sometimes the base-level problem about someone who won't go away isn't one event or series of incidents, it's the simple fact that their endlessly toxic & community-destructive personality is incapable of change due to its own inability to have one full minute of self-awareness

"respect" is finite, and amounts to the floating remains of a glossy-eyed and shriveled fish corpse when it's lashed to the side of a toxic waste dump that insists you're wrong and also a bad person for not understanding that it's actually right and also not mad

as he is, pete is beyond help or change, and those who have decided to sign on to this ridiculous mid-life-crisis of a licensing venture are at best pitiable for deciding that they're going to somehow outlast the fish

eg) comical levels of defensive self-projection

example expanded??) "You must have some petty reason for this that dates back a decade"

also eg) "also you're 100% wrong and I'm 100% right"

did I mention, eg right parenthesis, self projection,

(hey side note can anyone out there accomplish the literally impossible task of finding someone who says he was mean or rude to them)

I shouldn't offer a safety net but ehhhh it's monday right

I wonder if he'll ever scroll up

this is a fascinating lesson in bewildering low-grade narcissism, he's looking straight at it and sees nothing

eg) deranged calls to imprecise and borderline irrelevant "authority"(??)

about that projecting thing, did I mention it yet? I forgot

eg) "we'll make each other famous" I guess

he's interviewing himself

it's odd to communicate the speed at which this strange encounter is blasting around in my mentions

about the idea of projection,

eg) actually, he's the smartest

Pete's actually gotten worse than years ago, when I thought there was a chance of helping him

he's not even speaking to you anymore, just at you, often about other conversations, and he's concocted a group conspiracy in his head that justifies addressing anyone as part of Them

He's also occasionally yelling at...himself??, except it's at the person he's talking to

like beyond simple projection

so fucking far gone, and so aggressively rejecting of growth

all at himself

this is really sticking with me in a sad way

-constantly says "gaslighting", and then claims "it's a word you all use"

-asserts that therapy is an insult

@Botcon I assume some of you purport to be Pete's friends. If that is true, please help him seek out and accept the healthy practices of therapy and introspection. No need to reply.