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Behavior | Type | Definition |
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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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