How satisfying it is to dismiss and block out any upsetting or foreign impression, and immediately to have peace in all things. — Marcus Aurelius

How do you deal with people intentionally trying to piss you off? Not 1-offs, but ongoing? Grouping up to do it...

The game today is to get you to snap, then the bully runs to authoritan and points the finger at you for being the bully.

Look at it as a man v woman situation today. Woman (or women) provoke, provoke, provoke...man snaps, girl runs and tells...who's the badguy? He seeks help first and they laugh at him. He snaps and he's the badguy. Now just spread it out to all of the dorks, dweebs, twerps and fuckbois and girls.

This is incredible insight into our interpersonal dynamics going on right now. For example, reddit's PublicFreakout and related subs started hitting the front page this summer when covid was making people snap.

Controlling your anger should be a topic here, because you've touched on something very subtle and insidious here: the fact that people are consciously trying to manipulate mentally strong men into losing their tempers.

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This post is a combination of comments from a recent thread. Food for thought. More coming on this topic of gaslighting a MGTOW/Redpill man into becoming angry. This is a subversive manipulation tactic, VERY prevalent in today's culture.