@Museek @Tail @th3j35t3r

In my experience, people like this have literally nothing else going on in their lives.

Picking fights online is their way of proving to themselves that they actually exist.

@mcfate @Museek If they were just trolling and being a turd I would agree, but their thought process, paranoia and all that, there's more than just a shitty personality under there. Yeah they probably don't have much going for them, but they still have their reasons for behaving the way they do, and the persistence is telling of some major underlying mental issues issues.

@Tail @Museek

Me, I think people should have to take a LICENSING EXAM before they're allowed to use the Internet.

He might be slightly saner if he couldn't wind himself up this way online.

Plenty of people have mental health issues without making egregious nuisances of themselves.

@mcfate @Museek Being a nuisance is one thing, being a threat to themselves is another.

Yeah, they're winding themselves up, and Twitter provides the perfect platform to wind themselves up even further, but if someone gets wound up enough, bad things happen.

They need medication.

@Tail @Museek

I can't write people prescriptions, and I can't force them to take the medication other people prescribe them. I can't keep them off Twaddle.

I can keep off Twaddle, though.

@mcfate Yup, you can't help someone who can't help themselves. There are so many people running around completely undiagnosed who will never be seen by any professional, there simply aren't enough to go around.

I manage to not see much of the craziness that goes on on Twitter, but I just feel so, so bad for some of the people on there. It's hard to be empathetic towards someone so abrasive, but they're usually the ones who need empathy the most.

@Tail

I have serious doubts regarding the reality of "online empathy", myself.

@mcfate Empathy is empathy regardless of if it's online or not. You can still be empathetic towards shitty people and really despise their behavior at the same time. Like, I don't want bad things to happen to that person just because they're an asshat.

To do otherwise really just fuels their flames and makes shitty people shittier, it basically substantiates their confirmation bias.

I hope they find peace some day, is my bottom line, I guess.

@Tail

I don't want bad things to happen to him, but if he persists in this vein, bad things will happen to him regardless of my views on the matter.

My "feeling badly for him" won't alter that, although I can imagine how it might elevate one's own opinion of oneself.

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@mcfate @Tail from here, it looks like a classic example of religious psychosis.

It’s not difficult to understand how that could happen, given that people must suspend their belief as to what is possible or not. It’s difficult to reconcile what is real.

I wonder if he’s had that moniker since he started? How long might he have been this delusional?

@Museek @mcfate The religious psychosis is definitely there and clearly ingrained quite deeply, but it's the delusions that are more telling. Calling Jester one of Putin's sleepers etc. It extends beyond just telling people they're going to hell, etc.

Wouldn't surprise me if they were schizophrenic.

@Tail @Museek

Schizophrenic people probably shouldn't be off their meds and on the Internet, and certainly not both at the same time.

@mcfate Indeed, but they'd need to be diagnosed first, which would mean seeking help, which would mean acknowledging that they have a problem, etc..

The shitty part of the internet is that it's free for everyone. I've been off my meds and gone absolutely bonkers on Twitter before, it's scary.

I don't mean THAT kind of bonkers, but I definitely should have had my phone taken away from me.

@Tail

"If this country weren't a total shithole, I'd be FAMOUS!"

He needs help nobody on the Internet can give him, and I sense that he wouldn't accept it if anyone tried to do it in person.

I mean, he's JESUS.

@Tail

Our big mistake was not simply putting him in charge of everything.

@mcfate The guy's clearly insane. One interesting thing I've noticed from observing the homeless population, many of them have smart phones. They're relatively cheap, and the people hang out at coffee shops and the like and use the WiFi, etc.

I'm sure he's homeless for very good reasons, as he's clearly insane.

I also doubt there's anything stopping him from getting a gun, which is what scares me.

@Tail

Well, he's not going to pass a background check without an address.

@mcfate This is true. I wonder if there's a loophole around that. Like if he's staying at a shelter or something and uses the shelter's address, etc.

I don't know if he has a following on Twitter or not, but crazy attracts crazy. I'd rather him spend his time ventilating and going crazy on Twitter. He's like, the 15th Jesus I've seen though, at least.

@Tail

I'm pretty sure that a homeless shelter isn't going to fly with the ATF, either.

@mcfate I'd certainly hope not and wouldn't think so, but I could also see someone buying THE Jesus Christ a gun if they were also crazy and were asked to.

idk, the guy needs help and he's not gonna get it. People like that make me really nervous and uncomfortable.

@Tail

You seem to spend a lot of time worrying about ever-more-unlikely scenarios none of which you could possibly do anything at all about.

I don't do that.

@mcfate I'm not worried about it, I'm nowhere near that guy. I'm only meaning that there are thousands of people just like him all over the place and they're a threat to themselves and others around them.

@Museek @th3j35t3r Yeah I saw, but I mean, like.. medication and serious therapy. They need professionals. Yeah they're outta their gourd but I still feel they're helpable, not that they'll go get it.

I worked in the mental health unit of a jail for a spell, got to see some wild stuff. Saw a guy literally start eating himself.