viewWell, dude has an entire book describing his mom's BPD without knowing it was BPD, from what I heard.
Narcissistic personality is often more consistent in the defense as contempt is sustainable enough for them to secure them from feeling of any kind of human emotions (because love, weakness, or fear are considered inferior).
“you are worthless”
“you mean nothing to me”
However, borderline personality has the element of abandonment issues, which they need to mirror the mother to secure love. That's just how it started. It does not mean that every time they mirror someone, they want love from that person. Kind of like this, “every time I do this kind of mirroring I get what I want from my caregiver, so I keep doing it with everyone else as well”.
It becomes automatic that I don't think most of the time they have a split second of retrospection “oh I do this because I want you to like me”
It was pretty jarring when they started wearing this ridiculous leather shoes to match me. Not everyone can pull off leather.

viewOh they are definitely cheerful.
This cringey post is reaction formation.

viewI think it was the way they tried to mimic empathy. They always do that.
viewI read a lot of writing from these types of people. And the way of expressing is always very cringe. But they often think of themselves at the director level of storytelling.
viewNo this is not just rationalization. These people are disordered.
Rationalization would be “The law tells you should do this, and you do that, so that's the consequence.”
Notice how they have contempt for empathy and grief? That's narcissism. Because they can’t process their feelings, every emotional connection is treated with devaluation when arise. And if they see you have those feelings, they can’t process either. Well, except being dismissive to you.
If they devalue the victim, then your empathy and grief are also invalid.
viewI love it when objective, rational men can't bear their feelings for more than three minutes and have to come up with craps to soothe themselves right away.
I can draw a backstory for the character –> I’m empathetic, and not just gleeful.
The cop is upstanding and righteous always –> Consequence deserved –> I can’t be next because I love cops! 😍
This person’s loss is not sadness, I shouldn’t feel sad. And people’s sadness is irrational. I can’t stand their irrational emotion <– I’m not a bad person because she is a retard.
I’m not the main character for inventing this irrelevant crap for an emotion I can’t process, it’s HER!!

viewYes because non-rationalists know cops are corrupt half the time, so they can be flexible with the standards.

viewOr that you people idolize cops makes them more rabid.
Could be either way.

viewThe banana is such a great snack.
When we were kids, Mom took us to the local market every weekend. There, we sat at the sweet bean soup kiosk while Mom was shopping for veggies and meat. They would add the soft-dried banana to the soup as well. It was my favorite part of the soup.
viewWell, of course, you can do whatever you can. But should you?
Maybe finish the half-baked tariff plan first instead of pivoting every 2 months because it's getting hard.
As I recall, my childhood acquaintance with the bus business releasing a freaking booking app 1 month right before his final bus bankruptcy.
