play the victim | emotional | |
| Preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success | pathological | |
| Projection | cognitive | Accusing your opponent of doing the thing that you yourself are doing. |
| Provoking anger | behavior | |
| repression | ||
| Requires excessive admiration | pathological | |
| Resist repairing relationships | behavior | |
| retconning | ||
| rewriting history | ||
| rigidity | ||
| sadism | emotional | |
| scapegoating | tactical | Just blame Democrats, no matter how absurd |
| secrecy | Covert actions; lack of transparency | |
| See roles as sacred and inviolable | behavior | |
| Seek enmeshment, not emotional intimacy | behavior | |
| Selective Exposure | ||
| self-aggrandizement | emotional | |
| Sense of entitlement; expects others to make unreasonable sacrifices | pathological | |
| shame | emotional | |
| Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors and attitudes | pathological | |
| Splitting | cognitive | See the world as with them or against them (splitting) |
| stonewalling | ||
| stubbornness | ||
| supremacy | emotional | |
| Take a thing and turn it into its moral opposite | Label a good thing bad so you can smear it, or a bad thing good so you can support it | |
| tergiversate | to evade; speak circularly | |
| Their self-esteem relies on your compliance | behavior | |
| threats | ||
| tyranny | ||
| verbal defensiveness | ||
| weasel words | leveraged ambiguity | |
| whataboutism | ||
| whitewashing | ||
| Word games | tactical | Words are used primarily as weapons |
| Word salad | cognitive |
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