Ceecee said:
He was someone that was pissed off he wasted his time getting an education (because more education is apparently a flaw and a liberal invention) a girlfriend who espoused left ideas (he lived in N. Michigan, not much in the way of choices let alone other voices) and was convinced the only way forward was making as much money minus values or a moral compass, as possible.
I remember he was always going on about his girlfriend. I don’t remember that he had a degree (this surprises me honestly), or that he thought the only way forward was money without a moral compass.
I do sometimes feel that my degree was worthless because of what I’m dealing with now. That being said within the past few weeks, it’s seemed less that my degree was worthless (I have used and still think about a lot of the things I studied), and just that I made one or two poor choices. I picked the wrong major in retrospect and the only way to correct that is another Bachelor's which I can’t possibly do; it’s not like I have rich parents to support me while I pursue infinite degrees. I also felt that I picked the wrong peer group when I felt I was faced between the need to make an unambiguous choice. What if you had to choose between sports and being interested in local/national/international affairs on this website?
I’m reminded of Hannah Arendt and the banality of evil and I can see how this can apply in other contexts.
I consider changing careers at times (it doesn’t help that mine is stalled at the moment), but I’m not sure how I even do this. None of my experience really sets me up to do anything else. I don’t know how I can get a retail position and I would probably be considered overqualified for anything like that, for instance.
He was here to either meet women or to piss off liberals. Same as Disco Biscuit, same as all the antisemites and right wing hateful people that showed up after Trump's election. It's all the same person - very little in the way of variation or nuance because once a person puts on the victim mentality and persecution complex of the right hat - that gives them ample permission to say and do whatever they like and, since someone "harmed" them to begin with, their behavior should and often is, excused or ignored.
I think many guys were probably here to meet women (among other reasons). It always seemed like more of the latter from him. I never saw him try to flirt with anybody or orbit anybody or anything like that.
I agree that they all seemed like the same person. That is extremely weird. Maybe it’s related to the fact that despite a hatred of collectivism they conceive of themselves as belonging to a group of white males, first and foremost.
His behavior and ultimate permaban is a good example of the paradox of tolerance, something that would be helpful for more to understand.
I was skeptical of the paradox of tolerance, but not so much now. I remember that shitshow in 2016 and I assume somebody must have opened the floodgates and pointed them here from some other forum.