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Official Manipulation Thread


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Meta-manipulation: Manipulating a person into thinking you couldn't possibly be intentionally deceiving them, doing harm to them and manipulating them in any way.

 

Types of manipulators:

1. The "Poor Me"

The most passive of the four styles, the "Poor Me" describes the typical victim approach. This person seeks to get other people's attention through the manipulative sympathy.

2. The "Aloof"

Slightly less passive than the "Poor Me," the Aloof’s goal is to create a vagueness around himself, forcing us to pour ourselves into getting information which is normally shared in a straight-forward, casual manner.

3. The "Interrogator"

More aggressive than the previous two manipulative types, the Interrogator uses criticism to control others.

 

Manipulation Tactics:

=Tactics that I come across most often/on a daily basis.

Shaming

Victim Stancing 

Vilifying the Victim

Servant Role

Seduction

Blame Shifting

Feigning Innocence

Feigning Confusion

Brandishing Anger

 

Difference Between Manipulation and Persuasion

 

Healthy alternative to manipulation, so you don't stoop to their level. 

 

 

 

 

Will post more resources later. 

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This is all amateur, to the face bullshit. Talk to me when you get to a level where you subtly imply you're morally superior to make the victim feel a yearning for your approval, then give them validation enough to keep them going but not enough to be fully satisfied, setting the bar higher, until you condition them to always comply, then add arbitrary punishment to create a sensation of uncertainity and danger etc etc.

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Which cheeks?

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Now heading towards the more in-depth stuff, as requested. Example of subtle everyday manipulation (specifically gaslighting). I figured since it got a couple of likes, I'd add it to this compilation.

by D a N i E l L a

I get gaslighted all of the time when I walk towards my apartment building and there are a lot of people surrounding the building. This is either chronic invalidation or denial btw. Usually, most or all of the people surrounding the building are able to hold the door open for me when I walk in. But they pretend like they aren't able to hold the door open because they're discriminating towards me for whatever reason (race, sex, appearance, height, whatever reason). And then when I look them in the eyes, they avoid eye contact to pretend they didn't see me. This is to maintain the delusion that I'm not being discriminated against. Not only do they avoid eye contact, but they continue to walk away even knowing I'm inching closer to the door and they still haven't opened it for me. By doing so, not only do they blatantly (non-verbally) deny what they did, but they also attempt to make me seem like I'm the one that's the problem and the person really didn't know I was there, so that's why they didn't open the door. Or that I didn't incorporate the proper social cues to have the door successfully held open for me.

 

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I'm getting there, I'm getting there...

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I like your ambition young padawan, wish you to become as master Jim one day pinches cheeks

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This is not a good thing.

You just don't want others to be free.

Freedom is beautiful. 

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Good.

If OP was being serious I probably would have laid down and died because of the stupidity of humanity. lol

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This is roughly the same tactic employed when people walk by volunteers asking for donations for charities. 

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Daniella is not a troll. She tries to engender honesty among chatters by pointing out when they are intentionally manipulating each other. The troll rating has slowly turned into a joke because something that was supposed to help us recognize what was going on "behind the scenes" got twisted around and used for selfish purposes.

OK, which ones did I use? :)

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