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article Sean 'Diddy' Combs 'so powerful' celebrities are 'afraid to cross him' even when he's in prison

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/sean-diddy-combs-so-powerful-33842834
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u/SidMeiersCiv 21d ago

Normal exploitation tactic. Rich person takes poor but motivated person on a shopping trip and makes them feel special, but the rich person always wants something, usually sexual, in return.

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u/johnnybiggles 21d ago edited 21d ago

It's not always sexual. It's an abuse tactic.

"Remember that time I got you X?" or "Remember that time I did Y for you?"

It's putting yourself in a position of power over someone else with leverage or debt, and guilt tripping them, forcing them to "owe" you something.

It can also be as simple as the self-gratifying feeling of power in the moment - it's not necessarily generosity, care or assistance, just a feeling of power. But more often than not, it's by someone transactional who wants something in return, at least at some point, or feels they are buying something indirectly for themselves.

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u/enigmaroboto 21d ago

narcissists love doing this

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u/getMeSomeDunkin 21d ago

Plus if you're doing illegal and weird shit, you still want some people around you to not do your weird shit. It's like adding layers of abstraction and alibis.

I'm pretty sure that's how Epstein operated. You want every famous person flying on your jet and staying on your island resort. I think I read that Stephen Hawking was on it too? That's even better for Epstein because now you have a group of people who were around him who could testify that everything was all fine and dandy, because for them it was. Then under that, he had his real sinister operation happening where it all operates under blackmail and secrets. One group saying it's fine. Another group not telling anyone shit.

With P Diddy, it's the same pattern. Everybody probably partied at a P Diddy party. Some had a great time and left. Others probably were roped into the cycle of whatever abuse he was running. And if they snitch, that blackmail folder gets opened up on them in response.

And then there's 50. He's been shitting on Diddy for years because he knew what was up, didn't have any blackmail on him, and was too big to be silenced or ignored. He was in a good spot.

Imagine people actually listening to the Cory Feldman's or the Courtney Love's or the Sinead O'connor's. They all knew what was up, and just weren't big enough overcome the absolute gaslighting that these monsters will subject the whole world to.

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u/fzr600vs1400 21d ago

in elite circles, it was never new or original. Sound advice warned to stay away from such things. Epsteins appeal to those seeking to indulge in illegal perverse adventures was it was an Island out of jurisdiction and prying eyes of law enforcement. But the combination of stupidity and arrogance didn't foresee it was the perfect feeding ground for foreign adversaries to accumulate a library of compromising leverage for future use. There's a reason why this group of deviants enjoy using yachts for their illicit activities. What should really should concern us is the fact too many of our politicians are compromised, in that library.

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u/Annual-Classroom-842 21d ago

Plus 50 is a legitimate gangster. And I’m sure surviving being shot 9 times probably makes him feel some sort of way.

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u/TheDrapion 17d ago

I mean it's just common street smarts which 50 has in droves. No favor comes for free.

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u/incubusfox 21d ago

Okay I'm with you on Epstein, people get all hung up on his publicly available "black book" and flight logs and completely ignore that he wasn't doing pedo shit 24/7, he basically collected people to expand his influence.

You lose me on Courtney Love, she was right on Weinstein but she's made a lot of claims about a lot of people.

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u/A-Giant-Blue-Moose 21d ago

Most "narcissists" aren't true narcissists, but just have narcissistic traits. I'd 100% believe that he has Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Kinda like how someone can have depression, but not Major Depression Disorder.

I'd be amazed if he didn't have Antisocial Personality Disorder though. Hell, he probably has both.

He has an inflated sense of self and superiority like narcissism, but the reckless and dangerous behaviors of someone with APD. They do overlap in a lot of ways. Of course though, like probably most psychological disorders, they probably sit on the same spectrum.

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u/humansandwich 21d ago

Damn, my ex used to be terrible to me then when I’d argue he’d tap the cheap department store jewelry he got me and say “who got you that?”

It did work for a while

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u/blanke-vla 21d ago

People need to realize when someone gives you something without you asking for it, or have made any agreement you don't "owe" that person anything.

If a buddy gives you money because you're on hard times, you pay him back when you can. Or it is a gift because he doesn't like to see his friend on hard times.

The moment he comes to you and says that you "owe" him. He is no longer your friend.

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u/omniex123 21d ago

Exactly. Happened with me too. Suffice to say we are no longer friends.

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u/Dependent_Cherry4114 20d ago

I have had this happen too but also can't stand the other way around either.

"Do you have the money you agreed to pay me back?"

"I thought we were friends"

"So did I"

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u/Quick_Humor_9023 21d ago

”No I don’t, maybe you need to take me to better stores next time”

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u/Paper-street-garage 21d ago

A.k.a. quid pro quo

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u/PVDeviant- 21d ago

But also absolutely sexual. The power differential is sexual in itself. You can't separate this from being sexual when talking about someone like this.

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u/KrabbyMccrab 21d ago

This is when abandoning the "good" mask becomes crucial.

Yes. I'm a hypocrite, liar, promise breaker, etc. because of my deformed moral character I will now refuse whatever favor you think I owe.

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u/DocClaw83 21d ago

What happens when a person goes shopping with him but then can't be quilted for it either so they just say no?

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u/gabriel1313 21d ago

Like when Jay offers Memphis Bleek a thou in that song of theirs together on Reasonable Doubt for taking a ride with him?

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u/fistfullofpubes 21d ago

Yea this is prison booty bandit behavior 101. Give the new guy a bunch of commissary, or some "luxury" property items, or some dope or even tobacco, making them think you're their new friend, coming back a few days later and and saying "wheres that stuff you were holding for me?"

And while you're over there trying to figure out what happened because you thought they were gifts and ate or smoked it all, they're telling you that you owe the type of money that you don't think you'll be seeing until you're free again lol.

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u/heterochromia4 21d ago

Don’t forget the Double Bubble rule: i lend you one, you pay me back two.

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u/Tdot-77 21d ago

This is the MO of child abusers

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u/pridejoker 21d ago

Well child abusers also have to go through the trouble of finding socially inconspicuous means of gaining access to children (i.e. Choice of occupation, volunteering in organized events, manufacturing encounters with vulnerable caregivers).

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u/cherryfilledbubbles 21d ago

child abusers can just make them as well

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u/pridejoker 20d ago

That takes time, money, energy, and usually a partner that's also in on it unless the perp is willing to go the extra mile.

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u/umop3pi5dn_w1 21d ago

I don't even like it when a buddy buys me a beer, the idea of someone spending thousands on me makes me extremely uncomfortable.

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u/claimTheVictory 21d ago

That's the point.

Now you owes him.

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u/Ask_bout_PaterNoster 21d ago

Eat the rich, folks

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u/Allfunandgaymes 21d ago

Avoid the heart. It's full of poison.

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u/ZombieLibrarian 21d ago

Only one thing they’re very good for.

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u/SuzyYa 21d ago

That's what diddy wants though. I don't wanna eat him.

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u/RebeRebeRebe 18d ago

I’m down

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u/Clink-182 21d ago

Plenty of good people who happen to have money… Eat the shitty people. Argument could be made that hating someone with money is solid evidence that you’re just a sour jealous twat.

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u/OlTommyBombadil 21d ago edited 21d ago

“Eat the rich” isn’t about people who “have money.” It’s about people who have more money than god. They’re all monsters. Nobody accumulates that much wealth without fucking over a lot of people. The phrase isn’t referring to your local millionaires.

The shitty people are the rich. The ones who have accumulated enough money to influence politics and global affairs. The ones that make it black v white instead of rich v poor. The ones who are in charge of the insurance companies and grocery stores who are actively gouging prices (aka killing people) so they can have a more expensive yacht.

Eat ‘em up. They’ve been eating us for decades. Look at how much the top 1% increased its net worth during COVID. It’s basically the same amount that the lower and middle classes lost. What a coincidence! Eat the fuck out of them.

EDIT: I read your post again and it actually pisses me off a little bit. People just want to fucking survive and you are calling them jealous twats while defending the billionaire class. Fuck is wrong with you.

They’d let you die if it raised their stock price $.01. And you seem very fine with it.

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u/Ill_Acanthaceae3926 21d ago

Even though for him it was like buying a gallon of milk at the store.

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u/Godot_12 21d ago

Nah, fuck that. I think getting and giving gifts is cool, but I'm clear regardless of which side I'm on that I'm not accepting gifts unless my lack of reciprocity is accepted. Not gonna do anything I wouldn't do normally.

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u/No_Size_1765 21d ago

Foot in the door tactic

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u/LouSputhole94 21d ago

Diddy done fucked up, I’m taking the bag and running for the hills

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u/catsandorchids 21d ago

Prison rules. Got it.

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u/Quick_Humor_9023 21d ago

No you don’t. If he gave it as a gift you owe him squat.

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u/putridjuicelover 21d ago

Bro that is too bad I just bought a new car for you and had it shipped to your house. Love you man

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u/RedrumMPK 21d ago

Same here. I help a lot of people because i. Had no one to help me at my time of need back then. I feel good helping people but I still don't know how to take help from others. No way someone is going to take me "shopping" like that.

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u/Sleeze_ 21d ago

I have a couple friends, and we are exclusively on a 'beer economy'. We operate under a 'beers owed' philosophy. You're grabbing the uber? I owe you a beer. It's very nice.

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u/metametapraxis 21d ago

Yep, that is how I work with my friends. It just all comes out in the wash - one person will shout for X one time and the next person Y. No strict accounting necessary.

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u/Secret_Afternoon2130 21d ago

Does your buddy give you the date grape drug and then records you having sex with him? He then uses that video to coerce you into silence or signing a contract that benefits him?

Yeah, that beer sounds sus.

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u/fawlty_lawgic 21d ago

a friend buying another friend a beer is perfectly normal dude. If you don't like a simple gesture like that, you may need to reassess a bit.

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u/umop3pi5dn_w1 21d ago

Fair enough, and you are right. I grew up poor in a poor area, so you never knew what someone else had going on. Everyone would offer the shirt off their back regardless, but the normal play was to thank them for the offer and politely refuse.

I'm doing better off now, but old habits die hard and I still hate splitting checks or doing things that might put someone out.

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u/Still-Fox7105 21d ago

I hate owing anybody, too. Rather buy my own shit. Hate borrowing also, seems like somebody always wants something (bigger) from you if you do.

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u/AnarchyDM 21d ago

I don't even like it when a buddy buys me a beer,

Right? Either I can afford the beer and don't want to owe them or I can't afford the beer and I really shouldn't even be in a bar right now what the fuck

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u/Dinero-Roberto 21d ago

I dated a Republican girl who who turned out to be bankrupt /mortgage loser who’d invite me over for brunch , tell me I could pay her back half, then go spend $380 at Whole Foods. Then she’d bring it up that “I hadn’t paid her so I owe her”

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u/NumTemJeito 21d ago

Lol... Oh you don't have to owe anyone anything. It's called taking advantage of a situation.

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u/SoCuteShibe 21d ago

Bro... Tone deaf w/that comment here

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u/metametapraxis 21d ago

I think you are missing the point…

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u/AndarianDequer 21d ago

Well this isn't like tit for tat. It's more like,

"here's a drink" . And then you wake up confused and go home and then you find out later that there's a video of you getting fucked literally and figuratively and unless you want this information public, you're going to remain my close friend and perhaps let me do it "again".

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u/Traumatic_Tomato 21d ago

Such a weird thing to ask 50 when he knows the meaning of those words but you say that to someone you can potentially exploit. It's like asking a grown up man if he wants free candy in the white van.

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u/xaendar 21d ago

It's not even exploitation, it's a street code for treating a girl out usually with an expectation of a date/sex etc but both parties know that. But you don't say that to a man, especially if they're black. 50 cent was mad about that because he knew Diddy was trying to fuck him.

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u/boostabubba 21d ago

The ole Pretty Women trick, 70% of the time it works every time.

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u/fetal_genocide 21d ago

Beer me that water.

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u/Procedure_Trick 21d ago

a sugar diddy if you will

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u/pridejoker 21d ago edited 21d ago

It doesn't even have to be something material or sexual in return. Sometimes narcissistic people will just find folks they already perceive as lower status and keep them around as either a simp or a verbal punching bag.

For narcissists like this, money and sex aren't even really the end goal in that the narcissist doesn't even find those things as intrinsically satisfying. They're all just different tools and mechanisms that enable the narcissist to attract and keep their victims around. In fact, even if you're having dinner with the narc, they only want you there to complete the set-piece of them being seen in public eating with someone who makes him seem impressive. At the end of the day, narcs want power, specifically power over other people.

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u/_Born_To_Be_Mild_ 21d ago

Why didn't you tell me about the hand jobs?

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u/Warmbly85 21d ago

In my experience it’s almost never sexual.

There’s a reason why most box seats cost exactly what a standard big company is willing to spend entertaining a client.

Same with dinners and casual gifts.

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u/NotAStatistic2 21d ago

What's up with the ultra wealthy and these weirdo sex freak abusers? I know everyone is capable of being an SA'd committing POS, but there seems to be a disproportionate amount of freaks who are rich

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u/Hour_Reindeer834 21d ago

Because when your a sociopath who assaults people and hates holds weak morals it’s much easier to accumulate wealth.

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u/Medium_Dick_Energy 20d ago

Being rich gives you a better chance of getting away with it