This👆🏽 Narcissists know the carrot is easier than the stick. When someone tries to uphold their boundaries and values, you see the stick.

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@wajali.bsky.social The nice guy routine up front is just the tired pattern of every narcissist. On some level they know it’s easier to use the carrot if it works, but once their unreasonable demands aren’t met by someone with healthy boundaries and values, the stick comes out in full force.

🤑 doesn’t buy happiness, but it sure buys delusion… They all going to live on Mars? I hear there’s a heat problem there, too… 🤦‍♀️ smdh

Are we all organizing yet? Netflix and chill when you need to, but get out, talk to your neighbors, go to your city meetings, join the movement. It’s now or never.🌏🌱💪

This is the sign to keep going, because we are building the movement that will end this reign of terror.

Don’t be fooled though: escalating control attempts are because they’re scared shitless. They know we know. They know we’re organizing. They see how much stronger we’re becoming by organizing, & mobilizing change.This election cycle has them terrified, because all they have is the illusion of power.

They will try to eliminate any means of safety & security (unless it’s attributable to them), joy (unless you can praise them for it), predictability (unless it’s to solidify their control), rest (unless they’re bored with you), & connection (unless it’s with people who’re fooled by their act).

This is a scaled-up and painfully recognizable pattern in all high-control governments, and it mirrors the way narcissistic abusers are in 1-1 relationships. After they’ve established some foothold, any inkling that you’re pushing back on their grip triggers a response of trying to break you down.