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1. HeavenlyPossum (heavenlypossum@kolektiva.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 18:36:34 JST HeavenlyPossum

   Something I find fascinating is the way in which awful people seem to instinctively know how to be awful.

   So like abusers tend to follow particular and predictable patterns for manipulating their victims. Groomers have these strategies for grooming. Fascists come to power in similar ways to each other. Con artists win their victims’ trust in ways remarkably similar to each other.

   Do they all go to some evil villain school to learn these techniques? Or are some people just legitimately born with these instincts? I’m somewhere on the spectrum and I struggle to intuit basic social interactions, much less routinely manipulate them to my advantage.

   How does that work?!

   • HeavenlyPossum (heavenlypossum@kolektiva.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 18:36:33 JST HeavenlyPossum

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     • Simon Brooke

     @simon_brooke

     I figured that those schools were mostly for marks to be exploited by the grifters, not for grifters to learn their trade

     Aral Balkan repeated this.
   • Chip Butty (otfrom@functional.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 18:36:33 JST Chip Butty

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     • Simon Brooke

     @HeavenlyPossum @simon_brooke there was this question in 2011 at Eton https://www.indy100.com/news/eton-college-entrance-exam-question-army-killing-protesters-private-school-9090156

   • Simon Brooke (simon_brooke@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 18:36:34 JST Simon Brooke

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     @HeavenlyPossum There are Evil Villain Schools and evil villains do intentionally learn from one another. These days the evil villain schools are mainly online and folk like Andrew Tate are their professors; but elite public schools, for example, have been in the Evil Villain Education business for literally centuries, and there are also real life clubs and bars where wannabe Evil Villains go to hang out with their heroes and mentors.

     Much like other subcultures, really.