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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 2 years ago

this is the perfect scissors tweet, and i kind of want to write a whole thread about it https://t.co/awuTXTZWLv

celia@_celia_bedelia_• over 2 years ago

This is from Sarah Brady - Jonah Hill’s ex - this is manipulative, abusive bullshit. SHE IS A SURFER AND SHOULDN’T…post pictures of herself in a bathing suit? WTF. What a tiny little man. https://t.co/WhU0k9tHK0

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 2 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

the issue is you can backfill the situation with a context where the text is coming an insecure, but unproblematic place. where everyone is rational and consenting

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 2 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

but the people responding with 🚨🚨 MANIPULATOR ALERT 🚨🚨 are pattern-matching to a particular energetic dynamic, which, when expressed in words, can look exactly like the situation above

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 2 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

this *is* the frequent dilemma of pointing out manipulative behaviour, which is that often you *can’t* just point at some words out-of-context words

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 2 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

the words are dressed up to sound reasonable, that’s part of the gaslighting whatever cloak of defensibility is fashionable these days (boundaries, I respect you), that’s the cloak that will be used

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 2 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

further complicating things, is the fact that some people are just woke/trad/whatever, and angry at least a little bit the quiet part was said out loud they think Jonah Hill is an asshole, and that gets mixed up with him being manipulative https://t.co/fUUpRFO5Wa

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maeby@maebichka• over 2 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

@AskYatharth https://t.co/YXjl9kAZlI https://t.co/VEbBJYsoSO

bashu, thanks@bashu_thanks• over 2 years ago

@goblinodds @HCopter3 @AIActorCritic See how diverse you can make them

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⧨ falling forever@alex_with_ease• over 2 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

@AskYatharth Great thread! 🙇‍♂️

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