Yeah haha. Those people who just can't feel comfortable unless they feel like they have everyone figured out and under control. I fucking despise that stupid fucking bullshit.

What I do is remember that my own ability to see these things so accurately means that I have the capability of using the same level of manipulation.

Then I decide how much the person/situation deserves the energy it takes to intervene. Most of the time when I spot these kinds of people I just don't care enough to do anything about it and instead just watch them implode.

If they are really bad (leeching resources a lot, emotional abuse of a damaging degree, etc) then sometimes I'll do something about it.

I can't describe it but I'm good at simply neutralizing them. I give them no time, effort or thought ever. I'm always just too busy to deal with them. This makes them go crazy. Their goal is to get inside my head, so if I don't allow them in, they can't understand me. As long as this remains true I have won. Since these people tend to be very simple and predictable, its easy to evade their mental warfare.

Evading them makes them spend too much energy on you, especially if you manipulate them into doing so. All of these kinds of people can only ever implode. You simply accelerate this or force them to give up.

I used to be that evil manipulative kind of person and imploded pretty hard. I realized this and try so fucking hard to change this. Its almost like an addiction and/or dependency of some kind. Its hard to break the habit. It involved constantly and consciously watching myself and defaulting to just not doing anything. I am often now just silent and entertained by the symphony of uniquely different people interacting around me for better or for worse.