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Title: Weiner Sexting Again
Post by: SGOS on August 29, 2016, 03:47:34 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/29/politics/anthony-weiner-sexting-trump-supporter/

I have no moral objection to sexting or exchanging suggestive photos with the new technology, but it seems like there is something wrong with Anthony Weiner.  When you keep doing something that will wreck you career, and then it wrecks your career, and then you keep on doing it until it wrecks your wife's career, it's more like an addiction than just a weird hobby.  I don't think he can stop engaging in this strange behavior.  I say "strange" behavior because as a known exhibitionist with a highly public reputation, it becomes strange.  If he was just a guy no one had an interest in, then not such a big deal, but in a position where many people want to destroy him, for reasons entirely unrelated to his weird obsession, it seems like he might be missing a bunch of screws, and needs to see a brain mechanic.
Title: Re: Weiner Sexting Again
Post by: widdershins on August 29, 2016, 05:18:47 PM
No shit!  I'm starting to think my Weiner wiener pic is coming any day now.  It's too bad.  I really liked Weiner.  It's sad that he's got some mental issue that makes him completely unable to stop this inappropriate and creepy behavior.
Title: Re: Weiner Sexting Again
Post by: stromboli on August 29, 2016, 06:05:45 PM
Dude needs therapy.
Title: Re: Weiner Sexting Again
Post by: Baruch on August 29, 2016, 06:47:01 PM
Human beings are naturally self destructive.  We all have an unknown shelf life we are hurtling toward.  7 billion plus ways to self destruct.
Title: Re: Weiner Sexting Again
Post by: SGOS on August 29, 2016, 07:55:19 PM
Quote from: Baruch on August 29, 2016, 06:47:01 PM
Human beings are naturally self destructive.

Some more so than others.
Title: Re: Weiner Sexting Again
Post by: Mermaid on August 29, 2016, 08:12:40 PM
OOH! He's SINGLE!
Title: Re: Weiner Sexting Again
Post by: Shiranu on August 30, 2016, 12:09:36 AM
Saw him on Colbert... fucking nutjob, even without dick pics.
Title: Re: Weiner Sexting Again
Post by: stromboli on August 30, 2016, 12:10:41 AM
Weiner sexting pictures of his weiner? Is there such a thing as sexual dyslexia?
Title: Re: Weiner Sexting Again
Post by: drunkenshoe on August 30, 2016, 02:43:12 AM
OK. These days, you guys keep me weirdly in different horizons. What is this?
Title: Re: Weiner Sexting Again
Post by: GSOgymrat on August 30, 2016, 06:46:40 AM
I have the Weiner documentary on my watch list.

https://youtu.be/LCoI3DdstZw
Title: Re: Weiner Sexting Again
Post by: stromboli on August 30, 2016, 08:38:38 AM
He's probably a great guy. Just has a problem.
Title: Re: Weiner Sexting Again
Post by: Mermaid on August 30, 2016, 06:19:16 PM
Quote from: drunkenshoe on August 30, 2016, 02:43:12 AM
OK. These days, you guys keep me weirdly in different horizons. What is this?
You just can't make shit like this up.
Title: Re: Weiner Sexting Again
Post by: Baruch on August 30, 2016, 07:01:12 PM
Quote from: SGOS on August 29, 2016, 07:55:19 PM
Some more so than others.

It isn't a contest.
Title: Re: Weiner Sexting Again
Post by: SGOS on August 30, 2016, 09:17:26 PM
Quote from: Baruch on August 30, 2016, 07:01:12 PM
It isn't a contest.

No, but there are still awards to be given out, if only on SNL.  And Weiner still has a long way to go to make Time Magazine's Man of the Year, but I'm guessing he has probably made the cover by now.
Title: Re: Weiner Sexting Again
Post by: Shiranu on August 31, 2016, 12:10:26 AM
Quote from: stromboli on August 30, 2016, 08:38:38 AM
He's probably a great guy. Just has a problem.

Nah, he is a clown.
Title: Re: Weiner Sexting Again
Post by: AllPurposeAtheist on August 31, 2016, 05:03:54 AM
He at least has the entirely appropriate name for whatever you want to call his sexting problem.. He's made a characature of himself for sure.. Oh well.. I'm over it.
Title: Re: Weiner Sexting Again
Post by: drunkenshoe on August 31, 2016, 06:24:10 AM
Quote from: Mermaid on August 30, 2016, 06:19:16 PM
You just can't make shit like this up.

Sure. I didn't mean it can't be real. It's just very alien to me because it is not something I can put in some context. I don't see it as 'oh he is nuts' in a negative or positive way, but just curious what is behind it. Literally as in what is this, what's the nature, reason of a person acting this way?



Title: Re: Weiner Sexting Again
Post by: AllPurposeAtheist on August 31, 2016, 07:10:42 AM
Quote from: drunkenshoe on August 31, 2016, 06:24:10 AM
Sure. I didn't mean it can't be real. It's just very alien to me because it is not something I can put in some context. I don't see it as 'oh he is nuts' in a negative or positive way, but just curious what is behind it. Literally as in what is this, what's the nature, reason of a person acting this way?




Compulsive disorder of some sort, but as with most politicians I suspect it's ego driven nonsense. There's probably some aspect of the perceived thrill of thinking he's going to get away with it.  I knew a lot of shoplifters who didn't really need the money, most were drug addicts who supported drug habits, but I can recall the conversation once with a bunch I knew who did it for the adrenaline rush as they went out the door of shops not knowing if they were going to get arrested or not, going to make a run for it to get away..that kind of foolishness.. I suspect Weiner has some similar type of disorder, but who knows?
Title: Re: Weiner Sexting Again
Post by: SGOS on August 31, 2016, 08:19:14 AM
Quote from: AllPurposeAtheist on August 31, 2016, 07:10:42 AM
Compulsive disorder of some sort, but as with most politicians I suspect it's ego driven nonsense. There's probably some aspect of the perceived thrill of thinking he's going to get away with it.  I knew a lot of shoplifters who didn't really need the money, most were drug addicts who supported drug habits, but I can recall the conversation once with a bunch I knew who did it for the adrenaline rush as they went out the door of shops not knowing if they were going to get arrested or not, going to make a run for it to get away..that kind of foolishness.. I suspect Weiner has some similar type of disorder, but who knows?

Obsessive compulsive disorder.  I'd bet money.  If he could stop, that's harder to explain. 
Title: Re: Weiner Sexting Again
Post by: FaithIsFilth on August 31, 2016, 02:26:47 PM
Quote from: Mermaid on August 30, 2016, 06:19:16 PM
You just can't make shit like this up.
According to this guy, you can.   :grin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wYjlhTSlqU
Title: Re: Weiner Sexting Again
Post by: The Skeletal Atheist on August 31, 2016, 02:31:00 PM
With a last name like Wiener you are obligated to send people dick pics. That's just the way the world works.
Title: Re: Weiner Sexting Again
Post by: Baruch on August 31, 2016, 06:15:11 PM
He will fit in, as the Secretary of Sex, in the new Bill Clinton II administration ;-)
Title: Re: Weiner Sexting Again
Post by: SGOS on August 31, 2016, 06:38:48 PM
Just imagine if you had grown up with the name "Weiner."  About the time you started searching for a purpose in your life, what would be the logical direction you might travel, especially after all the endless hours spent obsessing over your misfortune?
Title: Re: Weiner Sexting Again
Post by: Mermaid on August 31, 2016, 08:23:19 PM
Quote from: drunkenshoe on August 31, 2016, 06:24:10 AM
Sure. I didn't mean it can't be real. It's just very alien to me because it is not something I can put in some context. I don't see it as 'oh he is nuts' in a negative or positive way, but just curious what is behind it. Literally as in what is this, what's the nature, reason of a person acting this way?




He is a congressman who was caught sending people dick pics, and then resigned, and then a couple of years later, was caught doing it again. Why? That is anyone's guess.
Title: Re: Weiner Sexting Again
Post by: Mermaid on August 31, 2016, 08:24:25 PM
Oh, and his name is WEINER. Just in case you didn't catch that.  :djparty:
Title: Re: Weiner Sexting Again
Post by: PickelledEggs on September 01, 2016, 04:39:21 AM
#dicksoutforharambe

Sent from your mom.

Title: Re: Weiner Sexting Again
Post by: drunkenshoe on September 01, 2016, 04:58:13 AM
Power and status affect everyone differently. It's also very heavily stressful career esp. in the US and a few people actually handle that life. While some people can keep some sort of distance between their private lives-habits and their key role as a public political figure some of them are not really that able.

Successful politicians are a bit like aristocrats without 'birth rights' who are treated as if their person is not belonged to themselves after a point in their career. This is not something about them necessarily, but about the job, media and how it gets percieved in society. They are constantly told what to say and what to do, how to look, talk, live their lives...etc. And they are always a target in the media, under scrutiny.

I would go further and say that this could be actually something he developed as a 'coping mechanism' to deal with whatever he can't deal in that life. Could be anything. When people are under strict control and scrutiny 24/7 in all aspects of their lives it is actually 'normal' that some of them will give a reaction just to undermine it consciously or unconsiously when they cannot handle their situation. Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to victimise him. We, all humans do this kind of stuff, it is just in different ways and scale, but when certain circumstances come together; public figure, politics, some sort of censored exhibitionism it becomes something else.

This is not just some 'sexting', but looks like something he does so he would get caught as it is obvious he would. As far as I understand he didn't send naked pics of his penis, but in underwear. That tells me he still has some sort of control on this conscious and unconsious act that will surely get attention and punish him. So I don't think it is about the act itself, but its consequences and how it conflicts with his status and station in life. Like one a big destructive channel of a coping mechanism. Think of it like a 'punishment and reward' at the same time; huge relief.


That man needs to get therapy or may be accept that he cannot handle his status and get a new career.


Title: Re: Weiner Sexting Again
Post by: Baruch on September 01, 2016, 06:37:04 PM
Some people expect to get away with it, others expect to get caught.  One is a sadist, the other is a masochist.  Only two types of people, choose wisely.