That’s actually really sad. Not because I agree with him, but because it’s always sad to see this sort of falling down. Like imagine, a parallel timeline where this person’s parents hadn’t abused them, and they hadn’t had been bullied or whatever, or had faced repercussions for poor behavior, or had gotten the help they needed years ago. Right? Like if something hadn’t gone wrong, they wouldn’t have ended up like this.

Knowing that all the magas, Nazis, real tankies (the ones that REALLY want to just slaughter anybody that disagrees, iron fist style), all the bullies and buttholes out there, and all the other messed up of us, who fall down into evil or extreme burnout… Knowing this happens at all, is still sad, to me.

I’m American and think you know who needs to be you know what’ed. But even then, knowing that he grew up in such a disgusting environment, ruining him, not ever really allowing his upper brain functions to fully come to, and the past-but-then-future path for him that was inevitable of bad behavior and responses from society that would drive him to be exactly like this… Knowing that shit happens to humans, in our species, theoretically within our control, is sad. And seeing obvious predictions and fears come to pass in real-time is never fun.

With the admiral patrick guy, it’s pathetic and gross and shitty and honestly good riddance, but still the human part of me is like, that confusion and frustration he’s obviously avoiding and coping with ego and trying to fill the sadness with “you are all sociopaths harassing me and at least I tried to stand my ground”… Like he obviously doesn’t quite understand, and honestly, truly, neither do we. He stood up for his shitty moderate centrist beliefs for some real goal, behaved like an outcast petulant child, and handled it relatively poorly. But like, I see this shit all the time from all SORTS of people, in all sorts of capacities, public or not.

I won’t miss him. I don’t use an html lemmy interface. I luckily don’t have to run an instance (thank you, Ada). But it would be inhuman of me to absolutely, irresponsibly condemn this dude to shitty-hell for trying to do something that his twisted mind probably thought was right. Will he change? Probably not. Will he get worse? Probably. Will he directly hurt somebody? I hope not. Will he likely fall in with a worse crowd? Happens ALL the time.

So I beg of everybody here, to stop, and consider what went wrong for this guy. Put yourself in his shoes, I know that’s too big an ask for most people - but that’s kind of my point, and the problem here. He fucked up, he based it on fucking up, and somewhat kept fucking up even after he left (a ddos script? Really?). But pain only begets more pain. Really try to figure out what went wrong, what the points in time were where he REALLY could have been recovered by any of us or somebody in real life. You aren’t going to get the right answer. A lot of us are going to get the wrong answer. But just try to incorporate empathy into your life going forwards, because there’s a lot of bullshit and horror and hate and pain happening in the world today, and we are all trying to do what we think is best and most efficient to do the right thing. And we need to, at least, learn from this event and be better.