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On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:59:29 -0800,  Alan says...  

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> On 2025-02-28 16:46, AlleyCat wrote:
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> > On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:04:50 -0800,  Alan says...
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> >>> A journalist recently asked me whether a President could "fire"
> >>> a general. The answer - pardon the pun - is generally, yes.
> >> 
> >> Except it was never about whether a president COULD fire someone.
> > 
> > Ummm... yes. Yes, it was.
> > 
> > Ummm... never? Never's a long time, AND it's retroactive.
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> Ummmm... nope.
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> > 
> > Stupid.
> > 
> > Subject: Trump Fires BLACK MAN, Replaces With WHITE MAN. No Surprise
> > There....
> > 
> > (as IF he wasn't allowed to)
> 
> Learn what "infer" means versus "imply".

Yeah, Lee implied Trump fired Brown, because he was Black and made it seem he didn't have the right, and again... as IF he wasn't allowed to.

I'll infer whatever the FUCK I WANT to infer, and your opinion of that doesn't count for shit, faggot. I suppose YOU have a different inference?

THAT'S called a difference of OPINION, you fucking narcissistic pansy-ass pussy man-fucking moron. LOL

All YOU inferred from what I said, was bullshit, JUST to HAVE an argument you THOUGHT you could win.

Aaaaaahhhng! 

I know EXACTLY what Lee was implying. THAT I chose to infer it differently from you, doesn't make me wrong. There ARE multiple ways to infer what Lee said in his title.

I can infer any thing, any way, I fucking choose, rich kid.

PLONK!

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Rich, Entitled, And Narcissistic

Socioeconomic Status Is A Contributing Factor To Narcissism

Narcissists are self-centered people who take the view that they are far more important than the people around them. They promote themselves to the exclusion of others and take other people's 
successes as competition to their own. They also tend to suck the life out of groups, because they steal the limelight and push their own agenda at the expense of others.

Because of these negative influences of narcissism on relationships and in the workplace, it is valuable to understand where this collection of traits comes from. An interesting paper in the 
January,2014 issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin by Paul Piff explores the relationship between narcissism and wealth.

He argues that great wealth and higher levels of social class can lead people to have a greater sense of entitlement and that sense can lead to narcissism.

In one study, adults ranging in age from 18-72 filled out a series of surveys including two of importance for this project. One showed participants a ladder with ten rungs on it that represent people 
of increasing levels of income, education, and prestige and asked them to select the run they belong to. This is a measure of perceived socioeconomic status (SES). The second measure was a 
questionnaire measuring people's sense of entitlement with items like "I honestly feel that I am more deserving than others." This study found a small positive correlation between the measure of SES 
and the measure of sense of entitlement.

A second study used college students. As a measure of SES, students reported their parents" income. As a measure of entitlement, the author used a scale that asked people to rate the relative 
importance of themselves compared to others. This measure had a circle representing other people and circles of different sizes that could represent the self. They had to select a size of a circle 
representing the self that corresponded to their feelings about their own importance compared to other people. Previous studies suggest that this measure relates to people's sense of entitlement. 
Finally, participants filled out an inventory that assesses narcissism.

In this study, there was a small correlation between SES (as measured by parental income) and narcissism. There was also a small correlation between SES and the measure of entitlement. Statistical 
tests suggested that the sense of entitlement explained the differences in narcissism between low- and high-SES participants.

A third study gathered measures of SES from college students in the lab. Other measures were collected including a measure of how much participants care about their appearance. Toward the end of the 
study, participants were asked if they would allow the experimenter to take their picture for a future study on face recognition. Participants were given the opportunity to look in the mirror to fix 
their appearance before the picture. The experimenter left the room to get a camera, and another RA measured whether the participant looked in the mirror. Overall, women tended to look in the mirror 
more often than men. That reflects a general difference between men and women in how much they care about their appearance. Beyond that, high-SES individuals looked in the mirror more often than low-
SES individuals. This difference was not explained by differences in how much these individuals care about their appearance.

Finally, one study did an experimental manipulation to break the relationship between SES and narcissism. Participants drawn from a sample on Amazon's Mechanical Turk filled out a measure of SES. 
Then, participants either listed three benefits of treating others as equals (which primes the concept of equality) or listed three activities they do in a normal day (a control condition). Finally, 
participants filled out a narcissism scale.

For the participants in the control condition, there was a small positive relationship between SES and narcissism. That relationship disappeared for the group that wrote about equality.

Putting this together, then, there is a weak relationship between SES and narcissism. When people grow up and live in a privileged environment, it can increase their tendency to feel entitled. That 
sense of entitlement leads to greater narcissism.

As interesting as these results are, it is important to recognize that the effects overall are small. There are plenty of people high in socioeconomic status who have neither a sense of entitlement 
nor a tendency toward narcissism. Similarly, there are many people from a low-SES background who do have a sense of entitlement and narcissistic traits. But, it is valuable to know that there are 
elements of a person's social situation that can make them more susceptible to being a narcissist.

Rich kids suck dick.