I mean it is sort of weird how Reee now see 'nice guys' as public enemy #1. Now a guy being respectful and deferential is just a front for them to hide their hidden racism and misogyny.
The thing to remember about mentally deranged, paranoid, antisocial freaks is that their basic survival mechanisms are constantly activated where other normal, functioning people well integrated in society correctly recognize they are normally not in danger, even during small confrontations. A truly paranoid individual both lives in a constant state of terror and acclimates to that level of terror, seeking constantly to maintain their stress like a really pitiful kind of addiction. Paranoia is a vicious cycle: the lunatic's state of mind has heightened awareness to mundane behavior and integrates it post-hoc into their delusional fantasy; then the delusional fantasy increases their terror ("they're out to get me! There's nothing too low for these monsters!"); the corticotropin releasing hormone then increases their sensitivity even further, which increases the stimulus they receive and thus makes it seem like their "situation" is increasing in severity. The mind of the paranoid freak is so twisted in illness that all contradictory evidence creates cognitive dissonance which must immediately be resolved by irrational reactions that preserve the delusion they are addicted to. This is what makes a polite person appear to be a vicious and manipulative monster.
I know all about this because my father is seriously mentally ill and has been for the past year. He went from being a normal person with no history of mental illness to being completely dysfunctional and alienated. He thinks the government stalks him, rapes him in his sleep, and injects foreign substances into his throat, which he forces himself to evacuate every time he wakes up. It used to be so bad that he begged me to watch him while he slept, which I obliged out of kindness but of course didn't work, because
indulging people's mental illnesses doesn't help them at all, and actually makes them worse. The point of me sharing that personal and rather tragic story is that these people suffer from exactly the same illness, and yes, it does make them critically dysfunctional in certain cases, like excelsiorlef who I am almost certain can't hold down a job anywhere. They are so hard to treat. Failure is likely. If you encounter a person like that on the internet or elsewhere, you should stay as far away as possible and avoid all interaction, unless they are your family, in which case you should seek immediate and serious medical intervention.
