Quote: (11-11-2015 01:05 PM)eradicator Wrote:
When I hit 100k I will give $5000 to @garrettbozeman, pictured above, who broke his neck and hip in a bad truck accident and is having s difficult time recovering.
Or how about you just give the injured man $5000 instead of holding him to ransom as a Virtue-Signalling Prop, you narcissistic, opportunistic fucktard? You think I'm a rube who can't see you're using this notoriety to build and strengthen your personal brand, particularly now you're no longer the CEO of BB.com? And since it's 2015,
of course you're using a Mental Environmentalist framework and affecting a close personal connection with me for exploitative purposes: "Let's [i.e let you and I] make the world a better place." Whatever that even fucking means anymore: that might mean diddling kids to some progressives.
I read enough of DeLuca's background yesterday about the founding of BB.com in his own words to understand he was just a would-be marketing / promotion guru who originally claimed the domain in order to start an exploitative mail-order marketing business, not out of the kindness of his heart. Having spent a lot of time there, the community made that damn site.
I grew up working class in a heavily-Christian community with extreme class stratification. After 40+ years of life, my most accurate predictor of human behaviour is simply this, rich or poor, Christian or not, the harder one virtue signals, whether through showy faith, conspicuous acts of charity or by being a pillar of the community, the more likely they're touching up kids; embezzling money; sucking dick in public parks; having multiple affairs; blackmailing; asking for protection money; running drugs; taking drugs or organising community projects for monetary kickbacks.
As such, I simply don't trust any person who harps on about what a Goodperson they are. It's as clear and reliable a signal as exists to me of guilt over moral transgressions, and, as such, I'm always on my guard around them.
The result? Over my life, I have lived to see just about every person I have personally found distasteful reveal themselves, with time, to be what I suspected they were all along. Their own actions eventually reveal their character, and if you learn to just accept that this process happens naturally regardless of your input or not, even if you are falsely-ostracised by them, life has a strange way of defaulting to justice, whether ironic or noble.
Myself? Sometimes I'm kind, sometimes I'm a prick. I'm capable of both selfish and selfless acts. Still, sometimes good intentions lead to bad results, and vice versa. When I am selfless or charitable, it's small, intimate and private, and no-one knows about it except the person receiving the help, and, as such, I know my intentions are genuine.
Bilzerian does what he does and doesn't claim to be a Goodperson. Sometimes he'll hold charity events, other times he'll conspicuously-consume in an offensive way. As such, I can see he's presenting a complex, flawed self to the world rather than a false construct*, and respect him for that, as I suspect I'd always know I'd stand with him: if I'm being a cunt, he'd simply tell me so - allowing me to agree or disagree - instead of despising me whilst pretending to be my friend. If I was his enemy, he's not going to smack talk me behind my back like a bitch, he's going to be open and upfront in his attack.
DeLuca though? The guy is behaving like a girl would, so morality would be subjective to him.
Thought experiment: you have to choose between both of these guys to lay down cover fire for you as you try to flank the enemy. Who would you trust with your life?
* You could argue Dan's attention-whoring out of narcissism or a need for attention. I just always saw this:
The quickest way to become a rock star is to act like one, and the public does the work for you.