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Please ejaculate", I silently urged the man, "so I can go to sleep". (In this way I imagine I was like millions of women before me"
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Before working with Trump, Manafort had been Yanukovych's election strategist. There was something quite Trump-ish about his former client, not least his $75 million palace -- with its golden chandeliers and Faberge eggs and personalized cognac bottles (the label had a little photograph of Yanukovych), his shiny grand pianos and sweeping gold-trimmed staircases. And then there was his private ostrich zoo. The palace had been constructed in ..
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aplomb. I had managed to portray myself as a good Jew and,
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The communist looked very pleased with himself -- for being a communist and for being hit by Alex. It was exasperating. Alex had been within feet of me and I hadn't known it until he'd hit a communist and was bustled away, and it was too late.
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These depictions of a broken America were also highly selective. When Ted Cruz listed the various ways Americans "have had their lives destroyed" -- by terrorists, or police officers cut down in the line of duty, he pointedly excluded stories of innocent black people shot by the police."
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Stone's beliefs, I later discovered, were just as crazy as Alex's. He
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if a person was overcome by a violent madness he'd involuntarily start to sound like someone from Louisiana.
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Bilderberg
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Oh, Ronson's all right," Alex told him. "I'm sure he's planning some form of sophisticated hit piece, but I don't care. It's always artfully done so it goes back and forth, you know." "Why is he wearing a snow jacket in 90-degree heat?" Stone muttered to Alex."
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partners in a lobbying firm with a client list that included a great many murderous dictators. Like
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After the interview ended, Stone and I were ushered out. Alex had an interview with Ted Nugent to conduct. In the elevator, Stone scrutinized me. "When we try to assess threats," he said, "the kooks are almost always wearing snowsuits in 90-degree weather."
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frightening person pretending to be normal. Things
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brilliant and audacious as ever -- a beat poet of paranoia. He
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The judge took one look at it and threw it out. He said the honey trap was "deceptive conduct of the grossest kind"; the idea of "a psychological profile being admissible as proof of identity in any circumstances [was] redolent with considerable danger." And"
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The men would all say that they had died,' Gilligan said. 'These were the most incorrigibly violent characters. They would all say that they themselves had died. They felt dead inside. They had no capacity for feelings. No emotional feelings. Or even physical feelings. So some would cut themselves. Or they would mutilate themselves in the most horrible ways. Not because they felt guilty - this wasn't a penance for their sins - but because t..
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There's an old Internet adage that as soon as you compare something to the Nazis you lose the argument.
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when I became a vegetarian. I missed the steak, although not as much as I'd anticipated, but I could no longer ignore the slaughterhouse. I
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Alex is basically the most irresponsible man I have ever met. He uses his powers to inflame paranoia. He boldly makes stuff up to suit his weird agenda. Alex eschews facts and reason and he definitely should not have political sway. The
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His name was Roger Stone. And he was the man who first introduced Alex Jones to his close friend Donald Trump. *
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Stone announced in early April that if delegates at the Republican National Convention had the nerve to switch from Trump to another candidate, "we will disclose [their] hotels and room numbers." Anderson"
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Scattered throughout the week were a surprising number of speeches about how we may be killed by undocumented immigrants driving drunk. I
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Trump was praising Operation Wetback -- a 1954 endeavor in which Mexicans were rounded up and dumped in the wilderness, where they were stranded without food or possessions and 88 of them died in the heat.) These
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Trump might have appointed a less-eerie chief to replace Manafort. But instead he doubled-down, choosing the even eerier Stephen Bannon. Bannon
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Jon Ronson |
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The idea of Donald Trump and Alex Jones and Roger Stone and Stephen Bannon having power over us -- that is terrifying. THE END
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I suppose that when shamings are delivered like remotely administered drone strikes nobody needs to think about how ferocious our collective power might be. The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche. *
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You remain with the person you've just been yelling at until the resentments fizzle. That's how wounds heal.
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I suppose that when shamings are delivered like remotely administered drone strikes nobody needs to think about how ferocious our collective power might be. The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche. *
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what's the point in threatening them with imprisonment if they break the terms of their parole? The threat has no meaning for them." He"
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The more he told me about himself, the more leverage I had for manipulation," he told Bob's researcher. "I just kept fueling the fire; the more fuel I added to the fire, the bigger payoff for me. I was the puppet master pulling the strings." Eventually"
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There's a societal push for conformity in all ways. There's less tolerance of difference. And so maybe for some people having a label is better. It can confer a sense of hope and direction. (interview with Allen Frances)
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What happened, Bob explained to us now, although we didn't need telling, was that Jack Abbott was a psychopath. He couldn't bear being disrespected. His self-worth was too grandiose for that. He couldn't control his impulses. "When"
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What they find is that there are anomalies in the way these individuals process material that has emotional implications. That there's this dissociation between the linguistic meaning of words and the emotional connotations. Somehow they don't put them together. Various parts of the limbic system just don't light up." And"
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Why is the world so unfair? Why all that savage economic injustice, those brutal wars, the everyday corporate cruelty? The answer: psychopaths. That part of the brain that doesn't function right.
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It is a frightening and huge thought," I said, "that the ninety-nine percent of us wandering around down here are having our lives pushed and pulled around by that psychopathic fraction up there." "It"
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Bryna is convinced her children are bipolar, and I wasn't going to swoop into a stranger's home for an afternoon and tell them all they were normal.
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Jon Ronson |
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He blamed psychopaths for the brutal excesses of capitalism itself, that the system at its cruelest was a manifestation of a few people's anomalous amygdalae.
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the madness business is filled with people like Tony, reduced to their maddest edges.
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Jon Ronson |
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Al was referring to the time during the Cuban missile crisis that he left his five-months-pregnant wife home alone with no food or access to money and in desperation she had to call her mother and sister for help. "Oh!"
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Jon Ronson |
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I told a journalist that Dave seemed quite psychopathic (I didn't know a thing about psychopaths but I assumed that that was the sort of thing they might do).
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Jon Ronson |
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after his lawyer argued that given the passage of time, he wouldn't have a fair hearing. He became a pariah in the offender-profiling world. Now,
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Jon Ronson |
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the suspect, Colin Stagg, must be the person who introduces every single element.
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Jon Ronson |
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the suspect, Colin Stagg, must be the person who introduces every single element. What you may then do is reflect that back. You must never introduce it first. If you do, you're fulfilling your hopes, you see?" I"
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Jon Ronson |
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At what point does querying diagnostic criteria tip over into mocking the unusual symptoms of people in very real distress?
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Once labeled schizophrenic the pseudopatient was stuck with that label. --DAVID ROSENHAN,
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