I did a transcription (tuned up YouTube's, more accurately), because this speech is so hilarious:

Imagine that there's a group of individuals, about four percent of the population, who have a set of personality characteristics that have been described as Dark Tetrad. So they are Machiavellian and use their language to manipulate. They’re narcissistic and want unearned social status and reputation. They are psychopathic which makes them free of empathy and parasitical and predatory. And they’re sadistic so they take positive delight in unnecessary suffering of others.

Those people also use false cries of victimization to manipulate and they’re entitled. They seek vengeance when it is unwarranted and they protest loudly and make very public cries for reparations that would be self-serving. The way those people operate is they look for what patterns of belief form groups that they can infiltrate and then capitalize on. And that happens on the right.

We did a report the same group on the use of Christ as King as manipulative strategy by bad actors, hypothetically on the right. this report identified the same sort of people on the left. But it's not primarily political.

They’re wolves in sheep's clothing who look for where there's power and value and adopt those beliefs as a surface camouflage so they can elevate their moral status. This has become worse in recent years as far as I'm concerned because the evolved strategies that we have for dealing with the psychopathic types - psychopathic narcissistic types - don't work well online and so the psychopaths can get away with their terrible manipulations online and they can find like-minded people and they can escape from any reputational consequences.

And so there's always been psychopaths. Those are the pharisees that Christ points to*, religious pretenders. Those are the people who use God's name in vain and claim moral virtue and religious devotion, while all they are doing is feathering their own nests and furthering their own narrow interests. And the web, social media, anonymity, enables them to organize and also hides them much more effectively. And this is a problem in religious organizations, it's a problem in political organizations, and it pathologizes the whole culture. Most people, 80% of Americans agree on virtually everything and then there's these fringe people...and they’re not political. They’re psychopathological narcissists who cloak themselves in political guise. And we all have to learn to distinguish between the political and psychological. We’re not good at it.

* Editor's not (aka me): I corrected one instance of Google/YouTube not recognizing the word "Christ," but I missed this one, and had to edit it back in. It does get it sometimes - I checked with other videos, and YouTube will transcribe "Christ" - but it's odd it missed both instances here. I doesn't even try. It "mishears" some words, and gets them wrong, but both utterances of "Christ" here were just completely omitted. Conspiracy? I don't know. But it's interesting. I'm just asking questions.

I did a transcription (tuned up YouTube's, more accurately), because this speech is so hilarious:

Imagine that there's a group of individuals, about four percent of the population, who have a set of personality characteristics that have been described as Dark Tetrad. So they are Machiavellian and use their language to manipulate. They’re narcissistic and want unearned social status and reputation. They are psychopathic which makes them free of empathy and parasitical and predatory. And they’re sadistic so they take positive delight in unnecessary suffering of others.

Those people also use false cries of victimization to manipulate and they’re entitled. They seek vengeance when it is unwarranted and they protest loudly and make very public cries for reparations that would be self-serving. The way those people operate is they look for what patterns of belief form groups that they can infiltrate and then capitalize on. And that happens on the right.

We did a report the same group on the use of Christ as King as manipulative strategy by bad actors, hypothetically on the right. this report identified the same sort of people on the left. But it's not primarily political.

They’re wolves in sheep's clothing who look for where there's power and value and adopt those beliefs as a surface camouflage so they can elevate their moral status. This has become worse in recent years as far as I'm concerned because the evolved strategies that we have for dealing with the psychopathic types - psychopathic narcissistic types - don't work well online and so the psychopaths can get away with their terrible manipulations online and they can find like-minded people and they can escape from any reputational consequences.

And so there's always been psychopaths. Those are the pharisees that Christ points to /*, religious pretenders. Those are the people who use God's name in vain and claim moral virtue and religious devotion, while all they are doing is feathering their own nests and furthering their own narrow interests. And the web, social media, anonymity, enables them to organize and also hides them much more effectively. And this is a problem in religious organizations, it's a problem in political organizations, and it pathologizes the whole culture. Most people, 80% of Americans agree on virtually everything and then there's these fringe people...and they’re not political. They’re psychopathological narcissists who cloak themselves in political guise. And we all have to learn to distinguish between the political and psychological. We’re not good at it.

/* Editor's not (aka me): I corrected one instance of Google/YouTube not recognizing the word "Christ," but I missed this one, and had to edit it back in. It does get it sometimes - I checked with other videos, and YouTube will transcribe "Christ" - but it's odd it missed both instances here. I doesn't even try. It "mishears" some words, and gets them wrong, but both utterances of "Christ" here were just completely omitted. Conspiracy? I don't know. But it's interesting. I'm just asking questions.

I did a transcription (tuned up YouTube's, more accurately), because this speech is so hilarious:

Imagine that there's a group of individuals, about four percent of the population, who have a set of personality characteristics that have been described as Dark Tetrad. So they are Machiavellian and use their language to manipulate. They’re narcissistic and want unearned social status and reputation. They are psychopathic which makes them free of empathy and parasitical and predatory. And they’re sadistic so they take positive delight in unnecessary suffering of others.

Those people also use false cries of victimization to manipulate and they’re entitled. They seek vengeance when it is unwarranted and they protest loudly and make very public cries for reparations that would be self-serving. The way those people operate is they look for what patterns of belief form groups that they can infiltrate and then capitalize on. And that happens on the right.

We did a report the same group on the use of Christ as King as manipulative strategy by bad actors, hypothetically on the right. this report identified the same sort of people on the left. But it's not primarily political.

They’re wolves in sheep's clothing who look for where there's power and value and adopt those beliefs as a surface camouflage so they can elevate their moral status. This has become worse in recent years as far as I'm concerned because the evolved strategies that we have for dealing with the psychopathic types - psychopathic narcissistic types - don't work well online and so the psychopaths can get away with their terrible manipulations online and they can find like-minded people and they can escape from any reputational consequences.

And so there's always been psychopaths. Those are the pharisees that Christ points to/*, religious pretenders. Those are the people who use God's name in vain and claim moral virtue and religious devotion, while all they are doing is feathering their own nests and furthering their own narrow interests. And the web, social media, anonymity, enables them to organize and also hides them much more effectively. And this is a problem in religious organizations, it's a problem in political organizations, and it pathologizes the whole culture. Most people, 80% of Americans agree on virtually everything and then there's these fringe people...and they’re not political. They’re psychopathological narcissists who cloak themselves in political guise. And we all have to learn to distinguish between the political and psychological. We’re not good at it.

/* Editor's not (aka me): I corrected one instance of Google/YouTube not recognizing the word "Christ," but I missed this one, and had to edit it back in. It does get it sometimes - I checked with other videos, and YouTube will transcribe "Christ" - but it's odd it missed both instances here. I doesn't even try. It "mishears" some words, and gets them wrong, but both utterances of "Christ" here were just completely omitted. Conspiracy? I don't know. But it's interesting. I'm just asking questions.

I did a transcription (tuned up YouTube's, more accurately), because this speech is so hilarious:

Imagine that there's a group of individuals, about four percent of the population, who have a set of personality characteristics that have been described as Dark Tetrad. So they are Machiavellian and use their language to manipulate. They’re narcissistic and want unearned social status and reputation. They are psychopathic which makes them free of empathy and parasitical and predatory. And they’re sadistic so they take positive delight in unnecessary suffering of others.

Those people also use false cries of victimization to manipulate and they’re entitled. They seek vengeance when it is unwarranted and they protest loudly and make very public cries for reparations that would be self-serving. The way those people operate is they look for what patterns of belief form groups that they can infiltrate and then capitalize on. And that happens on the right.

We did a report the same group on the use of Christ as King as manipulative strategy by bad actors, hypothetically on the right. this report identified the same sort of people on the left. But it's not primarily political.

They’re wolves in sheep's clothing who look for where there's power and value and adopt those beliefs as a surface camouflage so they can elevate their moral status. This has become worse in recent years as far as I'm concerned because the evolved strategies that we have for dealing with the psychopathic types - psychopathic narcissistic types - don't work well online and so the psychopaths can get away with their terrible manipulations online and they can find like-minded people and they can escape from any reputational consequences.

And so there's always been psychopaths. Those are the pharisees that points to, religious pretenders. Those are the people who use God's name in vain and claim moral virtue and religious devotion, while all they are doing is feathering their own nests and furthering their own narrow interests. And the web, social media, anonymity, enables them to organize and also hides them much more effectively. And this is a problem in religious organizations, it's a problem in political organizations, and it pathologizes the whole culture. Most people, 80% of Americans agree on virtually everything and then there's these fringe people...and they’re not political. They’re psychopathological narcissists who cloak themselves in political guise. And we all have to learn to distinguish between the political and psychological. We’re not good at it.