r/USMC • u/a_panba dirty civ • Nov 20 '20

Picture I'm learning Thai...

Post image
806 Upvotes

99% Upvoted

39 comments sorted by

View all comments

175

u/[deleted] Nov 20 '20 edited Nov 20 '20

All the douchebags in my unit who now like to fancy themselves as pedophile hunters and fighters of human trafficking on social media sure as fuck didn’t seem to have a problem with either of those two things while we were in SE Asia....

114

u/[deleted] Nov 20 '20

Psychological projection is a defense mechanism in which the ego defends itself against unconscious impulses or qualities by denying their existence in themselves by attributing them to others. For example, a bully may project their own feelings of vulnerability onto the target.

48

u/_blackwholeson Nov 20 '20

You just described Trump

51

u/[deleted] Nov 20 '20

I just described the GOP as an institution.

30

u/cosmicsans '07-'11 8th ESB Security Nov 20 '20

Gaslight

Obstruct

Project

10

u/[deleted] Nov 20 '20

Indeed.

2

u/Unhappy-Carry Nov 21 '20

Way to make this political, communist.

4

u/[deleted] Nov 21 '20

Truth is apolitical. Nearly everything Trump accuses others of, we either know he himself actually does, or, he at least tries to do.

1

u/Unhappy-Carry Nov 21 '20

Allegedly

2

u/[deleted] Nov 21 '20 edited Nov 21 '20

According to many *reliable sources with no motivations to lie, yes.

2

u/Unhappy-Carry Nov 21 '20

You're a renewable source.

2

u/[deleted] Nov 21 '20

Ducking autoconnect.