#sociopaths — Public Fediverse posts

@DoomsdaysCW @sundogplanets

The would-be 'masters of the universe' should spend some time mastering their emotional development so they can curb their sociopathic impulses.

#HighTechWankers
#TechBros
#sociopaths

RE: https://journa.host/@NatalieDavis/117088424553269435

As have I. I've come to the conclusion that #capitalism is sociopathic by nature. It is not an amoral system, it is an actively immoral one. It rewards all the vices and punishes the virtues.

#sociopaths

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Some_Emo_Chick/117077724485796585

This is #capitalism. There is no other kind. Capitalism as a political-economic system is inherently narcissistic because it prioritizes individual greed over anyone else's well-being. Me-Me-Me, right now. Capitalism could well have been designed by 3-year-olds.

"Big conglomerates and private equity were buying up “trusted brands and riding that reputation out until it was a husk of what it was”.

#sociopaths #collapse #greed #narcissism

#capitalism #sociopaths #sociopathy #latestagecapitalism

#love #kindness #generosity #empathy #democraticsocialism

Billionaires have no qualms about destroying entire societies because they have no loyalty to anyone but themselves.

With houses all over the world, along with private jets and luxury yachts, they see themselves as globalists, and as such don't identify with any particular nation, and certainly not with most of humanity.

“The Silicon Valley billionaire’s yacht, worth a reported $300m, is said to have “repeatedly” declined to assist when a nearby boat called for help last week.”

#MarkZuckerberg #DefundBillionaires #Sociopaths #Yacht
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/09/zuckerberg-superyacht-boat-alaska

Imagine being a grown adult man and using a child's beloved blue bunny toy as a hostage in your demented psychological war with everyone you supposedly love.
And the GOP sticks by this utter filth?! Well, it's not surprising , is it?

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w3dqukp5atesznpjgcxpwjy2/post/3msf3tjipak2z

#MaxMiller #GOP #DomesticAbuse #Abusers #Sociopaths #USPol #USPolitics

RE: https://mastodon.social/@WarnerCrocker/117037304946879600

i reference this paper so much, that i ―a person notorious for not remembering titles― know this one by heart:

TROLLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN

it introduced me to the world of the Dark Triad/Tetrad and their manifestation in group dynamics, ie: sociopaths troll to socialize with other sociopaths.

take this #techbros startup and their firefighting #Baphomet. we’re supposed to laugh because they made a mecha goat-devil to save souls trapped in forest infernos.

VC-funded textbook #sociopaths

RE: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/116908626229954650

💯 This is one of the lessons in my forthcoming book, How to Save Ourselves and Our World from Narcissists: 'Accept that there is evil in the world.'

Not everyone is good deep down inside. Some people take great pleasure in hurting others and wrecking things.

Until we confront this, we're hosed. Our forebears executed sociopaths, they were that dangerous. We have promoted them to the highest positions of power and wealth.

#narcissism #sociopaths

Ukraine update from Giorgio Provincialli: Ukraine hits above its weight class and Russia stumbles like drunken old bear with mange.

Share the friend link to bypass the paywall, and poke Putin in the eye: https://medium.com/@giorgioprovinciali/the-inverse-law-of-the-drone-war-the-harder-ukraine-hits-the-less-russia-can-answer-2900b468ec88?sk=39a99062d61c2d85a7c4fa86a7b29f69

#ukraine #journalism #war #russia #russiaisATerroristState #warcrimes #complicit #USA #Trump #maga #terror #billionaires #sociopaths #shame #disgust #news #press #petrol #gas

Ukraine update from Dylan Combellick: Reality checks and truth bombs.

Share the friend link to bypass the paywall and watch Russia burn for free: https://medium.com/@dylan_combellick/ukraine-update-june-27-3d72fb5eb564?sk=2c340e504f86ea3596d123f2a70cf2f9

#ukraine #journalism #war #russia #russiaisATerroristState #warcrimes #complicit #USA #trump #maga #billionaires #fiends #sociopaths #greed #cruelty #shame

Ukraine update from Giorgio Provincialli:

What Russia can not claim, it destroys.
Desperate cruelty revealed in targeting civilian cathedrals and theatres. Since Russia can not rule Ukraine, they are trying to erase the culture and history of Ukraine.

Share the friend link to bypass the paywall and help the world learn better: https://medium.com/@giorgioprovinciali/burning-cathedrals-losing-ground-russia-trades-territory-for-terror-aa9da7b01522?sk=0051cb532ef8e7d1767685e629d8868d

#ukraine #journalism #heroes #independent #news #press #war #russia #russiaisATerroristState #warcrimes #complicit #USA #trump #maga #cruelty #greed #billionaires #sociopaths #shame #fiends #evidence

Ukraine update from Giorgio Provincialli and Alla Perdei.

Their host newspaper has quit printing, and your support is needed. Sharing the friend link helps support Ukraine and independent journalism.

Share the friend link to bypass the paywall: https://medium.com/@giorgioprovinciali/the-cheapest-weapon-the-highest-count-8badcbefaec5?sk=aa3f57199f656e14c4659f088b9352e8

#ukraine #journalism #heroes #war #russia #russiaisATerroristState #warcrimes #complicit #USA #trump #maga #billionaires #greed #cruelty #selfish #sociopaths #shame #news #corporateMedia #fail

Now? The realistic scenario is that world's richest man will tank your #pensions, after condemning millions of poor and sick people to death by cutting aid. You can look forward to working for every plate of food, when you're old and your bones are aching. You don't even get the cash you invested.

Benefits for the #rich & risks for the #poor!

I hate this, but I don't know the solution. The entire system is rigged for a few #sociopaths to splurge, while the rest struggle to survive.

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Paul Waldman: Go Ahead, Ridicule the Oligarchs! - While Silicon Valley billionaires are not all narcissistic sociopaths, lots of them are. https://dianeravitch.net/2026/05/29/paul-waldman-go-ahead-ridicule-the-oligarchs/ via @dianeravitch #Sociopaths

Other Palestinian prisoners and human rights monitors have also cited reports of police dogs being coached to rape prisoners. The journalist said that when he was released, an Israeli official warned him: “If you want to stay alive when you return, do not speak to the media.”
#warcrimes #zionism #crimesagainsthumanity #genocide #Israel #legal #ethniccleansing #MiddleEast #humanrights #ICJ #ICC #religion #sociopaths
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opinion/israel-palestinians-sexual-violence.html

What Zionism actually is: "And yet in wrenching interviews, Palestinians have recounted to me a pattern of widespread Israeli sexual violence against men, women and even children — by soldiers, settlers, interrogators in the Shin Bet internal security agency and, above all, prison guards."
#warcrimes #zionism #crimesagainsthumanity #genocide #Israel #legal #ethniccleansing #MiddleEast #humanrights #ICJ #ICC #religion #sociopaths
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opinion/israel-palestinians-sexual-violence.html

#technology #soulless #AI #commodities #privacy #theft #consumers #billionaires #sociopaths

Disarray: Alarm inside #Pentagon after #Hegseth staff purges

Since #Trump’s first term, they have been viewed comfortingly as the “adults in the room,” a last line of defense against the impulsive whims of a president with access to the #nuclear codes.

After unprecedented wave of #firings that has been compared to #Stalin’s purges, Pentagon top brass no longer seem like such a reliable bulwark

https://www.europesays.com/uk/935086/

#dictatorship #DementiaDon #USAggression #USThreats #BoycottUSA #sociopaths

#Scotland should prepare for the gangster #US president to change his mind on whisky tariffs, the Scottish Liberal Democrat leader said

Responding to this week’s deal which saw #tariffs on #Scotch #whisky scrapped, Cole-Hamilton said current US administration is not as trustworthy as previous ones

He added Scotland should prepare for #Trump to change his mind “as he does with alarming regularity”

https://www.thenational.scot/news/26074081.scotland-prepare-donald-trump-u-turn-whisky-tariffs/

#DementiaDon #USThreats #USAggression #dictators #tyrants #sociopaths

#technology #AI #humanity #inhumanity #billionaires #sociopaths #unfeeling #cruel

Friday, May 1, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/05/friday-may-1-2026/

#Ukraine proposed part of #Donbas be renamed #Donnyland: NYT

Sources cited by New York Times , the idea raised half-jokingly but also as attempt to encourage #Trump to take a firmer stance against #Russia's territorial demands.

The “Donnyland” label — a reference to #Donetsk, Donald & #Disneyland — has continued to surface in #PeaceTalks since it was first introduced

https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-proposed-donnyland-name-for-donbas/

#tyrants #DementiaDon #sociopaths #dictators #ego #RussianInvasion #StandWithUkraine #WTF

#PsychicSelfDefense #Psychology Dealing with #Sociopaths #Gaslighting m.youtube.com/watch?v=JvQy...

You're Not Crazy. You Were Tar...

Leaders engineer their downfall

Horrors perpetrated by 3 #megalomaniacs – #Trump, #Netanyahu, #Putin – unfold daily. Wonder if we are seeing is the weakness identified by ancient Greek tragedians of having within their character seeds of their own downfall ...

https://www.thenational.scot/news/26012462.leaders-engineer-downfall-trump-netanyahu-putin/

#dictators #tyrants #sociopaths #authoritarian

Saturday, April 4, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/04/saturday-april-4-2026/

UN Issues Climate Warning…

https://us.politsturm.com/un-issues-climate-warning

Despite UN warnings of unprecedented climate imbalance in 2026, it has repeatedly proved impotent to stop a crisis driven by capitalist production…

#UN #ClimateWarning #Impotent #Capitalism #ClimateCrisis #NoTeeth #Sociopaths #WorldGovernments #GlobalPopulation #BlindEyes

Thursday, April 2, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/04/thursday-april-2-2026/

Republicans are going to be remembered by history as sociopaths

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8bs7kBg/

#sociopaths #republicans #trump #iran #war #gaza #israel #epstine #epstinefiles #epstinewar

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/03/wednesday-march-18-2026/

#Conservatives #hypocrisy #projection #indoctrination #sociopaths #selfishness #capitalismisascam #CapitalismIsACult #RuggedIndividualism #individualism #libertarianism

Real Presidents worth their seat don't inflate their own net worth by $2.2 billion to mislead & defraud banks & insurance companies, at the expense of bank- & insurance customers.

https://www.salon.com/2023/09/01/inflated-his-net-worth-by-22-billion-according-to-ny-ags-new-filing/
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityNow #JusticeMatters #NewYorkStateAG #ProtectThePeople #Trump #BankFraud #InsuranceFraud #TaxFraud #WireFraud #CareerFraudsters #CareerCriminals #Sociopaths #DefraudingAmerica

Strategy’s Eclipse and the Big Chief

One of the more provocative business articles I’ve read lately appeared just last week, on forbes.com. It’s a piece by Steve Denning about the collapse of the consulting firm Monitor. The article has already generated thousands of comments and what its own author, in a follow-up post, calls a lot of “social media brouhaha”.

Most of the discussion so far focuses on Denning’s analysis of Monitor’s collapse. He traces the firm’s demise to Michael Porter’s flawed idea that “sustainable competitive advantage” could be gained in markets “by studying the numbers and the existing structure of the industry.” Monitor, in Denning’s view, was selling an “illusory product” that merely “supports and advances the pretensions of the C-suite.” Where Monitor’s approach to strategy failed was where it matters now more than ever: helping businesses connect with or “delight” customers, or innovate, or do things that customers (or, for that matter, society as a whole) want them to do.

Not everyone agrees with this analysis, of course, and Denning has been responding to criticism and comment on the Forbes site and on Twitter. I am more intrigued by what Monitor’s downfall might signify – whether it indicates that there are larger changes afoot.

Denning himself wonders if the firm’s collapse marks the end of an “era”. Several of his readers and Tweeters (including me) have suggested that pure strategy plays are simply no longer viable. But that observation only scratches the surface, I think. The downfall of Monitor may indicate something else as well – a larger change in the configuration of CEO or executive power within the enterprise, and the end of a certain idea or iconography of the CEO.

Denning approaches this very thought as he lays out his historical argument, which is basically the story of how Michael Porter got lucky and launched Monitor at precisely the right moment. When Monitor first appeared on the scene in 1979, writes Denning, a new era was dawning:

Pursuit of shareholder value (“the dumbest idea in the world”) was just getting going with a vengeance. The C-suite was starting to realize that they could cash in, big time. Along comes Michael Porter with a rain dance that justifies their cashing in. Porter arrived at just the right time. Hopefully that era is now coming to an end. People are starting to see the rain dance for what it is.

I would hasten to add that the dumbest idea in the world, the doctrine of shareholder value, helped usher in another very bad idea that is still very much with us — the idea of the “CEO” that started to take hold at roughly around the time that acronym first appeared on the scene, in the early 1970s. The CEO is largely an invention of that period.

I’ve taken up this theme in a few posts (here and here and here). A number of journalists and academics have addressed this same point, directly and indirectly. For Rakesh Khurana, the cultish construct of the CEO emerges out of the transition from managerial to investor capitalism. In response to the growing power of institutional investors (like pension funds, bank trusts, insurance firms, endowment funds, and money managers), boards had, by the 1980s, come to focus almost exclusively on the search for an outside celebrity CEO “savior” who would not only appease and appeal to newly-empowered institutional investors but also make a big splash in the newly-emergent American business press.

Needless to say, this further consolidated decision-making power at the top of the corporate hierarchy. At the same time, the newly powerful CEO had become a cultural icon of celebrity and success. We made a totem of corporate executive power.

If the mantra of investor capitalism was “shareholder value,” the central mystery of the new faith was the “agency” problem (as described in a now-canonical 1976 paper by Jensen and Meckling [pdf]). The interests of shareholders and managers were now to be “aligned.” Results have been mixed: a myopia set in, putting the “focus more on the short-term management of the share price,” writes Christopher Bennett on a Conference Board blog post, “and less on the long-term management of the business.”

In a Washington Post Op Ed, Michael Useem (who’s written the book on investor capitalism) takes it one step further. He connects the “unrelenting pressure of the equity market on company leaders to meet quarterly TSR expectations” with the offshoring of operations, “regardless of the impact on the domestic workforce.” Worse, it’s invited leaders to behave like sociopaths, or at least irresponsibly: “an incessant equity-market demand on company leaders to focus on their own advantage whatever the disadvantage for others” has made “fewer executives and directors…able to step forward to advocate what is required for a vibrant economy, not just what is required for their own prosperity.”

Shareholder value may have not have been the dumbest idea ever, as Denning would have it, but it was, at best, a Faustian bargain for American society. It was an important article of faith — and not just for the believers, but for society as a whole, during the period in which the celebrity CEO took on his (yes, usually his) unique features and cast, all the trappings of his office.

Strategy, especially Monitor’s brand of strategy, played a crucial role here. Denning refers us to a passage in Matthew Stewart’s The Management Myth:

Porter’s theory thus played to the image of the CEO as a kind of superior being. As Stewart notes, “For all the strategy pioneers, strategy achieves its most perfect embodiment in the person at the top of management: the CEO. Embedded in strategic planning are the assumptions, first, that strategy is a decision-making sport involving the selection of markets and products; second, that the decisions are responsible for all of the value creation of a firm (or at least the “excess profits,” in Porter’s model); and, third, that the decider is the CEO. Strategy, says Porter, speaking for all the strategists, is thus ‘the ultimate act of choice.’ ‘The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader— the CEO.”

With the passing of Monitor, this concept of strategy may start to go by the board. And so, with any luck, will the idea of the CEO as the “superdecider” (Denning’s word) or super-anything. The rain dance is over, and we can now see the Big Chief as he really is.

#1970s #agencyProblem #authority #businessStrategy #celebrityCEO #CEO #consulting #corporateGovernance #cultOfTheCEO #investorCapitalism #leadership #managementTheory #managerialCapitalism #MatthewStewart #MichaelPorter #MichaelUseem #Monitor #myths #RakeshKhurana #sociopaths #SteveDenning #strategy #totem