Lorne is extremely devious and learns from his victims
Oct 18, 2021 6:33:32 GMT -5
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Post by jackjustice19 on Oct 18, 2021 6:33:32 GMT -5
It's really clear that Lorne is a fucking idiot. But he is very, very devious when it comes to manipulating people.
Every single catfish encounter he has had, you can tell that he learns something from them and uses it to step up his manipulation game.
I've been listening to a lot of random calls, jumping all around the timeline that starts with Ramona and ends with J.A.I.M.I.E. and it's very clear that he takes manipulation tactics that are used on him and uses it on his catfishes.
Example One: He was extremely verbally abusive to Ramona and she would constantly point out his abuse.
So what did he do? He starts claiming that Ramona is the one abusing HIM by putting restrictions on when he can call her and anytime she tries to protect himself from his constant verbal beatings, he claims that she is abusing him by shutting him out.
He then takes claiming to be a victim in a relationship and adapts it into his game, using it on all his catfish in the future.
Example Two: Casey was a sexual victim from her father and it gave her a LOT of leverage in conversations with Lorne to get away with behavior and stop him in his tracks because he knows that he can't pretend to be a nice 'buh-guy' if he touches certain issues with her because of the abuse.
So what did he do? Made up a story about his brother sucking him off when they were younger to try to get sympathy from his catfish in the future. If sexual abuse = getting away with bad behavior, why not adapt it into your game if you are Lorne?
And of course, Lorne was the one receiving the oral sex FROM his brother, so he can appear to be as manly as possible in the entire thing.
There are tons of examples like this all through the calls. You will hear a catfish use something on him, then Lorne will come up with his own version of that move eventually and incorporate it in. He does this with everything as well, certain keywords that they use, certain phrases. When he is talking to Debbie about the chatlog you can hear him regurgitating talking points that he probably picked up in his Rape Class.
He will say things like, "I am floored by my own ignorance" and you can tell that is something someone said about him once, or that he heard someone say in his Rape Class and he's just reusing the line without knowing the real meaning behind it.
He will say things like, "I'm disgusted by the man that I was" and the words are totally hollow because Lorne is just being a parrot of an actual thing someone else said that he thought sounded good, or got a good reaction from the rest of the class, so he filed it in his mental notebook for later.
He gets a certain quality in his voice when he is just mimicking something else someone told him a long time ago that he really doesn't understand. Once you can peg that, you can see how he uses things to his advantage in order to achieve his ultimate goal of getting a vagina to his trailer in Maine.