Oh, yeah, BPD is like the first few feet of the vast ocean that is her craziness. Multiple diagnoses for sure. She's suffers from serious delusions (which are not part of the BPD criteria, but not precluded by them, either), and those delusions are clearly part of the behavior pattern we're discusssing. The way she…

I'm still waiting for Calvin and Rousseau.

This reminds me of a Dave Barry anecdote. When he was in high school, the Ford fans would carve "FoMoCo" into the desks, and the Chevy fans would carve "FoNoGo".

Put it on my tab.

Dr. Pepper Red Fusion, anyone?

I snost, I lost.

Stupid, unbelievable good luck is one of the hallmarks of a Mary Sue.

The thesis, as I recall, was that as an economy grows more complex, slavery becomes less and less economical, but that it will continue to spread to the outskirts. Doing a quick ctrl-F on a PDF of the book, I can't find anything referring to that. I supposed I am misremembering.

Sociopaths are generally charismatic and charming, at least until they're done using you. "Glib and superficial charm" is the DSM definition.

Only his battle/tactical/strategic skills. There was a long, long stretch where literally everything he did worked perfectly, no matter how stupid it was.

Or American Badass: "Got the long hair swingin, middle finger in the air!"

Slavery and death camps were all legal. Go suck a fuck, you fascist.

Oh, she is absolutely a sociopath. I've thrown that word around a lot in the comment threads this season, but only because there are so many of them in this show. Linda, obs, and Kakudio as well ("Who likes to be predictable, right?").

I'm pretty sure she's got some form of Borderline Personality Disorder. The intense, delusional jealousy and deep fear of abandonment, the idealization and devaluation/black and white thinking (our love is literally perfect to OMG HES CHEATING in the space of a few minutes), the way she completely bases her identity…

Citizen of the Galaxy is seriously awesome, except for that whole bit at the end about how the free market will end slavery if left to its own devices. Ugg, fucking Heinlein.

Justice doesn't have anything to do with proof.

It wasn't rape, but it was really rapey.

Yeah, he has no way of knowing that she's ultimately harmless. All he knows is that he's been abducted by someone who's clearly crazy, someone who he's greatly misjudged.

"and so [Lolly's] trip to Psych is horrifying but ultimately not an injustice."

That shot of Luschek and Jones hung-over and emotionally devastated while Judy sips tea on her bathrobe is the perfect visual to illustrate how incredibly manipulative she is. She's a sexual predator, no bones about it.